Android 5.0-based OxygenOS for OnePlus One now available for download

OnePlus announced that the Android 5.0 Lollipop based OxygenOS is finally ready and available for download for the OnePlus One smartphone.

The OxygenOS is not available as an OTA (over the air) update, so interested users will have to download the ROM from OnePlus Website and flash it on their devices manually. The ROM's installation package weighs about 705MB. Users will find detailed instruction in OnePlus's official forum on how the flash the ROM on your device.

Download Oxygen OS from https://oneplus.net/oxygenos

Oxygen OS installation Guide https://forums.oneplus.net/threads/oxygenos-is-here-installation-guide.289398/

The company has also released a feedback app, which is meant for bug reporting, suggestions on future feature implementations.

The Oxygen OS brings gesture support (like double-tap to wake, draw O to open camera), customisation options (lock screen, choice of software and hardware, navigation keys, quick settings screen) and a new file manager to the OnePlus One smartphone.

As this is the first version there will be some issues, which will be fixed and improved in future updates. OnePlus posted a list of known issues on Oxygen OS.

When printing images, printer service may stop
Cannot hang up a call using headphone controls (intermittent)
OTG can only recognize FAT32 file system
During system update, display of wifi/data notification may be incorrect
During system update, display of version number may be incorrect
Files sometimes crash when uploading files to the cloud
Files may crash when renaming image files
Files does not support multi-select deletes

Carl Pei, Director, OnePlus Global on the official blog, said: “Developing OxygenOS has been an incredibly fun and challenging experience for all of us. In this environment where everyone is fighting to standout with custom ROMs, we think it’s important to go back to basics. We place things like performance and battery life over gimmicks and bloated features. We want to be careful that we aren’t adding features simply for the sake of differentiation. We’ve implemented some important features thus far, but they are subtle and meaningful. That’s our philosophy behind OxygenOS: keep it light and essential,”.

Check out the video highlighting key features of the Oxygen OS.

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