If you have ever been lucky enough to have several cell phones, you have probably realized that the quality of screens has changed significantly and for some time and that they now have, for the most modern, an impressive definition. Despite everything, it is not always good to have the best definition on your XIAOMI Mi 8. In the event that you have specific needs, you are on the right page, we will in this tutorial teach you how to change the screen resolution of your XIAOMI Mi 8?
In this context, first of all, we will see when it can be beneficial to modify it, and then, how to reduce or increase the definition of the screen of your XIAOMI Mi 8? First directly from the settings of your phone, then with root.
What are the reasons for changing the screen definition of my XIAOMI Mi 8?
Before fully explaining the different techniques to modify the screen definition of your XIAOMI Mi 8 to your liking, we will quickly see the reason why it can be beneficial to modify it. As we explained to you in the introduction of this article, our phones are now real computers, which implies the ability to modify a multitude 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 XIAOMI Mi 8 have become very power hungry and represent a large majority of your battery consumption. It can therefore be consistent, for save battery by reducing the screen resolution of your XIAOMI Mi 8. If you're generally on social media, only watch very little high-definition media content, or just use it to compose emails or texts, have 4k on your phone. will not bring you anything. In addition, in the event that you have in the past reduced the definition of your XIAOMI Mi 8 and that you wish to return to the maximum definition and that you no longer remember the procedure, you will be happy to see it again in this guide. . In the event that you want to gain viewing comfort in a very simple way, you can change the size of the application icons on your XIAOMI Mi 8.
Be careful, the screens have maximum definitions, and whatever your desires you will not be able to set a definition higher than that which the screen of your XIAOMI Mi 8 can display, if it does not have enough pixels, you cannot will not be able to perform the manipulation.
How to reduce or increase the screen definition of my XIAOMI Mi 8?
We now move on to the practical part of this article, you will be able to see the procedure to modify the definition of the screen of your XIAOMI Mi 8. First of all directly from the settings of your phone then using a solution called "Root".
How to change the screen definition of my XIAOMI Mi 8 without root?
We start with the easiest solution, be careful however, it sometimes happens, depending on the Android version installed on your XIAOMI Mi 8, that you cannot complete this process. Indeed, on some old versions this parameter is not available, in the event that you are in this situation, go to the next section of the article. For others, follow this process:
- Access the “Settings” of your XIAOMI Mi 8
- Then click on the "View" menu
- Tap the "Screen resolution" setting
- Move the cursor to the left or to the right to modify the definition 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 the definition with root on a XIAOMI Mi 8?
In the event that you did not have access to the settings described in the previous part and that you still wish to modify the definition of your screen, rest assured, there is a solution available for everyone, however it will be a hair more complicated and longer. We recommend that you do it only if you really want to change the screen definition of your XIAOMI Mi 8. Find out below:
- Activate the USB debugging mode in the "About device" menu
- install Android Studio on your pc to root your XIAOMI Mi 8
- Connect your XIAOMI Mi 8 to your pc, root your XIAOMI Mi 8 with Android Studio
- Open the command console of your pc, for that 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 then reach the screen resolution settings of your phone
- Locate 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 until your XIAOMI Mi 8 restarts and enjoy your new resolution
If you want a lot of tutorials to become the absolute master of the XIAOMI Mi 8, we invite you to consult the other tutorials in the category: XIAOMI Mi 8.
