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[GUIDE][ICS][JB] Make CyanogenMod Faster & Smoother + Battery Tips [NEW ULTRA MOD]

Make CyanogenMod Faster & Smoother​

These Tips may or may not make a difference for you. Some of which you may know and some you may not.

This has just been tested by me

. I definitely recommend trying this once before you decide reverting back to CyanogenMod 9 or Stock or any other ROM.

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Tips & Tricks

Increase RAM using Swapper2 [ULTIMATE MOD] ☆☆☆

This mod is for those with Ram < 500. If your phone has greater ram, you don't require this. For all those who complain about lag, here's the ULTIMATE FIX for it. No more lagging, play HD games WITHOUT lag.

Follow this amazing guide and give your phone the ULTIMATE POWER.

Increase RAM using Swap File and Swap Partition

Download Link For MiniTool Partition Wizard : Download

Regarding the above guide:

- Maximum for 3rd Partition is 1024MB ie. 1GB. So in 1st Partition, choose maximum partition size leaving only 1024MB so you don't waste any space.

- If you are not interested in App2SD, don't create 2nd Partition

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Proper Installation Process ☆

Many of you face different bugs and issues due to

improper installation

. Follow the steps given on the ROM's thread.

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Remove Unwanted System Apps ☆☆

The more apps you have on your phone, less free RAM available. Get rid of those stock apps which you rarely or do not use.If you want to save the app, use something like AppManager, Titanium Backup to archive the apps you want to keep around to SD card. Or just redownload them when you need them. Go into Settings > Apps and figure out which apps you want on your phone and which ones you want to remove. For removing Stock Apps, use Root Explorer or any other file explorer, go into data/sys-parts/app and delete unwanted apps. Reboot your phone after making any changes.

Some useless Stock Apps:

CMWallpapers

SpareParts

VoiceDialer

Live Wallpapers : MagicSmokeWallpapers

LatinIME - If you use a different keyboard than stock.

CMFileManager - If you use a different file explorer

Stk

Term - If you don't need a Terminal Emulator

Trebuchet - If you're on a low end device, trebuchet is no good for you.

Video Editor

Replacement:

Google Keyboard

Swype

Solid Explorer

ES Explorer

Root Explorer

Nova Launcher

Apex Launcher

Use Static Wallpaper ☆☆☆

Live wallpapers use much more memory of your phone than a static wallpaper. Even a simple Live Wallpaper will take 2 MB or so of memory. Complicated ones may take up to 20MB. And the live wallpaper will run in background ALL THE TIME taking much of your phone's memory. Live wallpaper even consume your phone's battery. So use a static wallpaper instead.

Don't have any great static wallpaper to chose from? See This Amazing Collection Of Wallpapers
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Occasionally Kill Apps Running In Background ☆☆

Everyone loves multitasking and switching from one app to another. But when you multitask, apps run in background and consume battery and take up major part of your memory. This can make your phone a little slow and laggy. Occasionally kill the apps running in background to free up some RAM.
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Tweaking Performance Settings ☆☆☆

CPU Governor, Minimum CPU Frequency, Maximum CPU Frequency

To make your phone faster and smoother, tweaking above settings play an important role.

You can select "Allow Purging Of Assets" in Memory Management to allow freeing of more RAM when required.

Remember, Increasing CPU Frequency Can Effect Your Battery Life.
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Tweaking With Developer Options ☆☆

For experiencing quickness as well as smoothness, change: 1. Window Animation Scale 2. Transition Animation Scale 3. Animator Duration Scale. By default they are set to "1x". Change it to "0.5x". This will make transitions and animations on your phone much faster and make you feel that your phone is super fast.

You can even select "Don't Keep Activities" to kill every activity running as soon as you close it.
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Restrict Your Home Screens ☆

People tend to have more than 3 homescreens and place a lot of widgets. More widgets you have, more lag you experience on your homescreen. This may not be true for some devices like Galaxy S3, but it does effect low end devices. Try to remove unwanted widgets from your homescreen and have least no. of homescreen possible, preferably 3 or less. This did effect my phone and my phone became much smoother than ever. Try this and if you don't notice any difference, you can always change your homescreen.
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Tweaking Build.prop ☆☆☆

You can add tweaks to your build.prop to make CM10 more fluid and smoother. Following are the details about the tweak:

For more information, visit this thread : Here
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Project Butter Enhancer ☆☆

With this you can Make Your Phone 5x Smoother & Faster

For more information, visit this thread : Here
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MORE TIPS & TRICKS TO BE ADDED!

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