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This guide provides simple steps to optimize your Android phone's performance by adjusting animation speed and display scaling. These tweaks will give your phone a snappier feel and improve the screen real estate, making it look more spacious.

📱 How to Make Your Android Phone Look Faster and Display Wider

This guide provides simple steps to optimize your Android phone's performance by adjusting animation speed and display scaling. These tweaks will give your phone a snappier feel and improve the screen real estate, making it look more spacious.

🎯 Goals

  • Speed Up Animation: Reduce animation duration to make your phone’s UI feel faster.
  • Adjust Display Scale: Scale the display for a wider, more spacious view.

🛠️ Step-by-Step Instructions

1. Enable Developer Options

To access the settings needed for these changes, you must first enable Developer Options.

  1. Open Settings on your Android device.
  2. Scroll down and tap About phone.
  3. Find Build number and tap it 7 times until you see the message "You are now a developer!" (You may need to enter your PIN or password).

2. Adjust Animation Speed

Reducing the animation scale can improve the perceived speed of your phone.

  1. Open Settings.
  2. Scroll down and tap System > Developer options.
  3. Scroll to the Drawing section and look for:
    • Window animation scale
    • Transition animation scale
    • Animator duration scale
  4. Set each option to 0.5x. This will speed up animations and make your phone feel faster.

3. Scale Display to 1.5x

Adjusting the display scale provides a wider screen appearance.

  1. In Developer options, scroll to the Drawing section.
  2. Tap on Smallest width.
  3. Increase the value by 1.5 times. For example:
    • If it’s set to 360, increase it to 540.
  4. Confirm the setting to see a wider, more spacious display.

⚡ Additional Optimizations

4. Limit Background Processes

Reducing background processes can help improve performance and battery life.

  1. Go to Developer options.
  2. Scroll to Apps and tap on Background process limit.
  3. Set it to At most 4 processes or fewer. This will free up system resources and improve speed.

5. Disable Auto-Sync for Unnecessary Accounts

Auto-sync consumes battery and data by continuously syncing apps in the background.

  1. Open Settings > Accounts.
  2. Tap on each account and disable Auto-sync for accounts you don’t need updating in real-time.
  3. You can manually sync accounts like email when needed.

6. Turn Off Unnecessary Animations

If you want to maximize performance, you can disable animations entirely.

  1. Go to Developer options.
  2. Set the following to Animation off:
    • Window animation scale
    • Transition animation scale
    • Animator duration scale
  3. Disabling animations entirely will make actions like opening apps instantaneous.

7. Optimize Battery Usage

Limit background apps that consume excessive power.

  1. Open Settings > Battery.
  2. Tap on Battery usage and review apps consuming a lot of power.
  3. Tap on those apps and select Restrict background activity to preserve battery.

🔄 Revert Changes (Optional)

To undo the optimizations:

  • Reset the Animation scale to 1x.
  • Restore the Smallest width setting to its original value.
  • Set Background process limit back to Standard limit.
  • Re-enable Auto-sync for accounts as needed.

By following these steps, you can improve your phone's performance and aesthetics, providing a faster and more pleasant user experience.

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