I updated my device to Lineahe OS based on Android 15 after I have been using Lineage OS based on Android 14 for a while. I don’t know if this is a common issue with Android 15 or it’s only with Lineage OS or my installation is sonewhat crippled (I did clean flash and I already reinstalled once), but the OS is very aggressively killing apps compared to Android 14 to the point it is annoying.

Example

In Android 14 if I started a download in the browser, the browser would display a permanent notification that it’s downloading and if I swiped away the browser from recents the download would continue. In Android 15 the downloading stops immidiately after I swipe the browser from recents.

And that’s not the only problem. Background services like my companion watch app don’t work properly because it seems they get killed in the background and messaging or e-mail apps sometimes seem to have the same problem. I tried disabling battery optimizations for these apps, but it doesn’t seem to help at all.

Does anyone else experience similar issues with Android 15?

  • Jiří Král@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Are you allowing notifications for background apps?

    I do. However permanent notifications was usually a workaround on OEM modified versions of Android that had a more agressive process killing policies and on stock Android this usually wasn’t needed at all. And many apps which use push notifications don’t run a constant background service, but instead run some checks at regular intervals like e-mail apps. I use K-9 mail which checks e-mails every hour and I stopped receiving notifications after the Android 15 update.

    I reflashed the ROM yesterday with a newer nightly build and used Basic NikGapps instead of MindTheGapps so I will see if the situation gets better. For now I seem to be receiving notifications from Protonmail, but that may be only because their app is maybe using Google play services for notifications.

    • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.socialEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Hmmm. The last time I had stock was several versions ago. I made a bad choice and have a Samsung now, and it’s always required the persistent notification, or it kills the apps.

      That’s not worth much, though. Samsung’s Android is probably the shittiest I’ve used. I’ll be damned if I’m going to replace a perfectly good phone, though; the hardware is good.