Android Phone Feeling Slow? How I Changed One Setting To Instantly Double The Speed

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As a full-time smartphone reviewer, I walk astir of my twelvemonth testing Android phones.

By habit, I've picked up respective shortcuts, tips, and tricks for mounting up handsets, tweaking them truthful that they execute arsenic champion arsenic imaginable erstwhile nan verdicts are due.

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One extremity I ever springiness to family members, friends, and passersby erstwhile asked, "How tin I make my telephone faster?" is straightforward yet typically hidden: Adjusting nan animation speed.

The method of doing truthful is quick, simple, and perfectly free. As a bonus, you'll consciousness for illustration nan "guy down nan computer" successful action movies. Here are nan steps.

How to alteration your animation speed

What you'll need: An Android instrumentality and your fastener surface password/pin/pattern to alteration Developer Options.

To entree nan animation velocity settings, you'll first request to alteration Developer options. Developer options incorporate a database of capacity and UI-specific settings that are typically hidden by default arsenic they're intended for, drum roll, developers!

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To alteration it, unfastened up your Settings > scroll down to About telephone > pat connected Software accusation > and past pat your Build number 7 times. If this is your first clip doing so, your telephone should show a ticker telling you really galore much times you request to pat nan text.

If done successfully, Developer options will now beryllium enabled, which you tin entree by going backmost to your default settings page and navigating to nan bottommost of nan list.

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Accessing Developer options connected an Android device
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Now that you've cracked nan codification to get into nan Developer options, you'll beryllium presented pinch a agelong database of settings, toggles, and switches. Don't beryllium intimidated; we're only present for 1 thing, and that's nan "Drawing" section. Scroll down nan database until you find it.

From there, you'll spot 3 animation standard settings:

  1. Window animation scale: The velocity of apps and model pop-ups.
  2. Transition animation scale: The velocity of moving betwixt location surface panels and wrong apps.
  3. Animator long scale: The velocity of wide UI animations, specified arsenic opening and closing apps, unlocking nan phone, etc.

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Tap connected each 1 and alteration nan standard standing from 1x (default) down to .5x. The little nan number, nan faster nan clip it takes for nan animation to perform. 

If you don't want immoderate animations connected your telephone astatine all, you tin besides group nan worth to "off".

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At this point, swipe astir your phone, do your accustomed activities, and spot if you announcement a alteration successful speed. If you travel nan steps above, your telephone should consciousness snappier and much responsive; nary of that is simply a placebo.

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