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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In order to improve its relationship with its fans, OnePlus started a program called Open Ears Forum. The program is usually hosted in different cities and is an avenue for OnePlus to hear feedback from its fans. It held one in Goa, India recently and at the event, it promised six new features coming to OnePlus devices.

First of its promise is porting the OnePlus 6‘ “selfie portrait mode” to the OnePlus 5 and OnePlus 5T. OnePlus has also promised to keep working on removing the “oil painting effect” plaguing the default camera app on the OnePlus 6.

Another feature coming to OxyegnOS is a night mode or “Dark Theme” for the OnePlus Shelf on the homescreen. Users will also get more accent colors for the theme. OnePlus also promised that the OnePlus Switch App will now have more features including support for desktop backups. The FileDash app for data transfers will also gain support for OnePlus apps. It will also make the app easy to access.

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The new features will be baked into OxygenOS and should arrive along with future updates. However, there is no time frame for when any of these features will be available.

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After launching its flagship smartphone OnePlus 6 last month, the China-based company is now all set to host its first Open Ears forum in India on 7th July. According to the company, the forum will be heavily focused on the product.

OnePlus has a big community of users in India and with Open Ears, the company is offering a chance to its users to voice their opinions and suggestions directly to the company. The feedback from the event could also help shape up features on the next line of devices and software updates coming out of the company.

The first Open Ears forum was held in September last year in London and served as an avenue for OnePlus to meet selected members of its community to get feedback and improvement ideas for its products and software. After the Open Ears forum in London, OnePlus took the platform to Hamburg and San Francisco in April. While the Hamburg event was focused on the camera, the topic of discussion in San Francisco was OxygenOS.

For its first Open Ears forum in India, the company has already started taking applications for the 30 attendees it plans on getting to the event. While OnePlus has not yet disclosed the venue, it does mention that the travel and accommodation for the attendees will be paid for.

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If you’re interested, you can apply for the event, then head over to the company’s official website. Entries are open till June 12 midnight. Post that, OnePlus will start contacting all the participants starting June 15.

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