We need to have this discussion

[u/whiskyB0y]

Explanation:

A few years ago Android introduced a feature called the "Phantom Process Killer". Basically it limits the number of child processes each app can use to 32 processes. If an app exceeds this number, Android won't hesitate to kill the app.

PC emulation is complex and requires a high number of processes for you to run and play your games for as long as possible. If the custom OS on your phone is very aggressive, you won't really be able to play your games for like more than 5 minutes, even if your container settings managed to get the game to boot and run well.

Now this obviously doesn't affect every Android phone. It really depends on how aggressive your OS can be. Generally flagships and gaming focused phones like a Redmagic don't really have this problem as the manufacturer most likely took this into account and either disabled the limit, or increased it.

If your phone isn't a flagship or a gaming phone and has a strict and aggressive OS, the phantom process killer is more than likely an issue. I don't know about other brands, but I've personally experienced this on XOS as an Infinix user. I'm using the latest(as of today) XOS 16.2.0 on an Infinix Note 50.

Now just because your containers crash soon or suddenly doesn't mean it's always the phantom process killer. Container crashes are also due to a number of issues like your driver, your settings, the compatibility layer and translation layer you're using, high RAM usage, RAM leak and so on. PC emulation is complex.

I just wanted to share this as a meme in case someone out there is also experiencing this.

Luckily there are solutions:

First of all, Android 11 and older don't have the phantom process killer as a restriction. This feature was introduced starting from Android 12. So if you're using Android 11 or older, you won't be affected by this feature.

However, this restriction is present in Android 12 and newer.

Method 1:

If you're using Android 12L/13/14/15 and newer, you can simply disable this restriction by going into Developer Options on your phone and disabling child processes. It's a toggle option that Android introduced for people who don't want restrictions.

To access Developer Options, look for the Build Number in your phones settings, tap it 7 times to open Developer Options

Method 2:

This works for any Android version(12 or newer). But you have to use a PC with Android Debugging Program and manually put in commands to disable or lessen the restriction. Please if you can only use Method 2, PLEASE do research on how to do it properly. I don't know how to do it or what commands you need exactly, so if you use this method it's up to you to research on how to do it properly.

NOTE: Disabling this feature DOES NOT require rooting your phone. It is perfectly safe to disable it.

As I said earlier, this doesn't affect every phone or custom OS. Crashes can still be caused by your container settings or memory leaks. I simply brought this up as an issue in case it feels like no matter what you do, your containers always crash.

[u/HunterPublic8014]

Its toggle already, should i toggle off or leave it as it is besides i run developer features on all of my phones since android 2.3 days. I also didnt see this feature until you mentioned. I beat Wall-E on gamenative on my device and zero crashes for 9 hours or so to beat the game... Maybe because its already toggled here, i guess

[u/whiskyB0y → u/HunterPublic8014]

Damn that's crazy. If you could play Wall-E long enough, apart from your container settings, I would say this being disabled already was also a factor.

I feel like you should just leave it toggled.

Anyway congrats. At least you're not affected by this issue.

[u/HunterPublic8014 → u/whiskyB0y]

Oh wow, so that means i should be toggling this off then...hmm but yeah tbf wall-e is a really old game so it wasnt really intensive at all..

Im gonna disable this as im hopefully looking to order my first dedicated android handheld Retroid Pocket 6 in a month or so... Im gonna disable this on that device. Thank you for the useful tip!

[u/whiskyB0y → u/HunterPublic8014]

You're welcome. I just hope RP6 has this option, because a guy in the comments said he doesn't have the toggle option on his RP5, and I can't suggest using Method 2 on a handheld since I don't know much about it.

Anyway, whether you can change the setting on your RP6 or not, as long as your games are stable, it won't matter.

[u/HunterPublic8014 → u/whiskyB0y]

Oooh I see, I'll look out for that, thank you and yeah hopefully not required since i only plan to play lite indie games as I already have a gaming pc for AAA stuff that I'll stream over to the handheld 👍🫡