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Get 120 HZ Refresh Rates on your Galaxy S10 and Note 10 Devices

A guide to access the hidden 120 HZ display settings in your Galaxy S10 and Note 10 Devices
*Disclaimer: I am not responsible for any battery drains, boot loops or anything that harms your devices by using the below application and guide*
Pre-requisites:
1. Make sure you have the latest OneUI 2.1 Update.
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2. Not on "medium power savings mode" (It only works on optimized or high-performance mode)
3. Your screen resolution must not be in WQHD+
4. Installed "Activity Launcher App" by Adam Szalkowski Download from Play Store.. Let's give him a thumbs up on the Play Store.
Step 1 :
Open the Activity Launcher App from the app drawer and in the search box type the keywords "motion" or "smoothness" and you should be able to see an Activity with com.android.settings.$HighRefreshRatesSettignsActivity
Step 2 :
Click on it and this Activity should open up (make sure you're not using WQHD+ screen resolution and not in any power savings mode).
Step 3:
Choose the High Refresh Rate (120 HZ) option and click Apply! Your screen will now refresh at 120 HZ.
P.S: I am not sure how much of a difference you'll find but I could feel the difference overall. I haven't tested the battery drain on using this. I'll update the thread once I get the results done.

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is working but don't see any difference !!

@CsabaZz Maybe because you don't understand how the hardware works. Display refresh rates can be overclocked in your PC monitors, the same way quite some phone screens refresh rates were overclocked and I strongly recommend you to take a good read on the forums.
Why don't you question Samsung on their forums and see why this option is available on S10 & Note 10 devices.
Let's not be rude on the forum.

This is only for snapdragon?

cogelindo said:
This is only for snapdragon?
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No. Exynos too. I flashed via Odin One Ui 2.1 and I got this option in activity launcher. I don't know how much of a difference it makes. I think I feel some kind of difference but maybe it is a placebo effect.

There are apps and web sites testing and providing information about refresh rate. Go and see - it will not change if you tick 120Hz. S10 has 60Hz (or 60 FPS, if you want). Just because an S20 setting can be found on S10 (which is hidden by default), it does not mean that it will work.

XmlNode said:
There are apps and web sites testing and providing information about refresh rate. Go and see - it will not change if you tick 120Hz. S10 has 60Hz (or 60 FPS, if you want). Just because an S20 setting can be found on S10 (which is hidden by default), it does not mean that it will work.
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Agreed

Tested myself as i own s20 ultra and s10+ . On the s10+ even on the "120hz" settings it has a refresh rate 60hz verified by an app witch shows 120hz on thé s20 ultra so unfortunetly this is not possible due to hardware..

120hz won't work on S10+ ... just do one think after choosing 120hz options from the settings try using this adb command and if 96hz doesn't work keep going down !! Like 90hz or 70hz
adb shell settings put system peak_refresh_rate 96.0
adb shell settings put system min_refresh_rate 96.0
Original post is from S20 thread - https://forum.xda-developers.com/ga...te-to-96hz-t4073867/post82130937#post82130937
And please do it at your own risk !!!

After using this and applying 120hz setting, it didnt work. I tested the fps from multiple apps and all of them are showing 60hz.

Considering how samsung has always been eager to be the first one to introduce bleeding edge tech. It wouldn't be like them to hide the potential of their displays. Samsung has said in the past that they provided 90hz panels to oneplus and other brands but didn't use them themselves bcz they weren't fully confident about the colour accuracy and other parameters. As much as I'd like this news about 120hz on s10+ to be true I don't believe it is.

This is for sure not gonna work on the N10+ as we don't have the software or hardware to support it. The screen is not able to do it.

So if it doesn't work, then what's the point of using it? For decorative purposes or just to have a useless button that says "120 hz" in the screen settings menu?

This should be locked and deleted since this doesn't work and is clearly just an oversight and time saving on samsung's part in developing the S20 software

Guys, this menu is not visible or accessible by default on S10. Complaining about why it is there at all is pointless. The new UI's code is probably common between the S10 and 20 and some menu elements use a feature flag to switch unnecessary or not supported parts on/off. That's all. This thread could be closed, anyway.

I think I know what is going on. One Ui 2.1 has improved animations (in comparison to 2.0), and this is why we think (placebo effect) that by enabling this hidden menu, the refresh rate has been increased.

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i don't see any harm sharing this tidbit regardless of whether hardware supports it or not
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It simply cannot work.
First the hardware does not support it. If it did work Samsung woulve advertised the same.
Second, you have to launch it via an activity manager which means samsung didn't want you to discover the feature in the first go.
Third, I'm pretty sure Samsung will remove it over the next couple of updates as it's only for the S20's hardware.

General Smart screen refresh is not working properly

Hi there!
I have been doing checks, measuring the refresh rate in the 120Hz smart mode and I have noticed that most of the time it is at 120Hz and has only dropped to 60Hz using two applications, like YouTube or Skype for example. No adaptive frequency and it has never dropped below 60Hz. You can check this by downloading an app from the play store or from the developer options, where there is an option to measure the refresh rate in real time

Yeah that 1hz thing was a bunch of BS

t2jbird said:
Yeah that 1hz thing was a bunch of BS
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OnePlus never said it will go down to 1hz

matze19999 said:
OnePlus never said it will go down to 1hz
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It's literally on their product page.
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LagJuancho said:
Hi there!
I have been doing checks, measuring the refresh rate in the 120Hz smart mode and I have noticed that most of the time it is at 120Hz and has only dropped to 60Hz using two applications, like YouTube or Skype for example. No adaptive frequency and it has never dropped below 60Hz. You can check this by downloading an app from the play store or from the developer options, where there is an option to measure the refresh rate in real time
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Have you tried with "hyper touch " ON?
It seems to be more agressive with it on.

Yes I just tried it doesn't change a thing.

Hypnoz69 said:
Yes I just tried it doesn't change a thing.
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Don't use the developer options to measure. Try a 3rd party app. You can see it change.

Can you give me the name of an application ? I'll try.

Hypnoz69 said:
Can you give me the name of an application ? I'll try.
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Real-time Display FPS Meter - Apps on Google Play
Show real time display FPS anywhere on screen.
play.google.com
Or this one that you have to watch an ad to access (it does seem more accurate though: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.burakgon.gamebooster3

Same problem with Display FPS, it does not go below 60 and stuck at 120 on the homescreen.

Lol, same here.

Pete Lau Tweet :
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1371830276926668801
Yeah for the moment it smells bs
From all my tests, <and its just my own observation>, the 1Hz could be triggered only with constant AOD

Does anyone know if Samsung's dynamic refresh rate is working properly?

Hypnoz69 said:
Does anyone know if Samsung's dynamic refresh rate is working properly?
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You may want to check in the Samsung forum, this is the OnePlus 9 Pro forum.

t2jbird said:
It's literally on their product page.
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not true

The LTPO control works at a layer lower than the OS, so the fps monitor won't show the true refresh of the screen.
It's supposed to reduce in any static scene but I have no way of confirming whether it does lower the refresh rate or not
As for the 1hz, it probably is only active for the always on display with he second hand

Hypnoz69 said:
Can you give me the name of an application ? I'll try.
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Franco Kernel manager and there go to live monitor > perfmon and enable perfmon floating window.

If you want to check true refresh rate for free but with root, check this path:
/sys/class/drm/card0/sde-crtc-0/measured_fps
You can make Tasker task to show and record real-time fps.
Display FPS app is BS.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but 1hz would only work when the phone isn't being touched. If an apk is running, it will stick to 60 or 120hz due to the animation. Maybe via ADB you might be able to pull some information?

Question 90Hz display frame rate on OnePlus 9pro

How to force 90hz instead of 120? AutoHz only has 120/60hz. May be ADB command or editing build.prop can help me? OxygenOS 11.2.9.9.
The fact is that, this phone drops display frame rate to 60hz, when throttling. I think, if it possible to enable 90hz display frame rate, it'll solve all problems

You can't, the screen only has 120hz and 60hz settings, just like the 8 Pro.
Maybe someone can develop an app or kernel that can do it, since the phone has variable refresh rate, but I wouldn't count on it. Changing those screen parameters is very difficult, if not impossible, iirc

AutoHz from playstore has this option but it's a paid app

PokemonTotalWar said:
You can't, the screen only has 120hz and 60hz settings, just like the 8 Pro.
Maybe someone can develop an app or kernel that can do it, since the phone has variable refresh rate, but I wouldn't count on it. Changing those screen parameters is very difficult, if not impossible, iirc
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On OOS12, settings put secure oplus_customize_screen_refresh_rate 1 enabled 90Hz auto.
Maybe
settings put system peak_refresh_rate 90.0
settings put system min_refresh_rate 90.0
will work on OOS11.

Killadude said:
AutoHz from playstore has this option but it's a paid app
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No it doesn't, on 9, and 9Pro you can only get 60hz or 120hz no in-between.

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settings put system peak_refresh_rate 90.0
settings put system min_refresh_rate 90.0
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Tried this in termux without any luck. Refresh rate stays at 120

Killadude said:
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в настройках поставил систему peak_refresh_rate 90.0
в настройках поставил систему min_refresh_rate 90.0
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Пробовал это в termux безуспешно. Частота обновления остается на уровне 120
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I tried this too. Is there even the slightest chance of getting 90Hz by changing the kernel code?

Why do you care about 90 Hz in the first place? It's not like you're gonna save much battery if any since it'll be locked to 90 Hz if you manage to set it somehow and won't utilize the LTPO technology.

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The Hz counter in developer settings or any other 3rd party counter from play store etc won't show the actual frequency of a LTPO display, it just doesn't support LTPO as of now. You can measure it using a high fps camera as some people did, you can find these on YouTube.

DashDashCZ said:
Why do you care about 90 Hz in the first place? It's not like you're gonna save much battery if any since it'll be locked to 90 Hz if you manage to set it somehow and won't utilize the LTPO technology.
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There is only one reason. During a long game in PUBG mobile, the phone resets the screen refresh rate from 120hz to 60hz. Accordingly, the responsiveness of the touch and the fps itself falls. If I could forcibly set the screen to 90hz instead of 120, the phone would not get so hot and would not limit the performance of the processor

vladleshakim said:
There is only one reason. During a long game in PUBG mobile, the phone resets the screen refresh rate from 120hz to 60hz. Accordingly, the responsiveness of the touch and the fps itself falls. If I could forcibly set the screen to 90hz instead of 120, the phone would not get so hot and would not limit the performance of the processor
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Check this app: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/...tz-control-your-display-refresh-rate.4383823/
You can set apps to 60, 72, 90 and 120Hz.

DashDashCZ said:
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The Hz counter in developer settings or any other 3rd party counter from play store etc won't show the actual frequency of a LTPO display, it just doesn't support LTPO as of now. You can measure it using a high fps camera as some people did, you can find these on YouTube.
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can you please give the link of that video? i cant find one.

Try this, with the third option I was able to get my op9p running on 90hz. It works on OOS 12 and coloros
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Bunu deneyin , üçüncü seçenekle op9p'mi 90hz'de çalıştırabildim. OOS 12 ve coloros'ta çalışırView attachment 5503669
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Not working Aosp12

lammsuen said:
Try this, with the third option I was able to get my op9p running on 90hz. It works on OOS 12 and colorosView attachment 5503669
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what did you use to turn on 90hz can you say?

Hi. On oos11, You can use 'su -c service call SurfaceFlinger 1035 i32 11' command line open the global 90Hz, This from china Cool Forum method. But restart will fail

DashDashCZ said:
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The Hz counter in developer settings or any other 3rd party counter from play store etc won't show the actual frequency of a LTPO display, it just doesn't support LTPO as of now. You can measure it using a high fps camera as some people did, you can find these on YouTube.
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The FPS counter in dev options of nameless/oos shows the FPS working in real-time with vrr so that's a bunk statement.

TheKnux said:
The FPS counter in dev options of nameless/oos shows the FPS working in real-time with vrr so that's a bunk statement.
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It wasn't a bunk statement 11 months ago when I made the comment

You right. Ha.

Themes / Apps / Mods Disable "Adaptive refresh rate" Miui

Used to be a magisk module but that doesn't work at all lol.
Works only once/sometimes not even once then the phone resumes control of refresh rate switching... I'll leave module below but new way of disabling is as follows:
su
pm disable com.miui.powerkeeper/com.miui.powerkeeper.statemachine.PowerStateMachineService
Copy and paste this into termux , give it root and that's it.
This should work just fine on all miui roms, but haven't tested myself so any feedback is welcome.
I wanted to leave module below but deleted it instead... oh well doesn't matter I guess

Version 2 is out lol.
This time it disables refresh rate for good - no longer does the phone go back to 60hz even when you're not touching the screen!
This is the best you can do untill I'm able to figure out how to disable adaptive refresh rate without having to remove the app entirely

Anyone using this lol?
Does it work for you?
I'm currently facing some issues lol
Trying to figure out what exactly causes this to stop working in fresh installs of miui...
For some reason if you apply this fix straight after mi flash the phone will after entering doze / rebooting few times revert back to enforcing 60hz when not touching screen.
Will try waiting few days before applying this to let it "settle" first...

I find your Magisk Module description amusing lol.
We already had the discussion that removing PowerKeeper.apk causes problems with apps shutting down unexpectedly in the background.

What is the apk name of the app that is in charge of adaptive refresh rate? May i please know?

Doesn't work on miui a12 for me.

is this in development ? or project is dead ?

herecomesmaggi said:
is this in development ? or project is dead ?
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Check the original post , there's a new method now. Magisk module simply couldn't bind fast enough , this instead disables service only
To test whether it's working enable "show refresh rate" from developers options and leave phone as is - if it remains on 120hz without dropping to 60 at all thenn it works , next you can try openning apps to see - yt , recent apps ( swipe up and hold ) , mobile legends are all apps locked to 60/90hz

Alpha-beta said:
What is the apk name of the app that is in charge of adaptive refresh rate? May i please know?
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com.miui.powerkeeper
But trust me is not worth messing with - even when disabled/deleted there is another service in place which throttles refresh rate down to 60hz.
I hope new fix adresses this issue better - the app will remain working but the service that throttles is disabled, so hopefully that keeps it at 120hz all the time

Have you guys seen this video? This worked for me.
You can force 120 Hz on MIUI with SetEdit. Change user_refresh_rate to 1
No Root required and remains after Reboots

It works

cyanGalaxy said:
Have you guys seen this video? This worked for me.
You can force 120 Hz on MIUI with SetEdit. Change user_refresh_rate to 1
No Root required and remains after Reboots
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I think this only disables lock in apps like yt and mobile legends... Allows 120hz but it still drops down to 60hz when not touching screen?
There's some bugs to it as well - like rebooting locks the display at 60hz everywhere until you re enable it from settings , I don't remember well

Either way hope someone can try the fix from original post - if the touch still falls down to 60hz when not touching screen I think I have an idea on how to fix it separately

I have made a magisk module that disable adaptive sync...you can try it

Luqman2077 said:
I have made a magisk module that disable adaptive sync...you can try it
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Doesn't work for me.

are u on miui?

cyanGalaxy said:
Doesn't work for me.
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are u on miui?

Luqman2077 said:
are u on miui?
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Yes, MIUI 13. YouTube, Twitch and others still at 60 Hz

cyanGalaxy said:
Yes, MIUI 13. YouTube, Twitch and others still at 60 Hz
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oh...you can use this app to set per app refresh rate..here is the step:
1)enable zygisk from magisk
2)flash the dynamic fps disable module
3)flash the lsposed
4)install the miuiperfsaver
5)reboot
6)open lsposed app and enable the module and tick like in the pic
7)reboot and open the miui perfsaver app to set your refresh rate on certain app (you need to set to 120hz @ 144hz from setting

cyanGalaxy said:
Yes, MIUI 13. YouTube, Twitch and others still at 60 Hz
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you can search miuiperfsaver from the lsposed app and download the apk

Question Throttling with Game Turbo

Hi team.
Is anyone experiencing overheating issues while gaming with Game Turbo on?
I got the phone throttle while playing Diablo and Call of Duty with the default in-game settings.
Tried several different Game Turbo configs but none of them makes any difference.
Tried resetting the phone, although it is new, with no luck...
Disabling Game Turbo solves the problem.
Reproduced the issue with 3DMark.
Disabling Game Turbo yields lower but stable results.
Game Turbo enabledGame Turbo disabled
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I don't mind the lower graphics but I like the in-game menu Game Turbo provides.
Stock MIUI 13.0.5, Android 12
Game Turbo (Security app) 6.2.3

I had overheating issue while recording the timelapse on the sun.
After 20 minutes of 30-minute timelapse phone stops with overheating message.
I didn't enable performance mode or Game Turbo mode at all.
I think that the phone will work well in normal conditions but if you push it will overheat due small size and not enough room for proper cooling.

have you tried disable joyose app?
Lot of conflict report but many people say it's the culprit.

I debloated my 12X few days ago using this guide - https://lucacesarano.medium.com/xiaomi-super-bloatware-list-2020-db38ace9e9e1

Sub8 said:
I had overheating issue while recording the timelapse on the sun.
After 20 minutes of 30-minute timelapse phone stops with overheating message.
I didn't enable performance mode or Game Turbo mode at all.
I think that the phone will work well in normal conditions but if you push it will overheat due small size and not enough room for proper cooling.
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the phone doesn't overheat and throttle while playing without Game Turbo, despite its small size;
perhaps the sun heated up your phone additionally

dzhelyazkov said:
the phone doesn't overheat and throttle while playing without Game Turbo, despite its small size;
perhaps the sun heated up your phone additionally
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very likely the sun heated the phone, but at the same time I recorded the same timelapse with A52S and had no problem with overheating

fallengt said:
have you tried disable joyose app?
Lot of conflict report but many people say it's the culprit.
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People say that I may brick my phone if I remove Joyoce (disable button is grayed out...)
Tried updating it instead to latest version - the heating problem persists.

Updated Game Turbo (Security App) to latest version.
Tried even the Chinese one.
The issue still persists.

Anyone knows a proven way to submit the issue to Xiaomi?
Did that via the Feedback app, but I am sceptic about it.

dzhelyazkov said:
People say that I may brick my phone if I remove Joyoce (disable button is grayed out...)
Tried updating it instead to latest version - the heating problem persists.
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I disable Joyoce, and didn't brick my phone. I even provided link few posts above with a guide.

Here are my results. I don't see any difference.
Turbo onTurbo off

Sub8 said:
Here are my results. I don't see any difference.
Turbo onTurbo offView attachment 5715881View attachment 5715883
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Yeah, your phone doesn't seem to throttle.
Will debloat mine, including the Joyose removal, as you suggested.
Will post results after that.
In the meantime is your phone stock?
Any further suggestions?

dzhelyazkov said:
Yeah, your phone doesn't seem to throttle.
Will debloat mine, including the Joyose removal, as you suggested.
Will post results after that.
In the meantime is your phone stock?
Any further suggestions?
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The phone is stock, default EU version. Just debloated. I am planning to unlock the bootloader and install Xiaomi.eu, but that will wait a little bit.
I didn't have any issues with debloating so I presume you will be fine. Of course, debloat the phone at your own risk.
I usually don't use the phone for gaming so I don't know what to do in that part.
I use DND and power save mode overnight, not that this will help you, but it might save a little battery time.
Also, I tried to play Diablo Immortal for a few hours and didn't experience any issues. The phone got warmer, but that's it.

de-bloated the phone - all apps from the suggested list were removed, including Joyose, although some were not even installed;
the good thing is that everything seems fine after the de-bloat;
the bad - my phone still throttles...
Security and Battery and performance apps updated and all data cleared;
rebooted;
Edit: I enabled the Perf Optimization option in Turbo (disabled by default), and hallelujah - no throttling

That is great to hear!

The issue re-appeared a couple of weeks after the initial fix...
No auto updates.
No Joyose app.
Disabling Game Turbo (with Battery and perf app data wipe) is the only fix so far...
Will update relevant apps and will post results soon.