Here are some simple ways to speed up your smartphone

Here are some simple ways to speed up your smartphone

Clean the home screen

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Cleaning up the home screen will help bring down the stutters. Keeping a live wallpaper with widgets for weather, news and other such constantly updating apps, may result in lags often as all of them get refreshed as soon as you unlock your smartphone. Same is the case with keeping multiple windows on the home screen.

Enable ‘Data Saver’ mode

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Enabling the ‘Data Saver’ option in the Chrome browser will also help you surf without waiting much as it compresses the page, using less data and loading pages faster. Here you could be sacrificing on the image and video quality a bit. Also, data speed matters here.

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Switch off auto-sync

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Most of the smartphones these days have this particular option in the Settings app. You can simply head there to take a look at what apps really need to be auto synced in the background. You can select the ones you think you don’t need auto syncing for and turn off the auto-sync option.

Task killers actually make apps ‘slow’

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Yes, you heard that right. Task killing apps actually make it slow for apps to start. This is because some of the apps are managed better by Android when they are left midway in the background. When task killers shut down an app that is running in the background, booting them from the start takes more time. It also takes more battery.

Overclock the smartphone processor

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If you know how to root your Android smartphone and have a good overclocking app in place, then get ready to witness a snappier UI experience. However, some of the caveats here include overheating of smartphones and faster battery drain.

Clear the cached data

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This is perhaps the most common method of clearing out junk files and making the smartphone quick in certain tasks. You get a lot of apps for this and some smartphones even have an inbuilt phone manager with this feature.

Put an end to apps running in the background

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You can also deactivate some of the apps that are running in the background. Clearing apps that you won’t use anytime soon, will free up RAM and the load on the processor, giving a thrust and fluid performance to other active apps. You get several third-party apps for this as well.

Keep the OS version up to date

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If your smartphone is still in the official OS upgrade cycle, do install the latest version whenever the OEM rolls it out. This keeps the bugs from the previous version away and brings several fixes and optimisations to keep the device snappy and non-laggy.

If nothing works, factory reset is the way to go

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This is your last resort. If you are not familiar with rooting, your device is no more in the official Android OS update cycle and you don’t want third-party apps to clear date for you, perform a factory reset. The option can be found in the Settings page. Make sure you backup everything before doing a factory reset.