If you have already had a number of smartphones, you have surely noticed that the quality of the screens has changed significantly over a few years and that they have now, for the most high-end, a surprising definition. However, it is not always good to have the best definition on your Huawei P10. In the event that you have specific wishes, you have arrived on the right site, we will now show you how to change the screen resolution of your Huawei P10?

To do this, first, we will find out in which situations it can be interesting to modify it, and then, how to reduce or increase the definition of the screen of your Huawei P10? First directly from the settings of your mobile phone, then with root.

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Why change the screen definition of my Huawei P10?

Before fully explaining the different procedures to change the screen definition of your Huawei P10 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 tutorial, our cell phones are now real computers, which implies the possibility of modifying a number of settings to personalize them and obtain the user experience that is most appropriate to their needs. Screen settings are one of these options

And yes, the screens on Huawei P10 have become very power hungry and account for the majority of your battery consumption. It may suddenly be logical, to save battery by lowering the screen resolution of your Huawei P10. In the event that you are mainly on social networks, that you watch very little multimedia content in high definition or that you simply use it to send emails or messages, having 4k on your mobile phone does not will not bring much. Furthermore, in the event that you have already reduced the definition of your Huawei P10 and want to return to the initial definition and you no longer remember the procedure, you will be happy to learn it again in this guide. In the event that you very easily want to gain in viewing comfort, you can change the size of the application icons on your Huawei P10.

Be careful though, the screens have maximum definitions, and whatever your needs you will not be able to set a definition higher than that which the screen of your Huawei P10 can display, if it does not have enough pixels, you will not be able to perform the manipulation.

How to reduce or increase the screen definition of my Huawei P10?

We now move on to the practical part of this tutorial, you will be able to learn the procedure to modify the screen definition of your Huawei P10. To start directly from the settings of your mobile phone then using a technique called "Root".

How to change the screen definition of my Huawei P10 without root?

We start with the simplest technique, be careful notwithstanding, it is possible, depending on the Android version installed on your Huawei P10, that you may not be able to perform this procedure. In fact, on some old versions this parameter is not available, in the event that this is the case, go to the next part of this post. For others, follow this procedure:

  • Go to the “Settings” of your Huawei P10
  • Click on the "View" menu
  • Tap the "Screen resolution" setting
  • Move the cursor to the left or to the right to modify the definition of your screen, the more you will go to the left the less it will be good, the more you will go to the right, the better it will be

How to change the definition with root on a Huawei P10?

In the event that you did not have access to the parameters seen just before and you still want to change the definition of your screen, do not worry, there is a technique available to everyone, despite everything it is going to be a bit more complicated and longer. We recommend that you do it only if you really need to change the screen definition of your Huawei P10. Check it out below:

  • Activate the USB debugging mode in the "About device" menu
  • install Android Studio on your pc to root your Huawei P10
  • Connect your Huawei P10 to your pc, root your Huawei P10 using Android Studio
  • Open the command console of your pc, in order to do so 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 ”, this will take you to the screen resolution settings of your mobile phone
  • 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 Huawei P10 to restart and enjoy your new resolution

If you want a lot of tutorials to become the absolute master of the Huawei P10, we invite you to browse the other tutorials in the category: Huawei P10.