5 things you do that slows down your Android phone

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You got to read through this post because i'm very sure it will definitely help you.

Have you ever wondered why your Android phone performs very slowly? …Still thinking? Hmmm, why don’t you leave the thinking right now while I give you some answers to that question. CONTINUE READING

Below points (5) listed down may be the cause of your Android phone performing poorly and slowly when tasking with it.

Note: It’s kind of lengthy, so grab a cup of coffee or iced drink #winks

1. INSTALLING LOTS OF USELESS APPS 

Let me try and stress this point out to you better.
Firstly, they are no useless app.
What I mean in this case is, if you go through your app list, you will discover that they are some apps you rarely use on your phone. Maybe, you just install them because you see a friend that have it installed in his or her phone.

For example, if I have the ’blogger’ app installed on my phone, its very useful to me because I blog with it but if a non-blogger installs the same app on his phone, its very useless to him because he don’t blog and he might never open that app again after the first time he opened it.

The funniest fact about this thing is that, you might even forget to delete that particular app you rarely use and when such app starts accumulating on your android phone, it uses up more of your memory space there by slowing down the phone.

Take for instance you have 100 apps installed on your phone, you rarely use 70 and your phone internal space is only 1gig, what do you think would be the outcome of such phone?
Note: Those installed apps leaves some data on your phone memory.

So, my candid advice for you right now is, grab your phone right immediately and sort those rarely use apps and start UNINSTALLING THEM!!! (with a furious face) hahahaha.

2. RUNNING LOTS OF APPLICATIONS SIMULTANEOUSLY. 

This is another reason why your phone performs slowly.

Take for instance, I want to surf the web using my android phone so I opened Google chrome, Mozilla Firefox, opera mini and Uc web browser searching different things at the same time. Just for one operation, 4 apps are already running and if I want to hear music at the same time while surfing the web, I will open my music player and my external equalizer... Just now, 6 apps are already running. And mind you they are some apps that are already running in the background without you knowing.

The more you open apps the more you leave your phone to suffer for it because those running apps tends to rely on your phone R.A.M (random access memory) and if it’s a 512 ram or 1 gig ram, am afraid that things will start force closing. Or are you the type that forgets to close an app after using it?
 If you check such phones, you might see 20 apps in there minimized list. Please, If you fall in that category, try to close apps after use and if you are in the category of running some many apps that have almost the same functions like the illustration I gave above, try to choose an app that you believe suits you better and run it only.

3. DOWNLOADING FREE APPS THAT COMES WITH LOTS OF ADS.   

When we are in search of an app that would solve a particular issue for us, we tend to search the app store to get it. After downloading the app for free from the store, you install and click open, you first thing you see is one annoying ads that occupies the whole of your screen argggh! I hate seeing that!

Running apps with lots of buggy ads confuses your phone and you the owner. And some of these ads lag the phone when they become excessive. The “X” button (cancel button) doesn’t work in some of these ads. You will keep on clicking on it for the buggy thing to leave your screen but it won’t respond then you will get the message “so so so app is not responding, wait or force close”.

Now, am not discouraging you from downloading free apps but my suggestion is, if the ads are much and you don’t have the cash to buy the pro version, just uninstall it and go find an alternative. Look for a similar app that can do such functions with little or no ads.

4. USING UP YOUR INTERNAL MEMORY. 

Some of us love music, games and funny videos. Now check out the situation below…

You checked your friend’s laptop and noticed that he have the music you loves and it approximately 3.7gig but you only have a 2 gig memory card. During the transfer process, you get the notification from the pc saying “no more space on the external device”. Seeing you, you remembered that you have some free space on your phone that’s over 1 gig (internal storage). Then you decided to transfer the rest down there since you don’t have space again on your sd card.

No doubt, most android phones have internal spaces like 1 gig, 2 gig, 4 gig, 8 gig, 16 gig, and so on but when you are at the bottom of the list (those having 1 gig or 2 gig of internal storage) I will strongly advice that you don’t use such space for your files (videos, music, apps & games). If you most have lots of videos on your phone, do purchase an Sd card with larger space. Why? Because apps installed saves part of it data there (your internal memory) and those apps would appreciate if you got lot of space there to accommodate them.

So, hurrah now and grab your extra sd card…

5. NOT CLEARING THOSE CACHE FILES APPS LEAVES BEHIND. 

Some installed apps leaves some cache files on our phones but we may not know.

When these cache files accumulate, they slow down that app thereby slowing down the phone. So my advice is that you should clear such cache files regularly.

To do this manually, follow the steps below
1. Go to phone settings then locate Apps or Apps Manager and click on it.
2. Click the All tab and locate those apps that performs slowly when ever you run them and click on them one after the other.
3. Scroll down and click Clear Cache.

That’s all! If you don’t like the manual method, you can opt-in for the automatic method by downloading an app that clears cache files automatically. I would recommend CLEAN MASTER!

So, that’s all I have for you today, hope you enjoyed this article and your iced soft drink? If this article was helpful to you, share it to a friend.

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