Not all mobiles are the same, that is clear. You may not have any performance issues with your brand new Samsung Galaxy S10 + with 12GB of RAM and an Exynos 9820, but maybe more modest phones with 2GB of RAM (Although now 3GB is starting to be the standard for RAM), it cost them something more and the years weigh on them. Well we show you how manage your RAM in case you are short of performance.
Yesterday we told you how to deal with the typical message of: "The app has stopped", today we tell you how to take better control of your RAM. Let's make the most of those terminals with few resources!
We start at the base, What is RAM? RAM stands for Random access memory. It is a memory that, in short, allows you to store the applications that you are running in the background for faster access to them.
As you open applications, they remain stored in RAM, running in the background and that ends up slowing down the phone, but not only the apps, but the operating system also consumes resources from this memory. What can we do to optimize your consumption?
Close apps that you will not use for long periods of time
There are two positions here, those that are obsessed and do not close the apps and those that close them at all times. Both are bad and it is that, as Aristotle said, virtue is in the middle point, and that is how it works for this situation as well.
If, for example, you are going to use the bank's app to check your balance and that's it, possibly you do not need to have the app open the rest of the day, Well, go into multitasking and close the application. This will prevent the RAM from being overloaded. You do not have to close Instagram if you are checking it every two by three, but what you are not going to use more, then close it.
And this being the situation .. Why is it bad to close apps constantly and leave multitasking always empty? Well, because by closing the application constantly, apart from the fact that each time you open it, it will take longer to open it than if it were loaded in RAM, drains the battery a lot, since the mobile has to make the "effort" to open it from scratch each time. And the post is not about saving battery, but it is appreciated. Truth?
Calm down with customization
Yes, I'm not saying no, that futuristic clock widget with this wallpaper with the letters of the Matrix constantly moving is really cool, but ... This is loaded into the RAM of the phone, and you are making it always more loaded of what it touches. Heavy launchers, widgets, moving wallpapers, etc are things that load up your RAM, oh and they drain your battery faster. We are not saying not to use them, but limit their use a bit.
Disable animations
We already talked about bigger words, if you really have RAM problems we are going to start with drastic measures, although if you are a speed lover, this option may also interest you.
We talk about disable Android animations, it may not be as pretty, but it will go much faster. There are manufacturers like OnePlus that let you deactivate all the animations of the system, but in case it is not like that, we will show you how to do it.
The first thing we will have to do is activate developer options. To do this you will have to go to the information of your phone and click on the Build Number about five or seven times until you get a message that you have activated the developer options.
Ok, once you have this done you can access the developer options from System> Developer options.
Once inside you go to the section of Drawing, there you will see that you have several animation options (Scale of animations with window, transition-animation, etc). You open them all and deactivate the animationsIf you don't want them either and you see that it is going well at 0,5x, you can leave it that way.
Uninstall apps
If you really see that your phone does not give more of itself, you can start uninstalling applications. There are apps that have excessive RAM consumption even when they are not being used like Facebook or Facebook Messenger. You can see the RAM consumption in Applications and Notifications. You select the app and there is a memory section where you can see it, so you can know what each app consumes and which one you have to delete.
How about? Did you know these tricks? Or do you have no problems with your RAM?