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Pixel’s November update is breaking AOD, lock screen, and notifications for some users
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I'm honestly surprised that the November Android update made it out of beta. It's actually a disaster. I'm personally seeing apps being aggressively killed. YouTube streams are stopping, browser tabs are constantly reloading, and tracking apps are dropping sessions when placed in the background. Annoying for me as I use Cronometer to follow a few recipes I created and I'll be happily weighing something, look away, come back and the recipe has been closed. Its not even like it's a single device, this is happening consistently across both my Pixel 10 Pro XL and a Pixel 8 Pro.
Having looked into it a little it seems to be tied to memory management regression introduced in the November patch. Apparently, ZRAM clogs up, and instead of cleanly stopping idle processes, the OS aggressively kills active background apps to clear space. Again, how did this make it out of beta testing?
Worst thing is, we're unlikely to see a fix before December. I'm hearing a workaround that works is setting the background process limit to 4 via the developer settings. But is it really even a flagship phone if it can only manage four background processes. It's honestly unacceptable.
It didn't. Google uses Pixel owners as unwilling Beta testers.