New essential Android apps thread

[Macky]

On Xiaomi phones, there are some crazy tough battery, process and /or app throttling settings that prevent Firefox from keeping tabs in memory if I remember rightly. I had a similar problem when I last had one of their phones. I can't remember how I fixed the problem, but I'm sure I found the solution with a bit of Google searching.

Annoying as I opted for a phone with 12GB of RAM to stop things like that happening!

 

[T1Cybernetic]

Annoying as I opted for a phone with 12GB of RAM to stop things like that happening!

I'm certain it's as simple as disabling battery optimisation for certain apps that you want left alone. Still, I honestly can't remember if that fixed the problem or even how to do it, as I don't have a Xiaomi phone nearby to test.

A quick Google suggests that's all there is to it, so I'm hoping I'm on to something

 

[Orcvader]

Been messing around with a few browsers following chrome disabling ublock. Firefox seems to have some weird incompatibility with my Xiaomi phone where tabs aren't staying in memory and the general performance of the app is pretty poor. Shame, because the desktop browser is pretty solid. Now trying out Brave on desktop and Android. Doesn't seem quite as polished as chrome or firefox and there are quite a few things it's trying to sell me but performance seems pretty good.. Do people have any strong views on android browsers?

I'm going to throw in Vivaldi as a suggestion since you can add your own filter lists (although only compatible with ABP style lists and not uBo), it's my backup Chromium based browser.

As for apps not staying in memory... That's the one thing that bugs me with Xiaomi's HyperOS and a lot of other alternate Android skins, they made the RAM/battery management more aggressive than the stock AOSP behaviour. You can mitigate it by following the guides on this site, but some skins you can't completely disable it. Even Pixels aren't a complete exemption, they're on the better end but sometimes adaptive battery decides to manage some apps a little too much as well.