It is the law of life that our mobile phone works slower than when we bought it. In my case, I have some basic tricks to speed it up, but I want to tell you about a slightly different application: What I do from day one prevents it from starting to slow down. Prevention is always better than cure, and there are good practices that should be internalized to try to maintain the performance of our terminal.

I’m careful about what I install (and what comes installed). For a long time I have been trying to install only the right and necessary applications, especially when it comes to Android phones. Installing a large number of applications, even when we are not using them, affects the lifespan of your phone. The same goes for bloatware that comes pre-installed on your phone. My first job will be to delete it.

Some of them run in the background, taking up space in our precious RAM memory and consuming terminal resources. One app is not harmful, neither of them are, but if there are dozens and dozens of apps running in the background (a more common situation than you think, just take a look at the list of active processes), our phone will suffer more from it. bill.

I always disable RAM extension. For a while now it has become quite trendy to enable RAM extension by default. I have come across phones with 12 GB of RAM and 8 of them active. Why do I want 20 GB RAM?

What the manufacturers don’t tell us, as we detailed on Xataka, is that the RAM memory extension uses some of the physical storage memory. These additional reads and writes cause extra wear and tear on the device, which can cause problems in the long run. In fact, Google itself states that Android is not designed to virtualize RAM.

I meticulously delete multimedia. When I had 64 or 128 GB phones, I paid meticulous attention to the available space. I never let it go above 75%. I’ve found cases of mobile phones that were quite slow and didn’t fail: when I looked at the available memory it was always above 90%.

Internal memory is responsible for bringing your phone to life. If it’s saturated, apps, multimedia loading, and practically everything else will run pretty slow. Duplicate photos, WhatsApp videos, files that can be uploaded to the cloud… We tend to save everything on our phone, taking up gigabytes of files that we never refer to. More hygienic control of storage will guarantee smoother operation of the memory.

I don’t update unless necessary. Updates are important to maintain our security, but in some cases they can be a real enemy. One thing I usually avoid is updating new OS versions as soon as they become available. First Release They never fully polish, and it is common for performance not to recover until a few minutes later. updates.

In other cases, updates (especially when they come with features installed) may result in the phone never regaining the performance it had in previous updates. In these cases, you can check the current status of the update, whether there are any user complaints, whether it is working properly, etc. I always learn from forums. If I think the update is not appropriate, I don’t do it and I take extreme security precautions when using the phone.

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