Android 15 (Lineage OS) agressively kills apps (discuss.tchncs.de)

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I updated my device to Lineahe OS based on Android 15 after I have been using Lineage OS based on Android 14 for a while. I don't know if this is a common issue with Android 15 or it's only with Lineage OS or my installation is sonewhat crippled (I did clean flash and I already reinstalled once), but the OS is very aggressively killing apps compared to Android 14 to the point it is annoying.

Example

In Android 14 if I started a download in the browser, the browser would display a permanent notification that it's downloading and if I swiped away the browser from recents the download would continue. In Android 15 the downloading stops immidiately after I swipe the browser from recents.

And that's not the only problem. Background services like my companion watch app don't work properly because it seems they get killed in the background and messaging or e-mail apps sometimes seem to have the same problem. I tried disabling battery optimizations for these apps, but it doesn't seem to help at all.

Does anyone else experience similar issues with Android 15?

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[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I think this is sort of expected with android 15. Google just hates all background processes except their own which they whitelist. I saw a bunch of changelogs for apps i use that needed patching after 15 released for calyxos.

There is also this setting (top entry) in the developer options, but thats probably not it.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Yea, I don't think that's it.

Those settings have always been disabled, they're useful for testing, or for low memory phones (which don't really exist anymore).

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