Android phones have made significant performance gains thanks to improved hardware and constant software updates. It will be difficult to find games and apps for your flagship phone that it cannot handle. Most midrange gadgets are also competent. These days, even cheap Android phones are powerful. However, there are differences between a brand-new device and one that has been used for some time and has a lot of trash files, plenty of installed apps and games, and a battery drain and recharges cycle. Even the fastest Android phones eventually begin to slow down after a couple of years. You can take steps to enhance your phone’s performance. Although it won’t be as quick as the newest flagships, you should still see some performance improvements. Here are our top suggestions on how to make Android faster.
How to Make Android Faster?
There are many methods you may use to speed up your Android smartphone. Continue reading to learn how to speed up your phone—as well as what you should not do.
Restart Device
Restarting your device should be your first step in troubleshooting if your phone suddenly becomes slow. This easy trick can dramatically improve the performance of your phone, especially if annoying background app activities are to blame. The majority of smartphones are equipped with adequate RAM, and Android has a great memory management system. Nevertheless, a reboot can enhance overall performance if you use a low-cost smartphone with 3GB or 4GB of memory or less.
Restarting your smartphone at least once a week is a smart idea. However, if it starts to drag in between reboots, up the frequency to once every other day.
Clean Storage
If you have an older phone, you’re probably aware of the problem of running out of storage. When your phone is low on storage, everything comes to a halt. Less than 10% of the on-device storage, according to Google, will cause performance concerns. Our recommendation is to maintain the empty storage space at roughly 20%.
- Go to Settings.
- Open Storage Settings or just search for Storage using the Search Bar inside Storage Settings.
- Take your time to find all the unused Apps and uninstall them.
You can also delete all the backed-up photos, delete duplicates and old downloads, and use a microSD card if you have the slot. One of the best apps to clean leftover files from applications is Files by Google.
Uninstall Apps
You can take this as an extension of the above suggestion. Unused apps don’t only take up precious storage space but also hog up RAM if they are running in the background. Uninstalling downloaded programs that are no longer in use may enhance device performance and battery life. Apps can be removed in a variety of ways, but the most common method is to long-press the icon and choose Uninstall or drag the icon to the uninstall window that pops up at the top of the screen.
If you choose not to remove applications, you can clean the caches for each one separately. On stock Android, choose the app and choose Clear cache by tapping Settings > Storage > Other Apps. Tap Settings > Apps on your Samsung. You can choose an app and hit Storage > Clear cache from here, or you can sort by size. This is less efficient than uninstalling the app because the cache will rebuild. You will need to do this once in a while.
Decrease System Animation Speed
Although changing the speed of the system animation on your Android smartphone won’t actually speed things up, it will give the impression that it is working more quickly. This perception of better system performance is the result of shorter animation delays, which hasten the completion of graphics sequences.
If the animations on your Android smartphone seem unusually sluggish or slow, try this approach. It almost feels magical. For better outcomes, you can disable the system animations. But in the process, you’ll give up the eye-catching transition effects. You will need to enable Developer Options for this.
- Go to Settings.
- Scroll down to About Phone and tap on it.
- Tap the Build Number 7 times. Confirm if a prompt appears.
- Go back to Settings and find the newly unlocked Developer Options.
- Inside Developer Options, scroll down and find Animation Scale under Drawing
- Tap on it and select the lowest possible option (.5x) on:
- Window Animation Scale,
- Transition Animation Scale, and
- Animator Duration Scale.
Use Lite Apps
For outdated and low-end Android smartphones with less RAM and storage, Google and a few other developers provide Lite or Go variants of their apps. Apps in the Lite edition are smaller and use fewer resources than their full-featured counterparts. A number of Google’s apps, such as Google Go, Assistant Go, & Maps Go, have Lite versions available. On the Play Store, you can also get Lite versions of other well-known applications like Twitter, Spotify, and Facebook.
Update Firmware
Check for the latest updates if your phone seems sluggish. Every time a new version of Android is released, Google optimizes it, and even most producers do the same with their software skins. Therefore, updating to the most recent Android version on your device might free up system resources, which might aid in quicker app loading times and greater system smoothness. Since the early days of Android, all major Manufacturers have advanced significantly and now frequently release updates for their smartphones. The best aspect is that these companies make improvements to system responsiveness and smoothness practically every time there is an update. So, check the system update settings to see if any OTA software is available.
Inside the Google Play Store, you may activate automatic updates as well. Apps update automatically if you have Wi-Fi access and your phone is idle. The settings can be changed to permit updates over mobile data, but if you go over your monthly data allotment, your service provider might impose extra fees or reduce your internet speed.
Install Custom Firmware
Consider implementing a custom Firmware or kernel on your Android phone if it is an older (and slower) model or has outlived manufacturer support. Your warranty will be voided as a result, however, given how old your gadget is, it has essentially already expired. Make sure your device’s bootloader can be unlocked before continuing because you’re probably out of luck otherwise. The process to root and install custom ROMs or kernels differ based on the version and device maker on phones when the bootloader unlocking is not a problem.
If you don’t like the stock firmware on your phone, flashing a custom ROM is an excellent choice. The extra software and features that many manufacturers add to their products cause them to become bloated, problematic, and slow. You may immediately increase your speed by switching to a clutter ROM like LineageOS in its place.
What Doesn’t Work?
Task Killers do not work. The most widely used apps on the Play Store are task killers, however, they are absolutely useless. In fact, they might slow down your phone. To release RAM, a task killer shuts down background programs. It operates under the premise that extra RAM enhances performance, yet this is untrue. Android is made to maintain apps in RAM so that it can instantly restore them. When more resources are required, it will automatically close apps. The fact that some app processes are made to operate in the background means that they will, more importantly, restart immediately after being stopped. Your phone will run much slower if you stop pausing and starting so much than if you simply allow Android to do its thing.
Other useless apps are “Speed Optimizers” that does not require root access. While we make every effort to avoid stereotypes, it is safe to state that you should stay away from any non-root application that claims to boost your phone’s performance. This includes SD card speedups, RAM boosters, and other tools of a similar nature that you may get on the Google Play Store. They don’t function quite often, are generally loaded with unwanted adverts, and might actually slow down your phone.
Additionally, avoid using Android defragmenter apps. Defragmenting is not necessary for your phone because it uses flash memory and is unaffected by fragmentation. Your phone won’t operate quicker even if you use every phone defragmenter available on Google Play. At best, they won’t do anything, and at worst, they might be malicious apps.
