Chinese manufacturer, OnePlus, has officially released the full package public beta of Hydrogen OS on top of Android 11. This update is strictly for OnePlus 8/8 Pro. Although OnePlus says that it will not erase your data, it also advises users to back up their data. Furthermore, your battery level should not be less than 30% while you attempt the update. In addition, this update needs a minimum of 3GB storage space.
Key updates
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System
- Fresh new UI visual design brings you a more comfortable experience with various optimizations of details
- Brand new weather UI supports dynamic switches between sunrise and sunset. You can have day and night at your hand now
- Optimized the brightness bar display in the status bar, enabling you to quickly adjust it by pulling down quick settings.
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Game space
- Newly added gaming tools box for convenient switches of Fnatic mode, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Screen Recorder at one place (Enable it by swiping down from the upper right/left corners of the screen in gaming mode)
- Newly added mis-touch prevention feature. Enable it, swipe down from the top of the screen, click and the notification bar will pop out.
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Ambient display
- Added Always-on ambient Display function, custom Schedule / All day option included. Path: Settings – Display – Ambient Display.
- Added 10 new clock styles. Path: Settings – Customization – Clock Style
- Newly added Insight clock style, a joint creation with Parsons School of Design. It will change according to the phone usage data. ( To set: Settings>Customization>Clock Style)
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Dark mode
- Added the shortcut key for Dark Mode, pull down the quick setting to enable.
- Supporting automatically turn on feature & customize time range. path: Settings – Display – Dark Mode – Turn on automatically – Automatically enable from sunset to sunrise / Custom time range.
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Zen Mode
- Added 5 new themes (ocean, space, grassland, Zen space1, Zen space2), and more timing options.
- Included the Group feature in Zen Mode, now you can invite your friends and enable the Zen Mode together.
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Gallery
- Supporting Story function, automatically form weekly videos with photos and video in storage.
As usual, this is a beta update thus you may have issues with this version after upgrading. According to OnePlus Forum users, the NFC begins to malfunction after upgrading.
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The following is the upgrade package to upgrade to Hydrogen OS 11 Beta 1 (Android 11):
The following are the downgrade packages available for downgrading to the stable version of Hydrogen OS 10 (Android 10):
Also updated today is the Android 10 stable version of Hydrogen OS version 8.
