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[GUIDE] Force 90Hz for almost every App/Game (Uncaps FPS)

Oneplus 7 Pro
Force 90hz Refresh Rate in almost every App (and Games)
*also uncaps FPS (since Vsync is on by default for Android)
Requirements:
1. A Windows PC (Windows 10 64 Bit is preferred)
2. Oneplus Drivers
3. A USB Type-C Cable
4. Your Oneplus 7 Pro
Steps:
1. Plug in your Oneplus device and select File Transfer mode in your phone's notification selection, then open My Computer and you will see the drive for Oneplus Drivers.
2. Install Oneplus Drivers (you may be prompted to reboot afterwards). You may need to plug and unplug the device to finish driver recognition. Unplug your phone once it is finished.
3. In your phone, go to Settings > About Phone, and tap Build Number multiple times in fast succession until the message "you are now a developer" appears.
4. Go to Settings > System > Developer Options, and turn on USB-debugging.
5. Go to Playstore and download jOnePlus Tools
6. Plug your device in your PC.
7. Anywhere on the empty desktop of your PC, press shift + right click, and select "Open Powershell window here"
8. Wait for Powershell to load
9. Type "adb shell" without the quotes
10. A permission prompt will appear in your Oneplus 7 Pro's screen, allow it.
11. Type "adb shell" once again and press Enter, and you should see your device like this "Oneplus7Pro:/ $"
12. Type or copy-paste the text below without the quotes:
"pm grant net.jroot3d.joneplustools android.permission.WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS", and press Enter.
13. Once you've entered that, it should repeat what you've typed in the next line.
14. Unplug your device, and open jOnePlus Tools app.
15. Tap Screen Refresh Rate and select Force 90Hz
16. Congratulations, you are done! To confirm, you can go to Settings > Display > Screen Refresh Rate and you should see it as 60Hz from the outside, but when you tap it, you will see that nothing from the 2 choices is selected. It means you are using the 3rd Hidden Setting.
Tip: You may need to reselect Force 90 Hz from the jOnePlus Tools if you have selected 90hz or 60hz from the settings.
Note: This will enable 90hz (and up to 90 fps) for apps and games, unless the app itself has an even stronger FPS-controller then it will tone-down the FPS to the standard set by that game. But for most games without an FPS controller or 30-FPS-locked games without an in-game FPS-controller, it will work 100%.
Credits:
C3C076 (XDA Developer, Dev of GravityBox)
JRoot3D.dev (jOnePlus Tools Developer)
Guide Maker: Ares (Freyelis - XDA Senior Member)

RIP Battery Life?

stanley08 said:
RIP Battery Life?
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No, try it. The brightness and resolution actually kills more battery than the refresh rate, so set the reso to dynamic, and the brightness to less than 50% always.

Freyelis said:
No, try it. The brightness and resolution actually kills more battery than the refresh rate, so set the reso to dynamic, and the brightness to less than 50% always.
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Maybe I will

stanley08 said:
Maybe I will
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Enjoy better gaming man. Try it on Assassin's Creed: Identity too, that game has awesome graphics but was locked at 30 FPS... Not anymore

Freyelis said:
No, try it. The brightness and resolution actually kills more battery than the refresh rate, so set the reso to dynamic, and the brightness to less than 50% always.
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Anyway to set auto brightness but less than 50% always ??

Or you could simply use Smurf kernel which already has this in the config and stays set through reboots. Or just use the original method from C3C076 which sets it permanently no need for this extra stuff or to have joneplus tools constantly in background for no reason...

9 hrs SOT? @op do you have qhd or fhd?
Stock kernel? Any mods?

if i restart my phone will the settings i made gone?

se7ensde said:
Or you could simply use Smurf kernel which already has this in the config and stays set through reboots. Or just use the original method from C3C076 which sets it permanently no need for this extra stuff or to have joneplus tools constantly in background for no reason...
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Adb method from C3C076 resets after every reboot, that's why I made this tutorial for those unrooted people who wants to make the setting stick.

bubu23 said:
if i restart my phone will the settings i made gone?
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No

Xalph92 said:
Anyway to set auto brightness but less than 50% always ??
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Either set it manually, or use YAAB app as a replacement for auto brightness, which you can set the maximum ang minimum brightness.

virtyx said:
9 hrs SOT? @op do you have qhd or fhd?
Stock kernel? Any mods?
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Dynamic, stock kernel.
No mods, I just control every background app using built-in background restriction, deepclear, and deep battery optimization.

Just for information, my kernel config has a switch to apply 90Hz, auto or 60 HZ.
Gesendet von meinem xXx_NoLimits_7.1 on GM1913 mit Tapatalk

Freyelis said:
Adb method from C3C076 resets after every reboot, that's why I made this tutorial for those unrooted people who wants to make the setting stick.
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Did you actually test it? "ADB shell settings global put" command changes user settings that are stored in the filesystem and are thus persisted across reboots until explicitly changed by the user.

Freyelis said:
Dynamic, stock kernel.
No mods, I just control every background app using built-in background restriction, deepclear, and deep battery optimization.
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Have you restricted system apps too? Did you do this for each app one by one?
Do you have a list of what you've restricted

thanks!
thanks!!!so after doing this im rooted already?because jtools need root right?

Freyelis said:
Adb method from C3C076 resets after every reboot, that's why I made this tutorial for those unrooted people who wants to make the setting stick.
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Stays through reboots for me... And like I said there are easier simpler and faster ways to achieve this without need of all this extra stuff. Smurf kernel already implemented this in his config so it stays like that too. And C3C076 had made qs tiles for this. I've been using his method for over a week now through several reboots no issues.

C3C076 said:
Did you actually test it? "ADB shell settings global put" command changes user settings that are stored in the filesystem and are thus persisted across reboots until explicitly changed by the user.
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Sorry, thanks for the clarification sir, great work as always, will revise this one

virtyx said:
Have you restricted system apps too? Did you do this for each app one by one?
Do you have a list of what you've restricted
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I did not restrict system apps, only the apps that I installed. Apps that I need notifications from such as Telegram, is not included in the restriction. All other apps are, like games, editors, etc..

Question Set screen to 90HZ

To save battery, and perhaps have a nice experience could we somehow set screen refresh rate to 90HZ? Does anybody have any info about how to do this..and if it is even possible?

With ADB Fastboot Tool use commands:
adb devices
adb shell
settings put system peak_refresh_rate 90
settings put system min_refresh_rate 90

How can we revert if we don't like?
Simply click at the display settings or also some Adb commands?
Edit: switching in settings to 120 and back to 60 reverts it

Adb shell
settings put system peak_refresh_rate 90
settings put system min_refresh_rate 60
Wouldn't this be better? So some apps only run in 60hz while the others run at 90 instead of 120?

Worked fine

yes it worked. I believe this has to be done every reboot. But let's see if we can get some more juice out of the battery.

qvert said:
Adb shell
settings put system peak_refresh_rate 90
settings put system min_refresh_rate 60
Wouldn't this be better? So some apps only run in 60hz while the others run at 90 instead of 120?
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Yes this is the right way. For the apps I am not sure but I am sure that lot of them are not yet optimize for more than 60Hz. Like watching YT is still 60Hz , lot of games don't pass 60Hz and I can imagine all the smaller companies apps ...
But with the settings I made I don't need to go below 120Hz. Mine is locked at 120Hz with this commands. And my battery life is more than good. I cannot drain it in one day with heavy usage.

superior888 said:
To save battery, and perhaps have a nice experience could we somehow set screen refresh rate to 90HZ? Does anybody have any info about how to do this..and if it is even possible?
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Use SetEdit app from PlayStore...
On the 'system table' inside the app, scroll find 'user_refresh_rate' and change the value to 90, and save...
Lock the app on the recent tab, and you good to go... I've tried it... Works flawlessly...

qvert said:
Adb shell
settings put system peak_refresh_rate 90
settings put system min_refresh_rate 60
Wouldn't this be better? So some apps only run in 60hz while the others run at 90 instead of 120?
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Thx, this works!

qvert said:
Adb shell
settings put system peak_refresh_rate 90
settings put system min_refresh_rate 60
Wouldn't this be better? So some apps only run in 60hz while the others run at 90 instead of 120?
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This works till I open youtube or GPhone. After it is set to 120 hz again

This works in Normal mode. The moment I change to "battery saver" screen goes back to 60Hz. Any solutions?

ZionMainframe said:
This works in Normal mode. The moment I change to "battery saver" screen goes back to 60Hz. Any solutions?
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Why put Battery Saver if you don't want save battery ?

Pho3nX said:
Why put Battery Saver if you don't want save battery ?
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I want to use other features of battery saver (like aggressive killing of background apps) whilst using a 120Hz screen.

ZionMainframe said:
I want to use other features of battery saver (like aggressive killing of background apps) whilst using a 120Hz screen.
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Ok so you can use SmartHertz for choose Refresh Rate by apps, can stay 120 hz even with Battery Saver mode.
SmartHertz - XDA
SmartHertz - Google Play

Pho3nX said:
Ok so you can use SmartHertz for choose Refresh Rate by apps, can stay 120 hz even with Battery Saver mode.
SmartHertz - XDA
SmartHertz - Google Play
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Tried this App. Didn't work. Same issue. The moment I turn batter saver on, refresh rate goes to 60

Asnamus said:
With ADB Fastboot Tool use commands:
adb devices
adb shell
settings put system peak_refresh_rate 90
settings put system min_refresh_rate 90
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can this be converted to a build.prop value ?

Seems like the 90hz setting reverts back to 120 once I switch to power saving or 60hz. Anyway to make it permanent?

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ZionMainframe said:
Tried this App. Didn't work. Same issue. The moment I turn batter saver on, refresh rate goes to 60
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Try galaxy max hertz app

galaxy max hertz app only work Samsung?

kozmikdeli said:
galaxy max hertz app only work Samsung?
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No, it works on mi 11 series.

How To Guide Changing your Refreshrate to 90hz.

If you want to change your Refreshrate to 90hz follow this quick guide.
Tested on the latest miui version.
First of all go to the Playstore and download following app:
SetEdit SettingsDatabaseEditor - Apps on Google Play
Provides direct access to the Android settings database
play.google.com
Afterwards go to your settings and change your Refreshrate to 120.
Open the app and find the entry "user_refresh_rate" "120".
Click on the entry, choose to edit and change the number to 90.
Repeat this step with the peak entry and change it to 90hz too.
Close the app.
Voila: you running on 90hz now. In my opinion that's the sweetspot between snappiness and battery saving.
Props to jmikepr:
Unable to make this work. Tried it about a hundred times. Running. EU ROM 12.6
Edit: Got it to work by changing peak display setting and user display setting. Thanks for the tip. 120 hz is overkill. 90hz is perfect.
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UPDATE PLEASE READ:
UPDATE FOR EVERYONE!
Changing your refreshrate to 90hz will make some crazy things to your display!
It will get a greenish tint !
Grey will also be displayed really red/brownish
It will flicker even on max brightness!
It will burn in faster - at least my new mi11 u has already some burn ins compared to my mi11 from CN which is like 3 months old now I don't know for sure tho! It's so minimal only my hawk eye can see it anybody else couldn't till now.
Sorry but I just found this out now because my colours looked to differently with low brightness. I also got an exchange device and thought it was just a bad display.

Unable to make this work. Tried it about a hundred times. Running. EU ROM 12.6
Edit: Got it to work by changing peak display setting and user display setting. Thanks for the tip. 120 hz is overkill. 90hz is perfect.

jmikepr said:
Unable to make this work. Tried it about a hundred times. Running. EU ROM 12.6
Edit: Got it to work by changing peak display setting and user display setting. Thanks for the tip. 120 hz is overkill. 90hz is perfect.
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Oh good to know! I will at this in the original post.

Anyway to dynamically adjust it based on what's on screen and whether it's moving or not?

speedtripler said:
Anyway to dynamically adjust it based on what's on screen and whether it's moving or not?
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Not right now. Maybe I can find a way - I will let you know.

hotto1996 said:
Not right now. Maybe I can find a way - I will let you know.
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I read about a way, I think it was from another manufacturer , and it could lower the refresh rate down to 1hz when looking at a still image etc or a page of text etc , something that doesn't need to be constantly refreshed which would obviously be a major battery saver
If I can find the article again I'll post the link

To my surprise, my eyes can't even accept 90hz now. Talk about spoiled.
Great method regardless, thanks for sharing!

linnil said:
To my surprise, my eyes can't even accept 90hz now. Talk about spoiled.
Great method regardless, thanks for sharing!
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Really haha? I change the animation speeds too via developer settings. For me that's smooth enough!

hotto1996 said:
Really haha? I change the animation speeds too via developer settings. For me that's smooth enough!
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I'm impatient af
I disable all animations in dev options.
I just want to click something and boom, it's on the screen!

Yeah I think so too. I don't understand why everything needs to look fancy. I want a fast and snappy experience

Great stuff, will definitely try this when my Mi 11 Ultra arrives. 90Hz is perfect for me, I don't need 120Hz as I don't play mobile games.
Anyone knows if it'll stay @ 90Hz after a software update? Or it will change itself back to 120Hz?

speedtripler said:
I read about a way, I think it was from another manufacturer , and it could lower the refresh rate down to 1hz when looking at a still image etc or a page of text etc , something that doesn't need to be constantly refreshed which would obviously be a major battery saver
If I can find the article again I'll post the link
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Maybe you refer to OnePlus 9 Pro, that has stock dynamic refresh rate...:
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1371830276926668801

jericho246 said:
Great stuff, will definitely try this when my Mi 11 Ultra arrives. 90Hz is perfect for me, I don't need 120Hz as I don't play mobile games.
Anyone knows if it'll stay @ 90Hz after a software update? Or it will change itself back to 120Hz?
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I would just take a quick look after an update. To be honest I don't know tho!

Thank you very much for the solution to change the refresh rate. It works perfectly.
Even if after the upgrade will revert to 120, you can change it afterwards very easy.
Cheers !

How to change refresh rate manually using only default.prop file? Thanks.

One other cool thing I found.
If you set it to 90/90 ( user refresh/peak refresh) like instructed above, i saw that it also drops to 60 when seeing static web browser page content ( for example reading this forum pages ) which is actually pretty cool because it saves even more power this way.
Will test to see if it does the same with the default 120hz but i rear think 120hz is overkill for daily usage.
Only scenario where I can find it useful would be games that support 100hz plus refresh rates .
LE it would seem that the "dynamic" refresh only worked briefly until I clicked on the auto brightness icon in the drop down menu.
LE 2 it actually switching to 60hz when brightness is around and over 80%
Take care and thanks again !

lebigmac said:
How to change refresh rate manually using only default.prop file? Thanks.
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What do you mean?youbcan change the settings in the Meue ofc but only 60hz and 120hz. The file is actually stock, you only changing the numbers and can changed them back any time you want
Best regards

Jhonxs said:
One other cool thing I found.
If you set it to 90/90 ( user refresh/peak refresh) like instructed above, i saw that it also drops to 60 when seeing static web browser page content ( for example reading this forum pages ) which is actually pretty cool because it saves even more power this way.
Will test to see if it does the same with the default 120hz but i rear think 120hz is overkill for daily usage.
Only scenario where I can find it useful would be games that support 100hz plus refresh rates .
LE it would seem that the "dynamic" refresh only worked briefly until I clicked on the auto brightness icon in the drop down menu.
LE 2 it actually switching to 60hz when brightness is around and over 80%
Take care and thanks again !
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Thx for your reply. Did you already test it out? I was quite busy the last days - sorry for my late response.
Honestly 120hz are kinda gimmick right now. You can feel the difference but it's draining even more battery and like you said as long as there is near to no app supporting it it's just something to be proud of maybe haha
Best regards
Lol you already did test it out . sorry

If anyone find a way to dynamically change the refresh rate please let us know.
For example when watching YT videos maxed at 60hz would be great to scale the display to that resolution ( if it's already possible please let me know )
I saw that the game "The elder scrools: Blades" automatically switches to 60Hz when playing ( haven't tested out with other games because i don't game that much ) .
Also i noted that, if, for whatever reason, the display doesn't change to 60HZ when the game needs it, the game will continuously load and never enter the actual first menu
A quick fix is to increase the brightness over 80% so that the screen is already at 60 before starting the game
Cheers !

Thanks @speedtripler. I just disabled animations in developer options and it's like sh*t off a shovel!
Cheers
Steve

Question How to force 60Hz in Youtube Vanced and on AOD?

When 120Hz is enabled in settings, Youtube app will run at lower 60Hz which saves the battery (since there is no need to view 30fps videos in 120Hz)
But Youtube Vanced runs at fixed 120Hz - is there any way to force Vanced to also run at 60Hz? By adding vanced youtube bundle id to system table or something?
Also is there a way to force AOD to run at 60Hz (or lower?) - Always On Display runs at 120Hz fixed which is super unnecessary and just drains the battery

Especially the Always On Display should not run in 120hz, that is totally crazy. How do you know that it does?

Danacy said:
Especially the Always On Display should not run in 120hz, that is totally crazy. How do you know that it does?
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it does... enable the power monitor in dev settings and you see it
it does always, no idea why
it could run at 1Hz would be enough

Danacy said:
Especially the Always On Display should not run in 120hz, that is totally crazy. How do you know that it does?
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enable show refresh rate option in developer settings - it shows 120Hz on AOD
qvert said:
it does... enable the power monitor in dev settings and you see it
it does always, no idea why
it could run at 1Hz would be enough
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display on Mi 11 is not capable of running at 1Hz, I think 48Hz is the lowest it can go (but not sure even of that or if 60Hz is a hard minimum)

The better choice is to using 90hz rate all the time, good balance between 60/120hz. Seriously i don't see any difference in game/apps between 90/120 but battery life is really different !
Personnaly if you like so much 120hz, you can replace 60hz by 90hz and keep 90/120 insteak of 60/90hz

Pho3nX said:
The better choice is to using 90hz rate all the time, good balance between 60/120hz. Seriously i don't see any difference in game/apps between 90/120 but battery life is really different !
Personnaly if you like so much 120hz, you can replace 60hz by 90hz and keep 90/120 insteak of 60/90hz
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I tried 90Hz using the method from the video, but it wasn't good - 90Hz felt like it was below 60Hz, not smooth at all when scrolling
So I didn't like this method at all
It would be best if MIUI had option to choose max refresh rate for each app individually
Forcing max refresh rate in most apps is stupid, especially on AOD

Furma said:
I tried 90Hz using the method from the video, but it wasn't good - 90Hz felt like it was below 60Hz, not smooth at all when scrolling
So I didn't like this method at all
It would be best if MIUI had option to choose max refresh rate for each app individually
Forcing max refresh rate in most apps is stupid, especially on AOD
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LOL
90Hz it's true, and smooth, you can easily see the difference between 60/90

Pho3nX said:
LOL
90Hz it's true, and smooth, you can easily see the difference between 60/90
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I've followed method shown in the video after which 90Hz was enabled (I enabled refresh rate indicator in dev settings so I can see the refresh rate)
scrolling thru app drawer and settings was choppy at 90Hz - there was micro stuttering, not sure why, but it was there
So enabling 90Hz via this method is not good (at least on my Mi 11)

Furma said:
I've followed method shown in the video after which 90Hz was enabled (I enabled refresh rate indicator in dev settings so I can see the refresh rate)
scrolling thru app drawer and settings was choppy at 90Hz - there was micro stuttering, not sure why, but it was there
So enabling 90Hz via this method is not good (at least on my Mi 11)
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Guys there no "choppy" 90 hz, 90 hz is truly activated, it's not 120 hz. In my case all is smooth. This 90 hz is like 90 hz purposed on MiuiMix. There no good/true or bad method... It's 90 hz, not 120 hz, so just better than 60 hz. No less, no more

Question Is there way to get the screen to stay at 144hz?

I love this phone, but there is one huge annoyance, there doesn't seem to be a way to make the screen actually run at a sustained framerate.
I have it set to 144hz in the menu, but it routinely drops to 60fps or 120fps depending on the app
This normally isn't a big problem, except nova launcher only runs at 60fps and so scrolling the app drawer is incredibly bad.
Pokemon Go also only runs at 60fps...and since the game operates at 1/2 vsyn, the effective fps is only 30, which is atrocious compared to the 72fps it runs at on the ROG6

Don't confuse Screen Refresh Rate and Frames Per Second. Totally different things.

jwoegerbauer said:
Don't confuse Screen Refresh Rate and Frames Per Second. Totally different things.
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I mean... Not really
Obviously the screen always runs at a refresh rate of 144hz because it isn't a VRR display(as far as I know that doesn't exist on phones)
So what you are changing in settings is always the frame rate that the phone is rendering at.
Your phone should ALWAYS be rendering at the frame rate you select in the settings menu... But this phone doesn't seem to do that, and it's annoying because it makes the usage experience worse than every other phone I have

BigDog87 said:
I mean... Not really
Obviously the screen always runs at a refresh rate of 144hz because it isn't a VRR display(as far as I know that doesn't exist on phones)
So what you are changing in settings is always the frame rate that the phone is rendering at.
Your phone should ALWAYS be rendering at the frame rate you select in the settings menu... But this phone doesn't seem to do that, and it's annoying because it makes the usage experience worse than every other phone I have
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Most of the reviews I've read/watched confirm what you've said. When you set 144hz, it runs that way in the default launcher and all the menus, but when you open certain apps, if they don't support 144hz natively then they just don't run at 144hz. The reviews seem to indicate that the developers of said apps need to enable support for 144hz.

So I was poking around the settings, and entered developer mode. There's an option to force the screen to stay at 144hz at ALL TIMES. It's called LOCK REFRESH RATE. I was able to confirm this works because there is also an option to SHOW REFRESH RATE which displays the screen refresh rate in the upper corner of the display. Before I locked the refresh rate, I used the show refresh rate function to view the refresh rate using different apps. In the phone menus, and app drawer, and google feed, etc the phone would remain at 144hz. But when opening some apps like Chrome for example, the refresh rate would drop to 120hz, etc. However, when I LOCKED the refresh rate in the dev options, the screen refresh rate stayed at 144hz in EVERY app and scenario I was in. It does state that this will drain your battery more rapidly when selecting to lock the refresh rate in the developer options. FYI