Cell phones: 6 simple settings to recover lost speed and make the phone 'fly'

Android cell phones or

iPhone managed years ago to surpass the power of a standard computer.

But unlike PCs, smartphones are devices that if you accumulate apps, photos, videos and files 

.

Even the

drains faster.

But all is not lost: with a few

it is possible

To take care of the state of a smartphone, in principle, specialists agree on several recommendations.

For example,

, get in the habit of backing up 

avoid downloading large files, and

unused apps. 

Although the latest models of Android are much faster than they were years ago, it is still possible 

and performance just by following some of these 

.

Activate Virtual RAM

Virtual RAM memory in a motorola Edge 20 Pro.

A large number of mid-range and premium devices released in recent years by

, among others, have an option called Virtual RAM, which uses internal storage space to add it to the memory. RAM memory and increase performance.

This “trick” can give your smartphone some breathing space when you are doing heavy multitasking, that is, using several resource-demanding apps at the same time.

To activate it, you just have to look for this configuration in the mobile settings application and make sure you have enough free space in the internal storage, regardless of whether you have a microSD card.

It must be taken into account that RAM memory is a faster type of memory than internal memory, so it will not offer the same experience as if the mobile actually had more RAM memory.

Activate the automatic refresh rate

The screen refresh rate of a Samsung Galaxy cell phone.

Photo: capture.

Many screens of the latest generation cell phones stand out for having incorporated technology to improve

.

This is measured by the

, or the number of still images that appear on a screen in a single second.

So the higher the refresh rate, the smoother and more fluid your videos and display movements will be.

The measurement above 60 Hertz (Hz) managed to standardize on Android devices, no matter how cheap it is.

Therefore, the most normal thing is that the screen has a rate greater than this figure.

The best thing a user can do to improve the fluidity of the images is to modify this value by going into Settings or Display Settings and setting the refresh rate value to the highest possible number (90, 120

.

Another option is to directly configure this function in "automatic mode", which will change according to the experience of use with the cell phone, be it browsing an internet news site or playing a demanding video game like League of Legends Wild Rift.

Free up storage space

Free up storage on a Xiaomi cell phone.

You are probably familiar with running out of storage if you have an old phone.

Google itself recognizes that phones with its Android operating system can experience performance problems with less than 10% of available storage.

So keeping your unused storage space around 20% is a better option.

In case of having full storage, you will have to enter "Battery and device care" on a Samsung phone.

To be able to do it on a Motorola, you have to enter the "Files" application and press the "Clean" button in the segment where you see a greater volume of gigabytes used.

In the Xiaomi, meanwhile, you will have to access "Settings" and "About the phone".

Remove unused apps

Files by Google, the free app to easily delete applications that are not used.

Photo: Google Play.

Another recommendation is to get rid of unused applications, delete photos and clean hidden files.

In the case of Chinese Xiaomi phones,

, since a folder called

is created in the root directory of the storage , which we can delete manually, thus gaining a little more storage space. storage.

For those who are looking for the simplest and fastest option, they can download the

application that is used to clear application caches, large files and unwanted media files.

If there are a lot of photos or videos on your phone, a good tip is to use part of the free 15 GB of the cloud and upload everything to the

account .

In this way, you will be able to free up space and remove duplicate content on the device.

Download "light" applications

Instagram Lite is one of the many lightweight applications that improve cell phone performance.

Photo: Shutterstock

Google made the decision in 2017 to focus on the development of exclusive applications for low-end phones, with little RAM and limited storage, all this covered under the name "Go".

Lite edition applications are characterized by having a reduced version in options and consume less resources than their full counterparts.

Over the years, the initiative was adopted by other developers who began to offer Lite or Go editions of their most popular applications, such as Facebook Lite, Instagram Lite, Gmail Go, Messenger Lite, Google Maps Go, Twitter Go or even Spotify Lite. .

Good options to improve the performance of the phone.

restart the cell phone

As much as it sounds like a good excuse to get rid of a problem,

when the phone suddenly slows down, and without previous problems.

Android's memory management system is one of its prominent features, and most of today's phones have enough RAM.

But for low-end phones with 3GB or 4GB of RAM or less, choosing to reset it usually improves overall performance.

In fact, specialists

week.

But if it gets slow between reboots, increase the frequency to every other day.

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