There's also software features to help prolong battery life, such as power consumption and
background app management, which should mean the Marathon M5 can last four full days of heavy usage.
As for overall improvements, the new Open Beta 2 will offer better battery consumption measurements, optimizations to manage high power apps, and the addition of intelligent
background app management.
Apart from this, you have options for Battery Saver,
Background App Management, and Ultimate Power Saver.
Not exact matches
OEMs can adjust LMK minfree values to tweak the aggressiveness of RAM
management, and they can institute hard limits on the amount of
apps and
background processes a phone can sustain at any given point, regardless of how big the RAM pool is.
The other big thing is granular
app management, allowing you to select which
apps can show what notifications, which
apps can work in the
background, and which
apps can use roaming data.
Next, you can turn on the «
Background service» option if you'd rather not see an ongoing notification, but note that this may cause the
app to get closed by Android's memory
management system occasionally.
It's not all rosy at first though, as there seem to still be issues out of the box with power
management, specifically related to suppressing
apps from running in the
background.
Samsung's power
management options continue to look for less - used
apps and stop them from using power in the
background.
In addition to user - facing changes, Xiaomi implemented several under - the - hood fixes to improve
apps load on MIUI 9, which includes better
background memory
management, dynamic resource allocation, and more.
While talking about the Proactive
app management, it works with popular third - party
apps and shuts them down if they're in the idle processes running in the
background.
In the
background, meanwhile, there are power
management improvements, new security features including more noticeable protection against rogue Play Store
apps, and a general improvement in things like boot speed.
With Xiaomi's aggressive
app management enabled, the staying power of the Mi Mix 2 is astronomical, but that's largely because it throttles
background processes to the point of them being almost useless — hardly ideal when you want notifications to come through instantly.
Under the power
management in Settings
app, you get Normal Mode and Extreme mode, which would close the
background apps and services accordingly.
Except on the OP5T, you get 6 GB or 8 GB of RAM (depending on the configuration), which means you can have way more
apps running in the
background before Android's memory
management starts to shut things down.
The quick settings on the top has a RAM
management widget, with the rocket launcher to free RAM (basically by killing
background apps), and the entire screen area is filled by several toggles.
You'll also get HTC Boost +, a new
management app that can lock specific
apps, maximize battery life and cut down on the power drain caused by programs running in the
background.
With tons of RAM and a new
App Priority
background task
management system, the OnePlus 5T works to keep your most commonly launched
apps in RAM and ready to go in an instant, while flushing out
apps that don't commonly get launched, and don't need to be running in the
background.