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7 Cool Tweaks To Get Best Performance From Your Android Smartphone
With any new
smartphone, there is a
bit of setup to be done.
With Android, users can
tweak every minute detail
of the device to get the
best experience. Here
are some of the best tips
and tricks that you can
employ in order to get
best performance from
your Android smartphone.
Prepare Google Account
Before you get in too
deep playing with your
new phone, get your
Google account settings
into shape. Head over to
your Google Contacts on
a computer, and get rid
of all the email addresses
you don’t need. Pay
special attention to
contacts that lack a
phone number, and add it
if you have one. You can
also make groups for
easier sorting on your
device. If you’re using an
Ice Cream Sandwich
device, you might
consider manually adding
a higher-resolution image
to your favorite contacts.
There are a lot of places
in the new OS that
contact images are shown
off in a big tile-based UI.
Know Your Device
Don’t overburden your
phone with resource
hungry apps which can
otherwise degrade your
phone’s performance at
your expense. It is
important that you learn
about the capabilities and
drawbacks of your
phone.
Update Version of
Android
If you haven’t updated
your
Android phone to
the latest firmware, you
should. Google brings
great improvements to
each new release of the
Android operating
system, including updates
that ensure stability,
higher performance
speed and connectivity
along with other user-
friendly new features.
Remove Unwanted Apps
Every app you install in
your phone take some
storage space and runs
some background
processes. The more
storage space occupied
or the more background
processes running on
your phone, the slower
your phone’s
performance. Don’t install
apps you hardly use.
Keep only the apps that
you need and if you have
got an app that isn’t
really useful, you can
uninstall or disable it.
Disable Unnecessary
Apps
Performance assistant’
was introduced in Android
ICS to help you disable
apps that you don’t need.
Disabling apps is
different from uninstalling
apps – uninstallation
remove application files
from the phone but no file
is removed/ deleted
when you disable it.
These disabled apps are
not shown on the home
screen or app tray but
you can re-enable them
for use whenever you
need them.
Use High Speed Memory
Card
The memory card is the
storage space of your
phone. Phones with low
internal memory can get a
boost from high-capacity
memory cards for
maximum storage space.
But it adds not only
capacity but also speed
to the mix. You can get
between 2GB to 32GB
worth of storage space
to support high speed
read/write operations.
Always go for memory
cards of Class 6 or
Class
10 for your Android
phone if you seek
performance for your
phone.
Keep Fewer Widgets
Widgets are not apps,
which only run once you
choose to activate them.
No, widgets are always
running in the
background; they are
active all the time. While
some Android users use
it to keep track of the
weather, and their
important dates, others
use widgets like
‘Extended controls’ for
quick access for
essential configurations
such as switching Wi-Fi,
Bluetooth or their GPS on
or off. They do have
their uses but bear in
mind that having too
many of them running on
your home screen will
cause your device’s
performance to slow
down.
ENJOY
With any new
smartphone, there is a
bit of setup to be done.
With Android, users can
tweak every minute detail
of the device to get the
best experience. Here
are some of the best tips
and tricks that you can
employ in order to get
best performance from
your Android smartphone.
Prepare Google Account
Before you get in too
deep playing with your
new phone, get your
Google account settings
into shape. Head over to
your Google Contacts on
a computer, and get rid
of all the email addresses
you don’t need. Pay
special attention to
contacts that lack a
phone number, and add it
if you have one. You can
also make groups for
easier sorting on your
device. If you’re using an
Ice Cream Sandwich
device, you might
consider manually adding
a higher-resolution image
to your favorite contacts.
There are a lot of places
in the new OS that
contact images are shown
off in a big tile-based UI.
Know Your Device
Don’t overburden your
phone with resource
hungry apps which can
otherwise degrade your
phone’s performance at
your expense. It is
important that you learn
about the capabilities and
drawbacks of your
phone.
Update Version of
Android
If you haven’t updated
your
Android phone to
the latest firmware, you
should. Google brings
great improvements to
each new release of the
Android operating
system, including updates
that ensure stability,
higher performance
speed and connectivity
along with other user-
friendly new features.
Remove Unwanted Apps
Every app you install in
your phone take some
storage space and runs
some background
processes. The more
storage space occupied
or the more background
processes running on
your phone, the slower
your phone’s
performance. Don’t install
apps you hardly use.
Keep only the apps that
you need and if you have
got an app that isn’t
really useful, you can
uninstall or disable it.
Disable Unnecessary
Apps
Performance assistant’
was introduced in Android
ICS to help you disable
apps that you don’t need.
Disabling apps is
different from uninstalling
apps – uninstallation
remove application files
from the phone but no file
is removed/ deleted
when you disable it.
These disabled apps are
not shown on the home
screen or app tray but
you can re-enable them
for use whenever you
need them.
Use High Speed Memory
Card
The memory card is the
storage space of your
phone. Phones with low
internal memory can get a
boost from high-capacity
memory cards for
maximum storage space.
But it adds not only
capacity but also speed
to the mix. You can get
between 2GB to 32GB
worth of storage space
to support high speed
read/write operations.
Always go for memory
cards of Class 6 or
Class
10 for your Android
phone if you seek
performance for your
phone.
Keep Fewer Widgets
Widgets are not apps,
which only run once you
choose to activate them.
No, widgets are always
running in the
background; they are
active all the time. While
some Android users use
it to keep track of the
weather, and their
important dates, others
use widgets like
‘Extended controls’ for
quick access for
essential configurations
such as switching Wi-Fi,
Bluetooth or their GPS on
or off. They do have
their uses but bear in
mind that having too
many of them running on
your home screen will
cause your device’s
performance to slow
down.
ENJOY
