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Fix for Android slowdown

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

Screen tearing fix in Linux Mint 19 on Intel Graphics

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