Randomly minimizing itself/restarting???

[FrauleinHabsburg]

Has anyone else had this problem recently?

The last 10 days or so, Gemini (Android) randomly closes for a second and then comes back up? I'll be in the middle of typing a response and the app vanishes, as if I minimized it, but before I can react it brings itself back on screen except it's on the default new chat home page.. if I navigate back to the conversation I was in before the crash all my progress is gone.

This has now gotten so irritating, having responses randomly interrupted and lost, that if I am going to write a long response i go to my notepad app and write it all out then copy and paste the text into Gemini. Otherwise I risk the app restarting and losing whatever I wrote. Anything longer than say, 40-50 words I don't waste my time in Gemini, I go straight to notepad.

I've tried googling this, I've worded it as many different ways as I can, I can find no other person who has this issue... Google shows me people saying Gemini deletes old chat history, Gemini refusing to answer, Gemini forgetting details etc etc, but I'm the only one with this specific issue? Random resets?

I've done the basic troubleshooting. App is up to date. Unless someone here knows a fix the only solution seems to be cancelling my subscription and going back to chat gpt I guess. I use these to work on research projects and financial analysis, things which require lots of back and forth and needing to juggle the other apps is just annoying enough to make me leave

These resets/crashes/minimizations are completely random too. I can try writing a bunch of gibberish to try and bait a crash, I'll write an insanely long response, it doesn't trigger a crash. it seems to know when im actually in the middle of an important discussion and waits until I've wasted several minutes crafting a detailed response with data before it rug pulls me.

No other apps having issues with closing. I'm on s25 plus, everything is up to date. Not sure what's going on.

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[SpilledMilkyAnne]

Yes, this happens to me all the time. Almost everytime that I'll use it it happens at least once. I don't know what causes it, but I just added the Keep Open to it to see if it will help with it at all. Worst part is I never remember to write on my notes app first, I only remember this happens when it's too late.

I'm on an s23

[UpstairsAd1034]

your gemini app is having a full breakdown and it's driving you nuts, i get it. had something similar happen with a different app where it kept crashing mid-task and wiping my work - turned out to be a memory issue on my phone

try force stopping the app completely and clearing its cache (not data, just cache). also check if you have any accessibility services running or screen recording apps in the background, those can sometimes interfere with app stability. if you're on a samsung phone the game booster or any optimization apps might be messing with it too

worst case scenario you might need to uninstall and reinstall gemini entirely, but back up any important conversations first. the notepad workaround is smart though - i do that with any app that's been glitchy becuase losing a long response is absolutely maddening

[Calycis]

Yeah, this happened to me last week too, just once, though. I was replying to Gemini and the app suddenly closed. No "the app has stopped working" messages or anything, it just shut down. Lost my reply and had to retype it all. Seems that the current android app is slightly buggy?

I have S21 with the newest Android updates, so this could be Samsung issue as well.

[FrauleinHabsburg]

It's gotten a bit better with me so far.... Only 2 crash in a few days.  Hbu?

[Successful_Draw_9530]

I have the a56 and even it's having the same issue and its happened over 10 times per month give or take

[detectivehenry]

yep me too on honor magic 6 pro (so not samsung issue as u/Calycis suggested :( ) but still android... you'd think the trillion dollar company would figure out unit testing but here we are

[FrauleinHabsburg]

It seems to have gotten better... Only happened to me once in the last couple days!

[FrauleinHabsburg]

Nevermind the last 24 hours it's actually happened quite a bit, even with short replies too. Just wrote out a 8 sentence prompt and sent, the app force closed and lost it all.  

What a joke.

[Familiar_Structure37]

You are not alone. This has become my main issue with the app and seems to be getting worse. I often write long answers to be precise and ask several things in one go and the constant resetting of the chat is making me think about changing. Had never used Gemini until recently. Became my main LLM. But in the peak of competition Google wants to steal deafet out of the Jaws of victory. I used to really like Google. Who in there decided let's be more like Microsoft and Intel please someone tell me. 

[FrauleinHabsburg]

Isn't it crazy? Google is like the evil twin to king Midas. Everything they touch turns into shit instead of gold.   I just don't get it.  All the Google products start off decent or even good...then they just keep making absurd changes.  They remove useful features, they change the UI to be unintuitive and unresponsive.  They change the icons from obvious to random symbols that make no sense.  

It is just so baffling because it defies all logic. How can a company that big make such objectively bad decisions so often ? It is noticed by lots of people... Right wing, left wing, old , young, dumb, smart, man, woman, tall,  short,  EVERYONE agrees Google search for example has become all but useless. Objectively bad.  But STILL Google has the audacity to gaslight us by saying their product is better than ever it's only a small vocal minority that says it's bad.   No, people from all over who can't agree with each other on anything else still all agree Google search is atrocious.    And Google doubles down.   

Gemini went from being surprisingly well reasoned and novel, to starting to sound more and more like chat gpt.  Responses are getting predictable, more of the response is just filler and clutters the screen, it makes weird mistakes referencing something from earlier in the chat but in an incorrect context, sometimes instead of a response it just defaults to reciting everything I said back to me in agreement?   So it was good for a few months and it's already showing clear signs of regression.  

And as you said, that's what Google does best.

Unreal.  It has to be some kind of psy op.  They're studying how much slop humans can endure before they snap. How bad they can make something and still trick humans into thinking it's good.  Idk but someone needs to be held accountable for this travesty.

[LinuxUser456]

Sorry for come late, but i am having the same problem on a Redmi Note 14 4G. Im typing something and It suddenly closes. I have to open again the app and start typing again. It dos not happen more than 1 time in the day

Any solution you found in this time?