The phone was ousted by Antutu last week as it was found using thread delay tactics to run a multithreaded test on its fast CPU cores as much as possible. Realme was caught manipulating benchmark scores on Antutu which led to the Realme GT getting banned for three months. What’s worse is that the company was doing this since 2016 and blamed it on “Industry Practices.” A file named ‘Power_Whitelist_CFG.xml’ was discovered by AnandTech that came directly from MediaTek and was integrated into the chip's BSP (Board Support Package). Mediatek was found manipulating scores on smartphones that were powered by its chipsets. While we’ve mostly listed smartphone companies on this list for cheating benchmark scores, we couldn’t believe a silicon manufacturing company would also go down this route. Oppo really tried to manipulate the single-core scores in hopes to look faster and more efficient than the competition. The Oppo R17 Pro was caught manipulating benchmark scores by 25% for multi-core scores and 12% for single-core scores. The code in the smartphone was designed to manipulate Geekbench 4, Antutu, Androbench, Nenamark 2, Vellamo and GFXBench. What made this a big deal was not only the fact that it misled customers, it also tainted the work of reviewers and journalists with misleading data. OnePlus is yet another culprit that was accused in 2017 of hardcoding the OnePlus 5 review units for inflating benchmark scores. It’s still misleading customers, however it wasn’t as bad as other companies on this list. The company hardcoded the device to inflate scores by 5% which isn’t as bad as compared to others. Xiaomi is not as big of a culprit as Huawei or Honor but the company was found inflating scores on the Mi 8 in 2019. Not only did it break the trust of customers, but it also tainted the brand's reputation forever. In fact, Android Authority found a 21% leap in scores which didn’t sit well with customers. ![]() Huawei’s offshoot brand at the time was also found cheating benchmark apps specifically with ‘Honor Play’. The company was caught doing the same for the Huawei P20 series as well. The smartphone was hardcoded to offer maximum possible performance whenever a benchmark app test was detected. However, in 2018, Huawei was caught hardcoding the Mate 20 for manipulating benchmark scores. ![]() From faking DSLR photos (twice) to faking selfie images. ![]() Huawei has been caught cheating for multiple things in the past.
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