Low memory, apps crashing - change zram settings or add swapfile? [4.x]

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@goverton

Apps (particularly Android apps) have been crashing due to low memory, typically with only 6 apps open (2-3 native + 2-3 Android). Normally an Android app goes unresponsive and eventually dies. Usually closing a few apps will enable it to restart sucessfully.

Yeap, I can confirm, this is highly similar to what I’m seeing on X10II.

Xperia 10 II + SFOS

Android apps crashing in this manner may have been caused by having Google Play Services official package installed. Going back to microG, apps are behaving mostly nice again. EXCEPT for running native Browser for some reason causes all other apps to slow down to a crawl, major lag etc. As soon as I close Browser, everything becomes snappy again. What’s going on with this I do have 332 tabs open in Browser (so nice to just backup/restore across many years of phones), but as they’r…