Apps reloading when switching apps

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Hi everyone,
I read with interest all the posts. I am also noticing problems with my memory management. Same story with apps regularly reloading. I activated the dev options to see the memory usage, I will check in the next days, for now it says average 63% with first app being the OS (1,6 GB) and then the Interface (230 MB).

And my launcher has problems that could be linked to memory issues too : Performance problem with Microsoft Launcher on FP5 - Help / Fairphone 5 - Fairphone Community Forum

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Anyone in the community with news on this memory management issue?

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I send a message to Fairphone support. They 'll answer in ‘16 to 18 days’. Let’s see how they think about it.

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Hi,
I don’t have a solution, but just wanted to add that I’m seeing similar issues on other apps:
Amazon Music stops playing randomly (when in background). If I switch back to it, the app is completely closed (doesn’t even remember which song it was playing before).

Lately I tried to do an online payment where my bank requires 2FA from the banking-app. When switching to the banking app to accept 2FA, the browser tab (Firefox) reloaded, so payment did start over and I couldn’t continue. I reproduced this issue several times before switching to split-screen mode instead of sending the browser to background. This way it worked.

Same with 3rd party launchers (Microsoft) where it reloads all the widgets when switching to home-screen or even closes the keyboard when I try to use the searchbar.

Battery optimization is off (unrestricted) for amazon music. Also it seems like the severeness of the problem varies from day to day.

No crash reports or anything did appear. So I really think there is an issue with memory management.

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So now there’s four of us encountering the same problem. I’ll keep you posted as soon as I get an answer from Fairphone Support.
In my message to FP Support, I descreibed a similar situation as Aichitho did with a banking app.
I might think that is a warranty thing and that we should receive a new phone.

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Hello, just a random act of brainstorming here

Has any more of people affected by that (apart from @vlstr ) been using an alternative launcher?

Plus I vaguely remember people reporting issues with apps and launcher when using the desktop mode - does anyone has it currently on?

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For me it happend both with stock and alternative launcher

Desktop mode is off

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I have no alternative launchers. No special things, just using the apps I used on my former phone

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My previous phone was a Redmi Note 10T. That one always closed apps in the background. It was really hard to sign in to websites that required the MFA code from the MFA app there, because after opening the MFA app, the browser was reloaded and the state of the login page was forgotten. Drove me crazy. My solution there was to open the browser into a “floating window” before switching to the MFA app. Then it stayed open. I’m wondering if that could be of help here? No idea if the FP5 has floating windows, though. On Redmi, one had to go to the window switcher and then click on Floating window at the top and pick eg the browser. Just an idea.

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You can see two app at the same time by: app switcher - > click on the currently open app icon (top middle) - > split screen - > select another (opened) app.