5 ANDROID HACKS THAT WILL GIVE YOU BACK CONTROL OVER YOUR SMARTPHONE
There are a lot of Android hacks out there to help you to customise your smartphone, giving you total control over its look, feel, and performance. Unfortunately, many are gimmicky, badly designed, or simply don't work that well.
Cluttering your phone up with useless apps will do nothing but slow it down; and lagging performance is a major downer when you're enjoying browsing the web, chatting with friends, or catching up with work.
So can you have your cake and eat it when it comes to choosing great apps to hack your Android phone and take back control?
I've selected 5 awesome Android hacks to help you do just that right here...
READY TO HACK YOUR ANDROID PHONE?
Hacking your Android phone doesn't need to be scary, and thanks to the following hacks, is something that anyone can do. That means you too!
You'll improve your user experience with your phone, and could improve its performance too!
You may need to root your Android phone (add a new version of the Android OS to it) first to use some of these apps, but this is easy to do as long as you have got the new version of Android that you want to use added to your computer (ask a techie friend to help).
1. SPARE PARTS PLUS
Using Spare Parts Plus opens up a lot of helpful functions for your phone that you didn't have before, and is really easy to use.
How would you like to:
- Control windows animation speeds or disable them entirely to speed up your device!
- Control windows transition speeds or disable them entirely to speed up your device!
- View battery history and information
- Adjust screen brightness in more detail
- Control WiFi sleep policy to keep WiFi connected
- Track down, and stop, apps which are too power-hungry
- Stop annoying AdMob adverts
Most of these functions are hidden away, but this app makes them easy to control. It's a must for getting complete control over your phone, rather than letting it control you!
2. BLOATWARE FREEZER
Your Android smartphone may come with a lot of built-in 'bloatware.' These are apps that are included by the manufacturer that you cannot get rid of easily, but that you may not use. Hence they 'bloat' up your system.
If deleting them is a problem, then you could always use Bloatware freezer to freeze the apps that you don't want, which will make your system faster, and reduce battery usage!
It even has a list of the apps on your phone that you can freeze safely, making it oh so easy to improve your phone.
PS. AMGOO Telecom smartphones don't include bloatware! They just run a standard Android OS that you can customise to your specification.
3. MY LOCKER
You're going to be seeing your lock screen a lot! In fact, every time you pick up your phone it will be the first thing you see.
My Locker will help you to create your own lock screen. This could be a picture of you and your friends, a beautiful landscape, or something (or someone) you love. Much better than seeing the same, boring old standard lock screen for years, right?
4. ZEDGE RINGTONES
Take control of your text or phone alerts. The standard tunes and sounds that come with Android smartphones are so boring. But by using Zedge Ringtones you can find your favourite tunes, TV themes, funny phrases, and so many more, and they're free!
You could find so many great options, that you could have a separate ring tone for every friend if you wanted!
It also offers thousands of free wallpapers too, if the choice of tracks isn't already enough for you!
5. CLEAN MASTER
As I mentioned, these android hacks should let you to gain more control over your phone, and improve its performance; Clean Master is a perfect example of this.
I've saved the best for last, and this app will give new life to even the oldest, most tired Android phone.
Why?
It does the following:
- Boosts the memory and speeds up your phone.
- Deletes junk files that you don't need to free up space for those that you do.
- Stops battery-draining apps when they're not in use.
- Seeks out and destroy viruses.
- Keeps your phone cool by managing what is running, and stopping what doesn't need to be.
It can do most of this automatically, helping you to be sure that your phone is running as fast and efficiently as can be, but other functions only take the press of one button.
WHAT'S STOPPING YOU HACKING YOUR PHONE?
All of these apps are free, meaning that you can implement any of these Android hacks at no cost to yourself! Not bad, right? Especially if you, like me, have an older Android phone that you are trying to keep running as quickly as possible.
In fact, apps like Clean Master could be the difference between you thinking you need to replace an old phone, and making your old phone work as well as when it was brand new!
Which of these apps do you use? Could you recommend any others that help us to take better control of our phones? Let us know in the comments!
