[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] curiousrom:
Remove Animations UI Speedup Test - Taming Google & Apps

What [MENTION=7978913]fitittome[/MENTION] is talking about is one of the first tweaks I do after flashing a firmware on my old devices. Besides speeding up the UI it extends the battery life a little bit: less CPU & GPU usage.

Settings > System > Advanced > Developer options > scroll to the Drawing chapter > set Window animation scale, Transition animation scale & Animator duration scale from 1x to Off.

While making the Display Screen Curtain Black Screen - A Chinese Finger Trap! post I stumbled upon a new 16.0 LineageOS setting: > Accessibility > enable Remove animations. Done!

It does exactly the same thing as the 3 Developer options animation tweaks as seen in the screenshots. You can toggle it off/on & see the changes in Developer options.

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Try all those functions before tweaking the animation settings & observe the difference:

Clear Recents apps.

On the desktop quick scroll right/left if you have several pages.

Open the Apps drawer & quick scroll up & down.

Open the stock Files, Music & Gallery apps and some other apps you installed.

Open Settings & some of them like Network, Display, etc.

Recents: quick horizontal scroll & open all the apps one by one.

Clear Recents. enable Remove animations & repeat the above.

You can create a direct shortcut to the Accessibility panel & much more with the LineageOS Settings widget (long press on an empty space in Home pages). I regroup them in a Settings folder on Home.

Also in Developer options > Quick settings developer tiles > there is a Windows animation scale (On/Off) option. Then you need to Edit the curtain tiles to drag it up.

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Taming Google & Apps

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Edit: On S5 G900M LineageOS 16.0 klte + Open GApps Pico + LineageOS Addonsu + more than 200 apps and have 1 GB of free RAM in Developer options > Running services on a fresh boot after waiting a few minutes for the System to stabilize.

Naturally the free RAM goes down as apps are used & cached for quick future use.

In Settings > Google disable all the stuff you don't need like personalized ads & other data that Google wants to collect. The more stuff you disable or deny the less Google services running in the background.

To reduce further the Google Play Services running in the background disable auto-update in Play Store & Location on your device when you don't need it, install the smaller Pico Open GApps package, use LineageOS' Privacy Guard > 3-dots > Advanced to restrict the apps permissions, running in the background & starting at boot according to your needs.

Many apps collect & send data in the background so it makes sense to disable start at boot & run in the background for apps that you use only once in a while besides the app's info > Data usage options.

The LineageOS Settings widget also has a Privacy Guard > Advanced shortcut.

Clearing the apps that you won't use for a long while in Recent apps helps too. Clearing the ones you use often only make it slower when you reopen them.

To extend battery life, thanks to the S5's Super AMOLED display properties which uses less power when the color is black, I use > Settings > Display > Style > Dark and Dark Mode > Black. Also Display > Wallpaper > Black.

Note: a few S5 users reported a much lower battery usage @ idle after removing all their registered fingerprints.

My favorite apps to analyse battery usage at idle are linked in the New Battery Life post.

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Boy do I miss that bike. :crying: In Costa Rica I ride an old Suzuki DR350 dirt/road bike (dual-sport) with only 33 hp but it's great to explore remote locations.

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