Why does this always happen?

[fuckswearwords@lemmy.world]

This annoys me to no end. My phone has more RAM than my previous pc and yet android keeps purging everything from the memory.
No matter what settings you tinker with, it keeps doing it.
My Lenovo P2 from 2016 "only" had 4gbs of RAM and would keep dozens of apps open and would only purge the memory with a cold boot.
I hate what android has become and that it's basically the only other real choice besides apple phones.

[naticus@lemmy.world]

I seriously just had to look up my phone specs because I haven't thought about memory for like 3 phones now. Man, I do not miss that at all, and wow I've taken it for granted lately.

[evil_shrubbery@lemm.ee]

I have 12GB and the same problem, no matter the tab count (I use various Firefox flavors, one with 200+ tabs, one with no tabs, and one with static tabs).

I have experience a lesser extend of this problem on my other phone with 4GB of RAM but running Lineage OS.

[andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works]

I feel nostalgic of a time with my first Android phone that worked fine with some 256mb of RAM and around 16gb of storage. Now I have way more in both of them, but my phone unloads everything but the current and last app from memory occupying half of that just for itself and the storage, well, isn't mine to begin with for I can only use a small fraction of it even after a factory reset. Times change, websites and apps change too, and Android devs can't predict that, but they made the OS itself just as bloated and self-indulgent as Windows.

[argentcorvid@midwest.social]

It knows you were never going to look at them again anyway

[bronzebeard@lemm.ee]

I have over a hundred tabs on my phone. It just shows in the counter box now

[subarctictundra@lemmy.ml]

I've had 3GB since 2017 and it's also felt sufficient all that time

[subarctictundra@lemmy.ml]

Have you tried rooting?

[wunderbred@lemmynsfw.com]

my Lemmy feed vs my iPhone 13

[kusimulkku@lemm.ee]

You're saying you're Elon Musk..?

[idkwhatusernametoputherelolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Lol, maybe bad wording, but I'm the one he's after

[lordwiggle@lemmy.world]

Using tor on a Samsung? Why. "Hey, someone is using tor on one of our phones, let's see what he's doing while we call the FBI"

[idkwhatusernametoputherelolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Hello FBI Agent

[kyrgizion@lemmy.world]

Phones are also much easier to fingerprint. You can use tor all you want but unless you're also running something akin to tails as OS you're perfectly uniquely identifiable on the darknet.

[bygourou@sh.itjust.works]

I have a rooted phone, is there any tips about that for rooted users ?

My phone has 8gb of ram and can't keep 1 tab loaded at all.