According to 3G watchdog pro, as attached...
An entity called "Android System" is downloading something all the time which makes my data plan full to the cap pretty fast. I can't also restrict it to wifi only.
How do I disable that with or without root, (preferably without root since I've been waiting for official ICS update)
My firmware is the latest version.
Thank you so much xda.
To disable it you switch off your phone. It's like asking Why is "windows 7 hogging up all the data. Can I erase it?"
In most cases though "Android System" isnt the culprit. Could be Ads, if you are playing free games and use free apps. If i were you i'd factory reset, only use Watchdog pro and see how it acts. Then install basic apps, like Facebook etc, then see how it acts.
But im most certain that the ads are what you are having problems with
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To disable it you switch off your phone. It's like asking Why is "windows 7 hogging up all the data. Can I erase it?"
In most cases though "Android System" isnt the culprit. Could be Ads, if you are playing free games and use free apps. If i were you i'd factory reset, only use Watchdog pro and see how it acts. Then install basic apps, like Facebook etc, then see how it acts.
But im most certain that the ads are what you are having problems with
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Oh well, in win7 I can block the system itself from hogging the data, but that's not the point.
My mini just got back from service center, as its second time for the screen to f**ked up completely, the phone came back empty, but mind you, Sony service center in Thailand is really really bad. Anyway, the apps with ads also display separately and that I have blocked their data consumption by restricting them to wifi-only via 3g watchdog. Also, my auto-sync is off all the time.
Back in the time before factory resetting I tried Onavo to block it, didn't work.
The phone is downloading something by itself that I have no idea what they are, so frustrated.
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So I've noticed that even after using the "close all programs" option in the "running" portion of the app drawer, apps start popping up there even if i haven't used them. The nook contacts for instance, i never use, yet it still shows up in "running." It seems to be using storage space, and i certainly don't want those extra apps draining the battery. Has anyone else encountered this?
ETA: So i was mistaking memory for storage, my bad, but i still don' t want apps running on the RAM when i don't want them to. The ones that seem to always pop up are nook contacts, nook shop, pandora, amazon app store, and pulse. Why are these apps initializing? Is it an update/being connected to the internet thing?
I take it this is your first Android device. Check the link to see how memory is managed in Android.
http://mobworld.wordpress.com/2010/07/05/memory-management-in-android/
Yep, first android device, thank you so much, couldnt find anything by searching the forum.
I'm still not 100% sure why apps i'm not using would show up like that, the impression i got from that article was that android has unusual priorities in killing apps in use, why are apps i never use showing up?
Some apps are programmed to stay partially resident in memory because they are used by other apps. Contacts would be used by Email, etc.
Just because it says they're running, though, does not mean that they will affect how your tablet runs at all.
In a nutshell, taskkillers are ineffective and unnecessary in Android. A lot of us come from a Windows-mindset that says "kill tasks to free up memory!" but this does nothing for Android. (The exceptions seem to be rogue processes).
All I know is I was driving myself nuts when I first got my Android phone using task killers, and worrying about apps I'd 'killed' popping right back up again. I was actually slowing down the system, not speeding it up. When I finally read about it, and then got rid of the task killer stuff, my performance actually improved. My limited understanding of this, is that a killed app will actually expend more memory opening itself back up again to run idle, than if you just leave it running idle.
Thank you zaptoons, that makes sense. I hadnt really noticed much ofa difference with the apps killed or not, so very helpful info. Still getting used to my tab, think rooting may be in my future.
I read an article on the BBC (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17431109) that apps that have adds in, drain the battery faster than apps without adds in.
Ive installed AdAway and the adds are gone from the apps, but does this mean the battery use will now drop because the adds aren't there, or will it remain just as high as the apps may still be getting the data for the apps, just not displaying the actual image for the add?
The only reason apps with ads could drain your battery would be because of that extra data that it may require, if your using an app that is online anyway the ads will make no difference at all in real terms.
If your using an offline app then yes it could make a difference.
1)Use 'LBE privacy guard' . From it, you can switch off every apps access to mobile internet, WiFi, or both.
Note: Some free games(very few), will not run if they don't detect internet access. Then you can allow access for such.
2) Use 'super manager' . Go to 'startup ' options and you will find all the crappy games and other programs booting up with your smart phone. Select and Disable those you don't want. They run on the background, hug your data and RAM too.
3) Use titanium backup to freeze bloatware. I've actually created a 'label ' in titanium backup for frozen apps.
If you are a regular flasher, OTA won't work for you. You might as well freeze it to free RAM, background running and data(when attemptingconnecting to server, which will anyway be refused because of modified software)
With the above, I always get more than a day's worth of battery life.
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Lucky patcher is a free apps for android to remove Ads on application. Search on Google, apps not available on Google Play.
Warning : it modifies apps, so using it at your own risk. Personally, no problem with it.
There are multiple types of ads. The ones displayed ingame on loading screens are usually no issue.
The most problematic are the Push-Notification ads which run a daemon (background) process which is triggered by almost any action (phone waking up, data connectivity, ...).
These programs use up lots of RAM, data connectivity and thus ultimatively battery.
First time I've read about 'LBE privacy guard, and it looks great. HOWEVER, reading the comments, it seems it gives mayor problems with Jelly Bean ROMs, so beware.
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.
Hope this helps, Press THANKS if it did help you
Enjoy
As I understand, several apps and services will "hide" their data usage under Adnroid OS. I need a way to see what exactly is using the data.
Same thing with Play services. I dont want to disable play services all together because then I lose email and find my phone functions, but.. what the heck is it doing in the background?
Surely there is an app or xposed module or something to see whats what, isnt there?
Before you say: I already have firewall installed and data permissions limited for everything I dont want running and also background data is disabled for most apps with the Marshmallow built in settings. (although some apps still report using few kilobytes leaking trough firewall and built in permission manager.. what gives?)
Sync is on, yes, but I only have google and watsapp in there + I checked it by manually syncing everything and comparing used data before and after - it was like 6kb, not megabytes.
Its not necessarily a huge data consumption from those two anyway, but I have a small data plan so every MB counts. And besides, even if my mobile data plan wasnt a problem - I still want to know whats going on.
I remember I had an old nokia with symbian OS and i got all the notifications from email, watsapp and skype and everything worked (albeit slowly becasue it wasnt a fast phone) with no phantom data usage in the background.. now if I disable background access for play services, I lose everything.
My phone was serviced "reprogrammed" and when it came back I keep getting ads. I tried resetting the phone but it still keeps getting adware silently installed. Is there any way to fix this?
You are not alone. Bought this phone for my mom since she likes a bigger screen to do social media stuff. The malware popped in after the last ota. The official wirelessupdate app included on the phone silently installs random apks that pushes full screen ads and impersonates clicks even if the the phone is not being used. This is common with generic android phones coming from CHINA
I haven't figured out a way to root the phone as most rooting methods will fail(because of the sucky spreadtrum SOC which makes it difficult to root the phone).SADLY, rooting is the only way to disable/uninstall the wirelessupdate app.
However, here's a workaround I found that works.
1) restrict your network to limit background data usage (Found in settings).
2) **uninstall the malware app: finding the app may be difficult as It normally disguises itself as a system app with names like radio, settings, wifi or some application name that doesn't even make sense. It uses a lot of data and is always active. You'll know its the fake app if it poses as a system app but you have the option to uninstall it(System apps cannot be uninstalled without root/Su access).
Buttt....
The wireless update will probably install another malware app after uninstalling the current one.
3)disable notification of the app so it doesnt send fake notifications to you that opens ad based webpages as it also fakes notification, posing as a fake notif from FB, whatsapp
4) force stop it and stop the services from settings so it doesn't load or push apps while you use your phone
Restarting the phone will make the app run again
5) Remove the app's permission. By default its granted access to location, settings, storage and sometimes camera or mic. The wireless app doesnt detect this and wont turn those permission back on
6) lastly, you can contact firefly support AND PRAY TO THE GOOD LORD they know know what they're doing. Because I did and they were completely clueless on the troubleshooting or on the issue itself and even blamed the problem on the user. Ridiculously stupid.
I haven't really tried ADB yet because i don't have the time and the phone lacks resources online to restore it in case I brick it. Frankly, this phone is not worth investing time fixing especially with the quality of support it has from Firefly and the price it asked for.