Android vendors, don’t kill my app

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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