If you have ever had several phones, you have certainly realized that the quality of the screens has changed significantly over a few years and that they now have a striking definition for the more high-end. However, having the best definition on your Samsung Galaxy S20 is not always the best way to go. If you ever have specific needs, you have arrived on the right site, we will precisely, in this tutorial, show you how to change the screen resolution of your Samsung Galaxy S20?
To do this, to begin with, we will find out for whom it may be appropriate to modify it, and then, how to reduce or increase the definition of the screen of your Samsung Galaxy S20? First, directly from the settings of your mobile phone, then with root.
Why change the screen resolution of my Samsung Galaxy S20?
Before showing you in full the different procedures to change the screen resolution of your Samsung Galaxy S20 to your liking, we will quickly find out why it may be advisable to change it. As we told you in the introduction to this guide, our smartphones have become real laptops, which means that you can change a number of settings to personalize them and obtain the user experience that is most appropriate to your requirements. Screen settings are one of those possibilities
Indeed, the screens on Samsung Galaxy S20 have become very power hungry and represent a large majority of your battery consumption. It may therefore be logical, for save battery reduce the screen resolution of your Samsung Galaxy S20. If you are usually on social media, watch very little high-definition media content, or use it only for writing emails or texts, having 4k on your mobile phone won't help you. will not bring much. In addition, in the event that you have already lowered the definition of your Samsung Galaxy S20 and you wish to return to the default resolution and you no longer remember the procedure, you will be happy to see it again in this guide. If ever you just want to gain more viewing comfort, you can change the size of the application icons on your Samsung Galaxy S20.
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 Samsung Galaxy S20 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 S20?
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 Samsung Galaxy S20. First of all directly from the settings of your device then using a solution called "Root".
How do I change the screen definition of my Samsung Galaxy S20 without root?
We start with the easiest solution, be careful notwithstanding, it is possible, depending on the Android version installed on your Samsung Galaxy S20, that you may not be able to do this. Indeed, on some old versions this setting is not accessible, 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 Samsung Galaxy S20
- Then click on the "View" menu
- Click on the "Screen resolution" setting
- Move the cursor to the left or to the right to change the resolution 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 resolution with root on Samsung Galaxy S20?
If you never had access to the settings detailed in the previous part and you still want to change the resolution of your screen, rest assured, there is a solution available for everyone, however it will be a bit tricky. more complicated and longer. We suggest that you do it only if you really want to change the screen definition of your Samsung Galaxy S20. 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 S20
- Connect your Samsung Galaxy S20 to your pc, root your Samsung Galaxy S20 using Android Studio
- Open the command console of your pc, to do this 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 suddenly access the settings for the screen resolution of your device
- 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 your screen definition setting, for example 720
- Wait for your Samsung Galaxy S20 to restart and enjoy your new resolution
If you are looking for a lot of tutorials to become the king of the Samsung Galaxy S20, we invite you to browse the other tutorials in the category: Samsung Galaxy S20.
