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[Nexus 6P General] TonzaTheChosenOne:
Bitrate and resolutions are two separate things, which have no correlation in between them. Bitrate can be anything. Youtube has it's mobile 1080p content rendered with "okay-ish" bitrate, but the difference can be seen when you enable 1440p. Don't know if Youtube allows you to watch 1440p stuff after you've done this mod.

I am now done with the subject, good day sir.
[Nexus 6P General] Chord_Hugo87:
Well like I said I'm no video expert...but that's a pretty weak rebuttal so I'll stick to my argument...good bye sir.
[Nexus 6P General] Chord_Hugo87:
Keep telling yourself that.
[Nexus 6P General] Citizen_Snips:
IIRC, this will nuke Android Pay. Non stock DPI. Just throwing that out there.
[Nexus 6P General] tech_head:
That's the point.

It probably only provides a marginal increase in battery life.

Since the GPU is blazing fast , you might no even get a better frame rate in 3D games.

For 2D stuff you don't use he GPU unless you forced it to do 2D rendering.

But even without force 2D, you have two clusters of 4 CPUs.

So once again, marginal benefits.

My phone running Elemental kernel and a custom thermal-engine.conf gets >92K in Antutu 6.01.

I also get >20 hours of use before I need to look for a charger.

I won't bother playing with resolution based on experience with my LG G3.

Also some things may break. (Software that depends on unmodified build property file)
[Nexus 6P General] joshuadjohnson22:
Thanks OP, just made the change, will see if it makes a difference. I'm sure some things may be weird
[Nexus 6P General] Chord_Hugo87:
thanks will put that in OP, I dont use it so I dont really care I'm sure there are some that use it.
[Nexus 6P General] joshuadjohnson22:
Same here, I have mods that won't let it work. I find it more annoying than helpful. Interested to see how this mod performs in day to day activities :)
[Nexus 6P General] Chord_Hugo87:
I just notice that my phone is a lot cooler and thats is a big enough change for me. I am testing the SOT like Max lee from High on android. Currently 2h15m and 68% so we'll see...device is freaking cool after two hours of continuous video playing from youtube, of course this could be due to the fact that I have Dirty unicorn and Lean kernel, but before I done the mod, it constantly run hot..37C and above even though I was streaming in 1080p
[Nexus 6P General] senthilrameshjv:
Hi.. Could you please tell me about that thermal configuration file pls. If its off topic, child you please pm me?
[Nexus 6P General] jdubya42:
As am I.
[Nexus 6P General] fix-this!:
If I wanted a 1080p device id buy a 1080p device.
[Nexus 6P General] vaesat:
That is not the issue in this topic.
[Nexus 6P General] tacosrdelicioso:
[MENTION=6923150]Chord_Hugo87[/MENTION] actually if you read my post at all you would know I was really talking about the resolution of the iPhone 6 which is 1334x750 and made no claim to be able to see the difference between 1080 and 2k. Which just for shirts and giggles let's say I can.

You claimed apple has kept their retina resolution because you can't see the difference...ha
[Nexus 6P General] joshuadjohnson22:
Everyone needs to stop this or this thread will be locked. If you think it is stupid to lower your resolution, don't. If you want to give it a shot or try it out, go ahead. But arguing over who is right is silly. I have adjusted mine and so far I like it. But it's embarrassing to read all the hate... We are here to help each other and not to fight. If this is not for you just move on. No need to name call.
[Nexus 6P General] @work:
Lol, this thread almost reminds me of a "best oil" thread in a motorcycle forum.

Lowered my resume to 1080 when this thread was posted and the phone feels like its running cooler. Battery might be lasting longer, but I'm rarely away from a charger. Thank you OP, I had been meaning to lower the resolution since I got the phone.

I can't tell the difference between a 1440 res and 1080, but then again I could barely tell the difference between a 720 screen and 1080 screen either. Maybe my eyes suck.
[Nexus 6P General] Sithhy™:
Tried this on a another phone since I don't have a 6P... My phone is a HTC One M7 running on CM12.1 & after setting the screen to 720p & DPI to 320, my capacitive buttons stopped responding for some reason [emoji52] Had to go back to 1080p, sadly...
[Nexus 6P General] :
Thread cleaned.

Anymore nonsense and disrespectful posts and I'll just close this thread.

And participating members will be addressed.

Darth

Forum Moderator
[Nexus 6P General] guta12:
i change to 1080P to test, but the follow day a change to 2K i prefer 2K why the performance and battery life is the same in both, i think that in 2K the dpi is 560 not 520
[Nexus 6P General] Chord_Hugo87:
correct
[Nexus 6P General] Gorgtech:
I would not change the screen resolution. This device is very fast and you will barely improve anything, at least when you don't play any games. If however you want to improve the game performance and don't care about the ugly screen interpolation ( which could be visible if your eyes are still in a good shape, depending on how much you lower the resolution) , you might want to enforce a lower screen resolution. I'm happy with the performance and my device barely heats up.

Just out of curiosity, did anyone try some of the heavy benchmarks before and after the Mod?
[Nexus 6P General] joshuadjohnson22:
Well I have been running this in 1080p for a while now and haven't noticed any problems. So far it has been awesome. I don't know if this is related but I went 3 days on a single charge. It still looks sharp to me and never gets hot. I'd say it is worth it in my opinion.
[Nexus 6P General] rachid59860:
Can someone have a antutu with 1080p ? Thanks

Envoyé de mon Nexus 6P en utilisant Tapatalk
[Nexus 6P General] dukat0s:
Score is the same.. ;)
[Nexus 6P General] rachid59860:
Ah, because with a galaxy s6 the antutu score increase because the GPU is not over loaded.

Sorry for my English

Envoyé de mon Nexus 6P en utilisant Tapatalk
[Nexus 6P General] Citizen_Snips:
Question;

If I attempt to do something similar (custom resolution) on my laptop which is connected to a TV, it gives me an error message saying that running a custom resolution will overwork the graphics card / cpu and that no support will be provided if those settings are changed and damage my happen due to increased heat issues. Or that it may work properly, but reduce the usable life of the SoC / graphics card.

Aside from any claims of "I think my phone feels cooler" are we sure this mod isn't wearing down the CPU /GPU's???
[Nexus 6P General] kristiangmez:
Thanks for this thread, I ve just tried it but it gives me problems when i want to share a pic in Instagram. Anyone else has issues with that?
[Nexus 6P General] Sithhy™:
It isn't. If you would use a much higher resolution, then sure, the GPU would overheat more than it should & it's lifespan would be reduced... While running the screen on a smaller resolution, the GPU has to work less harder to provide the graphics on the screen & so not overheat so much
[Nexus 6P General] Citizen_Snips:
Yeah I looked into it. Just don't try to upscale the resolution. :p
[Nexus 6P General] LeoRex:
Nexus 6P has a better GPU than any of the Galaxies. The S6 might speed up because the UI is a boat anchor and dropping the resolution lightens the load.
[Nexus 6P General] stevesin:
what density did you have to use to get swiftkey to work again

nvm.. figured it out
[Nexus 6P General] Chord_Hugo87:
I own note 5 and nexus 6p...the note 5 is way more superior in term of hardware...there is no lag anymore, especially if you flash custom rom.
[Nexus 6P General] vaerio81:
I had a note 5 and no matter what I did to it it still lagged . mayb you just got a really really good note because mines ran hot and lagged and so does my friends .
[Nexus 6P General] samuri28:
AnTuTu Results

1440p Resolution 3D Score of 23533

1080p Resolution 3D Score of 24841
[Nexus 6P General] dukat0s:
as i said scores ta 3D is identicals u dont take any huge boost in it.

if u run 10times antutu in same resolution u take 10 diff scores :) there are so many diffrent reasons for it .temperature running apps etc :)

but as others said.your device run cooler and the battery is about the same :)
[Nexus 6P General] Chord_Hugo87:
which rom did u run? I run Dr. Ketan rom with Sky high kernel, never once it lag and never once it reaches 37C, my nexus does it all day long, is it hot? no but its warmer than what I am accustom to with the Note 5
[Nexus 6P General] Chord_Hugo87:
its not about the points, its about the fact that it doesnt take as much power to push 1080p resolution...therefore making the phone feel cooler and that in turn save battery, albeit probaly not much.
[Nexus 6P General] enaybee:
Very interesting read going through the posts. :)

First, thanks op for the tip in easy way if you don't know about NOMone resolution changer app.

As mentioned by many, this topic was really hot back in G3 days. First phone in US to get a 2K resolution with stuttery performance and heating issues. Downgrading resolution, if not increased the battery life for some, did improve the performance side of the scene as CPU/GPU weren't strained too much.

I didn't actually see any difference in battery life however, phone tend to run smoother as compared to stock resolution.

I am going to try it on N6P and report back. Currently I am getting 3.5 SOT on a good day. So I definitely need some extra tips to bump up SOT on my phone.

Edit: For some reason using NOMone app or Terminal emulator app I was getting exceptions

"Must hold permissions android.permission.Write_Secure_Settings"

so I switched to ADB and then it worked without any issues. However in ADB it refused to recognize "DENSITY" so I modified dpi using BuildProp Editor app.

Checked with screen information app and I am at 1080x1920 resolution with 390 dpi. Will report back with any improvements in performance/thermal or battery life.
[Nexus 6P General] dukat0s:
Check 3Dmark kid without idea and knowledge who only try to flame around with his crappy lagwiz. In all gpu test lagsung is far behind in test.but wait.u own both phones u should simple test them in 3D benchmarks and note eat dust from 6p..i can donate 50bucks to buy something to dry your tears note 5 troll user cya nough said

Edit: if u think i m a lagsung hater check my signature. Go back now to your note 5 threads
[Nexus 6P General] mark manning:
Lets try to keep the thread on track guys.

Also, under no circumstances is it ever OK to lash out at another member on the forum. Please try to refrain from the silly name calling....

Thread cleaned
[Nexus 6P General] l_stevens:
ny update? :)
[Nexus 6P General] enaybee:
Batter life improvement noticeable yes but not huge. Only thing I saw was performance got so much better. Didnt run any benchmarks but UI got so fluid it seems like its running on double cream instead of marshmallows :)

I am running Dirty Unicorn with Ex kernel with interactive governer optimised for battery endurance. So combined effect is that SOT is easy 4 hrs and battery lasting full 24 hours. I will get screen shots tomorrow to add to post. Hope this helps.
[Nexus 6P General] Hrithan2020:
For what it is worth, I also gave it a try. (386 PPI, 1920x1080). I tried it along with hexacore mode enabled (was already running darkspice). I got 5h 16m SOT (8.5 hours only, mind you) with 31% remaining without any performance degradation that I could notice. This was with high brightness mode enabled for probably 20 mins and 60% brightness for maybe another hour and a half. GPS on for 40 mins.

But, can't really say whether it is proper without trying for a week.One downside is some applications like uber, splitwise some things become small/some become big. (not scaling well). Anyone else facing issues?
[Nexus 6P General] Royalbaecker:
Why would you do that?

2K resolution is much better!
[Nexus 6P General] Sithhy™:
Because you can? Also it gives you bit more battery life...
[Nexus 6P General] Royalbaecker:
Yes.. But i dont like it.

Meizu MX Pro 5 is the best phone, and i wanted to get it for fun. But sadly it has despite of its great hardware only a 1080p display.. So stupid! And sad
[Nexus 6P General] Sithhy™:
Why stupid? I think it's a good idea for saving the battery bit more than with a 2k display...
[Nexus 6P General] eduardmc:
I had an iPhone 6+ before and the 1080p resolution is awesome. Very sharp, hard to tell the different from 2k. Now I just tried this mode and first thing I notice is that i'm still looking for the different betweent 2k and 1080p in the screen, they look almost identical. Second I notice very closely the scrolling and smoothness in the UI like scrolling on website, youtube app, fb, IG, google card etc. smoothness and lag is less or not noticeable than 2k. I'm running stock rooted with elementaX (ghostpepper) it was very smooth, much better than stock using this kernel and modified interative governor. But using the same setup and 1080p is like much smoother (for the trained EYE). note: I had a galaxy s6 and a note 5 before this so 2k amoled display are not new to me. 2k seem more like a gimmick to me, I rather take 1080p better performance and battery life.
[Nexus 6P General] badboy47:
Very cool tweak. I am still testing and noticed the boot screen logo suddenly becomes big as the phone boots up. Is that normal? Thanks

Also off topic: Not sure why some people are so stubborn about scaling down (reading previous comments). Remember you don't have to try this. Simply ignoring is probably best.
[Nexus 6P General] Hrithan2020:
Yes. That's normal

Agreed, bro!
[Nexus 6P General] UniX1rm:
has anyone tried this with multi-rom? Does it affect the primary rom? or does it affect all the installed roms?
[Nexus 6P General] @work:
Well look at that, huawei p9 will lower screen resolution to save power...

http://m.androidcentral.com/huawei-...&utm_campaign=navigation&utm_source=ac#slide7
[Nexus 6P General] tkoreaper:
I would say marginal AT BEST, if any at all... The biggest culprit when it comes to battery drain is your display itself, not the CPU/GPU.
[Nexus 6P General] Hrithan2020:
That may be the case, but considering the Z5 Premium (always except for some cases like videos, stock apps) and now Huawei P9 (only an option, I agree, but still something they added which supposedly increases battery life ) are actually doing the downscaling, I was wondering whether it is higher than imagined. For e.g. a 10% increase would be welcome. (Again, maybe for 6p, it is really marginal, as so far, me or anyone else is yet to do a thorough testing with different resolutions under the exact same conditions)
[Nexus 6P General] Tech_User01:
Why the hell would you own a Nexus and not root your phone? Why the hell would you do or not do x number of things. I'll go ahead and list some some just in case you really can't understand.

*The stock experience is one.

*No bloat from the manufacture and especially from the carrier.

*Enjoying software updates without waiting months or half a year to get one if one comes at all.

* Having the freedom a unlocked device offers along with that mentioned above.

* Having the option to root/tinker IF or when one wants.

*Having all this (sometimes/sometimes not) at a lower price than comparable high end devices.

Can't forget just because that's just what the person who's device it is wants. One persons way of using a device doesn't make it the right/wrong.
[Nexus 6P General] ttminh1997:
Agreed that OP was a little over the top with that post. That being said, this thread is about downscaling to 1080p and not the merits of a Nexus device, so your post would be considered off topic.

[MENTION=6923150]Chord_Hugo87[/MENTION] Thanks for the tip. Although I will not be lowering my screen resolution, nor do I believe that any improvement in battery life and temperature, imagined or real, I could see why you or others would do so. Your mod, if I may call it so, embraces xda's spirit of discovery and adventure, and should be met with welcome, not the hostility we see in this thread. Kudos to you for posting this.
[Nexus 6P General] D47x:
I got it working on mine (Purenexus, stock kernel, supersu 2.71) using terminal. Everything looks slightly more blurry when looking and using the phone (you lose the crispiness in the text) and my widgets and icons got resized (all fixable). i can't say that i like the changes, but I'm gonna try to roll with it for a few days see if i get used to it and if it makes any difference to the performance and battery life, i'll report back later
[Nexus 6P General] IIEtCII:
guys , is there an app to scale down the resolution for games ? like the one in the S7 and HTC 10
[Nexus 6P General] Chord_Hugo87:
*The stock experience is one.

*No bloat from the manufacture and especially from the carrier.

*Enjoying software updates without waiting months or half a year to get one if one comes at all.

* Having the freedom a unlocked device offers along with that mentioned above.

* Having the option to root/tinker IF or when one wants.

*Having all this (sometimes/sometimes not) at a lower price than comparable high end devices.

your reason proves you know nothing about rooting...rooting the phone doesnt mean your phone is not "stock" root is part of android aka linux, thats a fact...2. how does rooting install bloatware? if anything it enable you to remove bloatware. 3. any software update can be installed by dev, if you root your phone you flash your phone, updating is an easy fix and sometime quicker than getting updates from carrier. Unlock and rooting are two different thing however some phone need root to unlock, what the hell is your point?

your argument is flawed, erroneous and contradictory in so many ways.
[Nexus 6P General] Prattham:
Has anyone got increase in battery results?

Cheers ?

Sent from my Purified NexusixP

If someone helped you don't just say thanks hit the thanks button?
[Nexus 6P General] _MartyMan_:
This method works for me:

- USB Debugging on

- Check the always allow this computer...

*adb devices,

And if it says "device" on the end of the line you're ok.

*adb shell

(If you are a root user: adb shell, then su)

*wm size 1080x1920

*wm density 390 (as mentioned)

(You will get an "error" message if you haven't got root, just reboot and it works.)

Then reboot manually, or *adb reboot. (If you are rooted it'll reboot itself on cm.) It worked on CyanogenMod, and Stock, don't know about the battery, but the scores on antutu are better. (~85-90 thousand)

(Sorry for my English) Hope it helped :)
[Nexus 6P General] gautampw:
This does not require root. I used the commands given in this Link with values given in this thread. I have locked bootloader. No root.

Edit - Just saw above post. It works. I used same method.
[Nexus 6P General] Ensifolk:
Weird elements

Almost all apps have the three dot menu looking weird like this after applying this hack...any idea how to have everything looking stock? But with 1080 hack ? Phone runs super smooth and cool with this hack !!!
[Nexus 6P General] funcrusher:
Nah, his post was on point.

Reading comprehension. :/
[Nexus 6P General] sjandroiddeveloper:
This mod might actually might be useful, even the new HTC 10 has an option to scale display down to 1080p when playing games
[Nexus 6P General] Jonnyredcorn:
I haven't read the whole thread, only the first few posts so forgive me if this has been asked:

Wouldn't it have no impact as even if the resolution is lower, it still has to push the same amount of pixels, correct? I'm not really sure how the workings of a display impact the battery life. Obviously brightness is easy to understand why it affects battery life. Larger screen with more pixels is another obvious one. I'm not sure how down scaling works, I imagine pixels are grouped accordingly...but I'm having problems picturing it because it doesn't seem as simple as for example down scaling 4k to 2k isn't just using 2 4k pixels to form 1 2k pixel.
[Nexus 6P General] dplakta:
Here's another way to think about it: find any PC game that makes your computer lag like hell.

Now change your resolution to 640x480. Your frame rate should shoot through the roof.

Simple as that.
[Nexus 6P General] dlads:
Hahaha, love this
[Nexus 6P General] Tech_User01:
lol, your assumption is wrong. I never said rooting did take away something. I never said you couldn't get updates. I mentioned numerous reasons why someone would want a Nexus and STILL not root the device. Since you put "why the hell do you own a nexus and not root your phone".

Let me make it a little more clear since you don't know "what the hell" my point is. Those reasons I listed above are just some of the reasons why someone would own a Nexus device and still not root the thing. That's it. It doesn't mean you can't do xyz.
[Nexus 6P General] tech_head:
Reducing the resolution for gaming will have an effect because rendering the pixels is more compute intensive that interpolation.

But this only applies where the GPU is being used. When you reduce the resolution in general the effect is minimal because you aren't coming close to needing all eight processors to do anything. The interface is not rendered by the GPU.
[Nexus 6P General] @work:
The GPU is involved in all of it, the 3d rendering cores are not.
[Nexus 6P General] GroovyGeek:
This topic has been beaten to death in the LG forums, starting with the LG G3. The answer is that there is near zero effect on battery - even when you downscale you still have to drive the pixels which sucks most of the juice. A few people claimed that they experienced a speedup since now the GPU has to do somewhat less compute, but I personally never noticed it. Shutting off animations in the developer menu had a far bugger effect.

There are numerous downsides to down scaling. Many apps barf when you do this. The primary one for me is SwiftKey. You can salvage some of the apps by adjusting the per app resolution settings with the appropriate Xposed module. This works to prevent the stock LG apps from crashing but I never found a way to make SwiftKey work.

For me the downsides of downsides of doing this are severe and the upside is insignificant. YMMV
[Nexus 6P General] dlads:
So with everything that's been said here, has anyone done this on their 6P, what have you noticed? Is it a placebo or are there any gains, although other devices like the LG are similar they're obviously still different and can yield different results so for anyone who's done this (personally I havent) let us know your experiences.

Cheers

Edit: have applied this myself, the screen definitely feels different, swift key went mental, but everything else seems fine, text looks softer, so visually it is noticeable for me.

Will keep an eye on it, hoping that it allows for a bit more stamina.
[Nexus 6P General] Jonnyredcorn:
So basically what the guy in the top quote said is what I was saying as well. The pixels must be active regardless of the resolution. I guess the CPU/GPU would have to work a little harder to push more individual pixels...but I feel on a smartphone that difference is so small it is irrelevant. Unless maybe you're playing games all the time.

Dude what are you talking about? Did you even read his post? He never said rooting installed bloatware, he never said anything about how you install the updates. He was giving reasons why someone would buy a Nexus and not root.

The Nexus line is more popular today than years past, and is more mainstream. Not everybody likes to tinker with their phone and wants something that just works and works well. I don't think any other phone even compares when you look at a stock Nexus with pure android. The performance and smoothness of the OS is unparalleled, and the fact the device is not loaded with tons of bloatware is great.

Getting OTA updates as soon as their released is another reason to get a Nexus. My Nexus 6p will likely see all the way to Android O, which I doubt any other phone released in the past 12 months will see.

There are plenty of reasons to get a Nexus without rooting, but basically they are the best phones available that you can expect to be supported for much longer than any other flagships.