Help does factory resetting a device increases it's speed???

[aravinduday97]

Hello.. i'm currently using a Samsung Galaxy S3... the phone, over the years, has become quite slow... would factory resetting it solve the problem?? or do i have to root it to make it faster??

 

[Crashdamage]

There's usually no particular reason for a device to get slower other than apps not behaving quite as they should. A reset will clear everything out and restore that as-new speed, but if you reinstall the very apps causing the lag, then of course the lag will be back.

Instead of resetting, a better fix is to find and cure the actual problem. You save the time and effort you would spend resetting, reloading and reconfiguring the phone and the problem stays fixed.

To sort out what's slowing your phone, check out this post:

http://forums.androidcentral.com/showthread.php?p=4397896

 

[aravinduday97]

thank you for the reply... if a device is rooted, would it increase the speed?? if so, could you please guide me on how to root using cm11 m9 with correct steps..

 

[EarlyMon]

If you're going to root, you're going to lose your apps and data unless you have a backup.

Check out Helium Backup from the Play Store.

If your slow down is due to stale cache entries for the operating system, go ahead and factory data reset, and restore your Helium Backup, see what happens.

It's good practice with Helium that you'll need post root (after that you'll switch to a more capable root backup like Titanium Backup) and will let you know before rooting if you have a bad app or combination of apps causing the problem. Once you narrow that down, repeat without the bad app(s).

For step by step rooting help, please visit -

http://androidforums.com/forums/root-samsung-galaxy-s3.3109/

 

[hiredgun]

I hope the mods don't "ding" me for putting it this way, lol, but I've found that at least in my case it's like formatting a PC. If I notice that a devise, be it a phone or tablet, is really laggy, I back up all my data and do a factory reset and it seems to run a lot faster until I install a lot of crap again, lol.

 

[aravinduday97]

thank you all for your valuable answers.. i have rooted my galaxy s3 to cyanogenmod 11 and its perfectly better... there are no lags and its completely faster than before..

 

[aravinduday97]

i have another query... i also use a micromax canvas 2 A120... i too want to root it to cyanogenmod but there are no roms available, as far as i have searched... could you please find a decent rom (if cyanogenmod, the better)?????

 

[Slug]

Using "Micromax+canvas+2+A120+Cyanogen" as search terms in Google returned this XDA thread as the first result. That should give you a starting point.