Solution to important apps closing in background

thrik

On my Pixel 4a, Pokemon Go always closes if I switch to one or two other apps. It will close if I dare to open up the camera.

I initially thought this was a memory issue, but I see many people with higher-end phones having this issue too.

Wondering if anyone has advice. Thank you 🙂

Tryptamine

I just joined up on this forum to make a post over just this issue... On a Pixel 7 Pro.

This is a persistent problem I've been facing, every once in a while, apps that would stay on for a long time, silently collecting their data in the background (think AccuBattery or the like), are killed off, only to start back up again right away. This normally wouldn't be an issue, except when that app's job is to collect a long history of uninterrupted data in a single session, and does this best when it isn't interrupted.

These same apps were not killed off in this manner in the stock OS, and setting them to Unrestricted battery usage doesn't seem to help much... I even notice Google Play Services killed off and restarting every so often, as I get the silent notification "Sandboxed Google Play is running" again.

What trickery is GrapheneOS up to, and can I do anything about it? It's frustrating. AccuBattery pops up with messages saying it has detected a task killer, even when it hasn't been killed off in a while, so whatever huristics it's running in this manner are detecting something that is killing off tasks. Maybe someone knowledge with GrapheneOS can elaborate?

Edit: added phone model.

de0u

Tryptamine Do you have one user profile or do you switch among profiles?

Tryptamine

de0u I have one Owner profile only, and do everything in the single profile. Does that help at all? Feel free to ask anything else at all!

thrik

Thanks, I will report back after some testing. Tryptamine, I'm curious if you have tried to uninstall and reinstall Accubattery or whatever other apps that were troubling you?

thrik

Hmm, is there no solution to this? It's bad enough that I'm considering going back to stock.

OldSurehand

thrik to clarify things, has this been happening only recently or all along since you started using it? I presume you use it with unrestricted battery, since you mention it one of your previous posts. Have you recently installed/uninstalled sandboxed Google Play? Have you tried reinstalling the game? I had similar issue with Whatsapp, reinstalling and giving unrestricted battery use put it back to normal. Please describe your issue in greater detail. We can't have you going back to stock, that classes as selfharming.

thrik

OldSurehand Thanks for the advice. Isn't uninstalling and reinstalling the sandboxed Google Play more involved? From what I remember, only apps installed after it was reinstalled would be able to use Google Play services. I may be wrong.

I will try to uninstall and reinstall the app though, I have only let it update, but I guess that's different. And this has been happening much more frequently in the past 6 months, I'd say. I had figured it was my phone showing its age, but I don't think it's that. Been on GOS for about a year now I think.

OldSurehand

thrik try reinstalling app only first. Reinstalling Google Play would affect all apps that depend on it.

OldSurehand

thrik There is another thing I found working for me.
Using Automation app. It has a trigger, when it detects app not running, it will automatically start it.

https://server47.de/automation/

Keep it always running in background. Try it if everything else fails.

thrik

OldSurehand I have installed this, but it seems like that trigger doesn't work on Android versions past 7. That would have been neat if I could launch the app like that in the background.

However, it would still be troubling for how I use this app since I would need to keep on pairing a Bluetooth device with it every time it shut down.

So, I'm hoping this reinstall did the trick 🙂

thrik

Update: it did not help. Back to square one. It seems really hard to get a response from staff nowadays. I wonder if that means GOS is getting more popular. Although, it's not so great for the average user who needs help from time to time.