Oxygen OS Vs Cyanogen OS



The User Experience and User Interface

When it comes to visual appeal, both of these ROMS look closely related to the stock Vanilla Android experience offered by Google which is great as the overall performance increases when the unnecessary skinning is offloaded, however, both of the alternatives to stock have some tricks up their sleeves to offer customizations to the ones seeking it.

Audio

When it comes to fine tuning the audio, Cyanogen OS relies on Audio FX (earlier known as DSP Manager on CyanogenMod) whereas OnePlus takes a similar approach to the feature with its Audio Tuner app.Both are equally good.

Root Access

On Cyanogen, it is literally just 7 taps away. Just tap your Build number 7 times on the about section of the phone to enable Developer Options and you will find the option to enable Root Access inside it. On Oxygen OS, you have to take the conventional route to root.



Customization

Cyanogen OS has a clear win in this department with the theme engine which gives you the ability to not just theme your System UI but also each app separately. This means you can have endless permutation that you can come up with a limited set of themes. This ensures that the phone depicts the user’s personality. On the other hand, Oxygen OS focuses on minimalism and has only few ways to customize the look and feel, namely the Dark Mode, Accents, Quick Toggles and lock Screen Wallpapers.

Root Access

 On Cyanogen, it is literally just 7 taps away. Just tap your Build number 7 times on the about section of the phone to enable Developer Options and you will find the option to enable Root Access inside it. On Oxygen OS, you have to take the conventional route to root.

Advanced Reboot

Advanced Reboot is a feature that Power users might be aware of, it basically enables you to reboot the phone to recovery, bootloader or just perform a Soft Reboot. This really comes in handy when trying to flash a zip or making a Nandroid Backup of the system. While it’s true that rebooting to the recovery/bootloader takes only a few awkward hardware key combinations but it’s delightful when a ROM can cater to our laziness. Good job on that one to both of the ROMs.

Camera

This is the part where things take a little interesting turn. While the CyanogenMod camera resembles a lot with the Google camera, Oxygen Camera looks a lot like the iOS camera. Gimmicks aside the OnePlus camera does have a lot more to offer apart from the generic options for capturing. 

Gallery

While adding a Gallery App to a ROM seems to be a no-brainer, the Oxygen OS team relied heavily on the Google Photos app for the job however, they did include a Files app for doing just about the same while not forgetting to rip off some essential features. On the other hand, Cyanogen’s Gallery is a little bit of an overkill. It not just shows the photos on the device storage, it can also fetch photos from your social media streams.
Overall both have lots of scope of improvement in future!!

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