OnePlus One won't be supported by Cyanogen in India

OnePlus and Cyanogen breakup

Don't worry..Never Settle: just try another ROM ^ ^

After all the Success and Fame, there comes a day when something has to go wrong and that's what happening to the most popular Android phone manufacturing company of 2014, "OnePlus". It'll started when the company's busy taking care of its Black Friday promotion, its store opening in Beijing and its India launch with Amazon next week, a post titled “A letter to our Indian users,” by OnePlus came in. An announcement of their plans to ship the OnePlus One to India without Cyanogenmod. Yep you read em right.

Just this week, the company announced their plans to release the One in India. But unfortunately they were not unaware about the key feature to be missing in their OnePlus, the reason why people buy the one. It's hard to tell whether they were unaware or aware of it but the tone of the announcement just says so.

We can’t explain Cyanogen’s decision because we don’t fully understand it ourselves. 

Cyanogen Inc., the maker of OnePlus One's Android ROM, announced that it won't be supporting OnePlus but instead has a deal with Micromax to exclusively support the latter's upcoming online brand Yu -- a direct competitor of Xiaomi -- in India. The blog post by OnePlus also mentioned that Cyanogen knew about its India plan all along, as Cyanogen released the 38R OTA update back in October was especially important because it added SAR values inside the Settings menu to comply with Indian regulations, making it seem likely that CM was on its way to India yet it was suddenly shunned to make way for a new partner.

All this clearly concludes that OnePlus isn't at fault here, but can two great companies be so Dumb/Irresponsible/Blindsided ? Though OnePlus is trying there best to solve this inconvenience caused to users. OnePlus has promised to release their first community build by their own Android team to Indian users next month and have a production-ready build in February. Also this is not the first time the OnePlus One will be without CyanogenMod, as the OnePlus One is sold with Color OS (Color OS -- supplied by its OEM partner Oppo.) instead of CyanogenMod in China. System will be based on Android Lollipop and as they said it will be "fast and lightweight". This is not it, in order to put the software on the devices, the company is planning on setting up stations where they can meet users face-to-face to help with any issues. Online tutorials will also be available.


This maybe the end of Cyanogen on OnePlus One...but it surely has open a gate for some new stuff. Lets just wait and watch :)

How are you feeling about it? Are you still planning to purchase it?






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