DON’T KILL MY APP! Don’t kill my app! | Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Don’t kill apps, make them work! Android manufacturers listed below prefer battery life over proper functionality of your apps. See below on how you can fix it, or Read more. NEWS: See how is your phone doing

with the

GENERAL | DON’T KILL MY APP! Android 6+. Always check the following setting: on older devices: Phone settings > Battery & power saving > Battery usage > Ignore optimizations > Turn on to ignore battery optimization for your app. on newer devices: Settings > Apps > Your app > Battery > Optimize battery usage > All (from the top) > Your app (toggle to disable). HUAWEI | DON’T KILL MY APP! App Launch on some EMUI 8, 9 and 10 devices (Huawei P20, Huawei P20 Lite, Huawei Mate 10) Phone settings > Battery > App launch and then set your app to “Manage manually” and make sure everything is turned on. 1. *Phone settings > Battery > App launch*. This feature may or may not be available for all devices or labeled differently. SAMSUNG | DON’T KILL MY APP! Sleeping apps menu is the sniper’s nest for Samsung’s app killing policies. Make sure to follow the instructions very carefully to prevent the apps from being killed. Checklist: List of apps in System settings > Device care > Battery > (⁝) menu > Settings : Disable Put XIAOMI | DON’T KILL MY APP! Story. Traditionally, Xiaomi and their Android customization called MIUI belongs in the most troubled group on the market with respect to non-standard background process limitations and non-standard permissions. There are no APIs and no documentation for those extensions. In default settings, background processing simply does not work right and apps using them will break. NOKIA | DON’T KILL MY APP! Most Nokia phones (Power saver AKA com.evenwell.powersaving.g3) To fix this issue, please do the following: Go to Phone settings > Apps > See all apps. Tap on the right top corner menu > Show system. Find Power saver app in the list, select it and Force close. REALME | DON’T KILL MY APP! Power saving mode - reduces screen brightness, changes auto screen-off time to 15s and disables background sync. Can be set to launch automatically at a set battery level. It may terminate background processes. Super power sawing mode - extra saving option, allows you to have at most 6 apps to use. It will disrupt background processes. SONY | DON’T KILL MY APP! Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Story. Sony gets a high bar in our listing of toxic Android vendors, as historically Sony introduced the first very effective non-standard background process optimization and opened Pandora’s box. ONEPLUS | DON’T KILL MY APP! Battery optimization. Turn off System Settings > Apps > Gear Icon > Special Access > Battery Optimization. WARNING: Recently OnePlus phones started reverting this setting randomly for random apps. So if you set it to be not optimized, the next day it may be back to optimized. To avoid the system to automatically revert the not optimized setting, you must also lock the app into the ‘Recent VIVO | DON’T KILL MY APP! Autostart. Based on the information by Vivo, this option should be present on all Vivo phones. Newer OS version: Settings > More settings > Applications > Autostart to turn on/off the app switch. For Funtouch OS 2.6 and lower version: i Manager > App manager > Autostart manager

to

DON’T KILL MY APP! Don’t kill my app! | Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Don’t kill apps, make them work! Android manufacturers listed below prefer battery life over proper functionality of your apps. See below on how you can fix it, or Read more. NEWS: See how is your phone doing

with the

GENERAL | DON’T KILL MY APP! Android 6+. Always check the following setting: on older devices: Phone settings > Battery & power saving > Battery usage > Ignore optimizations > Turn on to ignore battery optimization for your app. on newer devices: Settings > Apps > Your app > Battery > Optimize battery usage > All (from the top) > Your app (toggle to disable). HUAWEI | DON’T KILL MY APP! App Launch on some EMUI 8, 9 and 10 devices (Huawei P20, Huawei P20 Lite, Huawei Mate 10) Phone settings > Battery > App launch and then set your app to “Manage manually” and make sure everything is turned on. 1. *Phone settings > Battery > App launch*. This feature may or may not be available for all devices or labeled differently. SAMSUNG | DON’T KILL MY APP! Sleeping apps menu is the sniper’s nest for Samsung’s app killing policies. Make sure to follow the instructions very carefully to prevent the apps from being killed. Checklist: List of apps in System settings > Device care > Battery > (⁝) menu > Settings : Disable Put XIAOMI | DON’T KILL MY APP! Story. Traditionally, Xiaomi and their Android customization called MIUI belongs in the most troubled group on the market with respect to non-standard background process limitations and non-standard permissions. There are no APIs and no documentation for those extensions. In default settings, background processing simply does not work right and apps using them will break. NOKIA | DON’T KILL MY APP! Most Nokia phones (Power saver AKA com.evenwell.powersaving.g3) To fix this issue, please do the following: Go to Phone settings > Apps > See all apps. Tap on the right top corner menu > Show system. Find Power saver app in the list, select it and Force close. REALME | DON’T KILL MY APP! Power saving mode - reduces screen brightness, changes auto screen-off time to 15s and disables background sync. Can be set to launch automatically at a set battery level. It may terminate background processes. Super power sawing mode - extra saving option, allows you to have at most 6 apps to use. It will disrupt background processes. SONY | DON’T KILL MY APP! Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Story. Sony gets a high bar in our listing of toxic Android vendors, as historically Sony introduced the first very effective non-standard background process optimization and opened Pandora’s box. ONEPLUS | DON’T KILL MY APP! Battery optimization. Turn off System Settings > Apps > Gear Icon > Special Access > Battery Optimization. WARNING: Recently OnePlus phones started reverting this setting randomly for random apps. So if you set it to be not optimized, the next day it may be back to optimized. To avoid the system to automatically revert the not optimized setting, you must also lock the app into the ‘Recent VIVO | DON’T KILL MY APP! Autostart. Based on the information by Vivo, this option should be present on all Vivo phones. Newer OS version: Settings > More settings > Applications > Autostart to turn on/off the app switch. For Funtouch OS 2.6 and lower version: i Manager > App manager > Autostart manager

to

ASUS | DON’T KILL MY APP! Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Story. On Asus devices there is an optimization app called Power Master pre-installed with some modifications made by default, e.g. blocking apps from starting and killing background tasks when your screen turns off.. However, if you know how, you can easily disable these.

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Pie and pre-Pie. If you see background processing issues, overall it is a good idea to make your app not battery optimized to ensure it gets the freedom it needs to perform in the background. For that: Go to Settings > Apps > Your app > Advanced > Battery > Battery optimization. Change view to All apps. BLACKVIEW | DON’T KILL MY APP! Lock in Recent apps. This point is not confirmed to be helpful, but it was suggested by the technical support and also in some internet discussions. 1. Go to Overview (Recent apps menu) -> tap the Screwdriver and Wrench icon. 2. Lock your app in the White List. REALME | DON’T KILL MY APP! Power saving options. Power saving mode - reduces screen brightness, changes auto screen-off time to 15s and disables background sync. Can be set to launch automatically at a set battery level. It may terminate background processes. Super power sawing mode - extra saving option, allows you to have at most 6 apps to use. It will disrupt background processes. SONY | DON’T KILL MY APP! Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Story. Sony gets a high bar in our listing of toxic Android vendors, as historically Sony introduced the first very effective non-standard background process optimization and opened Pandora’s box. PRESS | DON’T KILL MY APP! Urbandroid talking about Don’t kill my app at Droidcon Italy 2020. If playback doesn't begin shortly, try restarting your device. Videos you watch may be added to the TV's watch history and influence TV recommendations. To avoid this, cancel and sign in to YouTube on your

computer.

VIVO | DON’T KILL MY APP! Autostart. Based on the information by Vivo, this option should be present on all Vivo phones. Newer OS version: Settings > More settings > Applications > Autostart to turn on/off the app switch. For Funtouch OS 2.6 and lower version: i Manager > App manager > Autostart manager

to

HTC | DON’T KILL MY APP! If there are apps that you don’t want battery optimization enabled, you can turn the feature off in those apps. Open up Phone Settings.; Tap Power.; Tap Battery optimization.; Tap Not optimized > All apps to see the complete list of apps.; To turn off battery optimization in an app, tap the app name, and then tap Don’t optimize > Done.Repeat this process to turn off optimization in other apps. LENOVO | DON’T KILL MY APP! Lenovo P2. Lenovo P2 has a very good battery life, but at a cost. For an app to work in the background: Enable the padlock icon at an app in the right top corner in the overview of running apps. It’s only then actually running as a foreground process. OPPO | DON’T KILL MY APP! 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: Pin your app to the recent apps screen. Enable your app in the app list inside the security app’s “startup manager” and “floating app list”

(com.coloros

DON’T KILL MY APP! Don’t kill my app! | Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Don’t kill apps, make them work! Android manufacturers listed below prefer battery life over proper functionality of your apps. See below on how you can fix it, or Read more. NEWS: See how is your phone doing

with the

GENERAL | DON’T KILL MY APP! Android 6+. Always check the following setting: on older devices: Phone settings > Battery & power saving > Battery usage > Ignore optimizations > Turn on to ignore battery optimization for your app. on newer devices: Settings > Apps > Your app > Battery > Optimize battery usage > All (from the top) > Your app (toggle to disable). HUAWEI | DON’T KILL MY APP!ANDROID APP POWER USAGEANDROID POWER BUTTON APPANDROID POWER MANAGEMENTANDROID POWER MANAGEMENT SETTINGS App Launch on some EMUI 8, 9 and 10 devices (Huawei P20, Huawei P20 Lite, Huawei Mate 10) Phone settings > Battery > App launch and then set your app to “Manage manually” and make sure everything is turned on. 1. *Phone settings > Battery > App launch*. This feature may or may not be available for all devices or labeled differently. SAMSUNG | DON’T KILL MY APP! Sleeping apps menu is the sniper’s nest for Samsung’s app killing policies. Make sure to follow the instructions very carefully to prevent the apps from being killed. Checklist: List of apps in System settings > Device care > Battery > (⁝) menu > Settings : Disable Put XIAOMI | DON’T KILL MY APP! Story. Traditionally, Xiaomi and their Android customization called MIUI belongs in the most troubled group on the market with respect to non-standard background process limitations and non-standard permissions. There are no APIs and no documentation for those extensions. In default settings, background processing simply does not work right and apps using them will break. ASUS | DON’T KILL MY APP! Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Story. On Asus devices there is an optimization app called Power Master pre-installed with some modifications made by default, e.g. blocking apps from starting and killing background tasks when your screen turns off.. However, if you know how, you can easily disable these. NOKIA | DON’T KILL MY APP! Most Nokia phones (Power saver AKA com.evenwell.powersaving.g3) To fix this issue, please do the following: Go to Phone settings > Apps > See all apps. Tap on the right top corner menu > Show system. Find Power saver app in the list, select it and Force close. ONEPLUS | DON’T KILL MY APP! Battery optimization. Turn off System Settings > Apps > Gear Icon > Special Access > Battery Optimization. WARNING: Recently OnePlus phones started reverting this setting randomly for random apps. So if you set it to be not optimized, the next day it may be back to optimized. To avoid the system to automatically revert the not optimized setting, you must also lock the app into the ‘Recent SONY | DON’T KILL MY APP! Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Story. Sony gets a high bar in our listing of toxic Android vendors, as historically Sony introduced the first very effective non-standard background process optimization and opened Pandora’s box. MEIZU | DON’T KILL MY APP! Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Story. 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

pain to

DON’T KILL MY APP! Don’t kill my app! | Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Don’t kill apps, make them work! Android manufacturers listed below prefer battery life over proper functionality of your apps. See below on how you can fix it, or Read more. NEWS: See how is your phone doing

with the

GENERAL | DON’T KILL MY APP! Android 6+. Always check the following setting: on older devices: Phone settings > Battery & power saving > Battery usage > Ignore optimizations > Turn on to ignore battery optimization for your app. on newer devices: Settings > Apps > Your app > Battery > Optimize battery usage > All (from the top) > Your app (toggle to disable). HUAWEI | DON’T KILL MY APP!ANDROID APP POWER USAGEANDROID POWER BUTTON APPANDROID POWER MANAGEMENTANDROID POWER MANAGEMENT SETTINGS App Launch on some EMUI 8, 9 and 10 devices (Huawei P20, Huawei P20 Lite, Huawei Mate 10) Phone settings > Battery > App launch and then set your app to “Manage manually” and make sure everything is turned on. 1. *Phone settings > Battery > App launch*. This feature may or may not be available for all devices or labeled differently. SAMSUNG | DON’T KILL MY APP! Sleeping apps menu is the sniper’s nest for Samsung’s app killing policies. Make sure to follow the instructions very carefully to prevent the apps from being killed. Checklist: List of apps in System settings > Device care > Battery > (⁝) menu > Settings : Disable Put XIAOMI | DON’T KILL MY APP! Story. Traditionally, Xiaomi and their Android customization called MIUI belongs in the most troubled group on the market with respect to non-standard background process limitations and non-standard permissions. There are no APIs and no documentation for those extensions. In default settings, background processing simply does not work right and apps using them will break. ASUS | DON’T KILL MY APP! Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Story. On Asus devices there is an optimization app called Power Master pre-installed with some modifications made by default, e.g. blocking apps from starting and killing background tasks when your screen turns off.. However, if you know how, you can easily disable these. NOKIA | DON’T KILL MY APP! Most Nokia phones (Power saver AKA com.evenwell.powersaving.g3) To fix this issue, please do the following: Go to Phone settings > Apps > See all apps. Tap on the right top corner menu > Show system. Find Power saver app in the list, select it and Force close. ONEPLUS | DON’T KILL MY APP! Battery optimization. Turn off System Settings > Apps > Gear Icon > Special Access > Battery Optimization. WARNING: Recently OnePlus phones started reverting this setting randomly for random apps. So if you set it to be not optimized, the next day it may be back to optimized. To avoid the system to automatically revert the not optimized setting, you must also lock the app into the ‘Recent SONY | DON’T KILL MY APP! Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Story. Sony gets a high bar in our listing of toxic Android vendors, as historically Sony introduced the first very effective non-standard background process optimization and opened Pandora’s box. MEIZU | DON’T KILL MY APP! Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Story. 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

pain to

ASUS | DON’T KILL MY APP! Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Story. On Asus devices there is an optimization app called Power Master pre-installed with some modifications made by default, e.g. blocking apps from starting and killing background tasks when your screen turns off.. However, if you know how, you can easily disable these. BLACKVIEW | DON’T KILL MY APP! Lock in Recent apps. This point is not confirmed to be helpful, but it was suggested by the technical support and also in some internet discussions. 1. Go to Overview (Recent apps menu) -> tap the Screwdriver and Wrench icon. 2. Lock your app in the White List.

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Pie and pre-Pie. If you see background processing issues, overall it is a good idea to make your app not battery optimized to ensure it gets the freedom it needs to perform in the background. For that: Go to Settings > Apps > Your app > Advanced > Battery > Battery optimization. Change view to All apps. PRESS | DON’T KILL MY APP! Urbandroid talking about Don’t kill my app at Droidcon Italy 2020. If playback doesn't begin shortly, try restarting your device. Videos you watch may be added to the TV's watch history and influence TV recommendations. To avoid this, cancel and sign in to YouTube on your

computer.

REALME | DON’T KILL MY APP! Power saving mode - reduces screen brightness, changes auto screen-off time to 15s and disables background sync. Can be set to launch automatically at a set battery level. It may terminate background processes. Super power sawing mode - extra saving option, allows you to have at most 6 apps to use. It will disrupt background processes.

OUR MISSION

Our mission. Smartphones are getting more and more powerful, but the battery capacity is lagging behind. Vendors are always trying to squeeze some battery saving features into the firmware with each new Android release. But some go so far that they break LENOVO | DON’T KILL MY APP! Lenovo P2. Lenovo P2 has a very good battery life, but at a cost. For an app to work in the background: Enable the padlock icon at an app in the right top corner in the overview of running apps. It’s only then actually running as a foreground process. HTC | DON’T KILL MY APP! If there are apps that you don’t want battery optimization enabled, you can turn the feature off in those apps. Open up Phone Settings.; Tap Power.; Tap Battery optimization.; Tap Not optimized > All apps to see the complete list of apps.; To turn off battery optimization in an app, tap the app name, and then tap Don’t optimize > Done.Repeat this process to turn off optimization in other apps. VIVO | DON’T KILL MY APP! Autostart. Based on the information by Vivo, this option should be present on all Vivo phones. Newer OS version: Settings > More settings > Applications > Autostart to turn on/off the app switch. For Funtouch OS 2.6 and lower version: i Manager > App manager > Autostart manager

to

OPPO | DON’T KILL MY APP! 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: Pin your app to the recent apps screen. Enable your app in the app list inside the security app’s “startup manager” and “floating app list”

(com.coloros

DON’T KILL MY APP! Don’t kill my app! | Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Don’t kill apps, make them work! Android manufacturers listed below prefer battery life over proper functionality of your apps. See below on how you can fix it, or Read more. NEWS: See how is your phone doing

with the

GENERAL | DON’T KILL MY APP! Android 6+. Always check the following setting: on older devices: Phone settings > Battery & power saving > Battery usage > Ignore optimizations > Turn on to ignore battery optimization for your app. on newer devices: Settings > Apps > Your app > Battery > Optimize battery usage > All (from the top) > Your app (toggle to disable). HUAWEI | DON’T KILL MY APP!ANDROID APP POWER USAGEANDROID POWER BUTTON APPANDROID POWER MANAGEMENTANDROID POWER MANAGEMENT SETTINGS App Launch on some EMUI 8, 9 and 10 devices (Huawei P20, Huawei P20 Lite, Huawei Mate 10) Phone settings > Battery > App launch and then set your app to “Manage manually” and make sure everything is turned on. 1. *Phone settings > Battery > App launch*. This feature may or may not be available for all devices or labeled differently. SAMSUNG | DON’T KILL MY APP! Sleeping apps menu is the sniper’s nest for Samsung’s app killing policies. Make sure to follow the instructions very carefully to prevent the apps from being killed. Checklist: List of apps in System settings > Device care > Battery > (⁝) menu > Settings : Disable Put XIAOMI | DON’T KILL MY APP! Story. Traditionally, Xiaomi and their Android customization called MIUI belongs in the most troubled group on the market with respect to non-standard background process limitations and non-standard permissions. There are no APIs and no documentation for those extensions. In default settings, background processing simply does not work right and apps using them will break. ASUS | DON’T KILL MY APP! Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Story. On Asus devices there is an optimization app called Power Master pre-installed with some modifications made by default, e.g. blocking apps from starting and killing background tasks when your screen turns off.. However, if you know how, you can easily disable these. NOKIA | DON’T KILL MY APP! Most Nokia phones (Power saver AKA com.evenwell.powersaving.g3) To fix this issue, please do the following: Go to Phone settings > Apps > See all apps. Tap on the right top corner menu > Show system. Find Power saver app in the list, select it and Force close. ONEPLUS | DON’T KILL MY APP! Battery optimization. Turn off System Settings > Apps > Gear Icon > Special Access > Battery Optimization. WARNING: Recently OnePlus phones started reverting this setting randomly for random apps. So if you set it to be not optimized, the next day it may be back to optimized. To avoid the system to automatically revert the not optimized setting, you must also lock the app into the ‘Recent SONY | DON’T KILL MY APP! Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Story. Sony gets a high bar in our listing of toxic Android vendors, as historically Sony introduced the first very effective non-standard background process optimization and opened Pandora’s box. MEIZU | DON’T KILL MY APP! Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Story. 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

pain to

DON’T KILL MY APP! Don’t kill my app! | Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Don’t kill apps, make them work! Android manufacturers listed below prefer battery life over proper functionality of your apps. See below on how you can fix it, or Read more. NEWS: See how is your phone doing

with the

GENERAL | DON’T KILL MY APP! Android 6+. Always check the following setting: on older devices: Phone settings > Battery & power saving > Battery usage > Ignore optimizations > Turn on to ignore battery optimization for your app. on newer devices: Settings > Apps > Your app > Battery > Optimize battery usage > All (from the top) > Your app (toggle to disable). HUAWEI | DON’T KILL MY APP!ANDROID APP POWER USAGEANDROID POWER BUTTON APPANDROID POWER MANAGEMENTANDROID POWER MANAGEMENT SETTINGS App Launch on some EMUI 8, 9 and 10 devices (Huawei P20, Huawei P20 Lite, Huawei Mate 10) Phone settings > Battery > App launch and then set your app to “Manage manually” and make sure everything is turned on. 1. *Phone settings > Battery > App launch*. This feature may or may not be available for all devices or labeled differently. SAMSUNG | DON’T KILL MY APP! Sleeping apps menu is the sniper’s nest for Samsung’s app killing policies. Make sure to follow the instructions very carefully to prevent the apps from being killed. Checklist: List of apps in System settings > Device care > Battery > (⁝) menu > Settings : Disable Put XIAOMI | DON’T KILL MY APP! Story. Traditionally, Xiaomi and their Android customization called MIUI belongs in the most troubled group on the market with respect to non-standard background process limitations and non-standard permissions. There are no APIs and no documentation for those extensions. In default settings, background processing simply does not work right and apps using them will break. ASUS | DON’T KILL MY APP! Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Story. On Asus devices there is an optimization app called Power Master pre-installed with some modifications made by default, e.g. blocking apps from starting and killing background tasks when your screen turns off.. However, if you know how, you can easily disable these. NOKIA | DON’T KILL MY APP! Most Nokia phones (Power saver AKA com.evenwell.powersaving.g3) To fix this issue, please do the following: Go to Phone settings > Apps > See all apps. Tap on the right top corner menu > Show system. Find Power saver app in the list, select it and Force close. ONEPLUS | DON’T KILL MY APP! Battery optimization. Turn off System Settings > Apps > Gear Icon > Special Access > Battery Optimization. WARNING: Recently OnePlus phones started reverting this setting randomly for random apps. So if you set it to be not optimized, the next day it may be back to optimized. To avoid the system to automatically revert the not optimized setting, you must also lock the app into the ‘Recent SONY | DON’T KILL MY APP! Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Story. Sony gets a high bar in our listing of toxic Android vendors, as historically Sony introduced the first very effective non-standard background process optimization and opened Pandora’s box. MEIZU | DON’T KILL MY APP! Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Story. 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

pain to

ASUS | DON’T KILL MY APP! Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Story. On Asus devices there is an optimization app called Power Master pre-installed with some modifications made by default, e.g. blocking apps from starting and killing background tasks when your screen turns off.. However, if you know how, you can easily disable these. BLACKVIEW | DON’T KILL MY APP! Lock in Recent apps. This point is not confirmed to be helpful, but it was suggested by the technical support and also in some internet discussions. 1. Go to Overview (Recent apps menu) -> tap the Screwdriver and Wrench icon. 2. Lock your app in the White List.

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Pie and pre-Pie. If you see background processing issues, overall it is a good idea to make your app not battery optimized to ensure it gets the freedom it needs to perform in the background. For that: Go to Settings > Apps > Your app > Advanced > Battery > Battery optimization. Change view to All apps. PRESS | DON’T KILL MY APP! Urbandroid talking about Don’t kill my app at Droidcon Italy 2020. If playback doesn't begin shortly, try restarting your device. Videos you watch may be added to the TV's watch history and influence TV recommendations. To avoid this, cancel and sign in to YouTube on your

computer.

REALME | DON’T KILL MY APP! Power saving mode - reduces screen brightness, changes auto screen-off time to 15s and disables background sync. Can be set to launch automatically at a set battery level. It may terminate background processes. Super power sawing mode - extra saving option, allows you to have at most 6 apps to use. It will disrupt background processes.

OUR MISSION

Our mission. Smartphones are getting more and more powerful, but the battery capacity is lagging behind. Vendors are always trying to squeeze some battery saving features into the firmware with each new Android release. But some go so far that they break LENOVO | DON’T KILL MY APP! Lenovo P2. Lenovo P2 has a very good battery life, but at a cost. For an app to work in the background: Enable the padlock icon at an app in the right top corner in the overview of running apps. It’s only then actually running as a foreground process. HTC | DON’T KILL MY APP! If there are apps that you don’t want battery optimization enabled, you can turn the feature off in those apps. Open up Phone Settings.; Tap Power.; Tap Battery optimization.; Tap Not optimized > All apps to see the complete list of apps.; To turn off battery optimization in an app, tap the app name, and then tap Don’t optimize > Done.Repeat this process to turn off optimization in other apps. VIVO | DON’T KILL MY APP! Autostart. Based on the information by Vivo, this option should be present on all Vivo phones. Newer OS version: Settings > More settings > Applications > Autostart to turn on/off the app switch. For Funtouch OS 2.6 and lower version: i Manager > App manager > Autostart manager

to

OPPO | DON’T KILL MY APP! 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: Pin your app to the recent apps screen. Enable your app in the app list inside the security app’s “startup manager” and “floating app list”

(com.coloros

DON’T KILL MY APP! Don’t kill my app! | Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Don’t kill apps, make them work! Android manufacturers listed below prefer battery life over proper functionality of your apps. See below on how you can fix it, or Read more. NEWS: See how is your phone doing

with the

GENERAL | DON’T KILL MY APP! Android 6+. Always check the following setting: on older devices: Phone settings > Battery & power saving > Battery usage > Ignore optimizations > Turn on to ignore battery optimization for your app. on newer devices: Settings > Apps > Your app > Battery > Optimize battery usage > All (from the top) > Your app (toggle to disable). HUAWEI | DON’T KILL MY APP!ANDROID APP POWER USAGEANDROID POWER BUTTON APPANDROID POWER MANAGEMENTANDROID POWER MANAGEMENT SETTINGS App Launch on some EMUI 8, 9 and 10 devices (Huawei P20, Huawei P20 Lite, Huawei Mate 10) Phone settings > Battery > App launch and then set your app to “Manage manually” and make sure everything is turned on. 1. *Phone settings > Battery > App launch*. This feature may or may not be available for all devices or labeled differently. SAMSUNG | DON’T KILL MY APP! Sleeping apps menu is the sniper’s nest for Samsung’s app killing policies. Make sure to follow the instructions very carefully to prevent the apps from being killed. Checklist: List of apps in System settings > Device care > Battery > (⁝) menu > Settings : Disable Put XIAOMI | DON’T KILL MY APP! Story. Traditionally, Xiaomi and their Android customization called MIUI belongs in the most troubled group on the market with respect to non-standard background process limitations and non-standard permissions. There are no APIs and no documentation for those extensions. In default settings, background processing simply does not work right and apps using them will break. ASUS | DON’T KILL MY APP! Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Story. On Asus devices there is an optimization app called Power Master pre-installed with some modifications made by default, e.g. blocking apps from starting and killing background tasks when your screen turns off.. However, if you know how, you can easily disable these. NOKIA | DON’T KILL MY APP! Most Nokia phones (Power saver AKA com.evenwell.powersaving.g3) To fix this issue, please do the following: Go to Phone settings > Apps > See all apps. Tap on the right top corner menu > Show system. Find Power saver app in the list, select it and Force close. ONEPLUS | DON’T KILL MY APP! Battery optimization. Turn off System Settings > Apps > Gear Icon > Special Access > Battery Optimization. WARNING: Recently OnePlus phones started reverting this setting randomly for random apps. So if you set it to be not optimized, the next day it may be back to optimized. To avoid the system to automatically revert the not optimized setting, you must also lock the app into the ‘Recent SONY | DON’T KILL MY APP! Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Story. Sony gets a high bar in our listing of toxic Android vendors, as historically Sony introduced the first very effective non-standard background process optimization and opened Pandora’s box. MEIZU | DON’T KILL MY APP! Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Story. 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

pain to

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GENERAL | DON’T KILL MY APP! Android 6+. Always check the following setting: on older devices: Phone settings > Battery & power saving > Battery usage > Ignore optimizations > Turn on to ignore battery optimization for your app. on newer devices: Settings > Apps > Your app > Battery > Optimize battery usage > All (from the top) > Your app (toggle to disable). HUAWEI | DON’T KILL MY APP!ANDROID APP POWER USAGEANDROID POWER BUTTON APPANDROID POWER MANAGEMENTANDROID POWER MANAGEMENT SETTINGS App Launch on some EMUI 8, 9 and 10 devices (Huawei P20, Huawei P20 Lite, Huawei Mate 10) Phone settings > Battery > App launch and then set your app to “Manage manually” and make sure everything is turned on. 1. *Phone settings > Battery > App launch*. This feature may or may not be available for all devices or labeled differently. SAMSUNG | DON’T KILL MY APP! Sleeping apps menu is the sniper’s nest for Samsung’s app killing policies. Make sure to follow the instructions very carefully to prevent the apps from being killed. Checklist: List of apps in System settings > Device care > Battery > (⁝) menu > Settings : Disable Put XIAOMI | DON’T KILL MY APP! Story. Traditionally, Xiaomi and their Android customization called MIUI belongs in the most troubled group on the market with respect to non-standard background process limitations and non-standard permissions. There are no APIs and no documentation for those extensions. In default settings, background processing simply does not work right and apps using them will break. ASUS | DON’T KILL MY APP! Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Story. On Asus devices there is an optimization app called Power Master pre-installed with some modifications made by default, e.g. blocking apps from starting and killing background tasks when your screen turns off.. However, if you know how, you can easily disable these. NOKIA | DON’T KILL MY APP! Most Nokia phones (Power saver AKA com.evenwell.powersaving.g3) To fix this issue, please do the following: Go to Phone settings > Apps > See all apps. Tap on the right top corner menu > Show system. Find Power saver app in the list, select it and Force close. ONEPLUS | DON’T KILL MY APP! Battery optimization. Turn off System Settings > Apps > Gear Icon > Special Access > Battery Optimization. WARNING: Recently OnePlus phones started reverting this setting randomly for random apps. So if you set it to be not optimized, the next day it may be back to optimized. To avoid the system to automatically revert the not optimized setting, you must also lock the app into the ‘Recent SONY | DON’T KILL MY APP! Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Story. Sony gets a high bar in our listing of toxic Android vendors, as historically Sony introduced the first very effective non-standard background process optimization and opened Pandora’s box. MEIZU | DON’T KILL MY APP! Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Story. 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

pain to

ASUS | DON’T KILL MY APP! Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Story. On Asus devices there is an optimization app called Power Master pre-installed with some modifications made by default, e.g. blocking apps from starting and killing background tasks when your screen turns off.. However, if you know how, you can easily disable these. BLACKVIEW | DON’T KILL MY APP! Lock in Recent apps. This point is not confirmed to be helpful, but it was suggested by the technical support and also in some internet discussions. 1. Go to Overview (Recent apps menu) -> tap the Screwdriver and Wrench icon. 2. Lock your app in the White List.

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Pie and pre-Pie. If you see background processing issues, overall it is a good idea to make your app not battery optimized to ensure it gets the freedom it needs to perform in the background. For that: Go to Settings > Apps > Your app > Advanced > Battery > Battery optimization. Change view to All apps. PRESS | DON’T KILL MY APP! Urbandroid talking about Don’t kill my app at Droidcon Italy 2020. If playback doesn't begin shortly, try restarting your device. Videos you watch may be added to the TV's watch history and influence TV recommendations. To avoid this, cancel and sign in to YouTube on your

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REALME | DON’T KILL MY APP! Power saving mode - reduces screen brightness, changes auto screen-off time to 15s and disables background sync. Can be set to launch automatically at a set battery level. It may terminate background processes. Super power sawing mode - extra saving option, allows you to have at most 6 apps to use. It will disrupt background processes.

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Our mission. Smartphones are getting more and more powerful, but the battery capacity is lagging behind. Vendors are always trying to squeeze some battery saving features into the firmware with each new Android release. But some go so far that they break LENOVO | DON’T KILL MY APP! Lenovo P2. Lenovo P2 has a very good battery life, but at a cost. For an app to work in the background: Enable the padlock icon at an app in the right top corner in the overview of running apps. It’s only then actually running as a foreground process. HTC | DON’T KILL MY APP! If there are apps that you don’t want battery optimization enabled, you can turn the feature off in those apps. Open up Phone Settings.; Tap Power.; Tap Battery optimization.; Tap Not optimized > All apps to see the complete list of apps.; To turn off battery optimization in an app, tap the app name, and then tap Don’t optimize > Done.Repeat this process to turn off optimization in other apps. VIVO | DON’T KILL MY APP! Autostart. Based on the information by Vivo, this option should be present on all Vivo phones. Newer OS version: Settings > More settings > Applications > Autostart to turn on/off the app switch. For Funtouch OS 2.6 and lower version: i Manager > App manager > Autostart manager

to

OPPO | DON’T KILL MY APP! 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: Pin your app to the recent apps screen. Enable your app in the app list inside the security app’s “startup manager” and “floating app list”

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DON’T KILL MY APP! Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Don’t kill apps, make them work! Android manufacturers listed below prefer battery life over proper functionality of your apps. GENERAL | DON’T KILL MY APP! Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Story. Whatever device you are using, don’t blame the developers as the first thing when something goes wrong. HUAWEI | DON’T KILL MY APP!ANDROID APP POWER USAGEANDROID POWER BUTTON APPANDROID POWER MANAGEMENTANDROID POWER MANAGEMENT SETTINGS UPDATE: On some phones with EMUI 9+ (Android P+) Huawei introduced a new task killer app called PowerGenie which kills everything not whitelisted by Huawei and does not give users any configuration options.See below how to uninstall it. We have mixed reviews on Huawei - the PowerGenie app is present on some EMUI 9+ systems, while on

others it isn't.

SAMSUNG | DON’T KILL MY APP! Galaxy S9. Battery optimizations are turned on by default.It is possible the disabled restrictions might get revert after OS update or reboot. Checklist: Disable Put unused apps to sleep; Remove your app from the list of Sleeping apps - list of apps not allowed to run on the background; Remove your app from the list of Deep sleeping apps - list of apps that can only work when you open them NOKIA | DON’T KILL MY APP! Most Nokia phones (Power saver AKA com.evenwell.powersaving.g3) To fix this issue, please do the following: Go to Phone settings > Apps > See all apps.; Tap on the right top corner menu > Show system.; Find Power saver app in the list, select it and Force close.It will XIAOMI | DON’T KILL MY APP! Story. Traditionally, Xiaomi and their Android customization called MIUI belongs in the most troubled group on the market with respect to non-standard background process limitations and non-standard permissions. There are no APIs and no documentation for those extensions. In default settings, background processing simply does not work right and apps using them will break. ASUS | DON’T KILL MY APP! Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Story. On Asus devices there is an optimization app called Power Master pre-installed with some modifications made by default, e.g. blocking apps from starting and killing background tasks when your screen turns off.. However, if you know how, you can easily disable these. ONEPLUS | DON’T KILL MY APP! Battery optimization. Turn off System Settings > Apps > Gear Icon > Special Access > Battery Optimization. WARNING: Recently OnePlus phones started reverting this setting randomly for random apps. So if you set it to be not optimized, the next day it may be back to optimized. To avoid the system to automatically revert the not optimized setting, you must also lock the app into the ‘Recent SONY | DON’T KILL MY APP! Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Story. Sony gets a high bar in our listing of toxic Android vendors, as historically Sony introduced the first very effective non-standard background process optimization and opened Pandora’s box. MEIZU | DON’T KILL MY APP! Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Story. 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

pain to

DON’T KILL MY APP! Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Don’t kill apps, make them work! Android manufacturers listed below prefer battery life over proper functionality of your apps. GENERAL | DON’T KILL MY APP! Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Story. Whatever device you are using, don’t blame the developers as the first thing when something goes wrong. HUAWEI | DON’T KILL MY APP!ANDROID APP POWER USAGEANDROID POWER BUTTON APPANDROID POWER MANAGEMENTANDROID POWER MANAGEMENT SETTINGS UPDATE: On some phones with EMUI 9+ (Android P+) Huawei introduced a new task killer app called PowerGenie which kills everything not whitelisted by Huawei and does not give users any configuration options.See below how to uninstall it. We have mixed reviews on Huawei - the PowerGenie app is present on some EMUI 9+ systems, while on

others it isn't.

SAMSUNG | DON’T KILL MY APP! Galaxy S9. Battery optimizations are turned on by default.It is possible the disabled restrictions might get revert after OS update or reboot. Checklist: Disable Put unused apps to sleep; Remove your app from the list of Sleeping apps - list of apps not allowed to run on the background; Remove your app from the list of Deep sleeping apps - list of apps that can only work when you open them NOKIA | DON’T KILL MY APP! Most Nokia phones (Power saver AKA com.evenwell.powersaving.g3) To fix this issue, please do the following: Go to Phone settings > Apps > See all apps.; Tap on the right top corner menu > Show system.; Find Power saver app in the list, select it and Force close.It will XIAOMI | DON’T KILL MY APP! Story. Traditionally, Xiaomi and their Android customization called MIUI belongs in the most troubled group on the market with respect to non-standard background process limitations and non-standard permissions. There are no APIs and no documentation for those extensions. In default settings, background processing simply does not work right and apps using them will break. ASUS | DON’T KILL MY APP! Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Story. On Asus devices there is an optimization app called Power Master pre-installed with some modifications made by default, e.g. blocking apps from starting and killing background tasks when your screen turns off.. However, if you know how, you can easily disable these. ONEPLUS | DON’T KILL MY APP! Battery optimization. Turn off System Settings > Apps > Gear Icon > Special Access > Battery Optimization. WARNING: Recently OnePlus phones started reverting this setting randomly for random apps. So if you set it to be not optimized, the next day it may be back to optimized. To avoid the system to automatically revert the not optimized setting, you must also lock the app into the ‘Recent SONY | DON’T KILL MY APP! Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Story. Sony gets a high bar in our listing of toxic Android vendors, as historically Sony introduced the first very effective non-standard background process optimization and opened Pandora’s box. MEIZU | DON’T KILL MY APP! Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Story. 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

pain to

ASUS | DON’T KILL MY APP! Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Story. On Asus devices there is an optimization app called Power Master pre-installed with some modifications made by default, e.g. blocking apps from starting and killing background tasks when your screen turns off.. However, if you know how, you can easily disable these.

OUR MISSION

Don’t kill apps, make them work! Android manufacturers listed below prefer battery life over proper functionality of your apps. See below on how you can fix it, or Read more NEWS: See how is your phone doing with the DontKillMyApp Benchmark app on Play Store. Watch DKMA maintainers from Urbandroid talk about DKMA SCORE | DON’T KILL MY APP! Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! We want to be maximally transparent about how we evaluate vendors and give them our negative

score.

REALME | DON’T KILL MY APP! Power saving options. Power saving mode - reduces screen brightness, changes auto screen-off time to 15s and disables background sync. Can be set to launch automatically at a set battery level. It may terminate background processes. Super power sawing mode - extra saving option, allows you to have at most 6 apps to use. It will disrupt background processes. PRESS | DON’T KILL MY APP! Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Urbandroid talking about Don’t kill my app at Droidcon Italy 2020 BLACKVIEW | DON’T KILL MY APP! Story. System restrictions on Blackview phones have not been fully discovered yet. If you have any additional information, please let us know. The guide we have is confirmed for BV6300Pro (Android 10). LENOVO | DON’T KILL MY APP! Lenovo P2. Lenovo P2 has a very good battery life, but at a cost. For an app to work in the background: Enable the padlock icon at an app in the right top corner in the overview of running apps. It’s only then actually running as a foreground process. HTC | DON’T KILL MY APP! If there are apps that you don’t want battery optimization enabled, you can turn the feature off in those apps. Open up Phone Settings.; Tap Power.; Tap Battery optimization.; Tap Not optimized > All apps to see the complete list of apps.; To turn off battery optimization in an app, tap the app name, and then tap Don’t optimize > Done.Repeat this process to turn off optimization in other apps.

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Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Story. On Pixels and Nexuses you have the least chance something goes wrong with background processing, but still there are several places to look at! VIVO | DON’T KILL MY APP! Autostart. Based on the information by Vivo, this option should be present on all Vivo phones. Newer OS version: Settings > More settings > Applications > Autostart to turn on/off the app switch. For Funtouch OS 2.6 and lower version: i Manager > App manager > Autostart manager

to

DON’T KILL MY APP! Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Don’t kill apps, make them work! Android manufacturers listed below prefer battery life over proper functionality of your apps. GENERAL | DON’T KILL MY APP! Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Story. Whatever device you are using, don’t blame the developers as the first thing when something goes wrong. HUAWEI | DON’T KILL MY APP!ANDROID APP POWER USAGEANDROID POWER BUTTON APPANDROID POWER MANAGEMENTANDROID POWER MANAGEMENT SETTINGS UPDATE: On some phones with EMUI 9+ (Android P+) Huawei introduced a new task killer app called PowerGenie which kills everything not whitelisted by Huawei and does not give users any configuration options.See below how to uninstall it. We have mixed reviews on Huawei - the PowerGenie app is present on some EMUI 9+ systems, while on

others it isn't.

SAMSUNG | DON’T KILL MY APP! Galaxy S9. Battery optimizations are turned on by default.It is possible the disabled restrictions might get revert after OS update or reboot. Checklist: Disable Put unused apps to sleep; Remove your app from the list of Sleeping apps - list of apps not allowed to run on the background; Remove your app from the list of Deep sleeping apps - list of apps that can only work when you open them XIAOMI | DON’T KILL MY APP! Story. Traditionally, Xiaomi and their Android customization called MIUI belongs in the most troubled group on the market with respect to non-standard background process limitations and non-standard permissions. There are no APIs and no documentation for those extensions. In default settings, background processing simply does not work right and apps using them will break. NOKIA | DON’T KILL MY APP! Most Nokia phones (Power saver AKA com.evenwell.powersaving.g3) To fix this issue, please do the following: Go to Phone settings > Apps > See all apps.; Tap on the right top corner menu > Show system.; Find Power saver app in the list, select it and Force close.It will ASUS | DON’T KILL MY APP! Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Story. On Asus devices there is an optimization app called Power Master pre-installed with some modifications made by default, e.g. blocking apps from starting and killing background tasks when your screen turns off.. However, if you know how, you can easily disable these. ONEPLUS | DON’T KILL MY APP! Battery optimization. Turn off System Settings > Apps > Gear Icon > Special Access > Battery Optimization. WARNING: Recently OnePlus phones started reverting this setting randomly for random apps. So if you set it to be not optimized, the next day it may be back to optimized. To avoid the system to automatically revert the not optimized setting, you must also lock the app into the ‘Recent SONY | DON’T KILL MY APP! Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Story. Sony gets a high bar in our listing of toxic Android vendors, as historically Sony introduced the first very effective non-standard background process optimization and opened Pandora’s box. MEIZU | DON’T KILL MY APP! Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Story. 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

pain to

DON’T KILL MY APP! Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Don’t kill apps, make them work! Android manufacturers listed below prefer battery life over proper functionality of your apps. GENERAL | DON’T KILL MY APP! Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Story. Whatever device you are using, don’t blame the developers as the first thing when something goes wrong. HUAWEI | DON’T KILL MY APP!ANDROID APP POWER USAGEANDROID POWER BUTTON APPANDROID POWER MANAGEMENTANDROID POWER MANAGEMENT SETTINGS UPDATE: On some phones with EMUI 9+ (Android P+) Huawei introduced a new task killer app called PowerGenie which kills everything not whitelisted by Huawei and does not give users any configuration options.See below how to uninstall it. We have mixed reviews on Huawei - the PowerGenie app is present on some EMUI 9+ systems, while on

others it isn't.

SAMSUNG | DON’T KILL MY APP! Galaxy S9. Battery optimizations are turned on by default.It is possible the disabled restrictions might get revert after OS update or reboot. Checklist: Disable Put unused apps to sleep; Remove your app from the list of Sleeping apps - list of apps not allowed to run on the background; Remove your app from the list of Deep sleeping apps - list of apps that can only work when you open them XIAOMI | DON’T KILL MY APP! Story. Traditionally, Xiaomi and their Android customization called MIUI belongs in the most troubled group on the market with respect to non-standard background process limitations and non-standard permissions. There are no APIs and no documentation for those extensions. In default settings, background processing simply does not work right and apps using them will break. NOKIA | DON’T KILL MY APP! Most Nokia phones (Power saver AKA com.evenwell.powersaving.g3) To fix this issue, please do the following: Go to Phone settings > Apps > See all apps.; Tap on the right top corner menu > Show system.; Find Power saver app in the list, select it and Force close.It will ASUS | DON’T KILL MY APP! Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Story. On Asus devices there is an optimization app called Power Master pre-installed with some modifications made by default, e.g. blocking apps from starting and killing background tasks when your screen turns off.. However, if you know how, you can easily disable these. ONEPLUS | DON’T KILL MY APP! Battery optimization. Turn off System Settings > Apps > Gear Icon > Special Access > Battery Optimization. WARNING: Recently OnePlus phones started reverting this setting randomly for random apps. So if you set it to be not optimized, the next day it may be back to optimized. To avoid the system to automatically revert the not optimized setting, you must also lock the app into the ‘Recent SONY | DON’T KILL MY APP! Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Story. Sony gets a high bar in our listing of toxic Android vendors, as historically Sony introduced the first very effective non-standard background process optimization and opened Pandora’s box. MEIZU | DON’T KILL MY APP! Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Story. 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

pain to

ASUS | DON’T KILL MY APP! Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Story. On Asus devices there is an optimization app called Power Master pre-installed with some modifications made by default, e.g. blocking apps from starting and killing background tasks when your screen turns off.. However, if you know how, you can easily disable these.

OUR MISSION

Don’t kill apps, make them work! Android manufacturers listed below prefer battery life over proper functionality of your apps. See below on how you can fix it, or Read more NEWS: See how is your phone doing with the DontKillMyApp Benchmark app on Play Store. Watch DKMA maintainers from Urbandroid talk about DKMA SCORE | DON’T KILL MY APP! Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! We want to be maximally transparent about how we evaluate vendors and give them our negative

score.

REALME | DON’T KILL MY APP! Power saving options. Power saving mode - reduces screen brightness, changes auto screen-off time to 15s and disables background sync. Can be set to launch automatically at a set battery level. It may terminate background processes. Super power sawing mode - extra saving option, allows you to have at most 6 apps to use. It will disrupt background processes. PRESS | DON’T KILL MY APP! Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Urbandroid talking about Don’t kill my app at Droidcon Italy 2020 BLACKVIEW | DON’T KILL MY APP! Story. System restrictions on Blackview phones have not been fully discovered yet. If you have any additional information, please let us know. The guide we have is confirmed for BV6300Pro (Android 10). LENOVO | DON’T KILL MY APP! Lenovo P2. Lenovo P2 has a very good battery life, but at a cost. For an app to work in the background: Enable the padlock icon at an app in the right top corner in the overview of running apps. It’s only then actually running as a foreground process. HTC | DON’T KILL MY APP! If there are apps that you don’t want battery optimization enabled, you can turn the feature off in those apps. Open up Phone Settings.; Tap Power.; Tap Battery optimization.; Tap Not optimized > All apps to see the complete list of apps.; To turn off battery optimization in an app, tap the app name, and then tap Don’t optimize > Done.Repeat this process to turn off optimization in other apps.

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Hey Android vendors, don’t kill my app! Story. On Pixels and Nexuses you have the least chance something goes wrong with background processing, but still there are several places to look at! VIVO | DON’T KILL MY APP! Autostart. Based on the information by Vivo, this option should be present on all Vivo phones. Newer OS version: Settings > More settings > Applications > Autostart to turn on/off the app switch. For Funtouch OS 2.6 and lower version: i Manager > App manager > Autostart manager

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