Hi! Since the update to Android 15, the system is much more aggressive in killing background apps. For example, I’ve been using x-plore (highly recommended) for years to schedule backups. Since the update, these scheduled copy operations are no longer reliable, because the app apparently gets stopp…

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I’ve changed a developer setting and so far it seems to have stop the issue. Changed “Suspend execution for cached apps” from “Default” to “Disabled”. Will report back on how well it goes.

[image] chriS11: Changed “Suspend execution for cached apps” from “Default” to “Disabled”. Thanks, apps seem to switch much quicker now, I’ll see how it goes.

Was curious to see what my setting was as I hardly have any issues with apps being killed. It was default on my phone.

I doubt it’s the true issue. I had a good look through developer setting trying to think what could impact it. Background apps are in a way cached so thought changing it could help and it seems too. It does make me wonder what it causing it. It seems to be sporadic. Something somewhere seems be ma…

To make it clear: this topics not only on fairphone 5 and it seems still not to be fixed. [image] [Linklist] The Background-Apps Issue The Products This as an overview of all threads covering the issue, that FP is killing background apps very aggressively (2FA…

I believe this issue is present in my FP5. I am often not able to switch back from an authenticator or a banking app to continue in the authentication flow started in an app. There is general slowness in opening the screen lock (like 10 sec) or switching between apps. Camera app may hang completely …

that looks like output from the oomkiller, which kills off processes to free up memory when the system runs out.

I noticed a similar thing the other day. What’s not clear is why these processes are being killed or why many of them are running (in my case I was seeing names appear of apps that I hadn’t used for some hours and the same app was appearing and apparently being killed multiple times despite not even…

That is a good summary of my thoughts. I can understand that low memory killer may occasionally need to intervene. But I think I do not have anything resource intensive running in my phone, and at least no single app seems to use a large amount of memory. I am involved with an Android app, which h…

Ok so I got inspired by @ms912462 and setup adb to monitor my memory and the kill events. I’ve found interesting things. First of all, I haven’t posted in this thread yet, but in this one that has been merged here: Apps reloading when switching apps To be short, I also experience a lot of app kill…

FP5: Android 15 killing background apps more aggressively

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To make it clear: this topics not only on fairphone 5 and it seems still not to be fixed.