Hi I got my phone a week ago, a Galaxy S4 i9505 with Vodafone Italy. I had a nexus 4 before this and I never had problems, now the phone consumed almost all my data in just a few days. I attached the screenshots since I cannot post the links.
For now I selected the option "Restrict background data" and I will check in the next few days, but it seems that it will disable it on wifi too. I don't care how much data it uses on wifi, I want to have Dropbox automatic uploads and Android backup, so it's fine that Android OS consumes a lot on wifi, I just need it to stop on 3G since I almost capped the month in a week.
Any ideas?
maruxe said:
Hi I got my phone a week ago, a Galaxy S4 i9505 with Vodafone Italy. I had a nexus 4 before this and I never had problems, now the phone consumed almost all my data in just a few days. I attached the screenshots since I cannot post the links.
For now I selected the option "Restrict background data" and I will check in the next few days, but it seems that it will disable it on wifi too. I don't care how much data it uses on wifi, I want to have Dropbox automatic uploads and Android backup, so it's fine that Android OS consumes a lot on wifi, I just need it to stop on 3G since I almost capped the month in a week.
Any ideas?
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That's quite a lot for a data usage, in my opinion. I Think that there is an option in (at least) any app with sync that limits the data usage whit mobile connection. Try it and let's see what happen
Disable "backup data" under backup and reset in settings. That did it for me.
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Disable "backup data" under backup and reset in settings. That did it for me.
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I kind of suspected it was the backup is there any way to leave it on only on wifi? I never had this problem on my nexus 4 and it had backup too
maruxe said:
I kind of suspected it was the backup is there any way to leave it on only on wifi? I never had this problem on my nexus 4 and it had backup too
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The only thing I can think of is using Droidwall to restrict Android OS to Wi-Fi only.
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The only thing I can think of is using Droidwall to restrict Android OS to Wi-Fi only.
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I tried updating the firmware to the latest version today, now I will see if maybe this solves the problem. By the way, is there any way to analyze better the usage of Android OS? It involves several different processes, maybe with a better firewall/data monitor we could find out what exactly is using up the data. I am now at 800 MB of usage just from Android OS in less than a month. The phone is rooted (I had the same problem before rooting) so I can put apps that require root.
Galaxy S4 Android OS High Data Usage
I also have a GS4 and in August I used 1.54GB of data This is absolutely unreal, I don't have 3G enabled all the time either, I only switch it on as needed. I have done some investigation over the last few days to find the culprit as it is all reported as "Android OS". I disabled all accounts sync, still using more than 100MB a day. I restricted background processes, no difference. I limited updates to WiFi only. I disabled email automated refreshes. I in fact didn't touch my phone at all for an entire day, still more than 100MB a day usage. The one thing I hadn't done yet was disable the automated backups. I have just re-enabled everything and only have the backups disabled. So far I have only used 1MB of data, it has been about 8 hours. I think the automated "Backup to Google Servers" is the culprit. In any event why does it have to do a huge backup every day, even if I havn't used the phone? Why doesn't this feature have an option to limit the backup to WiFi only (here is a a request for the developers)? Why does the Data Usage under "Android OS" not allow a more granular breakdown of services, if it showed "Backups" I would easily have know what the culprit was?
So let's hope I have now stopped this high data usage as it was costing me a fortune every month
Kevin
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ofcourse. The galaxy s4 consumes everything, just like the s3. Your also having trouble with battery life too right? Its what comes with the galaxy line, give a little and it takes all. That huge awesome display of it's.:laugh:
Search for this video on youtube, should help:
Samsung Galaxy S4: How to Enable/Disable Background Data
Alot of people have this problem, samsung knows it not right but probably wont stop it.
Galaxy S4 High Data Usage
CandyMan_ZA said:
I also have a GS4 and in August I used 1.54GB of data This is absolutely unreal, I don't have 3G enabled all the time either, I only switch it on as needed. I have done some investigation over the last few days to find the culprit as it is all reported as "Android OS". I disabled all accounts sync, still using more than 100MB a day. I restricted background processes, no difference. I limited updates to WiFi only. I disabled email automated refreshes. I in fact didn't touch my phone at all for an entire day, still more than 100MB a day usage. The one thing I hadn't done yet was disable the automated backups. I have just re-enabled everything and only have the backups disabled. So far I have only used 1MB of data, it has been about 8 hours. I think the automated "Backup to Google Servers" is the culprit. In any event why does it have to do a huge backup every day, even if I havn't used the phone? Why doesn't this feature have an option to limit the backup to WiFi only (here is a a request for the developers)? Why does the Data Usage under "Android OS" not allow a more granular breakdown of services, if it showed "Backups" I would easily have know what the culprit was?
So let's hope I have now stopped this high data usage as it was costing me a fortune every month
Kevin
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UPDATE 3 Sep 2013: The high Data Usage has been resolved, it was the "Back up my data" under "Backup and reset"
mine does that too but it ain't a backup thingy
maruxe said:
Hi I got my phone a week ago, a Galaxy S4 i9505 with Vodafone Italy. I had a nexus 4 before this and I never had problems, now the phone consumed almost all my data in just a few days. I attached the screenshots since I cannot post the links.
For now I selected the option "Restrict background data" and I will check in the next few days, but it seems that it will disable it on wifi too. I don't care how much data it uses on wifi, I want to have Dropbox automatic uploads and Android backup, so it's fine that Android OS consumes a lot on wifi, I just need it to stop on 3G since I almost capped the month in a week.
Any ideas?
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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
I disabled auto Google backups and I still get huge data drain from google os.
It started after march 22. Up to this point it was 900kb per month, last month it was 1.7GB
I am running latest Android (Nexus 6p). Any ideas?
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Hello all,
I have a amaze for a while now that I recently (about 2 months ago) installed 3g watch dog to monitor the data I use thru out the month.
I noticed that over the last 19 days that the "phone" with sub catagories of phone, dialer storage, SIM toolkit program used about 115 mb of data.
Over the last hour has used about 470kb and have not even used the phone at all.
While right now I have a 5gb plan (that I have gone over a few times with) and is not a problem now if I go to a 200 mb plan to save money that would be over half the months useage.
Currently I am completely stock with the phone not rooted or even unlocked bootloader or anything.
Does anyone know why that app is using so much data or what may be causeing it?
Any help or insite would be greatly appreciated.
I noticed a handful of people have looked at this with no response, so just wanted to say you're not alone but I have no idea why. Any insight would be great.
I was wondering if using Facebook that's built into the phone/contacts app might be something?
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Use DroidWall!
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Use DroidWall!
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It requires root, the OP isn't rooted.
Looking into this a little more I went so far as turning off background, auto sync, location services, all syncs of contacts and accounts, update polling for the phone OS.
And has jumped over 2 mb in a hour with no phone use.
Not sure if there is anything else that could cause that.
Really the only thing that I have seen that stops it is turning off data on the phone completely.
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Looking into this a little more I went so far as turning off background, auto sync, location services, all syncs of contacts and accounts, update polling for the phone OS.
And has jumped over 2 mb in a hour with no phone use.
Not sure if there is anything else that could cause that.
Really the only thing that I have seen that stops it is turning off data on the phone completely.
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The data toggle is a must have.
I've trained myself to tap it before the phone goes down, or I don't require the net.
Eliminates a long list of "issues".
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:
Since I've been using the leaked 4.1 builds I have been burning through Data at an incredible rate, the first month I hit my 2GB monthly allowance after about 3 weeks, which at the time I thought it was just me using it a lot because it was new.
Today however I have been told by my network provider that my 2GB limit for this month was used up in about 4 days!!! After spending most of the day arguing with them they confirmed my phone was connecting every 30-60 seconds & using 200-400mb every time?
After the first month I set all sync options to manual & I don't use Facebook etc. but with Samsung swapping all the settings menu around it seems there are some extra sync options I missed, Maps & latitude, search, location & google all have additional sync settings, so it seems my phone is constantly connecting & logging my location. God knows what else is connecting..
Didn't have this problem with ICS & I don't have a lot of apps installed, probably less than I did then
Just wondering if anyone else has had this issue? if so it's a dream come true for network providers, but they're going to have a lot of pissed off customers!
Did you check your dropbox auto-sync feature? or any cloud storage that MIGHT be uploading your pics? I did notice the data pull but it was while on Wi-Fi, my data counter shows a lot of activity on wifi but not so much for 3G and that is on IDLE.
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Since I've been using the leaked 4.1 builds I have been burning through Data at an incredible rate, the first month I hit my 2GB monthly allowance after about 3 weeks, which at the time I thought it was just me using it a lot because it was new.
Today however I have been told by my network provider that my 2GB limit for this month was used up in about 4 days!!! After spending most of the day arguing with them they confirmed my phone was connecting every 30-60 seconds & using 200-400mb every time?
After the first month I set all sync options to manual & I don't use Facebook etc. but with Samsung swapping all the settings menu around it seems there are some extra sync options I missed, Maps & latitude, search, location & google all have additional sync settings, so it seems my phone is constantly connecting & logging my location. God knows what else is connecting..
Didn't have this problem with ICS & I don't have a lot of apps installed, probably less than I did then
Just wondering if anyone else has had this issue? if so it's a dream come true for network providers, but they're going to have a lot of pissed off customers!
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if your phone was using that much data you would notice the battery on your phone going down pretty fast as well.
Check if you are syncing Google photos. That was at least our problem.
It could be some Apps or something that is constantly downloading or uploading files. Dropbox auto-sync? Or Google plus instant upload?
Alright, I am on stock Android ICS 4.0.3 Samsung.
Since the past 3 or 4 days I've noticed that my phone's battery dies overnight. I rarely ever install new apps, rarely even use anything other than chrome, facebook app, Google+ app, gmail, gtalk. thats it.
Been using these for the past year or so, no problem. But since the last 3 days I've noticed that my battery is draining really fast. If I switch off wifi, it drains at the normal rate. Normal rate = 3 days standby.
As soon as I switch on WiFi, the drain starts. 3G data services have been disabled, because I don't have a data plan. All data usage is only over WiFi. I've checked wifi data usage over the past 4 days and It says I have used over 1.8Gb. When infact I don't use this much data even on my home pc to do anything! I am a very passive user. I know I haven't streamed video/audio in the past 7 days. no Youtubing even.
I installed my data manager to see what app was eating all that data. It says "OS Services".
I have rebooted the phone several times. Uninstalled several apps, like Facebook etc.. Did you guys know Google+ cannot be uninstalled? But I really think its some push service that just keeps on pushing. Any advise?
I thought i'd let you guys know that i fixed the issue, i think. I had to reboot my home routers. Ever since the reboot of the routers, things have been very stable.
Google+ cannot be uninstalled because its pretty much android bloatware. Root your phone and you can delete anything you want within reason.
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Hi,
i have a HTC One M8, S-OFF, Sense Edition, with RD MIUI running. It worked perfectly but since a couple of days the data usage of "Android System" ist really really high. In one day it took 1,5 GB (my full data plan).
I didn't change anything, i didn't install a new application. There is no high data usage on Wifi, but if i turn on mobile data i see there is a current transferspeed of 2-4 MByte / s (you can activate this on the statusbar in miui). As my data plan is empty now, i tried it with another sim-card a couple of days later. And by now i have about 57MB used today, nearly everything by "Android System". But atm it's not constantly draining the data.
I tried to stop the usage by denying mobile network to app 1000 with droidwall and it worked. But after a couple of minutes there was a transferspeed of 2-4 MByte again. WTF.
Also you see a message of a Android Update (No MIUI OS Update!!!) after a lot of data is transferred. It doesn't load completely (even is using wifi) because it's miui and not plain android.
I can't get rid of the message because i can't disable the search for updates (i can for miui, but not for android itself). What i did is disable the notification because in the MIUI Thread they told me to.
Nevertheless there is still more data usage than normal and i don't know how to fix it. Also i'm nearly alone with whis problem because the other users of the same rom have no issues.
Please help, it's really really annoying to loose the data plan after one(!!!!) day.
Thanks!
That is part of miui. It is calling home. They have the same issue they just don't notice for what ever reason. Miui is made to upload a bunch to its servers in China.
If you are on miui there should be an app named "Security" already installed
open it
then tap on Data Usage
then on Restrict -Now you you can restrict which user apps to use data and WiFi and which system apps use data(only)