Category: For Ghanaians

Smartphones have become one of the commonest devices. Purchasing a new phone to replace an old one is not a big deal. Because of this, mobile users treat their phones with less care. We become ignorant to certain instructions that would keep the phone safe.

However, some, unfortunately, lose their data contained in the phone, most especially in the incidence of phone crash. Deliberately, users surf sites containing viruses that could damage their phones. But as I said earlier on, it’s now easily replaceable. Let’s be more cautious and discipline to instructions guiding proper ways of using the phone. Under listed, are some of the ways of damaging your phone and its dangers.

Ways your phone could be damaged

Temperature conditions

Phones have internal systems, which have been programmed to work under certain favourable temperature differences. When the temperature of an environment or an area seems to be higher or lower it goes a very long way of putting your phone’s internal operating system in tough dangers. During very hot temperatures, don’t leave your phone inside your car, with glasses all rolled up. The heat absorbed by the phone will be unable to escape and will end up destroying the phone. At cold temperatures, phones are critically exposed to dangers, this is because the internal systematic parts are made of some specific semimetals that cannot conduct electric process at certain lower temperatures.

Unprofessional rooting of phones

It is shocking people can sit in the comfort of their homes and “try” rooting their phones. As cost-effective as it is, there are chances of losing your phone entirely. Rooting of phones differ with regards to the specific phone, one is using. You can’t gamble over chances over chances of either getting your phone rooted or damaging it entirely. That’s a bad practice. Well, others are very smart to follow guidelines of rooting their devices by the help of their manual, care must still be taken. Pure technicalities may defeat you in the process. I will, therefore, advise that you get a phone repairer or a professional person to help you out.

Overloading your phone

People are normally unconscious of the amount of space they have on their phones before adding more videos, music or files. My brother, my sister, you’re doing your phone serious harm. If you are using an Android phone, you can preferably purchase an SD card, and load most of your data on it. If you’re using an iPhone, you can preferably load some files on your computer or tablet. Compounding files on your phone could corrupt or slow down your phone. Some videos may look relatively short but its quality could render its larger size, don’t be deceived. I’m saying this because normally one will say “I’m just adding additional 3 videos, it wouldn’t cause any harm” it will. You only need to make a periodic check on your storage space. You must also get rid of some videos and tracks, you don’t need anymore.

Over Usage

I know this will be very controversial. The ideally way, is to shut down your phone once in a week, but once attention is more on “what if I miss an important call in the process? That certainly shouldn’t be the matter, because you may still end up, spoiling the phone entirely. Offing your phone once in a week will cause the internal system to cool, and relax to continue its tasks. Using your phone for a very long time without offing can cause your phone to overheat, damaging internal system gradually. Now, people use phones everywhere, very busily. In vehicles, workplaces, schools and even in church. Can you imagine? If one person uses his or her throughout the day. Even humans breakdown at a point. We need to take proper care of our devices and also know, we must shut down our phones at least once in every week.

Accessing virus-infected websites

Sometimes in the attempt of reading news, you can be redirected to an unknown site, which could harbour a set of viruses. Most people download games, tracks, videos and pull viruses along unknowingly. This is very dangerous, as compared to other dangers. If along the line you’re redirected to a site unknown please exit that site. It could be a death trap for your phone. If you’re lucky you will be notified by your system manager that “this site contains certain viruses, that could harm your phone”.That’s in some cases, not in all cases. You need to be smart and knowledgeable about the particular site you are accessing.

How To Care For Your Phone

1. Read manuals: Don’t see manuals as mere formalities, please read them. Manuals always contain essential pieces of information, that you won’t know.
2. Use Appropriate Chargers: it’s funny how we feel comfortable with things that appear usual but dangerous. Every type of charger has it installed capacity for its phone. Let’s desist from using different chargers for our phones.
3. Don’t Fly Your Phone, Pass It On: Is it laziness? Gracious me, people throw phones for people to catch. Stay blessed with a safe goalkeeper then, even with a safe goalkeeper, you can still shift your mouthpiece in the process. What if it falls down. Just don’t allow that to happen, humbly walk to the person and deliver. For those, who throw phones right from their door unto the bed for fun, it may be sorrow at last.
4. Keep Phones In Your Front Pockets: Most phone screens get crack as a result of keeping it in the back pocket. What happens is, one forgets when sitting and may easily render it cracked.

NOTE: Treating your phone with care, is discipline and cost-effective.

It’s not uncommon to see “freezing” or lagging phones after a long time of use. You get a new high-end device like the Samsung S8 or even the budget-friendly Tecno Camon CX or Infinix S2 pro. That joy that comes with owning a new phone is usually associated with downloading all the “fancy apps you have always wanted to use. You start using them and everything is in place. Bingo! Your phone is fresh, neat and fast; what else is there to worry about?

However, some months on, your phone starts to “freeze” or lag, apps fail to open fast and your camera does not seem to process images on time. It takes more than 15 seconds to launch “normal” applications like WhatsApp. Your once very fast phone seems like it has lost its touch. The phone you were proud of is now the cause of all your frustrations. To sum it all up, let’s just say your phone has become slow!

I’m sorry to tell you that it’s normal for your Android device to lag. Yes, it happens to all devices especially when you do not “maintain them well”. However, there is some good news. You can actually ebb the effects of your ageing phone and bring it back to the “glory speed” time. In this post, we look at how you can speed up your android phone.

How to fix a freezing Android Phone / How to Speed up your Android

Delete apps you don’t use anymore

You know those apps you do not use, right? Sometimes you see an app somewhere and you get so much interested in it that you quickly download it. Soon after that, they sit quietly on your phone, mostly without any use. But we still keep them. They use resources like your CPU cycles for background services, taking up memory blocks and fragmenting your storage, and generally cluttering the place up. You need to delete them.

To delete android apps from your device:

• Open Settings
• Tap Apps
• Tap an app
• Tap UNINSTALL
• Tap OK

Finally, you can say bye-bye to all those download apps. you don’t use. This will be a good way to speed up your phone.

Clear your Phone and SD Card Memory

It’s no secret that the lesser the space on your device, the higher the tendency that it will lag.

Clear the cache

Many Android apps use stored (cached) data to give you a better user experience. Cached data can save a little time (and mobile data), but the files stored in app caches are for convenience and are not strictly necessary. If you need to clear up space on your phone quickly, the app cache is the first place you should look.

To clear cached data from all apps, go to Settings > Storage and tap Cached data to clear the caches of all the apps on your phone.

Delete your Downloads (Including WhatsApp Files)

Delete your downloads

Your Android phone has a downloads folder where everything you download — photos, videos, documents and other files — is stored. Chances are most of the files in your downloads folder are not files you downloaded for a reason and you do not need them anymore. You should be able to free up some storage space by deleting these unnecessary files.

Also, check out your downloaded content from WhatsApp. Mostly, they use up a lot of space. Try to delete all of those you don’t need.

Factory Reset

If your phone is overloaded with apps and running slow, and you tried all of the above methods but they are not working for you, then you will need to factory reset your phone. This will clear all your data and make your phone “brand new” in a way. Remember that factory reset does not affect the SD card content.

How to Factory Reset your Android Device

• Tap the Settings icon from your home screen or app drawer.
• Swipe up to scroll down to the bottom of the settings menu.
• Tap Backup & reset.
• Tap the Settings icon from your home screen or app drawer.
• Swipe up to scroll down to the bottom of the settings menu.
• Tap Backup & reset.
• Tap Factory data reset.
• Tap Reset phone.
• Tap Erase everything.

The instructions to reset your phone might be slightly different depending on your device.

No one wants a slow phone

Always keep apps you need and make sure your clear your cache periodically. Have a trick on keeping your android fast? Are you going to try any of these methods? Let us know in the comment section below and don’t forget to share this with your friends