Developer who worked on 90Hz mod for Pixel 6A is calling it quits

The developer who worked on a mod to get the Google Pixel 6A’s screen to work at 90Hz has stopped working. He has posted the files publicly online in the hope that other developers will have time to fix the bugs and publish the mod.

Nathan Brooke, who also calls himself TheLunarixus, says he sold his Pixel 6A and that he doesn’t have enough time to work on it. The mod is now publicly available online. The main problem is the green tint that the screen gives when it is not set to maximum or minimum brightness. That looks like a poorly calibrated screen, he tells The Verge.

That problem is the reason the mod hasn’t been released publicly, the developer says. “Everything else is stable,” Brooke said. The mod is possible because the Pixel 6A uses the same display controller as the Pixel 6. Samsung’s s6e3fc3 controller. This is known to support screens with a refresh rate of 90Hz. However, in the configuration for the Pixel 6A, this mode was not present.

Brooke then copied the 90Hz mode timings from the Pixel 6 driver and added them to the Pixel 6A driver, along with some adjustments to the height and width values, since the Pixel 6A’s screen was a bit is smaller. The mod currently works by flashing a custom vendor_boot partition. Whether and when there will be a public release of the mod is currently unclear. The Pixel 6A was released in August.

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