Android vendors, don’t kill my app

Re:Android vendors, don’t kill my app by masklinn on Monday January 14, 2019 @07:03AM (#18902402)

Did you even bother reading the complaints? These "background killers" kill background applications the user wants to run and has specifically asked for e.g. alarms, health/fitness trackers, …, usually in the most harmful way possible (e.g. straight kill -9) meaning the application can't even tell the user what the issue is, and with complex steps users have to take (possibly repeatedly) to whitelist specific applications.

Hell there are comments in this thread testifying that these built-in "battery savers" even kill the built-in alarm application.

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Re:Android vendors, don’t kill my app by PunchTornado on Monday January 14, 2019 @08:20AM (#18902707)

been using android since forever. Now I'm on a s8+. I never had a case like this. maybe I didn't noticed it. But my alarm always went on like it should. my music always played.

is this a bug that sometimes happens? how rare is it?

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Re:Android vendors, don’t kill my app by Piskvorrr on Monday January 14, 2019 @09:14AM (#18903040)

S8 has this, but can be opted out (plus it has what I assume is a whitelist of pre-approved apps, but even those can be opted in, IIRC). It's clumsy, but sort-of works. It does break some old apps that rely on scheduled wakeups, though :(

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Re:Android vendors, don’t kill my app by AstralStorm on Monday January 14, 2019 @09:23AM (#18903108)

Also the Samsung variant will not kill the app or service that is showing a notification as it should. So the three problem is limited to apps relying on dumb running in background.

Alarm scheduled wakeups get rounded to a minute in power saving mode though.

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Re:Android vendors, don’t kill my app by shittyadmin on Monday January 14, 2019 @08:49AM (#18902885)

Seems it's mainly an issue with Nokia devices, the other manufacturers were minor problems in comparisons.

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