An example of this problem is casting shows to Chromecast. Android often kills your app in the background while you're watching, and now your Chromecast controls don't work and you have to reconnect.
Android vendors, don’t kill my app
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#112> Smartphones are turning back into dumbphones. We have to fight back!
Actually, it is not a bad thing.
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#113Such a relief to find this! Some of our users use our Android app for very time sensitive notifications. They constantly come to us saying that our apps and push notifications are slow. It always seems to come back to battery saving modes for their specific Android device, and a quick Google and following the top steps never seem to work. This is so very helpful!
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#114For me this problem is very real. For example I got my mother a Pocofone F1 (by Xiaomi). Everything works fine, WhatsApp notifications arrive but there are some apps which just get crushed by Xiaomi's battery saver. Audible's lock-screen widget for example just does not show up unless you enable/disable 2-3 battery saving and notification settings after installing the app. I think this incantation can't be expected e…
Go to the developers settings and turn off MIUI optimization. That's the only setting that worked for me. No more killed bg apps.
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#115Recently I limited the number of background processes on my phone(Galaxy S8) to two.
On one hand lag is essentially gone, on the other I usually have to "restart" an app(in the Android sense of the word) if I want it to regain focus. E.g. tabs in Chrome always refresh, which has its downsides.
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
(assuming the claims on the site are correct, since I have no first-hand data on it) You really don't get that some people think apps like alarm clocks, sleep tracking, GPS logging, ... are useful and should be allowed to run if the user chooses them? To me , a phone that can't reliably run an application for a few hours is fairly useless.
I own a Nokia phone running Pie. My alarms go off just fine (although I vaguely remember it not going off once or twice a few updates ago), my activity tracker works fine[0] and syncs periodically. I don't use GPS constantly. Signal notifications were also delayed a few updates ago, but now everything runs smoothly. I find it a worthy sacrifice to make for a sturdy Android One phone with solid performance and a batte…
I've never had any issues with alarms not going off either, on my Nokia device running Android P
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#117To be honest, as a user I really like the implementation of battery saving features of my Sony phone: 1. They are not enabled by default 2. Their settings screen explicitly states what the modes do 3. They can extend battery life significantly The most aggressive mode is called Ultra Stamina, and it works by basically turning the phone into dumbphone mode -- complete without any internet connectivity, calls, SMS and…
Interesting. Batteries in smartphones usually have five times more battery capacity then feature phones, it should last over a month!
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#118Badly written apps make 99% of Google Play, no wonder vendors are trying to resolve it.
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#119For me this problem is very real. For example I got my mother a Pocofone F1 (by Xiaomi). Everything works fine, WhatsApp notifications arrive but there are some apps which just get crushed by Xiaomi's battery saver. Audible's lock-screen widget for example just does not show up unless you enable/disable 2-3 battery saving and notification settings after installing the app. I think this incantation can't be expected e…
The first thing I do on any Xiaomi phone is to install Lineage OS - because MIUI is just unusable for me. Lineage 16 release for Poco F1 is very stable although it's not an official release yet.
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#120If your app is in the background it shouldn't need a load of resources. These resource limits are there to prevent bad developers using all your resources in the background. If you are having issues with this limit you are probably one of these bad developers. Removing the limit is not the solution, writing a better app is.