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.
- 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.
To access the settings needed for these changes, you must first enable Developer Options.
- Open Settings on your Android device.
- Scroll down and tap About phone.
- 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).
Reducing the animation scale can improve the perceived speed of your phone.
- Open Settings.
- Scroll down and tap System > Developer options.
- Scroll to the Drawing section and look for:
- Window animation scale
- Transition animation scale
- Animator duration scale
- Set each option to 0.5x. This will speed up animations and make your phone feel faster.
Adjusting the display scale provides a wider screen appearance.
- In Developer options, scroll to the Drawing section.
- Tap on Smallest width.
- Increase the value by 1.5 times. For example:
- If it’s set to
360
, increase it to540
.
- If it’s set to
- Confirm the setting to see a wider, more spacious display.
Reducing background processes can help improve performance and battery life.
- Go to Developer options.
- Scroll to Apps and tap on Background process limit.
- Set it to At most 4 processes or fewer. This will free up system resources and improve speed.
Auto-sync consumes battery and data by continuously syncing apps in the background.
- Open Settings > Accounts.
- Tap on each account and disable Auto-sync for accounts you don’t need updating in real-time.
- You can manually sync accounts like email when needed.
If you want to maximize performance, you can disable animations entirely.
- Go to Developer options.
- Set the following to Animation off:
- Window animation scale
- Transition animation scale
- Animator duration scale
- Disabling animations entirely will make actions like opening apps instantaneous.
Limit background apps that consume excessive power.
- Open Settings > Battery.
- Tap on Battery usage and review apps consuming a lot of power.
- Tap on those apps and select Restrict background activity to preserve battery.
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.