I used Oxygen OS on my One Plus One since it was released and love it. Feels much lighter than CyanogenMod. Also, I think only old Oxygen OS are available and no newer ones
Originally OnePlus One shipped with CyanogenOS, but the Cyanogen Inc fuct up and sold exclusive rights to CyanogenOS to a domestic carrier in India.
This blocked the sale of OnePlus One phone in India until this could get resolved. OxygenOS was the answer to this. Fork of Cyanogenmod with some rebranding and a few added things.
Personally I bought the OnePlus One because it came with Cyanogen. I wasn't happy with all the added cruft in CyanogenOS, so I reflashed to Cyanogenmod soon after a stable version was available.
I'm currently using OxygenOS on my OnePlus 3, but will flash to Cyanogenmod eventually to run more bleeding edge and get some features back that I miss.
This shouldn't effect OnePlus 3 as they terminated thier agreement with Cyanogen Inc after the India licencing problem.
> but the Cyanogen Inc fuct up and sold exclusive rights to CyanogenOS to a domestic carrier in India.
It's boggling there has been no official word from Cyanogen Inc on why this happened. I never liked the OnePlus marketing or press, plus I had a OnePlus One with that terrible grounding/touchscreen crazy issue.
Just judging from OnePlus's support, I have a feeling Cyanogen was getting sick of them too. I'm sure there's much more to their fallout than what's been made available. Considering my experience with OnePlus's product, I'd probably side more with Cyanogen.
There was a lot of controversy in the open source community about Cyanogen's partnership with Microsoft. It seemed like good idea when you think of Microsoft pushing more Android products and their internal divisions trying to break away from their own failing phone market. But I guess that effort failed as well. Did they ever release any phones with CyanogenOS + Cortana?
Could you say any more or point me to any references about problems with OnePlus, please? I'm looking at getting a new phone soon and was thinking of one of theirs, and your comment is the first substantial negative comment I've seen about them so far.
and unlike CM (unsure about COS) they do not transparently provide any of their patches to the Android components or other non-vendor-NDA addons that they include in their image.
that isn't exclusive to OP, though, of course - every other vendor I can imagine does the exact same to any non-hardware customizations they apply to the OS.
This has to do more with Google and the Open Handset Alliance (OHA) and their terrible restrictions. A company can't distribute a phone with Gapps if they product Amazon Fire devices. Samsung even got shit for using Skyhook instead of Google for location services (Skyhook is still battling this in court):
OnePlus 3 is underated, it is awesome. I have a Google pixel XL and the OnePlus 3 is as fast but thinner and lighter and about half the price. I wish them. More success.
I have the 3 and I love it. I can't compare it to a real flagship (like Galaxy or Pixel) but for $300 I got a really great phone that people always comment on.
I used to switch phones pretty regularly and since getting my OnePlus 2, the only phone I'd upgrade to would be the 3 or the new 3T.
The one thing I absolutely loved was not having all of the bloat of the carrier apps on the phone when you get it. Totally stripped down and fully customizable.
Yes, their stock Oxygen OS ROM is quite stable and you should be perfectly happy with it, there's a pretty good community around it even if CyanogenMod were to completely vanish too.
OnePlus has had some build quality issues when they were first setting up their supply line, but lately I've had very good luck with their devices. Great specs for cheap, like the Nexus line used to represent.
