Rob ⚡️ If I had known beforehand that Nothing requires a subscription for the Essential Space, I wouldn’t have bought the 3a for myself and my wife.

I’ll probably sell it if that turns out to be true.

Planning to upgrade to 3A from 1. This is such a turn off. If the button is remappable, at least then it’s useful.

Rob ⚡️

Can you be transparent and Iet us know what this limit is?

In future, can you rule out a subscription model for this feature?

Rob ⚡️ The limit increase is positive, but we need more trasnparency and information with how you guys are handling Essential Space. We didn’t know about the plans of subscription or limits until people started reporting these facts and that’s extremely dissapointing considering the image of the brand. We need more clarification on these elements and why this wasn’t specified since day 1.

Imagine paying for a phone then basically testing the essential space for free, acting as a tester for this feature.
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“…and we are focused on refining the experience based on user feedback.” with user feedback they mean User Data!

pandaman777 wait, this isn’t all bad. If you can remove the essential stuff with ADB you can remap the button to something else. Currently if you disable Essential space in setting and attempt a remap it still triggers the screenshot part of essential space. Perhaps what you’ve done is the last pice of the puzzle I’ve been looking for. Can you please tell me what you did in adb to fully disable the essential space?

    i think that the worst part about this is that if nothing lied here by not telling anything about the ES limit, they are probably going to continue doing this in the future. Kind of a bummer, because I am liking my NP (2a) plus and the glyph interface is amazing, but probably I am going to switch brand if this is going to continue

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    samthemingo

    seems like you can disable but not reassign, and it would need root status.

    and 3(a) users weren´t charged and are not being technically charged at the moment. So maybe my statement from before is a bit misleading.

    samthemingo you need to disable the Essential Recorder app too

    That kills the screenshot function

    Annoyingly the phone still wakes when the button is pressed, but I need to see if a restart fixes that (can’t do it right now as out)

    I use Shizuku and Hail to do this. Can all be done on device with wireless ADB

    Looks like Essential Space has its own ‘space’ issues—limited and running out faster than my phone’s battery! - BTW Phone(2) User Here 🗿

    Rob ⚡️ what will the company do to resolve this current issue? let us remap the button?

      JJJayYu You can already remap it if you disable these two apps via ADB:

      Essential Space, and Essential Recorder - then use a button remapper app

      Annoyingly the button still wakes the device after remapping

      Mmmm yes that may seem to be the case. But it would also be nice if nothing implements a remap on their own without any 3rd part software

      Sirefe The usage limits are fair and shouldn’t be a blocker for purchasing. AI processing is expensive and, they need to apply limits that don’t block the normal user but, do limit heavy use. I’d suggest 300 essential space credits user per month is significant use of the app - that’s around 9-10 uses of the app everyday.

        hrry Any amount would have been fair if they had said this before releasing it.

        But now, not even a single penny would be considered “fair” for the “essential space” they use to sell the 3a series.

        JJJayYu Nothing says ES is still experimental and that they’re evaluating usage and adoption of ES by users. Do you think that those questions make sense in this experimental period? Take it easy and wait. Early adoption of products always comes with some risk attached.
        I’m pretty sure that there is a very low number of users that really needs AI to help remember every single thing. I suffer from ADHD and I should know how hard it is to forget stuff…

          hrry Wait, that’s actually pretty fair and it resets every month? you know what.. I take everything I said, now that you gave this numbers I will save and screenshot this statement and keep it just in case. Glad you communicated this.

          Just wanting to confirm, these credits reset every month.. right? right??