Make your android phone faster by few simple steps

Android was developed for many devices that do not share a standard hardware specification. It’s like the Windows of smartphones.
There are some Android phones that run on few hundred megahertz with a handful of internal memory while there are beasts like HTC One X that run on a multi-core processor with 1 GB of RAM. Due to these reasons, performance of Android phones differ and thus some appear slow when compared to others.
Even though the performance issue is mainly related to the device hardware configuration, there are few things you can do on the software front which can reduce the pressure on the device hardware making it considerably faster. So let’s have a look at these tips.

Note: The following tips are for non-rooted Android phones. If you don’t understand what “non-rooted” means, this post is for you. This post is also for those who don’t want to root their phones just to make it run faster, and are looking for easier workarounds. If you have a rooted phone, then still it is very useful.

 

1. Disable Screen Animation and Live Wallpaper

You need to be sure what you want with your device – performance or appearance. Both never walk hand in hand, not if your phone isn’t high end i.e. a highly configured device. If you are looking for a superior performance, you should disable all the Live wallpapers (if at all you are using them) and the screen animation that gives fading effect to your menus and unlock animation.



Selecting common image wallpapers over a live wallpaper is easy. To disable the screen animation, IceCreamSandwich users should navigate to Developer options in the settings while other users should disable it from Display—>Animations.

 

2. Install Apps on Need to Use Basis

Even though Android Play Store is a home to millions of free applications, it is recommended that you only download and install the apps that you need. Apps on Android are installed in a special memory called the ROM, which is usually limited in storage space.
Thus if you populate it with unnecessary apps, it will only reduce the consistency of the memory and make it slow. One of the best practices you can follow is that you should install only basic apps on your ROM and create backup files of once-in-a-while apps as APK on the SD card using an app for backup of these APK files.
Later, when you require a particular app out of the blue, you can install the app using the APK file and perform the operation.

3. Switch-on different features and disable them after use

Enabling too many features make a device comparatively slow and drain its juice. You should enable only those features which are required at a time and don't make several features running unnecessarily.

 

 4. Use Apps to Free Up the RAM

Once you launch an app on Android it remains in the memory until it’s killed(means closed). Although some people say that killing(means closing) applications on Android is not a healthy habit, I believe that killing only the ones that are bloating up the memory is a good thing to do.

There are many app available that acts as a task killer for your Android and increases the device’s free memory. And I don’t need to tell you the fact that performance is directly proportional to the amount of free RAM on a device.

 

5. Keep your Home Screen Clean

Last but not the least, always try to keep your home screen clean. Widgets are not a fancy item. They are there to solve a specific purpose. Thus use only what you require and reduce the number of home screen panels that contain icons and widgets.

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10 Tips to Boost Your Android Phone's Battery Life

 1. See what's sucking the most juice: Navigate to Settings > Battery to see an organized breakdown of what's consuming your phone's battery. Applications and features will display in a descending list of battery hogs. If you see an application you barely use or a feature you never use, you'll want to uninstall the app or turn off the feature.

Battery Usage of Android

2. Reduce email, Twitter, and Facebook polling: Set your various messaging apps to "manual" for the polling or refresh frequency, just as a test, and you'll instantly extend your device's battery life by a significant amount. Once you see what a difference that makes, try re-enabling just the most important ones, and possibly reducing their polling frequency in the process.

3. Turn unnecessary hardware radios off: It's great that today's phones have LTE, NFC, GPS, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth, but do you really need all five activated 24 hours per day? Android keeps location-based apps resident in the background, and the constant drain on your battery will become noticeable, fast. If your phone has a power control widget, you can use it to quickly turn on/off GPS (the largest power drain), NFC, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and LTE. On stock Android, swipe down to bring up the Notification bar, and then tap the icon on the top right corner.

4. Use the extra power saving mode if you have it: The aforementioned Galaxy S5 and HTC One (M8) both have Ultra Power Saving and Extreme Power Saving modes, respectively, that limits the phone to texting, phone calls, Web browsing, and Facebook. This can squeeze extra hours or even a day of standby time out of just a few remaining percentage points of battery.

5. Trim apps running in the background: From Settings > Apps, swipe to the left; you'll see a list of apps that are currently running. Tap on each one to see what they're for; you can stop any apps that you don't need running in the background all of the time.

6. Dump unnecessary home screen widgets and live wallpaper: Just because they're sitting on the home screen, seemingly inactive, doesn't mean they're not consuming power. This goes for widgets that poll status updates in the background, as well as ones that just sit there but look pretty and animated—not to mention animated live wallpaper. (But don't dump everything, as part of what makes Android great are the home screen customizations; just remove the ones you don't use.)

7. Turn down the brightness and turn off Automatic Brightness: It's probably obvious at this point, but you'll be surprised by how much this one alone helps to improve battery life.

8. Update your apps: Applications often get updated to use less battery power, so you should make sure your apps are up to date. Even if you configured the phone for automatic updates, some apps still require that you manually install updates. Check for app updates in Google Play by hitting the menu key and going to My Apps.

9. Keep an eye on signal strength: If you're in an area with poor cellular coverage, the phone will work harder to latch onto a strong-enough signal. This has an adverse effect on battery life. There's not much you can do about this one, but keep in mind that this could be the culprit behind a seemingly weak battery; it's worth popping the phone into Airplane mode if you don't need data or voice calls.

10. Check the reviews: We conduct battery life tests on every single Android phone we review. Unsurprisingly, the results vary widely between handsets, even on the same network. When choosing a phone, make sure that real world talk time is sufficient. You can't go by what the manufacturer says; we see variances on the order of several hours of usage in both directions on a regular basis.

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Use greenify application for better battery backup and performance of your smartphone

First of all download Greenify application from play store or from the link given below
 https://www.dropbox.com/s/wy07axr9w1v9cbx/Greenify_2.5.2.apk?dl=0

Now go through these steps to know how to use greenify application.
 
Step 1:
See which apps are always running in background

Step 2:
Open Greenify and tap Show more apps

Step 3:
Select the apps which you want to greenify
Caution: Don't select apps that requires to run in background like messenger, whatsapp, clock, keyboard, launcher, antivirus, etc

Step 4:
Tap the tick mark in top right corner

Step 5:
Wait to Hibernate

Note: To greenify more apps tap + button

To Degreenify: long press the app you want to degreenify and then tap the cross button in bottom left corner.

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