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[Q] High Data Usage Problem (Tilt 2 on ATT)

Hey all, I did not have much luck using the search. Tried to find other people who have had this problem. **Plus nobody responded in the General forum so here I am again. **
We have 4 ATT Tilt 2 phones in my department. All with the same rom, radio, settings, etc. The difference in the phones is that 2 of them were purchased about a year earlier than the other 2.
*PROBLEM* TWO of the phones (the newer purchased Tilt 2's) we are getting alerts for high data usage from ATT. Looked at the ATT data logs, sure enough they have high data usage, large amounts at odd times. like 20mb - 100+mb transfers in the late night early morning, during the day. Not good, it is all adding up quick with no suspect in sight. The 2 users with this problem, use the phone data less than I do for day to day tasks and I am way under the alert limit, its not something they are causing---some of these data periods are while the user is ASLEEP (and no, we do NOT use MS myphone sync). Its got to be a phone software or software compatibility with the newer Tilt 2 hardware or something. I tried a couple different ROMS, same problem. Right now we are all on Energy.RHODIUM.21684.Sense2.5.Cookie.sencity.Nov.0 8
Radio: 4.49.25.77 (best signal in our area) Michigan
Please help. Thanks to anybody who can provide some guidance.

sounds like it is connecting for something and not disconnecting. I have this problem sometimes when it connects to download my email and weather, it will stay connected all night and kill my battery by the time i wake up.

TRY THIS, CREDITS TO THE GUY THAT HAD THE TIME TO PUT THIS TOGETHER, NOT ME
Enable Auto Data Disconnect for Auto Email Downloads and Other Downloads with a Cab File
When you have auto email downloads enabled, data is not disoconnected after mail retrieval and thus your battery is drained much faster. Modify the following reg edit to have data disconnect after 60 seconds. You can test this by tapping on the notfification bar while downloading emails and watch the data connection close after idle for 60 seconds. Please note. Data connection will NOT auto disconnect if you have any HTC Sense auto download enabled such as Weather, Twitter, Stocks, Facebook or Time Sync. Please set these apps to manual download only. Please note that this setting has the possible effect of disabling simultaneous voice and data on some devices, even if you are on a capable network and signal. See Tip 70 for an app that works with even HTC data downloads.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Comm\ConnMgr\Planner\Settings
CacheTime = 60
SuspendResume = should be blank. Delete "GPRS_bye_if_device_off" text.
VPNCacheTime = 60
Finally An Auto Data Disconnection That Works - Save Battery Life!
Download the following cab file http://www.commmgrpro.com/CommMgrPro...witch.V2.8.cab
You can set it to disconnect data after 60 seconds or more or less thus saving you battery. Read the thread here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...ght=bandswitch
Tried and tested for over a 2 weeks on my HD2 and works perfectly. Use INSTEAD of Tip 33.

The only problem i have with this is that it kind of defeats the purpose of a smart/connected phone. Its just so strange that only 2 of the 4 phones have this high data use problem, and they were all setup by the same person.
But on the other hand, it would be a good test method for data usage before and after. THANK YA!
latinohot said:
TRY THIS, CREDITS TO THE GUY THAT HAD THE TIME TO PUT THIS TOGETHER, NOT ME
Enable Auto Data Disconnect for Auto Email Downloads and Other Downloads with a Cab File
When you have auto email downloads enabled, data is not disoconnected after mail retrieval and thus your battery is drained much faster. Modify the following reg edit to have data disconnect after 60 seconds. You can test this by tapping on the notfification bar while downloading emails and watch the data connection close after idle for 60 seconds. Please note. Data connection will NOT auto disconnect if you have any HTC Sense auto download enabled such as Weather, Twitter, Stocks, Facebook or Time Sync. Please set these apps to manual download only. Please note that this setting has the possible effect of disabling simultaneous voice and data on some devices, even if you are on a capable network and signal. See Tip 70 for an app that works with even HTC data downloads.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Comm\ConnMgr\Planner\Settings
CacheTime = 60
SuspendResume = should be blank. Delete "GPRS_bye_if_device_off" text.
VPNCacheTime = 60
Finally An Auto Data Disconnection That Works - Save Battery Life!
Download the following cab file http://www.commmgrpro.com/CommMgrPro...witch.V2.8.cab
You can set it to disconnect data after 60 seconds or more or less thus saving you battery. Read the thread here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...ght=bandswitch
Tried and tested for over a 2 weeks on my HD2 and works perfectly. Use INSTEAD of Tip 33.
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make sure your weather isnt set to download on its own because it will not auto disconnect.
other things like email and stuff like that will usually not auto disconnect either.

Ok we will try that and see what happens. Will report back
Blu3ManiC said:
make sure your weather isnt set to download on its own because it will not auto disconnect.
other things like email and stuff like that will usually not auto disconnect either.
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Have this exact same problem using the latest Simplicity rom. Nothing, not even the weather is set to auto update, and by and large I no longer even use the phone save for 2 or 3 phone calls a month. Yet, like clockwork, get data warnings.

I wonder if this has anything to do with it (SEEING THAT BOTH OF OUR USERS WITH THE PROBLEM WERE LINKED TO YAHOO MAIL ACCOUNTS! And not the rest of us)
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-20030159-75.html?tag=cnetRiver
And yes i realize this ref's phone 7 OS, but still...fishy

whiffer2 said:
I wonder if this has anything to do with it (SEEING THAT BOTH OF OUR USERS WITH THE PROBLEM WERE LINKED
And yes i realize this ref's phone 7 OS, but still...fishy
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That problem is not just on wp7 is happening on iphones too. so u better unlink those yahoo mail accoounts or put your setting for manual downlad.

I unlinked my Yahoo account and disabled auto update of Sense Weather, my data usage did go down, not that I care about it as I have unlimited, but was surprised at how much better battery life I now have.

[Q] Tethering + Bittorrent Help

I couldnt find anything through search so hopefully someone has the knowledge I need so badly .
I am tethering my Droid 1 to ubuntu 10.04 and when I start my Deluge(torrent client) everything works fine and speeds are great and around 800k/bs+. This runs solid for about two minutes and or 250mb d/l then my phone stops tethering. My phone doesn't drop WIFI the tethering just stops. I have to unplug the phone from the computer, close tethering, close wifi wait about 2 mins then start the wifi again and plug back into the computer for everything to work normal again.
I assume my droid needs to have max connections lowered or raised but I have no clue how to do this. Please help.
All specs
Phone: Droid 1
ROM: Cyan 7.0.3
Tethering app: "Wired Tether" & normal tether
OS: Ubuntu 10.04
of course using USB to connect phone to Tower (i have tired different cords)
This seems to happen once I have accumulated 250mb+ down. up is around 150mb
Please help

I've tried this on windows as well my phone will just stop teathering if I have large amounts of traffic anyone know to fix this?

Is this problem just with large amounts of data transfered via torrents or even via other means of file transfer (ftp/http/whatev)

just with torrents

torrents agressively open (and don't close) a lot of tcp connections and the phone acting like a router has to store all those connections. in the end it probably halts some software in your phone.
try lowering total number of allowed connections in your torrent client to one third of your current value, test, come back with a result.

MuF123 said:
torrents agressively open (and don't close) a lot of tcp connections and the phone acting like a router has to store all those connections. in the end it probably halts some software in your phone.
try lowering total number of allowed connections in your torrent client to one third of your current value, test, come back with a result.
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So far so good, im past the 250mb down. Well listing to Pandora and active torrents open. Max connections where at 200 I lowered to 60. Thank you, everything seems to be working super good.
Do you know of a way (if even possible) to dump the connections my phone has stored without restarting wifi?

Don't really know, I've had this problem with my "router" (linux box) and it could be set to drop unclosed connetions withing shorter timeout. However I don't think this can be set on a phone so you will have to live with smaller number of connections

[Q] Windows app to monitor bandwith usage?

I must admit that I feel stupid for posting this, because as much as I consider myself to be a bit of a techie, I can't find any program or Windows setting/system app that will suit my needs.
Does anyone know of an app for Windows which will monitor bandwith usage per application?
Here is the problem I am having:
Whenever I tether my laptop to my phone for simple web browsing, I seem to consume an amount of data that is much higher than it should be--I have a capped data plan and this is a bit of a problem. Most recently I caught Windows Media Center doing some sort of automatic update or something... I know that there are other apps that are doing this, but I don't want to change/disable the settings each and every app for ONLY when I am tethering...I would like them to update if I am on regular Wifi... It would be nice if I/Windows could recognize this when it is happening and stop this from happening when I am tethering...
Now that I think about it, it would be nice if there was some sort of Tasker for Windows to stop any kind of automatic updating of any program when connected to the SSID my phone puts out or to allow internet access for only Firefox while tethering...
Can anyone help me out or give me any ideas or solutions?
Thanks in advance! Everyone on XDA is super awesome.

Looking for an app.

Is there any app to set the priority of devices in a hotspot?
My not rooted S9 is working as an router, my pc is using USB tethering which has great pings till i enable the wireless hotspot that my family is using.
Is there any app to do that?
Alternatively, I would be happy with an app that could limit the Wireless Hotspot speed to around 50kbps, but would not impact the usb tethering.
Regards,

I'm not sure if that is even possible without rooting. Not all phones have a hotspot, so I assume the manufacturer preloads an app to manage the hotspot, and that would mean you would need a special app for every device, or at least every manufacturer. I doubt anyone would write an app with that kind of complexity for such a tiny group of people that actually need it. That's just my opinion and thoughts, I'm not saying it doesn't exist, I'm saying the chance it does is slim. I hope you find what you're looking for (or found, I just looked at the date). Good luck!
Edit 5 seconds after I posted: I noticed a typo, it's late, I'm tired lol.
Edit 30 seconds after edit #1: I noticed another one.

Data Usage Inaccurate and Uploading Data When Not?

For the past several months I've noticed this but now I want an answer or solution.
My phone is rooted and I have GravityBox installed so I can use the network traffic monitor tweak, among other things. Something I've noticed is that after a reboot, and I guess periodically throughout the day, I'll have a strange upload happening for up to about 2 minutes.
I've checked the data usage for both cellular and WiFi and I've found that neither of them are accurate to the usage listed for the apps. For cellular it is saying that I've used 1.2GB over the course of the pay period. I've checked with my network and my phone has only actually used 280MB so far into the pay period, which closely lines up with my calculated 290MB after adding up all the app usages. The same is also true for WiFi data usage as well, I'm not as concerned as I have no cap, but it says that I've used 12GB however adding up the individual apps only comes out to 3GB. So this would imply nothing is actually being uploaded.
I thought maybe it is an app or process hitting a local socket on loopback for one reason or another, but I just checked with using ping to send large 32kB packets 100 times a second to the loopback and no change in the network traffic monitor at all.
So something is being uploaded after all, or maybe ping's traffic isn't included? The upload rate might clue something in, as it is always 10-15MB/s, which is higher than my broadband upload speed. I don't know, I'd just like my data usage to be accurate so I don't have to worry about using it up for the month.
Anyone else experience the same thing?

Goggle Play Services and Android Services are constantly pinging, uploading whatever.
A minimum of 2/1 to up to 4/2 or more a minute at idle. That's with Google Transport, Framework, all cloud and social messaging disabled or removed. I started using Karma Firewall, blocking the former to reduce battery consumption... it worked.
I'm using a stock load so that's as deep as I can easily peer into the Android mess.
I also block numerous Samsung, other 3red party apps as well as Playstore. I temporarily lift the package and/or firewall block as needed. Near zero usability issues, a great reduction of wasted bandwidth and aminimum 1-3% increase of battery life.
Google Firebase is yet another worthless hog along with all Google, Samsung, App and carrier feedback... gone.
The typical Android is a hornet's nest of unwanted internet activity and an orgy of user data leaks.
Google is the biggest offender of all; a scope storage wolf in sheep's clothing.
Unacceptable.

Namelesswonder said:
For the past several months I've noticed this but now I want an answer or solution.
My phone is rooted and I have GravityBox installed so I can use the network traffic monitor tweak, among other things. Something I've noticed is that after a reboot, and I guess periodically throughout the day, I'll have a strange upload happening for up to about 2 minutes.
I've checked the data usage for both cellular and WiFi and I've found that neither of them are accurate to the usage listed for the apps. For cellular it is saying that I've used 1.2GB over the course of the pay period. I've checked with my network and my phone has only actually used 280MB so far into the pay period, which closely lines up with my calculated 290MB after adding up all the app usages. The same is also true for WiFi data usage as well, I'm not as concerned as I have no cap, but it says that I've used 12GB however adding up the individual apps only comes out to 3GB. So this would imply nothing is actually being uploaded.
I thought maybe it is an app or process hitting a local socket on loopback for one reason or another, but I just checked with using ping to send large 32kB packets 100 times a second to the loopback and no change in the network traffic monitor at all.
So something is being uploaded after all, or maybe ping's traffic isn't included? The upload rate might clue something in, as it is always 10-15MB/s, which is higher than my broadband upload speed. I don't know, I'd just like my data usage to be accurate so I don't have to worry about using it up for the month.
Anyone else experience the same thing?
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I'm actually experiencing this for the past few days, have you found a solution yet? I literally tried everything. From clean flashing my rom, trying different kernels, firmwares etc. I checked my data usage its registering via phone settings, but not on my broadband settings. I'm having 5-8mbps uploads every 4-8 mins (it varies).