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How to prevent from stopping background processes

Hello, (sorry for my english ) I have a Samsung Galaxy S8 plus SM-G9550 and I would like to know how I can prevent the system from stopping important processes running in the background, since the widgets can not be used without manually activating the app to which the widget belongs. Don´t Synchronize the weather widgets for example, also applications widgets to record or play audio, only work a few minutes after application was manually opened and then stop working, also close streaming applications running in the background as "radiocut" . I already tried everything, even removing the apps from the energy saving settings, I put those applications in the list of apps without supervision of the power monitor and still do not work, only work for a few minutes and then the system stops the process, Could you help me solve this problem?
Thank you very much

You can't really stop the S8 from killing processes. It has very bad memory management and constantly kills processes and running apps. It's very annoying.

jorgemackay said:
Hello, (sorry for my english ) I have a Samsung Galaxy S8 plus SM-G9550 and I would like to know how I can prevent the system from stopping important processes running in the background, since the widgets can not be used without manually activating the app to which the widget belongs. Don´t Synchronize the weather widgets for example, also applications widgets to record or play audio, only work a few minutes after application was manually opened and then stop working, also close streaming applications running in the background as "radiocut" . I already tried everything, even removing the apps from the energy saving settings, I put those applications in the list of apps without supervision of the power monitor and still do not work, only work for a few minutes and then the system stops the process, Could you help me solve this problem?
Thank you very much
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I think you have to turn off the app from Battery Optimization. Try Settings; Apps; touch the three DOT menu on the right corner, select Special access; Optimize battery usage; on the top left select "All apps" by default it shows "Apps not optimized" and Turn off Battery Optimization from the app you want to keep running... Let see if it works...

dhorgas said:
You can't really stop the S8 from killing processes. It has very bad memory management and constantly kills processes and running apps. It's very annoying.
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Like Emby, when you're in the middle of casting

disturbd1 said:
Like Emby, when you're in the middle of casting
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I don't know is what that means.

In device manager under battery there is the ability to add apps to the whitelist so the device manager won't stop them.

ShrekOpher said:
In device manager under battery there is the ability to add apps to the whitelist so the device manager won't stop them.
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This doesn't work. The issue is with memory management on the device. It's pretty well documented in a few places on XDA already and is by no means a new problem for Samsung. It has gotten a lot worse since Samsung started moving to Nougat though.

Can you give a reproducible scenario?

The original post already mentioned that he already removed the apps at battery optimization.
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lopri said:
Can you give a reproducible scenario?
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Open 6-8 apps, in my case phone, messages, email, browser with 10 tabs, BBM, calendar, Nine Email, and Slack and watch the phone shut down apps on its own even if they are removed from all optimization features. It sometimes takes a few hours, other times it's quicker, but sooner or later the phone just shuts down apps on its own. Most of the time it kills the phone app and messages first. Then all the browser tabs go into refresh mode.

dolbylogic said:
I think you have to turn off the app from Battery Optimization. Try Settings; Apps; touch the three DOT menu on the right corner, select Special access; Optimize battery usage; on the top left select "All apps" by default it shows "Apps not optimized" and Turn off Battery Optimization from the app you want to keep running... Let see if it works...
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Nobody else responded to this, but it seems to work for me.

I am a j7 pro user, android 7. I have tried all the oprions mentioned here but those are of no use. problem is getting worse day by day. desperately need a solution.

adattabd said:
I am a j7 pro user, android 7. I have tried all the oprions mentioned here but those are of no use. problem is getting worse day by day. desperately need a solution.
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I suggest the J7 forum section then, this post hadn't been touched for a year.

iworkout said:
Nobody else responded to this, but it seems to work for me.
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It worked for me too.
I had an Galaxy S6 and used to sync FolderSync with an FTP account.
After migrating to Galaxy S8+ FolderSync doesn't work anymore.
It does sync once while the app is opened and after that it stops syncing, no matter if it is closed not.
Removing Battery management for FolderSync app makes syncing to stay running in background even with all apps closed.
Thanks!

Phone starts up whenever charger is plugged in

So my problem seems quiet simple to solve but i can assure you i have tried everything to make my phone work normal again.
Here is everything i have done with my phone so far:
• Rooted
• Flashed Ressurection OS
• Installed costum bootanimation
So long story short, my phone (Samsung Galaxy Alpha) had (since i bought it) a battery problem. At first i thougt it was because of my phone having an Amoled screen that it would consume a lot of energy. I didn't really pay much attention to it but by the time goes, it became worse.
My phone would go from 100% to 40-30% in 15 minutes and shut down instantly with a black screen. At that moment i started realising something wasn't right. So i did some research on how to fix it but i wasn't really finding answers on my questions.
About a week after that i found something saying i could fix it by rooting my phone. Obviously, i did, and i even rooted a costum rom because, why not
next thing i did was install a costum bootanimation and i was really happy with the results.
Finally i installed this app wich apparently removed the batterystats.bin file and would reset the battery's information. I followed all the instructions carefully and did what was recomended
(charge to 100%... etc..), but that is when everything went wrong.
As the instructions said, i had to reboot.
when i did that, the phone didn't turn on automomatically. So i waited a little longer, nothing happens. So i decided to turn it on. And everything seemed working fine. untill the phone shuts down.
Then it would show the charging logo for a fraction of a second and would boot up. as soon as the booting finished it would turn off and do everything all over again with no end. The most annoying part is that the phone doesn't charge because its losing it while booting.
I really need my phone back.
I hope someone can help me out with this

rooterwithaproblem said:
So my problem seems quiet simple to solve but i can assure you i have tried everything to make my phone work normal again.
Here is everything i have done with my phone so far:
• Rooted
• Flashed Ressurection OS
• Installed costum bootanimation
So long story short, my phone (Samsung Galaxy Alpha) had (since i bought it) a battery problem. At first i thougt it was because of my phone having an Amoled screen that it would consume a lot of energy. I didn't really pay much attention to it but by the time goes, it became worse.
My phone would go from 100% to 40-30% in 15 minutes and shut down instantly with a black screen. At that moment i started realising something wasn't right. So i did some research on how to fix it but i wasn't really finding answers on my questions.
About a week after that i found something saying i could fix it by rooting my phone. Obviously, i did, and i even rooted a costum rom because, why not
next thing i did was install a costum bootanimation and i was really happy with the results.
Finally i installed this app wich apparently removed the batterystats.bin file and would reset the battery's information. I followed all the instructions carefully and did what was recomended
(charge to 100%... etc..), but that is when everything went wrong.
As the instructions said, i had to reboot.
when i did that, the phone didn't turn on automomatically. So i waited a little longer, nothing happens. So i decided to turn it on. And everything seemed working fine. untill the phone shuts down.
Then it would show the charging logo for a fraction of a second and would boot up. as soon as the booting finished it would turn off and do everything all over again with no end. The most annoying part is that the phone doesn't charge because its losing it while booting.
I really need my phone back.
I hope someone can help me out with this
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When you installed the new boot animation, I'm assuming that you successfully rebooted the device at least once to test the boot animation before this issue started?
If you have a removable battery, try removing the battery and waiting 30 minutes then re-insert the battery and try booting it.
You may have to charge the battery with some kind of external charger to do the following suggestions. Try to fix this without having to wipe or reflash the device, save those options as last resort.
You can try booting to recovery and flashing the stock boot animation or use adb push to place a copy of the stock boot animation back to its location. Wipe cache and Dalvik/ART cache then reboot.
Boot to custom recovery and select the "wipe" option, then select the "advanced wipe" option, then select system, data, cache and dalvik/ART cache partitions, then wipe those partitions. Then go back to home screen in recovery, then reflash your ROM and Gapps the way you did the first time. This will wipe all of your data but might fix the issue.
Finally, you can boot to download mode and flash the stock firmware for your model number via Odin.
On a side note, the amount of battery drain you were experiencing brings one question to mind.
Did you have Facebook, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Snapchat, Instagram, KiK or any other social media/texting apps installed? If so, that explains the excessive battery usage, especially Facebook and Facebook Messenger. A workaround to the drain caused by these two apps is to uninstall them both and use your mobile browser to view Facebook and your Facebook messages instead. This gets rid of the constant drain of these two apps and also frees up internal storage.
Here is how to set this up to use your browser instead.
Go to Facebook in your browser, get logged in, if you have the option to remember your login information, do it. Then, tap the menu button in your browser, if you have the option to "add to homescreen", select it, if you don't have that option, select the option to create a bookmark instead, then go to your widget settings and add that bookmark to your homescreen as a widget, this allows you to tap it to open Facebook whenever you want just like the app.
Then, in Facebook settings, go to your notifications settings, set it to give you all of your notifications via text or via your Gmail account, if you choose to use Gmail, this will send your notifications to your Gmail app on your device. You will also have to go to your Gmail app then open its settings and set it to give you a notification when an email comes in, this will allow you to still recieve your Facebook and messenger notifications the same as you would if you had the apps. Facebook will end your notifications to Gmail and Gmail will give you a notification in your device's status bar, the two work together.
This setup will allow you to view Facebook the same as the app would without using nearly as much battery as the Facebook app uses.
To view and reply to your Facebook messages, when you are viewing Facebook in your browser, tap the menu button in browser. Then select the "desktop site" option, when it re-loads the page, select the messenger icon at the top of your Facebook page, then you can read and reply to your messages the same as you would in Facebook Messenger but without using nearly as much battery as Facebook Messenger. If you want to make it more convenient than that, you might even be able to find a way to create an another bookmark just for the messages page like you did for the Facebook page and then set this bookmark to automatically load with the "desktop site", this will eliminate the need to select "desktop site" every time you want to check your messages.
If you do it right, you will have two bookmarks on homescreen, one to replace the Facebook app and one to replace Facebook Messenger, all of the same functionality with two less apps installed and two less apps draining battery. You'll have to play with a while to get used to it and set up the way you need it but I suggest you try something like this instead of those apps.
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Droidriven said:
When you installed the new boot animation, I'm assuming that you successfully rebooted the device at least once to test the boot animation before this issue started?
If you have a removable battery, try removing the battery and waiting 30 minutes then re-insert the battery and try booting it.
You may have to charge the battery with some kind of external charger to do the following suggestions. Try to fix this without having to wipe or reflash the device, save those options as last resort.
You can try booting to recovery and flashing the stock boot animation or use adb push to place a copy of the stock boot animation back to its location. Wipe cache and Dalvik/ART cache then reboot.
Boot to custom recovery and select the "wipe" option, then select the "advanced wipe" option, then select system, data, cache and dalvik/ART cache partitions, then wipe those partitions. Then go back to home screen in recovery, then reflash your ROM and Gapps the way you did the first time. This will wipe all of your data but might fix the issue.
Finally, you can boot to download mode and flash the stock firmware for your model number via Odin.
On a side note, the amount of battery drain you were experiencing brings one question to mind.
Did you have Facebook, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Snapchat, Instagram, KiK or any other social media/texting apps installed? If so, that explains the excessive battery usage, especially Facebook and Facebook Messenger. A workaround to the drain caused by these two apps is to uninstall them both and use your mobile browser to view Facebook and your Facebook messages instead. This gets rid of the constant drain of these two apps and also frees up internal storage.
Here is how to set this up to use your browser instead.
Go to Facebook in your browser, get logged in, if you have the option to remember your login information, do it. Then, tap the menu button in your browser, if you have the option to "add to homescreen", select it, if you don't have that option, select the option to create a bookmark instead, then go to your widget settings and add that bookmark to your homescreen as a widget, this allows you to tap it to open Facebook whenever you want just like the app.
Then, in Facebook settings, go to your notifications settings, set it to give you all of your notifications via text or via your Gmail account, if you choose to use Gmail, this will send your notifications to your Gmail app on your device. You will also have to go to your Gmail app then open its settings and set it to give you a notification when an email comes in, this will allow you to still recieve your Facebook and messenger notifications the same as you would if you had the apps. Facebook will end your notifications to Gmail and Gmail will give you a notification in your device's status bar, the two work together.
This setup will allow you to view Facebook the same as the app would without using nearly as much battery as the Facebook app uses.
To view and reply to your Facebook messages, when you are viewing Facebook in your browser, tap the menu button in browser. Then select the "desktop site" option, when it re-loads the page, select the messenger icon at the top of your Facebook page, then you can read and reply to your messages the same as you would in Facebook Messenger but without using nearly as much battery as Facebook Messenger. If you want to make it more convenient than that, you might even be able to find a way to create an another bookmark just for the messages page like you did for the Facebook page and then set this bookmark to automatically load with the "desktop site", this will eliminate the need to select "desktop site" every time you want to check your messages.
If you do it right, you will have two bookmarks on homescreen, one to replace the Facebook app and one to replace Facebook Messenger, all of the same functionality with two less apps installed and two less apps draining battery. You'll have to play with a while to get used to it and set up the way you need it but I suggest you try something like this instead of those apps.
I DO NOT PROVIDE HELP IN PM, KEEP IT IN THE THREADS WHERE EVERYONE CAN SHARE
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Alright, so i have tried every single method and read very carefully what to do. Still the same problem, i didn't use facebook or facebook messenger.
Is there any way possible that:
removing the old "lpm" file in "/system/bin"
and creating another file with the same name, open it as text, and writing:
#!/system/bin/sh
sleep 40 (it will so nothing for 40 sec then reboot)
/system/bin/reboot
will work? (i want to be sure if this is not going to do anything bad)
Thank you foe your help i really apreciate it

I am having the same issue. Originally the phone would charge in a powered off state and just the green battery would show up briefly...when fully charged it would pop back up indicating so. Now, as soon as I plug in the wall charger or the USB to the computer, it reboots and powers on. All I have done is enable the on-board battery saver. I would prefer to charge it overnight in a powered off state so I don't get notifications...I could put it on silent, but it should charge while off. If I shut it down while charging, it immediately reboots.

Notification Issues after B402

Is anybody experiencing problems with notifications after the B402 Update as well? If my phone is in standby for some time, i dont get notifications for Whatsapp and snapchat for example. Even if i turn on the screen or unlock it, they still dont show. I have to open the apps manually to get the messages, which is unacceptable. Anybody knows a solution? However, the battery life improved(who would have guessed that?)

That happens if you don't factory reset after update and/or restore apps from backup.
Try factory reset, install apps from store and restore just the user data of the apps.

Lukke2804 said:
Is anybody experiencing problems with notifications after the B402 Update as well? If my phone is in standby for some time, i dont get notifications for Whatsapp and snapchat for example. Even if i turn on the screen or unlock it, they still dont show. I have to open the apps manually to get the messages, which is unacceptable. Anybody knows a solution? However, the battery life improved(who would have guessed that?)
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Have you disabled "System wakeup" or enabled "Close app after screen off"? If you did, try toggling them and reboot the phone.
Having said that, I have WhatsApp with disabled System wakeup, and I still get notifications, because WhatsApp also utilises Google Play Services to wakeup the app when a notification arrives. I would check the settings of Google Play services on your phone in case something is killing it.
zinko_pt said:
That happens if you don't factory reset after update and/or restore apps from backup.
Try factory reset, install apps from store and restore just the user data of the apps.
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Source? If that was the case, all the people that update their phone would have myriads of problems. Upgrading without factory reset doesn't cause problems as far as I know. Certainly, I haven't had this type of malfunction, and I've never factory-reset the phone since I got it 18 months ago - that includes the Marshmallow to Nougat upgrade.

supersakis said:
Have you disabled "System wakeup" or enabled "Close app after screen off"? If you did, try toggling them and reboot the phone.
Having said that, I have WhatsApp with disabled System wakeup, and I still get notifications, because WhatsApp also utilises Google Play Services to wakeup the app when a notification arrives. I would check the settings of Google Play services on your phone in case something is killing it.
Source? If that was the case, all the people that update their phone would have myriads of problems. Upgrading without factory reset doesn't cause problems as far as I know. Certainly, I haven't had this type of malfunction, and I've never factory-reset the phone since I got it 18 months ago - that includes the Marshmallow to Nougat upgrade.
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This is an old issue, as old as android updates.
Sometimes battery performance decreases with the update, some others is FCs, or notifications, missing stock apps.
Source is XDA, several devices, years of experience and other users that share the same experience.
Don't waste your time debating this, if you don't agree, that's fine.
Actually I think the most common is battery performance decrease which is really annoying when changelog says "battery performance optimisation". After a factory reset magic happens. It's due to old system files (internal and external storage) vs new system files.
Same thing happens after consecutive Windows updates, performance starts to decrease because update doesn't properly clean old files and configs.

[SOLVED] Extremaly delayed push notifications

[June 25 2018]
It looks like I solved my problem by reading about push notifications here:
https://help.moengage.com/hc/en-us/...not-receiving-push-notifications-sent-by-you-
It got me thinking that GCM service in my Nokia 7 plus is not properly connecting with Google’s servers. So I looked around how to hard reset my device using this tutorial:
NOTE: [THIS WILL ERASE ALL YOUR DATA. MAKE A BACKUP OF YOUR FILES FIRST]
http://www.techeligible.com/2018/05/27/unlock-pattern-nokia-7-plus/
select Wipe data/factory reset.
After restart configure your phone as a NEW DEVICE. Push notifications seem to work as they should. They are waking the device from sleep mode immediately.
This method will most likely work for all Android devices.
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[June 5 2018]
I really like this phone but the push notification problem just kills me.
When phone is in sleep mode push notification don't wake it up.
Just leave the phone on the desk for 15 minutes and send yourself an email from different device.
Same applies to WhatsApp. If someone sends me a message it can take half an hour before phone will show notification.
This is frustrating and apparently there is no fix.
I did even factory reset and the problem persists.
Tweaks like exclude app from battery optimazation don't work.
This clearly Android Oreo fault.
Google is so fixated to save battery that it castrates crucial functionality

+1 to the delayed notifications problem!
As you wake the device up, the Whatsapp icon also keep showing in the taskbar - "Checking for new messages" quite often.
that also happens at intervals while the device is ON & other apps are being run.
I hope this, the fingerprint navigation (left+right), battery SOT, stability will improve with proper update to Andro-P. and SOON!

Same problem here. "Heartbet" apps dont work either.

Same here! Maybe it's push notifications server problem?

pls. make sure that notification apps have permission to work in back ground as it may be restricted for battery saving

fady saher said:
pls. make sure that notification apps have permission to work in back ground as it may be restricted for battery saving
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Gmail and WhatsApp are excluded in battery optimazation. It makes no difference.
Gmail is a Google app. It comes with system but push notifications are not working properly.
There in no other way to set apps to work in background. At least I didn't find such option...

Didn't work for me. Anybody else managed to fix this?

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Anyone experiencing delayed push notifications on Android Pie?

Do you have location enabled (saving battery location setting)? Disabling location can cause notification delays.

yatoya said:
Do you have location enabled (saving battery location setting)? Disabling location can cause notification delays.
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I never really turn off location services. Is this setting you are talking about the battery optimization for apps? I can turn that off for location services.

I have 1062 with pie sideloaded and i'm not getting any push notifications from apps except for gmail. Factory reset and setting phone as new device didn't help.

rooks_by said:
I have 1062 with pie sideloaded and i'm not getting any push notifications from apps except for gmail. Factory reset and setting phone as new device didn't help.
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1062 (if chinese with custom global rom) its not really possible to install Pie, its not stable in this one, Oreo still best for 1062

rooks_by said:
I have 1062 with pie sideloaded and i'm not getting any push notifications from apps except for gmail. Factory reset and setting phone as new device didn't help.
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I had the exact same issue and it was really frustrating me. Resetting my phone didn’t help as detailed here. But finally after some playing around i fixed mine
In the battery settings i enabled Adaptive battery and then went into background activity manager. I enabled both auto activate and lock screen on all the apps i had problems with receiving notifications. Now i get all app notifications straight away with no delays

nurrishd said:
I had the exact same issue and it was really frustrating me. Resetting my phone didn’t help as detailed here. But finally after some playing around i fixed mine
In the battery settings i enabled Adaptive battery and then went into background activity manager. I enabled both auto activate and lock screen on all the apps i had problems with receiving notifications. Now i get all app notifications straight away with no delays
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I've tested this solution for a couple of days and it seems it's working, thanks.

nurrishd said:
I had the exact same issue and it was really frustrating me. Resetting my phone didn’t help as detailed here. But finally after some playing around i fixed mine
In the battery settings i enabled Adaptive battery and then went into background activity manager. I enabled both auto activate and lock screen on all the apps i had problems with receiving notifications. Now i get all app notifications straight away with no delays
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Is this for Android 8? I am having the same problem but I cant seem to find the auto activate and lock screen settings in the BAM. The only option is to blacklist. I am on Android 9.

Mi Note 10 Lite, Global MIUI 11 ROM - Push notifications from Gmail Problem

That's a very frustrating one, very common 'feature' for all the Xiaomi bloatware. I thought 6 years later, they will finally fix the sync.
So basically, when the phone goes to sleep or at least I do not touch it for more than 5 minutes, the Gmail notifications do not get delivered unless I unlock the device. Sometimes even if I unlock it, the said emails do not pop up unless I open the app or manually click my Google account to sync.
Things I've done so far:
Check any sort of notification setting for the app itself and make sure I get the proper notification type. Also the app settings are all right.
Check the battery saver nonsense and make sure the app isn't limited in any way.
Check battery saver and make sure it is not restricting background usage for the app
Reinstall Gmail app using XiaomiADBFastbootTools
Remove and re-add my Google account to the device
'Locked' the Gmail app to the memory
Things I cannot do on this crippled Android version, but work for regular apps, are:
Set 'autostart' setting for Gmail. The app seems to be preinstalled and I cannot manipulate this option for it.
Your help is appreciated!

maybe you could uninstall the Gmail using XiaomiADBFastbootTools and later you install Gmail again from Google Play.

I'm having the same problem. I have to go into the app and refresh and so on.

Strange, never had such problems (with all apps) after configuring the data saver mode for the app. Gmail is working without a problem here

The problem seems to have gone away for the last 3-4 days, but I was mostly on data connection. No clue how. There were no system updates.
From time to time it gets stuck when I am on Wi Fi at home. Either never comes or is delayed a lot.
Most notably when the phone goes to sleep (more than 10 minutes of not touching it or not receiving any other notifications that might wake it up.

Have you checked the notification settings within gmail? Stock configuration is that it will only inform with important emails and not all emails. Maybe this is also part of the problem?