I'm in Canada and on a recent trip for a couple weeks through the States I had roaming turned off. However when I got home and received my cell phone bill, I had been charged approx $80 for roaming ($7.99/day 50MB automatically added by provider) so something on the phone was reaching out for data every day for 11 days even though roaming was turned off. The total amount of data used was 56KB
I looked at the data usage on the phone and below is what it tells me.
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If I tap on Android OS it doesn't tell me anything. Has anyone else run into this? I've managed to get my cell provider to cut the charges in half but I'd really like to get to the bottom of this.
IMO it's now late to analyze something. You would have installed an app to monitor you data connection.
Unfortunately this system menu doesn't give a lot of details. I bet this consumption is caused by the 'backup data' feature.
How do you disable roaming when its unticked?,
I have disabled mine but it goes into roaming when im rural (same country), i get a message "connected to roaming charges may apply"
I just want the mobile service without data transmission,
I havent got billed as i took my sim out when i last traveled
I think its been a bug since 4.4.3
No directly related but they got roaming issues
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=71339
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Hi All,
A friend of mine got himself a iPhone.
Without customs builds, SDKs, etc... I still think the home
cooked builds for WM are much better.
One thing I envy is that apparently his WiFi is alway on.
Having that on it connects to all the networks it can
saving/speeding lots of data for professional use of
a mobile device (I use it as my mobile office).
What is most desirable is that his battery doesnt
seem to run out any more faster.
I tried to use once with my WM and my device asked for
more juice in 3 hours.
Is there a driver / app that can use the wifi hardware as iPhone does ??
some kind of passive WiFi mode ???
Cheers,
Smartin
iPHONE
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I also have a friend with an iPhone right here with me and his does not stay connetcted when the phone is put to sleep mode, well it will stay connected for 30 seconds and then shut down. I verified this by pinging his phone from my PC, after 30 seconds of sleep - no answer and my router lost it from its lists of clients. BUT it was wery quick to aquire the signal after waking up. I then set the IP lease to 3 minutes and put the iPhone to sleep for 5 minutes just to be sure and then it took the usual 5-7 seconds to aquire IP again so it seems to me its using som kind of quick connect settings as long as the lease doesn´t expire.
I've had the phone for just over a day now and the battery life has been fantastic when outside where I have great coverage. However, for the past couple of hours I have been studying in the basement of the library at my college and I noticed that my battery drains around 20-25% per hour (not a typo) when my phone is not attached to AT&T's network, and it is searching for a network. The only application that I have that accesses data when the screen is off is Google Now, and even that has location settings turned off.
It appears that Google Now will constantly try an access a data network even if you are in an area with no coverage at all. My Galaxy S3 did not have this issue. The phone would simply stop accessing data after a short period of time if it could not attach to a data network.
Anyone else have this issue? I have had to turn data off and it seems to have fixed the issue. My phone is no longer using any battery idly.
You can see what I am talking about in this picture
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Does that drain persist after a reboot? My phone started chewing through battery for no reason at about 35 hours of uptime.
From what I experienced on my S3 and also the N5, whenever I go to school, I'd have to turn off my data because my coverage sucks there. However, if I leave the data on, it begins to roam/search for 3G signal and will eventually drain my battery. What you're experiencing seems normal to me. Just turn off your data and hop onto the WI-FI connection to conserve your battery. Seems to do the trick for me all the time.
Hello i didn't find anywhere similar problem. I have N5, rooted and with stock rom & kernel, i have a problem with mobile network. In my country there is a network "Play" and it is using own transmitters or from other networks and it is working as roaming network. When i want to find other compatible carriers from menu (manual mode) searching took so much time, more than few minutes. There is a sollution for this? Or fix?
Same situation when i switch from 2G to LTE mode - same results.
Best regards g1b50n
I don't think you can just switch carriers from the network menu. You need their sim card to use them. "Roaming" is usually just automatic, if you have it enabled in setting.
You don't click on different carriers to roam. At least I've never heard of that. To use a carrier, you need their sim and APN settings.
Call your carrier and ask about it. They should know exactly how it should work.
In my country carrier "Play" allow to use other networks. I mean a problem when i want to find other carriers
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Then took so much time to find other networks.
I can connect with all of them (only orange not working cause was for testing)
Just want to know why looking for other networks take so much time.
Sorry, never heard of it....so can't guess why.
It probably falls under the" it is what it is" category.
Hello All,
On both my wife's and my Tmobile S7s running 6.01 on the November security patch, the location services are terrible. The phone keeps thinking I am at my house when I am 20 miles away at work. My wife has the same problem. If I toggle location services off then on, it instantly updates to the correct location. Eventually if defaults back to my house. This wouldn't be such a huge deal if I didn't have a SmartThings home automation system. SmartThings keeps unlocking my front door, turning on lights, and putting the heat back on because according to the phone I am at my house and the automation kicks in. Here is what I have done to try to fix the location issue:
- Location on with method = GPS, Wi-Fi, and mobile networks.
- Improved accuracy on with Wi-Fi scanning and Bluetooth Scanning enabled.
- Under Optimize Battery usage, I have unoptimized Location Services (meaning it should always be running).
Does anyone else have this problem with their S7s? If it were jsut mine, I would chalk it up to a faulty device, but it is happening to my wifes as well. Any other tricks to make this stop happening?
Check your apps to make sure the location permission hasn't been unchecked. Exactly which app could be missing that is hard to say. A factory reset might be your friend for this kind of situation.
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I'm located in the UK and live in an area where the Mobile Phone signal is hit and miss.
This isn't to much of a problem as I always have WiFi.
However since purchasing a Pixel 2 I am bombarded with a "Phone Services" notification informing me
"No voice service - Temporarily not offered by the mobile network at your location."
This is because the weak Mobile signal keeps dropping in and out. I understand this is not the Phones or Google's issue.
However I would like to disable this notification if at all possible, any ideas how????
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Long press the notification. There should be a settings page. On said page, there might be a toggle.
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I'm located in the UK and live in an area where the Mobile Phone signal is hit and miss.
This isn't to much of a problem as I always have WiFi.
However since purchasing a Pixel 2 I am bombarded with a "Phone Services" notification informing me
"No voice service - Temporarily not offered by the mobile network at your location."
This is because the weak Mobile signal keeps dropping in and out. I understand this is not the Phones or Google's issue.
However I would like to disable this notification if at all possible, any ideas how????
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I'm having this same issue. There is no toggle, it's very annoying, especially as I get the notification on my watch every few minutes.