Whenever I go to my homescreen or otherwise load another app the previous one closes. If I’m browsing Lemmy and I open a page linked on a post to read it, my app will have reset itself when I close the tab and I either have to give up or root around for the post.

This OS is borderline unusable in this state. It even evicts my homescreen app so there’s a 5-10 second lag when tapping the circle button.

Any tips? I have 8GB of RAM, which should be more than enough for a dozen apps.

  • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    When did you last reboot your phone?

    I have had memory leaks in android that slowly consumes ram until I have the same issue. A reboot clears it for a while.

  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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    11 months ago

    You need to change battery optimization for the affected apps (well, the apps you don’t want hibernated instantly).

    Some brands of phones have aggressive hibernation config for all apps by default (Samsung, Xiomi I think).

    Lookup hibernation control for your brand of phone.

    Also check out https://dontkillmyapp.com/

    • Kairos@lemmy.todayOPEnglish
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      11 months ago

      GrapheneOS. It keeps Termux and Molly (for MollySocket) open but nothing else.

      • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        11 months ago

        Thanks for this thread. I just switched to GrapheneOS and noticed the same thing. It’s particularly annoying having my Lemmy feed reset so often.

        • Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          11 months ago

          I’m also using grapheneos, but I’ve never noticed anything like this.

          To check I just went back to the very last app in the app switcher, which was ironfox, which was still open on the same page I left it during lunch today. (About 6 hours ago)