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Some of my Android apps seem to start despite "enable background service" (German: "Starten von Hintergrund-Diensten beim Einschalten erlauben") is disabled in settings --> apps. Of cause these apps are not shown in the GUI, but they are visible Lighthouse, and may be manually stopped in settings --> apps. Sometimes apps that have never been used are running in background, so it seems random to me.

Some of the apps need large amounts of memory, and some may use location services, so I would like to get control over them.

I am a Whatsapp user, and want Whatsapp to run in background for getting notifications. So stopping Alien Dalvik would not be sufficient.

Since the mentioned background service setting doesn't have the desired effect, I am looking for a more reliable solution to prevent Android apps from autostart. Any suggestion would be highly appreciated...

Some of my Android apps seem to start despite "enable background service" (German: "Starten von Hintergrund-Diensten beim Einschalten erlauben") is disabled in settings --> apps. Of cause these apps are not shown in the GUI, but they are visible Lighthouse, and may be manually stopped in settings --> apps. Sometimes apps that have never been used are running in background, so it seems random to me.

Some of the apps need large amounts of memory, and some may use location services, so I would like to get control over them.

I am a Whatsapp user, and want Whatsapp to run in background for getting notifications. So stopping Alien Dalvik would not be sufficient.

Since the mentioned background service setting doesn't have the desired effect, I am looking for a more reliable solution to prevent Android apps from autostart. Any suggestion would be highly appreciated...appreciated...

Xperia X, Sailfish OS 2.1.4.13 EA, but also noticed with earlier Sailfish versions.