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Joe Bowser commented on CB-1458:
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I tried playing around with the WebView's restoreState and saveState methods,
but they crash brutally on the Samsung Galaxy S2, and crash when you switch
apps on the HTC One X. The thing that I noticed on both the HTC One X and the
Samsung Galaxy S2 is that the phone slows down and is virtually unusable. I
think this mode is in the developers menu with the expectation that only
developers would ever use this mode. I'm tempted to mark this as Won't Fix,
because this would be incredibly difficult to fix, especially since saveState
and restoreState don't read the state correctly.
> Android's new "Limit background processes" setting in "Developer options"
> breaks key PhoneGap functionality.
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> Key: CB-1458
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-1458
> Project: Apache Cordova
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Android, CordovaJS
> Environment: Android 4.x.x
> Reporter: trusktr
> Assignee: Joe Bowser
> Priority: Critical
>
> As of version 4.x.x, Android introduced a new ability to limit background
> processes down to zero in Settings >> Developer Options >> Limit background
> processes.
> I'm not sure if this bug exists with the latest PhoneGap version, but I
> noticed it using PhoneGap apps for android from Google Play.
> After setting the option to "No background processes" I noticed the
> following. If I try to use the Media abilities of PhoneGap in an app to chose
> a photo or file from my system, then when the selector application returns,
> the PhoneGap app will restart from the beginning because it's background
> process was terminated.
> If I set the option back to "Standard limit" then everything works just fine.
> What do we do about this? Personally, I prefer to have the option set to "No
> background processes" to prevent apps from needlessly wasting resources. It
> works great and some apps won't get terminated if they subscribe to Android's
> messaging system the proper way and will be dormant.
> Anyways, with the setting turned to "No background processes", I've
> experienced apps that still work properly. I think there must be some way to
> fix this with PhoneGap.
> This is a big deal because users should be allowed to set the option to "No
> background processes if they so desire."
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