You do not want to replace your smartphone, but you have the impression that your Sony Xperia 1 is less powerful than before, or to slow down even for less complex tasks. It is possible, it is unfortunately linked to all the data that passes through your smartphone. Today, we will allow you to correct this problem by explaining to you how to make your Sony Xperia 1 run faster?

In this context, we will first tell you the origins of the slowness of your Sony Xperia 1, in this way, you can more easily interpret the actions that we will take to remedy it and avoid the small errors that may slow down your smartphone again if you are not careful. Finally, we are going to show you some tips, which taken together will be enough to restore all the original power of your Sony Xperia 1 and in fact make it faster.

make-faster-sony-xperia-1

Why is my Sony Xperia 1 slow?

Unfortunately, this is a question that a large number of people ask themselves ... Why does a Sony Xperia 1 slow down or become slow? It is linked to several factors, as we explained to you a little above, it is firstly linked to the amount of data that passes and is stored on your smartphone. The latter goes, the more the internal memory will be overloaded, losing speed and performance. It is therefore one of the first origins, keeping a healthy smartphone and not keeping a lot of applications on.

A second justification, if your Sony Xperia 1 starts to be a few years old, it is the fact that applications and operating system may no longer be the order of the day , and suddenly, will not be completely adapted to the use that you are going to have of it. Finally, it is also possible that you have a virus or malware on your Sony Xperia 1 without knowing it, but it is still much rarer and it concerns more secret agents than everyone!

How can I improve the speed and performance of my Sony Xperia 1?

Now that we have briefly explained to you the main causes that can lead to a drop in performance from your smartphone, it's time to unveil the solutions that we believe are essential to put in place to make your Sony Xperia 1 faster and more efficient.

Disable visual animations on your Sony Xperia 1

First of the measurements, and which is not complex to carry out, you have probably never noticed it, but, for more fluidity when you change screens, applications, pages, small visual animations are added to improve your user experience. Unfortunately, they use a lot of energy and can slow down your Sony Xperia 1, so we recommend that you turn them off to speed up:

  • Go to your smartphone 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"

Clear the cache of your Sony Xperia 1

Second action to perform, your Sony Xperia 1 will keep in memory, called “Cache”, a certain amount of data to give you the possibility of reaching it quickly without having to redownload it. This is convenient, unfortunately, in the long run this memory may be loaded and will slow down your smartphone, so it is useful to empty it from time to time to improve the speed of your Sony Xperia 1. Go to the menu Device maintenance to clear the cache of all applications.

Clean the RAM of your Sony Xperia 1

Same principle as for the cache, except that the RAM has the function of leaving 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 Sony Xperia 1 is certainly powerful enough to open them quickly and we recommend that you, if you do not need them within a few minutes, close all the applications that are running in the background via your task manager.

Update your Sony Xperia 1

Penultimate action to be performed on your Sony Xperia 1. We explained it to you a little in the causes of slowdowns on a smartphone, when your operating system or your applications are too old, they are no longer optimized for the missions that they must accomplish, this will result in a significant latency of a Sony Xperia 1. To reduce it we recommend that you keep the applications and operating system of your Sony Xperia 1 up to date as much as possible.

Reset your Sony Xperia 1

Finally, if you ever consider that your Sony Xperia 1 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, but also the most radical for improving the performance of your smartphone will be to reset your Sony Xperia 1. This measurement goes reset your smartphone to factory settings. Be careful despite everything, you will lose all the data stored on it, so remember to make a backup beforehand.

If you want as many tutorials as possible to become the absolute master of the Sony Xperia 1, we invite you to browse the other tutorials in the category: Sony Xperia 1.