Finally got Android 6 on my OnePlus One

JimmiG

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My OnePlus One finally got the Android M (6.0.1) update OTA in the form of CyanogenOS 13. It has only been like what, 7 months, since it came out? Quite ironic that many bought this phone for the promise of timely updates, but it was one of the last to receive the Lollipop and Marshmallow updates.

Will be interesting to see what's fixed/improved. Android 5.x on the OPO had a number of serious, battery-draining bugs that they never bothered to fix, forcing you to root and apply workarounds to get battery life comparable to KitKat. Hopefully version 6 will work properly out of the box. Had to do a factory reset because apps kept crashing and I had no mobile connectivity, so not a good start...
 

linthat22

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At least you have Android 6. I'm on the Moto X (2nd gen) from AT&T and we're not getting it.
 

tsupersonic

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This company is full of hype for lackluster devices. Sure you get nice specs, but the customer service, and software experience leave something to be desired.
 

Megatomic

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I have 4 OPOs in my family. 2 of them have been on Marshmallow for months thanks to CM and specifically Sultanxda. The other two just got Marshmallow via COS. If you want the latest go get it, it's not hard and it sure beats whining. The OPO is the perfect device for crap like this.
 

poofyhairguy

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Yeah, people have looked to both Moto and OnePlus as Nexus alternatives and both have failed at that task in the long run. Now I would only look to OnePlus for pure hardware value (along with a ton of other OEMs, nothing special) and Moto pretty much just for people locked to Verizon. I wouldn't recommend either to someone who wants a Nexus-like device.

Unfortunately that now makes it harder to believe the claims of any new OEM that promises fast updates, now the only one I trust (other than Nexus) is HTC as they have a long track record of doing well on that. It kinda sucks that just as we enter an era of Android commodity hardware we have less choices than ever because so few options provide fast updates.

The only good trend is that so much of the "Nexus Experience" is now in the Play Store so even someone with a Samsung device can somewhat pretend they have a Nexus.
 

sweenish

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I have 4 OPOs in my family. 2 of them have been on Marshmallow for months thanks to CM and specifically Sultanxda. The other two just got Marshmallow via COS. If you want the latest go get it, it's not hard and it sure beats whining. The OPO is the perfect device for crap like this.

The Nexus line is perfect for stuff like that. OnePlus stands out in no particular fashion.

At least you can go and get it with a OnePlus device. I will give them that.

I don't miss trying to find the least-broken custom ROM to make up for an OEM's lack of support, though. I suppose for OnePlus, the least broken ROM is probably an improvement over their stock fare.
 

Megatomic

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The Nexus line is perfect for stuff like that. OnePlus stands out in no particular fashion.

At least you can go and get it with a OnePlus device. I will give them that.

I don't miss trying to find the least-broken custom ROM to make up for an OEM's lack of support, though. I suppose for OnePlus, the least broken ROM is probably an improvement over their stock fare.
The stock COS ROM is fine, but the custom ROM I went with has a custom kernel which improves the already awesome battery life amongst other things. But you are mostly right, the devices the followed the OPO just don't stand out at all. OOS is just so bland and the hardware stands out in no way.
 

JimmiG

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I have 4 OPOs in my family. 2 of them have been on Marshmallow for months thanks to CM and specifically Sultanxda. The other two just got Marshmallow via COS. If you want the latest go get it, it's not hard and it sure beats whining. The OPO is the perfect device for crap like this.

Official updates is what matters. People bought the OPO for Nexus-style (near) Day 1 updates and instead they got to wait 6 - 8 months for every major update. Sure you can download potentially buggy beta/nightly ROMs, but the same is true for a lot of devices so that's hardly a selling point.

At least battery life seems to be vastly improved over COS12. Definitely no need for the wakelock and mobile radio always-on fixes I had installed under 5.x. Battery life almost seems to be back at KitKat levels.

The OnePlus hardware is very nice - The OPO with its 3GB of RAM and Snapdragon 801 is still more than enough to this day and the physical device itself has held up even without any cover or case. However customer service, support and the software have been terrible, with constant bugs, delayed updates etc. As a showpiece for Cyanogen it failed miserably, even before the exclusivity fiasco.
 
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The Nexus line is perfect for stuff like that. OnePlus stands out in no particular fashion.

At least you can go and get it with a OnePlus device. I will give them that.

I don't miss trying to find the least-broken custom ROM to make up for an OEM's lack of support, though. I suppose for OnePlus, the least broken ROM is probably an improvement over their stock fare.

The OPO is just like a Nexus because CM has full access to the binaries and stuff. Therefore it's pretty easy to compile a ROM. This is far different from Samsung devices where you need to pretty much reverse engineer everything and hack things together.

So it's far different than trying to find the least broken ROM.

Personally I havent had many problems running CM at all. Customer service is a non issue unless you drop your phone or whatever or are trying to RMA.
 
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sweenish

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Customer service is a non issue unless you drop your phone or whatever or are trying to RMA.

Really pulling the blinders down hard on that one?

"Customer service is a non issue unless you actually need to use it."
 

Megatomic

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I had another thought on this today. How many phones that were released on Kitkat got official updates to Marshmallow, and not just 6.0 but 6.0.1 just the same as the state of the art Nexus 6P and 5X? I'm not going to waste any time researching this as I'm sure there are obscure devices out that got MM, but the list is damned short. Rather than complain about the amount of time that it took for the OPO to get 6.0.1 how about we keep that in mind.
 

sweenish

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First, to answer your question, very few.

However, if we broaden to 6.0, more than you think. As in, every flagship of note from 2014. S5, One M8, Moto X 2nd gen to name the big ones I actually looked into. So, it's not as bad as you think for other OEMs, and those OEMs, while not on 6.0.1, got to Marshmallow much faster than OP, which completely breaks one of their big marketing points.

Plenty of people are well aware of how awful OEMs are at updating their phones.

Those OEMs don't talk big about their software game, though (except for maybe HTC with their update tracker site), and those same OEMs don't have taglines like "2016 flagship killer" for their lackluster 2015 devices. They don't try to convince you that "you didn't need NFC anyway, look at how much we don't settle!"

OP (as in OnePlus, don't want to bring thread OP into this by accident) brought a heavy ad campaign, and literally over-promised by a LOT. And you are getting offended that they're being called out on their stupidly late Marshmallow delivery? To the OPO's credit, it's the closest OP ever came to delivering on their marketing hype.

I'm glad you're happy with the devices you own. If you were one of the lucky that got a non-yellow and working touchscreen, that's great. If it wasn't for these hardware issues and a largely absent customer support system, the OPO is still a good device. I don't deny that at all.

That has no bearing on how annoying the company is, how off-the-mark their advertising has been (like Never Settle has ever applied to their devices even once), and how terrible their customer support is.

I have a N7 2013, and at times the touchscreen issues are infuriating. I won't ignore that about the device. I'll just point to the price, and say that I'm still pleased overall with the device. I don't use Apple hardware or take part (heavily) in their ecosystem, but at the same time I will continue to be impressed at the consistent quality of their hardware offerings.

You may overall like the OPO. Fantastic. What do you gain by attempting to convince me? Is my hardy dislike of the company and their shenanigans affecting your devices and how you use and enjoy them? Does my opinion on how much they did and do settle all the time have to be changed before you can enjoy your devices? I'm not deriving my opinion from the ether. I want the Nexus line to have some real competition. None exists.

They deserve the ire over the delay to Marshmallow. They're 7 months late on the initial release, let alone saying a single thing about monthly security updates, and N is already in the hands of the public. This is only going to snowball for OP unless they make some changes, fast. This is the sound of setting.

EDIT: Forgot LG G3, also on 6.0.
 
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Megatomic

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I didn't attempt to persuade anyone that there aren't issues with the company OnePlus. I consider myself to be unrealistically lucky in that there are 4 OPOs in my household and not one of them has a yellow screen, or flaky touchscreens. And I do count myself fortunate that I have not needed service help from OnePlus. My only point in this thread is that software updates for the OPO have been relatively timely especially if you take into account ROMs like Sultanxda and others.
 

Artdeco

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The Nexus line is perfect for stuff like that. OnePlus stands out in no particular fashion.

At least you can go and get it with a OnePlus device. I will give them that.

I don't miss trying to find the least-broken custom ROM to make up for an OEM's lack of support, though. I suppose for OnePlus, the least broken ROM is probably an improvement over their stock fare.

LOL, I remember those days...
 

linkgoron

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First, to answer your question, very few.

However, if we broaden to 6.0, more than you think. As in, every flagship of note from 2014. S5, One M8, Moto X 2nd gen to name the big ones I actually looked into. So, it's not as bad as you think for other OEMs, and those OEMs, while not on 6.0.1, got to Marshmallow much faster than OP, which completely breaks one of their big marketing points.

EDIT: Forgot LG G3, also on 6.0.
6.0.1 has also been released for xperia z2, z3,z3+,z5 and the respective compacts and variants.

The z2 was released on March 23rd 2014 with Android 4.4.2.
 

sweenish

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My only point in this thread is that software updates for the OPO have been relatively timely especially if you take into account ROMs like Sultanxda and others.

If you take custom ROMs into account, sure. But you can do that with most of the other flagships as well.

Othwerwise, no, updates have not been timely at all.
 

Megatomic

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If you take custom ROMs into account, sure. But you can do that with most of the other flagships as well.

Othwerwise, no, updates have not been timely at all.
I guess they can't please everyone. For me they've been fine or better.
 

sweenish

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And that's fine.

Finally, you arrived at the conclusion I gave you. There's no need to convince anyone else for you to enjoy your products.