When indoors, how low does the galaxy s iii auto-brightness ramp down to? Is it lower than the galaxy s ii?
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I just bought a white SGS2 today for my wife. When I placed her SGS2 side by side with mine, I noticed that the brightness level is at least 2 step below mine. Eg, at the lowest level, hers is very much darker than my SGS2 set to the lowest level.
As a result, I cannot set the brightness to auto as it makes it very difficult to read in low light conditions when it sets to the lowest level, ie it is too dark.
Anyone with the same problem? Or anyone knows if I can change the brightness scale to be brighter?
Edit: Forgot to say that both SGS2 are running on the same ROM and kernel as per my signature.
One of my main applications is to use my phone as a GPS in the car. Screen readability in bright conditions is therefore key. Popular wisdom is that AMOLED screens, whilst offering better contrast than LCD, are dimmer. This could be a deal breaker for me with the S3, especially as one of the comments in one of the launch video blogs mentioned a 'no so bright screen'.
How have others found AMOLED screens of the type used used in the S3 in bright conditions?
amoled does have lesser brightness ,have seen in on my sgs2 but its clearly readable and usable in direct sunlight
and also if you see the brighntess test values from gsmarena sgs3 has better brightness than sgs2 , so it should not be a problem
bala_gamer said:
if you see the brighntess test values from gsmarena sgs3 has better brightness than sgs2 , so it should not be a problem
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All I could find was this
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s_iii-review-757p2.php
@100% brightness SII = 330 cd/m2, SII = 362 cd/m2, so it looks like the SIII is worse unless I misread something. Looks like HTC One X is king in this respect, but will have to wait for GSMarena sunlight legibility test
WibblyW said:
All I could find was this
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s_iii-review-757p2.php
@100% brightness SII = 330 cd/m2, SII = 362 cd/m2, so it looks like the SIII is worse unless I misread something. Looks like HTC One X is king in this respect, but will have to wait for GSMarena sunlight legibility test
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oops i meant g nexus and not s2, one x is lcd so it will have the brightness
LCD screens do have more brightness because they have a dedicated backlight which is always on and of course produces more brightness than the self-light-emitting subpixels of an AMOLED screen.
but the sunlight readability is not 1 to 1 derived from the maximum brightness
Galaxy Nexus had a very dim screen i hated it... i hope s3 will have a better screen because it has some changes in the pentile matrix + White, cd/m2 330(100% brightness) and gnex has: 247 White, cd/m2
i had galaxy nexus and galaxy s 3 neither of them bright galaxy s3 slightly betteri think ips screen much better
What's the deal? Anandtech said the S6 was way brighter. It's the opposite for me. Both are on manual brightness settings.
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What's the deal? Anandtech said the S6 was way brighter. It's the opposite for me. Both are on manual brightness settings.
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Strangely when I measured brightness with AMOLED photo mode and Samsung Purple theme, max brightness was oddly lowish, then set stock theme and adaptive screen mode, and it behaved normally, 351 nits full screen white with manual settings, 572 auto settings under sunlight, 718 auto under sunlight with small white area. That's roughtly in line with the Note 4. Not entirely sure what's the deal here, but the edge DEFINITELY can go as high as the S6 or the Note 4.
Is the S6 brighter then the edge? I've heard it's screen is better.
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The edge is brighter and it seems that manual brightness doesn't go that high but auto brightness gets much higher (which I don't get) but that's what I've read. Works for me. Gets plenty bright and plenty dim
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I was always curious about this. Is there a way to force the device, at will, to use the automatic high dynamic brightness?
I’m not complaining about the brightness of Samsung panels, but the one thing I never could get adjusted with is how whites with APL that’s over 80% look; they’re under 400 cm/nits of brightness on the maximum manual brightness settings. The iPhone X’s OLED display doesn’t have this issue, achieving over 620 cm/nits on max manual brightness.
With the automatic brightness boost from high ambient lighting, the high APL whites being displayed on the S9 match that figure over the iPhone X. Is there a root or at least a theoretical method to get that brightness setting at all, rather than under situational conditions?
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I was always curious about this. Is there a way to force the device, at will, to use the automatic high dynamic brightness?
I’m not complaining about the brightness of Samsung panels, but the one thing I never could get adjusted with is how whites with APL that’s over 80% look; they’re under 400 cm/nits of brightness on the maximum manual brightness settings. The iPhone X’s OLED display doesn’t have this issue, achieving over 620 cm/nits on max manual brightness.
With the automatic brightness boost from high ambient lighting, the high APL whites being displayed on the S9 match that figure over the iPhone X. Is there a root or at least a theoretical method to get that brightness setting at all, rather than under situational conditions?
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I don't know to be honest, but even the Galaxy S6 back then had that boost, so maybe you should search for a method for the s6 / s7 / s8 first to be sure it is possible.
Also, check out Lux:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vito.lux
Hi, with only 400 nits to play with at max brightness this screen was a major disapointment to me in sunlight especially as I use it with my drone, is there any way to eak any more brightness out of this, slider is on max.