📱 Phone (2a) - Nothing OS 2.5.5.a Changelog

Firmware (bot) · 2024-04-25T11:48:48+00:00

Feedback? On your device: Go to Settings -> System -> Feedback. Firmware rollouts are usually staggered, meaning not all users will receive the update...

Rajdeep13

Camera app is now jitter more than before.

Why main camera is taking whitish picture now.

Color saturation has improved but very Little.

Noise in the picture has increased.

YouTube HDR video is smoother now. Good work

Quick settings has smoothen now.

But the major camera issue.. the decade of loading time or the super duper slow post processing is still not resolve.

On every restart the phone took 5 to 6 sec to stable and sometime. It hangs

I will update the rest after use.

After update 2nd edit:-

UI is going to be more smother and better. Appreciable 👏

Awesome battery backup.

Camera still the most disappointed part of this phone..

Horrible noise in night mode both front and back

Bravo Bravo Bravo….

Ultra smooth UI

Ultra smooth app opening

Gaming is now better

Now camera is somehow improving 👏

Best battery backup

Best ram management

Im one of them who criticize this phone so far and I’m happy that nothing has worked great.

DexTer_e03TBYSe6f

Firmware (bot)

“improved camera app opening performance…” Good.
Where is “improved camera photo video CAPTURE - PROCESSING - IMAGE Output Speed”? 😦 –
which has a

big community cries #here forum, #reddit , #xda , #Google Search Feb-Apr 2024 #feedback
sore negative weakness.
Yea, it’s quite tiring to hear negative remarks voices (Mine too, I’m owning up. Sorry. ). ..

Touching on product feedback, senior coworker’s redraft review, office boss feedback, coach(es) corrections. .. I really really** would think correcting, improving a Big Glaring Minus area first and fast would take priority over a minor weakness. Are Nothing devs really listening to their customers’ telemetry or just picking off easy low-hanging “wins” (from who’s perspective … tsktsk)

RohithTony

Still battery drain issue not resolved and also heating, one more thing after 2.5.5a update battery drain more fast then before 😢😢

AgentY

RohithTony bro it’s been less then 2 hours, how did you have time to measure that?

GirishG_QleCd5CKsx

The phone starts flicker some seconds when I tried to open any apps

TheSensibleOne

Well Well Well…this is a good update by Nothing compared to the previous update.

Things which are fixed and newly introduced:

4K HDR playback in Youtube is running smoothly. Even phones like Oneplus Nord CE 4 and Motorola Edge 50 Pro fail to run 4K video in Youtube smoothly (right now).
Quick Setting disable feature in LockScreen is really a great feature.
ChatGPT widget for text and speech is quite good but for image you need an expensive Pro Subscription which is a let down. Google and Microsoft lets you to do that for free. Maybe a feature to choose your own language model of different vendors in future would be great but that is too much to ask right now.
Color consistency in Ultrawide and Primary is fixed.
Portrait pictures over exposure and edge detection is fixed to a great extent.

Things which are not fixed or degraded in this new update:

Lack of details in the UltraWide lens despite being 50 MP.
What is wrong with the Primary Lens again? Previous two updates fixed the Lens Glare issue. Now same place same lighting condition same light source is producing extended lens flare in the both Primary lens and UltraWide. Just point it to a bulb or street lamp, and there it is..LENS FLARE again.
How the hell did you mess up the above average night mode? It was good initially when the phone launched. But now the images are so blurry. With Night Mode off, the images are better. Please fix it.

So, long story short, so far I can see LENS FLARE and NIGHT MODE are the only things which needs fixing .But these are important things for some people so PLEASE DONT IGNORE IT.

For people shouting about long processing time, any smartphone which uses Google Photos as main gallery face this issue .From Google pixel(lower end ones) to Motorola to Nothing. So unless Nothing brings out their own gallery app I think this issue is not going away.

BTW this is my first Nothing Phone, I am really impressed with the update policy. Especially with the effort by the company to fix issues rather than leave it as it is. Hope they continue this trend even after 4 / 5 years.

Sambhrant

TheSensibleOne copy paste this text in the feedback of your phone settings

shahbazomer3

TheSensibleOne I havent recieved the update yet but Im hoping I recieve it soon. I just got my nothing phone 2a last week. The battery life is good but not what I expected it to be. The battery drains alot quicker in standby mode even tho I have checked there is no app thats working that much in the background. There are cellular issues. The signals drop to zero sometimes and the network doesnt work and I then have to dial a number/call someone for it to go up back wgich is frustrating. Otherwise, the phone has delivered. I just hope the battery drain gets fixed because its not giving me a good usage time and I hope the cellular connectivity gets better as It drives me insane sometimes lol.

SumantaGhata

Need nothing gallary genuinely and please fix the camera issue. I beg u.

Bharathwaj

After 2.5.5a update camera issues-

Selfie Camera : Fully blurry of front camera, over polished and face shape not recognised
Back Camera : Lot of noise, Lens glare in both camera with night mode.

Sarthakghike

Sarthakghike recently updated nothing os 2.5.5 but I didn’t see any difference in my nothing 2a

the new chat gpt widget in which is coming in new update not showing in my nothing it’s any bug of other problem .

Ealesy101

Sarthakghike - Make sure you have the ChatGPT app downloaded. Then the widgets shall be visible.

Nexium - Your battery usage shall be reset after each software update. Also, please be aware that it shall take a few cycles of the battery to properly optimise again, so you may experience some odd drain until this optimisation is complete.

Nexium

After the update 2.5.5.a, the Battery Usage screen shows Blank. Is anyone else facing this issue?

GouravAgarwal

Firmware (bot) after new update camera app jitters a lot, despite of that issue update is fantastic.

Nexium

Ealesy101 Understood, thanks.

muhkuhaushonolulu

Ealesy101 ive never had battery dran issue after an update caused by optimizations. And i never charge my phone over night or longer after it reaches 100 percent. So why so many people have drain problems with this?

2a, updated since 2.5.4

Ujjaldas_6W0blIPzCm

Ealesy101 Yes correct

Subhas Garai

Jio 5G not working. No 5G network available in JIO sim in Nothing Phone 2a

Ujjaldas_6W0blIPzCm

Subhas Garai Yesterday there was a issue with jio in my area, May be temporary outage was there.

Subhas Garai

Subhas Garai I tried Android 15 Beta then JIO 5G working properly. Then why not solve this issue in stable OS.

ashiva

i didn’t recieved the update notification, i checked & it says “it is up to date”

anyone else facing this?

NotP2a

ashiva They may have been rolling out the update in batches.

Stringfellow_hawke

ashiva Yes, pretty normal. Haven’t gotten it either. They always release updates in stages. Sometimes I get one pretty much straight away, other times I have to wait a couple of days. Shouldn’t be to long before we get it as well.