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Too much 3G traffic

Hello all,
This might be a very newbie and stupid question, but please help me!
I have bought a Samsung Galaxy S from Vodafone Romania just a few days ago with a 1 GB data plan. Every thing worked perfectly (traffic was low and fast, some 30MB of download + upload in the last days) but this morning.... surprise 1.7 GB of traffic downloaded overnight (checked my My Vodafone online account and there it was: some 900 MB at around 2 am and another hundreds MB at 5 am). I was sleeping, the telephone was beside me at all time, no one else in the house etc.
Here is a list of apps which were installed on the device:
Best Matrix Live Wallpaper by yu xin
Angry birds
BATstat battery widget by martin eder
google goggles
magic tg tracker by shalafi
Moxier world
weather bug
es file explorer
notification notes by blee tech
vr tunnel lite live
ghost commander
data counter widget
mtg pedia
earth live wallpaper + map packs
star wars live wallpaper
barcode scanenr
yahoo messenger
star wars light saber
remote rdp lite
kindle
android manager wifi
Has anyone encountered this situation before? Can any of these apps cause such traffic?
I have wifi at home, the wifi on the device is enabled when I am at home (and so it was the night before). All I did was download Angry Birds and just played a few levels for fun and then went to sleep.
Could some have used the Wireless AP option, could someone tether to the device without my permission, wirelessly?
Maybe the bluetooth was on; could some have used it without a pin or without me accepting the connection?
I have talked to vodafone support and they say they will know only 4 days after the beginning of the monthly plan (which is on the 2nd, making this possible only on the 6th). Could they check then, the iport that my device was connecting to? Maybe in this way I could identify the application.
Please HELP!
Best regards,
T.

I note you have Data Counter Widget installed.
Have you checked the downloaded amount showing in that App against what your online Vodaphone account is saying?
If there is a discrepancy you will at least know the data has not come from your phone but an outside source.
Looking at your Apps I can't see anything that would generate that kind of figure.
Have you checked to see if there was a Vodaphone update?

- The data from VDF seems very similar to the one reported by the traffic counter;
- Having restarted the phone, I don't think that this was an update: I remember checking the about phone screen before restarting it and there was the old info.
Still... 1.7 GB update?
Thanks for the quick respone,
T.

TAelyn said:
- The data from VDF seems very similar to the one reported by the traffic counter;
- Having restarted the phone, I don't think that this was an update: I remember checking the about phone screen before restarting it and there was the old info.
Still... 1.7 GB update?
Thanks for the quick respone,
T.
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Well, apart from update files or other items from Voda I can't see anything that should generate such a high volume of traffic... It doesn't make sense!
You may want to ask Voda if they have issued any large files or can explain the traffic.
Other than that you have the time it happened, you could try going through a file explorer (Astro is my choice) and checking the date/time/size stamp to see if anything correlates.

The only apps that could use data are yahoo messenger and remote rdp lite but so much in a night .... Have you installed an app the day before the huge download ?? Or used one that you don't use a lot ??

On Saturday I only installed ES file explorer and angry birds.
I have talked this morning to Vodafone support and they have listed a request to their technical team with a 72 hours deadline. So I'll call them again on Wednesday and see what's going on.
The guy from Vodafone told me that it is really strange as others who have complained about a similar problem had their traffic spanned over a whole month (and that was pretty obvious...) but in my case everything was downloaded in 2 bursts.
I'll just have to wait and see what happens...
T.

cause you are form Romania , big hi for you and all Romanians .i think the problem if u have Froyo.
is in Froyo it self .it is really not a problem . put in Froyo there is option that save your data(application data) automatically and when ever u reinstall an application all the data and sittings will be restored .and u can guess how much data is there .
u can disable this feature by going to sitting and then go to privacy and u can disable backing data .

Thanks for the idea, but the problem is I don't have Froyo (yet! ). But I'll be careful once I update my device to Froyo.

TAelyn said:
Thanks for the idea, but the problem is I don't have Froyo (yet! ). But I'll be careful once I update my device to Froyo.
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Note.. what the poster is forgetting is this is direct downloaded material which is seen on the Vodaphone Online server not just on the Phone.

Publicly contactable IP address?
Hi there,
If you aren't using a proxy server via your cellular provider(IE a WAP apn setup with proxy), you have probably received a public IP address on your phone.
What could have happened is that someone somewhere(or a server) has been shunting data at your public IP address over night which would explain the data usage. The data doesn't need to be initiated by any program on your phone, only that you are contactable on the Internet.
I personally use a program called Droid Wall(Firewall for Android) which drops unrequested packets of data from the public Internet side. It also allows you to specifiy which installed programs on your phone may or may not use your cellular connection, or your Wifi connection.
I generally use Droid wall to refuse internet 3G and Wireless access to programs which I know shouldn't require it, such as games
If you aren't using your providers Wap Proxy server and you are still getting this significant data usage, I would recommend changing over to it from the normal Internet APN you are currently using.

Hi,
Thanks for the info. While I wait for Vodafone to research my problem, I'll give the firewall a try.
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TAelyn said:
Hi,
Thanks for the info. While I wait for Vodafone to research my problem, I'll give the firewall a try.
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Sorry I should have mentioned that you also need to have root access as well for Droid wall

Thanks! I found the app on the Market and the rooted part was clearly typed into the title . I'll give it a try later today.
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[Q] unsuccessful download anything from the web browser.

Help needed guys..
anyone encountering unsuccessful download from the web browser?

what were you trying to download actually? downloading from some file hosting sites sometimes is quite a hassle.
i've download stuff from xda, some local forum, it's just ok.

download anything.. pictures, short clip videos, musics,...anything..

That's terrible. What baseband, ever upgraded the rom (stock, etc), was it always like this?

try another browser, like opera, dolphin, skyfire usually works

dzalr1 said:
Help needed guys..
anyone encountering unsuccessful download from the web browser?
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if using wifi, then before enabling wifi, turm on mobile data, then enable and connect wifi then disable mobile data and try to download
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Please specify the problem a bit more.
If you mean that everything you try to download fail. Tell us if its on wifi, or over 3g if you are on the move (for example car, bus, boat etc) or if you are standing still.
If its over wifi.
Make sure that the wifi don't turn off while the screen goes into idle.
If its over 3G.
Go to a place where you have full reception.
Contact your carrier and complain.
Try another browser.
Try another file.
Ether way please specify the problem as much as you can.
In case you forgot the some what humorus video from when you registered its down "You are a Noob on XDA-Developers "
And in my case. No every thing I ever downloaded so far have been downloaded successfully. Only found a random "rapidshare" copycat not to work.

everything i download from the web browser, from using WIFI to 3G, are unsuccessful. and Im using stock rom with baseband of 20110725.
it occurs only after i upgraded to the new baseband.
I had even factory reset my phone, still unable to download anything successfully.
currently im using opera browser, and able to download everything.

Zumocast update[1.1.1] disabled streaming over cell [Fixed]

Zumocast update[1.1.1] disabled me from streaming video over cell.[Fixed]
Luckily, I had it backed up [1.0.25] via Titanium, and simply restored it. This app restore was successful and I was once again allowed to stream a Boardwalk Empire.AVI over cellular data.
I wanted to warn others. Maybe someone in the Blogosphere can report this to the masses.
**EDIT:[[No need...cause this can be resolved ...Read further]]
Funny thing though, the "What's new" leaves out the fact that cellular stream has been removed. I'd also like to add that my desktop version (W7) requested an update upon restart. I may attempt to update the desk version if I can find the original download...and if its a full install as opposed to a version that Dl's from a server.
If this has happened to someone else, please reply to this thread to confirm that it was not a fluke occurrence.

Not sure what you're talking about here. I updated and stream in my car all day. Sounds like you have an isolated issue.
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...cool. Thanks for letting me know. Let me try again then. I thought it was odd nobody else had commented about this yet. I'll remove the thread if I can get it work.
Were you able to stream on both 3g and 4g?
Thanks.

Just tried the 1.1.1 update again....on 3G, and it states:
"WI-FI Required for Video Playback
video cannot be played over mobile network. Please try again when connected to Wi-Fi."
My phone is rooted, stock Rom. Finally got some Alice in chains to stream after several attempts. but, no video.

marcozark said:
...cool. Thanks for letting me know. Let me try again then. I thought it was odd nobody else had commented about this yet. I'll remove the thread if I can get it work.
Were you able to stream on both 3g and 4g?
Thanks.
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I'm in a non 4g area. I noticed a big improvement in streaming from the new update. Let me give a video a whirl and I'll report back.
EDIT: Definitely just streamed some videos over 3g. That's weird you can't.
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Still working over 4G for me.

maybe you have the data saver option turned on? Check that out.
options>Battery and data manager>data saver>uncheck

zumacast update
marcozark said:
Zumocast update[1.1.1] disabled streaming video over cell.
Luckily, I had it backed up [1.0.25] via Titanium, and simply restored it. This app restore was successful and I was once again allowed to stream a Boardwalk Empire.AVI over cellular data.
I wanted to warn others. Maybe someone in the Blogosphere can report this to the masses.
Funny thing though, the "What's new" leaves out the fact that cellular stream has been removed. I'd also like to add that my desktop version (W7) requested an update upon restart. I may attempt to update the desk version if I can find the original download...and if its a full install as opposed to a version that Dl's from a server.
If this has happened to someone else, please reply to this thread to confirm that it was not a fluke occurrence.
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i live in a 4g area and i just streamed drive angry over 3g with wifi and 4g off. pretty fast i might add over 3g. really fast over wifi to. sucks you are having problems

update now streams over 3G for me too!
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Eulises86 said:
maybe you have the data saver option turned on? Check that out.
options>Battery and data manager>data saver>uncheck
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This cleared it right up. Good Job for finding the fix. Thanks for everyone's input.
For the record,the zumocast update is fine. It was just myself who had the issue, which has been resolved by disabling the battery saver mode.
...didn't even know i was in Battery saver mode. Thanks again.

I have this same issue, but turning data saver on or off doesnt fix it. I can connect to server fine over 3g, and can play music but it wont let me play video at all. It says
Wi-Fi required for Video Playback
Video cannot be played over mobile network. Please try again when connected to Wi-Fi.

Music stuttering when on Wifi

I've had a problem the last few months with my music stuttering when I'm on wifi. This problem does not occur on 4g connection.
The problem is on any wifi network I'm on. It's really annoying. First I thought it was a Spotify problem and reinstalled the app, but that didn't help.
Music played from the player stutters as well when on wifi.
I've tried googling this, but I can't seem to find anyone who has had this problem
Anyone else with this problem? Or know how to fix it?

Have the same problem, but haven't found a solution yet.
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Give us details guyz. We are jot gods. Firmware version? Custom or official? Any background apps that sucking your wifi while you are connected? Just saying that if you are connected on wifi your phone is uploading on cloud and that means lower connection for the rest. Its the only thing that comes in my mind. And i would suggest you to remove connectivity between clouds like google photos, onedrive etc and check again
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Firmware version EVA-L09C432B393. Official version. I've got nothing that's uploading when I'm on wifi. The only thing that is set to upload the photo app when I've taken new photos, but that is like once a month maybe.

Rhaella said:
Firmware version EVA-L09C432B393. Official version. I've got nothing that's uploading when I'm on wifi. The only thing that is set to upload the photo app when I've taken new photos, but that is like once a month maybe.
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I got B394 and i can tell you that i never faced such issues even with earlier versions. Although im considered lucky because i have 300mbps up-down on my home internet and unlimited up-down speeds, unlimited data and i dont suffer with my streaming.
Try to remove every sync from the settings, like mail , google viber, facebook etc etc. Its most likely the reason why you have lag spikes. Go on Wi-Fi and activate the setting that allows you to see the download-upload speed on the top of your screen. This way you will be able to check in-out data. connect on your wifi and check if there is movement. I can not see where else is the problem. If you have data cap on upload it could be the big reason why you get stuttering on wifi when you are using streaming music. After you desync your phone run your app and check if you are facing the same issue. If that fails most likely your phone is suffering from a hungry memory app.

All of my playlists are offline lists as well. And I don't have the stuttering when I'm offline.
I can't find any option to show up and down speed on the wifi. But our home wifi is really good, and we have no cap on upload speed.
And I find it weird that it affects both music apps. I have songs saved on my phone and these also stutter when on wifi, even though there shouldn't be any reason for it.

Take a look o.n the upper right side what I mean. And just to answer your question yes. It does feed something somewhere when you are connected on wifi. There is no other explanation. Awful but its happening. Did you try the rest i suggested you?
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Thanks for the help.
Me and my husband found out what was wrong. There is something wrong with the SD card I had in my phone. Turns out Spotify was saving all of my playlists there and it couldn't handle being connected to wifi I guess.
And the SD card somehow ****ed up my wifi connection speed as well. Did speedtests with it in and out and it was a big difference.

How to hack Chromecast so its not looking for internet??

Hi to All, I know this has nothing to do with phones, but there might just be someone here who can solve this anyway
My problem is that I live in an area in th Philippines, where Globe telecom is the only solution for internet, and a very unstable one. Sometimes the speed is all the way down to 80Kbps and sometimes it goes to 0.
This makes using a Chromecast very dificult, it's possible to use when the speed is fine, but a sudden drop in speed sends chromecast in buffering mode. I tried to get Google to help, to no avail - they don't care.
I would like to have it not searching for internet, as 99.9% of the time i use it for internal casting(Offline)!
Anyone have a solution for this?
My Chromecast is 3rd gen. According to this page https://www.techthatworks.net/electronic/what-generation-chromecast-do-i-have and use Firmware(checked that in Home App) 1.49.230269
Hope to hear from you smart people soon as this is driving me nuts, I'm back to use USB stick and not all format are supported, so I have to convert and convert and so on, in order to watch the clips.
Thank you in advance
Jan
Moderator: could you move the thread to the chromecast forum? Thank you

Peppe89 said:
Is it legal?
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Hi Peppe, why would it be illegal, I paid for the device - its mine I just want it to stop looking for the internet all the time, and do what it was bought for -casting.

Not possible, it's a real design flaw of the chromecast. I have slow internet and use it for internal casting too, very frustrating. Maybe get a bluray player or a roku they are better.

Thank you
SublimeFoxTheater
seem that Admin can close this one then

Hi, why should it not be possible? port or ipforwarding, tunneling etc? dont know how this device is working... but as its networking.. there should be a kind of way

nox23523 said:
Hi, why should it not be possible? port or ipforwarding, tunneling etc? dont know how this device is working... but as its networking.. there should be a kind of way
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The 3rd gen Chromecast will not boot or function if it can't hit Google's servers at boot. If it looses general internet connection, it will go to a "I've lost my brains" type of screen and not let you do anything. For a Chromecast, the internet connection is sadly required even if you're just mirroring locally.