You don't feel like grabbing a new phone, however you get the feeling that your Samsung Galaxy S5 is less powerful than before, or slowing down even for unimportant tasks. This happens, unfortunately it is linked to all the data passing through your phone. We will precisely, in this article, allow you to correct this problem by presenting you how to make your Samsung Galaxy S5 run faster?
To do this, we will first describe the reasons for the slowness of your Samsung Galaxy S5, this way, you will be able to more easily understand the decisions that we are going to take to remedy it and avoid the small errors that may to slow down your phone again if you're not careful. Finally, we will present you some recommendations, which put together will be enough to restore all the initial power of your Samsung Galaxy S5 and in fact make it faster.
Why is my Samsung Galaxy S5 slow?
Unfortunately, this is a question that a large number of people ask themselves ... Why does a Samsung Galaxy S5 slow down or get sluggish? It is linked to several factors, as we told you in the introduction, it is already linked to the amount of data that passes through and is saved on your phone. The latter goes, the more the internal memory will be filled, losing speed and performance. This is suddenly one of the first causes, keeping a healthy phone and not keeping a lot of applications open.
A second justification, if your Samsung Galaxy S5 is aging, it is the fact that applications and operating system may no longer be the order of the day , and therefore, is not going to be optimized for the use you are going to have of it. Finally, it is also possible that you have a virus or malware installed on your Samsung Galaxy S5, however, it is much less frequent and it concerns more secret agents than everyone!
How can I improve the speed and performance of my Samsung Galaxy S5?
Now that we have briefly described the main reasons that can cause a decrease in the performance of your phone, it is time to present to you the actions that we believe are essential to put in place to make your Samsung Galaxy S5 faster and more efficient.
Turn off visual animations on your Samsung Galaxy S5
First of the actions, and which is not very complicated to perform, you may never have noticed it, however, for more fluidity each time you change screens, applications, pages, small animations visuals are integrated to improve your user experience. Unfortunately, they consume a lot of energy and can slow down your Samsung Galaxy S5, so we recommend that you turn them off to speed up:
- Go to your phone's settings
- Activate the "Developer options"
- In the "Systems" settings disable or reduce the speed to x 0. 5 of "Transitions animation scale", "Animation duration scale" and "Window animation scale"
Clean the cache of your Samsung Galaxy S5
Second action to perform, your Samsung Galaxy S5 will keep in memory, called "Cache" a certain amount of data to allow you to achieve this quickly without needing to redownload them. This is convenient, unfortunately, in the long run this memory may be loaded and will slow down your phone, it is therefore useful to empty it from time to time to improve the speed of your Samsung Galaxy S5. Go to the menu Device maintenance to clear the cache of all applications.
Clean the RAM of your Samsung Galaxy S5
Same principle as for the cache, except that the RAM allows it to leave unused applications running in the background so that you can open them again at any time and come back to where you left off very quickly. Your Samsung Galaxy S5 is probably powerful enough to open them quickly and we advise you, if you do not use them quickly to close all the applications that are running in the background through your task manager.
Update your Samsung Galaxy S5
Penultimate action to be performed on your Samsung Galaxy S5. We spoke to you a little about the causes of slowdowns on a phone, when your operating system or your applications are too old, they are no longer optimized for the missions they must accomplish, this will result in a significant latency of 'a Samsung Galaxy S5. To reduce it, we recommend that you keep the applications and operating system of your Samsung Galaxy S5 as much as possible up to date.
Reset your Samsung Galaxy S5
Finally, if you consider that your Samsung Galaxy S5 is too slow, that it has really lost a lot of power, it may be overloaded, you may have a virus ... The most effective solution, however also the most radical to improve your phone's performance will be to reset your Samsung Galaxy S5. This solution will reset your phone to factory settings. Be careful however, you will lose all the data saved on it, so remember to make a backup before doing so.
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