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Slow Android Phone?
This is my first Android tutorial on my blog. Today, my younger brother got a new Vodafone 845. Which is Vodafone’s budget Android device. I noticed that the response of it was very slow, even doing the simplest tasks like scrolling through the Application menu was fairly sluggish. So I decicded to spend a few minutes optimizing his phone using these easy steps:
Remove widgets
The first thing you should do is remove all the widgets that you don’t use on the home screen. If you don’t use the photo gallery then get rid of it! Just simply hold down the widget and then once the “Trash can” icon appears drag the widget over to the icon to remove it. Doing this you should notice anything from a slight performance improvement or a drastic improvement when switching between the different home panels depending on how many widgets you have removed from the home screen.
Free up RAM
If your Android phone is low on RAM then there are plenty of great apps that will kill off all those uneeded applications running in the background. I would advise using Advanced App Killer to do this, I’ve used it on my borthers Vodafone 845 and even on my powerful HTC Desire. You can even place this program as a Widget so you can kill off all those uneeded programs by a click of a button.
Replace your home screen launcher
There are plenty replacement home screen launchers for the Android. For a low spec Android phone, I find Zeam Launcher to be the best one to use since it’s designed to be very lightweight on your Android’s resources. Once you’ve installed Zeam Launcher select it from the Applications menu on your phone and then set it to your default Home Screen Launcher, you can do this normally by clearing the defaults on your current Home Screen Launcher (HTC Sense for example) And then pressing the “Home” button on your phone, then a menu should pop up asking you if you want to use Zeam Launcher or whatever else you have on there, make sure you tick the Default box before selecting Zeam Launcher.
So there you have it, three tips on how to speed up your slow android device, I hope it helps you like it did for my younger brother’s phone. By default it only had 40mb of RAM roughly left, once I applied the tops above it meant he had around 72mbs out of 128mb to use, that’s almost double!!
Try it out for yourself and comment below how well it worked for you.
Lets get this show back on the road!
Hello, it’s me again back from my break away from my blog I had exactly a month ago. Man, life has been so busy but so relaxing at the same time. College has ended, I’ve had two trips to Alton Towers, got a load of CV’s into a few places since I’m job seeking and I’ve splashed out on a HTC Desire and a swanky new laptop all ready for Uni starting mid-september.
I’ve got so maybe interesting ideas for my blog, so you’ll be seeing a few of these throughout the year. So here is a sneaky peek at what I have got lined up that you should see trickling through the next couple of weeks:
Me and my EEE reboot – as promised in the previous post I will be reviewing how Fedora 13 runs on the EEE. I’ve also got a few useful posts for any Windows Netbook Users too.
Android News/Developement/Etc – I’ll be posting interesting snippets that I either find myself or while I’ve gathered while surfing the web. I’m also hoping to indulge myself in Android Game Development too so stay tuned from any progress updates.
Game Development – I’ve been playing around with several different game tech demos, ranging from 3D top down “open-city” sandbox games to 2D platformers, I’ll be posting screenshots and videos of my work and creations, heck even a demo! (If it’s playable..)
I’m also wanting to widen the subjects I write for my blog, so not every post will be technology related. I hope you all still keep reading and keep checking back for updates!
See ‘ya around!
