With Nougat's enhanced Doze mode, the phone uses as little battery as possible by
killing background tasks whenever the phone is in standby.
Not exact matches
Many have complained about how aggressive Nougat can be about
killing tasks in the
background to preserve RAM, but I haven't found it to be a problem in my review unit.
The J2 (2016) almost never slowed down because of the
background task killing, apps did load quickly, and browsing through Chrome was mostly issue - free but regular things like app loading animations and switching between apps were full of stutter because of the underpowered processor.
However, the idea of
killing or more active
tasks by strictly controlling
background applications isn't new.
Aside from bringing you to the main home screen, the Home touch sensitive key in the middle will give you access to the
task manager where you can «
kill» all the apps running in the
background.