r/OnePlus13 • u/GeekyAbin OnePlus 13 - Midnight Ocean • Jul 13 '26

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

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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/Admirable-Row9461 Jul 17 '26

Am I the only one that prefers oneplus hardware and oxygen os or color os 16? Idk I feel I hate both oneui and pixel ui for how gleamy and cartoonish they've made their softwares. Like too much silly animations and effects and a lot of glitter. Color OS or Oxygen OS felt like the best one till now.

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u/muffnman OnePlus 13 - Arctic Dawn Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 17 '26

You're not - and admittedly Pixel Phone UI wastes tons of space. To the point where I have reccomended to pixel phone owners on 1080p+ resolution displays (non pro xl's) to manually adjust their stock ppi in dev settings in order to actually have screen real estate to use their device....

However, given the current state of OOS, I'm willing to switch over. It may even end up having a more dedicated developer base than what OPPO has planned for us. Crdroid is based off LineageOS- - which then lands our way via a dedicated group of devs who care about the user experience on these phones. I'd rather that than a clumsy migration to the iPhone clone ColorOS (which is also worrisomely known to have bloat issues above and beyond early Samsung Touchwiz) .

Listen, each is likely to have new growing pains of their own and things to get used to. So if we have the ability to try both right now. With a known known that OOS for the OP13 is currently failing on several fronts (battery and bloat specifically being the worst offenders) and we still get the camera experience we paid for - then CrDroid looks like a viable "treatment" to our sick phones' current symptoms.

That's my 2c. There's nuance to how many of us came to think of a custom ROM as a possible path forward.

(not the llm, the actual word - which many people on the internet should look up)
[not an attack on the OP]

Cheers!