If you have ever had the chance to have several smartphones, you have probably realized that the quality of the screens has evolved considerably over a few years and that they now have, for the most high-end, a striking definition. However, having the best definition on your Samsung W20 is not necessarily the best choice. If you have specific desires, you are on the right page, we will precisely, in this tutorial, show you how to change the screen resolution of your Samsung W20?
To do this, first, we will explain to you in which situations it may be appropriate to modify it, and then, how to reduce or increase the definition of the screen of your Samsung W20? First directly from your mobile phone settings, then using root.
What is the point of changing the screen resolution of my Samsung W20?
Before explaining in detail the different procedures to change the screen resolution of your Samsung W20 to your liking, we will quickly see why it may be advisable to change it. As we explained to you in the introduction of this tutorial, our smartphones are now real laptops, which implies the ability to modify many settings to customize them and obtain the user experience that best suits their needs. Screen settings are one of those possibilities
Indeed, the screens on Samsung W20 have become very power hungry and represent most of your battery consumption. It may therefore be logical, for save battery by lowering the screen resolution of your Samsung W20. If you're mainly on social media, watch very little high-definition media content, or just use it for emailing or texting, having 4k on your mobile phone won't do you any good. Also, if you have in the past reduced the resolution of your Samsung W20 and want to return to the default resolution and you no longer remember how to do it, you will be happy to see it again in this guide. If you just want to improve viewing comfort, you can change the size of the application icons on your Samsung W20.
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 Samsung W20 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 W20?
We now move on to the practical part of this tutorial, you will be able to see the procedure for changing the screen resolution of your Samsung W20. First directly from the settings of your smartphone then using a procedure called "Root".
How do I change the screen resolution of my Samsung W20 without root?
We start with the simplest procedure, be careful all the same, it sometimes happens, depending on the Android version installed on your Samsung W20, that you cannot perform this procedure. Indeed, on some old versions this parameter is not accessible, if you are in this situation, go to the next part of the article. For others, apply this approach:
- Go to “Settings” of your Samsung W20
- Then click on the "View" menu
- Click on the "Screen resolution" setting
- Move the cursor to the left or to the right to modify 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 W20?
If you didn't have access to the detailed settings just before and still want to change your screen resolution, don't worry, there is a procedure available for everyone, however it will be a bit more complex. and longer. We recommend that you do it only if you really need to change the screen definition of your Samsung W20. Check it out below:
- Activate the USB debugging mode in the "About device" menu
- install Android Studio on your computer to root your Samsung W20
- Connect your Samsung W20 to your computer, root your Samsung W20 using Android Studio
- Open the command console of your computer, 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 ”, in this way you will access the settings for the screen resolution of your smartphone
- Identify 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 the setting of your screen definition, for example 720
- Wait for your Samsung W20 to restart and enjoy your new resolution
If you want as many tutorials as possible to become the king of the Samsung W20, we invite you to browse the other tutorials in the category: Samsung W20.
