Leaving the Nothing brand forever

mialee

Due to multiple issues faced with this brand in the last 3 years, I have finally decided to move on with other brand, possibly Apple or Vivo.

Reasons:

After sale services of Nothing and it’s sub brand in my area are pathetic.
Update timelines are gimmicky and not at all feels like an update.
All products battery life is worsen with each update and every time service centre says, only your product has issues.
How come 6 different products have the exact issues related to battery, even after product replacment?
Still company recomend me to put 4 to 5 stars rating? It’s purely begging.
I chose this brand due to its promises and ideaology in the initial phase but now it seems Nothing is going in the wrong direction
Final Goodbye. Will never buy Nothing Products at all.

Good Things:

Hardware quality apart from display and battery is good.
Software experience is smooth and optimised but less features
No spyware as of now, while writing this comment.

I hope this comment will stay here.

CYPHER_LYNX

mialee why all of sudden all are leaving from the brand

RajPratapAnand

mialee good bye brother , but dont sell the phone or exchange it , instead keep it as backup cause it would be reliable in emergencies use it as an external camera using xsplit so good

code913

mialee How come 6 different products have the exact issues related to battery, even after product replacment?

should be #1 on the list; way more important than status bar icons but they don’t even acknowledge it as a real issue

I suggest you try Redmagic or Oneplus if you’ve got the budget. After sales might be bad but they’re making interesting phones

Gawasrahul

mialee yeh!!

Ydojo

yeah uh thanks for the feedback,but no one cares

AbiS_MjZL72iTVk

Ydojo Just like your company

CMF1_hacker

weird, I didn’t have any of those experiences.

NP3 is very compelling now. €539 or £475 for a “flagship” level phone less than 6 months old and I suspect it will drop more right before Xmas for some deals down to around £450 or nearly half-off.

but, you do you.

UpawNothing

I’ve only just got my first Nothing Phone the NP3 and it ticks all the boxes for me. Nothing’s version of Android is the big pull for me, have had Samsung’s, Pixels and an Apple and Nothing OS suits me best. Pixels get updates every month and these are normally security patches, the feature drops bring nothing to the everyday experience of using a phone. Would recommend Apple over Vivo, hope you enjoy your new phone.

Lout_Of_Order

I’ve only just got my N3a (first NP for me), I was actually looking at the OnePlus Nord CE5 and the guy in the store asked if I had heard of these. I had as it happens as I knew the original guy from OP created Nothing but I hadn’t considered the phone, it simply missed my radar.

After a week or so of using it I’m liking it more and more, the camera performs well enough for a phone at this price point although it’s not top on my list of requirements. The software is clean and snappy so far with the Android 16 NOS 4.0 update expected any time now.

So far, so good, but it needs more time to really decide if it’s a brand I will stick with for some time.

I haven’t found any bad points so far, but it is very early days so I have to reserve judgement for the time being.

As for Apple or VIVO, I wouldn’t buy either of those, just personal choice, no other reason.

ArnoldMelvinXavier

Lout_Of_Order there are some fundamental problem with the software. Altho it is smooth and polished. When you keep here light coloured wallpaper on the lock screen, the lock screen clock face will not turn into dark font.

JP

I bought cmf ph1 on 24th dec last year… it got even batter with updates… camera got improved… battery life is excellent even after 11 months of use…almost 10+ hours of sot… recieved every update on time… no bugs no os issue no hardware issues… i even had great online coustomer support experience 🤷🏻

I think it’s always the user error or high expectations from a brand

CMF1_hacker

JP I have the CMF1 and the camera is nice and day from released and like 2 updates into 3.0. it got quite good.

That is if you keep the cameras’ “glass” scratch free.

Amudhan_Sundararajan

JP Just because your device works perfectly doesn’t mean everyone else is doing something wrong. Blaming users for poor battery life is absurd. If someone reports an issue, you don’t have to care—but acting like it must be “user error” just because your phone is fine is ridiculous.

For context, I bought my NP3A Pro in March, and after just eight months, the battery is already going downhill. Here’s how my usage looked today:

Total screen-on time: about 3 hours and 44 minutes
Battery drain: 70% → 9%

And my usage wasn’t even that heavy—around 2 hours on Firefox, 30 minutes on Amazon, 30 minutes playing Wuthering Waves, 15 minutes on Genshin, and a few quick checks on other apps.

Meanwhile, background apps like Google Play Services, Nothing Launcher, Digital Wellbeing, Huawei Health, Messages, and Norton 360 are each with 3-6 hours of background usage.

Maybe you barely use apps, stay on Wi-Fi all day, don’t have a SIM card, or just got lucky with a good batch. Or maybe you’re exaggerating your screen-on time just to argue—who knows. But blaming users instead of recognizing that different units, usage patterns, and software setups exist? That’s just nonsense.

JP

CMF1_hacker mine is also scratched..but the main 50mp lens is good…the 2mp monochrome is scratched… so it doesn’t matter that much…

themountofmint

So you’ve literally come here to write this. Great. You’d better provide your suggestions through Settings — Tips and feedback, so that the team could get and read it.

themountofmint

Amudhan_Sundararajan try to see which apps are “eating” the battery, so maybe this helps improve battery life. Someone here did that and battery started to drain slower. I have the exact same 3a from July, still works pretty good surprisingly. Loses a bit more when I’m gaming (just a few light games somehow installed from play store).

This is my battery for now. I have like everything enabled (internet, WiFi at home, location, Bluetooth 24/7). But I set battery saver mode to be turned on at 20%. Usually now the battery lasts all day, it’s around 11 or more screen time hours. I guess if I wasn’t that active with my phone I’d charge mine less, like once in 1,5 days.

CMF1_hacker

Amudhan_Sundararajan if you’d like some proper help, why not post the data?

Including the Services at the end of the list. And then we can make a deduction. Meta services/apps are horribly unoptimised. Also, we’d need to know % drain with screen on/off and the amount of time spent in deep sleep. The easiest way is to post screenshots from the Battery setting and then from AccuBattery and/or Battery Guru.

I’d hardly blame that an NOTHING though as that sounds like an app issue.

JP

Amudhan_Sundararajan 2 active sim (bsnl and jio), data always on, Instagram WhatsApp gmail and Google services always active these services never stop(whitelisted from adb)… with 7-8 hours of sot…

I always speak nonsense here…because people understand their language very easily 🤷🏻

code913

Amudhan_Sundararajan Even in the screenshot you shared, Chrome used about 18% of the battery usage with just 5 minutes of background activity.

18% out of the battery spent since last charge, not 18% of actual battery. If you used your phone for 5% charge (500 mah), and chrome used 1.8% (90 mah), the stats will still show it as 18

The battery stat in settings is really confusing and you should use Accubattery or a similar app to find what’s draining

Amudhan_Sundararajan Total screen-on time: about 3 hours and 44 minutes
Battery drain: 70% → 9%

That’s concerningly low. I play ZZZ, which is as demanding as wuwa or genshin, and drain 80% to 10% in 3 hours. You’re getting that much with only few minutes

CMF1_hacker

themountofmint that’s a super nice colour palette

Amudhan_Sundararajan

themountofmint try to see which apps are “eating” the battery, so maybe this helps improve battery life.

My situation really isn’t about using battery-hungry apps. I’ve already disabled or removed everything I don’t need. I even uninstalled unnecessary bloatwares and YouTube through ADB and just watch videos on Firefox now. I don’t use Instagram or Facebook either—the only Meta app I have is WhatsApp.

According to my battery stats, the main culprit is Firefox, which unfortunately I can’t uninstall. Its optimization is honestly pretty poor. Even in the screenshot you shared, Chrome used about 18% of the battery usage with just 5 minutes of background activity. That doesn’t exactly look like a well-optimized setup either, so it’s not surprising my phone is struggling too.

My point isn’t that everyone’s battery life should be identical… it’s that even with relatively light usage on my end (roughly 2 hours on Firefox, 45 minutes of gaming, 30 minutes browsing Amazon, a few quick check-ins, my watch app, antivirus and some basic system stuff like Play Services and the Launcher), the battery still drains quite a bit. So blaming the user doesn’t really make sense, especially when everyone’s setup and app behavior can vary from one device to another.

I’ve already optimized everything possible. What’s left are just the apps I actually use day to day. That’s why I’m saying the drain could be real—it’s not just “user error.”

Wish-

themountofmint Hey what’s wrong with Chrome? Screen on time less than a minute and background 5 minutes still 18% battery? Is it always behaves like that? BTW your SOT is impressive. My phone 2 is almost the same after 2 years 4 months.

NOTHING ALLURE

Me also leaving this brand because of no any improvement in there OS! 🚫

CMF1_hacker

NOTHING ALLURE the OS itself is great (NOS 3.5 is peak OS). 4.0 and beyond are focusing on PLAYGROUND as an app/sharing store and that is an excellent decision. We don’t need en-crap-ification of NOS 3.5 with shiny bits that all other brands have, which makes sense to move to them if that’s what you want.

rish

mialee

Same here.

Bought phone 1, phone 2, ear 1, ear (2024)

But from last year onwards. I was slowing planning on starting to move when they started the change the company policies for software updates and. Now when I heard about the ads and things coming. I now don’t have any hope in this.

For me. There was no issue of battery .

But there where issue on screen like green tint on phone 1

Evrythings else was soo smooth. But now updates feel like nothing. There are no new features (phone 2). Even if some feature came to the OS. It will only end up in phone 2 like last or something. For example the camera prest, essential search(I don’t even know if it will come officialy to phone 2).

So much disappointment with how company is changing. (Yes i know it is for the growth and other maybe) but nah. It now just feel like any other company phones. Especially the new phones. Pure nothing designs are gone. The transparency is slowing fading away. And everything.

So. Bye nothing. (Will stay here until phone 2 life ends btw; I love this phone). But not more new nothings.

Thanks for introducing and ending good designs