I have a Lenovo tablet and it mercilessly kills background apps, no matter what you do.
I sprung for the extra version with 12Gb RAM as well, so it's just so pointless. It has double the RAM of my Android phone that doesn't do that at all.
So forget about syncthing or anything else you actually want to run all the time in the background. I need to remember to run it manually if I want things to actually be synced.
I could go through the rigmarole of installing a different firmware but it looks really complicated to do, and there are pros and cons of doing that too.
> ...installing a different firmware but it looks really complicated to do...
It depends on whether someone has already created an image for your device.
If so, it's not complicated at all - download a few files, unzip, and type a couple of well-documented commands on a PC while the tablet is plugged in. It took me less than an hour the first time I did it, of which most of the time was spent watching progress bars!
If however your tablet is not in the list of 'supported devices' for the other firmware you'd like to use, I wouldn't try it at all. Likewise if the tablet's bootloader can't be easily unlocked; finding an exploit to crack it can be seriously difficult and time-consuming.
I hope that gives you an idea of how difficult this may or may not be - I hope your device turns out to be in the first category!
I sprung for the extra version with 12Gb RAM as well, so it's just so pointless. It has double the RAM of my Android phone that doesn't do that at all.
So forget about syncthing or anything else you actually want to run all the time in the background. I need to remember to run it manually if I want things to actually be synced.
I could go through the rigmarole of installing a different firmware but it looks really complicated to do, and there are pros and cons of doing that too.