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.

Neo

Zac 🛸 I’m getting this error why, I have a nothing 3a

Daniel

Neo Beta install window has closed. Please wait for stable release.

themountofmint

anjanyadavby well, they actually added more vivid colours to its schemes and fixed that point at all (in NOS4.0 sometimes I wasn’t able to select a colour pallet based on a photo colours, like what’s wrong). But still. Just a few touches? Are you really? I’d like to be able to change that scheme at least🤷🏼‍♀️ hoping that’s only beta issue and general release will be more stable

anjanyadavby

themountofmint

Yeah, I agree that the colours are definitely more vivid in NOTHING OS 5.0 compared to NOTHING OS 4.0. My main concern, however, is the inconsistency in how Dynamic Color is actually applied across the UI.

Just look at this screenshot — within the same Quick Settings panel, the active elements don’t even follow the same tonal treatment. The brightness/volume sliders, active toggles and Mic/Camera controls use one shade, while the Wi-Fi and Mobile Data buttons have almost completely white circles.

This is the kind of inconsistency I’m talking about. Compared to MOTOROLA/Pixel, NOTHING OS still doesn’t feel like it’s using the Dynamic Color palette consistently across different UI components.

I really hope this gets properly addressed before the Stable release.

@Zac 🛸 & @Carl

zynvoriq

100% agree. This Dynamic Color implementation genuinely looks weird and inconsistent on NOTHING OS. MOTOROLA and GOOGLE PIXEL show how this should actually be done.

What’s frustrating is that this has been carried across multiple NOTHING OS versions. If NOTHING OS 5.0 is supposed to be a polished release, this absolutely needs to be fixed before Stable.

Small details like this matter — repeated inconsistencies are exactly the kind of thing that can make users lose confidence in the software and eventually look at other brands.

LjubomirZeli_

Whatsup problem when recieving messages,stays unread while I’m in coversation,glyph lights turn on and off randomly,qr code scanner in banking app and overall not working

Daniel

Is there any updated beta version with those issues fixed, or should we just wait for the final beta release?

Jass_VBL1RAz7Uo

I really hope Nothing OS 5.0 delivers the full Nothing experience on the Nothing Phone (3a) Pro. Please don’t make the 3a Pro feel like a secondary device by limiting major software features.

I would like to see all major Nothing OS 5.0 features available on the Phone (3a) Pro, including:

AI Features

- Object Removal

- Flare/Reflection Removal

- Essential Key Remapping

- Essential Voice

- All other new AI-powered features introduced with Nothing OS 5.0

Blur & Visual Design

Please bring back and properly implement the beautiful Nothing-style blur and translucency throughout the UI:

- Blur on the Lock Screen

- Full Lucent implementation across the system

- Blur/transparency when pulling down the Notification Panel

- Blur in Quick Settings and other system surfaces where appropriate

- Consistent translucent/blurred UI instead of flat, solid backgrounds

Animations & UI Polish

The Phone (3a) Pro should also receive the complete animation and visual-polish improvements of Nothing OS 5.0:

- Smooth and expressive system animations

- Better app-opening and closing animations

- Fluid transitions throughout the UI

- Consistent Nothing-style motion and depth

- All visual refinements available on the Phone (4a) Pro and Phone (3)

Most importantly, please don’t divide the Nothing OS 5.0 experience unnecessarily between devices.

If the Phone (4a) Pro and Phone (3) receive new AI features, blur, Lucent, animations, UI improvements, Essential features, and other software enhancements, I would strongly request that the Nothing Phone (3a) Pro receives them as well wherever the hardware is capable of supporting them.

The 3a Pro is a capable device, and its users should get the complete Nothing OS experience—not a stripped-down version.

Please make Nothing OS 5.0 on the Phone (3a) Pro feel complete: AI + blur + Lucent + animations + Essential features + all major UI improvements.

We chose Nothing because of its unique software experience. Please keep that experience consistent across the lineup.

i336_

Hi everyone!

I’ve found a glitch in Nothing OS 5.0 beta on my Nothing Phone (4a). I plan to send feedback shortly but first I wanted to see if the issue reproduces for others, to demonstrate to the developer team that this is affecting multiple users so they can hopefully prioritize fixing it.

It should take less than 5 minutes to test -

Be running OS 5.0 beta
Set the phone to use 3-button navigation (Settings > Special Features > Gestures > Navigation mode)
Install literally any launcher from the Play Store and set it as the default (Settings > Apps > Default apps > Home app)
Press the Home button
Press the Recents (task switch, square) button
Press the Home button again
Press the Recents button again

When I do this, there’s a 5 second delay before the recents list opens. While the trigger steps seem a little exact/specific, this 5 second delay gets in the way almost constantly when I try to open the recents list when I’m at the launcher home screen. I’ve had to abandon using a custom launcher because of this, which hasn’t been fun.

Here’s what it looks like - pay attention to me pressing the Home and Recents buttons at the bottom of the screen:

i336_

I did a tiny bit of digging because I was curious about what was going on.

I found that at the exact moment the Recents view finally opens, this shows up in logcat:

10-06 19:12:45.014 24773 25180 E OverviewCommandHelper: command canceled: CommandInfo(type=HOME, createTime=285013616, animationCallbacks=null, displayId=0, isLastOfBatch=true, statusChangedCallback=function onCommandStatusChanged (Kotlin reflection is not available)) - vf.e3: Timed out waiting for 5000 ms

10-06 19:12:45.015 24773 25180 D OverviewCommandHelper: executing command: CommandInfo(type=TOGGLE, createTime=285015107, animationCallbacks=null, displayId=0, isLastOfBatch=true, statusChangedCallback=function onCommandStatusChanged (Kotlin reflection is not available))

I loaded Nothing Launcher into JADX and determined that vf.e3 is just CancellationException.

Scrolling further up, I also found:

10-06 19:12:40.850 1015 1015 D [FTS_TS]fts_input_report_b: [B]P0 UP!
10-06 19:12:40.850 1015 1015 D [FTS_TS]fts_input_report_b: [B]Points All Up!
10-06 19:12:41.502 24773 24773 D StatsLog: LAUNCHER_TASKBAR_OVERVIEW_BUTTON_TAP
10-06 19:12:41.502 24773 24773 D OverviewCommandHelper: command added: CommandInfo(type=TOGGLE, createTime=285015107, animationCallbacks=null, displayId=0, isLastOfBatch=true, statusChangedCallback=function onCommandStatusChanged (Kotlin reflection is not available))
10-06 19:12:41.503 24773 24773 D OverviewCommandHelper: command not executed: CommandInfo(type=TOGGLE, createTime=285015107, animationCallbacks=null, displayId=0, isLastOfBatch=true, statusChangedCallback=function onCommandStatusChanged (Kotlin reflection is not available)) - queue size: 2

I’m pretty sure the messages from fts_input_report_b are connected to the touch processing code, so I think these specific lines in logcat are from exactly the moment I released the Recents button.

I looked into why I’d see command not executed. I found the source to the upstream Launcher3 that Nothing Launcher derives from, and I found the following in OverviewCommandHelper.kt line 150 (https://cs.android.com/android/platform/superproject/+/android-latest-release:packages/apps/Launcher3/quickstep/src/com/android/quickstep/OverviewCommandHelper.kt;l=150 ):

if (commandQueue.size == 1) {
OverviewCommandHelperProtoLogProxy.logCommandExecuted(command, commandQueue.size)
coroutineScope.launch(dispatcherProvider.main) { processNextCommand() }
} else {
OverviewCommandHelperProtoLogProxy.logCommandNotExecuted(command, commandQueue.size)
}

You can see in logcat that it says “queue size: 2” - and you can see in the code that it only executes the command if the queue size is 1. So either something is filling this queue too quickly, or something isn’t draining it, it’s not executing the command, and then a fallback 5000ms timer is firing and it’s finally executing the (overview) command then. I THINK.

I can’t debug further as there aren’t adequate clues in logcat to help guide me. I’m also not sure if the guesstimation above about what’s going on is accurate.

But that’s what I was able to discover.

i336_

Since I started using OS 5.0 I’ve been running into a glitch with the recents menu where all the apps show up blank except for exactly the first two, and the whole list scrolls all the way to the left when I try to interact with it.

I unfortunately haven’t been able to pinpoint exactly what triggers it; it seems to be random chance.

I was wondering if anyone else has run into this?

Here’s what it looks like:

Pressing the Recents button a few times seems to fix it.

Osvignesh

Hey folks,

I was facing an issue where Chrome-based browsers, including Chrome and Brave, were not working after updating to the Nothing OS 5.0 Beta.

If you’re experiencing the same issue, try enabling Developer Options in Settings. This resolved the issue for me, and the browsers started working normally again.

Hope this helps anyone facing the same problem!

winny_z

Osvignesh Hey… In the meanwhile three browsers are not working anymore on Nothing Phone (3).

Chrome didn’t work anymore directly after updating to Nothing OS 5.0 Beta
Next browser which died was Edge after an app update
And since yesterday after an app update the browser Startpage doesn’t work anymore.

Now the phone is almost not usable anymore for browsing in the web. Only Bing is still working and it is just a question how long?

Can you please tell me which developer settings (located in TalkBack settings?) have to be enabled? Just all or just a specific one? I have tried all and nothing helped.

Thanks for your help…. It’s a nightmare!

Daniel

winny_z Just enable the device developer options, that’s all.

winny_z

Oh my god 😉 . Thanks…. I got it now…. seems I have to change my mindset now when beeing part of the community 🙂 .

AdityaChoudhary_0px1gm7YRt

Zac 🛸 please roll out update as soon as possible for nothing phone 3

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