The ROG Phone 3 launched a few days ago as one of the most powerful Android smartphones ever released. Early reviews of the phone have called it insanely fast, thanks to its Snapdragon 865 Plus processor and its 144Hz refresh rate. It has now been revealed that the ROG Phone 3 has a hidden 160Hz refresh rate mode.
The discovery was made by XDA-Developers Editor-in-Chief, Mishaal Rahman, and he also found a way to activate it. According to a published post on the discovered feature, he found references to the high refresh rate mode in the settings app when trying to find out how the phone switches between refresh rates.
He eventually found a debug command that allows the option to set the refresh rate to 160Hz appear in the settings menu. You can check the source article for the procedure which involves setting up ADB on your PC. When done, the 160Hz refresh rate option should be available for you to choose under display settings.
To find out if it worked, you can test the refresh rate by downloading the Fluid Simulation app and proceed to set the refresh rate inside the app’s settings to 160Hz.
It appears that ASUS probably wasn’t done testing the feature which is why it was hidden. Hopefully, a future update will unlock the feature for all users without the need to go through the ADB process.
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