Posted 23 February 2025

The problem

Many phone manufacturers have introduced their own battery management systems on top of Android.

While these are designed to reduce background power consumption, they often unintentionally shut down apps that users want to keep running.

Piste operates in the background while you ski to track your session data, but these aggressive power-saving measures force-close our app - causing you to lose your epic day.

Full credit goes to https://dontkillmyapp.com for providing the detailed steps in this guide.

Manufacturers that work out the box

There are no known issues preventing you from running Piste all day in the background on the following devices

• Apple
• ASOP
• Nokia
• HTC
• Google

Manufacturers with problems

The following list of manufacturers are known to cause issues with Piste

• Huawei
• Honor
• Xiaomi
• One Plus
• Samsung
• Meizu
• Asus
• Wiko
• Lenovo
• Oppo
• Vivo
• Realme
• Blackview
• Sony
• Uniherz
• Motorola

Apple Iphone

iPhones will present no issues unless 'battery saver' is turned on. Simply turn this off in control centre.

Another possibility is if there's is extensive memory pressure that causes IOS to kill piste - the best way to mitigate this is to not use your phone once you start recording.

Huawei / Honor

Huawei are the most aggressive phones at killing background applications. For most phones you can navigate to Phone Settings -> Battery -> App Launch

Find Piste in this list and turn the toggle off to set to "Manage Manually"

• Turn run in background on

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Xiaomi

Xiaomi offer some mitigations to prevent Piste from being killed. For most phones you can navigate to:

Phone Settings -> Applications -> Piste

Find Battery saver in this list and turn the toggle off

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One Plus

One Plus offer some mitigations to prevent Piste from being killed. For most phones you can navigate to System Settings -> Battery -> Battery Optimization -> Piste

Select Don't optimize

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Samsung

Samsung has app pinning allowing you to prevent one app from exiting.

For most phones you enter the task switcher then: Long Press on Piste -> Pin this app

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Meizu

You can protect Piste from being killed via a setting.

Settings -> Advanced Settings -> Battery Manager -> Protect apps

Toggle 'Piste' On

You may need to re-enable this if you've turned it off:

Security -> Permissions -> Background processes -> Allow running in background

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Asus

Asus should not cause many issues but you may need to turn off clean up in suspend

Power Master -> Battery saving options -> Clean up suspend

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Wiko

Turn off optimized mode for Piste

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Lenovo

Enable the padlock icon in the top right corner of the running app overview

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Oppo

Pin the app in the recent app screen

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Vivo

Set piste with Unrestricted battery usage

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Realme

Under

Battery -> App Battery Management -> Piste

Allow background activity.

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Blackview

Under Apps and Notifications -> Piste -> Advanced -> Battery select not optimized.

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Sony

Disable Optimize for battery Phone settings > Battery > Three dots in the top right corner > Battery optimization > Apps > Piste

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Uniherz

Ensure Piste is not blocked from background in app blocker

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Motorola

Search for "Manage background apps" in the search bar and enable Piste