Help: Question about Android OS Mobile data Usage - General Questions and Answers

Hi,
I just wanted to ask what is "android OS"? when it comes to data usage.
Here is my issue:
I recently check my data usage under phone settings and surprised that "android OS" was the second highest data usage. It consumed roughly 9GB of data in span of 1 month. Mostly of my activities was video streaming via modified youtube app. and downloading on my chrome browser.
I am also using softether vpn app which requires root to run.
I just wanted to make sure that his data usage of android OS were not due to some malware.
Thanks in advance

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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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Android OS high data usage

I've got a very annoying data problem here: Sony Xperia S, Android 2.3.7 (Build .75), 500MB dataplan and the OS takes 300 of that! I already took some precautions like turning of the backup, I've logged out of Facebook and removed my Hotmail app. And I installed JuiceDefender Plus which handles my connections, but no results whatsoever: Android OS still uses 5-10MB/day...
Any help would be very, very welcome.
An application like Juice Defender won't help you lower data plan usage because its first aim is to prevent battery depletion while meeting certain conditions (like screen turned off, for example.)
This means that when you turn on the screen and Juice Defender restores mobile data, Android does broadcast a message (android.net.conn.CONNECTIVITY_CHANGE) to all registered listeners, that let them know when they can use the network again.
As a example, think of an email client that will access its configured POP/IMAP servers when it can. No matter how long the screen was off (and thus mobile data disabled by Juice Defender,) it will always download the same amount of data when your device is put back on line (luckily for you I would say in the case of an email client because if it were not the case, that would mean you're losing mails...)
When it comes to data accounting, Android simplifies things a bit too much, and you end with not very insightful labels like "Android OS." This may indicate that the Google apps framework (a standard package shared among different applications) is the one using your data plan.
I wrote an app that accounts data used by process rather than package, and let you know the associated packages with each process and also showing real-time network usage graphics along with many other real-time data to workaround those kind of limitations (as I don't want to make publicity -- even if it's free -- PM me if you're interested and I'll point you to it.)
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kraayj said:
I've got a very annoying data problem here: Sony Xperia S, Android 2.3.7 (Build .75), 500MB dataplan and the OS takes 300 of that! I already took some precautions like turning of the backup, I've logged out of Facebook and removed my Hotmail app. And I installed JuiceDefender Plus which handles my connections, but no results whatsoever: Android OS still uses 5-10MB/day...
Any help would be very, very welcome.
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I faced the same problem, issue was somewhat with auto backup of data, sync of app data & people details in google account,
BUT the main culprit in my case was uTorrent application.
Even though there was no torrent added to it, i didn't even opened it,
it was using 1GB data daily on WiFi and in data usage it was coming under Android OS usage. I uninstalled it, everything went back to normal.
So try to look for such apps which eat up your data in background, it may not be an error of android OS as such.
Hope this helps, Press THANKS if it did help you
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Anyone know what MDM means when they break this out and list it with all the installed apps? I assume its a compilation of Android background services, but it is consistently pegged at using 25 to 35% of the total data. Is this amount of OS data normal for an Android device? Is this the hook that Google has into us that allows us the privilege of using their free software, or am I way off base and it's something more mundane?

Large Background Data Traffic

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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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.

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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