If you have ever had the good fortune to have a number of phones, you have probably realized that the quality of the screens has changed significantly over a few years and that they now have, for the more modern ones, of a striking definition. However, having the best definition on your Huawei P9 is not necessarily the best way to go. If you ever have any particular wishes, you've come to the right place, we will now show you precisely how to change the screen resolution of your Huawei P9?
In this context, first of all, we will explain to you for whom it may be interesting to modify it, then, how to reduce or increase the definition of the screen of your Huawei P9? First directly from the settings of your phone, then through root.
What is the point of changing the screen definition of my Huawei P9?
Before we fully teach you the different techniques to modify the screen definition of your Huawei P9 as you wish, we will quickly find out why it may be interesting to change it. As we explained to you at the beginning of this guide, our phones have become real computers, which implies the possibility of changing many configurations to personalize them and obtain the user experience that is most appropriate to their requirements. Screen settings are one of those possibilities
Indeed, the screens on Huawei P9 have become very power hungry and represent the majority of your battery consumption. It can therefore be rational, for save battery by lowering the screen resolution of your Huawei P9. If you're ever on social media most of the time, watching very little high-definition media content, or just using it for emailing or texting, having 4k on your phone won't do you any good. will bring nothing. Also, if you have already reduced the definition of your Huawei P9 and want to return to the initial definition and you no longer remember the procedure, you will be happy to see it again in this tutorial. If you ever want to gain viewing comfort in a very simple way, you can change the size of the application icons on your Huawei P9.
Be careful, 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 P9 can display, if it does not have enough pixels, you cannot will not be able to perform the manipulation.
How do I reduce or increase the screen resolution of my Huawei P9?
We now move on to the practical part of this guide, you will be able to see the process to change the screen definition of your Huawei P9. First, directly from your phone settings, then using a technique called "Root".
How to change the screen definition of my Huawei P9 without root?
We start with the easiest technique, be careful however, it is possible, depending on the Android version installed on your Huawei P9, that you may not be able to do this. In fact, on some old versions this parameter is not accessible, if this is your situation, go to the next section of the article. For others, apply this approach:
- Go to the “Settings” of your Huawei P9
- Click on the "View" menu
- Click on the "Screen resolution" setting
- Move the cursor to the left or to the right to change 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 more pixels you will have
How to change the definition with root on a Huawei P9?
If you never had access to the settings described in the previous part and you still want to change the definition of your screen, don't worry, there is a technique available for everyone, nevertheless it will be a hair more complex and longer. We recommend that you do this only if you really need to change the screen definition of your Huawei P9. Check it out below:
- Activate the USB debugging mode in the "About device" menu
- install Android Studio on your computer to root your Huawei P9
- Connect your Huawei P9 to your computer, root your Huawei P9 with Android Studio
- Open the command console of your computer, for that 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 ”, in this way you will access the screen resolution settings of your phone
- Identify 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 your screen definition setting, for example 720
- Wait for your Huawei P9 to restart and enjoy your new resolution
If you want as many tutorials as possible to become the king of the Huawei P9, we invite you to explore the other tutorials in the category: Huawei P9.
