The much awaited Oxygen OS for OnePlus One is launched on 3 April, 2015. Oxygen OS is based on the Android Lollipop. OnePlus had issues with Cyanogen and Micromax in Indian Market, so they have decided to come up with their own operating system. The basic feature of the OS is it is simple, light weight and fast without any bloat wares.
To get a basic idea of other features this ROM have you can watch the video below
Features includes
Gestures which allows you to open application by gestures like double tap to wake the device, draw ’V’ to toggle flash light etc. These gestures works even the screen is off.
Quick settings – The new quick settings allows you to access the settings which you use commonly easily. The icons can be arranged easily as per your convenience.
Customization – you can easily control the phone with hardware or software navigations keys, the lock screen is customizable.
OnePlus also developed a feedback application which you may or may not install. This application helps OnePlus to get your comments and feedbacks on the new OS and optimize it accordingly.
Installation
If you have already unlocked the boot loader and have TWRP is is easy to have the Oxygen OS. Otherwise you will have to unlock the bootloader and flash TWRP.
unlocking bootloader will wipe all the files from your phone (it is NOT like a factory reset). It will remove backups, photos etc. So make sure you move all the anted files from phone to some other devices.
You can find installation instructions from OnePlus forum here.
Before installation we would like to tell you that this have some known issues such as
Red Light is Always On
Instances of Unable to Activate Hotspot
Carrier Showing No Service
Instances of Unable to Access Mobile Data
Instances of Ghost Touches
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 Wi-Fi/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
System Update Service Bug
Instances of Slow WiFi Speeds
Instances of Unable To Download from Play Store
Bug Where Unable to Match Lock Screen to Home screen
Ghost Touches on Keyboard
No Reception Bug on Lock screen
Instances of Shorter Battery Life
You need to read this post on the forum first before you proceed to install. It says there are missing features also like
No Privacy Guard
No Led Customization
No Equalizer
No Weather App
No 4k UHD or DCI Video Recording
No Double Tap to Sleep
No Display Color Setting
No Performance Option
No Face Unlock
No Hebrew Language Option
So decide whether you need it or not. according to me it will be better to wait till next update is released. The updates will be released as OTA , so it will be easy to upgrade the OS.