If you have ever had the chance to have a number of phones, you have probably realized that the quality of the screens has greatly evolved and a few years and that they now have, for the most modern, a definition impressive. However, it is not necessarily the wisest solution to have the best definition on your Sony Xperia L4. If you have any particular wishes, you have arrived on the right site, we will precisely, in this tutorial, teach you how to change the screen resolution of your Sony Xperia L4?

For this, first, 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 L4? First directly from your mobile phone settings, then using root.

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What are the reasons for changing the screen resolution of my Sony Xperia L4?

Before explaining in detail the different techniques to change the screen resolution of your Sony Xperia L4 to your liking, we will quickly see why it may be interesting to change it. As we told you in the introduction of this tutorial, our smartphones have become real laptops, which implies the ability to change a number of parameters to customize them and obtain the user experience that best suits their desires. Screen settings are one of those possibilities

Indeed, the screens on Sony Xperia L4 have become very energy intensive and represent the major part of your battery consumption. It can therefore be rational, for save battery by lowering the screen resolution of your Sony Xperia L4. If you are mainly on social media, watch very little high definition media content, or only use it to send emails or messages, having 4k on your mobile phone won't do you much good. thing. In addition, in the event that you have in the past decreased the resolution of your Sony Xperia L4 and you wish to return to the maximum resolution and you no longer remember the procedure, you will be happy to see it again in this guide. . If you want to gain viewing comfort in a very simple way, you can change the size of the application icons on your Sony Xperia L4.

Be careful though, the screens have maximum definitions, and whatever your expectations you will not be able to set a higher definition than what the screen of your Sony Xperia L4 can display, if it does not have enough pixels. , you will not be able to perform the manipulation.

How do I reduce or increase the screen resolution of my Sony Xperia L4?

We now move on to the practical part of this tutorial, you will be able to see the procedure to change the screen definition of your Sony Xperia L4. First of all directly from the settings of your smartphone then using a procedure called "Root".

How to change the screen definition of my Sony Xperia L4 without root?

We start with the easiest procedure, be careful however, it is possible, depending on the Android version installed on your Sony Xperia L4, that you may not be able to perform this procedure. In fact, on some old versions this parameter is not accessible, if this is your situation, go to the next section of the article. For others, follow this procedure:

  • Go to the “Settings” of your Sony Xperia L4
  • Then click on the "View" menu
  • Tap 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 less good it will be, the more you will go to the right, the better it will be

How to change resolution with root on Sony Xperia L4?

If you did not have access to the settings detailed in the previous part and you still want to change the resolution of your screen, do not worry, there is a procedure accessible to everyone, however it will be a bit more complicated and longer. We advise you to do it only if you really want to change the screen definition of your Sony Xperia L4. Check it out below:

  • Activate the USB debugging mode in the "About device" menu
  • install Android Studio on your computer to root your Sony Xperia L4
  • Connect your Sony Xperia L4 to your computer, root your Sony Xperia L4 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 ”, 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
  • Now type " adb shell wm density DPI & & adb reboot  »To change your screen definition setting, for example 720
  • Wait for your Sony Xperia L4 to restart and enjoy your new resolution

If you ever want a maximum of tutorials to become the absolute master of the Sony Xperia L4, we invite you to watch the other tutorials in the category: Sony Xperia L4.