How to Speed Up Xiaomi Phone: A Complete Optimization Guide

Modern smartphones of the Xiaomi brand are famous for their excellent price-performance ratio, but over time, even powerful devices begin to work slower. This is a natural process of accumulating system debris, app cache and background processes that load the processor. If your gadget began to noticeably slow down, open applications for a long time or hang in games, do not rush to buy a new one.

MIUI and its new version of HyperOS have a wide range of hidden settings that can significantly increase the response speed of the interface. In this article, we will discuss proven methods that will help to revive your device without using third-party “accelerators” that often only harm the system.

You will learn how to properly configure the developer settings, disable unnecessary system services and effectively manage memory. Competent optimization can extend the life of a smartphone for several years, making it work smoothly and responsive, like the first day after purchase.

Basic cleaning and memory management

The first step to speed up is to free up RAM and internal memory. When free disk space comes to an end, Android starts to run in stress mode, constantly trying to find space for temporary files, which directly affects the performance of the entire device.

Xiaomi smartphones have a built-in Security app that knows better than any third-party counterparts how to work with the shell’s file system. Regularly running deep cleaning allows you to remove the remnants of remote applications, temporary browser files and social media cache that can take up gigabytes.

But mechanical cleaning is often not enough: you need to manually analyze the contents of download folders and messengers, and users often forget that automatically saved videos from Telegram or WhatsApp take up the lion's share of memory, slowing down the indexation of files.

And if you look at the memory management section in the settings, you can see which apps are using the most resources right now, and if you don't use heavy games or video editors very often, you'd better remove them or limit their background activity.

Customize animations through the developer menu

One of the most effective ways to visually speed up the interface is to scale up the animations, and by default, MIUI uses beautiful but protracted transitions between windows that create the illusion of slowness, and changing these parameters makes the response to touch instantaneous.

To access these settings, activate the developer mode. Search the About Phone menu and click seven times in a row on either the MIUI or HyperOS version. Once you have a successful activation message, go back to the main settings menu and find the "Additional" item where the developer menu is hidden.

⚠️ Attention: The developer menu contains critical system settings. Do not change settings that you do not know the value of, as this can lead to unstable work or failures in the boot.

In the list that opens, look for the Drawing (or Visualization) section, and you're interested in three things: Window Animation, Transition Animation, and Animation Duration. Set a 0.5x value for each of them, which will cut the opening time of the apps by half, keeping them smooth but eliminating unnecessary delays.

Some experienced users set the Off value, which makes the interface as fast as possible, but visually “twitched”. For everyday use, it is recommended to scale 0.5x, which provides a balance between speed and a pleasant picture.

Disabling Advertising and System Services

MSA (MIUI System Ads) advertising modules not only annoy the user, but also consume Internet traffic, CPU time and battery power. Disabling advertising is a must-do step to improve the performance of budget and mid-range smartphone models.

The process of disabling requires sequential execution of actions in several menus, you first need to go to the settings of the Mi Account and revoke authorization in msa. The system will warn you several times about the consequences, requiring you to wait 10 seconds before confirming - be patient.

• 📱 Go to Settings. → Passwords and security → Access to personal data and disable the slider for msa.
• 📡 In Wi-Fi settings, disable “Receive recommendations” and “Autoconnect to open networks».
• 🔍 In the Security app, open the settings and turn off “Receive recommendations».
• 📂 In the conductor and the application "Music" you also need to find settings and remove the ticks from the points about recommendations.

After disabling all sources of advertising, you will notice that the phone has become less hot in standby mode. Background processes responsible for loading banner ads will stop waking the processor, which will positively affect battery life.

Optimizing battery and background processes

Aggressive energy savings in the MIUI shell often play a cruel joke, forcibly closing the desired applications and making them restart every time they open, which puts an extra strain on the system, you need to fine-tune the energy saving strategy for frequently used programs.

Go to the battery settings and select Performance or Balanced mode. Saving mode severely limits background synchronization and CPU performance, which can only be useful in critical situations when charge is running out. It's not suitable for everyday life.

For each important application (messengers, mail, navigator) you should adjust your individual restrictions. From the menu “Applications → Settings → Application Management”, select the desired program, go to Battery and set “No Limits” mode, which will allow the application to work consistently in the background.

It’s also worth checking the memory extension function. If your phone has little internal memory (such as 64 GB) and a slow drive, using part of the memory for virtual RAM can, on the contrary, slow down, in such cases, the function is better to turn off.

Display setting and refresh rates

Smoothness on the screen directly affects the subjective perception of speed. If you have a model that supports high refresh rates (90 Hz, 120 Hz or 144 Hz), make sure that the screen settings select the “Maximum” or “Elevated” mode, not “Default”.

Default mode often works incorrectly, switching to 60Hz in static menus to save energy, creating noticeable jerks when scrolling. Forced high-frequency setting makes the interface more responsive, although it increases charge consumption.

⚠️ Warning: Constant screen operation at maximum refresh rate can reduce battery life on the screen 10-15%. If autonomy is more important than smoothness, use automatic mode, but be prepared for micro-latency.

Also, you should turn off Read Mode and Vision Protection if you don't need them all the time, which color temperature-changing features in some older firmware versions may have caused the interface to slow down due to software-based image processing.

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Use a dark theme not only to save battery life AMOLED-screens, but also to reduce the load on the GPU when displaying the interface at night.

Resetting and radical measures

If the software methods didn’t work, it may have accumulated critical file errors or conflicts after a lot of updates, in which case the most effective solution is a complete factory reset.

Before starting the procedure, be sure to back up all important data to the Mi Cloud cloud service or your computer.Reset will delete all information, including photos, contacts and files, without the possibility of recovery.

To perform the reset, go to Settings → About Phone → Settings Reset → Erase all data. The process will take 5 to 15 minutes. Once turned on, the phone will be as new, without unnecessary debris and conflicting settings.

In some cases, especially on older models, the cause of poor performance may be physical wear and tear on the battery.If the battery holds a charge of less than 3-4 hours of active screen, the processor can artificially lower the frequencies to prevent a sudden shutdown.

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A complete reset is not a panacea, but often the only way to get rid of deep system errors accumulated over the years of using a smartphone.

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