OnePlus conducted the Open Ears Forum in Goa, India back in May 2019. OEF is a good platform for developers and OnePlus community to come forward and discuss everything about OnePlus and its devices. While it’s been nearly four months since the event, the mods on the OnePlus forums have finally revealed the company’s commitments towards the points raised at the event.

Despite its delay, the commitment points from the Open Ears Forum reveal some interesting changes. One of the highlighted points at the event was the aggressive background app management by OxygenOS to save battery. This was a pain point for a lot of developers as it meant many apps were getting killed in the background. The company has promised a solution to this issue in the upcoming updates.

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Another interesting point raised at the event was about End of life (EOL) OnePlus devices. The company has committed to promoting custom ROMs on OnePlus Forums as well as on its social media platforms for its EOL devices. This comes in as a pleasant update for old OnePlus users whose phones are at the end of their update cycles. Despite OnePlus’ excellent update policy (even OnePlus 3T got Android Pie!), all phones have an expiry date for their official support. And when it ends, custom ROMs come as a savior to offer new features as well as updates to such abandoned models.

Other commitments made by OnePlus after the event include releasing Kernel sources on time for all builds including Open Beta build, introducing a bounty program for reporting security vulnerabilities, and organizing more OnePlus community meetups in the future.

Smartphone models like the OnePlus 3 and the 3T are set to lose their official software support soon and this new policy by OnePlus could mean users have better access to custom ROMs for their devices.

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Once the OnePlus started creating their One flagship device, they teamed up with the Cyanogen team that made the custom mod, which was designed specifically for the device. However, depending on other companies sometimes may be risky (e.g. Cyanogen’s and Micromax’s deal in India that sealed exclusivity rights for Indian tech giant that the Cyanogen’s mod would be only used on their devices). Thus, the OnePlus team decided to create their own software to follow “the one who makes a great hardware, must produce a great software”.

Despite the media coverage regarding the upcoming scheduled release of OnePlus’ proprietary ROM, which is called Oxygen OS (in China it is Hydrogen OS) it does not seem that it will be released very soon. That is because it was delayed to due to some implementation issues and for now the release date is unknown.

Despite the delay of full ROM release, company’s weather app seems to be ready for download, which makes it the first app of OnePlus’ proprietary implementation of Android.

The app seems to be quite rich in colours. However, the company seems to have abandoned the classic approach to the app design and rather implements more abstract elements with diagram features.

According to the official statement, the app is designed to work only on the Android 4.3 or newer versions. The current weather scenarios include sunny, cloudy, cloudy, rain and snow, the other will continue to update the weather scene in the new version.

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In addition to this, some reports claim that there were some problems like users couldn’t select a city and the app also crashed one or two times. It seems that the app is released, but still has some bugs, but it may be fixed with the software updates.

Finally, the whole OxygenOS ROM is said to be released officially in May or June. However, it is said that it will still be in beta version. It seems that OnePlus were too optimistic about how quick they can make their own ROM. Still, for a company that it is still a young startup, it is quite impressive.

You can download the Weather app by checking out the link below:

http://cheers.oneplus.cn/weather/

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Some time ago we reported that OnePlus was planning to unveil its own OS. In this regard, it was even said that the company hired the whole IUNI OS team in December.

The company unveiled the name of the new ROM recently and it will be called as the OnePlus OxygenOS. While we are eagerly waiting to see what the company has in store for us on March 27th as the ROM is said to be ready to be flashed into devices, we have received a new leak which shows some of the design elements of the new OxygenOS on the OnePlus One running in real life scenario.

From the pictures, it looks like the company will focus on a flat UI design and has integrated the Android Lolipop design language very well. The icons are rounded in shape and spot different colours in this Oxygen App UI. Also, the thermometer seems to spot a nice flat and simple design, which kind of depict a classic thermometer.

All in all, the official release of the Oxygen OS is approaching fast. This picture proves that it may be a near final version. We will keep you posted on any news when the ROM is officially released. Stay tuned.

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Just a few days back, we reported that OnePlus was planning to unveil its own OS. In this regard, it was even said that the company hired the whole IUNI OS team in December.

The company unveiled the name of the new ROM recently and it will be called as the OnePlus OxygenOS. While we are eagerly waiting to see what the company has in store for us on February 12, i.e. the date when the ROM will be unveiled, we have received a new leak which shows off some of the design elements of the new OxygenOS.

From the pictures, it looks like the company will focus on a flat UI design. The icons are flat and use simple shapes with a lot of different colors. The icons are all categorized according to their use, so you have a section of gaming apps, tools, and one for even social media.

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Apart from the app drawer, we can see the OxygenOS weather app. Once again, the app interface looks clean with generous use of colors. Unfortunately, there’s not much information displayed in the app, but this probably isn’t the final version.

Anyways, the overall OxygenOS looks quite different than the Cyanogenmod ROM that was earlier used by the company’s OnePlus One flagship phone.

We expect to hear more information in the coming days, both officially and unofficially.

So, stay tuned for more updates.

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