A new mobile always gives a different feeling: everything seems to go more smoothly, you find exclusive functions that didn’t exist before and it’s generally more exciting than after using it for years. If you want to give new life to your mobile, we tell you nine things you can do make your android mobile like new.
We will give you several ideas that will go from making the mobile go a little faster to aesthetic or material changes. The idea will be rediscover in a certain way this feeling of having a new mobile in your hands, even if it’s always the same motive.
speed up animations
If the problem is that the mobile seems a little slow, an old trick that you can easily do is to speed up the animations. The mobile will go at the same speed, but you will feel that it works a bit faster because the animations will be faster.
Animation speed is an option for Android developers, and you can adjust three of them: window animations, transition animations, and animation duration scale. You can choose to make them faster (2x, 5x, or 10x) or turn them off altogether.
Note that animations help hide loading times, so without animations, it becomes even more obvious how long it takes to open an application, when opening menus or similar tasks.
Change launcher
If you are using the stock launcher, install one. If you use another one, go back to the original one: the box needs to be changed. Image: Niagara Launcher
After using the same mobile for some time, you might already be extremely bored with its launcher. After all, it’s the app you turn to most often to launch other apps. A simple way to make a mobile look totally different is change your launcher.
There are many quality launchers of all types. Some of them, like Nova Launcher, are highly configurable, so you can change the look of your home screen and app drawer. Others more minimalist may be the radical change you’ve been looking for. It may also be time to try the stock launcher: the casing needs to be changed.
Change theme, wallpaper or colors
With apps like KLWP, you can create authentic works of art
Another way for a mobile to rejuvenate is change his appearance with all the tools you have. On some mobiles, you will be able to install themes or change color settings, in addition to changing the shape of the icons or the icons completely, with an icon pack.
It will help fight the fatigue of seeing the same thing on your mobile every day, but if you have the time, the inclination and some expertise, you can try making a more drastic change with apps like KWLP or KWGT . With them you can create fully customized widgets and interactive wallpapers, with results that can be surprising.
Uninstall apps you don’t use
There is no denying that mobiles get slower over time. There are several reasons for this, including that over time we tend to install a bunch of apps. Many of them we use frequently, but others we may have installed once and haven’t used much.
If you want your mobile to gain speed, uninstall any apps you no longer use. You can use the Marie Kondo method if you wish, to eliminate all those who do not make you happy. In addition to not occupying resources, this will free the app drawer or your home screen of icons and somehow
Switch to light applications
Gallery Go is a lightweight gallery app, as an alternative to Google Photos
Besides uninstalling apps, another strategy you can adopt to make your old mobile speed up and therefore look newer is switch to lightweight alternatives
Not only will you free up space on your mobile, but usually these lightweight alternatives work faster than the official versions, in exchange for the loss of certain functions. In some cases, you can choose to use web apps instead of apps.
Free up space on mobile
There are few things that make a mobile look old except that it has little space. everything starts to go wrong, the system runs slower, Google Play has problems downloading and installing apps, and occasionally apps throw errors or complain that you’re running out of space.
One of the reasons a new cell phone works faster right out of the box is that it has few apps and lots of free space available. You can replicate this by freeing up space on your mobile with different techniques using apps like Google Files. An effective but drastic option is to factory reset the mobile, even if you will lose all your data.
Change case (or use none)
Some mobiles are too beautiful to be hidden under a case for their entire lifespan
Have you spent years with the same cell phone case? Then chances are you’re already more than bored with it, whether it’s dirty or full of scratches and, of course, it doesn’t feel like you have anything new in your hands. An easy way to refresh the look of your mobile is with a new box
The same applies to screen protector, If you have something. If it’s badly scratched, replace it or remove it altogether, if you dare. The same goes for the case, if you’ve used the phone for years with its case on and you’ve never been able to appreciate the beauty of its design, now might be a good time to start upgrading it. do (being careful, of course).
change the battery
There are hardly any cell phones with removable batteries today, but the official technical service can change your battery, for a fee.
Over time, the battery of our mobile phones loses its capacity, it is a fact. Instead of lasting us almost two days, it will last a day and later not even that. If you want to regain that feeling of having a battery for a while on your mobile, a very effective way to do so is replace the battery.
Of course, that’s easier said than done. Nowadays, almost no mobile has a removable battery, so the task requires either specific tools and skills, or a specialist or the official technical service is in charge. This makes the process is more expensive than before, although you should check exactly how much it is worth in your case.
Install a ROM
Probably the most drastic way to make a phone look brand new is to install a custom ROM. We’ve seen how this method was used to bring Android 12 to a Samsung Galaxy S3 from nine years ago, although these were extreme cases. A ROM in addition to providing you with a more modern version of the system may radically change the mobile interface and add new features.
It is a very effective way to breathe new life into a mobile, even if it’s a complicated process with many moving parts (bootloader, custom recovery, root…), not without risk, requiring patience, trial and error, and not always possible on your particular model.
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