Help Maintaining apps state during inactivity

[Deleted User]

I listen to a lot of audio books and thus like to keep VLC and My Files constantly running and in a consistent state. What tends to happen however is that they seem to lose their state (playlist in VLC, working directory in My Files) if the app is inactive for a few minutes. This is a change from the previous Android version in which they would maintain their state for a whole day if not longer. I'm wondering what I can do to configure the apps, either individually or in the Android settings, in such a way that they do not lose their state as long as the device is running and not out of memory.

Samsung Galaxy J7 (2016)
Android: 7.0 (Nougat)

 

[lunatic59]

Do you have any kind of phone optimizer running? I know Samsung has a tendency to include some Cheeta Mobile crap (CleanMaster rebranded). That could be killing your apps int he background.

 

[Deleted User]

Do you have any kind of phone optimizer running? I know Samsung has a tendency to include some Cheeta Mobile crap (CleanMaster rebranded). That could be killing your apps int he background.

I have not been able to detect such an app so far.

 

[lunatic59]

I'm not sure where exactly Samsung puts this, but see if you have a setting like this:

settings>battery>usage>ignore optimizations (you might have to select the three dot menu at some point) and set My Files and VLC to ignore the battery optimization. that might keep it persistently in active state.