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.
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I have a non-rooted, stock G2 (on T-Mobile) running Android 2.2.
Every day, as many as twenty or thirty times per day, the phone gets stuck in "upload" mode. The data icon shows that data is uploading (or trying to) and I am unable to use any data-related services (whether tethered or on the phone itself). When it happens it can last anywhere from 10 seconds to 5 minutes. The only way I can forcibly stop it is to completely shut down the radio by toggling airplane mode off then on, forcing the phone to reacquire a data signal.
I've tried resetting the phone to factory defaults, deleting every app, reinserting the SIM card, and even formatting the SD card. Stopping running processes doesn't affect the issue, nor does implementing a task killer to kill extant apps. I also don't have any reliable way of tracking how much data *might* be getting sent (where ever it might be going). I've toggled off background data, syncing, GPS, network location, etc. Anything user settable that could potentially impact data has been switched off, to no avail. But, even with those settings on, I've never (in the past) had them completely usurp my data usage by locking the mobile data into an upload state.
My three main concerns are that 1) I can't reliably download apps, check mail, send pics/videos, or other data-related processes. 2) I'm concerned that if something IS uploading, it may be uploading a LOT and adding to my 5GB per month throttle-cap on T-Mobile. 3) I don't know WHAT is being sent, or WHERE. For all I know it could be sending my private data and contact info to an unknown third party.
I've ended every endable process and killed or uninstalled every app possible. I can't seem to remove bloatware without rooting, which I'm not yet eager to do as this phone is less than 60 days old, and I'm otherwise very happy with it as is.
Any suggestions or recent information as to why this is occurring? I have seen a similar thread for a different phone (Incredible), but it was from over a year ago and there were no solutions (other than flashing a new ROM). I'd like to stay stock, at least for a while, but if there is no other option and the Gingerbread OTA doesn't resolve this issue, then I may very well go to CyanogenMod (which I was happily running on my previous phone, the G1).
-Mark
Harware:
Asus Transformer Infinity (rooted and unlocked)
ROM:
CleanROM
Ok, so before I flashed CleanROM I created a backup using CWM. After installing flashing CleanROM and installing a TON of apps from all over the place.(xda, torrentz, play store) I foolishly used goo. Manager to install TWRP. After all of this was installed my tablet continued to perform normally for a few days and then Google play took a MASSIVE DUMP all over my Transformer. So here's my issue:
Primary:
Google play store sporadically refuses to connect. I believe it is some sort of security protocol error. Because, when I try using browser to access the website it shows ~10 consecutive security certificate trust warnings. It last happened two days ago and was happening at least once a day for awhile. Even after I force stopped nearly all downloaded apps, and removed nearly all from startup and manually installed the newest version of Google play. When the error is occurring Google play will open and just stay at a gray background saying, "No Connection", I hit the retry button, but it searches for a second then says no connection found again. This has happened on over three separate wifi networks and each lasted varying times at different times of the day.:cyclops:
Seconday:
So my solution was to try a factory data reset and re-install my apps using either Titanium or App backup. However, I didn't want to do this without transferring my backup data over to my PC for safe storage. So my question is this, does installing TWRP delete/corrupt the backup data stored on the SD card by CWM? Attatched is a pic of my CWM backup folder hopefully containing my stock Asus JB, I really don't want to lose this just in case I ever need it again. But, it seems exceedingly small to be a full backup of the default JB loadout.
Weirdly:
I have a small battery indicator in the middle top of my screen that places itself on top of anything on screen and is always visible... any ideas?
Summary:
Sooo, are there any things that could be affecting Google play connectivity that I installed personally and would a factory data reset even help?
Also, does the attatched picture seem like it could be a valid recovery file of Asus JB? It seems really small...
Finally, strangest of all a small battery indicator shows up in the middle of my screen. VERY annoying.
Thanks in advance for any help.
So I was merrily flashing Liquid Smooth onto my phone, and everything seemed to be working out nicely. Then, all of a sudden this stupid pop up comes up every 10 seconds saying "unfortunately the process android.process.acore has stopped". This seemed to start not long after I tried to restore my backup of the wifi access points. I also cannot seem to connect to any wifi signal (which I had no problems with before) and the wifi seems to be stuck in between on and off.
I would assume that if someone can tell me the database or location of where the access points are saved, I would assume if I were to delete/modify that file it should fix my problem. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
noingwhat said:
So I was merrily flashing Liquid Smooth onto my phone, and everything seemed to be working out nicely. Then, all of a sudden this stupid pop up comes up every 10 seconds saying "unfortunately the process android.process.acore has stopped". This seemed to start not long after I tried to restore my backup of the wifi access points. I also cannot seem to connect to any wifi signal (which I had no problems with before) and the wifi seems to be stuck in between on and off.
I would assume that if someone can tell me the database or location of where the access points are saved, I would assume if I were to delete/modify that file it should fix my problem. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
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I'm having the same issue. Probably going to have to do a stock restore and re-root
noingwhat said:
So I was merrily flashing Liquid Smooth onto my phone, and everything seemed to be working out nicely. Then, all of a sudden this stupid pop up comes up every 10 seconds saying "unfortunately the process android.process.acore has stopped". This seemed to start not long after I tried to restore my backup of the wifi access points. I also cannot seem to connect to any wifi signal (which I had no problems with before) and the wifi seems to be stuck in between on and off.
I would assume that if someone can tell me the database or location of where the access points are saved, I would assume if I were to delete/modify that file it should fix my problem. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
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Yeah, lots of warning around, NOT to restore data with Titanium BAckup when going between different ROMs, It will often hose things because data is often not in precisely the same place.
This is strange. I always restore my Wi-Fi access points, call log, and text messages through tibu (only 3 data parts I restore) and have never had an issue. Was your backup from a tw rom initially? That's the only thing I can think of being a culprit. I restore those items across all aosp roms without issue.
WiFi access points are usually stored in your Google account. When I did all my custom stuff on my S3 Google always restored them. Did you have that option enabled on your phone for Google to save your settings?
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WiFi access points are usually stored in your Google account. When I did all my custom stuff on my S3 Google always restored them. Did you have that option enabled on your phone for Google to save your settings?
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Problem is, if you install a custom ROM or different ROM, Google will often think its a different phone and restore nothing but your contacts.
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.
Started two days ago and booted me right out of Google Play. I didn't worry because I thought this is a WiFi error or google service might be affected.
After a couple of hours I started searching for a solution. There is no connection error, two wifi networks working.
First was to clear the cache on Google apps and services. I did that, reboot and nothing happened.
Second one was to remove the account and to add it back. I removed it, cleared cache, reboot. I was silly to test this, and now the phone is without any account - cannot add it back. cannot backup or restore.
Third one was speaking about some Google apps beeing disabled - I was encouraged that yes, indeed some Google app was disabled (Google Play Music). So I enabled it, I cleared cache, reboot and still nothing.
There was some old ideas that second-factor authentication might prevent connecting - I tested anyway, this is not the case here. Not connecting.
Any other idea or test? I am thinking of Factory reset.