[OnePlus 11] AlexeyZavar:
Some feedback for those who are tired of OxygenOS's design and struggling with various modules, and want to switch to a custom ROM.

TLDR; if you're ready to waste some time configuring it to your needs, and don't care about audio and vibration - flash and enjoy it.

Let's start with the battery. It's worse than on the stock, and it's worse out-of-the-box. How much? Well, I'd say it's discharging 25% faster + if you leave your phone at night, it'll waste about 5-6%, while stock spends 1-2%. Not a big concern for me, because it's still good,but just keep that in mind; don't expect magic.

Next goes audio quality. It's definitely better on the OxygenOS. Even tho there's a note in a post about adjustments to Bluetooth quality, it's just bad. Packaged Dolby Atmos isn't the same as in the stock, and I'd say it's useless. I had to install VIPER and NLSound modules to get somehow good quality, but it's still no match to stock without any modules.

Also, personally, I have a bug with playing audio - I have to reconnect my earphones before playing music, otherwise it'll play silence. (It's not audio mods related.)

One of the most missed parts for me is a vibration pattern. It feels like a cheap phone's one. You could experience this feeling if you enable "Watchdogs Extras" > "Quick Settings" > "Haptic feedback", and try to play with brightness. It's starting to dribble. Same with vibration in other apps - feels reeeally heavy, so I had to disable it in most places.

Auto-brightness? Well, it works fine, but in a medium-lit room it's too bright. Apart from that, it's good.

There's a small difference with stock in terms of screen. On stock, touching the screen on the left and right edges (where waterfall) doesn't count as touches, what prevents from mistouches while holding the phone with one hand. On this one I'm encountering mistouches frequently. Also, it somehow helped in players, e.g. now there's a higher chance you'll skip to the next track in Spotify, when trying to close a fullscreen player with a back gesture.

Regarding "SafetyNet and CTS passes whether your rooted or not" - the device is certified in a play store, but if you download an external tool like YASNAC to check it - both checks will fail, so if you need a bank app that hates root - you'll have to mess with modules.

Saying about Watchdogs itself - it's just me or the logo in wizard looked like someone forgot to cutoff background? Same logo with the same uncut background is in the Settings.

Boot animation - it's either too small (on the prev build) or too stretched (at the current).

Also, just want to mention - it's not really clear from the post what Watchdogs is, and what improvements over crdroid it has.

A few notes about installing additional GApps - you better flash them rightly after flashing the ROM, otherwise you'll have to mess with formatting data and reflashing ROM. At least, I had to, with Gboard and Dialer. (That was stated somewhere in the docs, but I missed it at first.)

Can't say anything about camera, because I don't use it at all.

(IMHO)

So, if you ask me, did I revert to the Oxygen - I'd say NO WAY. On this ROM, I have working, smooth animations everywhere in the system, and recents provider that works fine with my launcher. I don't have to install lsposed with luckytool to tweak some essential parts of the system or remove the oppoplus account from settings. And the default font is awesome.

There are fewer bugs in it than on OxygenOS.

In general, I'd recommend it. I hope our device tree will improve and at least get vibration from stock.