How to Increase Internet speed on Android Phones

In this article we will tell you how to increase Internet speed on Android phones. Here are the complete details:

Internet is the lifeline of any android phone. Fast and reliable internet connection enhances the user experience. It gives more browsing speed, better online gaming experience and fast data downloading.

The internet speed in android phones depends on the strength of the signal and the maximum internet speed provided by the ISP. But most of the users have to deal with slow internet connections. This problem of slow internet speed can be solved by using these techniques and apps which helps in increasing the internet speed.

SET DATA PREFERENCE IN SETTINGS

This is the most basic step for increasing internet speed in android phones. Setting ‘data prefer’ instead of ‘call prefer’ in settings menu will increase transmission of data and will boost internet speed. It can be done by opening ‘settings’ menu, then choosing ‘wireless & network’ and then ‘GPRS transfer prefer’. In this menu, select ‘data prefer’ instead of ’call prefer’

USING OPERA MINI AND UC BROWSER

Opera mini and UC browser are much faster and reliable than conventional Google chrome. Google chrome uses much more data and time while opening web pages. So if you want faster internet surfing, go for UC browser or Opera mini as these both are better options than Google Chrome.

USE 3G NETWORK OR WCDMA NETWORK

3g network is much better than usual 2g network. It can increase internet speed very much and also keep download rate steady. To start 3g services on your android phone, select ‘enable 3g’ from settings menu. First, go to ‘settings’ menu, then open ‘wireless & network’ and choose ‘mobile networks’. Select ‘enable 3g’ on that menu. Also select ‘3g only’ to prevent your phone from switching to 2g from 3g network.

DISABLE ANDROID APPS FROM ACCESSING INTERNET

Many apps such as Gmail and Facebook Messenger keeps on accessing internet in background which makes the internet connection slow. They reduce downloading and browsing speed of the web browsers on the android phone. You should stop these apps from accessing internet. You can also download apps such as ‘task manager app’, ‘droid wall’ and ‘LBE security’ which prevent other apps from accessing internet in background automatically. ‘Droid wall’ and ‘LBE security’ needs the android phone to be rooted before installing them

APPS TO INCREASE INTERNET SPEED ON ANDROID PHONE

Internet speed mostly depends on the strength of your network signal. If signal strength is increased, internet speed is also increased. There are many android apps available in the market which increases internet speed by increasing the strength of your network signal. The most used apps are:

• Network  Speed Booster
• Internet Speed Up Booster
• Android Speed Booster
• Internet Accelerator Booster
• Network 3G & Wi-Fi Booster                       
• Quick Internet Speed Booster                                             

Although the list is very long, these apps are the best and have top ratings

If you’ll follow these simple tips and apps, it will boost up your internet speed 40-50% faster. You will notice the improvement in your internet speed. These methods are compatible with almost all the android phones available in the market and helps in increasing their internet speed.

Hope this article about Increase Internet speed on Android Phones helped you.

also see :-  7 Super tips and tricks to speed up android.

Source :- pacebutler

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7 Super Tips and Tricks to speed up Android smartphone/tablet

Mobility scenario has changed completely since then and Android is dominating the world now. The good thing about Android (and one of the main reasons of its popularity) is that it’s compatible with many different devices of all sizes, shapes and budgets. Unfortunately this very quality becomes a bottleneck when it comes to performance and speed. No wonder low-end Android phones (having less than 1GB RAM, cheap chipsets and processors) become slow, hanging sloths overtime.

Thus the story of an average mobile user (having limited knowledge of Android, specially the first-timers) goes like this – you have got your swanky new Android smartphone, you are very excited setting it up, you load it up with tons of apps, it’s amazing for the first few days (or hours in some cases) and then… it becomes a headache – slow and laggy, draining battery too fast, becomes hot and freezes frequently etc. Every single Android user experiences some or the other such issue at some point of time (especially common with low-end devices). However the good news is that these issues are very easy to resolve in most of the cases. Here are some easy tips and tweaks which will make your Android phone superfast (as if it were new) and will also improve battery performance -

1. First up take a look at the apps you have installed in your phone – do you really need all of them – I am sure you don’t, many of them – so why they are there, occupying memory, (many of them) running in the background and using data by connecting to internet. Just uninstall unnecessary crap (apps, themes, live wallpapers) from your phone. Apps can be uninstalled from “Settings – Applications manager” or “Settings – Apps” (vary according to the phone manufacturer).

2. Free the RAM by closing apps running in the background – by doing this you can give a quick boost to phone speed. Did you know that when you exit an app in Android, it still keeps running in the background consuming valuable RAM. Here is what you can do to resolve this –

Running apps in Android

Press and hold the “Home” button (or touch and hold “Home” icon in case there is no physical button) until a list of open app(s) pop up – now select the “Delete” or “Clear all” button to close all the running apps – or you can also swipe out apps one by one. In some devices (especially tablets) there is a dedicated soft-key for this function at the navigation bar. Furthermore in Samsung phones (and in some others) you can also launch the “task manager” by above method – press and hold the Home button and select the “Pie chart” icon – task manager will open – go to RAM tab and select “Clear memory” button – you will be notified of “x number of applications closed” and the used RAM bar will retract.

You can also set this “clear all” function at automatic mode – go to Settings / Developer options / Apps – tick the option “Do not keep activities” and set “Limit background processes” to “No background processes”. This option will completely disable multi-tasking, which may be annoying for some – for example if you are downloading something in a browser and want to run facebook app at the same time, it will not be possible. In simple words the moment you exit an app or press the Home button all background processes will be terminated completely. So this option is recommended only for very low-end phones and when multi-tasking is not needed.

Despite above steps some apps are still stubborn enough to keep running (like facebook which has push notification feature), for these you will have to use force stop function under Applications manager as described below

Force-stop a running app via Applications manager – go to Settings / Applications manager – swipe left for Running apps tab – from the running apps list select the app you want to close – select “Force stop/Stop” button and done, if there are more than one “Stop/Force stop” buttons for an app then close all of them one by one (Caution – do not force close any system process as it may result in a hanged phone, restart or other malfunction).

3. Unless you REALLY need to be always online, keep your connectivity options off (WiFi, Mobile data, Bluetooth etc) and better use them in “when needed” mode. It is very simple to toggle these options on/off via drop-down notification panel. This will prevent data-hungry, push-notification enabled apps (WhatsApp, FB, WeChat etc) to wake-up and send network requests.

4. Similarly keep the GPS (location services) and automatic Sync off – remember you can always manually activate and use these functions as and when required. Not only this will prevent them from running in the background but will also conserve the battery.

5. Better do not use (or limit the use of) live wallpapers as background as they consume more RAM and CPU power

6. Clean unnecessary junk files (cache, thumbnails etc) which pile up overtime – you can do this easily with the help of some great free apps like Android Assistant, Clean Master or Advanced Mobile Care (Iobit)

7. Restart your phone say once every two days (if you are glued to the phone day and night) to once every week (for average user). After all phones are electronic machines which also need rest in my opinion. My personal usage pattern – I switch off my phone for a whole night once in a while (say every Sunday) or when it becomes hot after heavy sessions of gaming or browsing.

I am sure these tips will help you, do share here if you know similar tips which I missed…

Also see  - How to fix : Low memory on Android

Source :- Digipassion

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5 Ways to Make Your Non-Rooted Android Phone Run Faster

The major difference between an iPhone and an Android is that iOS is meant to work on specific device(s) and it was developed keeping in mind a particular hardware configuration. Android, on the other hand, was developed for many devices that do not share a standard hardware specification. It’s like the Windows of smartphones.

There are some Android phones that run on few hundred megahertz with a handful of internal memory while there are beasts like HTC One X that run on a multi-core processor with 1 GB of RAM. Due to these reasons, performance of Android phones differ and thus some appear slow when compared to others.

Even though the performance issue is mainly related to the device hardware configuration, there are few things you can do on the software front which can reduce the pressure on the device hardware making it considerably faster. So let’s have a look at these tips.

Note: The following tips are for non-rooted Android phones. If you don’t understand what “non-rooted” means, this post is for you. This post is also for those who don’t want to root their phones just to make it run faster, and are looking for easier workarounds. If have a rooted phone, we will have another such post tomorrow, so keep an eye.

1. Disable Screen Animation and Live Wallpaper

You need to be sure what you want with your device – performance or appearance. Both never walk hand in hand, not if your phone isn’t high end. If you are looking for a superior performance, you should disable all the Live wallpapers (if at all you are using them) and the screen animation that gives fading effect to your menus and unlock animation.

Selecting common image wallpapers over a live wallpaper is easy. To disable the screen animation, ICS users should navigate to Developer options in the settings while other users should disable it from Display—>Animations.

2. Install Apps on Need to Use Basis

Even though Android Play Store is a home to millions of free applications, it is recommended that you only download and install the apps that you need. Apps on Android are installed in a special memory called the ROM, which is usually limited in storage space.

Thus if you populate it with unnecessary apps, it will only reduce the consistency of the memory and make it slow. One of the best practices one can follow is that he installs only basic apps on his ROM and creates backup files of once-in-a-while apps as APK on the SD card using tools like Astro.

Later, when you require a particular app out of the blue, you can install the app using the APK file and perform the operation.

3. Disable High-Speed Data and Background Sync

Both the features – high-speed data connectivity and background syncing – make a device comparatively slow and drain its juice. You could install power control widgets on your desktop and control the high-speed internet and background syncing right from the desktop.

Switch on these features only when you require them and when the work’s done, disable them. This trick will not only make your device faster but also help your battery to last longer.

4. Use Apps to Free Up the RAM

Once you launch an app on Android it remains in the memory until it’s killed. Although some people say that killing applications on Android is not a healthy habit, I believe that killing only the ones that are bloating up the memory is a good thing to do.

NQ Android Booster is one such app that acts as a task killer for your Android and increases the device’s free memory. And I don’t need to tell you the fact that performance is directly proportional to the amount of free RAM on a device.

5. Keep your Home Screen Clean

Last but not the least, always try to keep your home screen clean. Widgets are not a fancy item. They are there to solve a specific purpose. Thus use only what you require and reduce the number of home screen panels that contain icons and widgets.

Conclusion

I consider myself an experienced and geeky Android user, and the above tips were the best that struck me among all such methods. But if you think that I have missed an important point, please talk about them in the comments section. And those among you who’ve already rooted their phones, we’ll publish a post tomorrow to show you how can get rid of the terrible slowness of your phone.

Source :- guidingtech

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Top 5 News: speed up the S4, 4.4.2 on the S3, what's in 4.4.3?, 2048

It's been quite the device week this week, we got the Moto E, Oppo Find 7a and HTC One mini 2 and we got our first proper look at the upcoming LG G3. We heard that Flappy Bird will be returning to Android and Monument Valley made a beautiful entrance to the world's most popular mobile operating system. Our last Top 5 survey told us that the majority of you want Android Silver devices and the existing Nexus line, closely followed by a desire to leave things as they currently are with Nexus and Google Play editions. But here's what's hot this week:

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Samsung may have abandoned the international version of the Galaxy S3 when it comes to thee KitKat update, but you can rest assured that the modder community wouldn't do such a thing. If you're willing to risk a few bugs you can get the ported official Note 2 KitKat update running on your S3 right now.

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It's the update on the tip of everyone's tongue and it should be arriving any day now. So what can you expect to see in the last Android version update before we hit the big 5.0 (or maybe 4.5...)? You'll just have to check out our breakdown of what we'll be seeing in Android 4.4.3 and who will benefit the most from it.

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I bet there's not a math teacher in the world that could have predicted a math game would become as popular as 2048 has become in a very short amount of time. Despite its inherent difficulty, there are a few tricks you can use to increase your chances of hitting that mythical number.

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With Samsung dropping the international version of the Galaxy S3, we figured there would a sudden surge in the interest in flashing custom ROMs to get that KitKat goodness and it seems we were right. The first step in taking firmware decisions into your own hands is rooting your device. It's super easy and lets you ditch that Samsung bloat at the same time as opening up your horizons.

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