I got the 3a pro about a week back and I’m loving the phone so far.

beautiful design, smooth UI, good cameras, good display, love the glyph lights.

I wanted to give my opinion on areas  i thought it could be improved, and few issues i found along the way.
Wanted to know if any of you guys share some of these ideas n issues. may be there are things i didn’t know about you can let me know.

Let me know what you guys think.

Feature Request

UI Improvements

• Grid Layout: Add 5 or 6 grid layout options for notifications.

• Brightness Controls:
  
  • Display brightness slider even when quick settings are not expanded.
  • Show the brightness value (maybe in the dotted font style), maybe make the brightness slider thinner, i feel its too rounded to tell what value its on or I’m setting it to. (how about a dotted slider to the kinda slider from the nothing x eq)
  • Currently the slider jumps to where ever you touch on the slider, could it be more of touch anywhere and drag to move it. (Thought this might be better, maybe its just me :p) (also maybe a dotted slider design would be nice)

• Quick Settings: Move the notification quick settings lower when fully expanded for better reachability.

• Customizable Folders: Enable customizable folders in the app drawer similar to the home screen.

• Volume Controls:

  • Add a volume slider option in quick settings.

  • Option to move the volume slider to the right side for easier reach.

  • Currently the slider jumps to where ever you touch on the slider, could it be more of touch anywhere and drag to move it, this could allow for better precise controls.

  • Also don’t like how wide the slider gets like the brightness slider.

  • Again please show the volume value!

  • Maybe Match the volume controls UI to something similar to the nothing x app

• UI Customization:

  • Toggle app names inside folders and home screen layout separately.

  • Transparency slider for widgets and app icon backgrounds.

  • App icon padding options (adjust icon size within the circle).

• Charging Indicators:

  • Display approximate charging time.

• Refresh Rate: Option for a dynamic 90Hz adaptive refresh option for better battery life.

• UI Consistency: Sometimes the Ui feels incomplete, feels like some parts of the os does not match the rest of nothing UI, hope this gets better with the next update.

Charging & Battery Management

• Finer Charging Controls:

  • Implement variable battery charge cutoffs (option to set cutoffs to 85% ).
  • Option to disable fast charging for better battery longevity.

• Refresh Rate Optimization:

  • Reduce refresh rate to 30Hz when there are no screen updates or user inputs to save battery.

Camera Enhancements

• Adaptive Brightness: Disable adaptive brightness/XDR while using the camera app. (Its an eye strain sometimes)

• Settings Accessibility: Option to Pin camera settings to the top for quick access.

• Electronic Image Stabilization (EIS): Provide an option to toggle EIS on/off.

• Post Processing:

  • Option to disable Image post-processing.

  • Option for Fine-tuned controls for image post-processing with a live preview if possible.

• Click Anywhere to Snap: Improve usability of this feature. cant focus or adjust exposure without clicking a photo.

  • Suggestion: keep a floating Shutter button.

• Expert Video option.

Navigation, Lock Screen & Notifications Improvements

• Navigation Buttons: Option to auto-hide navigation buttons in apps.

• Wallpaper & Lock Screen Customization:

  • Set multiple images as a slideshow for lock and home screens (changes on each unlock).

  • Glyph Composer: Option to use glyph composer with user-selected music.

  • Always-On Display (AOD):

  • Show AOD on tap or movement detection (picked up), (currently it shows the lock screen directly).

  • Tap again to reveal the lock screen.

• Lock Screen Notifications:

  • Option to Keep notifications in the status bar but hide them from the lock screen.

  • Display only the small app icons for notifications on the lock screen tapping an icon brings down the notification bar.

  • This Ensure notifications don’t cover the lock screen n wallpaper and keeps everything clean looking.

  • Option for notification to pop up for a few seconds while the screen is off, to glance at it.

App & Memory Management

• Memory Management:

  • Lock apps in memory to prevent them from being killed.
  • Display RAM usage in the app switcher.

• Task Management:

  • Move the “Clear All Apps” button to the bottom next to the screen shot for easier access.

• Screen Control:
  
  • Enable double-tap to turn off the screen from the lock screen.

Vibration, System Volume & EQ

• Finer Vibration Controls:

  • Separate intensity controls for keyboard, system, Glyph, and call vibrations.

• System Volume:

  • Add a dedicated system volume option.

• Equiliser:

  • Please Add a system wide EQ, just add the the one in the nothing X app to the settings

Issues & Bugs

Camera

• Shutter Lag: I notice that is a lot of shutter lag somtimes and it had clicked a second or 2 later when viewing in the galary app.

• Burst Mode: Not functioning at all, just clicks one photo.

• Image Processing Issues:

  • Image processing on the nothing 3a Pro for me has been a hit or miss sometimes

  • The contrast is a bit to strong sometimes, espically in fine details making the photo look too harsh. (like all the imperfection n cracks on your face will stand out kinda thing)

  • Sometimes photos taken are too bright and too sharp.

  • It seems to makes the faces and the image too bright(than it actually is) and unsaturated and sometimes oversaturated.

  • Sometimes it makes environment and the rest of the photo to unsaturated and too contrasty n oversharpned.

  • Structure and tonal detail are too high sometimes. Sometimes the shadows are crushed, and sometimes everything is too flat and lacks depth n contrast.

  • Seems to be a bit of an  issue in high dynamic range situations.

  • And sometimes the images are just Perfect.

  • the photos n the camera perfomance i’ve seen of the phone 2 and 2a online seems to have better processing and consistency.

  • Maybe it the heavy reliance on ai processing, coz the images look good on the preview. I hope this is fixed with the next software update.

  • also the video white balance and exposure  jumps too much.

  • sometimes it takes a while to click the photo (not the timer thing it shows, normal photo in good lighting) and the photo is a bit blurry, noticed this with selfies.

• Image Quality Adjustments:

  • structure, tonal detail, saturation and contrast levels are unpredictable. Maybe better if we had a bit of control over the post processing, maybe be different levels of post processing even or fine control over it if possible.

OS Bugs

• Extra Dim Feature: Does not work on the lock screen!! Why!

• Lock Screen Refresh Rate: Always runs at 120Hz, even in standard 60Hz refresh mode.

• Hold Hold for assistant: Hold Home for assistant does not work for me.

• weirdly both circle to search and assistant map’s to the same button and both can be toggled on.

• but even if i turn off circle to search the assistant doesn’t work for me.

• Could both of these functionalities be merged? that would be great. have the circle to search on top and on the bottom instead of the search bar the gemini assistant.

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PS**

I’ve seen too many people complaining about these issues and wanted to give my thoughts:
the bezels , its a non issue, it looks good, symmetric .
The Phone being unbalanced: its not an issue. its fine. plus you have a nice bump to rest your fingers on. i found it comfortable to hold after a while. It is a big phone thought.
The speakers are good, would love a system eq though.