WHAT IS REFRESH RATE?
The number of times the screen refreshes its image each second is measured as the refresh rate. It is determined in Hertz (Hz). Most entry-level smartphones have a 60Hz refresh rate, whereas mid-range smartphones have a 90Hz or 120Hz refresh rate, and premium smartphones have a 120Hz, 144Hz or 165Hz refresh rate. Although most phone brands are introducing adaptive refresh rate it's a brand new feature for smartphones — a device display with an adaptive refresh rate is able to change the refresh rate to match your actions on the screen depending on the range of the Refresh rate e.g a device with 120hz will adaptively switch between 60 - 120Hz. While the frequency at which the display on your phone interprets your input is known as the touch sampling rate (also known as the response rate). In other words, it refers to the quantity of times your touch is registered by the display. The display becomes more sensitive the faster the touch sampling rate is.
By minimising gaps in its interpretation of your touch input, the screen can respond more precisely and provide a smoother experience. Since a delay of a few milliseconds might occasionally mean the difference between winning and losing, this is very helpful for mobile gaming. The Redmagic 7 Series(960Hz), IQOO Neo5 & Realme GT Neo3 150W and other smartphones have the highest touch sampling rate available at the moment, which is 1000Hz. To explain better; Refresh rate refers to how quickly the screen displays the shifting pixels, whereas touch sampling rate refers to how quickly the screen reads your input. The former deals with sensitivity, whereas the latter deals with motion simulation. The animations on the screen seem more fluidly as the refresh rate increases.
A smartphone with 90 Hz refresh rate and 240 - 300 Hz touch sampling rate, in my opinion, is ideal for an all-around experience.
WHAT IS FPS?
Most of the time, people mistake FPS for refresh rate. The quantity of frames displayed on your screen each second is measured in FPS (FRAMES PER SECOND). This always relates to everything you do while watching a movie or playing a game on your screen.
WHICH IS MORE IMPORTANT?
Refresh rate and FPS must be high for a fluid performance when used for gaming. This is due to the visual experience being confined to the weakest connection in the end. The refresh rate of the display must at least match the highest FPS that the GPU is capable of producing in order to operate at peak efficiency. As a consequence, there won't be any delays, clutter, or motion blur during the performance.
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Quadrant shows that the display refresh rate is 68 Hz.
I was wondering the following:
1. Is the display actually 68Hz or is Quadrant reporting it incorrectly?
2. Is it possible to alter the screen refresh rate?
3. Is it possible to increase or decrease the display lifetime by altering refresh rate?
It is possible to overclock PC displays, sometimes even +25 hz on rare occasions. (Do a Google search if you don't believe me)
Can this be done with a mobile phone display? I am very surprised that I have found no questioning of this anywhere on the internet ever.
I don't care about vsync. I don't care about screen tearing. I don't care about damaging the display. There IS a difference, I'm apparently the 0.01% who can differentiate 60hz from 75 hz.
Can this be done with OLED displays? how? Thanks.
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Hi !
Can you define this "PC displays " ?
And the phones OLED displays doesn`t have an option to adjust their refresh rate , reason why you can`t find an answer
Rendering in Android is limited to 60fps by design , check the android graphic architecture
Cheers !
Is there an app for older devices (before the use of 90hz and above in today's phones) that can change the refresh rate from 1hz to 60hz or something like set options like 30hz/45hz/60hz?
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Refresh rate, measured in Hertz (Hz), is how quickly a display can refresh an image. Wondering why you want to narrow down phone's default refresh rate?
jwoegerbauer said:
Refresh rate, measured in Hertz (Hz), is how quickly a display can refresh an image. Wondering why you want to narrow down phone's default refresh rate?
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Main reason is battery saving. I have also read that upcoming (or already released) oppo phones will have adaptive refresh rate ranging from 1hz to 120hz so I was wondering if there's a way to do that in older devices with root?
Hi All, this is my first phone with a variable refresh rate so I'm not sure if this is normal behaviour.
My adaptive refresh rate seems to only stay on 2 values, either 24hz when I'm looking at the screen eg reading, or 120hz when the screen is in use eg scrolling. It doesn't go to anything in-between 24-120.
Philnicolls89 said:
Hi All, this is my first phone with a variable refresh rate so I'm not sure if this is normal behaviour.
My adaptive refresh rate seems to only stay on 2 values, either 24hz when I'm looking at the screen eg reading, or 120hz when the screen is in use eg scrolling. It doesn't go to anything in-between 24-120.
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Hello mate long time ... I think that's the way it works, I've been using a variable refresh rate app on my flip 3 and if I set it to 60-120hZ they are the only 2 values shown
[App]Galaxy Max Hz (Refresh Rate Mods, Screen-off Mods, QS Tiles, Tasker Support and More)
About this app: Refresh Rate Mods Change default refresh rates -Easily change the overall refresh rate settings of devices supporting multiple refresh rates. -Set supported mid refresh rates as the maximum refresh rate limit for battery...
forum.xda-developers.com
beanbean50 said:
Hello mate long time ... I think that's the way it works, I've been using a variable refresh rate app on my flip 3 and if I set it to 60-120hZ they are the only 2 values shown
[App]Galaxy Max Hz (Refresh Rate Mods, Screen-off Mods, QS Tiles, Tasker Support and More)
About this app: Refresh Rate Mods Change default refresh rates -Easily change the overall refresh rate settings of devices supporting multiple refresh rates. -Set supported mid refresh rates as the maximum refresh rate limit for battery...
forum.xda-developers.com
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Hey mate, hope all is well. Thanks for the info. I'm glad to hear it's normal behaviour, disappointed though as I thought that the phone was able to scale anywhere between 1-120hz depending on the situation. Not just switch between 24 and 120! I'll check out the app you've linked!
Hello,
I have flashed a custom ROM (LineageOS) for my Motorola Edge 20 Pro phone. The only feature I miss from stock is the ability to set refresh rate for games to 120 or 140hz sometimes, otherwise I like my phone to be at 60hz for power savings. I turn off all animations anyway.
I tried to flash the Moto games apk which did this but sadly I get an error: "Package com.motorola.gamemode requires unavailable shared library moto-core_services; failing!"
I had a look on the play store and I couldn't find much. What options do I have if any?
Thank you
AFAIK a screen's refresh rate ( measured in Hz ) typically is fixed, unless device has a variable refresh rate ( VRR ) feature, e.g. 60-144 Hz.
With the moto app when games are detected it would up the refresh rate automatically.
I can set it to 120hz which is semi variable, if the screen brightness is high enough, but I don't really want 120hz etc for anything apart from games, I'd rather take the extra battery life!