How to make your slow android phone fast again?

Ageing is normal for everything, mobiles phones are no different. iPhones age well than android devices that’s another topic to discuss. We are using mobiles now more than ever. This whole pandemic thing made everything online and mobile is the go-to device for all tasks. Though new mobile phones are coming with better and efficient processors and specs, after some period the devices feel a bit laggy. It may be while using the device normally or doing heavy tasks, sometimes even hang upon us while doing something important. Here is how you can speed up your android phone a bit fast until you upgrade your device.

Gist: To speed up your phone check the following things

1. Backup and free Internal Storage
2. Clear Cache
3. Uninstall unnecessary Apps/ Bloatware
4. Use Developer Options
5. Factory reset.

• Check Storage: Well it’s not necessarily true that having a high storage device makes your smartphone faster. But the amount of free storage in your phone does affect the reading and writing speeds. Thus affecting the performance. Also if there is not much space available for maintaining cache then it will be a problem. These days with all the apps taking so much data even texting apps like telegram and WhatsApp. Checking apps data is important and clearing the cache too. Especially on our parents or elders phones who usually don’t know all these. So, it is important to maintain an adequate amount of free storage for better performance. So go to settings or File manager and check the available storage. If it is less than 20% then back up your data to your PC or a hard drive. If you have photos to save, then use services like Google Photos to store them in the cloud for up to 15GB for free.

• Clear Cache: cache is like temporary storage for apps to store their data so that they don’t have to reload every time you open it. So, if the cache gets fulled or occupies more storage then it will eventually slow down the mobile phone. So regularly check the cache of your applications and delete them if not necessary.

• Uninstall unnecessary Apps/ Bloatware: Smartphone manufacturers partner up with 3rd party apps and install them with all mobiles. This generally happens in the budget segment. Also, they have their own alternate apps for google apps, like the mails app on Samsung devices. Though we don’t use them, they still occupy some storage. Some apps even run in the background using up all the resources and increasing the load on the processor thus making it slow or hang. So if you find any such apps then it’s better to uninstall them. If uninstall is not available then try to force stop them and revoke all the permissions given to them.

• Use Developer Options: Every phone has developer options in its settings. But you need to enable it before. Enabling it is simple. You just need to go into Settings–> About phone–> tap multiple time on Build number until it shows developer options is enabled.

Now there are two things you can do in Dev Options to make your phone fast.

I. Reduce animations: scrolling down in developer options you can find the Animations section. There are 3 animations settings that are default set at 1x. Now go ahead and put them either at 0.5x or turn them off completely. Turning off means no animations. This makes it easy for your CPU and GPU.

II. Force GPU rendering: While you are in developer tools, enable Force GPU rendering. This makes use of GPU to render 2D elements that are usually rendered using the software.

• Factory reset: Last but not least. If your phone is pretty old and struggling to do basic tasks. Then you can try resetting your phone. Factory reset means wiping out all the data on internal storage. That is doing it makes your device feel out of the box with no apps and data. But keep in mind that it’ll erase all data, so be sure to back up all your photos and documents and app data before doing so. Now after doing the reset, as there are not many backgrounds running apps or processes. Now install only necessary apps and make necessary changes in settings and keep an eye on your phone.

These are the things you can try to speed up your phone if you feel your phone is feeling laggy or choppy or even freezing all of a sudden.  Share with your friends who are in dire need to see this!

Also, Read How to free up space on your Android Phone?