I’ve never used one but a buddy has one (of some sort - no idea of the model) and he can barely use signal because the battery management keeps killing the app.
He’s still got the stock ROM on it, but hasn’t been able to make the messaging usable which is sad.
I’d grabbed a Samsung that my work had somehow slipped from knox enrollment so was able to root it but found its battery management was similarly abysmal and am starting to worry if maybe recent android is emulating those old performance / malware apps that aggressively kill off everything rather than letting the OS handle its own memory…
Now I know this is all reading like a fever dream but my handsets are on laughably old droid versions because I’m scarred by A/B partitions and oneplus so have let it all slip (that and Google keeps shitting on android!), so after all that waffle, I’m curious if you’ve got any similar anecdotes??
I don’t have any anecdotes, really. On all my cheap devices, I never really had any issues with apps getting killed by battery management. I know that sometimes, you’ll have to specifically switch off battery management for these specific apps, which can usually be done with a single action that the app generally let’s you access directly on first setup.
But I’ve always used stock android or at least AOSP based Roms - I’ve never stuck with OEM Roms longer than the (usually) first 7 days they keep you from unlocking the bootloader. Once I can unlock the bootloader, the OEM Rom is gone.
I do know that some OEMs have their own battery management implemented on top of androids, which is often more aggressive, and a bit more convoluted to access.
I’ve never used one but a buddy has one (of some sort - no idea of the model) and he can barely use signal because the battery management keeps killing the app.
He’s still got the stock ROM on it, but hasn’t been able to make the messaging usable which is sad. I’d grabbed a Samsung that my work had somehow slipped from knox enrollment so was able to root it but found its battery management was similarly abysmal and am starting to worry if maybe recent android is emulating those old performance / malware apps that aggressively kill off everything rather than letting the OS handle its own memory…
Now I know this is all reading like a fever dream but my handsets are on laughably old droid versions because I’m scarred by A/B partitions and oneplus so have let it all slip (that and Google keeps shitting on android!), so after all that waffle, I’m curious if you’ve got any similar anecdotes??
Cheers, Flambonkscious the rando
I don’t have any anecdotes, really. On all my cheap devices, I never really had any issues with apps getting killed by battery management. I know that sometimes, you’ll have to specifically switch off battery management for these specific apps, which can usually be done with a single action that the app generally let’s you access directly on first setup.
But I’ve always used stock android or at least AOSP based Roms - I’ve never stuck with OEM Roms longer than the (usually) first 7 days they keep you from unlocking the bootloader. Once I can unlock the bootloader, the OEM Rom is gone.
I do know that some OEMs have their own battery management implemented on top of androids, which is often more aggressive, and a bit more convoluted to access.
Yeah, this was really my first time with a Samsung and I’ll never go near it again…