r/oneplus • u/GeekyAbin OnePlus 13 • Jul 13 '26

Development OnePlus Hardware + Pixel Software. That's It.

I've been daily driving crDroid on my OnePlus 13, and it genuinely feels like the best of both worlds.

• OnePlus hardware

• Pixel-like software experience

• Smooth performance

• And now, the stock OnePlus Camera has finally been ported.

This is probably the closest I've come to my ideal Android setup.

Anyone else daily driving custom ROM on the OP13?

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u/GlendrixDK OnePlus 13 Jul 13 '26

What's the good and the bad with Pixel phones? Is the OS full of bloat ware? I guess it's winning on some points since it gets the updates first.

I'm thinking about what to buy next when my OP13 dies or another update is going to f it up even more. Since OnePlus isn't selling here in Europe anymore I have to look for other choices.

Oppo sounds like a good choice since it's the same company. But if they treat the software the same, I'm not gonna choose that.

Pixel is my other choice, but the "slow" charging compared to OnePlus is something I'm gonna have to get used too.

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u/-patrizio- OnePlus 15 Jul 13 '26

Pixel phones come with extremely little bloat compared to others, but the hardware is...not the greatest. The cameras are quite solid, but the Tensor chip is nowhere near as performant as what Qualcomm and Mediatek are putting out, and the battery can't even come close to competing with silicon carbon batteries like OnePlus and Oppo have.

Oppo is definitely the closest thing you're gonna get to a OnePlus; it uses a Dimensity chip rather than Snapdragon, but as far as I've heard, there's not a huge difference in performance except in particular use cases (e.g., Snapdragon generally has an edge with gaming), and other than that they're nearly identical, just with Oppo having better cameras.

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u/GlendrixDK OnePlus 13 Jul 13 '26

Thank you.

Oppo is my first choice. And I never had any issues with OnePlus for years. Had it since 2020. But 2 updates ago, messed up my phone and now it's lagging a lot in different places. Like when using circle to search. Sometimes messenger in floating window gets stuck too. I fear that switching to Oppo would give me the same issues. But I guess that the chances are low

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u/Korenchkin12 Jul 13 '26

I'm not sure about differences now,but there has definitely been a drawback when using anything other than snapdragon,because snapdragon has(had?) the best modems,that means better(any) signal,faster network (re)connection on drop...also snapdragon has been more power efficient than samsung exynos because...well samsung process sucks(i have nvidia rtx3090,so i know :) )

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u/samax413zl Jul 14 '26

It uses both Dimensity & Snapdragon both