Hi
During a day, my phone uses 2-4 MB of data in the background.
I don't have any special programs that needs data (to my knowledge), so I am a bit surprised.
How do I find out which programs that are using the data?
It is not a problem as I have flat rate data, but on the other hand I would like to known what the data is used for.
/Michael
Desire S
check if you have syncing turned on or off for weather,facebook,twitter or e-mail ?
I'm on the 200MB Unlimited data on TmoUS. With the same sync settings, I used to average ~ 3 MB/day using my HD2. After changing to the sensation, I am seeing more like ~ 10 MB/day.
To find out which app is draining my data, I installed Traffic Counter (Free from market) to monitor each app. It turns out that the top 4 apps that uses the most data are:
HTC Hub
Setup
Settings
Clock
It is also interesting to note that those 4 apps use identical amount of data daily. Therefore, I believe there must be some setting in Sense and/or Android that is allowing these apps to sync periodically...
Sorry for my OCD... but it bugs me to no end seeing things like Setup, Settings and the clock constantly sucking my data and wakes the phone from sleep.
Go into Account and Sync in the Settings menu and turn off HTC Sense Sync. There's also a shedload more stuff you can turn off.
My wife got a Skyrocket in December and as of January 18, it started sending a TON of data. I'm talking GBs at a time. The first night it sent 4GB and thereafter it's 500MB-1.5GB here and there. Obviously this is busting our extra gigabyte purchases pretty quickly.
I've installed a couple of per-app monitoring applications. TrafficStats allowed me to show system applications and filter to network data only. It shows the data was sent (not received) in the total, but doesn't attribute it to any application. Right now it's over 731MB but the Gmail app, which has used the most, is at 31MB.
It seems to happen whether or not Wifi is enabled and connected. Turning packet data off does stop the traffic.
What can I do to figure out when this is? I have ADB working and root access, but not sure how to go about seeing which app is doing this.
Thanks!
I m guessing its CIQ that's sends this much ****ttttttttt so just disable ciq and it will hopefully stop sending!!!!!
avengerp said:
My wife got a Skyrocket in December and as of January 18, it started sending a TON of data. I'm talking GBs at a time. The first night it sent 4GB and thereafter it's 500MB-1.5GB here and there. Obviously this is busting our extra gigabyte purchases pretty quickly.
I've installed a couple of per-app monitoring applications. TrafficStats allowed me to show system applications and filter to network data only. It shows the data was sent (not received) in the total, but doesn't attribute it to any application. Right now it's over 731MB but the Gmail app, which has used the most, is at 31MB.
It seems to happen whether or not Wifi is enabled and connected. Turning packet data off does stop the traffic.
What can I do to figure out when this is? I have ADB working and root access, but not sure how to go about seeing which app is doing this.
Thanks!
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I removed CIQ via the commands here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1399429&highlight=remove+ciq
We'll see if that helps. Would CIQ really transfer gigabytes at a time? Is it sending real-time video back to AT&T in addition to keylogging??
If anyone else has a good tool to monitor the traffic I'd still be interested.
Download / Install "My Data Manager" (free) from Market.. it will show every app/service using data, wifi... and how much.
Unfortunately I'm having a problem finding any apps that support AT&T LTE interface monitoring.
I can, however, see some traffic flying by on tcpdump over adb (on rmnet_sdio0 which I think is the mobile interface). But there's no way to tell which app it's coming from.
download "Data Usage Defender" its the best data/wifi monitoring. It tells you exactly what apps sent and received how much data, over what network 3G/4G/Wifi, it monitors and can cut off your data connection to a pre-set limit you chose, it also gives you realtime speed from a little windows under your status bar. I've had it, but since i have 10Gb of data and NEVER go over i uninstalled it
Thanks! Data Usage Defender seems pretty great, and was able to catch all the traffic. I just watched the 'Email' app send 50MB in about 45 seconds while receivinf 4.4kb.
Now to figure out why...or just uninstall email and switch entirely to the gmail app. Has anyone else experienced this?
Can someone explain me why Android OS uses so much data? I have most of my apps disabled and I also turned off background data usage for most of the apps. But data usage on 4g is 20 times more than on Wi-Fi. How to fix it?
P.S location and sync are off too
Hi All, I have a Nexus 6P, Android 8.1, on the Google Project Fi network
I have the MLB At Bat app (baseball) and it was working fine for a while - I keep background data off for most of my apps because Project Fi's data costs are expensive and as such I've had background data turned off for MLB At Bat since I installed in a couple of months ago. This week however it used over 1GB of background data (and over 10GB of wifi data which I don't care so much about) How is it possible that it used background data when it was disabled? I'm checking all the time now to see that the app is closed (force stop) whenever i'm not specifically using it.
While the app does allow audio and video streaming I don't use it for that, just for push notifications for team news and such. I see a couple of recent reviews on that app's Play Store page that say exactly the same thing I'm saying - but don't mention if background data was turned off or not for them.
I guess my question is, how is it possible that it sucked up background data while it was disabled and is there an app or something I can install that will stop that from happening again? or at least alert me that there's a rogue app costing me a fortune?
Thanks!