If somebody wants to buy Redmi Note 3 Snapdragon, maybe this pros and cons can help.
This pros and cons are from my point of view, from my experience and needs from one smartphone.
After 2 weeks of usage. (Latest Global ROM)
Pros:
- Display (when you are inside, nice colors and sharpness)
- Performance (nice and smooth in day to day use, 78k on antutu, more than S6,Z5,Nexus6..)
- Speaker and Headphone out
- Battery life (average usage on wifi messenger, instagram, viber, browser and bluetooth music streaming.. Getting 8h+ on screen time)
- Camera (but only for social networks)
- Slot for SD Card
- Fast fingerprint sensor
Cons:
- Camera (when you put captured images on PC or zoom in you can see whats going on)
- Lack of Optical image stabilisation
- Display (when you are outside and wearing sunglasses you almost can't see anything on screen)
- Notification LED (tiny and dark)
- MIUI restrictions for font change and theme customization
- Lack of 2.0 quickcharge
Thats it for now.
fgermne said:
If somebody wants to buy Redmi Note 3 Snapdragon, maybe this pros and cons can help.
This pros and cons are from my point of view, from my experience and needs from one smartphone.
After 2 weeks of usage. (Latest Global ROM)
Pros:
- Display (when you are inside, nice colors and sharpness)
- Performance (nice and smooth in day to day use, 78k on antutu, more than S6,Z5,Nexus6..)
- Speaker and Headphone out
- Battery life (average usage on wifi messenger, instagram, viber, browser and bluetooth music streaming.. Getting 8h+ on screen time)
- Camera (but only for social networks)
- Slot for SD Card
- Fast fingerprint sensor
Cons:
- Camera (when you put captured images on PC or zoom in you can see whats going on)
- Lack of Optical image stabilisation
- Display (when you are outside and wearing sunglasses you almost can't see anything on screen)
- Notification LED (tiny and dark)
- MIUI restrictions for font change and theme customization
- Lack of 2.0 quickcharge
Thats it for now.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I agree with your point of view and i will share with you little tricks to optimize cons parts
1.camera----->install Google camera from Play Store;you will get a better performance&quality
2.display:a)set colors to "cool"
b)set contrast to"increased contrast"
3.MIUI deep customization:a)turn off internet on the device
b)clear data from theme app(don't worry,you will don't lose any previously downloaded theme)
c)open theme app with internet off and go to desired category of customization
d)turn on internet and you will be able to download whatever you want:boot skins,lock screens,icons,etc
4.notification LED--->you can change LED color
Luiggi79 said:
I agree with your point of view and i will share with you little tricks to optimize cons parts
1.camera----->install Google camera from Play Store;you will get a better performance&quality
2.display:a)set colors to "cool"
b)set contrast to"increased contrast"
3.MIUI deep customization:a)turn off internet on the device
b)clear data from theme app(don't worry,you will don't lose any previously downloaded theme)
c)open theme app with internet off and go to desired category of customization
d)turn on internet and you will be able to download whatever you want:boot skins,lock screens,icons,etc
4.notification LED--->you can change LED color
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thank you on advice!
1. will try again. I have tried with google camera first day but results were almost the same.
2. Still can't see outside when it's sunny and wearing sunglasses.
Redmi Note 3 Mediatek version have 30% brighter/better screen on sunny day situations.
Xiaomi said that they have changed "screen pixel technology" on Snapdragon version and now it sucks on sunny days unfortunately.
3. Worked!
4. Any color, LED light is small and dark.. they should put bigger or brighter LED light.
fgermne said:
Thank you on advice!
1. will try again. I have tried with google camera first day but results were almost the same.
2. Still can't see outside when it's sunny and wearing sunglasses.
Redmi Note 3 Mediatek version have 30% brighter/better screen on sunny day situations.
Xiaomi said that they have changed "screen pixel technology" on Snapdragon version and now it sucks on sunny days unfortunately.
3. Worked!
4. Any color, LED light is small and dark.. they should put bigger or brighter LED light.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Actually i used mediatek version and snapdragon version of this Phone, snapdragon variant is better under Sun light. You are not able to see with sunglasses it is true but the colours on screen will be lightened in snapdragon variant. It is called as sunlight technology and it works when you choose automatic contrast in screen settings :good:
Related
Do you feel annoyed with SP bad viewing angle?
I HAVE A SOLUTION FOR YOU!!
FEATURE:
- Improved viewing angles
- Yellowish screen colour vanish and changing into white (like IPS panel)
- Very good in low light usage
HOW TO:
- Download screen filter on Playstore (free)
- Open it and set to 48%-50%
- Tilt your phone and enjoy better viewing angles!
DISCLAIMER:
- May decrease maximum screen brightness. Solution: turn off screen filter or reduce value
- Eating light ram, about 3-10 mb only
- Don't use very low value or you will suffer very low brightness and cannot see anything!
CONS:
- Decreasing in screen contrast
- A few unnatural colours
Cheers
What an interesting app. It makes colors a little bit less natural, but it indeed impproves viewing angles and it's perfect for when I use the phone at nights. Certainly something I missed from stock roms.
Thanks for sharing.
wiidbzxt said:
What an interesting app. It makes colors a little bit less natural, but it indeed impproves viewing angles and it's perfect for when I use the phone at nights. Certainly something I missed from stock roms.
Thanks for sharing.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You're welcome, if you find more it's usefullness, feel free to share here and I'll add to this thread
it will improved viewing angles but it lose the contrast side
Nocturno
Theres a similar app called Nocturno that I used to read at night in another phone with a very bright screen
reynaldi3 said:
Do you feel annoyed with SP bad viewing angle?
I HAVE A SOLUTION FOR YOU!!
FEATURE:
- Improved viewing angles
- Yellowish screen colour vanish and changing into white (like IPS panel)
- Very good in low light usage
HOW TO:
- Download screen filter on Playstore (free)
- Open it and set to 48%-50%
- Tilt your phone and enjoy better viewing angles!
DISCLAIMER:
- May decrease maximum screen brightness. Solution: turn off screen filter or reduce value
- Eating light ram, about 3-10 mb only
- Don't use very low value or you will suffer very low brightness and cannot see anything!
CONS:
- Decreasing in screen contrast
- A few unnatural colours
Cheers
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
worth trying
Hmmm looks interesting, thx !
I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 and it's great but I can't figure one thing out. Which is the screens contrast. Dark scenes in Netflix or VLC player are too dark and hard to see. I tried different brightness settings, with/without blue light filter and the other color correction option for cinematic mode but nothing really works properly.
Is this an issue with the tablet or is there another setting to change the contrast or something?
man_with_hair said:
I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 and it's great but I can't figure one thing out. Which is the screens contrast. Dark scenes in Netflix or VLC player are too dark and hard to see. I tried different brightness settings, with/without blue light filter and the other color correction option for cinematic mode but nothing really works properly.
Is this an issue with the tablet or is there another setting to change the contrast or something?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I also noticed this with Netflix. Was hoping that turning up the brightness would help but it doesn't.
YES, YES, YES, I am shocked this isn't widely reported, I couldn't find almost anything about it and I've been searching for quite a while.
First of all it is really crazy that popular apps like plex or netflix don't offer any capability to change the brightness of the video played. No, we don't change the colorspace, black levels, bla bla bla.
I DID find eventually a solution (the ONLY one that works, a bit clumsy as it is): http://phandroid.com/2016/03/22/twilight-app-reduces-dark-contrast-on-samsung-galaxy-s7/ (yes, it's for the S7 and yes I did notice there the same issue, which makes it even crazier that it isn't something widely known and fixed).
I just picked up an S3 last night and I'm having this same issue. I watched the opening scene of The Defenders on Netflix, and I could hardly tell what was going on. Rewatched it on a proper display, and you're clearly upposed to tell it's Danny Randy much earlier in the scene, but I had no idea in the S3 until a blue light was clearly shining on him from above.
I used Twilight on my Nexus 7 because it lacked a night vision mode, ala blue light filter on the S3. I'm not sure how that can really help. Surely other people have found more elegant solutions to this problem? I've opened up other media files and they're all simply too dark. I get it's an HDR screen, but surely it has a mode for non-HDR content!
Do oled display have a blue light problem, I though it was only really a led thing.
John.
Might be an inconsistency with the displays. I have no problem with mine. Not getting any lag either but running a heavy debloated rom also. Battery life could be better. It's stupid you can't turn off the Wacom digitizer when s pen not in use. On my note 4 when I lost my s pen battery life was terrible because the Wacom digitizer stayed on. Should be an option in settings to turn it off. If anyone knows how please let me know. I don't use the s pen very often.
man_with_hair said:
I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 and it's great but I can't figure one thing out. Which is the screens contrast. Dark scenes in Netflix or VLC player are too dark and hard to see. I tried different brightness settings, with/without blue light filter and the other color correction option for cinematic mode but nothing really works properly.
Is this an issue with the tablet or is there another setting to change the contrast or something?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Try switching from "adaptive display" to "oled cinema".
Sent from my SM-T820 using Tapatalk
DAvid_B said:
Try switching from "adaptive display" to "oled cinema".
Sent from my SM-T820 using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Switching to modes other than Adaptive Display just gives me seemingly the same shade of yellow....
I have tab s2 and you can't change adaptive display. I wouldn't have bought this tablet if I'd known about this issue. Very annoyed.
I actually have the issue on my Samsung Tab S2, that the colors are really "hard" and lots of color information are missing in the video, details are lost in dark areas. Is there some fix for this or is the screen just too bad on the Tab S2? I know the Tab S3 has a HDR screen, and the S2 not. I dont have any HDR screens actually, but I can put color range to "full" on my desktop PC, which will en-light colors a bit, making details more pop out in dark areas (though black isnt fully black anymore if so).
Any color profile other than basic is mostly unusable, too much saturation. Still dark areas lack lots of information. Is there no way to fix this? I tested this actually
https://phandroid.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Screenshot_20160321-154452-400x711.png
and it helps with the details in dark areas, but it also makes the black bars of movies in Netflix and video players not black anymore but gray.
So from what i can tell, it's only a stock rom problem. As the screen looks amazing running liniage (best screen in the house). But I've recently decided to go back to stock debloated, as I think its running a bit snappier than liniage 16 or 17.
Has anyone found a black level fix for stock yet? (preferably not a screen tint app)
Touch the left hand side of the screen when watching netlix and a brightness slider appears
Baxy57 said:
Touch the left hand side of the screen when watching netlix and a brightness slider appears
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
:cyclops: It's beyond what you're suggesting which is known :cyclops: but thanks for it
EDIT: I have now found a full workaround. First you need to enable Blue Light Filter. Then go to Settings > Accessibility > Visibility enhancements > Color adjustment > Personalized color, and choose all the colors in the correct order. If you do it correctly there won't be any change to the colors and Blue Light Filter will be "on", but actually not, which will override whatever Android is doing that's making the dark parts of movies way darker than they should be. So far I haven't found any cons of this workaround.
Original post:
Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but after trying to fix this problem for like half a day (lol) I think I found the best workaround so far. If you turn on Blue Light Filter and set its opacity to minimum, the filter will be barely noticable, but the brightness issue will be fixed.
One thing I noticed is that not all apps have this problem. For example VLC, Youtube do have it (you can even see the transition of colors and brightness for a second when exiting to desktop view). However Youtube Vanced doesn't have this issue, so I asssume the operating system does this dumb change of colors when it sees certain parameters in an app (maybe something in the manifest.json file?). It would be awesome if some more knowledgeable people could look into this issue, maybe they could find something about why YT Vanced has normal colors.
So i just got the official update today and i just updated my poco f1 to 10.2.2.0 and here's my short review. Do read this if you wanna consider to update or not.
1. The new slow mo 960fps has flickering issues so its literally impossible to use. Or is it only me?
2. Theres a new option at the top screen "Cleaner - Security scan - Deep clean - Manage apps" in recent apps screen which imo, makes it look less minimalistic and ugly.
3. Battery? So far so good. Havent tested it in pubg yet or full day use yet so i cant give my full opinion yet. I'll update this after this 3 days.
4. Theres a new options in Notification & Status bar in settings>Show icons for incoming notifications. Which basically will show your notification icons on the left status bar then after 2 seconds it goes back to showing the clock which is dumb. Why dont they just give us the options to show notification icons permanently instead of clock.
5. The hide notch option in settings is still gone.
6. Theres a new Night mode in camera, but really, they dont work as well as pixel 3 night mode. When you take a pic using night mode in completely darkness, the pic result will be completely dark, unlike the pixel 3. So dont hope too much on the night mode on miui camera.
Thats all so far my review. Will udpate this thread if i found anything new. Please share your review as well.
Hello,
regarding (1): are you in sunlight or in artificial light?
960 fps is way higher than the power line frequency (50 Hz, 60 if you are in the US) so if you shot in artificial light you are basically getting flicker from your lamp.
In direct sunlight you should have no flickering at all.
guanellaluigi said:
Hello,
regarding (1): are you in sunlight or in artificial light?
960 fps is way higher than the power line frequency (50 Hz, 60 if you are in the US) so if you shot in artificial light you are basically getting flicker from your lamp.
In direct sunlight you should have no flickering at all.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Nope. Still no difference.
I also only notice flicker in artificial light. Moreover, the flicker is much less noticeable in the actual video than it is on the screen while recording.
Hi there,
I wanted to start a discussion about stuff that we like/dislike about this phone, but not the obvious stuff - rather things that are not much talked about. When I read about this phone, most popular topics are about fingerprint sensor, screen resolution, 50x zoom, night mode...
So first, things I don't like:
1. Aspect ratio issues:
- No 16:9 photos aspect ratio.
- Screen 19.5:9 aspect ratio can cause issues in games/applications that only support 16:9 aspect ratio. It's not a huge issue, because most apps support wide screen. It's also the same for other wide screen phones.
- Screen mirroring to TV - because of 19.5:9 aspect ratio, there are black bars on top and bottom, so when you are viewing 4:3 photos on 16:9 TV, the photo is very small and shown only in the center of TV with black bars around it. I don't know how other wide screen phones work, but I guess the same way.
2. Camera:
- There is no way to force the camera app to use the optical 5x zoom in photo mode/videos when the light is low. For me it was a huge issue when I was recording a concert and the camera was jumping constantly between 5x optical and digital zooms. Digital had more view on scene where the light was good, so it jumped to optical lens, optical view is out of sync so bigger part of view was on the dark crowd and it jumped back to optical again. There was no way to record it with zoom.
- How different lenses view is synced - widescreen and normal 1x are in sync when changing between them, you get basically the picture in the same position, but 5x optical and normal are just so much out of sync, that it is very very visible how it switches when you go from 4.9x to 5x. Not a huge issue, but it could be better.
- There is no level indicator in other modes than pro.
3. Speaker:
- The quality is OK at most, when compared to Samsung for example (Samsung S10 has amazing speakers), but it's a phone after all, so I don't expect much anyway.
Now things I like:
1. Huawei Share. My god, this thing is amazing. You can just connect your PC to your phone with WiFi and browse files normally as if it was connected with a usb cable! That is truly amazing. I didn't have it in Xiaomi, newest Samsung phones also don't have it. Why nobody talks about this amazing feature?
2. Camera app:
- Amazing zoom possibilities, 5x zoom which I'm using constantly during my trips and I don't know how people can say they don't use it much. There is something called perspective and this photo shows what I'm talking about. You can get especially amazing pictures when you have mountains in the background. So much discussed 50x zoom is not really usable, but 20x still has amazing quality.
- All different modes, especially the light painting/silky water is nice. Also the pro mode with so many different settings and 30 seconds shutter time. There are much more modes and possibilities than most youtube reviewers show us. They usually just show night mode, 5x zoom, 50x zoom and that's it. Like that's just 10% of options in that app! When you really start knowing the app, it is just much better than Samsung or Xiaomi camera apps. You can shoot much better pictures when you know what you are doing.
3. EMUI:
- I really like this system, the icons, design, features, it's really nice. I don't know how anyone can 'hate' this system? I came to EMUI from Xiaomi and Samsung phones and for me it's just better.
Huawei P30 Pro is my first Huawei phone and I must say I'm really impressed by the price/quality ratio. What are your thoughts?
Point 2: tray to rec videos with opencam or edgecam. You can choose 1x camera and zoom in or you can choose 5x camera. No changes between they.
"2. Camera:
- There is no way to force the camera app to use the optical 5x zoom in photo mode/videos when the light is low. For me it was a huge issue when I was recording a concert and the camera was jumping constantly between 5x optical and digital zooms. Digital had more view on scene where the light was good, so it jumped to optical lens, optical view is out of sync so bigger part of view was on the dark crowd and it jumped back to optical again. There was no way to record it with zoom."
this to me is a huge issue...as i was trying to photo one of our dogs in evening time and it would only zoom via digital.....every now and then it would flicker to ultra clear optical but not for long enough to get a shot.
no workaround at all for it ?...i see no mention of it in google searches.
i can imagine being in the same situation as you recording a gig and that would be troublesome.
Sent from my VOG-L09 using Tapatalk
To always photograph at 5x optical use the professional mode.
dougm1970 said:
"2. Camera:
- There is no way to force the camera app to use the optical 5x zoom in photo mode/videos when the light is low.
no workaround at all for it ?...i see no mention of it in google searches.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Open Camera allows you to cycle through the lenses.
ID 0 is normal mode with multi-lenses
ID 1 is front camera
ID 2 is main lens
ID 3 is wide angle lens
ID 4 is zoom
Neo Cortex said:
Open Camera allows you to cycle through the lenses.
ID 0 is normal mode with multi-lenses
ID 1 is front camera
ID 2 is main lens
ID 3 is wide angle lens
ID 4 is zoom
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
thanks.
i don't see the option to do this.
i should add a disclaimer though...i'm an idiot.
Sent from my VOG-L09 using Tapatalk
dougm1970 said:
thanks.
i don't see the option to do this.
i should add a disclaimer though...i'm an idiot.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You just tap the icon to switch to the selfie camera and when you tap it again it takes you to the next lens. I discovered it by accident
HDJ80 said:
To always photograph at 5x optical use the professional mode.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yes, for photo it works, but then you get no AI... Also normal photo AI handles the 5x zoom when light is low better than pro, I guess it takes digital zoom which is bright and merges it with optical which is dark
As for the video, I tried the open camera, but from what I can see, it only allows to switch between normal 1x and 5x zoom, but when you zoom to 5x it works the same as huawei built in cam app... So it switches to digital and back to optical all the time.
Edgecam also allows you to use all the lenses
---------- Post added at 05:08 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:05 PM ----------
With edgecam or opencam you can choose the lense.
If you choose 1x lense an make zoom is only digital zoom.
For 5x optical zoom you must change to 5x lense.
Pivoo said:
Yes, for photo it works, but then you get no AI... Also normal photo AI handles the 5x zoom when light is low better than pro, I guess it takes digital zoom which is bright and merges it with optical which is dark
As for the video, I tried the open camera, but from what I can see, it only allows to switch between normal 1x and 5x zoom, but when you zoom to 5x it works the same as huawei built in cam app... So it switches to digital and back to optical all the time.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Mine stays on optical all the time in video.
Yes pictures are generally better with AI but OC enables you to stay with optical even when light is low.
Issue :ghost notifications.
By ghost notifications i mean there is a sound and vibration but nothing else. Now I am pretty used to them, but from day one and after a couple of updates, they are still present. I have disable notifications from almost all apps except messaging ones, but ghost notifications keep going! Even during night with flight mode on. ?
HDJ80 said:
Edgecam also allows you to use all the lenses
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Where do I find Edgecam? It's not in the UK Play Store as far as I can see.
Sorry, hedgecam 2.
Maybe I'm missing something as I am very new to this phone. I have set my phone to lock after 2 minutes but whenever it locks, it makes a click type sound which I find very distracting. I wish I could turn that off.
n-j-f said:
Maybe I'm missing something as I am very new to this phone. I have set my phone to lock after 2 minutes but whenever it locks, it makes a click type sound which I find very distracting. I wish I could turn that off.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Actually you can turn it off.
Go to Settings ---> Sounds (or Tones) then pick the last entry and deactivate Lockscreen sound.
I don't know how it looks in english, as my native language is German
n-j-f said:
Maybe I'm missing something as I am very new to this phone. I have set my phone to lock after 2 minutes but whenever it locks, it makes a click type sound which I find very distracting. I wish I could turn that off.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Go to sound > more sound settings > screen lock. Disable it and there u go.
Hello
I was just wondering if anyone could help me, I owned an amazfit pace a while ago and when it went to sleep mode, it switched back to a quite low resolution mode. Does this still happen with the stratos 3?
yes, same display
This is not a change in resolution, but a restriction of the color palette to 8. Resolution always remains the same - 320x320
Adramel said:
This is not a change in resolution, but a restriction of the color palette to 8. Resolution always remains the same - 320x320
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Can this be anyhow prevented?
Eg. to leave the full resolution/color while in standby?
AmazMod has features to disable screen lock. But the screen in active mode eats up a lot of battery, so the watch will probably stop working after one day.
I've got the Stratos and it is the same. For me however the biggest complaint is that when I raise the watch to face it lights up, but the quality is still poor. Full quality kicks in once I press the upper button to unlock it... Essentially, for me device is locked in 8bit mode every time I look at it and more complex watch faces look really bad.
Is there a way to enable full quality on raise? Would this be equal to unlock on raise? If so, is there a way to enable it?
This is the 8 color == 4 bit mode.
Choose a watch face that looks good in both modes
For example mine
https://amazfitwatchfaces.com/search/pace/authorID/82440
Adramel said:
This is the 8 color == 4 bit mode.
Choose a watch face that looks good in both modes
For example mine
https://amazfitwatchfaces.com/search/pace/authorID/82440
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Indeed, based on the Internet it is infact just 8 colors,looks like more on the screen.
Well, there are some watch faces that do not look much different in the low quality mode, however that will have pretty basic look, this is all far, far from what smartwatches with AMOLED screens can do.
A smartwatch with an OLED screen will not show you even the 8 colors that Stratos gives, but only a black spot. Those with AoD can display some simple 2-3 color dials with a minimal amount of data. Most often, even without steps. So they are far behind the Stratos.