Don’t do these 10 things to make your smartphone smarter and easier to use

Don’t do these 10 things to make your smartphone smarter and easier to use



1. Do not install the benchmarking software on your own mobile phone:

You know a new friend, and you haven’t really gotten along with him or understand each other. You can find someone else to rate your new friend first, and then use these ratings that have nothing to do with your own experience. The new friends' opinions, and then began to be suspicious.

Isn’t it the same as many friends who have to install the "Score Software" after buying their mobile phones?

Perhaps (but in fact, I also doubt it), 3C media needs to use benchmarking software to test mobile phones and run out a piece of data to provide readers and consumers with a reference. Not to mention that this data itself is controversial. As "individuals", we bought a mobile phone to use it, so why not do these tests?

Just like making friends, there is no test. It can be compared to actually picking up your phone to use it, to use its functions, to apply it to work and life, and then you can actually feel whether this can help you. To be honest, fast and slow, don't we have to use our feelings to prove it, do we have to rely on scores to tell us?

Throw away those unnecessary running score software and really use your newly bought mobile phone. This is the first step to make your mobile phone more usable.


2. Do not install the power saving app, do not activate the power saving function:

Indeed, some mobile phones (such as HTC New One) have their own built-in power saving function, but what is the meaning of the power saving function? When your phone is about to run out of power and you can’t charge it right away, try to find a way to retain the most important functions (such as answering a call) so that you can hold it up until you can charge it.

This is the meaning of power saving: power saving is for you to "get charged quickly."

But I see that many people "start saving power immediately" when they "just turn on their phone". This is a completely wrong usage. Your phone still has 100% power, so why not save electricity? And many ways to save power are to turn off the synchronization, dim the screen, and turn off some built-in convenience functions: "make the phone difficult to use", and abolish the phone's most unique martial arts.

In fact, for an average office worker like me, I go out at 8 am every day and come home at 9 pm every day, so I can count on "I only need mobile phone power to last for 13 hours"! According to my experience, because I don’t know how to watch videos, I usually watch news, write notes, play games, and instant messaging. 13 hours are enough. I can use my mobile phone as much as I want. I don’t need it and I don’t want it to go. Sustaining 20 hours of electricity damages my more important applications.

And as soon as it is a holiday, when you start to add applications such as photo taking, sharing, map checking and GPS positioning on your mobile phone, the power consumption will definitely be worse. What should I do at this time? Shouldn't it be used? The best way is that when the battery power of the mobile phone is not enough, it only means one thing: "I should charge it, take out the mobile power and start charging!" Then let the mobile phone keep the space that can be used at any time during the journey.

The mobile phone has insufficient power. The first thing to think about is not how to save power, but to charge it quickly!


3. Do not install specious performance optimization apps:

Friends of iPhone may not have such troubles, because there is no such App to install. But in the case of Android, because the previous system changes from Android 2.x to Android 4.x were relatively large, many of the "old ideas" in the early days continued to extend to the new phones you bought.

For example, you want to install the App on a memory card? Want to clear resident apps? Want to clean up the app’s temporary data? To be honest, these are completely unnecessary for new phones above Android 4.x, because Android will automatically adjust them for you. Users should not install these so-called optimized software, and go to "optimize those that you don’t understand. "Settings", just use your new phone with peace of mind, you will find it easier to use.

Some friends here may say that perhaps Android 4.x can automatically adjust the memory usage performance by itself, but the temporary files left by the App use process may still take up space. Is it necessary to clean up to make room?

This is not necessary. It is true that these temporary files will take up space, but it is because "you have to use it" and you need these data, so you temporarily store these data. How can you deliberately free up the phone space instead of using it? Do you want to clear the data you need?

And who is the "biggest" culprit who really occupies the space of your phone? Just your photos, videos, and music files! Would it be useful to clear the temporary storage space and free up dozens of MB? It is better to remove photos, videos, and music and free up several GB directly.

Further reading: When is CCleaner on Android? A reasonable view of the effectiveness of the Cheetah Cleanup Master


4. Don't keep the photos on the phone all the time:

Just talked about mobile phone photos, audio and video, then follow along with the mobile phone photos, audio and video storage. I would advise you not to use your mobile phone as a place to store photos, video, and audio files, and do not add a memory card to your mobile phone to increase the capacity, because in any case, these places are not suitable for long-term storage and management.

If you don’t want to get your precious photos back when your phone is broken or lost one day, please make good use of the “cloud sync storage” method from the beginning. For example, Dropbox or Google+ can automatically back up your phone photos, don’t worry. Power consumption or Internet access costs, you can set the way to save power and Internet traffic.

Reference: Google+ Album is the best cloud drive for storing travel photos, my 8 good reasons

Then, after syncing and storing in the cloud, I can "easily" delete all the old photos and old videos in the phone at any time, leaving 5-6 GB free for me to make good use of, and I don’t need any cleaning software to squeeze it. A few hundred MB, don’t worry about missing photos and videos.


5. Do not use the SIM card or the phone itself to store contacts:

When you get a smartphone, do you have to worry about how to transfer contacts every time? Should I carefully back up and transfer the contacts in the SIM card every time? Or the contact person disappeared when the SIM card was changed accidentally? In fact, long-term pain is worse than short-term pain. Instead of having to worry about changing phones, losing phones, or making mistakes in settings, it is better to solve them all at once.

How to solve it at once? It is to directly import your contacts into your Google account and save them as Gmail contacts. No matter what phone you switch to in the future, just log in to your account anyway, and all your contacts will come back. There is no problem of missing or missing.


6. Don't make the phone vibrate or make sound:


This is not a bad habit, but a little method of my own for your reference.

That is, I am accustomed to keeping my mobile phone in a silent state, and I am also accustomed to keeping my mobile phone from vibrating, so that no matter what SMS, IM, Facebook, LINE instant messages, I can’t interfere, and I can control my time most independently. , I decided to do it myself.

Rather than picking it up suspiciously every time the phone vibrates, I make myself nervous and often interrupted at work. Such a phone will not work better.


7. Don’t be afraid to open GPS or Wi-Fi positioning:

In fact, mobile phones have three built-in positioning methods: 3G, Wi-Fi, and GPS. The positioning at the bottom of the order is the most accurate, but indoor positioning often depends on Wi-Fi (not to turn on Wi-Fi, just turn on Wi-Fi detection) . Many people want to turn off these positionings in order to save power. (Reference: How to save electricity accurately by mobile phone GPS positioning and WiFi positioning? Comparing experience from actual map measurement)

Is it really necessary to specifically turn off GPS positioning? Actually not needed.

Because usually you use a normal app if there is no positioning requirement, even if the GPS option is turned on, it will not actually start. GPS will only work when apps that require positioning, such as Google Maps, are turned on. Isn't that great? GPS will only work when you need to locate it, but you don’t usually have Google Maps on all the time.

So why bother to turn off the GPS option manually because you want to save power, and then you can only use inaccurate positioning when you open Google Maps? Or have to manually turn on the GPS at that time? It is better to let the system decide by itself, and the automatic adjustment is not very good.


8. Don't install APKs from unknown sources:

This point is relatively talking about Android users. I have seen that many friends do not use Google Play. When they want to download and install apps, they install APKs provided on forums and websites. This is really very unsafe. Of course, I know that friends in some areas may not be able to use Google Play, which is another matter, but Taiwan should not have this problem. Why download the App files provided by those websites and install it on the phone by yourself?

The App you need can be found on Google Play. Although those weird apps are not on Google Play, it is best not to install them.

It's not that they must be viruses, but they may be more complicated and have more side effects on the system. At this time, the average user installs such an APK for a cheap price, and in the end "wants more time to save", not relative Isn't it worth it?


9. Don't worry that your mobile phone is slower than others or consumes power:

Sometimes, self-seeking trouble comes from comparing with others. It’s not necessarily a comparison with my friends. It’s possible that people on the Internet say they use the same cell phone as me, but they can use it for 20 hours before there is no electricity. Why can I only use it for 13 hours? But what does it matter? 13 hours is "enough" for me. It's not enough. Why don't you enjoy the current use?

Once you buy a mobile phone, you should never "compare" again. Don't worry about how fast or slow the phone can be. It is important to use it as much as you want.

So when should I look back on my mobile phone performance? It is when I compare myself with myself. After I have used it for a period of time, one day I find out why the phone suddenly becomes slower than before, and it has become less battery-powered than before. Then I have to find out the problem. But it is also very easy to find, because it is usually related to the apps you recently installed and updated! The problem can only be solved by removing those problematic apps: "How to solve the problem that makes Android slow, consumes more power, and takes up space?".


10. Don’t root, don’t flash, don’t JB:

Friends often ask me: "Does your phone have Root (or JB)? I am worried about whether to Root (or JB)?" When you have such doubts, the answer is actually very simple: Don’t Root (don’t JB) ), don't ask for trouble, don't waste your time.

I'm not saying that Root, flashing or JB is not good. I have researched and tested it in my work, but I don't think it is necessary for ordinary people to do this. It may be better, but it may also be worse for performance, or for the sake of smallness. A very small cracking function, there is really no need to waste that time, but also the time cost of repairing when there may be problems in the future.

Some experts know very clearly why they want to root and flash, they will not ask me that question at the beginning, such talents are suitable for such actions.

For ordinary people, feel free to use this new phone you bought! In this way, you can really not waste time and use it directly to feel the good use of the phone. Those methods that save electricity, optimize, crack, and go around a big circle without any change are not a good way to use a mobile phone. It is better to think about it: how to solve the problems in work and life.

Don’t do these 10 things to make your smartphone smarter and easier to use Don’t do these 10 things to make your smartphone smarter and easier to use Reviewed by imran on March 18, 2021 Rating: 5

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