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dropped a few hundred bills on a shiny new smartphone and at first you were
thrilled with how great the photos looked the crispness of the screen and
of course how fast it was then you fast forward a year or two and
your once top of the line phone feels like it just had a giant turkey dinner
and was ready to pass out in the back seat on the way home i mean can you
imagine if your car for example struggled to go
from 0 to 60 a couple of years after you drove it off the law i mean how does
this happen well there are a number of reasons for
it but a big one stems from something that you probably see on your phone
multiple times a week you know how your phone often notifies you in the morning
about how many apps it updated while it was charging overnight well just like
software for a desktop pc mobile app updates often add new features which
require ever more processing power and developers know that as phone
manufacturers keep coming out with more powerful hardware they can take
advantage of it to write more feature-packed apps this also means
though that older phones can get left behind quickly as their hardware just
can't keep up with the demands of the newer versions of your favorite software
and a related problem is the operating system itself os updates are also tuned
to take advantage of newer models due to the ever expanding list of features that
they aim to support also they tend to end up optimized for
the most recent devices since that's where the smartphone makers are
generating much of their revenue think for example about how apple makes a big
deal about how new iOS releases give different kinds of functionality to
hardware that is only found in the latest and greatest iphones
the unfortunate thing is that app and os updates are largely out of your control
they hit your phone by default whenever a new version is available and
i mean you can turn these updates off but i wouldn't recommend it because they
also contain important security updates
however one thing that may be slowing your phone down that you do have some
control over is how many apps you have installed with storage sizes phone
feature sets and download speeds increasing it's easy to have dozens or
even hundreds of third-party apps installed on your phone and not even
realize it having so many apps installed can slow your phone down in two ways one
certain apps can load up code that runs in the background when you start up your
phone which can use up processor cycles and RAM
two as the amount of free space that you have remaining on your device decreases
the solid-state storage inside your phone slows down because its operating
system has to work harder to find pieces of free space to write new data to
now although this kind of file fragmentation isn't nearly as much of a
concern on solid-state phone storage as it would be with a spinning hard drive
it can still be noticeable and this also applies if your phone is
filled with things other than apps i mean
how many old videos or photos of where you parked at the mall do you have in
your pocket that you just never bothered deleting so if your phone is intolerably
slow transferring media to cloud storage and then removing apps that you don't
need anymore as well as deleting cached data are good first steps
if you're more of an enthusiast though well there are active community
developers who have worked very hard to bring modern os versions to older
Android hardware without some of the bloat if you've got an old and slow
galaxy s3 for example and you'd like to breed some more life into it it might be
worth a little pop in over at xda developers
but not before you hit up ebay for a new battery if you do have an aging phone
you've also probably noticed that the battery life isn't what it used to be
and this can affect both how long it lasts in between charges
and even its performance you may not know that batteries resist
current flow as they get older causing them to heat up if your phone's internal
temperature gets too hot it can cause its CPU to throttle slowing things down
batteries also lose some of their maximum capacity over time which has led
to creative solutions from companies like
apple where they admitted to slowing down older phones to ensure that while
performance did suffer battery life would stay similar to when the device
was new and you can learn more about that little scandal up here
the bottom line is that between apps that continually demand both more CPU
performance and storage space and batteries that wear out in a few years
it's almost like the deck is stacked against you so that you'll feel
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