I've got a Galaxy S3 and a Nook HD. I've become addicted to drawing/sketching apps and the Draw Something game. I have decided, after 52 years of not being able to draw a stick man, to teach myself to draw. I can't put these apps down. Now I'm seeking a stylus that is fine tipped enough so that I can SEE the line I'm drawing, and put in fine details. I'll never learn much if I can only draw crude, rough shapes with my finger or with a big fat tip that obscures your view so you can't see where you're making contact with the screen.
I've read tons of reviews, and it looks like two of the best fine tipped styluses (stylii?) are the Adonit Jot Pro and the Samsung C Pen. I've tried them both. I've tested them on both devices (well, not the C Pen, which is specific to the GS3), with and without screen protectors, on more than half a dozen apps.
The reviews are fantastic; everybody seems to love these. When I use them, they skip and miss and stutter, or they don't make a mark at all. I have to tap the screen repeatedly or scribble like a madman to get it working, kind of like when you're trying to get the ink flowing again in a dried up ballpoint. Or I'll get random dots and blobs, as from a leaky pen. Sometimes I can be drawing a line and it will just stop, as if it's run into section of screen that won't recognize the touch - but it recognizes my finger just fine. If I go and scribble someplace else and come back, it will eventually make the mark where I wanted. I keep the screen scrupulously clean. I've tried anchoring the phone/tablet to a desktop, and holding it in my hands. I've tried varying the pressure and the angle.
I just can't figure out what's wrong. They can't really be this bad or everyone would be complaining. Because my finger and my cheap $5 fat stylus work, I want to say it's just too fine a tip, too narrow a contact surface for a capacitive screen to recognize ... but all these other people are using them just fine.
Does anybody use a stylus on the SG3 or the Nook, particularly for fine detailed work like drawing? Anybody have any insight into what my problem might be? I'm getting really frustrated.
I've read tons of reviews, and it looks like two of the best fine tipped styluses (stylii?) are the Adonit Jot Pro and the Samsung C Pen. I've tried them both. I've tested them on both devices (well, not the C Pen, which is specific to the GS3), with and without screen protectors, on more than half a dozen apps.
The reviews are fantastic; everybody seems to love these. When I use them, they skip and miss and stutter, or they don't make a mark at all. I have to tap the screen repeatedly or scribble like a madman to get it working, kind of like when you're trying to get the ink flowing again in a dried up ballpoint. Or I'll get random dots and blobs, as from a leaky pen. Sometimes I can be drawing a line and it will just stop, as if it's run into section of screen that won't recognize the touch - but it recognizes my finger just fine. If I go and scribble someplace else and come back, it will eventually make the mark where I wanted. I keep the screen scrupulously clean. I've tried anchoring the phone/tablet to a desktop, and holding it in my hands. I've tried varying the pressure and the angle.
I just can't figure out what's wrong. They can't really be this bad or everyone would be complaining. Because my finger and my cheap $5 fat stylus work, I want to say it's just too fine a tip, too narrow a contact surface for a capacitive screen to recognize ... but all these other people are using them just fine.
Does anybody use a stylus on the SG3 or the Nook, particularly for fine detailed work like drawing? Anybody have any insight into what my problem might be? I'm getting really frustrated.
