So, with the recent update to Google's Play Music, I was pretty excited to start using it again. With the new All Access feature and revamped interface, I was sure they would have resolved some behind-the-scenes issues as well.
Well, it pains me to say that the ridiculous data usage of the app has not changed. The attached photo shows the foreground and background usage of the app. The foreground usage is understandable and realistic, but the background is absurd! This usage is from one hour of listening to music.
I have all of the appropriate settings checked and unchecked to minimize its data usage, however this is still the result! Is anyone else getting this? Is this normal?
Edit: Sorry, picture is blurry...
Foreground: 46MB
Background: 358MB
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Micoolef said:
So, with the recent update to Google's Play Music, I was pretty excited to start using it again. With the new All Access feature and revamped interface, I was sure they would have resolved some behind-the-scenes issues as well.
Well, it pains me to say that the ridiculous data usage of the app has not changed. The attached photo shows the foreground and background usage of the app. The foreground usage is understandable and realistic, but the background is absurd! This usage is from one hour of listening to music.
I have all of the appropriate settings checked and unchecked to minimize its data usage, however this is still the result! Is anyone else getting this? Is this normal?
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Well updated it just now on WiFi well love it for its new feature
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Never using google play music
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So I have noticed since buying my HOX, "Android OS" consistently uses several hundred (anywhere from 100-500MB) megabytes of data every month. This is really annoying considering I only have 3GB a month. It uses more data than facebook or the browser! I am rooted on 1.73, and removed some ATT bloat through titanium backup, no other modifications. But if I remember correctly, it was doing this even before these modifications. Any idea what could be the culprit?
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So I have noticed since buying my HOX, "Android OS" consistently uses several hundred (anywhere from 100-500MB) megabytes of data every month. This is really annoying considering I only have 3GB a month. It uses more data than facebook or the browser! I am rooted on 1.73, and removed some ATT bloat through titanium backup, no other modifications. But if I remember correctly, it was doing this even before these modifications. Any idea what could be the culprit?
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If you've setup Android to transfer all data to the cloud, you may just be transferring a massive amount of contacts or Wi-Fi passwords. If all of your contacts have pictures on them, this could be part of the problem.
However, 500 MB is a bit excessive. Time to do some troubleshooting!
I do have my contacts set to sync, along with gmail, calendar, the weather(every 3 hours), etc. My pictures come from facebook, so shouldnt that data come up under the facebook app? And since my billing cycle started on the 27th, I have used a total of 298MB, and 153MB of that is Android OS. And I have set the Play store to update over wifi only
I was having this issue as well. I went to Setting > Privacy > Backup Settings, and checked it off. I think it was backing up everything on my phone including podcasts in downloaded in the pocket cast app.
Since then the Android OS data usage has not increased.
I have auto sync turned off. I also think the respective programs that sync show up separately.
Hope this helps.
Did some more searching today, someone else also mentioned that turning off "back up my settings" severely decreased data usage by android os. Thanks for the tip gert260. I'll report back to see if that fixes it. Currently at 153MB
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That could be some APP showing as Android OS instead of the actual APP.... that happened to me with JANGO (Radio APP) I noticed that my Android OS was using a lot of DATA but Jango was using a few KB... I did a test and I confirmed that it was this app... WEIRD! because on my tablet it shows the correct amount of data. If you use a streaming APP you can do a quick test
The last option says it all. It says app data and settings I would assume that it should go down if some apps aren't being used and being updated. My thought is that the os is updating these settings and data even though their not being used. I personally haven't had the phone more than a month so I cannot confirm this. I will update when I can.
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That could be some APP showing as Android OS instead of the actual APP.... that happened to me with JANGO (Radio APP) I noticed that my Android OS was using a lot of DATA but Jango was using a few KB... I did a test and I confirmed that it was this app... WEIRD! because on my tablet it shows the correct amount of data. If you use a streaming APP you can do a quick test
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Pandora does this for me
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Hi all,
In the setting options if I change the "no of background processes" from STANDARD LIMIT to maximum 2 processes like in the screenshot, how does it affect the phone?
Changing the background processes option affects my phone how?
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It will allow only two processes to be run in the background, any others will be shut down instead of kept in memory.
I wouldn't mess with things you're not sure about unless you need to. If you're constantly running out of RAM this might be one thing to help, but otherwise, no reason to bother.
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It will allow only two processes to be run in the background, any others will be shut down instead of kept in memory.
I wouldn't mess with things you're not sure about unless you need to. If you're constantly running out of RAM this might be one thing to help, but otherwise, no reason to bother.
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Yes,I only did that cuz I have 768mb ram out of which only 583 mb is available to me.so this should help me with it.
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You already have plenty of much free memory. Android doesn't work like windows os. Android is built to have every usually used app loaded in memory for fast loading. If you put a limit, many of your apps will stop working and you'll face poor performance.
Thanks for the input!
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So if we choose "no progress" it will slightly affect the performance, but also increase battery life, correct?
I use these option a lot. I didn't find any problems.
But .....
How can be set to more than 4, let say 8 background process ?
You can't! Max is 4, or else go for the standard limit option.
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best to keep at standard.I know this is old post but should still apply!
catch_doon said:
Hi all,
In the setting options if I change the "no of background processes" from STANDARD LIMIT to maximum 2 processes like in the screenshot, how does it affect the phone?
Changing the background processes option affects my phone how?
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There are so many wrong answers to this topic.
Setting this option forces Android to stop each process as soon as it is empty (that is, when no services are started and no activities are on screen for that app).
To be clear: this option won't stop apps that would normally run in the background from doing so. Your mail client will still run periodically to check mail, if it's configured to do that. Apps that use Google Cloud Messaging to receive push messages from Internet servers (such as Gmail and Facebook) will still be able to do so. The option would be better named "Cached background process limit", since it limits apps that would otherwise show up with that label in the apps manager.
Next time each app needs to start, Android has to load the app from storage, from scratch. This uses more power and takes longer than running it again when the process was in memory. This doesn't just mean when you start an activity from that app deliberately; it also means the email client has to be loaded afresh each time it wants to check email. Over time this can build up to a huge battery drain.
Because this is a development option, it can also trigger rare bugs in certain apps, and those apps' developers may not be keen to fix them. One example is that, on Nexus devices running 4.2.2, when this option is on, the in-built Calendar app will keep restarting itself with this option set, because stopping the cached background process causes the calendar's content provider to be removed, which causes a loop of services restarting each other to check for calendar updates. If this happens, the loop will run down your battery very quickly.
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There are so many wrong answers to this topic.
Setting this option forces Android to stop each process as soon as it is empty (that is, when no services are started and no activities are on screen for that app).
To be clear: this option won't stop apps that would normally run in the background from doing so. Your mail client will still run periodically to check mail, if it's configured to do that. Apps that use Google Cloud Messaging to receive push messages from Internet servers (such as Gmail and Facebook) will still be able to do so. The option would be better named "Cached background process limit", since it limits apps that would otherwise show up with that label in the apps manager.
Next time each app needs to start, Android has to load the app from storage, from scratch. This uses more power and takes longer than running it again when the process was in memory. This doesn't just mean when you start an activity from that app deliberately; it also means the email client has to be loaded afresh each time it wants to check email. Over time this can build up to a huge battery drain.
Because this is a development option, it can also trigger rare bugs in certain apps, and those apps' developers may not be keen to fix them. One example is that, on Nexus devices running 4.2.2, when this option is on, the in-built Calendar app will keep restarting itself with this option set, because stopping the cached background process causes the calendar's content provider to be removed, which causes a loop of services restarting each other to check for calendar updates. If this happens, the loop will run down your battery very quickly.
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I'm just a regular user so I only will track about my experience with this.
I was set the 2 background processes because my phone was getting hot and also it has son low performance because of that, when I change to the two processes limit I've seen some improvement in temperature as well in performance wich become more batery life was well.
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That is right to some extent limiting the processes saves battery as well but again it all depends on your usage .. its better you force stop the apps you dont use .. and keep it to standard limit..
Hello all
For me my phone Nokia 8 facing a fast drain battery, when I changed it to 4 background process limit I get improve battery life without effect on performance of the phone.
Note (before set the background process limit): The image of the camera of my phone often flaming (shaking and still) , don't know if it hardware or software fault. I think it's the reason for draining battery.
Hello, I use Google Current as my digital magazine and newspaper but I don't know why and when this handy app starts to drain my data (WiFi). In the past, I knew that this app use lots of data compared to other apps but recently its really starts to "conquer" my data plan. In fact, yesterday, when I check the data usage of my apps in 3G watch, I saw that Google Current uses about 1.05GB (84% of total data consumption of the phone) of data per day with extremely light use (I never opened it except one but I killed the app just right after). And when I check the data consumption of the phone of last 30days, it was even stunning: 91% of total usage is occupied by only Google Chrome it selves. Can anyone tell me why this app is so hungry? The only reason I could explain this is because I had lots of news feed subscription, when I opened the app, it may download EVERYTHING including picture and stuff even that I didn't pin them. Am I correct? Is this a bug? Do I really turn of the auto sync? Thanks.
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In the last few weeks I have noticed a high data usage from Google +. See screens attached.
I have checked all settings and all syncs and auto back up have been disabled. Were disabled from the beginning. It's usage continues to go up from 25mb to 100mb a day. The data usage app states that it's all foreground data also.
Any help or suggestion's would be great.
Thanks
How muck time are you spending on g+ a day? Looks kinda normal to me.
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blackhemi4x4 said:
How muck time are you spending on g+ a day? Looks kinda normal to me.
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right, it says 500MB in the 'foreground', so that's probably from him having the application open and using it
Do you take photos?
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Don't use Google+ at all. Don't remember the last time I used it. Have only opened to make sure nothing is syncing etc.
Don't take many photos either.
Delete it and just use the mobile version through a browser. I stopped using it because it eats Battery and data in the background.
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I finally disabled Google+ because it was slaughtering my battery. I NEVER used it other than as an offline photo viewer (sync and auto upload were both off), but it was constantly running in the background and draining my battery. I finally ended up disabling Google+ entirely and just using the stock Gallery app, and my battery life has been fantastic since then.
Cheers for the replies.
If I disable it. Will apps that use it to back up (games) be affected?
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Cheers for the replies.
If I disable it. Will apps that use it to back up (games) be affected?
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There are no apps that use the Google+ app (unless you count the "Photos" app that is a part of the Google+ app). Google+ authentication that is used in 3rd party apps comes from Google Play Services.
Hey guys. I disabled some of the apps that my N5 came with such as the typical 'Play' apps. I also disabled Gmail, E-mail, Google Earth and Google+. I'm currently on KitKat 4.4.4. I am not really sure about disabling news & weather app and turning off report locations on Google Now. What do you guys think? Is it worth disabling all these wonderful apps? Should I enable any of these apps I mentioned? My menu looks pretty empty now and I think it no longer has the same flavour as before. Less apps makes it less complex.
Also, What about Google Chrome? I think it definitely drains my battery pretty bad. Do you guys know any settings for Chrome to make it less drainable or some app substitute for it?
Thank you.
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Hey guys. I disabled some of the apps that my N5 came with such as the typical 'Play' apps. I also disabled Gmail, E-mail, Google Earth and Google+. I'm currently on KitKat 4.4.4. I am not really sure about disabling news & weather app and turning off report locations on Google Now. What do you guys think? Is it worth disabling all these wonderful apps? Should I enable any of these apps I mentioned? My menu looks pretty empty now and I think it no longer has the same flavour as before. Less apps makes it less complex.
Also, What about Google Chrome? I think it definitely drains my battery pretty bad. Do you guys know any settings for Chrome to make it less drainable or some app substitute for it?
Thank you.
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You shouldn't have to disable anything. Personally, I don't at all. Just manage syncs, services and wakelocks properly. See third link of my signature, open the thread in web view if you're on Tapatalk.