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Your Android is a handheld computer,
and just as your desktop or laptop would get bogged down
if you're running a whole bunch of programs simultaneously
the same thing happens when people get what I call
"App happy", downloading dozens of apps
and letting them run simultaneously, often using background services
and syncing things behind the scenes,
like your Google account or your 3G network,
so in this video I'm going to show you how to keep your phone
running really sleek, really efficiently,
and really fast. All right, the first thing you can do
is from your drop down screen
on the main window, depending what kind of phone you have,
you have a slider screen that can pull down, and this is just a really
handy screen to see
what's going on as far as what's active. I keep my mobile data
going as well as auto rotate because I
use my phone in landscape mode whenever possible...
GPS turned off I don't use Bluetooth
This window slider will also show you if WiFi
is on, or if it's detected or not detected.
Turn off wifi when you're not using it. Turning off wifi will increase
your battery life considerably and it also frees up the processor.
In this slider window you also see notifications like I have a Google
update
and you can clear this window as well to get rid of the notifications.
Next, on your desktop, its good idea to minimize your icons
if you notice I only have the camera icon because I use my camera a lot
and my 3G watchdog automatically puts a very small icon there as far as my
data usage, but other than that I
access all my apps and programs from the
blue square in the bottom lower tray
but if you notice I don't have those piled up on my desktop
a lot of icons on the desktop uses both
battery and processing power, so check that out
and you can remove your icons by selecting them and dragging them into
the lower tray.
Task manager is your best friend
with an Android, so get to know Task Manager.
I was helping a friend a little while ago who has
a Samsung Android and she also has a tablet, Google Nexus tablet, and these
principles
apply for both products. Task manager shows us what programs
are running here...I'm in my Active application
window you can see I got my browser running and
it's redlining because it's using a lot a CPU
power. I've got Minecraft and I've got my camera...
if I'm not using those I'm gonna click
Exit all and that's gonna close down those apps and free up that processing
power.
So definitely check out what's running in Task manager, you may be amazed what's
running in there
that you've either forgotten to close or that's just
running automatically.
In the same Task manager screen you see
the RAM: that refers to random access memory,
now that is processor memory, this doesn't have to do with SD card memory
but it's
memory your processor is using
actively and it's a good idea to clear that memory every once in a while.
Now I was advising a friend to do this and she said "Well won't that erase my
my apps or erase stuff on my SD card?" I said "No,
it's totally different, it has to do with the RAM that core processor uses,
it has nothing to do with what's stored on your SD card."
So you can clear memory and that will stop a lot of processes that may be
running in the background as well
and you can also access your SD card
to see what's available as far as memory just
to the right of the RAM you see the SD icon.
When you click the Download icon you can see
the apps that you've downloaded...it's a great idea people
to uninstall any apps that you don't use...if you don't use an app on a regular
basis
it's probably a good idea just to get rid of it because
apps often used background services:
things that are running in the background, including connecting to your
3G network or perhaps syncing to your Google account
and you don't need that, you don't need any of those things running in the
background
unless it's really critical...now here are three apps that I use
all the time they come up right away when I click that icon
Wolfram Alpha for math problems
Adobe Reader for PDF and SwiftKey
which is my favorite keyboard, so those aren't going anywhere,
but I just want to show you can see all of your apps from this download screen
and uninstall any that you aren't using, say you tried out a game for a little while
you're not using it anymore, get rid it. The settings menu
is very important, you can get a little more detail from the Settings
menu than you can in Task manager, especially regarding apps
if you click on applications here you can see what dependencies those apps are
using
that I referenced earlier. All right clicking on
the accounts and sync from this
window, you'll see background data and auto sync
now for the most processor efficiency,
just select Background data, this is going to
allow your apps to use the services that they require
when they're running, but uncheck Auto- sync
because that is going to prevent
data just coming in indiscriminately when you're not using
the apps actively.
So again: select Background data, and
uncheck Auto-sync...also, below Auto sync you can see Manage accounts...
I don't have this screen slid down all the way but
for mine, below Manage accounts is my Google
gmail account. I do not have my Google account
synced with my phone...a lot of people do a lot of people really like to have
their email notifications coming up on their Android
and anything else relating to Google and that's using a lot of processing power
when you sync
to Google...I choose not to: when I check my email
on my Android, I just sign out just like I would on my desktop
so that's up to you, but I advise if you really don't need to be syning to
Google
it may be a good idea just to sign
in and out depending on your usage depending on
when you wanna check your email... again that's right below the Auto-sync
button, you can set that up under Manage accounts.
If your phone freezes, or if you feel like your phone is running slow
or if your browser is running slow and
and you've shut it down and you cleared the RAM
the best thing to do at that point is reboot your phone
because your phone is a handheld computer, and just as
you would reboot your computer when things get buggy or laggy
and then the whole system refreshes: same thing with your phone
and it's probably a good idea to reboot your phone occasionally
anyway after updates etc., but you'll find invariably
that after rebooting your device everything will run
really fast and really efficiently. Thanks for checking this video
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