If you have been using your phone for a while , you might notice that tapping an icon or pressing a button doesn't work as well as it used to.

You might tap the browser picture and have to wait a full minute for the browser to open. Or you might press the home button while browsing the Internet and have to wait for what seems forever to return to the home screen.

The most common reason is that program on your phone is not releasing the resources properly. Your phone has a limited amount of memory.

Every time you use a program like Gmail , the program occupies some space in memory and uses them to do things such as display text on the screen. Usually when you close a program it releases all the memory back into the pool.

However sometimes the program holds on to the memory. and if you have too many programs holding up the memory the memory pool will eventually become empty and if that happens no new program would be able to grab enough memory to run well.

The solution to this problem is reboot your phone.

If rebooting does not able to solve your problem , a recently installed program is causing your phone to run slowly. start with the last application you installed and uninstall it.

After you uninstall one application , reboot your phone and see if the phone performs faster.

If not uninstall the next most recently installed application, reboot and try again. If after uninstalling a handful of applications , your phone is still not performing well you need to completely reset the phone.