What is the screen like outdoors?
I find the S3 very hard to use outdoors even with brightness on max. I'd read a lot of people saying this before I bought it but couldn't believe how bad it actually was.
That's always been and issue with Samsung displays.
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YMMV, but I'm pretty happy with it.
I have been doing hikes lately, and using my phone to hold the trail map and gps with google maps.
I don't recall any problems at all.
- Frank
I don't have a problem with outdoor brightness either.
No probs here too. Even when set to minimum with auto ticked, in bright daylight, the display is very clear and bright.
Cheers!!!
Are any of you old S3 users?
It sounds more positive at least.
My Note 2 has a matt screen protector which makes viewing it outside much easier as there is significantly less reflection.
I tried using my friends SIII with just the stock screen and it was like looking at a mirror, so much reflection that using it was impossible.
I should point out that I was sitting by the pool in Bangkok where the sun is extreme
Depending on the intensity of the sun wherever you are, your experience may be different.
Note's display is brighter than the S3 display by specs.
I have a nexus 7 2013 and I'm thinking of selling it because the screen is too small for me. I'm looking at buying a gpad but there are two things holding me back:
The battery life - I regularly get 10+ hours of screen time with 2 days total usage on my nexus 7, does the gpad have a similar battery life?
The screen brightness - I keep hearing that the screen brightness on this tablet is pretty low, what do you guys think?
Thanks for your help.
JJbdoggg said:
I have a nexus 7 2013 and I'm thinking of selling it because the screen is too small for me. I'm looking at buying a gpad but there are two things holding me back:
The battery life - I regularly get 10+ hours of screen time with 2 days total usage on my nexus 7, does the gpad have a similar battery life?
The screen brightness - I keep hearing that the screen brightness on this tablet is pretty low, what do you guys think?
Thanks for your help.
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I also have a Nexus 7 2013 and just purchased the G Pad. To be fair the G Pad is a very good device but so far the Nexus 7 is by far the better device. Screen is much better on Nexus. Its more of an auto brightness problem on the G Pad, if you manually turn it up its bright, but the auto function does not keep it bright enough. I have a yellow area at the top of the G Pad and Its making me contimplate exchanging it, or returning it altogether, because of the many stories of faulty screens with this thing. If you search further into the Ipad Air forums you will see that they have terrible yellowing issues with there screens and guess who makes those screens for Apple. Some Ipads have an entire side that is yellow.
I have only charged mine twice, but for me the Nexus 7 wins hands down for battery. I have both devices set up exactly the same, except I share the 7 with the wife who has an account on it. I get an easy 6 hours screen time over several days and still have 20% remaining. The G pad I have gotten 5 hours out of it and its been below 10%.
Hope this helps.
If you need the screen size, get the gpad. The fact the bezel is small, fools most people into thinking they are the same size.
To your questions:
Screen is bright enough, auto brightness lacks, but since you are in xda you can find a rom that allows you to correct it.
As for the battery, they have similar mahs, so any difference comes down to screen size/brightness and android version. Maybe the Google edition is closer to your needs?
Not exactly relevant,but have a look at this review: it might address your concerns about the screen
http://www.phonearena.com/reviews/LG-G-Pad-8.3-vs-Apple-iPad-mini-2-with-Retina-Display_id3527
Ps:I had the old nexus 7, I have spent some time with the new one, and I own the lg gpad. Gpad is in a different category.
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G Pad 8.3 looks like its display brightness is turned down all the way.
I have the G Pad, and trust me when I say this, it is bright enough. Outdoor use & direct sunlight will be a problem, but indoors - Max brightness is almost always too much
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I have the G Pad, and trust me when I say this, it is bright enough. Outdoor use & direct sunlight will be a problem, but indoors - Max brightness is almost always too much
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I completely agree. On my Nexus 4 the brightness is never more than 60% for me. The same for my Note 10.1. At night, in bed I often put the brightness to minimum, and it still feels to much. With the G Pad... Wow, I love the minimum. On sunny days, i do max out the brightness, but I find it perfectly good enough.
I have to say, i absolutely love the auto brightness on the G Pad. You can configure the auto brightness.... Fantastic.
Indoors I run mine at 30% brightness in daylight and 20% with room lights after dark. I have tested outdoors, but never actually used it seriously outdoors, but it seems to cope. I accept that it could be brighter, but it is OK.
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Indoors I run mine at 30% brightness in daylight and 20% with room lights after dark. I have tested outdoors, but never actually used it seriously outdoors, but it seems to cope. I accept that it could be brighter, but it is OK.
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Same here - I run at 35% indoors and down to 20% in the dark, and oftentimes the latter is too bright for me. Also, I have a matte screen protector which dims it a smidge further... No problems for me.
Mark
note sure if you already bought the tablet but here is a comparision between my g pad and tab 3 8.0. Tab 3 is on the bottom and you can see the brightness is higher on it but images look washed out. If you see the g pad, you can see a bit dimmer but the picture is amazing. The tab is only 800 by 1280 but I just wanted to show you the brightness at 100%.
Impromark said:
Same here - I run at 35% indoors and down to 20% in the dark, and oftentimes the latter is too bright for me. Also, I have a matte screen protector which dims it a smidge further... No problems for me.
Mark
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Indoors I run mine at 30% brightness in daylight and 20% with room lights after dark. I have tested outdoors, but never actually used it seriously outdoors, but it seems to cope. I accept that it could be brighter, but it is OK.
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note sure if you already bought the tablet but here is a comparision between my g pad and tab 3 8.0. Tab 3 is on the bottom and you can see the brightness is higher on it but images look washed out. If you see the g pad, you can see a bit dimmer but the picture is amazing. The tab is only 800 by 1280 but I just wanted to show you the brightness at 100%.
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I had mine before I had to RMA and I was shocked it was really bright for me. From all the complaints people get I thought it would be really dim but it was just fine. I never use my electronics outside but yeah direct sunlight will probably greatly reduce visibility. Anyway I found it was pretty bright for me.
Brightness is very low. Bad screen. How to fix?
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Brightness is very low. Bad screen. How to fix?
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You have it set to 100% brightness and it still isn't bright enough? Better get another tablet.
I had one for a few days. I really like some aspects of the pad, but I found it very difficult to watch a video with dark scenes even with the brightness at 100%. I got a 2013 N7 at the same time. It won out, but it is my fifth google device so I'm biased. I did not think the google edition gpad worth the extra cost. I was hoping it would be closer to iPad mini retina. Yeah, I really considered throwing an apple in the basket.
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I had one for a few days. I really like some aspects of the pad, but I found it very difficult to watch a video with dark scenes even with the brightness at 100%. I got a 2013 N7 at the same time. It won out, but it is my fifth google device so I'm biased. I did not think the google edition gpad worth the extra cost. I was hoping it would be closer to iPad mini retina. Yeah, I really considered throwing an apple in the basket.
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My wife has a mini retina. IMO, it's really boring compared to my G Pad. And crippled in many ways.
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My wife has a mini retina. IMO, it's really boring compared to my G Pad. And crippled in many ways.
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I can see the "boring" part although I was looking forward to eventually trying a jailbreak. Hubby's ALL Apple, sons are mixed, and I'm PC/Android. They will let me do anything to their Androids, but no one will let me "play" with Iphones or Ipads. :'(
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ritchea said:
I had one for a few days. I really like some aspects of the pad, but I found it very difficult to watch a video with dark scenes even with the brightness at 100%. I got a 2013 N7 at the same time. It won out, but it is my fifth google device so I'm biased. I did not think the google edition gpad worth the extra cost. I was hoping it would be closer to iPad mini retina. Yeah, I really considered throwing an apple in the basket.
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yea, it is definitely dim compared to others. I like both the n7 and this one but reason I like lg pad is the 8.3" screen. If nexus comes out with something like that soon, I would buy it..
I have a samsung galaxy s3 and while it's not that bright ive never had any major issues and generally happy at home and out and about such as commute. I note that it has a brightness rating of 224 whereas the lg g pad is rated at 289 cd/m2. Wondering if this is a good comparison when thinking about buying g pad and brightness. This makes the g pad brighter?
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I have a samsung galaxy s3 and while it's not that bright ive never had any major issues and generally happy at home and out and about such as commute. I note that it has a brightness rating of 224 whereas the lg g pad is rated at 289 cd/m2. Wondering if this is a good comparison when thinking about buying g pad and brightness. This makes the g pad brighter?
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Max brightness is difficult to assess on OLED screens like the one in your Galaxy S3 because they dynamically adapt the total output of the panel in order to stay within a power limit (like plasmas do, too), so that means that depending on the way the screen of the GS3 was measured it could produce whites much brighter than 224 cd/m² if the screen isn't entirely white, whereas LCDs max output don't vary depending on what content is displayed.
After about 2 months, I gave up on the G Pad due to its lack of brightness and clarity while viewing movies. Nexus 7 2013 blew it away. People will say there is no difference, but if you do actual side by side you will see what you are missing.
The screen is fine for webpages, but running it at 100% brightness to watch a movie, especially dark or night scenes is not worth the price given the alternatives.
Yeah it does have lower screen brightness but I use screen filter so often on my Atrix 2 to further darken the screen it's not a huge deal for me that this screen can't get super bright it would be nice of course for better visibility outside in the sun but I rarely if ever use my tablet like that but if your looking for that high level of brightness stay away very good tablet otherwise especially for the 284 I paid. The actual screen quality is very good the included HD time lapse videos in the gallery are breath taking to look at and really show off the tablets screen quality. There my go to videos when I show the tablet off to people. Its a shame a lot of the most common source of video streaming I use are so limited in quality on android that they don't do the screen justice but I can get around most of those limitations using a web browser.
Crunchyroll's android app is limited to there lowest quality sd video setting which looks ok on my Atrix 2 but really bad here. I can get around it by using a web browser to login in view the videos in Gorious 1080P and they look really nice on this tablet I actually don't mind watching anime on this over my 1080i Sony Trinitron CRT not as good blacks and overall picture quality but still it's good enough which compared to that t.v is quite a compliment. Also anime looks really sharp on this due to the high ppi and I can view it from real close. There are some compromises but it also does things better and I'm willing To make them before I really didn't like watching on any other screen feeling I was missing out in screen quality.
The YouTube app is also limited to 720p but again I use a browser to view to get around this when quality is a priority not as convenient and with plenty of high resolution tablets out even some above 1080p including Google's own nexus 10 you think Google would allow 1080p streaming if not 4K streaming through the app. Netflix app also seems to be locked at a lower bitrate and non HD and since its silver light no way to view through browser. But I think being only 4.2.2 limits me. Hopefully when the 4.4 updates comes out I can access higher video quality through the app this screen could really benefit from the all bitrate netflix could offer Super HD would look fantastic on this screen. I'm not sure if they offer that on 4.3+ android devices or if it's limited to there regular 1080p bitrate or 720p on android with even Google crippling there own YouTube app I wouldn't be surprised which is a shame.
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I purchased the tab pro 10.1 yesterday. Th screen is fantastic but when I tried to watch a movie with dark scenes there was a very noticeable glare like a white cloud everywhere on the screen that moved when I moved the tablet. I ran a backlight bleed app and when the britghness is 100% this effect is much more pronounced. Nothing like that on my Lg gpad 8.3 or my Samsung galaxy tab 7.7. Anyone notice anything like this? This can't be normal right?
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I purchased the tab pro 10.1 yesterday. Th screen is fantastic but when I tried to watch a movie with dark scenes there was a very noticeable glare like a white cloud everywhere on the screen that moved when I moved the tablet. I ran a backlight bleed app and when the britghness is 100% this effect is much more pronounced. Nothing like that on my Lg gpad 8.3 or my Samsung galaxy tab 7.7. Anyone notice anything like this? This can't be normal right?
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Unfortunately all the new tabs from the Note 10.1 2014 and up have horrible light bleed. I'm on #4 Note 10.1 2014 and I gave up and kept it since it's only seen in a dark room with a black background. Some are worse than others but I got 4 in a row that had 6 to 7 light bleeds at the bottom in landscape mode. Most tablets have some even Apple. It's bad quality control because I just bought a Dell Venue 11 Pro and it has NO light bleed and when you see black, it's like the screen is off and not with a glow like all these Samsungs. I even had to return a Samsung 55" LED TV in December.
Good luck.
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Unfortunately all the new tabs from the Note 10.1 2014 and up have horrible light bleed. I'm on #4 Note 10.1 2014 and I gave up and kept it since it's only seen in a dark room with a black background. Some are worse than others but I got 4 in a row that had 6 to 7 light bleeds at the bottom in landscape mode. Most tablets have some even Apple. It's bad quality control because I just bought a Dell Venue 11 Pro and it has NO light bleed and when you see black, it's like the screen is off and not with a glow like all these Samsungs. I even had to return a Samsung 55" LED TV in December.
Good luck.
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I exchanged it for a new one at the store I bought it from, but unfortunately it has the same problem. And keep in mind that I live in Greece so I paid a premium price (579 euros) for this "premium" tablet. And now I am stuck with it!
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I exchanged it for a new one at the store I bought it from, but unfortunately it has the same problem. And keep in mind that I live in Greece so I paid a premium price (579 euros) for this "premium" tablet. And now I am stuck with it!
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I know it's the worst light bleed out of all the tablets I have from the following:
Acer A500 10.1"
HTC Evo 4G View 7"
Nexus 7" 2012
Galaxy Tab 3 10.1"
Galaxy Note 8"
Dell Venue 11 Pro
It's something with these High Resolution Displays. I was going to buy the Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 but people are complaining about the light bleed.
It's unacceptable and Samsung in knowingly selling them.
I'm not sure I'd call what I'm experiencing on my 8.4 light bleed. The bottom left corner is just slightly darker. Not noticeable in dark(er) screens, but noticeable on lighter apps like Gmail. Will be taking it back to Best Buy for exchange. Kind of annoying to have to set it back up again with all my preferences.
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I bought a Galaxy Tab Pro 10.1 too. I had an Asus 10.1 tablet prior with no light bleed issues. This one I see 4 light bleed spots on the bottom. My research has led me to believe this is common, sadly. I also see a blue hue when the screen at the bottom is white. But it seems to be different that the light bleed. Neither are horrific that I need to replace it. But it seems if I wanted to, I'd be in the same situation. However I wonder if the back can be popped off as I've seen for the battery replacement, can the lcd be tightened down and fix the bleed through?
Rate this thread to express how well you can see the Samsung Galaxy Note 7's display outdoors. In case you've been playing Minecraft for 18 months straight, you might not known how to get outside anymore. Well, find the door and walk through it. A higher rating indicates that it has very high maximum brightness and thus fantastic outdoor visibility in direct sunlight.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
No other phone is better, 1000 nits definitely shows.
Agreed! Very bright outside!
Is the only way to achieve maximum brightness with the auto setting?
Simply beautiful no matter where you are.
best screen I have ever seen at noon sun blazing
Still can use my phone when under the big hot sun~
I always disable the auto brightness on any device I owned before, note 7 is the first device that I keep that on. It works flawlessly!!!
5second to dim down, 3 second to raise the brightness... Better than any device I owned before
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It is the first smartphone that has no problem with the screen brightness even in the super sun.
Outside, just set Autio Brightness on max and the magic will happen into the sunlight.
I have Exynos version.
Note 7 (v2 replaced version - after one week of use) - Personal opinion and differences compared to the old version --- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiaj77xmu_M
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You don't want to give your significant other yet another reason to yell at you while you're reading XDA in bed. Rate this thread to express what you think of the Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 / S7 Plus's display minimum dimness. A higher rating indicates that the display can get extremely dim, ideal for reading in very dark environments.
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Never owned a device before, smartphone or tablet that can get so dim, Tab s7+ does get very dim. One problem though: the slider goes from 100 to about 20 smoothly and drops abruptly from there to minimum brightness. No idea why it was programmed this way.
I suggest trying an app called "screen filter" and "colour inversion" from settings. The latter can be made into a homescreen toggle button with the help of "tasker". I wish it was included in the quick panel buttons..
In my experience, the S7 is about on par with or slightly better than my old TF101 for dark environment use. It can't compare to the Nook HD, though - side by side the Nook can go a lot dimmer. Keep in mind the S7 is running the stock ROM (last I checked, it's too new for any usable aftermarket ROM to exist) while the TF101 and Nook are running aftermarket ROMs.
Haven't tried the S7+ so I have no idea how it does.
Min of the S7 is okay, but should be lower for night usage IMO.
Minimum Brightness is good for most apps but when I am watching Prime Video it's a little too dark on some shows so I have to tweak the slider.