For those who missed my previous How to optimize and speed up to make Android phone run faster article, just click and have a read about it. Most of the tips there works and saved the juice on your Android as well. But some of the most relevant tips will be reposted here.

• Switch to 2G network if u dont need the speed

Obviously, the slower 2G networks EDGE and GPRS uses much less power than 3G. If you only use your phone for sending Whatsapp messages, reading text-only news or simply put, you don’t need that extra speed, just switch to 2G-only settings. How to set 2G-only setting? Go to Settings > Wireless & networks > Mobile networks >Network mode.

• Disable automatic backlight adjustment

Disabling automatic backlight adjustment saves up the CPU for having to adjust the backlight according to the available surrounding ambient light. This translate into less power to do processing which also leads to less usage of battery on your Droid. Go to Settings > Display > Brightness , and untick Automatic brightness. For Sony Ericsson Android owners, you must use the power widget to disable it.

• Disable live wallpaper

Live wallpaper is not free. I mean, not free on your CPU and GPU of your Droid. This eye candy taxes the CPU and GPU on your Android device. I know, it gives you a level of decoration on your Droid which is not possible on iPhone. But hey, if you are looking at this article, you should disable it by setting a static wallpaper to your Android instead.

• Do not use any task killers

This tip was taken from XDA. ”Taskillers are supposed to speed your phone by killing tasks when the Memory is ‘full’ or above a defined limit. The problem is that it interferes with Android built-in (and efficient) memory management. You have to understand that what can slow down your phone is not Memory saturation (because Android will start closing apps on its own before reaching this situation), but CPU usage. You can still use a taskiller to see which app are eating CPU cycles and close them. But again, don’t let any 3rd-party app manage your memory. It will only bring you force-closes, battery drain, and various unpredictable issues.”

Since Android 2.2 Froyo, Android has an effective memory management build into the OS itself. For those using Android 2.2 Froyo and above, you can forget about any task managers that you can find from the Android Market.

• Use Juice Defender

Download Juice Defender
Like its name says, it defends the juice of your Android. For me, the Free version of Juice Defender is good enough. It turns off your 3G/Wifi everytime you turn off your Android screen and turns on when you turn on your screen again. The marvel of this Juice Defender is, it somehow also turns on the data periodically to check for push messages and emails. I discovered this when I installed Juice Defender, I still able to see messages pushed to my phone during the night when I woke up the next morning. I don’t have to do any manual sync to retrieve messages and email at all.

However, Juice Defender renders my ebuddy unusable at all. It disables the data plan when I screen off. Anyway, it isn’t much of an issue as I uses my instant messagers only when I was travelling. And the best part? After using Juice Defender for 2weeks, I’d notice a better battery performance by as much as half day longer for every single full charge. From the app itself, it reported that it saves up as much as 1.6times of battery life for me. I dunno how it did the calculations, but half day longer battery life is more than good enough for me.

• Disable vibration

Vibration eats out your battery life. If you’re not in a meeting or cinema, disable it by going to Settings > Sound > unticks the Vibrate setting

• Follow lithium battery saving tips here

I have written a detail guide of prolonging the life of your lithium battery, be it a mobile phone or your laptop battery. Following it makes your battery last longer on a single charge and not only that, you’ll learned the tips of prolonging the lifespan of your phone battery.

• use SetCPU or Daemon Controller to adjust your cpu speed ( for rooted Androids only )

Download SetCPU here
Download Daemon Controller here
These CPU controlling apps can be set to reduce clock rates while in different states. Pretty useful to save up juices on your battery. For Daemon Controller, you’ll need the correct kernel for your device (which available on XDA of course). While SetCPU works for any rooted Android phones.

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Well, this is simple enough. How to get back the old Facebook chat? Go to the Facebook page, Hold down the “Ctrl” key and press the “+” on your keyboard. Or you can do it by holding the “Ctrl” and use your mouse to scroll up. You can actually notice this is a zooming function for your browser. Just by zooming one level, the new Facebook chat will be transformed back to the older better version. Simple enough? I dunno, this could be a function build by Facebook itself but didn’t documented well. Anyway, it just work and you don’t have to install or tweak anything at all.

This method has been tested in the following browser, and theoretically it should work on any browser except the ancient browsers like the Internet Explorer 6.

Works on:

• Google Chrome 13
• Mozilla Firefox 5
• Internet Explorer 8
• Opera 11

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Basically most newer HTC Android phones like the Desire HD have this app called “Transfer Data”. It is an app where it lets you do bluetooth “” buy online contacts syncing with ease. The video below pretty much explains all.

So what if your Android phone doesn’t have this awesome Bluetooth contact syncing tool? Well, I was able to extract this app out from one of the custom Android Sense ROM and uploaded here for your convenience. How to install the Android app? Two ways; first is the easier way by visiting this site here with your Android phone, click the download link and download the *APK file or you can just download it to your PC and transfer to your SD card where you can install by just executing the TransferData.apk file, OR download it to your computer and install via the ADB command “adb install TransferData.apk(the location of your file)” which is sort of advanced method, not recommended for general users.

What’s next? Just follow like what you saw in the video above. All in all, TransferData makes transfer contact from phone to phone much easier, all was needed to be done is to do bluetooth pairing between phones and basically thats it.

*APK – it is the file extension for Android app.

In case the link above doesn’t work, please try the links here:

• http://www.megaupload.com/?d=16MC7L9B
• https://rapidshare.com/#!download|111l35|457428015|TransferData.apk|1604
• http://hotfile.com/dl/114439024/8fac059/TransferData.apk.html

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• http://www.zshare.net/download/88997254ee4e06ce/
• http://depositfiles.com/en/files/4u8s0n2hr

How to Bluetooth sync and transfer contacts from older phones to Android phones? This tool/app solved the problem that plagued mobile phone users all these years. Just a note, it doesn’t work on iPhone as no other phones can communicate with iPhone Bluetooth protocol other than iPhones itself.


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It’s best for me to separate two different user groups for this “How to optimize and speed up to make Android phone run faster” guide. Layman group for all general users and you don’t even dare (or know if it can be done in that sense) to make your Android phone a real “Android” phone, confusing? Yes then you are belonged to this group. You belong to Enthusiast group if you know what Cyanogenmod is and all that were mentioned in Layman group applies here too.

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• Disable Live Wallpaper

One of the visual experience advantage Android has over iPhone iOS is the Live Wallpaper. Live Wallpaper transforms your phone to a level only seen previously in Sony Ericsson handsets. But it improves much further where it lets you interact with the live wallpaper. Anyway, Live Wallpaper doesn’t serves much purpose other than eating out your processing power and battery.

• Do not use the manufacturer skin , use LauncherPro.

Market link : https://market.android.com/details?id=com.fede.launcher

There are Motoblur from Motorola, HTC Sense and Touchwiz from Samsung. None of these offer the best memory footprint for your device. The best is still the default Android skin. But once you bought a phone from these manufacturers with their custom skins, you won’t be able to uninstall the skin. So the only way is to download LauncherPro. LauncherPro improves the default Android skin further, it provides smoother scrolling between home screens. You can add as much as 7 home screens and I would recommend to drag and drop all your favorite apps in these home screens, as browsing between home screens is much faster. The fluidity of swiping between home screens is at a level on par with iPhone and best is – it is FREE.

• Use less widgets

Widgets are great, it gives us some pretty useful information displayed on the homescreen without having to open up any apps. Facebook and Twitter widget display latest status and tweets from your friends, weather widget gives us current weather information and as well as forecast, calendar widget lets you managed your schedule on the fly, these are some of the widgets available on Android phones. And it sure does give accessibility to the information we need without much hassle, but it is a trade off for more resource usage. I won’t recommend discarding all the widgets as with the benefits I have mentioned earlier, I suggest leave it just one instead.

• Disable automatic brightness adjustment

Automatic brightness adjustment is a feature which dynamically scales the screen’s brightness based on the ambient light of your surrounding. It uses CPU resource as it was needed to process the light sensor’s input and adjust the backlight (output) every time the screen is active (turned on). The process is ongoing as long as the screen is on. By turning off automatic brightness adjustment, the CPU doesn’t need to compute these processes. And by lowering down the brightness at the same time, you can expect to have longer battery life as well. This is a feature worth to be turned off which doesn’t contribute to any drawbacks for your phone usage experience. How to do it? Go to Settings > Display > Brightness. For Sony Ericsson Xperia X10, X8, X10 mini users, you will have to use the Power Control widget.

• Disable animation

This is a kind of personal preference. It is a trade off for better visual better experience. Disabling animation makes your phone slightly more responsive but you lost out all the transition and fading effect, which makes your phone kinda boring and dull. If you prefer a more responsive Android experience without all the beautiful effects, go to Settings > Display > Animation.

• Upgrade to the latest firmware via Over The Air update

Well, this is a rather unguaranteed saying. You might stuck with the older Android version when others already having new Android version update depending on which phone you bought. Anyway, you might need to check from time to time if there is any new update available usually by going to Settings>About Phone>System software updates. This kind of update won’t wipe off your data. The benefits from having a newer version of Android OS is huge, especially if you have the 1year old Android 2.1 Eclair or older. The not so new Android 2.2 Froyo offers tremendous speed improvement and better memory management over the previous versions of Android. It is the de-facto Android version today and your Android phone is considered as outdated without Android 2.2 Froyo. While the newest Android version 2.3 Gingerbread has already been rolled out by Google, it hasn’t reached a bigger adoption rate.

Enthusiast

Requirement: At least rooted your phone.

• Overclock your phone using SetCPU

Market link : https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mhuang.overclocking

You have to root your phone before you can even use the overclocking feature of this app. How high you can achieve depends the phone you use, but don’t expect to achieve the overclock level like how you did with computer. For my HTC Wildfire, I were able to achieve a stable 100MHz increment over the default 528MHz clock rate. But keep in mind that there will be a noticeable trade off of the battery life.

• Install Just In Time compiler (JIT)

What is JIT? JIT compiles the bytecode into native machine code at runtime which will give a big performance boost for your Android phone. From my experience, JIT is not stable. Maybe thats for my phone only and there might be a stable JIT for your Nexus One. You need a JIT which is compiled for your phone, and the best place to to download JIT is by going to http://forum.xda-developers.com. The steps for installing JIT is the same for other ZIP update; reboot into recovery/clockworkmod and update the JIT zip file from there. On a side note, JIT is only available on Android 2.2 Froyo and up.

• Use Cyanogenmod firmware

Cyanogenmod is like Android on steroid. It’s a customized firmware to optimize the hardware of your phone. In some cases offers faster performance. Some phones which uses customized skin like HTC Sense, Samsung Touchwiz and Motoblur from Motorola have plugins and add-ons installed which you rarely use. It uses memory and minor CPU resource which isn’t necessary contribute to better user experience and there is no way you can uninstall these easily. I would suggest to flash your Android phone to a compatible Cyanogenmod, it isn’t only resource-hogging-plugins-free, but also offers advanced menu to tweak your Android phone further. On top of that, it is faster. Pay a visit to http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/ and http://forum.xda-developers.com to download Cyanogenmod for your phone.

I have written another guide in making your Android to perform better in each charge, read here Improve Android phone battery life with battery saving tips

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TrayIt! Minimize by just right clicking the application and it shows the menu Place in system tray

Once done, you can see a little icon beside the application that you have selected to minimize to the system tray

And voila, your application no longer sits on your taskbar

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• AMD Phenom II X2/Phenom II X3/Athlon II X2/Athlon II X3
• Motherboard with 785G/790GX chipset. Basically any chipset with ACC – Advanced Clock Calibration function on the BIOS. For the new 800 series chipset, it doesn’t have ACC pitty those who got these instead of the older 785G.
• Prime95 or Orthos.
• You also need to be adventurous. By having any doubt that you might burn your processor means you lacked this very requirement.

So, how to start? Boot your computer and enter the BIOS.

The motherboard I’m using is Asus M4A785TD-V Evo. It employs AMD 785G northbridge and SB710 southbridge. It has ACC of course, which makes it possible of unlocking my Phenom II X2.

The next step is to find an option which allows you to access the ACC function. In this case, it falls right under CPU Configuration. See picture below.

Unlocking core Acc Cpu Configuration

Selecting the Advanced Clock Calibration to Auto enables the ACC on the 785G chipset. Next, select Enabled on the Unleashing mode. It enables the option for you to choose the Active cores below. In my case, I select “3 Core(0,1,2)”.  There is also another option “3Core(0,1,3)” which unlocks the 4th core. Keep in mind that the first core starts at 0. So if you were to unlock all cores, it will be 0,1,2,3. There is an option to choose 4cores but I suggest by unlocking 1 core first.

Next is to save this configuration (usually by pressing F10) and boot up to Windows. If you were able to safely boot into Windows without any error, you are almost guaranteed to have this unlocked core usable.

However, it is not a 100% guarantee of stability. You’ll need a stress test of your processor. A good tool to do that is primce95. The old prime95 only supports single core, so you need the newer multicore version which can be found here. Unzip it to any location on your computer and run it. Select the first option “Small FFTs”, where it stresses your CPU to the max.

Prime95 cpu stress test of unlock core

The rule of the thumb in testing the stability of your processor is to let it run as long as possible. The longer it can sustain this brute test, the more stable your processor it is. I suggest a one night stress test. Leave your computer on for this stress test while you were sleeping. If it still running the next morning you woke up, you are safe to use your new unlocked Phenom/Athlon II for your normal daily usage.

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Prime95 running the stress test

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The administrator menu can be accessed Buy online “” by keying in *#5239870*#. After that, select option No. 4 Internals. It’ll prompt you for a Master Key. Key in *#7092463*#, and enter Confirm thereafter.

To check your memory status, select the no.2 option Debug settings > no.7 Memory state > no.1 Current memory state. You will see Total heap Mem, Total allocated mem, Allocated mem and Fragmentation level.

Here are some explanations:

• Total Heap Mem: Possibly the RAM size of Jet.  It was amount at 122MB. You are seeing it as 119,900K as it was in Kilobytes, converting (multiply by 1024) it to MB will be equal to 122MB.
• Total Allocated Mem: I still couldn’t figure out the meaning of this. This memory is static and wouldn’t change with any applications opened and closed. Possibly the memory allocated for the Samsung proprietary OS.
• Allocated Mem: The amount of memory that you are using right now. Done some test by opening few widgets and applications and this amount will be slowly increasing. I’ve done a test by opening a large heavy flash content website in the Dolphin web browser and switch to Current Memory State via the task switcher.  I can actually see the amount is increasing over time and finally it reaches 110K before giving me error on insufficient memory resources. Keep in mind that this figure doesn’t update in real time. You’ll have to click the back button and access that menu again to see the updated figure.
• Fragmentation level: No idea of this. Fragmentation means nothing for solid state memory. But anyway, this figure stay at 0% at all time.

What you need:

• PC with internet connection.
• wireless adapter installed.

A USB or PCI wireless adapter is a real bargain these days. PCI variant is cheaper, but I prefer USB type as it gives me more flexibility. Flexibility in the sense for better wireless coverage.

The idea of this is real simple, you get the internet connection from the modem to your desktop PC through LAN port and you broadcast and share it using wi-fi or wireless network connection.

The steps are simple:

• Make sure you’ve got ICS enabled. ICS stands for Internet Connection Sharing in Windows XP and the same goes to Windows 7 and Vista.
• Go to Control Panel ; Network Connections, right click on the Local Area Connection OR Wireless Network Connection (depending on how you want to share your connection) and click on the Advanced tab. Select the correct Home networking connection. If your internet connection comes from LAN and you want to share it via wifi, choose Wireless Network Connection. Likewise, if your internet connection comes from wifi, and you want to share to your LAN, choose Local Area Connection. Tick the option “Allow other network users to connect through this computer’s Internet connection”.
• Note the bolded words up there, this was the main reason people did wrong in sharing network.

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  how to share internet connection - advanced tab

• Click OK after that. And this leads you back to the Network Connection.
• In the Network Connection, right click your Wireless Network Connection (**NOT LOCAL AREA CONNECTION), and click on the Wireless Networks tab after that. Click on the Add button under the Preferred networks. You will see something like the picture below. ( Skip this part of you are sharing wireless to LAN as LAN doesn’t need SSID ).
  

  Setting up wifi ad hoc connection

  Key in your preferred SSID. SSID is the name that will be seen by others wifi enabled computers. Tick the option “This is a computer-to-computer (ad hoc) network; wireless access points are not used”. Key in a network key (WEP in this case) if you want to have a secure wifi connection and to prevent others from intruding your wifi network. You will need to key in a 5 or 13 characters key or 10 and 26 characters in hexadecimal format. Click OK when you are done. Example; 123ab(5 character keys) OR 1234512345(10 characters in hexadecimal format). (skip this part also if you are sharing wifi to LAN).




• Click OK to exit the Wireless connection properties. If you ticked the option “Connect even if this network is not broadcasting”, your wireless adapter will connect itself to start an ad hoc network even when your wireless adapter is not connected to any computer or devices.
• For Windows XP, double click your wireless icon, go to General > Properties. Set the IP address for your wireless adapter (or whichever internet connection you want to share) under Internet Proctocol (TCP/IP) to 192.168.0.1 and Subnet mask 255.255.255.0, the rest just leave it blank. You must set this IP and DNS to share your network.
• However, if you are using Vista or Windows 7, the IP address will be 192.168.137.1, Subnet mask  255.255.255.0 and the rest of the settings is still same as this guide.
• To connect this network from other device or computer, the device or computer must obtain the IP address automatically. And you need to have the same WEP security key as the main computer as well.
• When all is done, you can see the your wifi icon below the taskbar as online mode when other devices are connected to your network.

The maximum number of connecting device could be unlimited. I haven’t tried connecting more than 4 devices and computers yet in either Windows XP or 7. But it did save you from buying expensive router.

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