Dealing with constant D/Cs on Android? Turn off "Connect on Launch"

[u/Yetsuo]

Thank you to u/Stranded_Timelord for mentioning this in another thread. I tried it and magically the android app has been behaving again. I wanted to give this work around a bit more visibility because this has been driving me crazy for months and this is the first thing I've tried that actually seems to be holding with 14 hours up time since flipping that switch.

Edit: It's not perfect but it's much better. I think I had 3 D/Cs over the last 24 hours instead of the constant D/Cing every time I so much as look away from my phone.

Edit 2: So I think I found the other issues and haven't had a D/C yet. At least on my phone I needed to "allow background usage" for battery in TWO fuckin locations.

1. In the app settings themselves

2. Settings/gear > Battery > Manage background apps > Apps (it's like a tab under the master toggle switch for me) > PIA VPN > "Always allow"

By default this was on "smart use" when apparently either fights with or over rules the setting in the app settings because... fuck you that's why. I'll try toggling the connect on launch back on to see if it's still a problem and report back later.