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Android updates apps in background while gaming

porina
By porina
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This has annoyed me for a while and it feels like it is getting worse. If I'm in a game on my tablet, that's fine until android decides to update other apps in the background. This at best slows the game down to being unplayable, at worse it kills it. Thankfully the biggest time sink I'm on recovers on restart, but it is still annoying.

 

I suspect android doesn't update when on battery power. As I use the tablet in bed it doesn't get charged overnight, and the first top up charge is in the morning when I also want to do stuff.

 

I know you can turn off auto-updates totally, but I do want them, just not to run while in use. Would hope they have some sort of activity sensing to not update while it is in intensive use.

 

Wondering what is best solution to get around this... maybe I could add a charger near my bed and hope it gets updates out of the way before the morning. Or is there some other setting I could tweak?

Main system: i9-7980XE, Asus X299 TUF mark 2, Noctua D15, Corsair Vengeance Pro 3200 3x 16GB 2R, RTX 3070, NZXT E850, GameMax Abyss, Samsung 980 Pro 2TB, Acer Predator XB241YU 24" 1440p 144Hz G-Sync + HP LP2475w 24" 1200p 60Hz wide gamut
Gaming laptop: Lenovo Legion 5, 5800H, RTX 3070, Kingston DDR4 3200C22 2x16GB 2Rx8, Kingston Fury Renegade 1TB + Crucial P1 1TB SSD, 165 Hz IPS 1080p G-Sync Compatible

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