This would be awesome if we could change the resolution to 1080p to help reduce strain on the GPU which also means less heat build up. What do you guys think?
Would require swapping screens
Yes. You can just now. If youre rooted you can use the app Nomone from the play store to change the resolution. (the actual resolution not the DPI).Is it even possible?
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You can use the xposed module "app settings " to change the DPI on certain aspects of the ROM to get it in a working state when reducing the resolution to 1080. You're right though, its not quite right and doesn't work well enough.Well.... it does and it doesn't.... There are apps out there that can change the screen resolution... it's a display, just like a desktop display... but the problem is that you aren't displaying the NATIVE resolution, so it's just not going to work quite right. The notification bar scaling was completely borked and things were all over the place. I fiddled with changing the resolution to 1080 and ran some benchmarks and the graphic performance actually degraded significantly.... scores dropped 25 to 33% on the graphic scores.
Granted, LG didn't write the video drivers to account for resolutions other than the native resolution... but why would they? What possible benefit would lowering the resolution provide, from LG's perspective?
What we'll most likely see is some software updates and adjustments to how they handle graphics and the GPU... it's clear that they were aware of the fact that they are really driving the GPU pretty hard (hence the thermal throttling and dynamic frame rate, etc)... and as much testing as they might have done, nothing beats the real world for use cases. Everyone is cutting corners these days in an attempt to get to market as quickly as possible, then patching things in the field when problems arise.
They probably released it with an 801 to be the first major manufacturer to produce a 2k phone . The 805 wasn't ready when they were developing it I assume. Would it have helped? It seems its giving better performance more like 1080 using the 801, but not better battery life. What is weird is the Galaxy S5 QHD Prime is giving much,much better results using the 805. Perhaps the 805 G3 is still using heavy throttling kernel settings or its been designed badly so it gets hotter thus throttling more or its not been optimized for the 805 yet.True, android is all about having options.
My question if LG used the SOC 805 would it have avoided all this and why didn't LG use it?
Changing the resolution of the screen will not benefit the battery life and heat as well as you would think.
The screen is still powering all 3,686,400 pixels, which consume battery life and produce heat. True, the graphics chip will be working a little bit less, but only marginally so. The only time you might see any performance gain is when you are playing a 3D-intensive game. There's a thread on XDA talking about this, but I don't currently have the link to it.
You can use the xposed module "app settings " to change the DPI on certain aspects of the ROM to get it in a working state when reducing the resolution to 1080. You're right though, its not quite right and doesn't work well enough.
Also you will need to interpolate down to 1080 from the native resolution which takes power and will negatively impact performance.
Actually, depending on coding and the benchmark, changing the resolution on a device can absolutely affect scores. It's just not present in this device due to poor implementation.You cannot change the number of pixels that have to be lit up. You can just change how they are lit up which will not change the speed of the device or the benchmarks in anyway.
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Having 2K on a smartphone is stupid. Seems like only tablets need over 1080P. 2K is pretty useful for laptops though.
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Wrong
Ask yourself this question: What will consume more battery power and create more heat, viewing a picture or playing a 1080p video?