If you have ever been lucky enough to have a number of cell phones, you have probably realized that the quality of the screens has evolved considerably over a few years and that they now have, for the more recent ones, a surprising definition. That said, it is not always the wisest solution to have the best definition on your Huawei Y5. If you have specific needs, you have come to the right place, in this article we are going to show you how to change the screen resolution of your Huawei Y5?
To do this, first, we will find out in which situations it may be appropriate to modify it, and then, how to reduce or increase the definition of the screen of your Huawei Y5? First directly from your phone settings, then using root.
Why change the screen definition of my Huawei Y5?
Before teaching you in detail the different techniques to modify the screen definition of your Huawei Y5 as you wish, we will quickly find out why it may be advisable to change it. As we explained to you in the introduction of this article, our smartphones have become real laptops, which implies the ability to change a large number of settings to personalize them and obtain the user experience that is most appropriate to their requirements. Screen settings are one of these options
In fact, the screens on Huawei Y5 have become very power hungry and account for most of your battery consumption. It can therefore be consistent, for save battery reduce the screen resolution of your Huawei Y5. If you are usually on social media, watch very little high-definition media content, or only use it to send emails or messages, having 4k on your phone won't do you any good. great thing. In addition, in the event that you have already reduced the resolution of your Huawei Y5 and that you want to return to the maximum definition and that you no longer remember the procedure, you will be happy to see it again in this tutorial. If you just want to gain more viewing comfort you can change the size of the application icons on your Huawei Y5.
Be careful though, 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 Huawei Y5 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 Y5?
We now move on to the practical part of this article, you will be able to see the procedure to change the screen resolution of your Huawei Y5. First of all directly from the settings of your mobile phone then using a technique called "Root".
How to change the screen resolution of my Huawei Y5 without root?
We start with the simplest technique, be careful notwithstanding, it sometimes happens, depending on the Android version installed on your Huawei Y5, that you cannot perform this procedure. Indeed, on some old versions this parameter is not available, in the event that this is the case, go to the next section of the article. For others, follow this process:
- Go to the “Settings” of your Huawei Y5
- Click on the "View" menu
- Tap the "Screen resolution" setting
- Move the cursor to the left or to the right to change the definition of your screen, the more you go to the left the lower it will be, the more you will go to the right, the better it will be.
How to change the definition with root on a Huawei Y5?
If you did not have access to the parameters seen just before and you still want to change the definition of your screen, rest assured, there is a technique available to everyone, however it will be a bit more complex and longer. We advise you to do this only if you really need to change the screen definition of your Huawei Y5. Check it out below:
- Activate the USB debugging mode in the "About device" menu
- install Android Studio on your pc to root your Huawei Y5
- Connect your Huawei Y5 to your pc, root your Huawei Y5 using Android Studio
- Open the command console of your pc, 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 ”, this way you will access the screen resolution settings of your mobile 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 Y5 to restart and enjoy your new resolution
If you want as many tutorials as possible to become a Huawei Y5 master, we invite you to watch the other tutorials in the category: Huawei Y5.
