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I have been using this Honor 5X cellphone for last few months. Recently I noticed that it has become unbearably slow. Google Maps was struggling. Common apps like GMail etc were crawling. PUBG Lite also was not working any well. Then I restarted the phone and it worked fine for couple of days and repeat of slowdown. Another restart and another couple of days of good working followed by slowdown. So I dug up the setting of Automatic Power Off and Power On, and have setup the phone to power down by 11PM and power on by 6AM. Also I have ensured that the free memory amount is more than 20%. I ran the phone with these settings and for a week now, no more slowdowns. Hurrah!! Now the technicals - I think Huawei's android skin is buggy and it just can't handle long runtimes. Maybe AOSP android itself is buggy and can't handle long runtimes. Probably apps/kernel gobble up memory and leak some every time something happens. Then couple of days later, no more memory. An...

THIS IS WHAT I HAVE NOW DONE TO RESOLVE THE ISSUE AS DESCRIBED This set of instructions apply to Firefox v47 (and earlier) 1. Add a correctly written and installed configuration file for in-processor INTEL HD Graphics 1.1 Portreve has kindly described how to do this here: Portreve Link 1.2 After Restart, confirm that TearFree is enabled with this Terminal Command (Cinnamon) cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep TearFree It should correctly report: 'intel(0): TearFree enabled' 2. Enable Firefox (v 47.0) graphic hardware acceleration 2.1 Launch Firefox 2.2 Type < about:config > without the brackets - It will warn 'Here Be Dragons' - click 'I'll Be Careful, I Promise! 2.3 In the Search Bar enter < layers.acceleration.force-enabled > without the brackets 2.4 It will state 'false' - double click it to change to 'true' and close the Firefox Tab 2.5 Restart Firefox 2.6.1 Confirm GPU Acceleration is active - do this: 2.6.2 In Firefox, type < abou...