GrapheneOS I've disabled Secure App Spawning per your recommendation. The phone feels a bit more snappy now switching between apps. I'll report back in a few days if this helps in the long run. Thank you.
Mmike616
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- Joined May 7, 2023
fid02 I don't believe the apps are crashing or going ANR in the background. It's just that if I switch away from an app and switch back to it only moments later, the app behaves as if it's being launched for the first time, losing its state. This is the same behavior you would see if you "Force stop" an app and re-open it.
With a browser, this usually means reloading the current tab. For other apps, there's a few seconds of startup before the app is ready and I usually end up at the main page of the app, not the view I left it on.
This seems to me like Android is killing the app in the background to free up memory.
I've been having this same issue since I got my Pixel 8. I've only used developer settings for enabling wireless debugging to test mobile app development.
I've raised the issue before in Matrix and was told to disable developer settings and that there's nothing in the way GOS works that would cause this so it's probably something with my configuration. Disabling dev settings hasn't helped.
Multitasking on this phone is a nightmare. If I swap to an app to copy something, there's a good chance when I swap back, the app will be killed.
I asked around in the pixel_phones reddit if other users are having this issue and no one else there seems to be experiencing it. But here in the GOS forums, there's been a few threads about it. So it definitely seems GOS related to me.
For reference, I do not use a secondary profile but I do have a work profile configured with Shelter. I've also had two Pixel 8's and both have had this problem. When I got the second one (via warranty replacement), I set it up from new without using backups specifically to test out this issue.
Sorry for digging up an old post, but I'm having a very similar problem with my new Pixel 8. It puts apps into standby far more frequently than my older Pixel 5 did. I'm using all the same apps as I did on that phone but it's far worse on this one. It seems like if I background any app and come back to it only seconds later, it has to reload.
It's very inconvenient. Did anyone find a fix for this?
I'm considering migrating from Bitwarden to 1Password. I am on a Google Pixel 5. Autofill works correctly on all browsers with Bitwarden. However, 1Password doesn't seem to recognize any logins for any sites. I see the autofill suggestion to open 1Password but once I do, it doesn't show any recommended sites. I can manually search for a site and fill the creds in. If I select "Fill & Update Login", it adds the browser app as a linked app. Meaning that login will now be recommended for all sites in that browser, regardless of the domain. I've tested on Fennec, Brave, Vanadium, and Mulch.
It almost seems like 1Password can't tell I'm in a browser and thus doesn't try to match the domain names. I don't see many other people with this issue so I'm thinking it might be a GrapheneOS issue.
Is anyone else here using 1Password on Graphene with success?
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Google Play Services is installed and has location permissions. I am also using Home Assistant which uses a geofence for detecting my home presence and it's working fine.
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I am developing an app using Flutter which needs to create and monitor geofences. I am doing testing on the only Android phone I have which is running GOS.
The app properly requests
ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION
andACCESS_BACKGROUND_LOCATION
and I've granted them. But I cannot get geofences to work. I've tried three different libraries and they all state that geofencing services could not be started and reference Error 1000.The Google Play API Docs say that this error is usually because the user has turned off location access. Other posts on StackOverflow from a few years ago say that you must accept the T&Cs for Google Location services for geofencing to work. I don't think this is relevant though.
Does GOS do something that might be causing an issue with geofences? Is there some other setting I need to toggle to make this work on my phone?
Sorry if this isn't the right place for this question.