First of all, I'm not sure if I'm in the right forum section because I have a Bell Canada Note 4 not AT&T, but I know AT&T and Bell usually have identical hardware, and there is an insane number of forums on xda to choose from, so I apologise if I didn't guess right.
Galaxy Note 4 (SM-N910W8) on Bell Canada, running 5.0.1
It seems like every time I try to go back to an app that I had minimized with the home button, it's gone, and it has to restart. For some apps, like Google Chrome, it's instantly - I'm looking at a webpage, then I press home, start up messaging to text someone, and then go back into chrome, and the page I was looking at is gone, Chrome has restarted.
For other apps, they last a *little* longer, but it's still infuriating that they get closed at all. There's a turn based game I like to play that takes a lot of time to play a single round, and there's no way to save in the middle of a round. So I like to play it for a bit when I have a smoke, and then minimize it, and then come back a few hours later and play it some more on the toilet. I can't seem to do that anymore because it keeps closing it, and now every time I go back into the game, even if I use the built in task manager that shows a little picture preview of the game I'm currently playing, it will open the game fresh, and restart it.
But this is the first phone I've ever owned that's had this problem. But then, it's also the first phone I haven't rooted - there's no way to root the Note 4 without voiding my 1 year warranty. My last phone, my Galaxy S3, I rooted right away (but left it as stock rom for a year). It *never* had this problem - my games would still be running a day later.
It seems like Android is closing background apps, without my permission, to free up memory for other apps being run. I noticed this never happened before - on my S3, if I didn't close enough apps, I would run very low on memory and my phone would become super slow.
Please tell me, there's *got* to be a way to stop this from happening, right? This is just awful - every single other OS does multitasking just fine, so why doesn't Android? It's just my phone, right? This can't be normal.
