How To Fix Slow XIAOMI POCO M5 To Run Faster and More Responsive (Fix Lagging Performance)?

Easy solutions for fix XIAOMI POCO M5 run slowly troubles. This phone has 6.58 inches LCD screen with Android 12 as default operating system. It should run fast when doing some activity, but some users get lagging issues after use it for several months. What should we do? Please read some information about how to make XIAOMI POCO M5 run more faster.

 

Why XIAOMI POCO M5 Performance Become Slow and Not Responsive ?

We need to know about the hardware. XIAOMI POCO M5 is powered by 64 bit Octa Core processor Mediatek MT8781 Helio G99 that divided into two clusters with dual core 2.2 GHz Cortex-A76 for fast performance and hexa core 2.0 GHz Cortex-A55 for simple performance but has good battery efficiency. This phone has two options of RAM with 4 GB or 6 GB. We need to make sure our processor and RAM are enough before running any apps.

Having 6 GB RAM is better for multitasking. If we open too many multitasking apps, then RAM will be insufficient. At this moment XIAOMI POCO M5 will try to find which the oldest not use application, and try to force close to give more RAM resources. When this process happen, this phone will freezing for a while. Please do not install or run too many applications together.

In many case, the slowly troubles will be happen if we run too many applications together. It will consume more RAM and processor resources. Therefore we suggest to uninstall some not use applications if we do not really use that apps. Some of them will run in the background to wait data update and consume more RAM. Remove some applications will help this phone to run more faster.

Slowly issues also happen because of other problems beside RAM. We need to know how many internal storage free capacity left, because if the internal storage is full, then the performance of XIAOMI POCO M5 also will be reduced or become slowly.

Some issue of XIAOMI POCO M5 lag happen because of applications. But we also find some XIAOMI POCO M5 become lagging because the usage of non original firmware or custom rom.

 

Why XIAOMI POCO M5 Lagging or Slowly When Playing Some Games ?

XIAOMI POCO M5 will use GPU (graphic processor unit) for support gaming performance. This phone work with Mali-G57 MC2 GPU together with Mediatek MT8781 Helio G99 that good enough for gaming performance. However, usually slowly or lagging gaming happen because insufficient RAM. Please try to soft reset our XIAOMI POCO M5 before playing heavy gaming for clean all previous applications temporary files and caches.

 

How to Boost Speed Performance of XIAOMI POCO M5 And Make It Run More Faster?

1. First steps that you should do is doing soft reset or reboot to remove temporary files and caches. Usually after our phone finish reboot, then the speed performance might become faster.
2. Please uninstall all not use applications. We can try to find from menu Setting > Apps, and choose not active applications, then choose Uninstall.
3. Some factory default applications do not have Uninstall button options, but we can disable by choose Disable button at menu Setting > Apps > Disable at our phone. This steps also can reduce the usage of RAM and processor resources.
4. If all solutions still not improve the performance, then please consider to do hard reset to factory default. Follow steps at XIAOMI POCO M5 Hard Reset / Reformat page using Setting menu or Hardware button combination Key.

Please note, some menu options will be different because firmware update or some other possibilities. Please use comment options below for other question to discuss.