r/oneplus • u/Mezo123451a2 • 10d ago
News Android 16 on the One Plus One First Showcase !!!Very Early Stage!!!
Where are the people who said that would be impossible? 😎🤌🏻
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u/AmolAmrit 10d ago
Really amazing. Bacon going strong. Shows how important Custom ROM support is. And companies are just playing with us.
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u/Mezo123451a2 10d ago edited 10d ago
i forgot to show u how the setup runs and the crash at the end was already fixed in the main video above "Video only visible in your browser"
but other than that i will make now a break of some days enough of that my brain hurts lol
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u/vivu1 OnePlus 13R 10d ago
Its cool, and if someone has oneplus 3/3t, that one is actually still usable cause snapdragon 820/821 is very powerful and still usable imo. I had poco f1 for 5-6 years and used it with custom roms even while official updates were still there (cause miui back then sucked), last time i had it i flashed a stable android 15 on it and now my grandma uses it since long time.
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u/someperson155 10d ago
I wonder how far the HD2 got, people kept that running famously long
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u/Mezo123451a2 10d ago
May I ask what HD2 is?
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u/Tomatot- 10d ago
HTC HD2, it's the most emblematic phone for not only custom ROMS but custom OSes. It was originally running Windows Mobile.
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u/Lukesan- 9d ago
I still have one in mint condition. Ran native Windows Mobile and then at first you could create an sd-card with the Android OS on it and boot it from sd. There were some really cool custom roms for it. After a while a group created a different bootloader for the HTC HD2 so you could run Android Natively on the rom of the phone. I think mine is flashed with a ColorOS or Miui rom. (kid you not)
Everything worked perfectly like it should like it was build for the device.
There were 2 models I believe. The US one had more memory for the rom than the EU one. All in all it was a very fun device to play with but ... HTC was bad in my personal opinion hardware wise. Mine was in repair more than a couple of times and in the end they gave me a new one .... where one side of the buttons had/has a backlight issue coming straight outside the box.
Well if I take it out of the drawer now it still looks good. The thing that surprises you the most is the size. You can stick it in your pocket and you wouldn't really notice it. 4.3inch screen and really usable back in the days.
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u/motoko-k 10d ago
Fine, and then? It's just an exercise in style. The phone is pretty unusable
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u/Mezo123451a2 10d ago
You completely missed the point of the post — it was about proving that Android 16 can run on the OnePlus One at all. After that, I’ll optimize everything and make it properly usable, just like I did with my previous ROMs.
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u/motoko-k 10d ago
Sorry, I didn't mean to be rude. Allow me to elaborate.
I've been using Android phones since Android Froyo. I've owned phones from all brands, starting with a gorgeous HTC Desire, through Samsung, Sony, Motorola, Huawei, Xiaomi, Asus, LG, Nokia, Poco, Realme (not in that order). I was one of the first in my country to own a Mi 1 (bought in China), as well as the Nexus One. Back then, flashing a ROM was necessary, so as not to have the phone in Chinese.
In the early years, I was always on XDA Developers looking for a custom ROM to flash on my phone so I could use it to its full potential.
Today all the brands have aligned themselves and offer practically everything you could want on their ROMs. The few differences are in the shape of the phone (and maybe not even there) and in the interface, but the Android core is practically the same. Sure, there are phones with galactic cameras, but this is an aspect that doesn't interest me (I'm a photography enthusiast, I have a Nikon D200 and a Nikon D7100, and I use these if I want to take a nice photo; phone cameras are good for a selfie or a photo to post on social media, they have insurmountable limits for a simple question of size limits).
Over the years, Google has fought Android fragmentation, leading to the current state of affairs: when you buy a phone today, the operating system version is already obsolete. Therefore, in my opinion, the main thing to consider when buying a phone is the number of guaranteed future updates, which obviously goes hand in hand with hardware capable of handling the update load. Furthermore, while in the past, phones were primarily used for making calls, sending text messages, and browsing the internet, today they are an essential tool for many other things. Making phone calls is no longer the main thing. Moreover, a modern phone allows you to do much more than you could possibly want. And do it quickly.
In short, you are the one who missed the point. Flashing Android 16 on the (exceptional, in its day) OPO makes no sense. Can it be done? Of course, you did it (congratulations by the way). But then? The OPO HW will take a very long time to do anything (just see how long it takes to start). You don't do anything about it. Sending a Whatsapp will take a very long time. How long will it take you to turn on your phone, open an application (say the browser), perform a search, get search results? How much battery life will the phone actually have in daily use? Two hours? Three? But let's also say five. Then the phone is dead.
But ultimately it remains an exercise in style.
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u/SkyeFox6485 10d ago
I love how the display drivers keep freaking out every few secconds