One of our latest mid-range mobile phones has been the Google Pixel 6a. Although there are terminals in its category that offer twice the refresh rate, Google wanted to differentiate the three Pixel 6s a lot and left the 6a with 60 Hz, on the other hand, it is a figure shared with much more expensive terminalsLike the iPhone 13.

Nathan, @TheLunarixus A video game developer and hacker took to Twitter to see that the Pixel 6a already had a low refresh rate and decided to see if he could tap something to improve it. And with the help of others, as he himself said, Managed to get the Pixel 6a to draw the interface at 90 Hz. At first, people were suspicious of him because he only provided a catch, but with the UFO testnet, the Martians They were on their ship at 89fps.

A change that is unclear about causing harm

After showing it on Twitter, TheLunarixus didn’t post the obvious. mode It unlocks 90Hz, but has shared it with several users, including media editors like The Verge’s Sean Hollister, so they can try it on their handsets.

It’s not really complicated to setup, because you have to “only” enable USB debugging and unlock the Google Pixel 6a’s bootloader (this will delete all the information on the terminal). Later, you have to flash Android 13 beta you need to flash a modified vendor_boot image by disabling certain options and finally. That’s all Makes the ‘Fluid Display’ option appear It offers Google terminals from Pixel 4 with screens of 90 Hz or higher.

That this is possible is due to the similarities between the display of the Pixel 6 and the display of the 6a, with both Samsung panels and the shared identifier “S6E3FC3”. Of course, other developers, Kuba Wojciechowski, is more skeptical and claims that the identifier belongs to the display driver and the driver, but not the panel. It should be noted that it is already for models such as the Xiaomi Mi 9. modes similar, which allows the screen to reach a refresh rate of 84 Hz.

Budget phone of the year? 90Hz unlocked Pixel 6a pic.twitter.com/3suHD88KyZ

— Nathan (@TheLunarixus) 10 August 2022

The problem with this working on screens that aren’t the same as the Pixel 6 is that you won’t be unlocking anything that was intentionally covered, although nothing was voluntarily touched in the process of getting it, so you’d have highlighted the panel by overclocking (like voltages), but the Pixel 6’s frequency code had been used. . Overclocking applies in all cases, unless the manufacturer, Google, allows to enable 90 Hz as standard.but unlocking a feature is different from moving a panel beyond its “healthy” limits.

If the second type was overclocking, damage to the panels could occur., although TheLunarixus says we won’t know until the mod is executed in over 100 terminals. After installing the mod, green tones appear on some panels, while others do not. This suggests that we may be facing a situation where there are better quality panels than others with greater tolerance. There’s nothing we don’t know about binning and how the chip industry works.

TheLunarixus told The Verge: they are working on a custom ROM so that this change can be implemented stably by the people. It should be noted that there are some changes in Xiaomi models, such as the Xiaomi Mi 9, that bring its 60 Hz panel to a speed of 84 Hz. It is developed by ASUS, but hidden through software and activated very easily without messing with codes from other terminals.