I have an AT&T Moto X. I've noticed that EVERY time I turn on my screen the WiFi indicator shows data being uploaded and downloaded. I installed a data manager and it said Adblock Plus was eating up a ton of data. I uninstalled and rebooted. However anytime I turn the phone on the data is uploading and downloading in the background.
Nothing is keeping the CPU awake as its mostly in deep sleep mode. I also checked wakelocks and the only ones are the nlpwakelock which I assume is for the "OK, Google Now" feature. That shouldn't be doing it because I believe the data isnt sent to google until you actually ask it a question.
Not sure what else to do. Anyone have any ideas?
EDIT: Also noticed in data manager that "Android OS services" data has been creeping up. Its only 187kb but it seems like that might be the culprit? Not sure what to do about it though.
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Hi, I have had my note (gt-n7000, all stock, not rooted) since December and have kept an eye on my data usage using data counter widget and NetTraffic widget. On gingerbread everything was fine, very little background data, monthly usage well below 100MB (I'm on wi-fi 90% of the time), my battery usage was not great but no cause for concern at 8-10 hours standby.
Since the update to ics I have had battery issues, 4-5 hours standby max and I think this is caused by a constant 1kb/s connection every second. I have somehow managed too use 150MB in 10 days without even using my phone on 3g (standby only for average.... 1 hour a day!? ish). The phone doesn't get as hot as it did when ics first installed.
Onavo said Facebook was using high data so I have uninstalled it to test. RadioOpt Traffic monitor 4.1 shows "System Traffic" as extremely high.
I have tried:
Rebooting the phone.
Killing tasks/clearing memory.
Force stopping every process to see if that would identify the app/service causing the extra background data.
Disable sync.
Disable Samsung account.
Uninstalled Samsung push service.
Launch TWlauncher and remove all widgets and pages, I run ssLauncher.
I hadn't noticed the data usage when I first installed ics, it was a probably a week before I did. I don't think I have many new apps that would do this although something may have changed when an app updated.. but then wouldn't that show up in Onavo?
Does anyone know of any apps (non-root) that will give me detailed network information? ip addresses/domains attached too and What apps are currently connected?
Has anyone else noticed the same issue? I did search the forum before posting so doubt it.
LBE Privacy Guard can give you detailed info as to the data being used by each app but I'm not sure it's much better than the info ICS gives you when you go to settings / data usage.
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LBE was useful thanks, I have used it to identify 3D flip clock as one application using a lot more data than it should. After uninstalling my data usage has improved. May have just been a bad install or a faulty update.
I'm now wondering why "voice talk" is using so much, especially as I don't use it and every time it asks me "what would you like to do?" I tell it to uninstall itself but nothing happens. is there anything I can do to disable it?
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LBE was useful thanks, I have used it to identify 3D flip clock as one application using a lot more data than it should. After uninstalling my data usage has improved. May have just been a bad install or a faulty update.
I'm now wondering why "voice talk" is using so much, especially as I don't use it and every time it asks me "what would you like to do?" I tell it to uninstall itself but nothing happens. is there anything I can do to disable it?
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Go to settings>applications click the "all" tab and there you can scroll down and locate voice talk. Click on it and then you get several options. One of them should be to disable it.
Great thanks
If anyone could recommend a good app to see what app(s) is/are accessing data in real-time, I'd appreciate it. I've noticed the circle arrows in the status bar indicating data syncing is almost constantly on. I have a tiny screen overlay that gives me real-time up/down speeds and it is also indicating data is constantly in use. It appears, though, that this data use is only in play while on wifi, not 3G or 4G, but the symbol will still remain in the status bar while the data monitor that i do have indicates no data is in use.
I'd like to find out what is constantly syncing and correct it. I can imagine this would be a huge drain on the battery. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.
EDIT: I think I found the culprit, but didn't find an app as I had requested. Google Sound Search wouldn't stop syncing it seemed. I unchecked it and everything went back to normal... for the most part. Another Google Service appeared to begin syncing after that, so we'll see if that gets stuck in an endless loop too.
Over the last few hours, according to the built in mobile data usage meter, android OS has used nearly 1GB of data and keeps climbing after rebooting. In a normal month android OS doesn't even appear in the list of things that use data. Is there a way of identifying precisely what has gone rogue and deal with it. This is the second time in several months this has happened. Obviously if this keeps happening I'm going to get hit with overage charges for data. But I don't even know where to begin looking to identify the cause. Thank you for any assistance you can offer.
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Over the last few hours, according to the built in mobile data usage meter, android OS has used nearly 1GB of data and keeps climbing after rebooting. In a normal month android OS doesn't even appear in the list of things that use data. Is there a way of identifying precisely what has gone rogue and deal with it. This is the second time in several months this has happened. Obviously if this keeps happening I'm going to get hit with overage charges for data. But I don't even know where to begin looking to identify the cause. Thank you for any assistance you can offer.
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Try this. Go to settings > backup and reset, and then turn off everything under google backup.
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Over the last few hours, according to the built in mobile data usage meter, android OS has used nearly 1GB of data and keeps climbing after rebooting. In a normal month android OS doesn't even appear in the list of things that use data. Is there a way of identifying precisely what has gone rogue and deal with it. This is the second time in several months this has happened. Obviously if this keeps happening I'm going to get hit with overage charges for data. But I don't even know where to begin looking to identify the cause. Thank you for any assistance you can offer.
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I got a similar thread in the g4 q a. Restrict background data. if ure like me use exposed look for module or in post for link to disable the restr data notifacation. I am try to figure this one out my os uses ridiculus amounts of data and i do not have any syncs or backups that run. The restrict. Seems to have stopped it but some apps wont work properly. For say i use flip clock widget and weather wont update unless i turn off restriction. We have a few looking into this i get 1.5 gigs of data a month and 80% is used by os
For me, Android OS is my biggest data hog, more than Chrome and Maps. I am interested in whether anyone can pinpoint the part of the phone using so much mobile data.
But more important question, why does Android hide specifics from us? What is the point of hiding all the details under the umbrella term "Android OS"? It would be awesome if we could see a breakdown of what components make up the total, so we could see whether something was acting up.
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For me, Android OS is my biggest data hog, more than Chrome and Maps. I am interested in whether anyone can pinpoint the part of the phone using so much mobile data.
But more important question, why does Android hide specifics from us? What is the point of hiding all the details under the umbrella term "Android OS"? It would be awesome if we could see a breakdown of what components make up the total, so we could see whether something was acting up.
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Thats what im working on. Like i said ive almost eliminated it with restricted data but thats just a bandaid. Mine was fine till about a month ago or so and went nuts using data
lg g4 uses data secretly.. :S i am on zv6, even time i clear cache, it download software update secretly, even after disabling all the apk which are responsible for lg g4 upgrade. upgrade notification on lg g4 is sent by Google Play services, not an OTA apk message. I have to disable notifications from google play services or system upgrade message won't go..
so everytime we clear cache, it wil download system upgrade without your acknowedgement, no matter you are on 3g or 4g or wifi... and it wont even show upgrade notification if cause we turned it off..
i made a dummy update.zip and immutable it. everytime i clear cache i do that first.. now i dont see any rogue usage of data..
Hello all! New owner of the wonderful LG G6! I have a bit of a concern. I notice when I'm using wifi, the up/down arrows inside the wifi icon are always going crazy. The "down" arrow hits EVERY SINGLE second. But if I turn off wifi and just use LTE it stops.... I noticed this same exact thing on my previous phones, S7, J7 and now this. Anyone have an similar experience? I also notice that some people seem to have battery drain, I wounder if this could be the reason, as I seem to suffer the same drain. It's pretty horrible.
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Hello all! New owner of the wonderful LG G6! I have a bit of a concern. I notice when I'm using wifi, the up/down arrows inside the wifi icon are always going crazy. The "down" arrow hits EVERY SINGLE second. But if I turn off wifi and just use LTE it stops.... I noticed this same exact thing on my previous phones, S7, J7 and now this. Anyone have an similar experience? I also notice that some people seem to have battery drain, I wounder if this could be the reason, as I seem to suffer the same drain. It's pretty horrible.
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Something horribly wrong with the OS optimization of this phone. I always get the biggest battery drain as 'Phone Idle'. Much higher than the screen time.
This is the situation when I have even disabled most of the battery hungry apps like Google, Maps, Facebook, etc. This is really unacceptable.
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Something horribly wrong with the OS optimization of this phone. I always get the biggest battery drain as 'Phone Idle'. Much higher than the screen time.
This is the situation when I have even disabled most of the battery hungry apps like Google, Maps, Facebook, etc. This is really unacceptable.
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Try disabling volte and see if that helps with phone idle.
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Try disabling volte and see if that helps with phone idle.
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that's one of the first things I disabled. Also tried turning off location, AOD... no luck.
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you should find the exact app or process which drains data. install app from google play like 3g watchdog or data monitor and detect all processes to find the problematic one
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I tried 3G watchdog, it shows "OS Services" app is constantly downloading about 300KB every second or two...... what is "OS Services"?..........
after about 5 mins its already downloaded a total of 34MB.... It's not an app, it did this when I first got the phone and nothing downloaded to it yet
EDIT: Now I tried Data Usage Monitor and it just calls it "root"...... this is strange.....
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I tried 3G watchdog, it shows "OS Services" app is constantly downloading about 300KB every second or two...... what is "OS Services"?..........
after about 5 mins its already downloaded a total of 34MB.... It's not an app, it did this when I first got the phone and nothing downloaded to it yet
EDIT: Now I tried Data Usage Monitor and it just calls it "root"...... this is strange.....
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seems like something downloading for updates etc. have you tried wipe data/wipe cache ?
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seems like something downloading for updates etc. have you tried wipe data/wipe cache ?
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I've tried everything
try installing Netguard and disable all apps that you do not want to have net access.
It does not need root.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-netguard-root-firewall-t3233012
hello guys,
my OP3T did serve me very well over the last couple years but now im facing some strange behaviours. im running android 11 via ArrowOS in the latest version.
so one day i randomly got a text saying that im about to reach my data limit which is weird, as i barely do anything with my device. i checked the setting and found out that my device downloaded almost 5 GB of a system update i was not aware of or even could find any info about (pic 1 + 2 + A). adding to that another 15 GB when hooked on the wifi. (pic 3),
although pic 7 shows the app having ACTUALLY downloaded only around 200 MB.
through the battery stats i found out that google play services appeard to be active 24/7 and sucking the battery dry, literally >> 99% ????
i cleared the cache of google play services already but completely deactivating is not an option as its linked to every other app there is.
any help you guys could offer? if possible without resetting the device or reflashing.
thx
I normally keep Google play Services disable unless I need it for Gmail or Playstore.
It's a trouble maker.
Google backup Transport runs as a dependency of it as well, that may be your culprit.
Since Pie Google Android has mutated into a even more fat big sister of a hog. Who needs that?!
i tried that but my phone keeps constantly buzzing then as it finds more and more apps that stopped working and i get notification after notification.
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i tried that but my phone keeps constantly buzzing then as it finds more and more apps that stopped working and i get notification after notification.
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Disable the notifications.... Gookill sucks.