Update Policy for Nothing products

simdll · 2024-12-10T12:23:38+00:00

*Disclaimer: I know that this community is not the place to report problems to Nothing, so I'll be emailing customer support, but I wanted to share my opinion with other users.* According to what Nothing reports on its website, Nothing phones will receive 3 major Android updates (version updates, example from A14 to A15) and 4 years of security patches **every 2 months**. Now, why does my NP2, updated to the latest available version, have the October 1st security patches? It's December 10th and the latest security fixes have not yet been released. I can understand that the development team is under stress for the release of NOS 3.0, but in any case if you promise updates every 60 days, you can't have not released an update after more than 70 days. Especially now that Google has updated the Play Integrity API, it is most important to constantly have the latest patches. I don't expect every time an update with a big changelog and a lot of new features, but simply the latest security patches and optionally a generic bug fix evrey 2 months. Then when a bigger update is ready to be released. I think that security updates and feature updates should be handled separately, the first should be released promptly every 60 days, the seconds when the development team decide that it is ready. ALso, always in my opinion, Nothing should provide more support for their phones, at least on the "tops" ones. Many Chinese manufacturers have started to provide 5-6 years of updates, not to mention Google and Samsung who offer 7 years. As if that were not enough, NP1 and NP2 were launched in July, a few months before the release of the new version of Android, so they "skipped" an update at the start. Finally the fact that some features (like the camera widget, the charging limit, the vibration intensity, etc.) are released only on some models and do not arrive on the others, or if they arrive, they do it after a lot of months. It is not a problem that a feature is released first on a new and perhaps cheaper, exemple NP2a, but I would expect that after 2 max 3 months it is also released on other phones. Especially if there are no significant hardware differences. It is true that NP2 and NP2a have two very different processors, Snapdragon vs Mediatech, but I am quite sure that for non-low-level features (widgets for example) deep optimizations or heavy changes are not necessary. Obviously these are my *personal considerations/opinions*, but I'm curious to know what other users of the communities think too.

RaajVyas

simdll I feel you bro🙂🙂as a NP2 user

TatumKampong

Being a nothing phone user’s very upset about this update system of nothing phone…

Mind nothing phone 2a plush….still not getting update of beta version os 15! Why don’t realise it at the same time of every nothing products ? Accordingly to their update!?

Anonymous479

TatumKampong as a new brand they don’t have big software team and to main quality of software they can’t release update to all the phone at same time

SoumyajitKar

Plz check for Google Play system update on your NP2 > settings. I updated mine to Nov 2024 yesterday.

EMX-911

It’s time to change software policy at least provide 4 major android updates for upcoming big models like 3 or 4 and 5 years of security updates…😐

adharsh

Can you consider 5 year of software update

pixcel25

Not happening

HarshithBevinal

As iqoo company has extended Android update for one more year and made a total of 4 year can we expect the same from Nothing company to .. so far my experience regarding my nothing phone 3(a) is pretty good but I expect the company to look over this matter…

Naveenyakshit

As a Nothing customer, I would like to give some advice: please provide good updates for Nothing OS, like other brands such as Vivo, Oppo, Apple, and Samsung. Otherwise, you will fall far behind. Don’t rely solely on Google OS. Look at how good the control centers are on other brands. Please do something, or your marketing will suffer significantly. Nothing hasn’t even listed spare parts prices on its website, and the service center’s service is not good either. Please take action.

Jozf Benestin🇮🇳

Naveenyakshit no bro the stock Android notification drawer is cool

Anonymous1078

I’d be happy if they just fixed major bugs quicker than a month (i.e. the persistent Log Tool crashes)

mamnuntxe

I think nothing need to focus on battery and camera color profile more. After click photo using 3a pro sometime picture look more darker. I don’t know it’s only happens with me or other people too

MatinZolfaghari

I think we as Nothing users deserve more years of os updates because when we joined nothing community the nothing wasn’t perfect and stable, and now they are quite stable.

And something else is that they abandoned glyph lights completely and we had to rely on third party apps.

And they didn’t give us much of native apps like Samsung, Xiaomi,… do

I hope they listen and do as we want.