The last few weeks my skyrocket has been eating through a tremendous amount of data even on days where I would hardly use it, I can't get to the bottom of it and I swear I've tried everything. Each day on average it goes through about 500 MB of data, I don't have syncing turned on, I've cleared the ram and active processes several times, even turned the phone off and on with no luck. I tried using the systempanel app to see what exactly is running and the only thing out of the ordinary I would think is the 'device management' process. My only guess is that it's trying to download the ota 2.3.6 update (currently on 2.3.5, not rooted), but since when I try to update it fails at 75%, it's constantly re-downloading and trying to update?? I still have the unlimited at&t plan so usage isn't the biggest concern, but it's absolutely destroying my battery life, 1% every 8 minutes with it just sitting in my pocket with no apps running.
Try disabling autosync first, could be a screwup with the new gmail update
How exactly do u know how much data u are using a day, watchdog?
Install onavo to see what's eating data.
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Install onavo to see what's eating data.
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I second that. I installed it on mine because my data usage seemed a little off even after I stopped streaming audio on a daily basis to the phone. If nothing else it's a bit of an eye opener to what uses how much data, and you can see if something is hogging data that you don't want.
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Try disabling autosync first, could be a screwup with the new gmail update
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I have already had autosync disabled since before this started happening so I don't think it could be an issue there.
I follow how much data I use by dialing *DATA# (*3282#) and I get a text saying. I've been doing this a couple times a day since receiving those "your data usage is among the top 5%" texts, and with how little I've been using my phone lately I knew something was up.
With no apps running, I'll occasionally see the data waves on the 4G logo moving for at least 30 seconds.
Also, I've come to the conclusion that it's not processor usage that is killing my battery because when I toggle the data off, I get great battery life. 1% every hour and 20 minutes.
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Thanks, I'll give that a shot right now and see how it goes. Do I have to have it constantly running for it to work?
Yeah but I haven't found any negative from having it running.
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I run Juice Defender Ultimate and have it set to custom and have it set to warn me when apps try to use data(it will ask on the first time if I want to enable/disable/nothing access) It will also shut down the data when the screen is off unless I specifically set an app for it.
It has helped me manage data and power consumption greatly.
3G watchdog will tell you which app / process is using the data connection.
Use a program called droidwall. By default it will block all data connections until u specify what to allow
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Ok, I am running the latest release of the H57 ROM on EE19. I love the ROM but have been having some issues sense flashing. I was running this ROM before EE19 with no issues and now again sense the upgrade. I have been getting horrid battery life, loosing 15 to 20% per hour. I finally figured out that the phone is transmitting data constantly. I used 10% of my 5gb data plan in just a few days. I just reflashed the ROM and within an hour I uploaded 1% of my 5gb limit of some data but don't have a clue as to what it is doing. I fully charged the battery, wiped the battery data and locked the phone. In two hours sitting on my night stand with the screen off and no use I lost 25% of my battery and my 3g monitor said uploaded another 1% of my 5gb limit for the month. If anybody has any ideas I need some help. At this rate I have to keep the phone on a charger all times or it is worthless.
Ok, I did a full EE19 flash in Odin, Odined CWM 2.5 and booted into recovery. Flashed Blue Heinz 57 CWM, Flashed Heinz 57 V6/6/11, Flashed 6611 Heinz 57 Ultimate Honecomb V0.2, Enabled Lagfix. I will report back on the results this afternoon. Thanks for the help.
Looks like a no go again. In the past 45min I lost 16% battery and it has uploaded 30mb of something. I really am lost, I can't use this phone with mobile data enabled unless I am plugged into a charger and it is chewing up my data limit very quickly...anybody have a thought?
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Looks like a no go again. In the past 45min I lost 16% battery and it has uploaded 30mb of something. I really am lost, I can't use this phone with mobile data enabled unless I am plugged into a charger and it is chewing up my data limit very quickly...anybody have a thought?
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I rebooted and looked under Task Manager and the only active application is Mr. Home. What could be running that is uploading all this data and killing the battery?
I downloaded 3g Watchdog Pro and found that the email application is responsible for 99% of the data being uploaded. I deleted both my Hotmail account and my work exchange account and will see if that made a difference. If so does anybody have a different email program they would recommend?
I will try and watch my data usage with 3g watchdog. Using the free version. Unless there is benefit with the pro version. I'll report back tonight.
Installed watchdog around 2:00pm. 4.76MB received, 1.18MB sent, total of 5.94MB in 5.5 hours.
I only have my gmail account that is active. Some XDA usage today.
Seems a little heavy. I set my data at 4GB limit even though it is 5GB. At this point I've used
0.1% of the data plan.
Battery has been running around 6%/hr.
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Looks like it is defiantly my work exchange account doing the damage. I added my other email accounts and the phone operated as normal. I added my exchange account and changed from push to sync every 15min and in two hours I lost 40% battery and watchdog showed I uploaded 30mb of data. I am bummed because I use my work calendar all the time and it is the main reason I got a smart phone.
Has there been any better battery life with a different kernel?
I'm trying pb&j @ minus 50mv.
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I have run this setup for several months with different Kernels and Roms. It was running fine until last last week when this gremlin popped it's head up.
I was systematically eliminating scenarios to try and figure this issue out. I deleted all email accounts off the phone. Talked with the IS guy at work and he looked my phone up on the mail server. Some how there were six instances of my phone on the server so he killed them all. I went into my contacts in Outlook and I had close to 100 copies of every contact there. We think it was constantly pushing contact data to the mail server in the form of contact backups. I have reinstalled all my email accounts on the phone and synced the contacts with my work account. I then disabled contact syncing with that account. It has been a few hours but all seems right in the universe again.
That is good news! I've been watching my data usage and it has been avg around 10mb/day.
I flashed back to pnp ee19 just to verify my data usage.
I think I'm going back to H57 tonight. Thanks for your update!
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Hey there im brand new to this forum and android in general i just sitched from an iphone to the Lg G2x. I have to say the G2x is incredible but my battery life isn't i get on average 5 to 6 hrs of battery life (lose about 20% every hour) as others i have installed juice defender ultimate, setcpu, and watchdog. In addition to all these apps i uninstalled apps like T-mobile app pack and wifi calling because these apparently use up a lot of battery. So my question is if there any tips you guys can give me or setting for my phone or apps because maybe i have everything i need installed but with the wrong settings any help at all would be great thank you in advance
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As of now the juice defender app reports: 1.36x improvement
Well im assuming your running stock ROM and kernel...so the best and easiest thing i can tell you is just buy an extended battery ....they last alot longer, if you get the right one...
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Are you using the phone constantly?
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Hey there im brand new to this forum and android in general i just sitched from an iphone to the Lg G2x. I have to say the G2x is incredible but my battery life isn't i get on average 5 to 6 hrs of battery life (lose about 20% every hour) as others i have installed juice defender ultimate, setcpu, and watchdog. In addition to all these apps i uninstalled apps like T-mobile app pack and wifi calling because these apparently use up a lot of battery. So my question is if there any tips you guys can give me or setting for my phone or apps because maybe i have everything i need installed but with the wrong settings any help at all would be great thank you in advance
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Download spare parts, go to battery history, and look at partial wake lock.
If you see a bar going across the screen or even most of the way, that's your culprit.
Also games like Words With Friends kills battery life with its polling service.
@Texan28
Well idk i tried to post pictures to display all that info but since im a new member i cant post links to pictures yet and well how much are they because ive heard there rather expensive
@ enoch861
No i would say average use most of the time just texting (usually is periodic not constant) , very little email checking and little or no facebook use but most of the time the phone is just sitting like for example right now Cell Stanby is at:49% and phone idle at 52% personally i think its to high but idk is that normal?
@Scyth3
Installed the app but no apps seem to be giving trouble all that have a status bar are very small
Once you've confirmed that you're not seeing any rogue app activity then uninstall watchdog. You don't need an app monitor or task killer running constantly on your phone.
Turn off auto brightness and set screen brightness somewhere around 20-25%. Under Settings > Wireless & Networks > Wifi Settings > *Press Menu* > Advanced Settings change wifi sleep policy to never. Turn wifi off when you're not going to be connected to a wifi network. Set your email/Facebook/twitter/weather/etc apps to sync either manually or at least less frequently.
Your biggest battery killers are going to be your screen brightness and your cellular radio. Juice defender can help control some of the cell radio by keeping data turned off when you don't need it. Also consider if you have poor signal your phone might also be always switching from 4G to 2G then it'll use more battery.
Don't bother with disabling GPS. Your phone only uses it when an app needs it anyway.
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Also, I'm assuming you've rooted your phone since you said you've removed wifi calling and other T-Mobile stuff. In that case, open setcpu and create a couple of profiles. Create a Screen Off profile with max/min values of 312/216MHz. Also create an In Call profile with max/min values of 1000/216 and set the priority slider higher than the screen off profile. I do this because when the screen goes off during a phone call I still want my phone to have plenty of processor power available. And I don't set it lower than 1000 because I'm often doing other things with my phone while I'm on a call.
G2X CM7
Then there's something wrong with your phone or a rogue app. I text a lot also and use my phone moderately to heavily. But I still get a whole day of use from the phone. Its surprising.
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@phburks I Actually have those settings on my phone however the setcpu i dont because i cant set those numbers for some reason it only lets me set default for example it goes from 245MHz to 384MHz (on the sliding adjuster)
@enoch861 really is there any tests i can run to find out whats really wrong?
No sir. Not that I know of.
But I would try to do a reset of the phone first anand run it a couple of days without really installing anything. If you get better battery life then it could be due to an app that you had installed. At that point you can start reinstalling your Apps one at a time in order of importance.
Now of that doesn't fix it, it could be a hardware issue.
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@enoch861 really is there any tests i can run to find out whats really wrong?
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@phburks I Actually have those settings on my phone however the setcpu i dont because i cant set those numbers for some reason it only lets me set default for example it goes from 245MHz to 384MHz (on the sliding adjuster)
@enoch861 really is there any tests i can run to find out whats really wrong?
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In setcpu have you tried hitting Menu > Device Selection and then selecting the Tegra 2 option at the top? You might have it set up for the wrong device.
As for the battery life in general, 5-6 hours on light to moderate usage as you described is not normal for this phone. When I was on my stock rom unrooted I could still get at least 10-12 good hours and I use my phone a lot, mostly for texting and web browsing.
Are you in an area with weak cell signal?
Are there any other preinstalled apps from T-Mobile that are still installed?
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@enoch861 will the reset un-root and re-lock the phone?
@phburks
ok thnx i fixed the setcpu settings and no not really but idk if having in on a gsm carrier(Simple Mobile) makes a difference but yea thats why im trying to get this fixed because 5-6 hrs is really not enough i mean if i can at least get it to 10-12 hrs id be happy with that its great improvement and um well just google maps, news and weather, smarshare, talk, telenav, voicew search, youtube etc the only ones i made sure to get rid of was t-mobile app pack and wifi calling
It shouldn't unroot it.
what do you mean by relock?
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@enoch861 will the reset un-root and re-lock the phone?
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Mixalot213 said:
@enoch861 will the reset un-root and re-lock the phone?
@phburks
ok thnx i fixed the setcpu settings and no not really but idk if having in on a gsm carrier(Simple Mobile) makes a difference but yea thats why im trying to get this fixed because 5-6 hrs is really not enough i mean if i can at least get it to 10-12 hrs id be happy with that its great improvement and um well just google maps, news and weather, smarshare, talk, telenav, voicew search, youtube etc the only ones i made sure to get rid of was t-mobile app pack and wifi calling
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I'd get rid of telenav too.
As for a reset, do you have clockworkmod recovery installed? Just boot into that and do a full reset. You wont lose root but you WILL lose any apps you installed, personal settings, text messages.
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@enoch861
what i meant with relock is that its currently unlocked but if i do a factory restore will it alter that ?
@phburks
i actually dont but as long as my phone remains unlocked and rooted im willing to try resetting it after all ove heard good things about it helping with battery life but can you walk me through it?
No. It shouldn't.
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what i meant with relock is that its currently unlocked but if i do a factory restore will it alter that ?
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Mixalot213 said:
@enoch861
what i meant with relock is that its currently unlocked but if i do a factory restore will it alter that ?
@phburks
i actually dont but as long as my phone remains unlocked and rooted im willing to try resetting it after all ove heard good things about it helping with battery life but can you walk me through it?
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If by unlocking you mean the SIM being unlocked to work on other cell networks, then you have nothing to worry about. A factory reset wont mess with that
As for performing a factory reset, go into Settings > Privacy and choose Factory Data Reset. Make sure you back up any texts/MMS you want to keep. All personal files/photos on your sdcard will be preserved but you'll have to reinstall any apps you want.
Since you still have stock recovery you can also power off the phone and then hold Volume Down + Power for like 10 or more seconds till you see the Android unpacking icon, and it will reset that way.
It shouldn't mess with root.
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If your phone's rooted, which it seems to be, download the battery calibration app from the market. It's free, and helped my battery life immensely. Basically charge it up to 100%, use the app. It deletes the battery stats file so android can make a new one. Run it all the way down to empty, then charge it back up to 100% and you should be good to go.
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If your phone's rooted, which it seems to be, download the battery calibration app from the market. It's free, and helped my battery life immensely. Basically charge it up to 100%, use the app. It deletes the battery stats file so android can make a new one. Run it all the way down to empty, then charge it back up to 100% and you should be good to go.
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how exactly is a program that measures the battery helping the battery life?
OP, I am using Xboarders latest 2.3.3 rom and have had the phone on 9 hours and am at 70%. I use set cpu to slow down teh processor when the screen is off and I use juice defender to turn off data, wifi, etc when the screen is off.
@ enoch861 thanks thats a relief
@phburks thanks im gonna go ahead and try it by the way when i perform it is there anything i should be doing or avoid doing (For example removieng certain apps or anything like that ?)
@Danishswag Tried it already it didnt help
Hi guys,
I'm sorry if there's a thread about this but I don't even know what keywords to search. Since the Atrix has such brutal battery life I'm wondering something. Is it possible to turn my wifi and data off but have some apps override that? I use whatsapp messenger and would like to allow it to access data so I can still receive messages. Possible or not?
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Hi guys,
I'm sorry if there's a thread about this but I don't even know what keywords to search. Since the Atrix has such brutal battery life I'm wondering something. Is it possible to turn my wifi and data off but have some apps override that? I use whatsapp messenger and would like to allow it to access data so I can still receive messages. Possible or not?
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It's not quite what you asked, but Juicedefender will automatically disable all your data, and temporarily re-enable it in user-defined intervals to let your apps update.
rush381 said:
Hi guys,
I'm sorry if there's a thread about this but I don't even know what keywords to search. Since the Atrix has such brutal battery life I'm wondering something. Is it possible to turn my wifi and data off but have some apps override that? I use whatsapp messenger and would like to allow it to access data so I can still receive messages. Possible or not?
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Whoa whoa, how does that work? Make sure you figure out what is holding wakelocks and hammering the CPU, that's the quickest way to fix it, the Atrix should have one of the best battery lives of any smartphone.
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Whoa whoa, how does that work? Make sure you figure out what is holding wakelocks and hammering the CPU, that's the quickest way to fix it, the Atrix should have one of the best battery lives of any smartphone.
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I don't know much about this kind of stuff, so don't really know how to go about that. Was getting about 6-8 hours with minimal usage so I installed a new kernel and it seems a bit better. I've seen some people report 1.5 -3 days of battery life but I've never cleared more than 10 hours probably.
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I don't know much about this kind of stuff, so don't really know how to go about that. Was getting about 6-8 hours with minimal usage so I installed a new kernel and it seems a bit better. I've seen some people report 1.5 -3 days of battery life but I've never cleared more than 10 hours probably.
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If on Froyo: in dialer: *#*#4636#*#* should take you to a menu, go to the Battery History application and look at the running vs. screen on percentage. If you stay in high signal areas most of the time and you don't do anything that holds wakelock intentionally (playing music, non-C2DM IM clients), then you should only see about another 2-3 percent tacked onto the screen on time for your total phone awake percentage. If not, look up the partial wakelock since unplugged and check to see what's holding wakelock. If Android OS, reboot your phone liberally. If it's the dialer, same deal. If it's a user-installed application, either figure out how to get it to stop or delete it.
From there install current widgets or something that read your mA drain and ensure it doesn't jump above 10 mA while idle.
Also make sure you use that dialer code to see if you can switch your phone's radio to GSM Auto (PRL) for better battery life in poor signal areas.
I accidentally broke my Samsung last week so went back to my Inspire, good phone never had problems with it before. However I noticed that the Inspire's battery drained really fast now, where I'd have to charge it twice a day even if I barely used it. I assumed the phone was old and I just needed to replace the battery. Then a couple days ago I got a text from AT&T saying I had almost reached my 2GB monthly data cap (never even used over 300MB before) so I checked the AT&T data usage site and apparently every day my phone has been sending huge data files in the 30-60MB range multiple times a day.
I don't even know what these files could be because I haven't even downloaded any files that large. Phone is NOT rooted. Aside from updating Angry Birds, I haven't installed any new apps or added any new accounts lately, everything is exactly the same as it has always been. Restarted the phone a couple times to see if it was a fluke but didn't help. Had to completely disable mobile data for now.
Any idea what could be causing this? Any way to check exactly what files/data are being sent?
Check what has been using your battery up. In about phone-> battery. Whatever it is should show up there.
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Check what has been using your battery up. In about phone-> battery. Whatever it is should show up there.
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Cell standby, Phone idle, and Display are the top 3 things. Everything else is barely using anything.
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Cell standby, Phone idle, and Display are the top 3 things. Everything else is barely using anything.
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What I would do is completely wipe the device and start over. I really can't think of anything off the top of my head that would send that much data. It's possible its just bugging out and the Qualcomm snooper program is staying constantly active or something along those lines. Or you could uninstall everything and see if it goes away and then reinstall stuff slowly and see if you can pin it down to one app. That is a lot of data though. Not to cause alarm but you might also want to check the possibly of some sort of hack or virus that may have infected your device.
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What I would do is completely wipe the device and start over. I really can't think of anything off the top of my head that would send that much data. It's possible its just bugging out and the Qualcomm snooper program is staying constantly active or something along those lines. Or you could uninstall everything and see if it goes away and then reinstall stuff slowly and see if you can pin it down to one app. That is a lot of data though. Not to cause alarm but you might also want to check the possibly of some sort of hack or virus that may have infected your device.
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Yeah that might be the best thing to do (just wipe it all and start over), shouldn't be too hard to import my mail settings and contacts, that's all I really need.
How do you check for hacks/viruses?
I hard reset the phone, however when I synced my contacts back after it automatically re-downloaded all of my apps for some reason. High data usage is still there. So either it's a problem with an app, or the phone itself is just messed up. The battery usage only shows cell standby and dialer using it up and it won't show which apps are using the battery for some reason.
same issue
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I hard reset the phone, however when I synced my contacts back after it automatically re-downloaded all of my apps for some reason. High data usage is still there. So either it's a problem with an app, or the phone itself is just messed up. The battery usage only shows cell standby and dialer using it up and it won't show which apps are using the battery for some reason.
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I m also experiencing the same issue with galaxy s2 4.0.3 plus i cannot login to google applications like gmail play store etc... I can login to gmail using mobile browser but cannot login to gmail app. It just stuck at logging in.... No error message is shown to me...
Plz someone help
shafiq.ranjha said:
I m also experiencing the same issue with galaxy s2 4.0.3 plus i cannot login to google applications like gmail play store etc... I can login to gmail using mobile browser but cannot login to gmail app. It just stuck at logging in.... No error message is shown to me...
Plz someone help
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This is the HTC Inspire 4G forums. I would strongly recommend that you post in the Galaxy S2 forums. They will know how to answer your question better than us users of another phone.
Today, I downloaded an app called Swype Keyboard. It has worked fine with all my friends phones, but for some reason as soon as I downloaded that app, my data shot up 1000% more. I went through about 2GB of data in under 15 minutes. When I go to check out my data statistics, the major part of it is Android OS. It is saying that it is using 500MB (.5GB) of data, when normally, it is at the bottom with barely any data usage. I have no idea what is wrong and why my data shot up that much.
Everytime I went back and checked my data (every 2 mins) it would shoot up about .1GB. As soon as I uninstalled that app, it started getting slower, but it has still gone up a lot.
I was wondering if anyone knew what was wrong. I'm really hoping it wasn't the app because I really enjoy that app and wish that it is another problem.
Rooted and running CM10 (RC 4) if that helps.
Thanks!
CM10.1 reports data usage incorrectly.
Yup, RC 4 (I think) has a math calculation error in the OS itself. So you didn't use that much I assure you, the next RC fixed the problem
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