If you have ever had several phones, you have surely realized that the quality of the screens has changed significantly over a few years and that they now have, for the most recent ones, a striking definition. Despite everything, it is not always the best solution to have the best definition on your Samsung Galaxy A7. If you have specific desires, you are on the right page, we will precisely, in this tutorial, teach you how to change the screen resolution of your Samsung Galaxy A7?

In this context, to begin with, we will explain to you when it can be beneficial to modify it, and then, how to reduce or increase the definition of the screen of your Samsung Galaxy A7? First, directly from your mobile phone settings, then using root.

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What is the point of changing the screen definition of my Samsung Galaxy A7?

Before showing you in detail the different procedures to modify the screen definition of your Samsung Galaxy A7 to your liking, we will quickly see why it can be beneficial to modify it. As we told you in the introduction of this guide, our phones are now real laptops, which implies the ability to modify a multitude of parameters to customize them and obtain the user experience that best suits their needs. Screen settings are one of these options

Indeed, the screens on Samsung Galaxy A7 have become very power hungry and represent most of your battery consumption. It may suddenly be logical, to save battery by lowering the screen resolution of your Samsung Galaxy A7. If you are mainly on social media, watch very little high definition media content, or just use it to compose emails or messages, having 4k on your mobile phone won't do you much good. . In addition, in the event that you have already reduced the resolution of your Samsung Galaxy A7 and that you want to return to the initial definition and that you no longer remember the technique, you will be happy to learn it again in this guide. If you want to improve viewing comfort in a very simple way, you can change the size of the application icons on your Samsung Galaxy A7.

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 Samsung Galaxy A7 can display, if it does not have enough pixels, you will not be able to complete the process.

How do I reduce or increase the screen resolution of my Samsung Galaxy A7?

We now move on to the practical part of this guide, you will be able to learn the technique to change the screen resolution of your Samsung Galaxy A7. First directly from the settings of your mobile phone then using a solution called "Root".

How to change the screen resolution of my Samsung Galaxy A7 without root?

We start with the simplest solution, be careful however, it is possible, depending on the Android version installed on your Samsung Galaxy A7, that you may not be able to accomplish this technique. Indeed, on some old versions this setting is not accessible, in the event that you are in this situation, go to the next part of this post. For others, follow this technique:

  • Go to the “Settings” of your Samsung Galaxy A7
  • 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 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 Samsung Galaxy A7?

If you did not have access to the settings described in the previous part and you still want to change the definition of your screen, rest assured, there is a solution available to everyone, however it will be a bit more complicated and longer. We suggest that you do it only if you really want to change the screen definition of your Samsung Galaxy A7. Check it out below:

  • Activate the USB debugging mode in the "About device" menu
  • install Android Studio on your pc to root your Samsung Galaxy A7
  • Connect your Samsung Galaxy A7 to your pc, root your Samsung Galaxy A7 with 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 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 Samsung Galaxy A7 to restart and enjoy your new resolution

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