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My phone has very low memory (2 GB of ram) and thus any app that is running in background is automatically closed after a minute or so. It appears in the task manager but when I open it, the app doesn't resume but rather starts up again.

However, apps like zoom or WhatsApp calls are not subject to the same background limit.

My question is, can I force other apps to stay active as well?

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  • Go to Settings -> Apps & notification and list all applications.
  • Select your Application, expand the menu "Advanced" and choose "Battery":
    • check that your App does not have any restriction and can use battery in background
  • Go to "Battery optimization" and list "All apps". Find your application, click on it and choose "Don't optimize".
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  • I have unoptimized my app as you said, but it still restarts. – A.Shetye Aug 18 '20 at 7:08
  • in the java/kotlin code you can check in your app if it's in power whitelist: developer.android.com/reference/android/os/… . If it return true, then your App is not optimized and there is no reason that it'll be killed by the OS. Do you have the logs when the app stop ? – St0rm Aug 18 '20 at 7:32
  • I'm not very knowledgeable about android, so where can I obtain the logs from? – A.Shetye Aug 18 '20 at 7:57
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    Sorry, I thought that you was the developer of the App. If the App restart even if it's not optimized by the system, then it's probably a functionality or a bug in the App. Maybe you should report the issue to the developers of the App, they can give you more information about that. – St0rm Aug 18 '20 at 8:05
  • This happens to every app, even ones that you may be using like YouTube. – A.Shetye Aug 18 '20 at 10:50

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