A friend gave me a Gotab lite 9" (GBT9) tablet and asked me if I could do anything to improve the performance on it. Their main issues being the low initial boot and slow performance in loading and switching applications.
The tablet runs Android 4.1.1. It's an old 2012 model tablet with limited storage 8GB but only 1GB system partition and even worse just 512MB RAM. I think the RAM is the problem as even at idle there is only about 60MB available, which doesn't give much scope for loading and switching apps.
I have had a look at what is installed on there and apart from Skype it's practically at stock, so very few applications yet still performs poorly.
So are there any general recommendations for improving performance of a very basic/limited Android tablet?
I was thinking like things I can change in the appearance of Android OS, any animations or special effects etc that can be disabled?
Reducing running processes - is there an easy way I can find out what processes are non essential and therefore can be turned off?
Any advice greatly appreciated
The tablet runs Android 4.1.1. It's an old 2012 model tablet with limited storage 8GB but only 1GB system partition and even worse just 512MB RAM. I think the RAM is the problem as even at idle there is only about 60MB available, which doesn't give much scope for loading and switching apps.
I have had a look at what is installed on there and apart from Skype it's practically at stock, so very few applications yet still performs poorly.
So are there any general recommendations for improving performance of a very basic/limited Android tablet?
I was thinking like things I can change in the appearance of Android OS, any animations or special effects etc that can be disabled?
Reducing running processes - is there an easy way I can find out what processes are non essential and therefore can be turned off?
Any advice greatly appreciated