If you have already had several smartphones, you have surely realized that the quality of the screens has evolved considerably over a few years and that they are now, for the most recent, of an impressive definition. Despite everything, it is not necessarily the wisest solution to have the best definition on your Sony Xperia 8. If you have specific needs, you have arrived on the right site. to show how to change the screen resolution of your Sony Xperia 8?
To do this, first of all, we will explain to you when it can be interesting to modify it, after that, how to reduce or increase the definition of the screen of your Sony Xperia 8? First directly from the settings of your smartphone, then with root.
Why change the screen resolution of my Sony Xperia 8?
Before we teach you in detail the different methods to change the screen resolution of your Sony Xperia 8 to your liking, we will quickly find out why it may be interesting to change it. As we explained to you in the introduction of this article, our phones are now real computers, which implies the ability to change a large number of parameters to customize them and obtain the user experience that best meets their expectations. Screen settings are one of those possibilities
Indeed, the screens on Sony Xperia 8 have become very power hungry and represent a large majority of your battery consumption. It can therefore be rational, for save battery reduce the screen resolution of your Sony Xperia 8. If you're on social media most of the time, watch very little high-definition media content, or just use it to send emails or messages, having 4k on your smartphone won't get you there. nothing. Also, if you have already reduced the definition of your Sony Xperia 8 and want to return to the initial resolution and you no longer remember the procedure, you will be happy to see it again in this tutorial. If you just want to gain more viewing comfort you can change the size of the application icons on your Sony Xperia 8.
Be careful though, the screens have maximum definitions, and whatever your needs you will not be able to define a definition higher than that which the screen of your Sony Xperia 8 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 Sony Xperia 8?
We now move on to the practical part of this article, you will be able to see the procedure to change the screen definition of your Sony Xperia 8. First directly from the settings of your phone then using a procedure called " Root ”.
How to change the screen definition of my Sony Xperia 8 without root?
We start with the simplest procedure, be careful notwithstanding, it sometimes happens, depending on the Android version installed on your Sony Xperia 8, that you cannot perform this procedure. Indeed, on some old versions this parameter is not accessible, if ever this is your situation, go to the next part of this post. For others, follow this process:
- Go to the “Settings” of your Sony Xperia 8
- 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 lower it will be, the more you will go to the right, the more pixels you will have
How to change the resolution with root on a Sony Xperia 8?
If you did not have access to the settings seen in the previous part and you still want to change your screen resolution, don't worry, there is a procedure available for everyone, despite everything it will be a hair more complex and longer. We advise you to do so only if you ever really want to change the screen definition of your Sony Xperia 8. Find out below:
- Activate the USB debugging mode in the "About device" menu
- install Android Studio on your pc to root your Sony Xperia 8
- Connect your Sony Xperia 8 to your pc, root your Sony Xperia 8 using 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 suddenly reach the settings of the screen resolution of your 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 your screen definition setting, for example 720
- Wait for your Sony Xperia 8 to restart and enjoy your new resolution
In the event that you want as many tutorials as possible to become the king of the Sony Xperia 8, we invite you to watch the other tutorials in the category: Sony Xperia 8.
