Aggressive Task Killer

[AarSyl]

So, Sense has always been this way for a while (the HTC EVO 4G LTE was the worst of them all), and I see that the U11 with *almost stock* software and 4GB of RAM is not enough for it to keep a few more apps in the background.

This is bothersome when trying to play games that start over every time that I switch to another app! Even XDA just restarted and I lost half of this post that I was writing. I don't actually see it as a bug or faulty software...just very aggressive RAM management.

Is there any solution to this? Do custom ROMS even solve this issue?

 

[LuH]

+1, I'd also like to see how to make the RAM management less aggressive. Right now when I play a game, then switch to Chrome, Facebook, or even just public transport timetables app and then go back, game usually starts over. I thought 4 GB of RAM would be enough to have two games loaded, apparently not

 

[AarSyl]

+1, I'd also like to see how to make the RAM management less aggressive. Right now when I play a game, then switch to Chrome, Facebook, or even just public transport timetables app and then go back, game usually starts over. I thought 4 GB of RAM would be enough to have two games loaded, apparently not

I don't think that the 4GB of RAM is to blame. There is no justification for closing a game to send a TEXT! I think that they just try to keep as much RAM available at all times, at the cost of convenience.

 

[Huigie]

Boost+ enabled,?

 

[mlodykaras]

Yeah I think it's the boost+ app. Uninstall it and check. I don't use it and I just launched 25apps and none of them reloads.

Update: hmmm actually they started reloading after 3 mins. Not all of them but half. Wierd. I don't mind though as long as the battery stays like this.

 

[LuH]

In boost+ I don't allow the background optimizer to kick in in less than 3 days on apps I want to run in background, so that's probably not it.

 

[AarSyl]

In boost+ I don't allow the background optimizer to kick in in less than 3 days on apps I want to run in background, so that's probably not it.

Neither do I. Even coming from a fresh install and rejecting Boost+, the Task Killer is still aggressive.

I think that it depends on the OOM settings (I think that is the correct acronym...haven't dealt with those for a WHILE....).

 

[liberator72]

I was getting frustrated with a lot of my apps pretty much closing every time I backed out of them causing me to have a huge delay in getting notifications as a best case scenario, and sometimes not getting any at all unless I actually opened the app again, Facebook/Messenger being the biggest culprits, but many others too.
Looking in Settings/Power/Battery Optimization I found that nearly all my apps say they are being optimized. I've never used Boost+ so it seems they have defaulted to this. After toggling a few apps to Not Optimized I've found that these apps no longer close and need to reload when I back out, and notifications come through in a timely manner. Battery life seems unaffected, I still easily get through a day and have at least 50% remaining at bed time. Might be worth looking at

 

[AarSyl]

I was getting frustrated with a lot of my apps pretty much closing every time I backed out of them causing me to have a huge delay in getting notifications as a best case scenario, and sometimes not getting any at all unless I actually opened the app again, Facebook/Messenger being the biggest culprits, but many others too.
Looking in Settings/Power/Battery Optimization I found that nearly all my apps say they are being optimized. I've never used Boost+ so it seems they have defaulted to this. After toggling a few apps to Not Optimized I've found that these apps no longer close and need to reload when I back out, and notifications come through in a timely manner. Battery life seems unaffected, I still easily get through a day and have at least 50% remaining at bed time. Might be worth looking at

Bro....thank...you! This definitely made a difference so far.... I'll pay attention to see if it makes a big difference in the long run...

 

[LuH]

Testing as well, thanks! It doesn't seem connected to Boost+ and appears all my apps are optimized by default - even those I never ran on this phone.

 

[liberator72]

Yeah it had me stumped at first but I noticed it last week and changed it then and have had no problems since. Hopefully it sorts it for you too

 

[AarSyl]

Yeah it had me stumped at first but I noticed it last week and changed it then and have had no problems since. Hopefully it sorts it for you too

Still restarting apps quicker than I prefer, but much better. Thanks!

 

[shivadow]

The problem is android and how it handles apps. If you want to switch apps then use the recents list to use the multi app function (splitscreen).

Beamed in by telepathy.