The problem
Many Android 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 guides.
Manufactures we love
There are no known issues preventing you from running Piste on the following devices
- ASOP
- Nokia
- HTC
Manufactures with problems
The following list of manufactures are known to cause issues with Piste
- Huawei
- Honor
- Xiamo
- One Plus
- Samsung
- Meizu
- Asus
- Wiko
- Lenovo
- Oppo
- Vivo
- Realme
- Blackview
- Sony
- Uniherz
- Motorola
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
Xiaomi
Xiamoi 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
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
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
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
Asus
Asus should not cause many issues but you may need to turn off clean up suspend
Power Master -> Battery saving options -> Clean up suspend
Wiko
Turn off optimized mode for Piste
Lenovo
Enable the padlock icon in the top right corner of the running app overview
Oppo
Pin the app in the recent app screen
Vivo
Set piste with Unrestricted battery usage
Realme
Under Battery -> App Battery Management -> Piste and allow background activity.
Blackview
Under Apps and Notifications -> Piste -> Advanced -> Battery select not optimized.
Sony
Disable Optimize for battery Phone settings > Battery > Three dots in the top right corner > Battery optimisation > Apps > Piste
Uniherz
Ensure Piste is not blocked from background in app blocker
Motorola
Search for "Manage background apps" in the search bar and enable Piste
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