Tips and Tricks to Optimize Your Smartphone Performance

Make your slow Android phone GREAT AGAIN

This small tip will help make your low-end/mid-range smartphone smooth and actually usable again.

First of all, enable Developer options in settings. Settings -> About phone -> Tap 7 times on Build number.

Now go to developer options in settings.

Scroll all the way down to an option called "Background process limit" and set it to "At most 4 processes".

For anyone curious, I have read online that the standard option sets it to 20 processes.

Now, about my own experience, my Nokia 5.3 has become smooth almost all the time and I no longer need to restart it every day or so. In brief, it's usable again :D Battery life is also better especially when idle. So, it's a win-win situation.

The best thing about Developer options is that if you disable it (from the toggle at the top of its page), all of its settings revert back to default, so nothing to worry about here.

Important note: This setting is reverted to standard after every restart of the device. So, every time you restart your phone for an update or something, you need to set its limit to 4 again. That's the only downside. Developer options page in settings remains activated after restart though.

Bonus tip.

Developer options has 2 sections to help you diagnose what apps and services are consuming your resources and slowing down your device.

Memory: it shows you what apps have been using your memory over the last 3, 6, 12 or 24 hours, how often and by how much.

Running services: it shows you what apps are running at the moment and how much resources they consume.

These 2 sections are extremely useful. They helped me figure out that face unlock was a problem. First of all, it is slow and not that reliable. But the biggest issue for me was that it consumes a lot of the phone resources (especially RAM ~1GB) and slows down the phone significantly.

They also showed me that the app called SHAREit was consuming almost 200MB of RAM all the time even when closed. I uninstalled it and now use Near share which is built into Android. It uses much less resources and does everything that SHAREit can do except for sending apps which you can do through the Play store anyways.

So, that's it, I hope my tips will help you guys to get the best performance out of your device and to love your phone again!