If you have already had a number of cell phones, you have probably realized that the quality of the screens has changed significantly over a few years and that they now have a surprising definition for the more high end. Despite everything, it is not always the best solution to have the best definition on your Samsung Galaxy S7. If you ever have any particular desires, you have arrived on the right site, we will precisely, in this article, teach you how to change the screen resolution of your Samsung Galaxy S7?
For this, first, we will see for whom it can be beneficial to modify it, after that, how to reduce or increase the definition of the screen of your Samsung Galaxy S7? First, directly from your phone settings, then with root.
Why change the screen resolution of my Samsung Galaxy S7?
Before showing you in detail the different techniques for modifying the screen resolution of your Samsung Galaxy S7 as you wish, we will quickly see why it can be beneficial to change it. As we told you in the introduction of this tutorial, our smartphones are now real computers, which implies the possibility of changing a large number of configurations to personalize them and obtain the user experience that best meets their expectations. Screen settings are one of those possibilities
In fact, the screens on Samsung Galaxy S7 have become very energy intensive and represent the majority of your battery consumption. It can therefore be rational, for save battery reduce the screen resolution of your Samsung Galaxy S7. If you're ever mainly on social media, watch very little high-definition media, or just use it for writing emails or texts, having 4k on your phone won't do you any good. Also, if you have ever reduced the resolution of your Samsung Galaxy S7 in the past and you want to return to the maximum resolution and you no longer remember the technique, you will be happy to discover it again in this tutorial. If ever you just want to gain more viewing comfort, you can change the size of the application icons on your Samsung Galaxy S7.
Be careful, 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 S7 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 Samsung Galaxy S7?
We now move on to the practical part of this tutorial, you will be able to discover the technique to change the screen resolution of your Samsung Galaxy S7. First directly from the settings of your smartphone then using a procedure called "Root".
How do I change the screen resolution of my Samsung Galaxy S7 without root?
We start with the easiest procedure, be careful however, it is possible, depending on the Android version installed on your Samsung Galaxy S7, that you may not be able to perform this technique. In fact, on some old versions this setting is not accessible, if you are ever in this situation, go to the next section of this post. For others, apply this technique:
- Go to the “Settings” of your Samsung Galaxy S7
- 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 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 resolution with root on Samsung Galaxy S7?
If you never had access to the settings detailed in the previous part and still want to change your screen resolution, don't worry, there is a procedure available for everyone, however it will be a bit tricky. more complex and longer. We recommend that you do this only if you really need to change the screen resolution of your Samsung Galaxy S7. Check it out below:
- Activate the USB debugging mode in the "About device" menu
- install Android Studio on your computer to root your Samsung Galaxy S7
- Connect your Samsung Galaxy S7 to your computer, root your Samsung Galaxy S7 with Android Studio
- Open the command console of your computer, 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 thus reach the settings of the screen resolution of your smartphone
- 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 S7 to restart and enjoy your new resolution
If you ever want a maximum of tutorials to become a master of the Samsung Galaxy S7, we invite you to browse the other tutorials in the category: Samsung Galaxy S7.
