A few days ago, while digging into the meanders of the (alleged) Pixel 7 Pro display drivers, the possibility of setting the display in Full HD + rather than the maximum supported by the screen, the Quad HD +, was intercepted. Among the settings of Android 13, there would be a section dedicated to changing the resolution, which in the case of the Pixel 7 Pro could be set to 1440p or 1080p.
Just to add onto the news about the Pixel 7 Pro display driver running on the Pixel 6, this isn’t a scaled resolution like setting wm size, it’s an actual resolution defined in the driver with custom timings, along with 1080p it also adds 1080p30Hz support too, not sure why.
— Nathan (@TheLunarixus) June 2, 2022
Now the developer Mishaal Rahman has shared on Twitter the video of a Pixel 6 Pro with Android 13 beta that was forced to use the Pixel 7 Pro display drivers, and so the opportunity intercepted in recent days has become concrete: even between Pixel 6 Pro settings with Android 13 beta peeked out the section to adjust the display to 1080p. Rahman, responding to a comment from a user, speculated that “if the Pixel 6 Pro display can support native 1080p then it cannot be ruled out that with a driver update it may get the same opportunity in the future”.
EXCHANGE SOME DETAILS WITH AUTONOMY
The discovery confirms the rumors a few days ago that claimed that Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro will have exactly the same panels as the current Pixels. The novelty of the native 1080p, in fact, seems only a software novelty, that is, it affects the driver and not the panel. A second developer always intervened on Twitter to clarify that the novelty found in the alleged Pixel 7 Pro drivers does not consist in a simple resize of the screen, such as what can be done by acting on ADB or similar means, but rather in the setting native, “effective”, of a lower resolution.
By using the Pixel 7 Pro’s display driver on the Pixel 6 Pro, Android 13’s screen resolution setting becomes available, and the resolution can be changed to 1080p.
Video credits: @TheLunarixus pic.twitter.com/Ho5jPfrbOd
— Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman) June 2, 2022
The ability to set a resolution lower than the 1440p that Pixel 6 Pro customers are forced to today would be important for those wishing to trade a slight loss of screen detail for an autonomy boost, so users who use the smartphone heavy would not be a minor novelty. In doing so, in fact, the Tensor and its GPU should manage a lower number of pixels, which would make it less burdensome for the hardware to perform demanding operations and therefore the energy required from the battery for the same use would be lower, with positive implications on autonomy.
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