How to Speed Up Android Without Rooting Edited by Chryssa at 2015-12-11 14:45
One of the biggest and most popular benefits of rooted Android is being able to boost performance. Today, I’m goingto tell you why you don’t necessarily have to root Android to enjoy faster performance. Here are the best tips you can implementtoday that can speed up Android without requiring root access.
This is one of my favorite Android tipsever. It goes to work instantly. It noticeably “speeds up” your device (or atleast makes it looksignificantly faster). It’s also ridiculously easyto activate. First, you’ll need to enable the hiddenDeveloper Options panel from the Settings menu. To do that, you go to your Settings menu, then head to the Aboutsection of the device and tap your build number 7 times in a row. Once you’ve done that, the Developer Options menu will appear under your normal settings screen. Open thatsettings menu and you’ll see a bunch of stuff you probably don’t understand(like “Force RTL layout direction”). But scroll past those options to settingslike Windowanimation scale, Transition animation scale, and Animator duration scale. Each of thesesettings is set to 1x by default.
However, you can increase these settings to.5x to literally double the speed of your Android device. You see, these settings all control thespeed at which every window on Android opens. By cutting the speed to .5x, yourAndroid will feel significantly faster – guaranteed.
If you’re weird and want to feel a slowerversion of Android, then you can also scale down your animation to 10x. Ultimately, this tip doesn’t actually speedup your device or increase its performance. Instead, it just makes it look like it’s way faster. But who really cares?
To uninstall apps, just go to your Settings menu then find the Application Manager. Companies like Samsung make this setting weirdly difficult to find(it’s hidden inside the general Apps menu). Then, scroll to the DOWNLOADED tab and clear out any apps you no longer like or use.
Keep in mind that you can alwaysre-download paid apps. So if you paid a few bucks for an app and are hesitantabout deleting it, just remember that the payment is linked to your Googleaccount forever.
In a lot of cases, that’s simply because your phone’s internal storage is filling up with a bunch of crap you don’t need. As mentioned above, you can uninstall certain apps to clear out some of that crap. If you’re still noticing slowdown problems, however, then another major source of slow down is your photos album. On newer phones, like the Galaxy S6, eachphoto with the phone’s main camera takes up anywhere from 4.5MB to 6MB ofspace, if not more depending on your panoramas and PhotoSpheres. All of that space can add up quickly. Irecently went on a trip to Europe and noticed my phone slowing down about 4weeks into my trip. When I looked at my phone’s internal storage, I only hadabout 1GB of space remaining on my 32GB internal storage from all the photos I took. With that in mind, you might want to hookyour phone up to your computer and wipe out old photos (after backing them upto your hard drive or to cloud storage, for example). If you use services likeOneDrive or DropBox, then the automatic photo upload can be very helpful.
If you prefer clearing out app caches on your own, then you can do that from the Application Manager menu. I don’t recommend doing this to apps like Facebook unless you want to sign in again. But certain apps – like Reddit apps– that save a lot of random background data can benefit from a routine cache cleaning.
Get into the habit of clearing out appcaches every few months to make sure your phone’s internal storage is clutterfree and optimized. If you do end up using apps like App CacheCleaner, you can actually tell that app to clear caches every hour, every 4hours, every 8 hours, or whatever other interval you choose. You can alsochoose to clear caches automatically after you exit an app. On the flip side,this requires the app to constantly run in the background, which can reduceyour Android performance even further – so be careful. | |
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