We changed the LG G3's display resolution to 1080p - we got superb performance and negligible battery life increases
Introduction
Introduction
The LG G3 is one of our favorite smartphones from 2014. Back then, it was an awesome product in many ways, but it was a little broken in some ways as well. Its problems with getting hot and straining to perform under heavy processor load, along with its unimpressive battery life, had many users pointing their fingers at the industry's first 5.5-inch 1440x2560 LCD display as the main culprit. After all, it was an easy target - it sucked out pixel-pushing horsepower, while bringing a diminutive improvement in image clarity over tried and proven 1080p displays.
Later that year, the LG G3's modding and developer community had flourished, and several new Quad-HD devices - the Samsung Galaxy Note 4, Galaxy Note Edge, Moto Droid Turbo, and Meizu MX4 Pro - were introduced. Obviously, Q-HD was here to stay, whether we needed it or not! Meanwhile, modders had rooted the LG G3, and around that time, the idea of lowering Quad-HD devices' screen resolution to a more serene 1080p began making rounds.
What's this idea about? As you probably know, a screen is comprised of “pixels”. Each pixel is one point of light, and that one point of light is capable of representing any color. The idea is to make the G3's processor and graphics unit deal with less pixels. The G3's screen resolution is a fixed 1440x2560 pixels, which means that normally, the display expects the smartphone to feed a whopping 3,686,400 pixels to it!
If we force the LG G3 to work in 1080x1920 resolution, the display's fixed resolution will stay the same, but much less pixels - 2,073,600, to be precise - will be fed to it. This will result in a considerable load being taken off the hardware. It's a bulletproof technique, one that every PC gamer has applied to coax higher frame rates out of their rig, for example. But won't that degrade the image quality? After all, the LG G3's screen is made exclusively for Quad-HD resolution! Read more>>
Later that year, the LG G3's modding and developer community had flourished, and several new Quad-HD devices - the Samsung Galaxy Note 4, Galaxy Note Edge, Moto Droid Turbo, and Meizu MX4 Pro - were introduced. Obviously, Q-HD was here to stay, whether we needed it or not! Meanwhile, modders had rooted the LG G3, and around that time, the idea of lowering Quad-HD devices' screen resolution to a more serene 1080p began making rounds.
What's this idea about? As you probably know, a screen is comprised of “pixels”. Each pixel is one point of light, and that one point of light is capable of representing any color. The idea is to make the G3's processor and graphics unit deal with less pixels. The G3's screen resolution is a fixed 1440x2560 pixels, which means that normally, the display expects the smartphone to feed a whopping 3,686,400 pixels to it!
If we force the LG G3 to work in 1080x1920 resolution, the display's fixed resolution will stay the same, but much less pixels - 2,073,600, to be precise - will be fed to it. This will result in a considerable load being taken off the hardware. It's a bulletproof technique, one that every PC gamer has applied to coax higher frame rates out of their rig, for example. But won't that degrade the image quality? After all, the LG G3's screen is made exclusively for Quad-HD resolution! Read more>>
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