Sometimes, Apps and games crash, freeze, and stop working in Google Android, but you can try some simple tasks to make them more stable, freeze less, run more stable, and not crash as much.
Restarting your phone, and tablet by holding down the power button, and powering it off than turning it on again may make your apps run faster if you have a lot of apps running in the background.
You can also exit or log out of your apps like web browsers, social networking apps, and games which will release some RAM.
Some apps and games, let you change the video quality settings in the app, so it uses less RAM, CPU, and video resources on your phone, and tablet. By using a lower quality setting, your app would freeze, and not slow down as much.
Antivirus Apps, Widgets, Social networking, and system utility apps which are always running in the background could be the cause of your slow down on your phone or tablet especially if you only have 256MB of RAM, and a 800 MHz CPU found on many older phones and tablets.
Turning off Bluetooth, NFC, Wi-Fi, 3G/4G data, GPS, location awareness, automatic updates for Apps in Google Play, syncing, and other features which your phone and tablet come with built-into the phone may help increase its performance since less background apps are running in the background of Android.
Also, turning off notification pop-ups for apps by going to settings than tapping on apps in the settings menu in Android, and clicking on each individual app to uncheck the notifications may make your tablet slightly faster since notifications popping up in the notifications task bar are not always popping up when you use your tablet.
Some apps, let you disable notifications from within the app settings when you open the app. You can disable App notification in the App properties page which you can get to by going to Android settings> Apps > tap on app you want to disable notifications, and uncheck the “Show Notifications” checkbox. Lastly, tap on the OK button on the Show Notifications Window which will show up.
I recommend using an hibernation App called Greenify which is designed to hibernate running Apps, so they don’t run in the background anymore. It even auto-hibernate apps on non-rooted devices. Greenify made my older Asus Nexus 7 2012 tablet with Google Android 5.1.1 sometimes have over 600MB of Free available RAM to use, and more CPU cycles for running Apps, and Games. Greenify also saves your devices battery life because battery and hardware resource draining apps are hibernated. It is also very easy to un-hibernate apps by using the un-hibernate feature in Greenify. After using Greenify my Nexus 7 tablet does not freeze, or crash as much, and feels a lot faster.
Super Touch is an app which make games and apps run faster, and also improve the speed of list scrolling, zooming, and more. Super Touch is free and does not need Android to be rooted to work. This App improve your touchscreen’s performance by improving settings, and it also makes apps launch faster and more reliable.
Wipe Google Android Cache Partition for faster performance
Wiping the Google Android cache drive partition can sometimes make a Google Android device faster, and crash less. Wiping Google Android cache partition is safe to do, and won’t delete your personal files and apps as long as you don’t highlight the Recovery/Wipe Data option in Recovery mode. Wiping the Cache Partition deletes temporary files which are usually safe to delete in the Cache partition. I recommend charging your device before entering Recovery mode to prevent power loss in the middle of a wipe cache partition tasks.
Entering recovery mode usually involves you pressing the power button, and a combination of other buttons like power + volume down, or just volume down during power on. You may need to read your instruction manuals, or search the internet to learn how to enter your particular device’s Android recovery mode during boot. Not all devices have Recovery mode turned, so you may not be able to enter recovery mode on some devices made by different brands like Kobo, or lesser known brands. Sometimes, you can root your device, and install a custom ROM to get Recovery Mode on your device.
It is not too hard to do on most device. On my Google Nexus 7 2012 it is simple to enter recovery mode. I notice now my tablet performs faster, and apps do not crash and freeze as much as before.
How I Entered Recovery Mode on my Google Nexus 7 2012 tablet after turning it ON?
Before I can enter Recovery mode on my Google Nexus 7 2012 Asus Tablet, I need to turn off my tablet, and Turn it ON again. While it is powering on, and the Google Logo shows up on the screen, I need to quickly Press the power button and volume down button at the same time. When in Recovery mode, I need to Press the volume down button until the Big Arrow sign text changes to Recovery Mode, and I need to press the power button to enter the Recovery mode screen.
When I see a robot with a triangle ! caution sign, I need to press power button and Volume up button to unlock the recovery mode text menu. I next need to press the volume down button until “Wipe Cache Partition” is highlighted. When it is highlighted, I press the power button to begin wiping the cache partition. I can reboot Android by highlighting “reboot system now” by pressing the power button when my device is finish wiping the cache partition. After my device is rebooted, I can use it again like before, and experience fewer slowdown problems, freezes, and other problems.
Use a Task Killer app
Using a Task killer like Advance Task Killer can make your phone use less RAM, CPU resources, and battery life by killing background apps. Some task killers let you set it to kill tasks every 5 minutes or more, or when your device is locked, and the screen is off, so your device’s has fewer background apps running in the background when you use your device.
Force Stop Apps
You can also “Forced Stop” Apps in Google Androids’ Apps Setting section by going to Android Settings, and clicking on Apps where there are a list of Apps in different sections like Downloaded, and All. Downloaded Apps are Apps which you downloaded while All also includes Apps which came with your smartphone/tablet. Click on the App which you want to “Forced Stop”, and click “Forced Stop” on the top left to force stop it. There will be a pop up window which tells you the App which you are force stopping may misbehave. Click on the OK button on the pop up message to force stop the app. To find a list of apps to Force Stop in the Downloaded or All section of App settings, go to the Running Section of Apps. I notice Apps are less likely to restart after doing a Forced Stop compared to using Task Killers, or the Running section in Apps where stopping an app will not stop it from running, and the app restarts again after using a task killer app.
Uninstall or Reinstall Apps
Uninstalling and reinstalling the app may fix problems sometimes. If you are using an older version of the app, make sure to upgrade to the latest version since it could fix problems in older versions of the app like crashes. Clearing your web browser internet history, and cache can also save some space. In the App settings where you uninstall apps, you can usually safely clear the cache on each app to regain a few MBs of free space there are also a lot of free App Cache and SMS log privacy cleaners like Clean Master which work pretty well at cleaning junk files from Android, and doing other tasks like deleting empty folders, and uninstalling apps you no longer use. Clean Master also has a Task Killer to kill Apps like Google Chrome, Games, and other background tasks to free up RAM, and CPU cycles, so the app or game you want to run has more free RAM and CPU cycles for running in Android. Clean Master also has a Game Booster which kills task before starting your game for improving game load performance. There is also an App-Manager which makes it easy to disable pre-install bloatware apps with its App Manager, and uninstall apps which you installed yourself.
Best System Utility Apps to easily Clean up and speed up Google Android devices.
In my experience, once my device has 20% free space because most of my storage space is filled my device begins to slow down until I have at least 30-40% free RAM. Newer versions of Android like 4.3 also optimizes/TRIM Android’s flash memory SSD storage for faster charging, but Android mostly optimizes your drive when your device is idle, or charging, so leaving your device ON when it charges will optimize/TRIM your drive when you are not using it, and Android will also optimize your device if it is idle for one hour, and 80% battery power. Android only optimizes its drive once every 24 hours.
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