although it has 6GB internal memory, my FP5 almost always has to reload apps when I switch from one app to another. When I am listening podcasts, they even stop when I open another app, and I have to lookup the podcast again and start over. Very annoying.
I just restarted once again my FP5, but in the list of recent apps, only the 3 most recent apps start where I left them, but as from the 4th app in the row, the app has to reload.
Does everyone see this ?
In ‘settings’ I find no RAM topic, to check if any app is using a huge amount of memory.
( My former phone, a 4y old Sony 5 II, did not have this problem, and it was remarkably faster too. )
I’m also noticing this problem. I’m running outside while tracking my workout with Komoot and listening a podcast in AntennaPod. Randomly, the podcast sound stops and when I unlock the phone I notice that both Komoot and AntennaPod reload thei UI when I switch to them. Komoot also pauses the tracking, and on the map I can see that Fairphone “unloaded” minutes ago.
I checked the memory, and the phone says it has 1.7 GB out of 7.7 GB free over the last 3 hours.
The issue is very annoying. I can’t reliably track my workout and my listening gets regularily interrupted.
I had the same issue on Huawei Honor 10, but there the issue was even more severe. But I never had this issue with three of my previous Samsung smartphones even though they had far smaller amount of available RAM. Which makes me thinking that Fairphone and Huawei did something wrong in terms of memory management, and too agressibely unload applications without regard to whether the are recently used or not.
So ches151, you have the 8GB version, and you encounter the same problem as me, with the 6GB version. That might indeed show that there is something wrong with the memory management.
I wonder if someone else sees the same behaviour…
I use both komoot and AntennaPod a lot and never had that problem before. FP5, 8GB, using it for 1,5 years now.
Currently hiking for 6-8 hours a day without issues
Yes, of course. Both apps already have unrestricted battery usage.
Yesterday, I got fed up with this FP/Android memory bug too the point that I went through the whole list of installed apps and uninstalled all the apps that I don’t use daily. Those that couldn’t be uninstalled, I disabled. Those that couldn’t be disabled, I stopped.
Alas, the phone keeps randomly unloading the most recent app. Here the most recent workflow where I saw this: I’m reading my emails in the Gmail spp and open links from some of the emails in the Chrome Beta browser, and from time to time, I notice that upon returning to the previous app (Gmail or Chrome), I notice that the app reloads. Immediately checked the memory consumption under developer options/memory, it says Avg 6.6 of 7.7 GB over the last 3 hours.
I probably just have a wrong assumption about the way OS should work, but this Memory usage tool draws a strange “picture”: as if the OS consumes more memory when the phone does nothing, than when I’m actively using it.
Allegedly, the average memory consumption of Android OS over the last 12 hours was 1.9 GB, but over the last hours it averaged at 3.9 GB even though, the last few hours the phone was mostly lying on a table doing nothing.
Today, went for another run. Again, with Komoot recording my run and AntennaPod playing a podcast. 5 minutes later, the podacst abruptly stops. I unlock the phone and see that the AntennaPod app reloads, and, when I switch to Komoot, I see that it paused the recording around 2 minutes ago. Immediatelly checked the RAM consumption, and here’s what I saw: avg memory use: 4.6 out 7.7 GB over the last 3 hours.
Both apps have Unrestricted battery usage enabled.
Is there any kind of system log that I can enable, to see what actually causes Android closing my apps?
In developer setings - > applications, could you set background process limiting from normal to max 4? (highest possible one) and also tick the “always show crash dialoge” option and set suspend execution of cached apps to off? (these should be close by each other)
Yesterday I went for a longer hike and turned on battery saver; although komoot always warns about it not being able to record with the saver turned on, it’s always been working for me. Did so for some time yesterday, but when I felt like listening to a podcast and turned on AntennaPod, almost exactly after one minute of screen-off the playback stopped and the komoot tracking was paused. I reproduced it once, trying it again.
Turning off the battery saver, it did not occur again, I did not play AntennaPod much longer though, because I wanted the saver to be on. Then komoot recording worked for the next hours without interruption again
Thanks for the suggestions. I’ve set the background process limit to 4 and enabled “always show crash dialog”.
“Suspend execution for cached apps” was already switched off (I think I switched it off a few weeks back).
@yvmuell, it’s an app that monitors battery consumption. I’ve just uninstalled it as per your suggestion.
Went for a run today to test the abovementioned changes (crash reorts and uninstalling GSam Battery Monitor).
Again with two apps in the background: Komoot recording the training and AntennaPod playing a podcast.
Just before going outside, I checked that both apps are active: Komoot recording, AntennaPod playing. I also made screenshots of the memory consumption:
5 minutes after start, the podcast stoped playing on its own. After unlocking the phone, I see:
AntennaPod was unloaded.
Komoot was holding the recording on pause from the moment I last locked the phone (when I left home).
There has been no crash dialogs.
I made the screenshots of the memory:
16 more minutes later, the podcast stoped again. After unlocking the phone, I saw that boths apps were unloaded again. Here are the screenshots of the memory:
9 minutes later, I unlocked the phone to stop the podcast myself and noticed that Komoot was stopped again.
I can’t understand what has so drastically changed in the phone since I bought it. I didn’t have these problems when it was new.
And I don’t have this problem on a much older Galaxy A70 that has 6 GB of memory instead of 8 GB
I’m following this, very much interested, but not sure what’s happening. I’m regularly listening to Podcasts on antennapod, as well as often recording a workout with a smartwatch app for most of the time for ninety minutes. I don’t experience these problems. FP5, current Software.
My memory usage looks the same. I am starting to think that is a hardware fault, if all you other people do not see the problems Ches151 and me see. Today i was using an app (2dehands.be) , I copied a link in it, I opened Whatsapp and sent that link to someone, and when I switched back to the app, it reloaded. Gone were my search topic and the filters. VERY annoying.
Should I return my phone under warranty ?
