Well you have a smart phone... but guess what. after a year it fills up a lot of data... you can add memory chips - add apps to a very powerful computer, that lacks a clean up tool. With my first phone it locked up over and over again about two years in... gave up and replaced it with a larger one, same manufacturer - Motorola. A year later and it to couldn't dial a phone number or look at a map. My wife after listening to me - suggested a waterproof Samsung Rugby... One year later - it too was overwhelmed with slow responses ...well I throw a lot of apps and requests at these things.
This time I did a full reset. but this is different - I backed up all the data - photos - passwords and made sure everything was registered with Google+ and it worked after the full reset- I only had to reinstall a few apps one or two customer contacts. All the same apps are there - and nothing is happening... So I asked a lot of questions to some computer geeks.
Turns out its not the memory. I am overwhelming the CPU and resident cache. There was some other issues - some apps are running constantly in background even though you are not using them... Kindle is one, Even if you are looking at a map Kindle is crunching the CPU! Other cuprits are Shazam, your Email, Voice recognition. And Adware apps lurking to sell you something. Most apps do not do this, most give you an exit to turn off the app or hitting the main button is the off.
I just picked up my Christmas present - a Samsung Tablet to be used for work - as soon as I identified myself a google user the tablet set itself up as a copy of the phone and backed up everything, in just a few hours.
If anyone has a better idea for a clean up tool I am all ears...my next stop is CNET.
And by the way I have the same number of apps and after reset - no worries... everything works.
This time I did a full reset. but this is different - I backed up all the data - photos - passwords and made sure everything was registered with Google+ and it worked after the full reset- I only had to reinstall a few apps one or two customer contacts. All the same apps are there - and nothing is happening... So I asked a lot of questions to some computer geeks.
Turns out its not the memory. I am overwhelming the CPU and resident cache. There was some other issues - some apps are running constantly in background even though you are not using them... Kindle is one, Even if you are looking at a map Kindle is crunching the CPU! Other cuprits are Shazam, your Email, Voice recognition. And Adware apps lurking to sell you something. Most apps do not do this, most give you an exit to turn off the app or hitting the main button is the off.
I just picked up my Christmas present - a Samsung Tablet to be used for work - as soon as I identified myself a google user the tablet set itself up as a copy of the phone and backed up everything, in just a few hours.
If anyone has a better idea for a clean up tool I am all ears...my next stop is CNET.
And by the way I have the same number of apps and after reset - no worries... everything works.
Be wise enough to walk away from the nonsense around you!