Mildly Infuriating

Using a card on a web site. Verified by Visa web page: "we have emailed you the code". So I go to the email app and get the code. Switch back to the web page. Web page: "what? Who the fuck are you?"

I disable power management on the apps I use often and never run into the issue. Perhaps that might help create a less frustrating experience for you.

when you say "every single iteration", does that include stuff like lineageos? Because that's what i've been using for ages and i still struggle to believe how non-shitty it is.

Your phone. Not my phone, so it doesn't seem like an android problem.

Or possibly the apps you are using? I don't think I have ever had this problem.

But that said: I would love to replace it all with a true Linux phone.

You think that's bad, I got 12GB of memory and am only ever using 8GB of it, and it still pulls the same shit. Wild.

I've got 4 GB of RAM

Sadly that's an almost unusable amount these days. The OS will use half of that just sitting idle, and Google Play Services will use a fifth of the remainder (you can enable Developer Mode and view running services to see this yourself). 4 gigs is solidly in the "only one or two apps open at a time" range.

(It doesn't help that every Android app includes its own separate copies of all its libraries and dependencies for compatibility reasons. There's no such thing as a lightweight app without going out of your way to avoid the normal development ecosystem)

Android also doesn't use swap (storing unused/rarely accessed memory contents on the disk for later), instead shifting stale memory pages to a compressed block in RAM (zram), so once it starts filling up with cached background apps it has to start killing apps or the system will hang. The less RAM you have, the sooner this will happen, and both Lemmy clients and web browsers use a ton of RAM.

If your lemmy client is Voyager, its not an Android only issue. Happens on iOS as well.

If ever there was an excuse to switch to a E/os or another legacy android custom ROM like Lineage OS.

Because with only 4GB of RAM you're not going to get the performance you want because the operating system for newer phones takes up so much of that RAM usage.

What you're doing right now seems like you're attempting to push your hardware beyond it's limitations to run software that your phone isn't specced for.

Google generally gets around this by providing a lighter weight version of their OS for bottom tier specced phones with Android GO, and budget phones were a lot of the reason they tried this.

It's either that or, you have settings configured in such a way that when you close certain apps they aren't persistent in memory (which makes sense with a budget phone or a low specced phone) and honestly that could also be Google's fault because of default settings and their propensity for memory leaks.

I would argue that it's not every iteration of android, but I get your point. I don't think you were looking for solutions, but just in case, my comment is here.

iOS sucks hard in a lot of ways. In a lot of the same ways android sucks, in fact. One way iOS sucks more than android, is that when I tap a button on android, it actually registers the tap on the first attempt, instead of completely ignoring my multiple taps (it's completely bonkers). Memory management is iOS's strong suit, for sure, and android has eons to learn from apple on this. All things considered, the only thing that android has on iOS is its ability to install whatever APK I want. But Google is doing everything to stop this. If/when they do, I will have run out of reasons to stay on android.

All this to say: I get you, I hear you, and I'm here with you. You're not alone.

Edit. Clarification

Mishandling an OOM killer event is generally speaking developer error.

Agree about Disclosure Day – what a letdown.

Disagree about Android, but that does suck.

I feel like this might be the wrong community for this

I have 12GB of RAM in my phone (in comparison to 4GB in my mini PC (good enough for XFCE (although the browser will still eat a good chunk))), the only thing that runs realiably is Termux.

But the power management is just shit. My last 2 phones kill the fucking built-in alarm clock. I can set it to unrestricted in settings, I can enable exception in DuraSpeed, or do whatever many steps the current device needs, but at best it's a coin flip whether alarm will work or not.

I've got 16GB of RAM in mine and it'll still kill my podcast/music/audiobook app that's actively playing content ... I've never had it kill my mBin app though (Interstellar), so, I guess that's nice.

It annoys me that Voyager is smart enough to save my comment text, but not smart enough to save the post URL so it can open back up to the same place.

In the version I have (on my Samsung A37) I can exempt certain apps from power management. So that's nice.

I still have some complaints about it, but that particular issue has an answer at least.

I’ve got 4 GB of RAM and multiple CPU cores. That should be enough to run a dozen apps in parallel.

In which world is 4GB enough to multitask a web browser under any OS?

Honestly, the state of mobile OSs is quite sad. Everything is locked down, it's a duopoly of shit and shittier, and the Linux alternative just isn't daily driver worthy for the vast majority of users. And that's not because the development isn't going well - it's because phones have so much more proprietary shit that needs drivers, and that's if you can even unlock the bootloader in the first place, otherwise you're SOL.

Funny, I switched to Android because iOS was doing shit like this.

I don't love Android either and would be much happier back on iOS but with everything happening in tech I'll use Graphene until the seas look a bit smoother

Yes it's a very stupid memory management meant to improve battery life by killing any app thats been running at all...

Very frustrating and idiot.

Try play any game nowadays.... The instant you switch away bam, killed.

It's baked into android. AOSP I mean, any and all android flavours.

Disabling optimization for battery doesn't help with any bigger app.