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Camera Go app announced by Google with simple UI. T-Mobile turns on 5G in 10 new markets. Yes, Samsung - a dominant vendor in the Android market - is now using one of the nastiest battery saving techniques in the industry. They kill background processes and render alarm clocks and other apps which rely on background processing useless. See below for workarounds.
At some unclear moments maybe on app update, OS update? Below are walkthrough screenshots for Galaxy S Please let us know your feedback about whether it works for S9 or others as well. Make sure to follow the instructions very carefully to prevent the apps from being killed. With the introduction of their flagship Galaxy S8 and with some earlier experiments , Samsung has introduced a flawed attempt at prolonging battery life called App power monitor. You can manage apps individually or in a group by selecting them then tapping the big Save power button.
Apps that are sleeping will appear in the Sleeping apps list at the bottom tap it to expand the list. These are apps that you specifically want to exclude white list from App power monitor evil reach. When inside the Unmonitored apps menu, you can tap the 3-dot menu to add or delete apps from the list.
Rather than bothering with any of that, you can just turn off the App power monitor feature completely as it has little-to-no impact on battery life and only serves to handicap the normal functioning of your Galaxy phone. To allow your app to wake up your screen, please remove it from the Edge Lighting applications list. This may be true on the UX front but the exact opposite is valid for background process limits. Not only did users need to enable extra settings to make their apps work properly, but those settings even got reset with firmware updates.
So apps break again and users are required to re-enable those settings on a regular basis. So if you set it to be not optimized , the next day it may be back to optimized. Go to Recent apps App switcher.
Toggle the Lock button on the upper right corner of the app. This will avoid the app to be killed in background and the Battery optimisation setting to be reverted. You may have to check system settings every once in a while. See a bug report filed to OnePlus. App Auto-Launch on some OnePlus phones essentially prevents apps from working in the background.
Please disable it for your app. Android handles that well on its own. On OnePlus this may however work in a different way. Recent app clear behaviour manager might be set up in a way that swiping the app to close will kill it. See below how to uninstall it. Traditionally Huawei and their Android customization called EMUI belongs to the most troubled on the market with respect to non-standard background process limitations. There are no APIs and no documentation for those extensions.
On default settings, background processing simply does not work right and apps working in background will break. In addition to all the non-standard power management measures described below, they introduced a new task killer app build right into EMUI 9 on Android Pie. It is called PowerGenie and it kills all apps that are not on its whitelist. You cannot add custom apps on their pre-defined whitelist. This means there is no other way to fix proper app functionality on Huawei than uninstalling PowerGenie. Enable Developer options.
This setting would need to be re-applied every time you reboot your device. Traditionally Xiaomi and their Android customization called MIUI belongs to the most troubled on the market with respect to non-standard background process limitations and non-standard permissions. In default settings background processing simply does not work right and apps using them will break.
So if you like Xiaomi we definitely recommend to look for their Android One offering. MIUI 10 To let your app run successfully in the background, make sure your settings look like the following here for example is Sleep as Android :. When you open recent apps tray, drag your app downwards — it will be locked. So even if you clear recent apps it will not clear from the background. Drag downwards again to clear your app from the background. Meizu is probably on par with Huawei and Xiaomi in their approach to background process limitations, but they get a better rank probably just because those devices are not that common on the market and thus do not cause such a pain to the developers as the aforementioned.
We are still collection feedback on Asus device so the following may not be a exhaustive list of issues. On Asus devices there seems to be an optimization app called Power Master pre-installed with some modifications made by default, eg. However, if you know how, you can easily disable these. See the screens below. To make sure apps background processing works please make sure the following is set properly. See below for screenshots.
We are still collecting feedback on Wiko devices so the following may not be a exhaustive list of issues. But Wiko devices are definitely problematic in terms of non-standard background process optimizations and adjustments to the settings that need to be done to make apps work properly. Start Phone assist and tap Tap Power Saver 2.
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Turn Eco. Mode OFF and tap Optimized mode 3. Disable optimized mode or make sure Your app is not optimized 4. Go to advanced settings 5.
Get to the background process whitelist 6. NOTE : this needs to be done again after reboot. We have currently only information for Oppo F1S, but on other models the situation may well be similar. Oppo F1S Background services are being killed including accessibility services, which then need re-enabling every time you turn the screen off. So far, a workaround for this is:. All four of those need to be done before the app would function. Here are links to some other resources verifying that some of the above steps work on other Oppo devices:.
It is called Stamina mode and it instantly breaks all background processes and all alarms if enabled. Never use Stamina mode if you want your phone to do something useful when you are not actively using it. They had the most aggressive app killers preinstalled on their phones.
Nokia on Android O and P kills any background process including sleep tracking or any other sport tracking after 20 minutes if the screen is off.