I just popped out to grab an image for a post, then realized I didn’t have a photo app, then went to the play store to download Ente, then decided I should just download an image directly… by the time I got back, Voyager had been closed and the draft was (apparently?) lost.

Any idea of how to prevent this from happening in the future?

And where is the draft supposedly saved?

  • Kairos@lemmy.todayEnglish
    21·
    2 months ago

    The reason is that is a piece of shit. It’s so obnoxiously memory inefficient and kills apps all the time. I restart my phone regularly which helps. At a point it will unload my home screen app as soon as I open another. Sometimes it unloads the stock launcher too (used for multitasking)

    • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      That is not my experience with any of my android phones or tablet.

      Seems like their might be something going on with yours.

    • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      But, like, Windows 98 had a swap file for memory. Why doesn’t Android in 2026? This is my stupid question for today.

      • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Android (sometimes; some ROMs have it disabled) uses a system called zram where a portion of memory is compressed to store more data. This vastly increases the amount of memory available nearly for free, but the system doesn’t play well with swap and actually degrades performance when both are enabled.

        The other historical problem was that enabling swap on a phone could rapidly wear down flash storage such as EMMCs, but that’s not as much of a concern these days.