[Liftyee]

It's a pervasive Chinese phone problem. I've used many and they all have "Battery saving" features on by default, which means killing background apps after a while apparently. Battery life is great, but newly installed apps sometimes don't work as they should.

The market demands must be different there. I've disabled "battery optimisation" for all the apps I need to stay open (and some apps even prompt me to disable it!), and I don't have any issues in daily use.

[flakiness]

That kind of aggressive process termination will be becoming less common since Android introduced freezer [1] optimization to put a background process to a completely unscheduled state.

[1] https://source.android.com/docs/core/perf/cached-apps-freeze...

[Markoff]

Chinese apps are less optimized than western

if you run out of smartphone battery you are in much bigger trouble in China than in west since it's necessary to function almost everywhere, which is why they have rental powerbanks stand literally in every restaurant and every small grocery shop, you are never further than like 5 minutes walk from one in urban area

btw you can always put app to protected/not optimized list which usually solve problems with most of the western apps on Chinese phones (essential Chinese apps like WeChat are on the list by default)

[kevin_thibedeau]

> some apps even prompt me to disable it!

That's social engineering to get themselves more background network activity. I wouldn't trust such an app.

[Markoff]

well health tracker which stops tracking when it's battery optimized isn't very useful, is it?