Simple tip to speed up the ui on your phone

[matttye]

Go to settings, developer options, and change the "window animation scale" and "transition animation scale" settings to 0.5x. That will make animations twice as fast compared to the default 1x options. This means that opening apps, sliding between screens etc will occur faster.

You can turn both sets of animations off altogether to make it even faster if you like, but I personally like the animations.

Changing them to 0.5x makes a noticeable difference.

I borrowed that from this thread on xda:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1735283

All credits to him

 

[rkkeller]

Wow that does make it much snappier. I just hope it isn't messing anything else up.

 

[sherlock5545]

It doesn't mess anything, it just renders the animation with less frames, therefore scaling it to x0.5, rather than the default x1. It is indeed faster, don't worry. If you turn off the animation, it would be even more responsive, but it might not be of your liking.

 

[matttye]

Wow that does make it much snappier. I just hope it isn't messing anything else up.

There was a discussion on XDA saying it might cause (minimal) battery drain, but the general consensus is that it won't

 

[carracerz14]

There was a discussion on XDA saying it might cause (minimal) battery drain, but the general consensus is that it won't

If it uses less frames how would it cause battery drain. I'm trying this on my maxx, even though it was already very smooth with ics

 

[matttye]

If it uses less frames how would it cause battery drain. I'm trying this on my maxx, even though it was already very smooth with ics

There was a debate over whether it used less frames or just sped the animation up.

 

[sherlock5545]

If it was speed, x0.5 would be half of the speed, yet it isn't. Therefore it refers to the frame, which is reduced by half.

 

[Covart]

Go to settings, developer options, and change the "window animation scale" and "transition animation scale" settings to 0.5x. That will make animations twice as fast compared to the default 1x options. This means that opening apps, sliding between screens etc will occur faster.

You can turn both sets of animations off altogether to make it even faster if you like, but I personally like the animations.

Changing them to 0.5x makes a noticeable difference.

I borrowed that from this thread on xda:

Speed up your Galaxy S3 in 2 easy steps - xda-developers

All credits to him

Yep, and saw it on there too. It is an awesome tweak.

 

[carracerz14]

For the hell of it I tried it on 10x. It was a lot slower because It was using more frames. So the higher it is the slower the animations

 

[crhcho]

good to know! thanks!

 

[matttye]

If it was speed, x0.5 would be half of the speed, yet it isn't. Therefore it refers to the frame, which is reduced by half.

That's what I thought but others disagreed!

 

[sherlock5545]

I think people don't actually want to realize it, it's not sped up, it's less frame in less time, thus it's faster.

 

[JayS3]

Thanks made a difference