This is strictly my views for the open beta on my phone 4a. I installed the open beta since the day it same out and these are my personal observations. In my previous experience on phone 2a when I downloaded the open beta for 3.0 and 4.0 was horrible cuz of severe battery drain and heating and performance issues. But in my opinion this 5.0 feels much better improved and we’ll refined over the previous experiences.
1. Animations and Experience - The system feels seriously fast now and smooth which is much better than the 4.1 animations are smoother, scrolling down of the qs app opening and closing the small interactions etc but at times it feels so fast that the motion feels abrupt and smooth it could be a beta thing which should be fixed by the stable update.
2. The missing features - The open beta lacks certain things such as the blur AND I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT THE LUCENT THEME but the one which occurs when using the collector widget or any other thing which is half screened or when u pull down the qs the bluring of the background while swiping down is not there (not talking about qs blur) but like we saw system wide transluceny in phone 3 and 4a open beta but it lacks in 4a. Another thing I want to mention is that the phone 3 open beta bas support for new apps in the glyph progress and live activities and it was also given in the change log for the open beta while installing but sadly when I open the glyph progress in the glyph app it still shows the same old ones and no new ones for phone 4a.
3. Spacing font and inconsistencies - This is a major one, I love the attention to detail to eveything but sometimes some places we miss out for example in the image give below you can see the spacing of the media player is diff like the spacing between the media player and the edit icon on the top than the spacing between the media player and the bottom toggles. Another one which is there is that you know the spacing between the media panel and the quick settings toggle below and along with that, when you toggle a setting in the quick setting panel, where it shows glyph torch on or off, that alignment or wherever that is placed is very inconsistent. For example, it is directly immediately above the media player, and there is no space between the media player and that, you know, that line. And there is a lot of space on top. These are inconsistencies, and it feels not very well placed throughout the system.
4. Battery and Heating - ANOTHER MAJOR CHANGE, i love the batter performance on this open beta, I have tried 3.0 and 4.0 open beta when it has released on my phone 2a but when I did that it significantly drained my battery with 3-4 SOT but with this 5.0 on my phone 4a IT IS SO GOOD suprisingly i noticed that my battery is well optimised no drain at all even though indexing and optimization was going on in the background it stood the ground. THE HEATING HAS REDUCED SIGNIFICANTLY, idk how but my phone barely heats up. Kudos to the team for the batter and other background optimisation done as it feels much better than what it was but still we can refine it further to perfect it rn it’s very good but not the best.
This was what I personally felt, and I feel this is a significant upgrade over what we had and it means alot there may be UI inconsistencies but I feel with more reviews coming in it will be fixed and the UI will be smoother faster with good background optimisation to make stable os as good as possible Kudos to the Nothing Team 🤞�
