Sony Xperia XZ Premium tutorial: Here's how to enable constant 4K display resolution

by Peter Kostadinov / Jul 03, 2017, 8:13 AM

Sony Xperia XZ Premium tutorial: Here's how to enable constant 4K display resolution

Pssst. Pssst! Got a Sony Xperia XZ Premium?

If so, then you're probably awed by its super-crisp 4K display... that's actually downscaling content to Full HD 1080p by default.

Yes, as per Sony, "4K (and 4K HDR with 4K HDR content) is used in the Album and Video apps and third party apps with 4K (and 4K HDR) content. Everything else, so homescreen, apps, menus, etc are shown in Full HD."

A bummer, isn't it? Having a 4K display on paper but not using it to its full potential... Well, lucky for all of you tinkerers out there, there's a neat little trick that allows you to easily force the Xperia XZ Premium to output 4K all the time. Of, course, this is likely to have a detrimental effect on your phone's battery life and performance, especially in games and other graphics-intensive tasks.

Sony Xperia XZ Premium - here's how to enable 4K output all the time

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reference: @damirfranc

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16 Comments

1. gabrielvoica

Posts: 67; Member since: Mar 05, 2013

and the one who made this video tutorial is a german youtuber called Damir Franc and you should've at least give him credits for this...he also took the tutorial from a german tech site but he,compared to you PA,gave credits to those people.. shame on you!

posted on Jul 03, 2017, 8:21 AM 9

3. mimicryXD

Posts: 175; Member since: Apr 03, 2015

yeah im a subscriber of damir and he is a good reviewer (despite long videos of him, LOL) and he really loves xz premium bcos its the fastest phone in 2017! if you watch his review, clearly xz premium performance is amazing.

posted on Jul 03, 2017, 8:23 AM 0

11. Nathan_ingx

Posts: 4769; Member since: Mar 07, 2012

I don't know if they edited it but if you check "reference" below the tutorial slide, you'll see "@damirfranc".

posted on Jul 03, 2017, 10:04 AM 1

13. miketer

Posts: 527; Member since: Apr 02, 2015

But it's mentioned at the end of the article. Was it not there before?

posted on Jul 03, 2017, 11:49 AM 1

2. mimicryXD

youtubers damir franc and total tech do that and they see nothing significant difference in battery life if you enable the 4k content of xzp all the time.. total tech even got a good battery life for it.

posted on Jul 03, 2017, 8:21 AM 1

4. syam7863

Posts: 73; Member since: Sep 15, 2016

Just watched his video this morning and shame on you for not giving any credits to him

posted on Jul 03, 2017, 8:30 AM 0

5. slannmage

Posts: 289; Member since: Mar 26, 2013

Enjoy your games running at 10fps

posted on Jul 03, 2017, 8:40 AM 2

6. SYSTEM_LORD

Posts: 1168; Member since: Oct 05, 2015

Seeing as how this phone is a sub 6" LCD display, there is no reason for anything over 1080p save for a few situational circumstances. Pixel layout is of major importance, and this is where modern AMOLED tech does not match LCD.

posted on Jul 03, 2017, 8:48 AM 2

7. trojan_horse

Posts: 5868; Member since: May 06, 2016

I see no need to have everything constantly rendered at 4K. Battery life will be an absolute mess, not to mention overheating!

posted on Jul 03, 2017, 9:10 AM 1

8. zunaidahmed

Posts: 1185; Member since: Dec 24, 2011

You will say that until the next note comes out with 4K display...... Technology should move forward, not stand still.

posted on Jul 03, 2017, 9:32 AM 4

12. Nathan_ingx

LAWL...on the first part!!

posted on Jul 03, 2017, 10:07 AM 2

10. maherk

Posts: 6923; Member since: Feb 10, 2012

Total Tech has already debunked this theory. He was having 5+ hrs of sot with 21% left for the battery to die.

posted on Jul 03, 2017, 9:59 AM 4

9. avalon2105

Posts: 352; Member since: Jul 12, 2014

Great that you can do it but I have to ask why? Aside from multimedia and VR there is really no need for such resolution. I really wanted the concept to catch up when Sony started it with Z5P and other OEMs would start using the same thing. Sadly it didn't.

posted on Jul 03, 2017, 9:33 AM 1

14. sachouba

Posts: 266; Member since: Jun 08, 2014

The Xperia XZ Premium's display isn't even 4K! Sony claims it is 4K because it interpolates subpixels. But there are even less subpixels than in a Pentile display, actually... XZ Premium on the left, LG G6 on the right:http://img1.lesnumeriques.com/optim/news/63/63477/sonyxz-vs-lg-g6-maps.jpg

posted on Jul 03, 2017, 2:55 PM 0

16. hansip87

Posts: 228; Member since: Nov 10, 2015

might be just for a few niche market but when you do VR, the Sony 4K screen will give you less screen door effect compared to the LG one as you post in the link. The same could be said with Pentile AMOLED, but Samsung needs to bump up to 4K first before the lines start getting to disappear.