Hey,
How to track app data usage?
Like to see which apps are using my data, as I am getting data charges without even using phone, so want to know whats causing it in background.
Please let me know,
Thanks.
I use 'My data manager'. It works fine.
Even without it you can just turn data connection off, and you wont connect to anything. I mean in the menu which appears when you hold power button. You will also save considerate amount of battery like this.
I use Traffic Monitor. You can find it in the Android Market. It's free and offers all details divided among apps, wifi usage and mobile data usage. It also lets you set a limit for data. Additionally, it offers a speed test too.
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onavo is also an excellent option for tracking data and has some useful graphs
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I normally use wifi and thus mobile data is normally off. On my previous phone, I used extended controls which worked really well. I like having widget on the screen to turn the mobile data on or off, really not into screwing around with settings.
With the RAZR, with extended controls, the data off option seems to still allow the phone to "think" there is a mobile connection. I see the sync symbol appear and I think that this searching for a data connection is killing the battery life somehow.
I have now tried various widgets like APNDroid, extended controls, etc and they all seem to have the same effect. I think it is because they just rename the APN versus completely turning off the data.
Does anyone have any advice or suggestions on this issue? Thank you in advance.
Rob
I think you can set up smart actions to toggle it off for you whenever you connect to Wi-Fi. And then to toggle it back on when you leave the Wi-Fi area.
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Thanks for the suggestion Gary. Thought about smart actions but I leave mobile data off all the time until I need it.
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I was using the smart actions our Razrs and with the mobile data off it wasn't downloading Voicemails or pictures in text messages until the mobile data was turned back on. Not sure if its something with our setup or not, but I disabled the smart action until I investigate it further.
Yeah, the not downloading MMS thing is fairly common when you turn off data. I don't receive many MMS so it is not something that I really concerned myself about.
After searching for some time now, I found that juice defender has a mobile data widget which is doing what I need. I do not have juice defender enabled but installed it just for the widget. In the widget list it is called "Toggle: mobile data". Seems to get the job done.
I will look into using the other features of juice defender as I have heard many good things about it. I am guessing it is similar to smart actions but maybe not as user friendly.
Many thanks.
Juice Defender was awesome on my Samsung Epic. I haven't looked at all the smart actions yet so I don't know if most of the features of juice defender can be accomplished with that or not.
Wasn't sure about the MMS, just wanted to mention in case it was an issue.
Good luck!
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Yeah, the not downloading MMS thing is fairly common when you turn off data. I don't receive many MMS so it is not something that I really concerned myself about.
After searching for some time now, I found that juice defender has a mobile data widget which is doing what I need. I do not have juice defender enabled but installed it just for the widget. In the widget list it is called "Toggle: mobile data". Seems to get the job done.
I will look into using the other features of juice defender as I have heard many good things about it. I am guessing it is similar to smart actions but maybe not as user friendly.
Many thanks.
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Just had the best battery life ever from this phone. Only real changes were the juice defender widget and setting almost all apps to close using task manager. Normal day at work, about 10 hours, used to come home with about 40-50% battery, today it was at 90% after work.
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What's wrong with the stock Mobile Data Toggle widget?
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Which widget is that one? I see airplane, GPS, wifi, etc but nothing for data specifically. It would be awesome to use a stock widget and have the same results.
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This one. Is it not present in VZW firmware? Could certainly explain why it's grouped separately from the rest of the stock toggle widgets if so.
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Strange ... I do not see that widget in my list.
When you turn data off using that widget, does the data icon in your taskbar completely disappear or just go to an inactive state (icon grey all the time)?
With all the widgets I have tried so far, the data icon just goes inactive (icon grey all the time) but using the juice defender widget the data icon disappears completely from the taskbar.
When I had the data inactive (icon grey all the time), I would see the phone attempting to sync and this led me to believe that there is likely several things trying to find a connection. During that time, my battery life sucked hard, was worried that if my work day lasted too long that my phone would die (and I don't use my phone much during the day + wifi, BT, sound, etc all off). Since using the JD widget, I am rocking 80-90% remaining at the end of my work day so far.
Other items I have done to save battery are:
SetCPU profile - nothing special, just min CPU (300-300) for screen off, recharging or low battery
Task Manager - autoclose everything 2 min after screen off except the widgets I want running
Screen Brightness - about 30 or 40%
Data completely disappears when the switch is toggled. It's the same effect as disabling packet data from within the settings menu (normally under wireless & networks, RAZR has it under data manager).
I've seen that grey icon too. Suspect the blue/grey icon colours represent the heartbeat connection to Google, just like the green/grey icons in stock Gingerbread. So grey data icon = connected to network with no throughput, which an APN change could well accomplish.
I will investigate the possibility of extracting the widget, but assume it has been left out due to differences between CDMA/LTE & GSM/UMTS.
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I'm using JD and my data is blue (just the 3G /4G words) but no bars when I have my wifi on. I am using advanced mode with Location if that helps.
I have no complaints about battery drain either. Pretty constant use today and at about 35% after 11 hours.
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Hi!
My father has a Samsung Galaxy S2 with the stock GB, and un-rooted. The phone has been working flawlessly, but lately (since about 2-3 days ago) it begun to using a crazy amount of data.
My father normally uses about 300 mb per month, but now the phone is using about 20-30 mb per hour IN STANDBY.
Also he notices that the battery is lasting about half of the previous time which is consistent with a long running process...
He doesn’t install/update anything lately and the settings are set for low data use. Like no auto sync, he also has all the known data eating apps disabled.
He has installed an app call “my data monitor” and the app says that all the data is being used by OS services but there isn't a detailed information.
Just for clarification, he doesn’t have too much applications installed. Just: Whatsapp, Viber, Facebook and Twiter, but as I say before, he has all the auto sync off, and all this apps where installed Months ago.
My question is: there is a program that can help us to find what is going on? Something like a “on the fly” data analysis?
Any other idea what can be happening?
Thanks!
Edgar
First off, turn off data connection. Settings-wireless and networks-mobile network-uncheck "use packet data".
And then go to Accounts and sync in settings and disable all Google account syncing.
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Sounds like a virus to me. Download a virus scanner from the play store. And if you have wifi, I would turn on airplane mode then turn on wifi so he's not using his plans data
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kilometers4 said:
Sounds like a virus to me. Download a virus scanner from the play store. And if you have wifi, I would turn on airplane mode then turn on wifi so he's not using his plans data
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I already installed Avast, it coming clean. Maybe I will try another AV.
This happened to me too! Tried figuring out what the issue was, but no avail! Data connection continuously ON and the battery draining like crazy. Had to re-flash stock GB and the problem vanished. :victory:
just wondering does leaving the GPS on for location services eat up my data? just wondering as i upgraded to the S4 and had to get the 2GB plan and now i have to start watching my data and use wifi since i lost my unlimited plan.
also does leaving it on eat a lot of battery life?
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just wondering does leaving the GPS on for location services eat up my data? just wondering as i upgraded to the S4 and had to get the 2GB plan and now i have to start watching my data and use wifi since i lost my unlimited plan.
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Yes, GPS will use data unless connected to WiFi. Any widgets, weather apps, or location accessible apps will use their specified update interval to ping your location.
also does leaving it on eat a lot of battery life?
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That's dependent on your device and its configuration. For example, if you have a weather app set to update the forecast and temp every 30 minutes, it'll wake your device to gather the necessary info every half hour. That means more awake time, less deep sleep. Conversely, if you set it to update every 2+ hours, it'll be waking your device less often which will allow longer periods of sleeping.
Do you know if its a lot of data? I only use one weather app and that is beautiful wigets then I use facebook but JUST to look at peoples post, I never post and I never like post where im at or use check in
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To be clear, GPS does not, in and of itself, use data and turning it off won't save data. Apps such as BW alternatively uses network location to approximate your location. The app uses your location to download information relevant to that locale. The same amount of cellular data is used in both scenarios. In either case, your best practice is to adjust the refresh rates for location aware apps accordingly.
Is there a way to save the info/history from the "Data Usage" in the settings? Anyway to restore it? Going to wipe my phone, and wold like to preserve the info
Try titanium backup. Search for "Data usage (policy and stats). " I personally use My Data Manager so I'm not 100% on this, but it seems like that's what it would back up
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I use a full wipe Odin on my phone to get it back to as new.
But after a day or 2, I started to realize that I'm not getting push data.
My WhatsApp isn't coming in except if I kill the app and open it and going into a chat, hangouts didn't come in for a few hours till I restarted my phone, and gmail isn't coming in till I refresh all mailboxes separately & my Chase nofications aren't coming in as well.
As I have restored my data info, I have seen that Chase was blocked from background data, which wasn't the case before the backup. I have enable background data, but still not working.
For the others, I disabled and then reanabled background data, but I'm still having problems.
Any insight?
I'm having 2 major issues with my phone.
1) The data alert, (on the data usage page), shows up an alert 1/2 gig before I reach that amount. Bug involved?
2) My GPS lately is creating lots of problems. GPS Toggle is on, but Waze/Maps doesn't collect the data from it, and Waze shows an error that the GPS is not working, and Maps shows my position based on GPS-A. Only when I re-toggle the GPS (off/on), does it show up in the notification bar "searching for location/location found" and then Waze/Maps shows the correct position.
Any insights?
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s there a way to save the info/history from the "Data Usage" in the settings? Anyway to restore it? Going to wipe my phone, and wold like to preserve the info
same issue here voice service working , only 3G service not working
So whenever I left wifi area or turn off the wifi soon after the mobile data gets automatically turned off, the icon of it shows not just for specific app.
Even when I turn off the data saver, it doesnt help.
This is very bothersome as I will miss alot of stuff.
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So whenever I left wifi area or turn off the wifi soon after the mobile data gets automatically turned off, the icon of it shows not just for specific app.
Even when I turn off the data saver, it doesnt help.
This is very bothersome as I will miss alot of stuff.
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Anyone experiencing or heard such problem with Huawei Phone? Need help.
Are you talking about missing notifications?
If you enable Developer Options (settings/system/about phone...then press build number 5 times) then in Developer Options there is an option you can tick to always keep mobile data active. I use it for faster network switching and it doesn't have much of an impact on data use or battery drain.
But if you are talking about missing notifications that might not solve your problem.
You want to remove any apps that need timely notifications from battery optomization in the power settings. Make sure after you choose to manually manage the apps that they are allowed to run at startup and remain running in the background. (All 3 options should be allowed).
If that doesn't solve your problem then you might also need to remove Google Play Services from automatic power management since that service is normally responsible for syncing Android phones.
Huawei has more aggressive power management than most Android phones which provides great battery life but also annoys many people because they can miss important notifications.
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Are you talking about missing notifications?
If you enable Developer Options (settings/system/about phone...then press build number 5 times) then in Developer Options there is an option you can tick to always keep mobile data active. I use it for faster network switching and it doesn't have much of an impact on data use or battery drain.
But if you are talking about missing notifications that might not solve your problem.
You want to remove any apps that need timely notifications from battery optomization in the power settings. Make sure after you choose to manually manage the apps that they are allowed to run at startup and remain running in the background. (All 3 options should be allowed).
If that doesn't solve your problem then you might also need to remove Google Play Services from automatic power management since that service is normally responsible for syncing Android phones.
Huawei has more aggressive power management than most Android phones which provides great battery life but also annoys many people because they can miss important notifications.
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No, the entire data just cut off after leaving wifi even thou the mobile data was on prior to leaving the wifi spots or just turning off the wifi. Does that make sense? I have had so many different phone this has never happend to me. I even turn off the data saver mode too.
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No, the entire data just cut off after leaving wifi even thou the mobile data was on prior to leaving the wifi spots or just turning off the wifi. Does that make sense? I have had so many different phone this has never happend to me. I even turn off the data saver mode too.
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If I turn that option on in dev mode "always leave the mobile data on" even when the wifi is on (even when wlan is active) does that mean it may sometimes suck up my mobile data while wifi is on, i dont want that.
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If I turn that option on in dev mode "always leave the mobile data on" even when the wifi is on (even when wlan is active) does that mean it may sometimes suck up my mobile data while wifi is on, i dont want that.
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Ok after tons of digging found the problem. a function i have never seen on previous phones.
basically you go to mobile data setting and go to more and then (wlan/mobile switcher) go in there and thats where the problem is.
I now select switch to mobile data.
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Ok after tons of digging found the problem. a function i have never seen on previous phones.
basically you go to mobile data setting and go to more and then (wlan/mobile switcher) go in there and thats where the problem is.
I now select switch to mobile data.
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I don't see that setting. Does this fix the fact that when you use hotpsot the phone is incapable of any data? I can't use hotspot at the same time as data on the phone itself.