Has your Android phone visibly slowed down? Is there a lag? If yes, free up some phone memory and you’ll notice a drastic improvement in speed and performance. In this tip, I’ll show you how to improve the performance of an Android phone by clearing the cache memory. I’ve used the most commonly found version of Android, 2.2, to illustrate the steps.
Step 1: Access Settings.
There are two ways of accessing Settings. The simplest is to press the menu key on the phone. Typically, it is the left corner key on Android phones. After you press this key, some options appear. Tap Settings.
Alternatively, access the Applications menu and then tap Settings.
Step 2: Tap Applications.
Step 3: Tap Manage applications to see a list of applications installed on your Android phone.
Step 4: Press the menu key on the phone. Typically, it is the left corner key on Android phones. After you press this key, the Sort by size option appears. Tap Sort by size.
Step 5: Now, all applications are sorted by size. This means the largest applications appear first. Let’s see how much cache the Market application is using. Tap Market.
Step 7: Notice, the Market application is using over 3 MB of cache, which is quite a bit. Tap Clear Cache to free up this memory.
That’s it. Similarly, you can go through all the applications and clear the cache. This improves the performance of your Android phone.
~Rupen Sharma
Tags: android, Android 2.2, Delete Android Applications Cache, Improve Android Perfromance
Can something like this be done on the iPhone?
Thank You
yes, you press the “home” button twice, it will show icons at the bottom,press any icon until you see the “minus” sign &/or the icon start “shaking”. start hitting all those “minuses” till they are all gone.dont worry, it will not have any effect on your actual icons..hope this help! good luck!
Nice to know you are adding tips and info on popular phone, nice.
You can get a app that will clear the cache. It will be on your phone and you press on it and it has four options on how you want to clear your cache and there are several different ones that you can download to do it.
really awesome info. just got an android & was wondering how to optimize it
Thanks. I just got my phone and I’m constantly learning something new. I’m amazed at what these phones will do.