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Hey, I am new to Android, with the Atrix being my first android device. I am 11 days into a new month on my contract and have already used up a bit over 1GB of my 2GB data plan. I came from using an HTC Tilt 2, and putting the Tilt 2 threw about the same amount of use would only use about 500MB a month. To check whether it was my internet use I checked my data usage, then did not use any internet for 12 hours. When I checked my data usage again my Atrix had used about 60MB of data without me running a single application. I was wondering if this is something common to Android devices I will have to deal with, or should I contact AT&T about this? Thanks for any help in advance.
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Hey, I am new to Android, with the Atrix being my first android device. I am 11 days into a new month on my contract and have already used up a bit over 1GB of my 2GB data plan. I came from using an HTC Tilt 2, and putting the Tilt 2 threw about the same amount of use would only use about 500MB a month. To check whether it was my internet use I checked my data usage, then did not use any internet for 12 hours. When I checked my data usage again my Atrix had used about 60MB of data without me running a single application. I was wondering if this is something common to Android devices I will have to deal with, or should I contact AT&T about this? Thanks for any help in advance.
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do you have any apps that are syncing periodically?
The only data services I am aware of are my Email sync and a weather sync, which I do not think should be anywhere near enough data traffic to account for all the data use.
install 3g watchdog or something similar. There's a monitoring app that monitors how much data a specific app is using (paid version). There's been a few posts here with Atrix owners with runaway data hogs, I haven't seen any definitive explanation yet though .
Did you sync dropbox, download one of the mp3/ringtone programs, and are streaming pandora or something?
Also settings > data delivery > social applications > check to sync over wifi only.
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i just got notice i am being charged $10 more per 1GB used over my 2GB plan. doesnt matter to me, my company pays the bill and i am the IT guy and it isnt an issue.
i asked out AT&T rep what other options are out there.. he says 2GB for 40 or the 4gb for 60. the tethering plan is "not yet available"
this being said, i think we need to just watch our usage until there is the tethering options. of course, i applied the little trick i found here and only have the 2gb plan. EASILY went over that though. . .
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install 3g watchdog or something similar. There's a monitoring app that monitors how much data a specific app is using (paid version). There's been a few posts here with Atrix owners with runaway data hogs, I haven't seen any definitive explanation yet though .
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Yeah, after realizing how much data is being used I have installed a data watching app last night. And thanks for the link to the other thread, maybe there is a problem with a few select handsets that over use data.
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Did you sync dropbox, download one of the mp3/ringtone programs, and are streaming pandora or something?
Also settings > data delivery > social applications > check to sync over wifi only.
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I have been streaming music from a grooveshark app, but according to AT&T's data calculator it would take about an hours of streaming a day everyday for a month to reach how much data I have used and I have only streamed for maybe 30-40 minutes a day over 5 or 6 days so far. And I will do that in my options, thanks for the advice.
My atrix tethers through att...what reason did the Rep give?
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Just a thought, did you leave the facebook app open for awhile? I only ask as I just realized leaving the app open for an hour drained my battery by 20%.
Hate to see if any data was used
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Wow, well that sucks; as others suggested you should definitely get an applications that tracks your data usage.
I have been using Data Usage Widget for a while now and love it; shows both cell and wifi data.
Be wary of what you use whsb surfing the web and set the flash download to "on demand"; by doing this, pages load faster and you can click and then watch flash content by discressiom,rather than it downloading all links from a page.
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for data usage apps i recommend consume.. its amazing in all ways and shows local phone data usage in widget form (in optional widget form)
I've read posts where some state that AT&T's data usage figures include data pulled/pushed while on WiFi and cellular, instead of cellular only data. Some kind of bug I'd bet. But I have no personal knowledge of this, still it does make one wonder.
Let's just all be greatful its not like a WP7 device. I had one and in 1 month it racked up 3GB of data on its own and I wasn't surfing or downloading.
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Hi, I have a non-rooted RAZR XT910 (OTA Updated just a few days back to 65.1.40.XT910.AsiaRetail.en.03).
I absolutely love this phone and am eagerly waiting for some functional ICS goodness but I have been facing some issues with high consumption of data.
I have Onavo installed to monitor data usage (Installed it a little too late, relying on my service provider's text notifications).
The two most data hungry applications in the "App Watch" section are "Android OS + others" & the official Facebook application.
Three days in to my billing cycle, "Android OS + others" has already hit 51.7 MB and Facebook is up to 19.4 MB. I haven't opened the Facebook application even once in the last week, so whatever data it has pulled is background data. My OTA updates are allowed only over WiFi. And I have also disabled the "Back up my data" option, under Privacy > Settings but that doesn't seem to have helped much, if at all. Neither did the OTA update.
Before Onavo reset the data usage meter for the new billing cycle, "Android OS + others" had used about 150 MB of data in a week and Facebook about 40 MB.
Can anyone help me out here? I need to reduce this phantom data usage. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
I have that too. I'm running rooted 167.19. first I suspected the gallery app with its motocast service so I freezed this app for one day, but it didn't helped. every now and then these few app processes (which are sadly only listed in one package so I don't exactly know which one causes the traffic) upload about 2mb somewhere. sometimes they also upload 2x 2mb, pause for some time and then there is an other upload of 2mb a few hours later. i'm monitoring traffic with droidstats and checking my consumed traffic online from my providers website.
I installed driodwall for blocking android-os service and these others from up- and downloading via 3g, just allowing wifi. this was also before the update with 651.73.30. full wipe already done - does not help ... still testing if blocking helps
This sucks but good to know I'm not the only one facing this problem with the RAZR.
I did start looking at other forums and seems like the problem is not only with the RAZR. There are other handsets which face a similar issue. Let us hope we get some insight into this problem.
i read about that defy users experience this high consumption too.
since I blocked android-OS (and all of these other processes in this package) from 3G network my traffic for today for corporate mail + 2x imap idle accounts + weather update is about 800KB. yesterday I had about 15MB for doing the same - nothing.
that helps for now but I still don't know which process exactly uploads so much stuff ... and why..
Just an update. Things still the same. VERY heavy data usage. Facebook is upto a 100MB even though I barely ever open the application now. Android OS + Others is around 200 Megs too. 300MB of my monthly 500MB data allowed is gone. Just like that. Any suggestions anyone?
That could be traffic originating from outside. Try connecting to another network and see if you see the same behavior.
With my Android, when I connect to my home WiFi network, "OS Services" take up about 2kb an hour while idle. But, when I connect to my work WiFi network, it takes up about 2mb every hour while idle. I am pretty sure my work network is doing a lot of snooping (in the name of security).
Facebook is understandable though don't ya think? It syncs all your contacts and birthdays and thongs of that nature.
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Facebook is understandable though don't ya think? It syncs all your contacts and birthdays and thongs of that nature.
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Of which nature are said thongs... Autocorrect for the win!
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Solutions?
No solutions or updates so far? Same 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.
Find the option for "Sync over wifi only" inside of settings, that should save a bunch. I've never had that problem, infact I have the opposite issue. I use maybe 100MB of my 500MB plan. Sometimes I even TRY to use up my data for the month and fail. I use the Facebook app maybe 10 times a month, most of my data goes towards sports scores, twitter, and reddit. As for the Android OS, the bloatware included on the phone are considered part of the "Android OS" so it's not really the OS using all the data. Open up the task manager and set all the bloatware to auto-end, might help a bit
Just posted in another thread about this. I some how used 25 megabytes on the way to and from work today with the phone in my pocket. 15 minutes each way.
Also accumulated about 280 "free" minutes this weekend between my wife and I. I thought weekends were free. Well I know they are supposed to.
Back to sprint and slow unlimited data as apposed to fast data that's going to break the bank. Just as I was starting to like the phone.
Call them tonight to tell them I was switching. Glad I'm withiny fourteen days.
Hey, didn't notice the replies till now. But do you have any task managers auto ending apps?
That was what caused high data consumption in my case. A self starting task when killed, may restart itself and it's data consumption process from 0.
Once I disabled that, data consumption fell to normal ranges. Hope this helps. Let us know how it goes.
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Hey guys, my mobile provider gives us free Facebook usage completely free no matter what the data usage.
Problem is ICS tracks Facebook in it's data usage meaning it counts it to my limit leaving it to be pretty pointless.
Is there a way to add an exemption to it so that it no longer counts data used by the Facebook App or Website and so on?
Thanks in advanced, Chris
First you should check if your actual carrier is counting that usage into your quota. If you can check online or something do that.
ICS data tracking is more of a personal use tool, so it will count exactly how much data has been used up by your phone and by which apps. Those stats aren't reported to anyone else, only you will see them on your phone. Your carrier uses their own methods to measure your data usage. They DO NOT rely on the ICS data tracking functions you have built in.
If you're really concerned then find out how much data your carrier says you've used. If it's the same as what your phone says then they're charging you for FB use. Otherwise, it'll be lower than what your phone says by whatever amount of data you've spent on FB(which you can see in your data tracking on your phone).
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Hi,
The default data tracker in ICS doesn't exclude any apps when counting traffic.
You should try other internet data counting apps like 3G Watchdog. They will probably allow to ignore the data for some apps, like the Facebook app.
Hope it helps.
A common question I assume, but no good answers showed up on a quick search, everything was ad-hack, not really practical.
Since I got my SIII I've seen a large rise is the amount of data I'm using, also all of which is listed as Android OS and if I drill down it is all background. Is there a way to easily track down what is using so much background data? In my case the top app is Play with 51mb, but the Android OS background is at 2.8GB in 10 days, which is insane. Thus I'm looking for some way to break down what is using all of this data.
Thanks,
ERIC
settings/data usage shows a breakdown, or there are several apps on the market. Might be a Samsung account backing up data or Google, or drop box, piccassa web album, all these could use a fair bit, make sure they only synch on Wi-Fi, or ditch them, even better
My problem is that the it only shows up as Android OS and then if I select it as background data (none is foreground), all of that does not help as I still do not know the cause, I have setup blocks in Droidwall so that many Apps can only run on Wifi and according to the per app break down that's all fine (none exceed 50 or so megs) the problem is with background data usage by Android. I do have Kaspersky install, so I do not think it is coming from Malware, but .... starting to wonder if maybe a reinstall is in order, that's such a pain.
Current breakdown (1 day all in K unless stated otherwise):
Android OS: 238megs
Google Play Store: 1.48megs
Email: 774
GoogelServices: 152
Gmail: 133
Maps: 124
Google+ 80
Go Weather ex 70
...
so basically no app is using anything yet I've used 238megs.
Maybe it is a Google backup then, do you use that?
Thanks will try that (just disabled google sync),
I've tracked down it is a matter of large uploads normally 30 to 250 megs that occur in the over night hours (between 1Am and 6AM), but do not know the cause will see if that is it. Also odd that as the phone is connected to a Wifi connection during those hours, so it should not use any mobile data, also as if it is using mobile data when it should be using wifi, will see if I can verify whether this is the case or not tonight. I have 3g watchdog installed now so I can see if the traffic is wifi or cell.
ERIC
Maybe it is a Google backup then, do you use that?
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Yep that was the problem, moving massive amounts of data and not using the Wifi connection, turned it off and poof all gone.
ERIC
Sorry to bring this back from the dead but what did you disable exactly?
I think disabling the google backup would help, coz enabling it makes app data back up to google servers. If there's an app with a lot of app data, it can eat up your data bandwidth.
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Hi,
I am using KITKAT ported by Legacy Xperia. Me too facing same problem. From starting, I have not enabled data backup. Still, for 10 days, Android OS consumed 9.5MB data. Look high side for me as I have only 500MB data / month.
Kindly let me know the solution.
egandt said:
A common question I assume, but no good answers showed up on a quick search, everything was ad-hack, not really practical.
Since I got my SIII I've seen a large rise is the amount of data I'm using, also all of which is listed as Android OS and if I drill down it is all background. Is there a way to easily track down what is using so much background data? In my case the top app is Play with 51mb, but the Android OS background is at 2.8GB in 10 days, which is insane. Thus I'm looking for some way to break down what is using all of this data.
Thanks,
ERIC
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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.
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Since a few days ago, Android OS has been using an extreme amount of background data. I have never had this issue before. I did some research and found a ton of conflicting things about this supposedly common error. Does anyone have any idea how to fix it?
I have tried turning location off, still uses data. I have tried turning sync off, still uses data. I've tried using third party apps to track and see what is causing the problem, no luck.
Wiping cache & Dalvik cache can help correct this. Do you have root / custom recovery?
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Wiping cache & Dalvik cache can help correct this. Do you have root / custom recovery?
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Yes. I do. Dalvik and cache has been wiped several times already, but I will try it again and see if it works.
I tried wiping cache and dalvik. Didn't do anything. This is ridiculous... My little bitty data allowance disappearing because of a stupid bug...
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Have you checked the list of apps below the usage graph in Settings / Data usage?
Be sure to place a check mark in Mobile data in the upper right.
Scroll down the list, tap on each major app & consider limiting its background data usage to wifi with the individualized Restrict background data setting.
You could use an app like Network Log to at least see what Android System is connecting to, might narrow down what's causing the issue.
Yes, I have looked there. I have limited everything I can think of. The problem is, it says Android os is the app using the data and I can't limit that app. And I will install that app and see what I can see.
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You can read up on using Better Battery Stats at its excellent xda thread.
This could help especially if the detail on Android OS in Settings / Battery usage shows excessive wake time.
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use a firewall app to block internet access to all the apps except the ones you use
I've tried doing that. I just can't block access to android os.
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This is ridiculous. My tablet never used this much data before. Android OS is the worst, but Google play services are using a lot too.
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It must me something else.
Data usage displayed by each application when summed up don't give even half of global amount used.
Something like:
Google play - 2Mb, Chrome - 5Mb, Android OS - 4Mb, some other apps - 300Kb each, together - 45Mb !!!
Where 20+ Mb has gone - no idea.
There is option to stop background data usage but then phone is almost useless.
BTW:
I don't have any sync to network drive, no FB, no mail or other regular checking.
Bobby060 said:
Since a few days ago, Android OS has been using an extreme amount of background data. I have never had this issue before. I did some research and found a ton of conflicting things about this supposedly common error. Does anyone have any idea how to fix it?
I have tried turning location off, still uses data. I have tried turning sync off, still uses data. I've tried using third party apps to track and see what is causing the problem, no luck.
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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
Enjoy