In a put up on Twitter, Brooke features a hyperlink to the venture on GitHub and says that he simply doesn’t have sufficient time to work on it. The mod prompts a seemingly untapped 90Hz refresh fee on the budget-friendly Pixel 6A, which might in any other case ship with a 6.1-inch OLED show working at 60Hz. Whereas The Verge’s senior editor, Sean Hollister, confirmed that the mod does work, there are a number of caveats.

For one, some customers report seeing a inexperienced tint on their shows when attempting the mod, however that’s one thing Brooke and his staff hope different builders can repair. “The display screen tints the precise approach excessive refresh fee OLED panels do after they’re not appropriately calibrated,” Brooke tells The Verge. “I do know it’s totally potential to overwrite these tables however I don’t have the time to work on it myself so I open-sourced the driving force edits in order that different builders can work on it.“ Brooke provides that you simply shouldn’t discover the inexperienced tint when the show is on the max or lowest brightness; the issue persists when it’s set within the center.

The method of putting in the mod remains to be fairly difficult, and for those who do truly get it to work, we don’t know whether or not working the upper refresh fee impacts the machine. It’s nonetheless not clear whether or not the 90Hz choice is software program locked, or if the mod simply overclocks the machine, one thing developer Kuba Wojciechowski identified on Twitter a few months again. The Verge reached out to Google to see if the Pixel 6A’s show actually does help 90Hz, and we’ll replace this text if we hear again.

Hopefully, we’ll get some strong details about any potential results on the machine as soon as extra builders begin diving in. Brooke tells The Verge that builders will ultimately “be capable of launch their very own kernels with improved variations” of the driving force, so we’ll simply have to remain tuned for a completed product.