Recently, I have noticed that Android OS has extra data usage [1.34 GB].
It was a big problem for me, because mobile data cost a lot in my country. So that i spent hours searching for the reasons.
Now I understand why that happened with me and i like to share you how i fix that problem.
First : Backup and reset
It's contains an option to backup all apps data , wifi passwords, calendar events,... etc to gmail account.
I was setting this option so that Android OS data usage was higher than it was.
Second :
Gmail accounts Also has options to backup your data. And that will increase android os data usage.
Third :
Apps that upload a backup of your photos and videos can make auto backup (that's don't effect on Android OS data usage).
That it all check this video it's about how to fix this problem .
https://youtu.be/KfX3ptiadUE
If you tether to a computer or other devices, sometimes the data will be attributed to Android OS (sometimes both Android OS as well as the tethering app, giving you incorrect totals).
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Hi guys,
I know that in android, dalvik manage the process control and life cycle but i have a que/ idea..
When i turn off mobile data (internet), apps like facebook, gmail or other apps that depends upon internet, stay in ram even they can't do anything without mobile data. If you try to kill them manually they get auto restart in a while.. if they stay killed when there is no internet, This will greatly improve battery and performance of android.
In replacement , a small ini or xml file can be used, that would keep a list of all apps that need to be invoked as soon as mobile data is enabled again.
A small script (in KB) should stay in ram all time and start a polling service. As soon as the mobile data get enabled, it loads all apps from that file stored in cache.
The whole thing should work as...
+small script in ram as polling service to monitor data availability
+small base file in cache keeping a list of apps requesting data
=data enabled-->apps loading script
= data unavailable --> apps unloading script .
It's just my opinion as our phone has a limited amount of ram and most of the people need mobile data at intervals .... i searched and tried a lot of taskman / task killers , but each of them is either too big and battery hungry or can not stop apps being restarted.. they just kill apps at intervals and hence causing lot of extra processor work regularly...
Please post your opinion about this....
When I first boot into Dandroid, I looked into the Data Usage tab in the settings. Why does it say that there is data used if I haven't used any?
Never mind, I think it was Google trying to sync my apps
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).
Bought the P20 a few days ago and realized that the phone has constant wifi activity even when leaving it idle. The two traffic flow arrows for wifi is always on. This constant network activity behavior does not happen when using 4G connection.
I have tried everything below without luck. Anyone having same issue?
1. Factory reset a few times without installing any apps except those that came with the phone. So I don't think the problem is caused by apps that are not bundled with the phone.
2. Used different wifi access points from different routers
3. Looked at the wifi data usage ranking in Settings and I suspect there is something irregular about Google Backup Transport. Searched around the Internet and people mention that this process/service is used for backing up app data, call records etc to Google Drive. So I went to Settings > System > Backup & restore > Google Account and see that under Active Backups everything is marked as "Waiting to backup". Used adb commands "bmgr fullbackup" etc. to manually trigger backup. The backups worked but the problem still exist. Even tried updating Google Play Services to latest beta version but no luck.
U solved it? i have the same issue.
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.