I’ll post a complaint about this in 5 minutes when my phone’s UI is responsive again.

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    2 months ago

    I felt that one. Been putting off doing a backup and hard reset for months now. I can’t run two apps simultaneously unless I restart my android.

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    Go to settings;

    type "build number " in the search bar;

    click on the build number until you’re a dev.

    Go into developer options;

    type “background process limit”;

    Choose the maximum number of applications you want to have in background.

    Profit

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      Does this apply to processes that have battery optimization disabled? Like say, for example, if I had the limit set to five, and had 5 apps open, would I still be able to receive signal notifications (not using GCM, I think it’s webhooks)

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    my phone won’t even do “force stop” anymore… fairphone 5 running whatever os fairphone ships, and all force stop does is put the app in the background or whatever, if it has an issue the issue will still be there when opening it again.

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    Apps leaking memory in Android are just going to get automatically get killed by the OOM killer, I don’t think a restart is going to address that particular concern.

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      I have an S7 (yes I know it’s old) I still like it and it works - but - something happens about once or twice a month and it starts hanging up whenever a phone call connects and/or an app will get super laggy.

      Anyway, reboot fixes it (so far) and nothing else I’ve tried does.

      There’s definitely something with these older phones that is like a slow leak and the simple, easy, lasts for weeks fix is to just take 2 minutes for a full “turn it off and back on again”

      Plus the overheating when something gets stuck doing a background thing. Reboot reboot.

      I plan to use this phone until it dies, reboot stops fixing things, or needed apps are no longer working/supported.

      Slack no longer works/supported, but that one I’m just like “oh, noooo” However I expect ones I actually need to start falling off and I’ll be lucky to get a couple more years of use.

      My meandering point, some of us are still using Android phones where reboot helps a lot

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        It’s definitely not out of the question that a reboot helps, but an app-level memory leak is highly unlikely to be the culprit.

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    2 months ago

    Yall have to have some shady apps I have never had this issue. Apps starting on boot is not normal