Nothing OS 5.0 | Open Beta Feedback

Zac 🛸 · 2026-08-26T12:26:00+00:00

Hey everyone, ⚡️ The Nothing OS 5.0 beta is rolling out, and if you’re on it, you’ve probably already got thoughts. This thread is the place to share them. 💬 Whether you’ve come across a bug, found a feature that you want to share, or just want to hear what others are experiencing, jump in. The more people comparing notes, the easier it is to work out what’s a widespread issue and what’s a one-off. A few things worth discussing: Bugs you’ve encountered and how much they’re affecting day-to-day use Surprising features and how you are using them Anything that’s actually working better than anticipated What you’d want addressed before the stable release 🚨 While this thread is a great place to discuss, the official feedback channels are still the most reliable way to get issues in front of the team, so if you’ve found something reproducible, make sure it’s logged there too with the following steps right on your device. ⚙️ Settings > System > Feedback.

DarrenF

RobertBrady battery life is really good on v16, i cant see 17 beoing too much worse. but i am going from a samsung flip7 to this, and its an absolute beast in comparison. So i will be keeping an eye on battery. The most amazing thing is how fast this thing charges too. I cant see there being any loss in parity of this.

ShubhamPatel

Is there open beta update coming to solve the issues or are we going to wait till the final release for the bugs

DarrenF

what bugs have you spotted, i will test. - im going to be usin this phone as my daily so i will see if there are issues. Its smooth AF so far. like OG oneplus….

JayanthGupta

Just a few bugs I spotted

When I remove certain icons, it automatically creates a new page

There is a brief moment where the ui stalls after unlocking.

The shortcuts on the lockscreen have an odd padding.

The two dots in the pill of the media player (at the bottom) aren’t centered. The classic notification panel tends to stutter for a split second when sliding down

Oh and, there is a pop up when you try to turn on mobile data which feels redundant.

The battery percentage icon gets stuck on this whitish look after closing folders

The app name disappears in the recents tray

For the most part, I’m really quite pleased with the overall update. Quite excited to see the future iterations after the necessary polishing has been done

anjanyadavby

LOCK SCREEN - Cancel & Done buttons remain white in Dark Mode instead of adapting to the dark theme, while they appear correctly in Light Mode.

TOGGLE INCONSISTENCY - Toggle styling is inconsistent across Settings pages. Some toggles are smaller while others are larger, and their colours vary between pure black and grey, even in Light Mode. This makes the overall toggle design visually inconsistent in terms of size, colour, and appearance

BATTERY vs VOLUME UI INCONSISTENCY - The Battery bar follows the newer, thicker Android 17 AOSP design, while the Volume sliders still retain the older, thinner A12-style design, despite newer Android AOSP versions having used thicker volume sliders for quite some time.

NOTIFICATION CONTROL PANEL - There’s a clear Dynamic Theming inconsistency between Light and Dark Mode: in Light Mode, the active toggles consistently appear white, whereas in Dark Mode, some active toggles remain white while others turn yellow. Even the yellow used for the active toggles is inconsistent with the yellow/peach tone of the brightness slider, making the colour treatment across the same Quick Settings panel look mismatched.

There are lots of inconsistency in whole UI of Nothing OS 5.0 Beta.

Status Bar Icons size are inconsistent.

Animation Glitch while opening/closing Separate Notification (PPT Animation 🤢)

Vibration (Haptic feedback missing) while switching Pill Har in GALLERY

Most Important - Dynamic Theming Colour still not applying properly in the whole UI of Nothing OS and it continues in OS 5 (Problem start in 3.0 and 4.0)

I have less hope from NOTHING.

See this A17 Color Theming and Compare this with Nothing Theming.

Recently Motorola launched A18. Finally Moto cracked Dynamic Theming and it applied properly in their whole UI.

grepGander

anjanyadavby Recently Motorola launched A18.

Android 18 doesn’t exist. That screenshot above is from a Pixel phone. Pixel UI is a skin, just like Nothing OS.

Kairav

Zac 🛸 Hi there Nothing Team! Finally waiting for such a long time we got an Nothing OS 5.0 Beta Update for Nothing Phone 3A Pro. I installed the update immediately and my first expression was like wow. The changes looked insane and everything Refreshed and redesigned especially the settings and the Glyph App.

But here are some flaws I found during testing NOS 5.0 Beta:

When clicking the power button and closing the phone. There is a delay between the sound effect for closing and button pressed. So that needs to be fixed. After sometime the sound of closing stops playing.
The Phone was way too much lagy when I first opened it when Nothing OS 5.0 was installed.
My phone was heated and my battery was draining faster.
The app’s were lagging even after optimisation of the app’s
The OS was laggy to.

These were some issues I faced during the first time on Nothing OS 5.0. Now I wanna talk about the things which should be changed and many more thing’s which are needed to be added which I would be discussing now and could be later implemented in Stable Release of Nothing OS 5.0. So let’s begin:

New Volume Slider: Nothing has been changed in Volume Slider, just classic Google Volume Slider, same as Android 16 which is boring. So we need a new fresh and especially designed Volume Slider for Nothing Phones now rather than using the classic Google Volume Slider. A little bit of hard work will make feel OS much better. Also when pressing on volume icon for, vibrate, volume or silent via volume up button from volume slider menu, pressing them gives no Animation at all, it feels dead, so add animations when we click on volume slider top volume button from where we put phone on silent , vibrate , volume mode!
New Icons: we all know new icons has been added but they are still the same old ones introduced in Nothing’s OS 4.0, just the font enlarged in them and nothing else, so they need some work and needs new Design rather than using the same old Battery icon and just enlarging the text in it.
Lock Screen: The lock screen has got new Clock Face and Depth Effect got better which is good. But we need more customisation for Clock Faces, like custom adjusting clock height and width rather than system doing it automatically by clicking the enlarge or small button making it small. So that the user can adjust the height and width of Clock Faces according to them and they can also fit the Clock Face for Depth Effect at the particular position they would love to, which will look much better.
Change Battery Animation: We also need new Battery Animation when plugged in for charging. Since last OS Upgrade’s we are seeing the same dot matrix animation which is kind of boring now. So it needs a Re-work or new design.
Power Menu: I also checked out Power Menu which is same as before and also needs a Re-work on it and bring some new Design to it. Also Bring Animations for those buttons, like we Click on it and those Buttons do Animations like rotating circular or something else the team would like.
More Better Game Mode UI: I also checked out Game mode Ui which is same as before and also needs work on it. We can also add an information bar which show fps, temperature, cpu usage , gpu usage , ram usage and more! Which would give us useful information while gaming.
Bring Translucent Glass Effect to 1st Or 3rd Party Apps: As the new translucent effect also looks sick, we can implement it into apps with Glassy Translucent Effect and with custom designed Footer or Ui. It can be implemented into apps like YouTube , Instagram, WhatsApp and more!
More Status Bar and Control Panel Customisation: Bring more customisation to Control Panel and Status Bar as it looks the same as before in Android 16. Though Android 17 did bring new control panel but would love more customisation for Notifications in left hand side of Seperated mode and Normal Combined Mode! We can also add an Notification Drop Down Animation Which shows that Bluetooth has been connected with Bluetooth Icon and that Particular Device Name!
Bring More Options In Essential Ai Wallpaper Creation: The Essential Ai Wallpaper Creation is a good source for wallpaper but it needs more new options to make wallpaper. Like Cars , Buildings , planes and more. Which are Depth Effect Applicable. As the old ones are now kind of boring so implementing some more options would be great!
Eraser Not Available On Nothing Phone 3A Pro Gallery: This is a long time issue which I have been facing with my Phone 3A Pro after it’s purchase. Gallery never gave me eraser options though my Gallery is updated to latest Version. So it also needs some work and fixed.
Missing Essential Voice Feature For Nothing Phone 3A Pro: As every other Nothing Phone is receiving the Essential Voice Feature, why is Nothing Phone 3A Pro Not receiving this feature ? Please this is a Huge request from all Nothing Phone 3A Pro users that this Feature Should also be Introduced on Nothing Phone 3A Pro.
Re-Designed Media Player On Lock Screen: I also checked out the media player on locks screen for every app like Spotify, Yt music and more! It is still the classic Android 17 stock media player. Just reduced size. It needs complete Re-work on it and make it look like that it Belongs to Nothing Phones!
Wallpaper Transition Delay Between Lock Screen and Home Screen: I also noticed there is some delay between doing transition of switching wallapaper of lock screen and home screen. Which also needs to be fixed!
Glitched Expanded Dark Theme: The new expanded dake theme works good on apps which does not support black theme. But also glitches and makes the theme white of apps which support dark theme by themselves. While testing I noticed that game bar with 2 small icons. Which we press and get fps and a controller logo. The arrow was in dark mode before. When I enabled expanded dark theme. It glitched and forced it to go on White Theme. This needs to be fixed!
Bluetooth Connectivity Glyph Light Indicator Not Working: When I was connecting my bluetooth earphones, u noticed the Glyph which tells that Bluetooth is connected was not working. But later on it started working but still if it have any issues in new OS so it needs to be fixed to. And provide blutooth short cut screen some more good Ui!

So These are some changes which I demand from Nothing Team, which will make the OS look much better rather than still Using Stock Google things. I hope they implement Some of my Demanded Features.

Btw this is my humble request, if u are saying that we want to keep the OS “Minimalistic” it does not means that you keep the OS 70% Stock Android 17 and 30% Nothing OS. We need something Good in designs rather than using Stock Google Ui’s and Designs. You guy’s need to do hardwork for making the OS look more Better. I am not being against OS here. I honestly love Nothing OS but 70% of the phone uses Stock Android Ui’s and Features which are needed to be Re-Designed by the company for a Nothing Phone. Please take this request seriously. It’s almost Stock Android UI and a Little bit of work From Nothing Team on the OS. I hope my requested demands above would be implemented.

Btw loving the Nothing OS 5.0 Experience! 😃

Ayush Yadav

Kairav add one more essential voice which is not available on 3a series 🫡

TechDepthStudio

Cmf Guy📍 here is how it looks like in Nothing Phone 3 and I would expect it to look the same on any device running Nothing OS 5.0

anjanyadavby

@Zac 🛸

Fix this problem (Dynamic Colour)

Kairav

Everyone please read my reply and read the 2nd last paragraph especially above these 2 replies and please tell who agrees with me. Speaking honesty is the best thing and I did it.

JishnuRanjan

Kairav I also noticed the delay between the animation and sound effect on my phone (4a)…
And this bug is very constant out of 10 times it happens 6-7 times pls fix this cuz its kind of irritating…

Kairav

JishnuRanjan after sometimes the sound also stop playing of closing though it’s not on silent or vibration mode

JishnuRanjan

Kairav This not happened on my device till now

Kairav

JishnuRanjan read the 2nd last paragraph of my reply and tell me do u guys agree with me? Above 4 replies.

JishnuRanjan

I use my phone on dark mode and sometimes in battery saver then the battery percentage number is a hustle to read in the first look you have to give it a second look… I would like to suggest the team to change the battery saver colour or the written text (BATTERY PERCENTAGE) in deep black…

And loving the Nothing OS 5.0 and its buttery smooth animations….

anjanyadavby

MISSING ASSISTANT VOLUME INDICATOR — the Settings page has a separate Assistant Volume slider, but its indicator is missing from the volume panel, unlike Android 17 AOSP, where it is shown.

TOGGLE INCONSISTENCY - Toggle styling is inconsistent across Settings pages. Some toggles are smaller while others are larger, and their colours vary between pure black and grey, even in Light Mode. This makes the overall toggle design visually inconsistent in terms of size, colour, and appearance.

LOCK SCREEN - Cancel & Done buttons remain white in Dark Mode instead of adapting to the dark theme, while they appear correctly in Light Mode.

BATTERY vs VOLUME UI INCONSISTENCY - The Battery bar follows the newer, thicker Android 17 AOSP design, while the Volume sliders still retain the older, thinner A12-style design, despite newer Android AOSP versions having used thicker volume sliders for quite some time.

NOTIFICATION CONTROL PANEL - There’s a clear Dynamic Theming inconsistency between Light and Dark Mode: in Light Mode, the active toggles consistently appear white, whereas in Dark Mode, some active toggles remain white while others turn yellow. Even the yellow used for the active toggles is inconsistent with the yellow/peach tone of the brightness slider, making the colour treatment across the same Quick Settings panel look mismatched.

Conclusion

Nothing needs to fix its Dynamic Theming implementation. The experience was much more consistent in Nothing OS 2.0 and 2.5, but since Nothing OS 3.0, the same inconsistencies have continued through OS 4.0 and now OS 5.0. Dynamic colours need to be properly standardized and consistently applied across the entire System UI.

Screenshot of A17 AOSP

ChrisJ_Joseph_P1NpRo6vMr

anjanyadavby MISSING ASSISTANT VOLUME INDICATOR — the Settings page has a separate Assistant Volume slider, but its indicator is missing from the volume panel, unlike Android 17 AOSP, where it is shown.

It will only get activated when you use gemini overlay on homescreen or on the apps itself , it is not permanent for Nothing OS

anjanyadavby

ChrisJ_Joseph_P1NpRo6vMr okay alright thanks…

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