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expedition32yesterday at 11:43 PM1 replyview on HN

I had a China phone with amazing specs but it KEPT KILLING EVERYTHING.

Hardware is pretty useless if the software that drives it is useless. I don't know it probably works better in China all I know is that I went back to good old Samsung.


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Liftyeeyesterday at 11:48 PM

It's a pervasive Chinese phone problem. I've used many and they all have "Battery saving" features on by default, which means killing background apps after a while apparently. Battery life is great, but newly installed apps sometimes don't work as they should.

The market demands must be different there. I've disabled "battery optimisation" for all the apps I need to stay open (and some apps even prompt me to disable it!), and I don't have any issues in daily use.

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