Speed your Android device up drastically, Developer options hack

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Speed your Android device up drastically, Developer mode hack

When you switch apps or top around through pop-ups, the speed of the animations that transition you from one screen to the next actually have a huge impact on the speed of the user interface. Doubling the speed of these animations actually has a massive impact on how fast your Android phone feels.

Each time you open an app, close an app, open or tap out of pop-ups, or switch between apps, your phone plays a transition animation. This way there’s a smooth transition from one screen to the next, rather than just an abrupt image change. Those animations might seem fast, but there’s an easy way to speed them up even more and the end result is a phone that feel much faster with a UI that seems much more fluid. And the best part is that it couldn’t be easier to adjust these settings.

There’s a secret Settings menu inside Android’s Settings app called “Developer options” and it’s filled with a wide range of advanced options. It’s hidden by default — it is a secret, after all — but it’s simple to gain access to it on your phone.
  • Open the Settings app
    • If your handset runs Android 8.0+, tap System (skip this step if you’re on an earlier version of Android)
  • Scroll down and tap About phone
  • Scroll down again and tap Build number 7 times consecutively
There are so many different vendor versions of Android out there that the instructions on your phone may vary slightly, but a quick Google search should do the trick.

Once you’ve gained access to the Developer options on your phone, open it and scroll down to DRAWING until you see the following three settings:
  • Window animation scale
  • Transition animation scale
  • Animator animation scale
Next to each of the three aforementioned settings, you’ll see a “1x.” That number indicated that your animations are being played at 100% speed. To make them play twice as fast, all you need to do is tap each setting and change “1x” to “.5x,” then exit the Developer options section once you’re done. “.5x” is half of “1x,” of course, which means the same animation will be displayed in half the time. In other words, your transition animations will be twice as fast. Just to ensure there isn’t any confusion, be sure to select “.5x” and not “5x.”
You can turn all three settings off completely, that gives the fastest result with no animation, although it will be a bit weird, the device becomes almost too fast without animation.

Nevertheless, the result will be a lot faster device. I did this on my Samsung Galaxy Tab running Android 7 and it's like new now. :)

Enjoy!

Source: https://bgr.com/2018/11/20/android-vs-iphone-galaxy-s10-ui-uses-speed-trick/
 
Speed your Android device up drastically, Developer mode hack

When you switch apps or top around through pop-ups, the speed of the animations that transition you from one screen to the next actually have a huge impact on the speed of the user interface. Doubling the speed of these animations actually has a massive impact on how fast your Android phone feels.

Each time you open an app, close an app, open or tap out of pop-ups, or switch between apps, your phone plays a transition animation. This way there’s a smooth transition from one screen to the next, rather than just an abrupt image change. Those animations might seem fast, but there’s an easy way to speed them up even more and the end result is a phone that feel much faster with a UI that seems much more fluid. And the best part is that it couldn’t be easier to adjust these settings.

There’s a secret Settings menu inside Android’s Settings app called “Developer options” and it’s filled with a wide range of advanced options. It’s hidden by default — it is a secret, after all — but it’s simple to gain access to it on your phone.
  • Open the Settings app
    • If your handset runs Android 8.0+, tap System (skip this step if you’re on an earlier version of Android)
  • Scroll down and tap About phone
  • Scroll down again and tap Build number 7 times consecutively
There are so many different vendor versions of Android out there that the instructions on your phone may vary slightly, but a quick Google search should do the trick.

Once you’ve gained access to the Developer options on your phone, open it and scroll down to DRAWING until you see the following three settings:
  • Window animation scale
  • Transition animation scale
  • Animator animation scale
Next to each of the three aforementioned settings, you’ll see a “1x.” That number indicated that your animations are being played at 100% speed. To make them play twice as fast, all you need to do is tap each setting and change “1x” to “.5x,” then exit the Developer options section once you’re done. “.5x” is half of “1x,” of course, which means the same animation will be displayed in half the time. In other words, your transition animations will be twice as fast. Just to ensure there isn’t any confusion, be sure to select “.5x” and not “5x.”
You can turn all three settings off completely, that gives the fastest result with no animation, although it will be a bit weird, the device becomes almost too fast without animation.

Nevertheless, the result will be a lot faster device. I did this on my Samsung Galaxy Tab running Android 7 and it's like new now. :)

Enjoy!

Source: https://bgr.com/2018/11/20/android-vs-iphone-galaxy-s10-ui-uses-speed-trick/

Lovely!
 
This is Nice. Completely turned off settings works well :D
 
What you are only doing is speeding up animations ... it doesn't theoretically really "speed up" the phone.
 
I was just about to rip into @HoNeYBiRD about this being known for quite some time until I noticed it was posted nearly a year ago!!!

Why the bump?? This is nothing new anymore
 
Wow my phone is so fast. . . My eyes can't even see the animations lol. Apps are opening much faster now
 
Thank you for this great tip. Anything else we can change in developer options to make the phone even faster?
 
Thank you for this great tip. Anything else we can change in developer options to make the phone even faster?
I think, that's pretty much all. I haven't tried to change hardware acceleration settings, there's a section for that too in the dev options. Maybe it's best to leave those settings untouched. Turning off those 3 settings from the OP completely, makes the device significantly faster. If it doesn't seem to be enough, maybe the RAM is too few.
 
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