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hey guys it's Brandon Minnemann from pocketnow.com and in this video we're going to talk about seven ways to make your Android feel faster let's get to it so probably the two biggest things you can do to make your Android feel faster we're not going to get in because they're very involved that would be to install a custom ROM because a lot of custom roms out there are very lean very light tuned for performance and number two would be to overclock your phone with something like set CPU which requires root access short of that if you don't want to root your phone and get into all of that there's a lot you can do with a stock Android phone to make it feel faster number one disable homescreen animations or screen animations in general what you can do is go into the settings go into display go to where it says animations and you can turn on some animations all animations or go to none and what this will do is it will bring you right back to your home screen without an animation when you're an email and you flip to another app there won't be an annoying animation which just takes time and system resources so doing this will make your device feel a little bit faster let's jump back to the home screen another thing you can do is disable browser plugins so if you dump into your browser and you go into the settings you will see an option for plugins down here and what this is doing its scanning the page to determine whether there are any for example flash plugins and so if you have always on set that will always load the flash plugins and you'll probably get one or two second delays your device charged to pull that in on demand is a good option for most it will allow you to choose whether or not to run a plug-in so there's a little icon that will show up if it's a flash element for example and off is just probably the fastest thing that you can do to prevent the page from even looking for these plugins and attempting to load them so let's go back to the home screen and talk about number three number three is to run a third-party launcher this is the galaxy s2 and we were running TouchWiz 4.0 on the home screen when we were reviewing this and we found that going back to the home screen even when we only had one or two home screen setup took like two seconds after installing launcher Pro here is my launcher of choice and I'll put a link up to a video talking about that there's also ADW launcher after installing a third-party launcher things are much faster when you are in an application you go back to the home screen it's a lot more faster than it was before and plus launcher pro gives you a lot of added controls and so do the other third-party launchers out there another thing you want to do is turn off your live wallpaper live wallpaper is basically a video playing in the background which might look pretty but every time you go back to the home screen there's a video playing and this will delay the time that it takes to get back to the home screen this will slow down overall the system resources because it's having to basically play a video on your home screen so turn that off I know it's fun but it's not really the most efficient thing to do if you want to have a device it's that is as fast as possible number five limit the number of widgets and icons you have on your home screens here I have no widgets except for the time widget over here there's a lot of people out there that like that Facebook widgets Twitter widgets etc and so forth these use system resources and they always have to redraw and the widgets are more complicated for the system to redraw because they have live data elements they're streaming information so turn those off if you can another thing that would help and Joe Levi made a good point about this is to reduce the number of icons you have icons are a little bit complicated they require the operating system to draw the icons a good alternative the icon our folders so you can make multiple folders instead of having you know all these icons like I do I could have four folders along the bottom we reducing the amount of graphical elements on the home screen moving on number six limit the amount of installed applications you have so we're going to dial in two applications right here and go to manage applications and your downloaded applications list look for the apps that you never use it's very compelling to go to the Android Market and download this app in this app and this app because most of them are free but they use up system resources and a lot of them come with background services that total your device even when you're not using them so be sure to go through and uninstall apps that you're not using or ones that you don't use a regular basis and finally number seven is reduce the amount of data updates that occur on your device and the way you can get to this android makes this very easy go to accounts and sync and this will show you all the accounts that are pulling data on a regular basis and apps like Twitter and Facebook automatically add an entry here and by default they turn on which is kind of silly so you'll find your tweets are updating automatically but that's slowing down your device and you could be checking your email or browsing the web while Twitter is reaching out and pulling down updates which will slow down what you're doing you're the primary task you're doing so the seventh tip we have here is reduce now the amount of apps or accounts that are pulling down data keep it to just the ones that you find very critical to what you need so those were seven tips on how to make your Android feel faster none of them are too extreme they're all very small and incremental but taken collectively that can really help to bring back a little bit of speed to to the Android operating system if you can think of any more tips leave us a comment below we really want to hear about other ways that you put into place to make your Android feel faster because we want a 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