A post was merged into an existing topic: FP4 (Android 15): Background apps being killed more aggressively
I checked running services in the developer options, and I could see that it almost ran out of memory, was cycling between 3 apps and it would always kill the 3rd app. This at least shows more than the memory tab.
Still can’t see anything odd, other than it always aiming to have 4gb ram free.
Wow this really did something. Though this issue didn’t bother me as much as others, I’m definitely noticing my chat apps and productivity apps reloading way less when tabbing in and out.
The device also feels snappier. Though it might just be placebo from not having to wait an extra second for apps to relaunch.
10/10 would recommend toggling the thing.
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Just to say I’ve doesn’t his and still having issues with Spotify closing most the time I switch apps, will give it some more time to see if it helps elsewhere (thanks for the suggestion anyway!)
What would be the drawbacks activating this toggle?
This issue is also nagging me a bit (it doesn’t make the phone unusable, just slightly annoying), but I am afraid to go against optimized settings and that would end up being noticed in other things like the battery life.
On the other hand, the issue I am experiencing with AccuBattery (thread here), and that might be related to this, is really annoying to me. So, I may end up trying enabling the “Disable child process restrictions” toggle and see if it fixes the AccuBattery issue.
It’s worth a try. I’ve had it activated for a while now and the FP5 is running much more smoothly. The battery life has improved slightly. But that may be a coincidence. Or perhaps it’s because apps aren’t constantly being closed, reloaded and restarted.
I might even go back to the FP5 now. It’s slowly becoming usable again. At least until the next big update. Oh, I’m being mean again.
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Ok. I’m going to give it a try and see how it goes, and see if it improves the issue with AccuBattery too.
Cheers.
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Seems like the impact on how I use my phone has really not been that severe. I have activated that switch, too, to see how it goes. I haven’t had too many chances to try it with MFA which annoyed me most, but the few times I used it just worked, indeed. For the battery life it looks like it didn’t have any significant impact. I can’t really tell if it changed at all - which means that there’s at least no reason to disable it again any time soon.
I tried this too, did not see much of an improvement unfortunately. Also that cannot really be the solution as having no restrictions of child processes means disabling a somewhat important safety measure. (Must not even be an attack, I have no difficulty imaginig apps using this restriction as a threshold: “Start as many child processes as you are allowed, that should speed things up”)
Also my feeling is the phone did get somewhat more unstable after disabling this, forcing me to reboot it every few days.
I agree, that can’t be the solution. Just another workaround to make the Fairphone usable.
The thing needs too much attention for my liking.
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