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How is the A100 for outdoor/sunlight usage?

Hi, I'm interested in buying this tablet to use it as a car GPS (using Google Maps pre-caching). My only concern is is the screen bright enough to see clearly under sunny condition? I heard the viewing angle is not that great.
Also how well does it lock to GPS signal?
Thanks.

I think the A100 is pretty nice in the sunlight, the screen is bright enough and we've had a lot of sun recently for ol' blighty. The only real thing that is a problem is glare from the glass (something that is common on pretty much anything), but there are lots of good anti glare screen protectors out there.
The GPS I find is spot on, very accurate and fast.

It's pretty middle of the road as far as ooutdoor readability. It's definitly not on the level of Samsung screens nor does it have any antiglare like the Nook Color. If you're using it as GPS and I think viewing angles will be your worst problem where this tablet can be below average, and adding normal daylight LCD issues on top of that will probably make it worse.

I was gonna buy a floor bolt mount for mine, but changed mind. The viewing angles are incredibly bad. If you just want a gps I would just go buy an 80 dollar cheapy, you'd have gps and music or whatever and wait for the asus to drop.

Screen Too Dim on Auto

The screen is excellent. It makes it hard to look at my Galaxy Note 3 after using my tablet. Only complaint is the automatic brightness is too dim.

Try the popular app Lux as a replacement.
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Civuck said:
Try the popular app Lux as a replacement.
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Thanks! Million times better. I don't know how Samsung can't get it right.

motohip said:
Thanks! Million times better. I don't know how Samsung can't get it right.
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Samsung sux on auto brightness, I leave it the middle

I agree about auto being too dim.
May try Lux.
Its also easy to edit Autobright in a custom ROM too, which I may also do

I just tried Lux and it works great! $4.00 well spent!

Lux is just part of the solution for me. The app has an excellent debug feature to watch the raw sensor data. Using this feature I can see that the sensor data itself has a problem.
Steps to reproduce:
- put tablet in direct sunlight or under a bright lamp
- start the debug readout of the brightness sensor
- cover the sensor by hand (sensor is situated top-right from the G in Samsung)
- observe the reading on the screen: it is something below 10.0 for me
- move the hand away from the screen very slowly but still covering the sensor from direct light: the sensor reading increases gradually to values around 100 to 200. It is easily possible to achieve any value up to here by just varying the position of the hand.
- when the sensor readout reaches a value above 250, I can observe a jump to values above 6000. There is no way to cover the sensor carefully to reach any value in between 250 and 6000. The readout just jumps between these two extremes.
- if you decrease the intensity of the ambient light (e.g. by turning down the sun...) you can achieve values as low as 1000 or 2000. But there is always this huge step bewteen 250 and the higher value.
I oberserved exactly the same behaviour with the stock ROM and with the CM ROM from crpalmer.
If there is a way to change the sensor readout, that would be great. I cannot imagine that it is an inherent property of the physical sensor. If so it is just badly engineered

I'll check out the Lux app, but thought I'd pipe in with my 2 cents (although its probably worth $0.00)...
I noticed sensitivity to shadows with Samsung's auto brightness on my S3 when using an Otterbox Commuter case. If the case cast a little shadow from the lip, the screen would go very dim in bright conditions. My Tab Pro 8.4 seems to have similar sensitivity issues with shadows. I often use the tablet at my desk, with a soft white ceiling light behind me and an overhead desk lamp turned off (unless I am doing paperwork). If the tablet's light sensor catches my shadow from the ceiling light without my overhead light on, the screen goes very dim. If I reposition it with the sensor outside of my shadow, it is perfect for me. It is an annoyance though. Once my Seidio case gets here, I wonder if it will be more of an issue.

Some blemishes on my 10

First of all I noticed that my fingerprint scanner is loose towards the left side, it used to make crunchy noises when I press it but stopped after a couple days of use, this doesn't interfere with functionality everything is working fine but I can feel the level deference with my fingers and it bothers me.
Also, there seems to be a dark spot at the top left portion of the display, it's only visible when you look at the screen from an angle.
looks like this http://i.imgur.com/CIMgiPn.jpg
Have you guys noticed anything?

[Q] Why my fingerprint scanner is so awful?

Hi, question: i have a Note 10+ with all updates and updated via adb to Android 10 but my fingerprint scanner is still really awful. I have seen all yt video, seen all tuto on how to set the fingerprint but nothing!
Still awful, especially when finger is a bit wet. Is there a solution or is it better change the phone?

Maybe it is the way you registerd your fingerprints, my fingerprint sensor is accurate all the time

Are you using a screen protector? Mine sucks too. I have a glass one with the thin area in the glad over the sensor and I have used privacy film and it's ehh. It works perfect with nothing on it. Try turning the touch sensitivity up in settings and maybe re-register the print again.
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(The touch sensibility have nothing to do with the fingerprint sensor though.)

Maybe they finger print again but dont press to hard

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denzel09 said:
Hi, question: i have a Note 10+ with all updates and updated via adb to Android 10 but my fingerprint scanner is still really awful. I have seen all yt video, seen all tuto on how to set the fingerprint but nothing!
Still awful, especially when finger is a bit wet. Is there a solution or is it better change the phone?
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You probably have, but try registering your fingers upside down and side ways.. and register loads of times with the same finger you mainly use, im sure you know all this though

It's awful, specially compared to the OnePlus6T

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It's awful, specially compared to the OnePlus6T
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, no, it is not, mine as many others work just fine, the fingerprint sensor for whatever reason doesn't work the same for all, odd, but not a so uncommon issue, and this happens among all brands

I partially blame the size of the sensor as well as the way they guide users through the enrollment process. The standard android fingerprint enrollment process, as i've experienced on my HTC U11 and Razer Phone 2, prompts for more finger edge samples. I actually went through the process on the Note as the software prompts and had mixed results. I then just decided to hit the sensor randomly with some overlap to give it a better overall picture of my finger as opposed to a bunch of samples of the same spot and then a few variants.
If you shine a flashlight at the screen you'll see the sensor size. It is a short rectangle that doesn't seem to cover the area that the fingerprint icon covers. I have an amFilm whitestone-style screen protector and while there is a slight difference, the stock experience was also not that great. I would recommend you try to figure out how you ACTUALLY use the fingerprint unlock. I noticed that while i'm enrolling i'm focusing on pushing with my fingers dead-on, in practice i actually use just the upper right corner of my thumb (if you're looking at the fingernail top-down). When I realized that I trained it with that in mind and it did perform better.
There was mention of the ones in the One Plus devices, which are actually different in that they are optical. Because they light up and read optically they have a more controlled environment than what the ultrasonic sensor on the Samsung phones. I can see someone with a deeper fingerprint patten be able to get better results vs someone with a very faint fingerprint. On oneplus devices though it would just be a different picture, but i'm thinking on an ultrasonic sensor there might not be enough peak and valley information to pass the threshold. Maybe samsung can make the pattern require less data points to match to unlock, but that would also mean it is less secure.
Bottom line is that while the tech has the potential to be more secure than optical under glass, it still has a little ways to go but it is serviceable once you get to it. I don't have big hands so i have to hold the phone in a very specific way to get a good grip on it. Once i figured that out, training the sensor again did yield better results.

I have the same problem. In sorry you haven't received a resolution, especially from Samsung who manufactured the Galaxy Note 10 Plus. I'm believe they were aware that it did not work with many 3rd party cases with protected screen covers. No matter how you register with screen off or on, the reader is intermittent and doesn't work with the cover. I hope you get the resolution as it will solve my issue as well.

The fingerprint registration process seems very glitchy too but after having experienced an awful 40% success rate with waking the phone using my fingerprint I deleted all the stored prints and started again. The secret is in storing decent prints so keep doing this until the phone unlocks with a 90%+ success rate like mine does now.

Fingerprint sensor

Everytime I see videos about the Note 10+ under screen fingerprint sensor, usually YouTube. They quickly go to the sensor, just briefly touch it and their phone unlocks. I have to press screen firmly, hold it there for about 1/2 or a full second, then it unlocks. What am I doing wrong

I see there same results

Hard to say, mine works super fast, but in fact I do not use any type of unlocking security! I never leave my phone unattended, and I have no sensitive content stored in it, so…

Mine works great even with Whitestone screen protector. What I do when registering, I use left thumb, then right. I do this until 1st print is registered and continue the same for 2and 3rd and 4th
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I find it to be pretty poor compared to normal fingerprint sensors but does the job for the most part. It was definitely better before I installed a Whitestone screen protector, comparable to the optical unit on the ROG Phone 2.
I find a quick tap does sometimes work but most often I get a message to say press harder or something similar.

Coming from OnePlus 7 Pro..this FP sensor is just horrible...I can't even get it to unlock 50% of time

2 things: you can change the screen sensitivity and that may help register with less pressure or time spent pressing. Also, I would remove the troublesome registered print and register again. Make sure you aren't pressing super hard during registration, and get every angle and position of that finger possible.
Doing this, I've had no issues with using the reader.
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J48BLE said:
Everytime I see videos about the Note 10+ under screen fingerprint sensor, usually YouTube. They quickly go to the sensor, just briefly touch it and their phone unlocks. I have to press screen firmly, hold it there for about 1/2 or a full second, then it unlocks. What am I doing wrong
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I still struggle sometimes with the fingerprint sensor not being always dependable 'at will'. It's a great phone, but this problem is very frustrating to me, too much of a contrast to this phone's all other qualities.
Now in the Winter the problem gets worse, dry air=dry skin, at home I can use some hand moisturizer(it helps), but I don't think that's what the sensor designers hoped for to improve sensor's reliability.
I'm on it since S10 which I returned for the very same reason shortly after purchasing it about a year ago and replaced it with S10e, a phone that was perfect and free from my frustrations. Yet I swapped the S10e for N10+ just to have a bigger screen for reading my ebooks on it. Somehow I convinced myself that the sensor will have totally new hardware. Well, they did improve the software, the sensor in N10 is the same, more accurate in my opinion though, but it still lags behind expectations for a flagship, or rather, as I call it referring to its price: a battleship.
So, my new resolve now is to aim for S11(it all depends on Samsung's generosity with the N10 swap), not much”leaks” around about the S11 specs but I think they have a brand new and bigger, ultrasonic sensor in the works.

butchieboy said:
Mine works great even with Whitestone screen protector. What I do when registering, I use left thumb, then right. I do this until 1st print is registered and continue the same for 2and 3rd and 4th
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I removed my existing fingerprint registrations and did it as you suggested, 4 times slowly without to much pressure.
Now my fingerprint function is working flawlessly without any issues.