We can mirror or duplicate the mobile screen on the PC in many ways, but to do it with the mobile screen turned off is already more difficult. Until now, since Scrcpy allows us to mirror with the phone turned off.
We have other apps that allow us to share the screen of our mobile on the computer as is Microsoft's own Your Phone. But here the idea is that you skip this and look more at Scrcpy that has been developed by a developer from XDA Developers.
Sharing the mobile screen on your PC
Scrcpy is an open source app that we have for free and that is characterized by giving us the option to duplicate the mobile screen on a Windows PC. That is, you will not even have to turn on the phone so that you can see the notifications, respond from the same phone or open an app to manage it from your PC.
We are not talking about an app that has been launched days ago, but that it made its appearance as early as December 2017 to allow any user to control and view your Android devices from Windows. Another of its highlights is that it works through a USB connection. That is, you connect the cable and you can now control your mobile from your computer screen.
The goal of wanting to mirror the screen on the PC is be able to operate it with a mouse and keyboard and have everything that happens on your mobile on a larger screen, who would not want these functions? And if it is connected through the USB connection, it means that you can forget about some kind of lag, since the input is direct and the control is in real time.
How to duplicate the screen of your mobile on the PC with it turned off
Scrcpy works in such a way run a server on the Android device that communicates with the PC through the socker over an ADB tunnel. Another point is that we don't even have to have ROOT on our device. Only these two active features:
Activate developer options from Settings> About> Build number.
Enable USB Debugging from the developer options that will be activated when we press 7 times on the compilation number.
This done, we can install version 1.9 released by the developer these days ago. Its best feature is that scrcpy now allows you to mirror your device's screen while it is off. Take into account that the screen is not deactivated, but it does not really show anything.
Other new features in version 1.9 of scrcpy They are clipboards from the mobile to the computer and the feature that now you just need one click to access your mirrored mobile screen. Previously you had to click to do another and thus control your device.
You will need to use ADB Tools to create the Android app.
Or simply open Command Prompt in the folder where the downloaded ZIP is unzipped and type "scrcpy".
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Scrcpy can go a long way, but what we recommend is that you adjust the DPI of your screen to a higher number so that your mobile screen looks even better on your PC; especially if it has 2K or 4K resolution. In this way we can see the apps on our mobile perfectly from the PC.
Yes, remember to reset the DPI to the default state when you are not going to use scrcpy, otherwise everything will look very small. An interesting app to which you can play a lot with that of being able to see what happens on your mobile screen even when it is turned off.
If you need help to compile the scrcpy APK, drop by the comments right here And we give you a hand to get the full potential of this little Android app that we don't have in the Google Play Store at the moment.
It does not work for me in win7, do all the steps and look for versions that say they support it but nothing.