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its just draining the battery ...i have no use for quad hd resolution
You've bought the wrong phone, me thinks... ?
macmobile said:
You've bought the wrong phone, me thinks...
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...... i bought the phone for deepest blacks , saturated colors ., best available camera... removable battery , fast charging..good looking device.... bigger screen.... super developers support and S pen... but yeah you might be right i bought a wrong phone
Buy a iPhone next time .
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Buy a iPhone next time .
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i dont think i like your tone young mahn.....
You can use NOMone Resolution Changer - 1080X1920, 480DPI is the best setting.
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You can use NOMone Resolution Changer - 1080X1920, 480DPI is the best setting.
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Something I learnt is that if you lover the resolution you will NOT get any bump in your battery life. That's because the device upscales the 1080p res to 2K. Also, the processor is capable to run 2K 2D Contents (such as text, webview, certain UI elements etc) without any kind of problem. Only 3D contents such as games could be greatly affected by this.
Since Marshmallow supports 4K display at all times on the home screen, etc., it seems that this phone could do 4K all the time.
I've read that some believe they won't even turn it on for Marshmallow because if the CPU/battery drain.
Two questions:
1. Does anyone agree or disagree with this? Maybe it will at least be a setting (in developer options)?
2. If they don't turn this on for Marshmallow and it runs like Lollipop on "Full HD", could a custom ROM enable permanent 4K? Or rooting? Would this even be possible?
Thanks!
Bet that you will return to FHD mode when you look at the battery anyway. Plus most icon resources inside apk will almost certainly stick to xxhdpi (around 480dpi) which won't bring any advantage on 4k screen.
I don't care about battery life. Anyway, does anyone have any answers/guesses to my questions?
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Well to answer your questions :
1. I disagree as per my answer, it is just not viable for the battery life and plus iirc when i read marshmallow changelog, it only states that it supports 4k but doesn't say anything about native resolution and apk resource resolution addition, the changelog only specifies that it is natively supported but in an upscaled way.
2. If anything, nothing is impossible. But not everything is viable.
Doing QHD at all times and 4K during media is fine by me.
Do it Sony.
I hope via root is possible.
About battery life, I have nice battery packs that maintain the charge for the whole day .....and I suggest any intense user of smartphones having one o more too
Marshmellow comes with native 4k support which will allow developers to turn on 4k on demand.
I don't see a reason to have the the 4k display always on unless its for gaming/movies/viewing high res pics.
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Doing QHD at all times and 4K during media is fine by me.
Do it Sony.
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I agree the screen should be 2k and 4k when needed.
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Try it
try this if it works.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/z5-premium/general/changing-resolution-default-to-2k-root-t3282319
What if Sony can let the user decide which resolution their phones wanna run.
Like windows in a separate setting under display user get the ability to select the resolution.
People who don't care 4K they can use FHD and if they like 2K they can have 2K , if not 4K all the time.
But by default gallery and movie apps upscale the content to 4K. I think if they can pull that off it'd be so cool.
Yeah, should be offer 2 modes in display setting, quality and battery life.
4k is already possible! thanks to the guide from the previous post lol, I was able to take a screenshot of my phone running in 4k using a different screenshot app
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lag?
now gpu is pushing four K resolution, did u noticed any lag?
also did anyone try xperia z five in trinus VR.its and app which allows you to stream PC games to mobile for VR
1dave said:
4k is already possible! thanks to the guide from the previous post lol, I was able to take a screenshot of my phone running in 4k using a different screenshot app
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But the important one is the dpi though. The 3840x2160 means it's physical pixel count isn't it? But when you look at the density it's obvious that it's still 1920x1080. Cmiiw though.
Are there third party apps that run in 4k mode?
Netflix? Ultraflix? Riptide gp all run in 4k on my shield tv
As hansip87 said.
Also running 4k all the time will increase the phone warmth in hand - try it yourself while watching a 4k movie for an 1h30min
I think it's great that it's possible to run at 2k and 4k all the time but for me it's Battery life others is screen quality /viewing pleasure
After performing the wm size and wm density as shown in the thread fesar posted earlier in this thread, I stumbled upon a few problems that persisted even after restoring to default.
You can read more about my rather bad experiences in the mentioned thread.
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But the important one is the dpi though. The 3840x2160 means it's physical pixel count isn't it? But when you look at the density it's obvious that it's still 1920x1080. Cmiiw though.
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Hey which app did you use to take the screenshot with when at higher dpi? Thanks
I changed the resolution to 2K ,and changed it back after half a day ,cannot bear the battery drain
I can't find it, I heard it is possible since Android 7.0. So, is the option present in Axon 7?
I'm on A2017G (B01 Nougat 7.0) and it's possible, the setting is under Display
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I'm on A2017G (B01 Nougat 7.0) and it's possible, the setting is under Display
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That's only changing the font size, not the actual resolution
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There is no way to change the resolution only the display scale, and that's what this setting does
You can make it even smaller (or bigger) by setting a custom display scaling. Enable developer options -> then find a setting called smallest width. Then your custom value in it. For example I use 500. bigger values will make the screen show more content(make everything smaller)
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You can make it even smaller (or bigger) by setting a custom display scaling. Enable developer options -> then find a setting called smallest width. Then your custom value in it. For example I use 500. bigger values will make the screen show more content(make everything smaller)
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Do You mean rooting the phone?
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Do You mean rooting the phone?
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no need for root. go in About phone, then tap build number 7 times. It'll enable developer options. This will appear in the advanced settings. then do as I said in previous post.
In terminal emulator:
Code:
wm size widthxheight
So it you wanted to change the resolution to 1080p:
Code:
wm size 1080x1920
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no need for root. go in About phone, then tap build number 7 times. It'll enable developer options. This will appear in the advanced settings. then do as I said in previous post.
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Yeah, but for what I know, Android 7.0 supports changing resolution, am I correct? What about 1080p, or 720p, what should I type into ,,width: section?
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Yeah, but for what I know, Android 7.0 supports changing resolution, am I correct? What about 1080p, or 720p, what should I type into ,,width: section?
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zte took that option out sorry, try to use the adb shell/terminal commands posted above.
What ammount should I type to achieve 1080p or 720p?
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What ammount should I type to achieve 1080p or 720p?
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1080p: wm size 1080x1920
720p: wm size 720x1280
May I ask what the benefit is for lowering the resolution?
On some Samsung phones you can change the resolution.
The benefit for the battery is nearly 0%
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zte took that option out sorry, try to use the adb shell/terminal commands posted above.
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But there is no way to type ,,x" into the smallest wide. By default, it is 360 dp
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But there is no way to type ,,x" into the smallest wide. By default, it is 360 dp
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go to Settings > Advanced > Developer Options and change the smallest width from 360 to the value you need.
410 to 430 good for me... i think 550dp will change it to tablet mode.
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That's only changing the font size, not the actual resolution
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if you change the resolution (using build.prop) the stock apps won't scale good.. eg. Stock Dailer incall UI. ..
if you don't care abt stock appps.. root and change the build.prop thats the best option.
Try messing with the DPI. You can find some apps on the market that edit this value for you
can reducing resolution improve 3D gaming performance? like more fps. for example always get more than 30 fps which was not possible with high resolution.
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can reducing resolution improve 3D gaming performance? like more fps. for example always get more than 30 fps which was not possible with high resolution.
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if you're not getting more than 30fps on games I'd recommend you to check the settings. turn VSync off, and if that still doesn't help just lower some setting.
You can get more FPS by reducing the resolution but it's a headache, a bunch of stuff breaks until you restore to stock resolution and restart the phone.
Newer games have a resolution slider
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can reducing resolution improve 3D gaming performance? like more fps. for example always get more than 30 fps which was not possible with high resolution.
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Yes of course. If you lower the resolution (NOT DPI) the games will render at that lowered resolution, giving a performance boost. After change of resolution you should change the DPI as well so the icon, menu and app sizes arent too big or too small
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Yes of course. If you lower the resolution (NOT DPI) the games will render at that lowered resolution, giving a performance boost. After change of resolution you should change the DPI as well so the icon, menu and app sizes arent too big or too small
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Still I don't recommend it at all. Capacitive keys break. Keyboards may get all messed up. and the performance boost is rather negligible
If you're gonna try, get ready to use mipop a bunch...
Hello everyone!
You can enjoy FullHD resolution in Xperia XA1/XA easily by follow the video. It is so amazing and you can view Youtube video with Full HD resolution n your XA1 phone after do it. If you have any questions please comment . I will respond as soon as possible.
You can revert back any time by change to the original resolution in command. :highfive: I just compare Antutu benchmark after set the resolution to 1080p :victory:: https://youtu.be/HslDJ8NB6Jg
Video Guide : https://youtu.be/ND_zA5XM-yg
Download :
1. Driver : http://adbdriver.com/downloads/ or https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2588979
2. ADB fastboot tools : https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2kFletApi72TGhzN0dGR3pHbGs
3. Command : adb shell wm size 1080x1920
4. Process : Install Driver - Enable USB Debugging - Open ADB fastboot tool and press shift+right click to open command here - run command - set up font and restart to enjoy - done :laugh: . Please view the Video Guide for more details :victory:
By the way. You can save many battery life if you use this way to decrease resolution intead of increase . i mean you will change to 540x960 or 450x800 depend on you. view decrease here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vQxZgfUI88
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Unlock by voice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B7dIHM4snM
Root XA1 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pZIjPH-MmM&list=PL4PNn1kmbOakGquTbUf_VhkJx7z0vppjp&index=20
Say thanks if you see it is helpful. Sorry for my bad English
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Awesome !
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Does the screen look noticibly sharper after this?
Just wondering if worth the effort/trade off in battery life
I must say that I'm a bit skeptical about this. The screen has a specific number of pixels, in the XA1 case 720 x 1280, and it is not possible to increase with setting a value in Android. Lowering the value is possible since then the software can count several pixels as one (but usually it does not look that good).
In the GSMarena review they use a microscope to look at the pixels and sure they don't count them but I think after looking at so many screens they would have notice if the pixels was so small that the screen was a 1080 x 1920 screen instead.
If you saw my old phone, you too would be happy with the current resolution.
Why pump it up. Uses your battery quicker
Very Eager to tryit out but worried about battery life. Is it worth??
Strong post
thanks for your help , I have been bothered by the xa1 's low ppi for a long time:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:
Does this only change the dpi? As stated above you can't add pixels to a screen that's 720p
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Does the screen look noticibly sharper after this?
Just wondering if worth the effort/trade off in battery life
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Depend on your eyes bro ^^. battery life is not affect too much. but you can view youtube in FullHD
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Does this only change the dpi? As stated above you can't add pixels to a screen that's 720p
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We do it for more space on screen and you can view Youtube on Full HD. why you do not try and can revert back anytime
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I must say that I'm a bit skeptical about this. The screen has a specific number of pixels, in the XA1 case 720 x 1280, and it is not possible to increase with setting a value in Android. Lowering the value is possible since then the software can count several pixels as one (but usually it does not look that good).
In the GSMarena review they use a microscope to look at the pixels and sure they don't count them but I think after looking at so many screens they would have notice if the pixels was so small that the screen was a 1080 x 1920 screen instead.
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Yes you r right. but the point is you can view youtube with FullHD setting. and you will get more space, also UI like tablet for some app if you want
I use these settings :
adb shell wm size 480x850
adb shell wm density 240
in settings, display, use the smallest size of font.
you can use too but it's blur :
adb shell wm size 360x640
adb shell wm density 180
I tried this out and my batterylive isnt affected. But I'm not able to take a screenshot anymore
1. Probably not the best idea to publish a video with your pirated movies and MILF porn clearly visible
2. How could this be possibly be... possible? Unless Sony has built in a 1080 display and lowered the resolution via software (why would they?!), I call complete bull****.
What you're changing is what the phone tells YT it is capable of. So you're using more data and also more battery for no visual improvement whatsoever. It just doesn't have more pixels.
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1. Probably not the best idea to publish a video with your pirated movies and MILF porn clearly visible
2. How could this be possibly be... possible? Unless Sony has built in a 1080 display and lowered the resolution via software (why would they?!), I call complete bull****.
What you're changing is what the phone tells YT it is capable of. So you're using more data and also more battery for no visual improvement whatsoever. It just doesn't have more pixels.
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And you are not able to take Screenshots anymore
In case of Youtube it helps, because videos are encoded with very low quality to save space and bandwidth.
It always help to use higher resolution of video than screen has resolution anyway. I do this on ma PC for couple of years now.
On phone screen is so small it makes little but still noticeable difference, but i don't care about it, i want battery life especially when I watch YT while travelling.
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I've checked the screen with good old cardboard.
It is 720p and android probably is downsampling 1080p to it if You change the resolution.
So in conclusion other than 1080p in Youtube You only waste Your battery life.
If You want 1080p in Youtube, get modded app.
Anyway it is interesting gimmick, but with no real purpose.
Hey all,
I have bought the P10 Plus VKY-L29 and although it's a great phone, the battery life can be slightly erratic. To combat the issue I've tried the Lower resolution power saving mode but it doesn't seem to do anything - the resolution still stays at 2K
Does anyone else have an issue with the lower resolution power saving mode not working?
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Hey all,
I have bought the P10 Plus VKY-L29 and although it's a great phone, the battery life can be slightly erratic. To combat the issue I've tried the Lower resolution power saving mode but it doesn't seem to do anything - the resolution still stays at 2K
Does anyone else have an issue with the lower resolution power saving mode not working?
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Your not going to notice lower resolution on your phone really because there isn't that much difference. ++ If you have viewing mode / density on small and you lower the resolution you aren't going to notice it. You'll probably only notice it if you put viewing mode on big so text and icons are very large and then let it go in ultra power mode. I personally have never tried it, maybe it isn't working but I'm saying you won't know the difference.
I get what you're saying however the thing is the mode is supposed to reduce the resolution from 2K to 1080p. Activating the mode it doesn't do so. .So the initial question still stands. Does the lower resolution power option actually work or is there an issue with my device?
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I get what you're saying however the thing is the mode is supposed to reduce the resolution from 2K to 1080p. Activating the mode it doesn't do so. .So the initial question still stands. Does the lower resolution power option actually work or is there an issue with my device?
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Again, you're not getting what I'm saying. You're NOT going to notice the resolution change. It's different to your computer resolution as your screen is larger on your monitor. Lowering the resolution to save battery is a myth a lot of people rant about.
So again, the resolution is probably lowering but you're not seeing the difference.
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Again, you're not getting what I'm saying. You're NOT going to notice the resolution change. It's different to your computer resolution as your screen is larger on your monitor. Lowering the resolution to save battery is a myth a lot of people rant about.
So again, the resolution is probably lowering but you're not seeing the difference.
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On EMUI 4.x the resolution physically changed and this was reported on the About phone screen under the resolution heading. In this case even with low resolution power saving on the resolution heading still shows as 1440x2560 so it clearly hasn't changed!
It doesn't matter about the size of the fonts changing when clearly the resolution hasn't changed at all. You would certainly notice the resolution change as it used to work on my P9 when changing from 1080p to 720p.
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On EMUI 4.x the resolution physically changed and this was reported on the About phone screen under the resolution heading. In this case even with low resolution power saving on the resolution heading still shows as 1440x2560 so it clearly hasn't changed!
It doesn't matter about the size of the fonts changing when clearly the resolution hasn't changed at all. You would certainly notice the resolution change as it used to work on my P9 when changing from 1080p to 720p.
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Mate, going from 1440x2560 to 1080x1920 you will NOT see the difference!!! Again like i said, it may be broken but I'm telling you, the resolutions are identical. 720p from 108p is a bit of a leap as that's when you start losing HD. If you're that bothered, send it back in.
stoosh666 said:
Hey all,
I have bought the P10 Plus VKY-L29 and although it's a great phone, the battery life can be slightly erratic. To combat the issue I've tried the Lower resolution power saving mode but it doesn't seem to do anything - the resolution still stays at 2K
Does anyone else have an issue with the lower resolution power saving mode not working?
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I have mate 9 pro and i have the same problem the screen stays on 2k, and i dont know why its too hard for the other guys to understand what you saying
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Akhayev said:
I have mate 9 pro and i have the same problem the screen stays on 2k, and i dont know why its too hard for the other guys to understand what you saying
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Unless you can, ( like the op ) show us through command prompt that your resolution is still on 2k when in ultra low power saving it's just your word against his. If you both feel that it is not scaling down. Contact huawei. Because ATM there's nothing any of us can do.
stoosh666 said:
Hey all,
I have bought the P10 Plus VKY-L29 and although it's a great phone, the battery life can be slightly erratic. To combat the issue I've tried the Lower resolution power saving mode but it doesn't seem to do anything - the resolution still stays at 2K
Does anyone else have an issue with the lower resolution power saving mode not working?
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Did you find and way to fix it ? I have mate 9 pro and p10 plus and still having the same issue
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Unless you can, ( like the op ) show us through command prompt that your resolution is still on 2k when in ultra low power saving it's just your word against his. If you both feel that it is not scaling down. Contact huawei. Because ATM there's nothing any of us can do.
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1. It doesn't bother me much but i noticed the same behaviour on my device, resolution does not change.
2. I don't know why you keep saying that one can't see the difference, that is not the point here, don't you get that? The point is that no matter if you actually can see difference or not the resolution DOES NOT CHANGE in the first place. When using a tool to show the current resolution it STILL says 2k regardless whether low resolution is being activated or not. Normally - and it DID work that way on the P9P - when you switch to low resolution the device should ask you to reboot and after that it would have the lower resolution, regardless of ultra power saving mode. It clearly does not work this way here, so there seems to be something wrong with this firmware-wise.
3. Afaik OP didn't ask for anyone here to do something, he merely asked whether other people are experiencing this, too.
4. OP, which firmware are you on currently?
I'm almost 100% sure it's not working properly. If it was I should be getting more than 4.5 - 5 hours of sot. Unless there's something going on with the hardware as compared to the Mate 9 that you just can't see in the specs.
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Your not going to notice lower resolution on your phone really because there isn't that much difference. ++ If you have viewing mode / density on small and you lower the resolution you aren't going to notice it. You'll probably only notice it if you put viewing mode on big so text and icons are very large and then let it go in ultra power mode. I personally have never tried it, maybe it isn't working but I'm saying you won't know the difference.
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I've got nothing to contribute to the thread but I've something to say to you. I've been using 2k 5.5 inch screens since the LG G3 and side by side with smaller 1080p screens the difference is noticeable to not only me but also to my friends who own the 1080p phones.
I think you're trying to say that the phone may well have switched down to 1080p resolution but OP can't tell that. I'm not sure I buy that but I'll get back to you on that.
i am experiencing the same thing on my P9 after update to latest EMUI and P10 since bought. Was working on honor 6, and my p9 before upgrade. so EMUI should be the culprit since different phones having same issue. hope they will fix it as soon as possible. i need to get extra juice from my p10!
some people think they are too smart. Even if OP cannot see the difference, that isnt the point. We are curious whether the feature is malfunctioned. and yes, u can check the current resolution on about phone. Do urself a favor to try and understand before bashing repetitively. it looks too stupid, im sorry.
Yes you can't really tell the difference when it's 1080p because it's being upscaled to a native 1440p screen anyway. There will be a worthwhile difference in battery life from doing that though. It's why the galaxy s8 is configured to do it out of the box.
Those guy who did not have our devices are useless here. I got 2 Honor V8, and before update to Android 7. I noticed the difference when I down the resolution. But when updated to Android 7, resolution is the same whatever I do. I have Honor V8 knt al10 and knt al20. Hope the next update will solve this issue. Regards
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Mate, going from 1440x2560 to 1080x1920 you will NOT see the difference!!! Again like i said, it may be broken but I'm telling you, the resolutions are identical. 720p from 108p is a bit of a leap as that's when you start losing HD. If you're that bothered, send it back in.
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stoosh666 said:
On EMUI 4.x the resolution physically changed and this was reported on the About phone screen under the resolution heading. In this case even with low resolution power saving on the resolution heading still shows as 1440x2560 so it clearly hasn't changed!
It doesn't matter about the size of the fonts changing when clearly the resolution hasn't changed at all. You would certainly notice the resolution change as it used to work on my P9 when changing from 1080p to 720p.
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If the resolution really changed, when you take a screenshot IT MUST be 1080p instead of 2560, otherwise mean resolution it's still on 2K, and I can confirm that the function to lower the resolution of the screen at the moment is not working > it's not changing the resolution of the screen.
It has nothing to do with "you are not going to notice the difference"
you can do tests on your pc monitor, when you lower the resolution your screenshots will be smaller
I am trying as well to drop the resolution to 1080p and it's currently not working.
Noticed the difference in some apps.
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Low resolution works only in games and some apps, not in system
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Question: did someone test the battery difference?
I know that the prediction is about 2+ hours in my P10, but does that translate do the real world?
How to lower the resolution in P10 to 720p?
I don't use the low res setting and Accubattery still reports over 8 hours SOT. Mind you, I don't use my device very heavily - maybe browsing and music. Funny thing though, my "new" phones only has about 93% of a full battery's worth of capacity... Hmm...
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bauer18 said:
How to lower the resolution in P10 to 720p?
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Just the "low power resolution" setting for now, saw screenshots of an actual setting to change coming in EMUI 8/Oreo.