Hi, I’m opening this topic to discuss some aspects of the background app-killing issue some of us are having with Android 15 on the FP4. (following this message: FP4 (Android 15): Background apps being killed more aggressively - #198 by WilliamG ) More particularly, the issue has been present for …

I have been following for months the mentioned issue as well. My GF has a FP4 as long as you (I think she said by the end of this year will be 5 years with her phone). And she is really happy with it, and I believe she is the perfect customer for this concept that Fairphone is. Said that, she was 1…

To not give the false impression that FP Angels speak for the company, I corrected your post and exchanged to user. An Angel is offering local help with issues and is not in any way connected to the company. [image] Cisco: the last hotfix FP team released There was no hotfix released, was i…

Up until last Thursday I had thought about my options every now and then. I was still stuck on A13 with the November 2025 patch level so I hadn’t known if the problem will hit me or not. What I did in any case: I have an old backup phone and I installed banking TAN apps on it (some banks still send…

[image] WilliamG: The options I think you might add the following options: Install another OS such as /e/OS (plenty of support around for making the move) - have a look round the community over at e.foundation to get an idea of the temperature there. Perform a full reset. Before doing …

[image] yvmuell: To not give the false impression that FP Angels speak for the company, I corrected your post and exchanged to user. An Angel is offering local help with issues and is not in any way connected to the company. What I meant and emphasized by using the word “angels” is that I did…

[image] Cisco: Oookey, I will read more about. I understand BETA idea, maybe that’s the way if no fix gets released on the coming time on the STABLE branch. Will discuss it with her. On one hand it is demanded to have quick fixes on the other there should be no further bugs or regressions com…

The adb commands are in this post [image] FP4 (Android 15): Background apps being killed more aggressively Fairphone 4 I tried to mitigate the issue and it seems I was to some extent successful tweaking the two system-level mechanism below. Here is my debugging…

I advise against performing a reset and/or full installation as a solution to this problem because that’s what I had to do with my new FP4 (after FP bricked my old one) and I have the issue since day 1. So I agree with you @OldRoutard it’s most probably the apps we use.

Options to handle the FP4 A15 background app-killing problem

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