How Can I Speed Up My Samsung Galaxy S5?

With the Samsung Galaxy S5 outdated now, its performance will most likely cause lots of issues and be frustrating to use. The device had a Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor along with a 2800mAh Li-ion battery.

There are many reasons why the performance of the phone is outdated. It could be hardware specs, bloated apps, slow response time and so on.

How Can I Speed Up My Samsung Galaxy S5?

The tricks in applying solutions to speeding up your phone do not necessarily need technical know-how. It’s just simple even to a newbie. The android OS has lots of advantages over other OS.

There are known steps to perform for solving issues and hidden steps within the OS. These hidden options are best to solve performance issues.

Ways to improve Samsung Galaxy S5 Performance

Custom animations

More animations on the phone mean more battery drainage, therefore reducing the animations in the phone will improve performance and battery.

This will help relieve the CPU of the phone and give more processing power and RAM ability to perform fast. It will improve real-time apps, services and action.

To make use of these settings;

1. Go to Settings
2. Scroll down and find About Phone
3. In the About Phone, find ‘Build Number’ and tap 7 times on it. this will activate the Developer Options under Settings.
4. Now, you can make use of this mode and improve your phone experience and on other phones too.

        In the Developer Options

Find ‘Windows Animation Scale, Transition Animation scale’ and ‘Animation Duration scale’.

5. Replace the default value with 0.5x value in all options

6. Exit Settings

This will reduce animations and their durations to halftime. it will also make the phone perform faster and respond well.

Clear cache memory

1. Switch off your phone
2. Restart to recovery mode; press and hold Volume Up, Home and Power buttons at the same time until a Samsung logo appears.
3. Using the Volume Down, move down to “wipe cache partition” and follow the instructions given to clear the cache on your phone.
4. Exit the recovery mode and restart the device.

Use Third-Party Launcher

There are many third-party launchers in the Google Play Store. They include Nova Launcher, Microsoft, Niagara Launcher and so on.

These third-party launcher apps give a superior experience to that of native phone launchers. With these launchers, you can tweak settings to your taste. They make the phone smooth and fast to use.

Limit background process

The Android Operating System, lots of apps keep running in the background and without your knowledge, it uses RAM, CPU and drains the battery. To speed up, you must do these:

1. Go to settings
2. Tap on Developer Options
3. Find ‘Background process limit’
4. Select “AT most 4 processes”
5. Exit settings and restart the phone

Disable Auto-sync data

Leaving your location setting on, Google Account and other updates use internet data, CPU to run and drain the battery.

Follow this instruction to change the default settings,

1. Go to settings
2. Tap on mobile data
3. Tap on the three dots menu at the top right corner
4. Uncheck the auto-sync data

Disable Apps

There are lots of apps installed on the phone. some may be helpful and others may be useless. these apps drain battery, give limited storage space, consume internet data and processing power.

To disable these apps, do the following:

1. Go to settings
2. Tap on apps manager
3. Find the app that you wish to disable
4. Tap on the Disable button, followed by your confirmation
5. Repeat the steps for other apps you wish to disable