Grand OnePlus 8/Pro OxygenOS update boosts battery life, camera features, and display performance
Hold on tight, OnePlus 8 and 8 Pro owners, a tsunami of an OxygenOS update is heading your way, perhaps the biggest push ti improve stability, camera, battery life, and add new features that OnePlus has attempted in recent memory.
This camera effort was separate from the crowdsourced wisdom for new features and improvements that should be coming with the next versions of its Android overlay, OxygenOS, where the fans’ wishlist consisted of included more than 20 items they’d like to see enhanced or introduced. In the end, OnePlus chose five main new features that fans wished that it incorporates in subsequent updates, like an Always-on Display mode, fingerprint lock for hidden pictures, playing a sound when the battery is fully charged, allowing folders within the app drawer, and so on.
OnePlus 8 series system update
- Optimized the touch and interaction experience.
- Optimized the expanded screenshot user experience for some scenes.
- Optimized the power consumption performance of the system, battery life extended to be longer than ever.
- Optimized the wireless charging stability, providing better user experience (OnePlus 8 Pro only).
- Optimized the pocket mode to reduce mistouches.
- Optimized the unlocking animation, making the unlock transition smoother.
- Updated Android Security Patch to 2020.05.
- Updated GMS package to 2020.03.
OnePlus 8 series camera update
- Newly added H.265 HEVC codec to reduce video storage size seamlessly, capture and shoot more without compromising on quality.
- Added auto ultra-wide-angle lens feature when shooting at close range to improve picture quality of edges (OnePlus 8 Pro only).
- Optimized the click animation for camera shutter, boosting the smoothness of photo-taking experience.
- Improved the shooting experience with camera and improved stability.
OnePlus 8 series network update
- Improved the stability of communication.
- Improved the performance and stability of Wi-Fi transfers.
- Optimized network latency for online games and improved the smoothness.
OnePlus 8 series messaging and Game Space update
- Added the “Delete” button in the notification bar of incoming messages.
- Added keyword whitelist option in SMS blocking settings, the messages with the specified keywords will not be blocked.
- Added Epic Games in Game Space. With one-step installation, check out Fortnite and many other Epic Games, all from Game Space.