Optimizing for students

[kogenesis]

My 10.1 is a little sluggish at times and I was wondering if people had a typical procedure they went through when optimizing their android devices, specifically in this case filled with Samsung bloatware.

So far I've:

- enabled developer options, reduced animations to 0.5x
- switched to Nova Launcher
- clear memory often or close out apps not in use
- tried to decrease sync intervals etc.

Is there anything else I should be doing to increase performance? Any killer apps that I should be getting?

PS I'm an engineering student and using this for note taking and pdf markups, so this thing needs to be buttery smooth. I hate missing writing things down because my device is chugging.

For those interested, the apps I'm using for student stuff are S-Note - despite pdf export looking like garbage, (might switch to papyrus) and RepliGo Reader for PDF markup.

 

[Rukbat]

- clear memory often or close out apps not in use

Is there anything else I should be doing to increase performance?

Yes, quitting killing apps, for one thing. Android's app manager is a whole lot better at deciding which apps should be killed than you are. Killing the ones you think should be killed might just waste time opening them again when some api in that app is called by some other app you want running.

BTW, bloatware sitting in storage doesn't degrade performance, it just takes up space you might be able to put to better use - like a game you like.