{"id":875,"date":"2017-02-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/droix.co.uk\/blogs\/5-tips-to-keep-your-android-device-running-smoothly\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T09:49:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T08:49:12","slug":"5-tips-to-keep-your-android-device-running-smoothly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/5-tips-to-keep-your-android-device-running-smoothly\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Tips To Keep Your Android Device Running Smoothly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here we have five suggestions for you to consider, with regard to getting the most from your DroiX device, or indeed other Android mini PCs.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Exit Kodi properly<\/span> each time to prevent temporary files from building up and wasting space.<br><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/XBMCExit.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-210\" src=\"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/XBMCExit.jpg\" alt=\"XBMC Kodi Exit\"><\/a><\/figure><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Play Store<\/span> for mainstream application updates. This ensures your application has the latest security patches in place, and often new features can also be found. DroiX Market (see our <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">How To Use<\/span> and <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Install<\/span> (if not already on your device) posts) for discovering, installing and updating new &amp; interesting applications.<br><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/4-RAM-Truth-In-Play-Store-Search-Entry-Clicked-20160921_153019_0-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2489\" src=\"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/4-RAM-Truth-In-Play-Store-Search-Entry-Clicked-20160921_153019_0-1-300x169.png\" alt=\"RAM Truth in Play Store Search Entry Clicked\"><\/a><\/figure><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Switch away from using builds\/wizards in Kodi and DBMC to <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/5-reasons-to-avoid-preloaded-devices\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">installing just the add-ons you need, manually<\/a><\/span>. You&#8217;ll <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">keep your data secure<\/span>\u00a0and your device will <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/how-to-slow-kodi-down-risk-your-data-android-openelec-windows\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">operate a little quicker<\/a><\/span> and be more stable! Head to our forum for help with setting up Kodi, and don&#8217;t forget to read the guide to <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Setting up Kodi the right way<\/span>!<br><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/higher31.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1933\" src=\"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/higher31-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"Fast\"><\/a><\/figure><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/trakt.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trakt.TV<\/a><\/span> Create an account, set it to private for security\/privacy. Post coming soon!<br><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/1_sz-qvGm-sHeilqKDe16kug1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"102\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3102\" src=\"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/1_sz-qvGm-sHeilqKDe16kug1-300x102.png\" alt=\"Trakt.TV\"><\/a><\/figure><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If you don&#8217;t yet feel comfortable tweaking and configuring your device, don&#8217;t forget the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/droid.net\/knowledge-base\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">DroiX How To site<\/a><\/span>\u00a0, the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@DroiX_Store\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">DroiX YouTube<\/a><\/span> channel and of course the community at the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">DroiX forum<\/span> are full of useful information.<br><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/children-725141_960_7201.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3103\" src=\"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/children-725141_960_7201-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"Happy Community\"><\/a><\/figure><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we have five suggestions for you to consider, with regard to getting the most from your DroiX device, or indeed other Android mini PCs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[16],"class_list":{"0":"post-875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editorials","8":"tag-android-tv-box"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327100,"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions\/327100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}