I have a non-rooted, stock G2 (on T-Mobile) running Android 2.2.
Every day, as many as twenty or thirty times per day, the phone gets stuck in "upload" mode. The data icon shows that data is uploading (or trying to) and I am unable to use any data-related services (whether tethered or on the phone itself). When it happens it can last anywhere from 10 seconds to 5 minutes. The only way I can forcibly stop it is to completely shut down the radio by toggling airplane mode off then on, forcing the phone to reacquire a data signal.
I've tried resetting the phone to factory defaults, deleting every app, reinserting the SIM card, and even formatting the SD card. Stopping running processes doesn't affect the issue, nor does implementing a task killer to kill extant apps. I also don't have any reliable way of tracking how much data *might* be getting sent (where ever it might be going). I've toggled off background data, syncing, GPS, network location, etc. Anything user settable that could potentially impact data has been switched off, to no avail. But, even with those settings on, I've never (in the past) had them completely usurp my data usage by locking the mobile data into an upload state.
My three main concerns are that 1) I can't reliably download apps, check mail, send pics/videos, or other data-related processes. 2) I'm concerned that if something IS uploading, it may be uploading a LOT and adding to my 5GB per month throttle-cap on T-Mobile. 3) I don't know WHAT is being sent, or WHERE. For all I know it could be sending my private data and contact info to an unknown third party.
I've ended every endable process and killed or uninstalled every app possible. I can't seem to remove bloatware without rooting, which I'm not yet eager to do as this phone is less than 60 days old, and I'm otherwise very happy with it as is.
Any suggestions or recent information as to why this is occurring? I have seen a similar thread for a different phone (Incredible), but it was from over a year ago and there were no solutions (other than flashing a new ROM). I'd like to stay stock, at least for a while, but if there is no other option and the Gingerbread OTA doesn't resolve this issue, then I may very well go to CyanogenMod (which I was happily running on my previous phone, the G1).
-Mark
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This is a tricky one for me to explain, considering I hadn't noticed the problem until last week. I've never monitored my data usage over wifi with the built in ICS data monitor, however, when I did a clean install on Friday I thought I'd activate it.
Just for reference, I've checked this on a number of ROMs, including stock 4.0.3 and 4.0.4.
My problem is this, I let the phone update etc and the following day I noticed that "Dictionary Provider" had downloaded 400mb worth of something. I tried different ROMs, clearing all of the relevant apps' data and caches, rebooting, etc. Nothing seemed to work, except to take Adamg's keyboard included in Oxygen and push that to system/app.
That way I don't have to download the dictionaries, which I never use either. I have noticed that since I did that my battery life has gone up by at least an hour's worth of screen on time. The "DP" doesn't keep the phone awake, so no excessive drain, but it's constantly downloading whenever the screen is on.
When I go to "Language and Inputs" and select "Available Dictionaries" (I think that's what the option is, I don't have it installed anymore) it would just display that there are no available dictionaries, and the displayed text would flash, as if it's trying to refresh.
Anyone else seen this? Or did I inadvertently bork my phone?
Hi mods,
Figured out the problem was with my ISP. Ugh, please close/delete this thread.
Cheers
R
After installing Liquid Smooth RC7/8/9 I was having problems where after a day of updating apps, restarting phone, etc, I wouldn't be able to take calls anymore.
My phone would ring, but when I swyped to answer, com.android.phone would force close and hang up, giving the caller busy signal. What was worse, I would have NO call log of who called, which sucked if I got a call while at work and unable to see who was calling on the screen.
I tried numerous factory resets and it would happen again, no matter how few apps I installed (1 at a time), I cleaned my contact list out on the PC after logging into my gmail account, deleting multi-entries where importing had overlapped/doubled/quadrupled contacts in the vcf file, cluttering my phone.
Cleared cache, fixed permissions, rebooted.
Finally I uninstalled facebook app after reading that contacts from social network, rebooted.
Still was getting error of android phone stopped working.
I think i boiled it down to the radio/network acquisition on reboots.... Only thing that seemed to work now was taking out my sim card, putting it back in and going to Mobile Network settings and putting it back to LTE GSM/WCDMA under network mode, reselecting my NEtwork Operator and Access Point Names..
Really annoying problem because I don't know if it's rebooting the phone that causes this, apps installed in combination with the contacts list, or what.
Thought this might help some people in case they were experiencing similar things.
Curious...
It sounds like a sync error of some sort with your contacts... it can be from the app side or from the Google side...
If you don't then possibly the sync services are jammed up on the phone app.
Goto Manage Apps>All Apps>Phone and clear the data for the Phone and reboot...
A lot of times it is the Facebook issue...
Hope that helps...
onealvideo said:
It sounds like a sync error of some sort with your contacts... it can be from the app side or from the Google side...
If you don't then possibly the sync services are jammed up on the phone app.
Goto Manage Apps>All Apps>Phone and clear the data for the Phone and reboot...
A lot of times it is the Facebook issue...
Hope that helps...
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Yeah It is bizzare... I uninstalled facebook and left contacts alone to eliminate this from the equation.
On reboots, sometimes when I'm trying to select network carrier , it takes FOREVER to load the different carriers... I've come to the conclusion that if it takes forever to load/see the phone carrier options, chances are the com.android.phone will crash AND/OR it will work but i won't get call volume (neither phone can hear volume from the other) sometimes even when com.phone.android doesn't crash when phone rings.
Im thinking it's almost hardware related with the radios inside interfering or something...
I just had the original problem, reboot the phone, reselect the carrier (no delay/lag) and everythign works again.
I tried toggles up at the top after reading some stuff about how the GPS toggle has to be on/off ... when Wi-fi is toggled on, my cell-tower reception bars AND wi-fi icon are blue.. when WiFi is disabled, those reception bars turn grey... I thought this had something to do with it also, but it doesnt.. I'm getting calls with volume and no crashes now regardless of whether wi-fi is on/off or whether the phone is plugged in to the charger or not.
Right now, it's based on whether or not my phone boots in a "good" or "bad" mood it seems... very tempermental. I'm not blaming the Rom.. but it definitely seems to be carrier/hardware related that is causing the software (phone app) to go bonkers. I'm going to go back to installing my apps again for the 9000th time/factory reset.
Hi Everyone, I search everywhere and couldnt find an answer for this. So here goes.
Calendar
I was syncing and unsyncing with my samsung to google calendars, then the next day I checked, I realized all my events disappeared.
I did not erase anything yet all my events were gone.
I did notice that something was occurring during the period that I lost my data.
I saw that my default Samsung browser on my smart phone went on a refresh loop on google home page. This was an issue on googles end and was resolved eventually.
This was one of google's problems. There would be an issue with google recognizing me logging on the google home page and gmail. This lasted for a week. I wonder if that caused my data to disappear?
There are a few links below describing what happened. I'm wondering if this is an issue with Google, samsung+google, or syncing in general.
if I can recover my lost events that would be great!
It seems like a lot of them has to do with smartphones syncing, which is what I did. Even if there isn’t a solution or a recovery for this, it would be great to at least get an understanding as to why this happened (so i can avoid it in the future). I am currently storing everything local to my phone and havne’t experienced any loss of information. It’s quite disconcerting that if I did use google calendars, at any moment, all my events can go missing.
https://twitter.com/pauliharman/stat...50527979597825
http://productforums.google.com/foru...ar/jJbLThfAuXc
http://productforums.google.com/foru...E/oAz-BQIkcLMJ
https://productforums.google.com/for...ar/P8ClYOAtWSc
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My data usage resets either randomly (before the cycles) or there is a delay on applying cycles? My data usage basically self erased leaving the charts to show nothing and the apps still ahve the data used.
1)
I realized that the data was still there until I started to sync with my TiBu to dropbox/google drive. Then my data went to 0 on the charts.
I was still able to see the data used per app, but nothing shows on the charts.
Although it may not be accurate I use this feature a lot. I would just like to know what makes it reset on its own?
My cycle is on the 2nd of each month and I lost it on the 15th.
2)
Another issue is the vertical lines that shows you data used on each time period. I would like it to default to my cycle (so i dont have to readjust everytime) Does anyone know how to do this?
Thinking back.......I think I did have my cycle set as the 15th, but that was changed a long time ago.
Could it be possible that the change only takes effect after the cycle is complete?
For example
Jan 1, 2000. I set my cycle to the 10th of every month.
Jan 2, 2000 I change it to 25th of every month.
I think it will still reset on the 10th?
Thanks everyone!!!
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The short version of this story is that today I logged into my Sprint account to discover I have somehow gone over my data use, exceeding my family share plan of 40gb by almost 5gb. Shocked (apparently on a brand new account, Sprints data use notifications don't work properly...?!?), I determined it was my phone (of the four lines) that used a ridiculously high amount of data (37GB). I'm a long time Android user, but I've never bothered using the Android data management alerts because I trust the carriers more than Android (I occasionally do a full wipe, so...).
Here's the frustrating part - apparently in the course of about 2 days, some app used 30gb~ of data as "background data". Unfortunately - it's listed as "Removed Apps" data - meaning I've removed the app. I probably uninstalled five or six applications in the past few days, so I have no idea which one was the culprit. I tried reinstalling most of the apps I uninstalled, but I suspect Android won't suddenly remember which app used that data.
Does anyone know of a way to see detailed app usage data after the app has been uninstalled? NOTHING I installed should have used 30gb of data in a year, much less in two days, so I'd really like to know what did it so I can avoid that app developer like the plague (and notify them that their app is beyond broken).
No, this is not going to be as easy as one would think from reading the title.
Running an unofficial LineageOS (13.0 - equivalent to android 6.0.1) on a no-name Chinese phone.
I would describe myself as one of those people who really don't like to see much information about my activities on my phone recorded, and (for this question) that specifically includes data usage per app. To ramp this up to the paranoid level, I have never used (or even turned on) mobile data - I stick exclusively with wifi, and never access the internet with this device without going through a VPN.
The data usage history currently goes back several months. I know that the data resides in two files (datausage.db and datausage.db-journal) in
/data/data/org.cyanogenmod.providers.datausage/databases/
First of all (this seems out of order, but humor me), I have tried removing those files, zapping (wiping) those files, and creating files of the same sizes containing nothing but 0x00. The original files appear again after a reboot (yes, I have killed the data usage provider before doing this, and no, I have no idea where the system stores the copies). I have invested (so far wasted) several hours in trying to remove this data, and have made absolutely no progress.
If you have read up to this point, you probably have thought "why don't you just go into "Settings / Data Usage" and select "Reset Data Statistics"? A reasonable question, and actually what I attempted first, but doing that has a very unfortunate side effect - it completely destroys (disables) Wi-Fi background data (something that took me several more hours to figure out) for every app. Even restoring the backup for the "Data Usage Provider" app won't fix it. The only way to re-enable background data is to restore an image backup.
Time for some questions.
First, can anyone suggest a way to delete the data usage history (without making the phone unusable, of course)?
Second (mostly for my curiosity), where does the system store the backup of the data usage history database?
Third (approaching it from using the "Reset Data Statistics" function), does some way exist to restore Wi-Fi background data for all apps. I wouldn't even mind going through the apps one at a time in settings to re-enable this. To clarify, if I select an app in "Settings / Apps / Someapp" and then go into "Data Usage", I typically have "Only over Wi-Fi" selected (which has worked fine since I have had the device - a few years). After "Reset Data Statistics", no app will communicate in the background with this setting. If I change to "Over cellular data & Wi-Fi" (keep in mind I have never turned cellular data on for this device), then the app will then use Wi-Fi in the background.
Something (well beyond my ken) seems very broken.