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???

  • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
    7·
    2 days ago

    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.

    • ThePantser@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      8·
      2 days ago

      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.

      • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        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…