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.
