my phone has been running at 60hz for YEARS and I just now learned that I just had to enable a setting. Why wasn’t this enabled by default???
why would I want my phone to lose battery faster?
It’s wayyyyy smoother and just makes everything feel much faster And it doesn’t have a huge impact on battery life
Depends on your device and a bunch of other factors. If you are trying to maximize battery life you are generally better sticking to 60.
If you are consuming 120fps content or doing some kind of mobile gaming that actually supports it, you may benefit from 120.
Or if competitive gaming has ruined you, why not let it ruin you battery life too?
Basic scrolling feels so much better. And I don’t think it really makes a huge difference for battery life, so I always leave if at 120.
I haven’t daily driven a phone but I really like the idea of the screens that can go below 60hz. Such as if you are reading a static webpage or an ebook.
I messed around with the “display refresh rate” setting and it seems like it’s 120 when there’s any sort of animation or you touch the screen at all, but it goes to 60 if it’s just playing a video or you’re not touching it, and 30 for the “always on” display that shows the clock.
I expected it to be more like the SteamDeck which just goes 1fps if nothing is happening on the home menu and jumps up to 60 or 90 (depending on model and settings) when anything moves. 30fps for a clock seems wasteful, but then again I’m not a phone expert so 🤷♀️
pretty interesting!
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you’re right, I just searched “display rate” in settings and it showed the developer option and no normal setting. I edit the post to use the normal option instead
also, why rude :(
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Why did you edit the post? It makes my post look even more foolish LOL.
First you complain, but then you complain again when they correct themselves, because that made you look foolish? Come on bro. Give an inch here.
It’s not a developer option.
It’s just off by default in the base pixel phones, for example, but activated out of the box for the pros.
kinda yes kinda no, it seems they deleted the comment but what I had before I edited the post was the ‘force max display rate’ setting in the developer options which makes it 120hz all the time, but edited it to the ‘enable higher display rate’ which opens it up to going >60 if an animation is playing or you’re scrolling or whatever
Ah right! I understand why he mentioned the developer options now. It was coming out of the blue from where I was standing.
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In terms of running faster, saving power and preserving battery life, that reminds me that I turned off some stuff on my phone a couple years ago, and have been completely happy with the result.
Looking it up, I thiiink it went like this:
To disable animations on most Android phones, go to Settings > Accessibility > Color and motion (or Visibility enhancements) and enable the Remove animations option.
For more granular control, enable Developer options by tapping the Build Number in “About phone” five times, then find and adjust the “Window animation scale,” “Transition animation scale,” and “Animator duration scale” settings to their lowest values or off.
Before trying any of that, please do fact-check the above.
Sometimes turning off the animations can cause other issues with some apps and scrolling. I usually just split the difference and use 0.5 scale and speed. Things are snappier while not causing graphical issues.
Good to know! I haven’t noticed any issues over here, but I would expect that with certain apps on certain phones, it could indeed muck things up…
Yeah for some reason it runs on adaptive mode. For example longer battery life. Just turn on refresh counter and see how it works for better understanding, its all optimisation.
Because manufacturers suck at software which is why they all use Android so they can do the minimum to get a product out.
