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Lags are some of the common and perennial issues plaguing Android devices. Those occasional slow performances, app freezes, and delays in touch responsiveness exhibited by your device do decrease overall productivity. We take a look at five of the reasons why it does, and give your our own take on solutions to solve them.
Too many running apps that hog your memory
It may be possible that there are too many background apps that are consuming much of your memory. This can be really felt if you have a lot of apps installed and your phone is equipped with low-end specs. There will also be instances that your smartphone will slow down after a day or two of operation without turning your device off.
Solution: Restrict apps from running in the background. To prevent them from running behind the scenes, go to Settings > Apps then swipe two times to Running, and select an app. From each individual app’s menu, you may force close or stop the app from running to free up space. If you’re not keen on trying this out and crash your app permanently in the process, you may opt to restart your phone instead.
If that didn’t work, you can try a couple of apps that can freeze (Titanium Backup Pro) or hibernate (Greenify) other memory-hogging apps to permanently free up your RAM. You may also check out alternative apps to replace the feature-filled heavyweights. Some already introduced watered-down versions (such as Facebook Lite), and there are some that offer alternatives to official apps.
Low internal storage
If you like to install a lot of apps or hooked on social media, and you’ve got little space left, the dreaded ‘Low on Space’ notification might have appeared on your notifications a few times. From that point onward, several of your smartphone’s essential functions such as email have been disabled until you are able to maximize your free space.
Solution: Clear cache from applications. The biggest culprit of low internal storage is the prolonged used of applications that take up too much storage cache such as Facebook and Instagram. To clear it, go to Settings > Apps, click on the application from the list of downloaded apps, and select Clear Cache. Like our recommendation above, you can also get more efficient apps that are available on the market to reduce storage footprint.
If it’s not enough, you can move the apps to your microSD card if your phone supports it. At the same location, you can choose to move the app data to your card. You may use utility apps such as App2SD to move them, too. Some pre-installed apps on your devices might not have this function, and you may see that the option has been grayed out.
Outdated software
A probable cause of lag is outdated software. This happens when the system itself suffers from bugs and glitches, or in some cases, comes from sideloaded applications into our devices. Since these sideloaded apps are not downloaded from the Google Play Store, they get looped out of the future update cycles, making them susceptible to error messages.
Solution: Upgrade your system and/or application to the latest version. New updates, other than introducing new features, often provide bug fixes and improvements to issues plaguing the software.
Playing games for long hours
Playing graphic-intense games on our smartphones harnesses the maximum processing potential of your phone’s hardware, and that’s the reason why our phones heat up a lot. This also causes moderate to severe lag especially after playing.
Solution: Rest your device for a few minutes after playing to cool down. If it still lags after that, you may restart the phone to automatically free up RAM space.
Presence of a malware or virus
Did you ever encounter any slowdowns even when you’re using your phone properly? You might have been a victim of malware or viruses plaguing Android devices, which can enter your phone when you ae clicking on suspicious links in websites or mobile advertisements.
Solution: Scan your device to eradicate any abnormalities. Using a mobile scanner app such as AVG or CM. you can search for files on your system and eradicate them in the process.
Note that these are just five typical causes of lag on your Android smartphone, there are other factors that may affect the performance of your smartphone that are not on this guide. Thus, if you’ve experience lag on your device and you were able to identify what caused it and eventually solved it, let us know in the comments field below.
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owwell says:
ma-try nga
Easy E says:
Many apps has a special permission to run when the phone starts. Pero di mo naman kailangan palagi yung app. Sa windows OS (desktop – di ko alam kung may ganun sa phones) may built in tool para idisable ang mga apps na nagra-run pag start pa lang ng phone.
Sa Android kailangan pa ng 3rd party app at yung iba kailangan rooted and phone.
Tony says:
First is delete or disable unnecessary preloaded apps. The only important google app for me is the google play and play services and the rest can be done with a browser. For important apps, gumagamit na lang ako ng alternative. Like facebook, I prefer the lite version. Though not that fluid but it is faster. Based on my experience, kung wala ka naman problem sa app or sa os mo, better na wag ka munang mag update, magbasa muna ng feedbacks kasi usually puro beta ang mga latest versions that leads to lag, crashing and a lot of issues.
Raphiduz says:
That’s the problem with Android devices. Lag, freeze and restart of the unit are most common even with higher RAM. The main reason is this, the device and OS came from different companies. Meaning most of the apps are not tested to the units with different Andorid versions from Samsung, Alcatel, Sony, HTC, Cherry Mobile, O+, etc. Unlike with Apple, apps are being tested first to Apple devices before being approved and posted to the Apps Store. Thats why Apple users are very satisfied with the smoothness and without lag apps from their units. Mas sulit ang binayad mo sa Apple devices.
BlackBerry Fan says:
I have never experienced any lag with my Blackberry z30. The problem with android phones is the OS itself, its resource hog. It runs on virtual machine, the Dalvic system. It virtualizes the graphical interface so that its easy for Google to port android across different hardwares, it short its not optimize for specific hardware thats why it needs HUGE Ram to run lag-free. Compare it to BlackBerry OS which is based on QNX kernel, the true REAL TIME OS. It doesn’t need virtualization whatsoever. Its so stable and you don’t need to reboot it from tme to time, I’m running my phone for almost a month now and i hvent rebooted it yet. To top it all, its the most secured OS to date.
June says:
Their are some tools naman to prevent lagging on ram and free up some memory from phone internal memory.
E.G Clean Master or CCleaner. So far for my experience The CM is good and complete too from mobile security up to cleaning junk memory
cnongnanaimo says:
For low internal storage, (rooted devices) delete files in folders /data/core and /data/logs or data/log_other_mode. I already tried this on my phone and it works fine. No issues whatsoever.
dothackjhe says:
Meron na bang identified na virus sa Android? May notion kasi na virus-free pa yung Android (hence di na kailangan ng anti-virus installed) since Linux-based yung OS.
accel says:
No Operating System is malware-proof. As long as an operating system allows running code does not belong to it, it will always be vulnerable to malware.
So much for the Linux fanboys out there who endlessly claim that their beloved OS is malware-proof and bashing Windows like they’re being enslaved by their master Linus Torvalds.
Easy E says:
There are RAM cleaners out there but they do harm actually. Read this: http://www.phonearena.com/news/Here-are-10-types-of-Android-apps-you-should-absolutely-avoid_id65352
RaGe says:
antivirus apps are somewhat not useful enough since Android is “sandboxed”
for me Google Play Services’ internal “services” causes tremendous wakelocks, CPU usage and battery drains
I root them, use Xposed Framework, install Amplify and Greenify for wakelocks then the Disable Service app for disabling unnecessary “services” within your apps.
cnongnanaimo says:
I use Clean Master to get rid of junk files, free up memory and therefore boost my phone’s performance. It also has a function to manage autostarting apps.
Di ako bayad diyan ha. There are other similar apps naman.