▷10 essential tips to speed up your Android smartphone 🥇

Your Android smartphone is too slow, here are 10 essential tips to speed it up and remove the factors of slowness. We show you why your phone slows down over time and how to fix this all-too-common problem. We will tell you everything in the following.

Every time we buy a new smartphone, we always find it more beautiful and faster than the previous one and we are always amazed by the extent of its performance. However, after a few months or a few years, it begins to show some slowness and there, it is the tragedy and we are already thinking of offering new ones.

However, it is quite possible to give it back its velocity of the first days thanks to the 5 little tips described below! Here's how to speed up your Android smartphone in ten steps!

Tips to make your Android smartphone faster

1. Clear apps you don't use

How many applications that you have only used once or even twice are still on your smartphone? However, they have nothing more to do there, first because they take up space in the storage memory, then because even when closed they use part of the resources of the processor and the RAM.

To remove unnecessary application, go to the menu Settings> Device> Applications

Select the tab "Downloaded"
Scroll down the list
Click on the app you want to remove
Click on "Uninstall" then " OKAY "

Also, don't hesitate to delete the default apps. The handling is a bit more complex but well worth it!

2. Monitor and clean your smartphone storage space

Even if we don't pay attention to it every day, we often tend to store everything and anything on our phones: missed photos, too large videos and of course all the downloaded files, especially in the form of attachments.

Here is two operations to be carried out regularly to clean the storage memory of your smartphone:

Go to your "Gallery" application to erase unnecessary photos and videos
Launch the "Downloads" application or go to the menu Settings> Device> Storage Downloads, make a long press to select the obsolete files from the list then click on the "Trash" icon to delete them.

Note that to save space, you can also move applications and files to your SD card.

3. Clear cache

In addition to photos, videos and downloaded files, the storage memory of our phones is often invaded by cached data from applications. Yet it is so easy to delete them regularly and thus gain speed and disk space. Here is how to do it:

Go to the menu Settings> Storage
Click on "Cached data"
Validate by clicking on " OKAY "

An operation to be carried out regularly without waiting for the first slowdowns to arrive! It is also possible to automate the clearing of the cache thanks to theapplication Clean Master available for free in the Play Store.

4. Use an SD card to store your photos and videos

If not all smartphones allowuse SD card and if despite the presence of a memory expansion slot, some of you do not use one, it can nevertheless prove to be a very useful solution to preserve the internal memory of the device.

It is still possible to make your SD card the space of default storage of photos and videos captured with your smartphone. To do this, all you need to do is:

Go to the application " Camera "
Click on themenu icon on the top corner left
Select tab " Settings "
To choose "SD card" as an option of "Data storage"

5. Clean your home screen

One of the reasons for your smartphone slowing down can also be in the home screen. In the same way as the desktop of a Windows PC, the home screen of an Android smartphone, it cleans itself. To prevent your home screen from slowing down your smartphone, here are the best practices to adopt:

Avoid live wallpapers and go for a still image
Limit widgets. They are not to be avoided completely but only keep the ones that you really use
Regularly clean app icons and remove those you only use occasionally from the Home screen

The cleaner your home screen, the less likely your smartphone will be slowed down. To go further, do not hesitate to consult our tutorial on how to prevent new applications from installing on your desktop.

6. Make sure you have the latest version of Android available

It's silly but you should know that each Android update, even the most minor, removes bugs and possible slowing factors and even improves, sometimes, the performance of your smartphone. You still need to have the latest version available for your device. To find out if this is the case, it's very simple, just proceed as follows.

Go to the menu Settings> System> About phone
Select option "System update" ou "Software update"
Click on "Check for updates", you will then know immediately if an update is available or not for your device

7. Disable automatic synchronization

Most of you have several accounts connected to your smartphone, starting with your Google account but also your email account, your Skype account, your Twitter account, or even your Facebook or WhatsApp account. It's nice and practical, but the automatic synchronization in the background sometimes has an impact, not only on performance but also on battery life.

Of course, you are not told to turn off the automatic synchronization of all your accounts, however, for some it is not necessarily useful to leave it enabled. To turn off automatic synchronization for an account:

Go to the menu Settings> Personal> Accounts from your smartphone
Select the account for which you want to turn off automatic synchronization
Click the sync icon
Uncheck the box (es)

8. Use a launcher

If you have a Nexus, the on-board launcher is generally very smooth. On the other hand, with certain constructor overlays, this is far from being the case, it is constantly lagging and it is very annoying. Fortunately, there is a solution to the problem. Use an alternative launcher.

There are hundreds of them in the Google Play Store. Some are to be avoided, others are very fast and sometimes more practical than the one offered by default on your device, not to mention the customization options offered. Want to explore this trail? Don't hesitate to take a look at our selection of the best launchers for Android.

9. Install a Custom ROM

Your smartphone runs under a constructive overlay that is sorely lacking in fluidity? Worse yet, this is an operator model with tons of apps preinstalled. Why not go back to a Stock Android with a Custom ROM? With a Custom ROM like CyanogenMod, not only will you benefit from a smooth interface and an OS without preinstalled apps, but in addition, you will have all the updates of Android very quickly.

To read : Presentation and installation of the Custom CyanogenMod ROM

In addition, you will also benefit from longer software support than that offered by your manufacturer simply because many devices abandoned before their time are still supported by CyanogenMod.

10. Factory reset your phone

If after all these operations, your phone still displays a certain slowness or if you simply do not have the time or the courage to perform all the manipulations mentioned above, there is an even more radical solution: the restore your phone to factory settings.

Once done, your phone will look as new as it left the factory. However, before restoring factory settings, remember to back up your data and settings as follows:

Download and install Dropbox (if you don't already have it by default on your device) then copy all your files (photos and videos) to the free storage space offered to you upon opening

Select your backup account (your Google account) by going to the menu Settings> Personal> Backup and reset

Check that the boxes "Save my data" et "Automatically restore" are checked
Click on "Restore factory settings"
Click on "Reset the phone" to validate.

If ever, despite all these tips, you are not satisfied and find that the interface of your device lacks fluidity, there is also a little manipulation that will allow you to speed up Android