Hi, I am also heavily affected by this problem. I have the 6GB variant. My biggest issue is Spotify being killed constantly when in the background. Here are some of my observations:
- All apps that are not in the foreground are potentially killed (e.g. firefox, spotify, google services, widgets, …)
- It happens with the stock launcher, and also with other launchers (it feels like third party launchers make the problem a little bit worse → more ram usage = more apps killed?)
- A reliable trigger for killing Spotify is opening the camera app. It happens more times than not, to the point that I am surprised when the music does not stop after I take a picture.
- Rebooting gets rid of the problem, but not for long. After a few hours (at max.), the frequency of apps being killed is unbearable for multitasking again.
- By looking at the logcat output of the Android low memory killer (LMK), it seems that memory pressure and/or thrashing is so high, that processes are killed constantly. When switching between apps, opening the camera, etc, the LMK killed almost a process every second!
I want to find out if I can trigger the issue in safe mode, and maybe factory reset my device to see if that makes a difference. But it almost seems like that the Fairphone memory management really does not like background apps (but then why does this also occur in the 8GB model?).
I hope that a solution will be found. I like my Fairphone a lot and would really like to be happy using it, but at the moment, my old Motorola (that worked perfectly with only 4GB!!!) would probably spare me all those troubles 