If you have ever had a number of cell phones, you have no doubt realized that the quality of the screens has evolved significantly over the years and that they are now, for the most modern, of a striking definition. However, having the best definition on your Oppo A8 is not always the best choice. If you have specific needs, you have come to the right place, we will precisely, in this tutorial, teach you how to change the screen resolution of your Oppo A8?

To do this, first of all, we will find out who can benefit from modifying it, and then, how to reduce or increase the definition of the screen of your Oppo A8? First directly from the settings of your smartphone, then with root.

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Why change the screen resolution of my Oppo A8?

Before showing you in detail the different procedures to modify the screen resolution of your Oppo A8 to your liking, we will quickly see the reason why it could be beneficial to change it. As we explained to you in the introduction of this tutorial, our smartphones have become real laptops, which implies the possibility of changing a large number of settings to personalize them and obtain the user experience that is most appropriate to their expectations. Screen settings are one of those possibilities

In fact, the screens on the Oppo A8 have become very energy intensive and represent the majority of your battery consumption. It can therefore be rational, for save battery by lowering the screen resolution of your Oppo A8. If you're mostly on social media, only watch very little high-definition media content, or just use it to compose emails or messages, having 4k on your smartphone won't do you much good. . Furthermore, in the event that in the past you have reduced the resolution of your Oppo A8 and want to return to the default resolution and you no longer remember the technique, you will be happy to see it in this tutorial. . If you just want to improve viewing comfort, you can change the size of the application icons on your Oppo A8.

Be careful, the screens have maximum definitions, and whatever your expectations you will not be able to set a resolution higher than that which the screen of your Oppo A8 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 Oppo A8?

We now move on to the practical part of this tutorial, you will be able to see the technique to change the screen resolution of your Oppo A8. First directly from the settings of your phone then using a solution called "Root".

How to change the screen resolution of my Oppo A8 without root?

We start with the simplest solution, be careful however, it is possible, depending on the Android version installed on your Oppo A8, that you may not be able to perform this technique. In fact, on some old versions this parameter is not available, in the event that you are in this situation, go to the next part of the article. For others, apply this technique:

  • Go to the “Settings” of your Oppo A8
  • Then click on the "View" menu
  • Tap the "Screen resolution" setting
  • Move the cursor to the left or to the right to change the resolution 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 resolution with root on Oppo A8?

If you did not have access to the settings described in the previous part and you still want to change the resolution of your screen, rest assured, there is a solution available for everyone, despite everything it will be a bit more complex and longer. We advise you to do it only if you really need to change the screen definition of your Oppo A8. Check it out below:

  • Activate the USB debugging mode in the "About device" menu
  • install Android Studio on your pc to root your Oppo A8
  • Connect your Oppo A8 to your pc, root your Oppo A8 with 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 ”, you will then reach the screen resolution settings of your phone
  • Locate in the script the data "Density" plus the number of your resolution, retain it to reset it to default setting
  • Type now » adb shell wm density DPI & & adb reboot  »To change your screen definition setting, for example 720
  • Wait for your Oppo A8 to restart and enjoy your new resolution

In the event that you want as many tutorials as possible to become a master of the Oppo A8, we invite you to watch the other tutorials in the category: Oppo A8.