Also: Slow Android phone? For this list, I'll be focusing on Android phones, with advice applicable to models from Samsung, Google, and Motorola. Animation scalingOne of the first things I do when setting up a new Android phone is reduce the animation scale in the phone's developer options. Screenshot by Kerry Wan/ZDNETNext, go into the developer options and scroll down until you find a section with Window animation scale, Transition animation scale, and Animator duration scale. Sideloading APKsIt happens quite often when an app developer rolls out an update, only for the app to crash or bog down.