If you have ever been lucky enough to have several phones, you have probably realized that the quality of the screens has evolved considerably and for some time and that they now have, for the most modern, an impressive definition. However, having the best definition on your Honor 8X is not necessarily the best choice. If you have specific needs, you've come to the right place, now we're going to show you how to change the screen resolution of your Honor 8X?
To do this, first of all, we will explain to you when it may be interesting to modify it, after that, how to reduce or increase the definition of the screen of your Honor 8X? First, directly from your smartphone settings, then using root.
What is the point of changing the screen resolution of my Honor 8X?
Before showing you in detail the different methods to change the screen resolution of your Honor 8X to your liking, we will quickly see why it may be interesting to change it. As we explained to you in the introduction of this guide, our phones have become real laptops, which implies the ability to modify a lot of parameters to personalize them and obtain the user experience that best suits their needs. Screen settings are one of those possibilities
In fact, the screens on Honor 8X have become very power hungry and account for the majority of your battery consumption. It can suddenly be coherent, for save battery by lowering the screen resolution of your Honor 8X. If you are generally on social networks, watch very little high-definition media content or only use it to send emails or messages, having 4k on your smartphone won't do you much good. thing. Also, if you have reduced the resolution of your Honor 8X in the past and want to return to the default resolution and you no longer remember the procedure, you will be happy to learn it again in this guide. If you want to gain viewing comfort in a very simple way, you can change the size of the application icons on your Honor 8X.
Be careful, the screens have maximum definitions, and whatever your desires you will not be able to set a resolution higher than that which the screen of your Honor 8X can display, if it does not have enough pixels, you will not be able to not perform the manipulation.
How to reduce or increase the screen resolution of my Honor 8X?
We now move on to the practical part of this guide, you will be able to learn the procedure to change the screen resolution of your Honor 8X. First of all directly from the settings of your smartphone then using a technique called "Root".
How to change the screen resolution of my Honor 8X without root?
We start with the simplest technique, be careful though, it is possible, depending on the Android version installed on your Honor 8X, that you may not be able to perform this procedure. In fact, on some old versions this setting is not accessible, if this is the case, go to the next part of the article. For others, follow this procedure:
- Go to the “Settings” of your Honor 8X
- Then click on the "View" menu
- Tap the "Screen resolution" setting
- Move the cursor to the left or to the right to modify the resolution of your screen, the more you will go to the left the less good it will be, the more you will go to the right, the better it will be
How to change the resolution with root on Honor 8X?
If you did not have access to the detailed settings just before and you still want to change the resolution of your screen, rest assured, there is a technique available to everyone, however it will be a bit more complicated and longer. . We suggest that you do it only if you really need to change the screen definition of your Honor 8X. Check it out below:
- Activate the USB debugging mode in the "About device" menu
- install Android Studio on your computer to root your Honor 8X
- Connect your Honor 8X to your computer, root your Honor 8X with Android Studio
- Open the command console of your computer, to do this type "Command prompt" in the search bar at the bottom left of your screen
- In your batch application type "adb shell dumpsys display | grep mBaseDisplayInfo ”, you will in this way access the screen resolution settings of your smartphone
- Locate in the script the data "Density" plus the number of your resolution, retain it to reset it to default setting
- Now type » adb shell wm density DPI & & adb reboot »To change the setting of your screen definition, for example 720
- Wait for your Honor 8X to restart and enjoy your new resolution
In case you are looking for a maximum of tutorials to become the absolute master of the Honor 8X, we invite you to browse the other tutorials in the category: Honor 8X.
