Large Background Data Traffic - General Questions and Answers

Some time within the past 3 days Android OS (as per Settings\Data Usage) downloaded 59 mb background traffic via mobile data connection . This happened without me permitting anything or intentionally downloading anything. Typically my total background data traffic for Andoid OS is a few mb per month.
The 59 mb were enough to exceed my contract limit, and now I have to pay a high penalty-like charge for each mb. I want to learn what happened there, so I can do something to prevent this to happen in the future. Thanks for all hints and tips!

Check out which app is using so much of data :thumbup:
If the app isn't needed uninstall it and also disable auto updating of apps :thumbup:
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CLINTZ9 said:
Check out which app is using so much of data :thumbup:
If the app isn't needed uninstall it and also disable auto updating of apps :thumbup:
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Thanks!
No app has auto-udating enabled.
Let me detail this a bit. 59 mb are shown as Android background traffic. No app is showing any mobile data traffic of that size, neither foreground nor background, with one exception which is Boat browser's foreground data traffic, obviously being my internet usage. All other positions counted together are around 6 mb only.
What apps or functions are causing background data traffic in Android OS? If one of the websites I visited had for example a video file pushed on me which I did not notice, does Android OS count this as Background traffic?

Pls. close the thread.
This would not have happened with my previous Symbian based device. Frankly, how Android could become so strong is beyond me. Or better: I suspect why.

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Track data usage per app

So like the title says i need to track data usage per app. My data use for today was alarmingly high and i need to find the culprit. Is there any app that does this¿
bump please
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An app like 3g watchdog with extra listing for each app would be perfect
I've been searching for similar apps as well (light weight)
Found another option...
https://market.android.com/details?id=net.ir.apptrafficfree
Seems to use built in data monitored by the os, for ver 2.2 onwards only though.
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[Q] how much data can Android OS eat?

My data stats show that "android OS" consumed about 200 mb? Is this normal? I mean, i don.t care about costs, but could a malicious app use kernel for transmiting my personal data to a third party site?
Is it possible?
Tjank you
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Nobody can exactly say the data consumed by their android.
But 200 mb in your case is very higher.That may not be by the os only,
See is there any download or any app(s) running at background.
So stop all the apps in seetings>app manager and see the consumption again.:thumbup:
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200 mb is never ok for your os to consume see if an update occured in that month ! My android os usage is 30 mb.
andrevs_ro said:
My data stats show that "android OS" consumed about 200 mb? Is this normal? I mean, i don.t care about costs, but could a malicious app use kernel for transmiting my personal data to a third party site?
Is it possible?
Tjank you
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Aloha there...
Head over to f-droid.org and install networklog, root required thought. It gives a very detailed report about network traffic.
Happy network loggin...
Android FOSS repository https://f-droid.org/
I searched and remembered that i was having sync on, so that could be an explanation.
Thank you for your responses
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to prevent consuming too much data you could install "3G Watchdog app" it monitors your data every minute and send a notification (plus vibration) if you exceed your traffic data limit
The sync-on triggered that much data usage by your OS.
Its normally around 40 to 60 mbs approx.
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[Q] RealCalc background data

I just noticed that the RealCalc app has used 132MB of background data in the past month (wifi only). Why would a calculator use ANY background data let alone 132MB? This seems really suspicious.
Since this shows up as backgound data only on Wifi I don't expect that restricting backgound data will make any difference since that only applies to mobile data.
Any ideas?
That's odd. I've got it installed as well, and it doesn't even show up in my data usage..
Clear data and cache for it, then uninstall it & reinstall it.
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Thanks. Have done that and hopefully it will fix the problem. Only other thing I can think of is that the data usage log got a bit confused when I installed a new ROM recently and is reporting incorrect usage.
I'm not the first one to see this though:
"...Be warned though, I found RealCalc using a lot of background data a few months ago (~100mb). If you know how to turn off an app’s ability to use background data, I highly suggest doing that with this one." - http://upfromhere.net/2014/04/must-replacement-apps-android/
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Use droidwall to deny permission to use internet.
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Since reinstalling it hasn't shown up on the data usage list again but thanks, I'll keep this in mind for other apps.

Any mysterious app in data usage?

Hello Everybody,
I found some apps which are using data in background and they all are not familiar.
They are not in Apps (settings» application).
There names are 10165, 10085, 10106, 10097, 10115, 10178. I'm not using much internet now a days but around in my 200 MB of consumption 10115 (named app) used 45 MB background data. I haven't seen them on previous Lollipop version 2.33.720.4 but in 2.33.720.6 I think instead of security improvements they are snooping us.

Data saver/background data restriction not fully working (Honor x6)

Hello fellas,
as the title says, i'm enabling the data saver feature for ALL the apps (both installed and system apps) with no exception .. yet, every now and then the screen lock data usage notification mentions that an amount of mobile data has been used by some apps (facebook, whatsapp, system apps ..)
is this a common bug on the honor 6x/emui5 or is there something else i'm missing here ??
My model number : BLN-L21
Build number : BLN-L21C432B365
Emui version : 5.0.1
Hi, i keep data saver always on for habit and i didn't noticed a traffic of mobile data while it is activated. But i know also that those damned social apps are a true pain for phones. I don't have neither one so i can't confirm that, but maybe someone else who has Facebook or others could provide a feedback about. Have you took in consideration the idea of using socials via web browser? When i still had my Facebook account 2 years ago, i used to do everything by my browser because in this way, i was able to avoid useless and heavyweight, crappy client apps
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Hi, i keep data saver always on for habit and i didn't noticed a traffic of mobile data while it is activated. But i know also that those damned social apps are a true pain for phones. I don't have neither one so i can't confirm that, but maybe someone else who has Facebook or others could provide a feedback about. Have you took in consideration the idea of using socials via web browser? When i still had my Facebook account 2 years ago, i used to do everything by my browser because in this way, i was able to avoid useless and heavyweight, crappy client apps
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Hi and thank you for your feedback,
Well the thing is, not only social media apps that consume background data but many other apps including games and system apps, maybe not with same amount but they still do, and what mostly concerned about is how come such a bug can even occur in our phone ..
if you are using honor 6x with thae latest emui i suggest you turn on the "locked screen data usage reminder" from (settings -» mobile data -» then the settings icon up right) and see if you are gonna get leaked data ..
Then we can know for sure from where the problem is coming from
I'm looking forward to reading your feedback ..
I tested by disabling or restricting the same and still saw the traffic as bytes on status bar.
But when data turned off, didn't see any bytes consumed. Evem when opened Facebook, it shows 34-35KB data transfer rate but not updated or refreshed means data is not consume and it was only trying to send the data (upload speed) but none received (download data).

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