On my girlfriend's new device, I have version 2.3.5 installed. stock rom. CF-ROOT...
Nothing special is installed.
She's having troubles with data connection from Orange, so they turning her data on/off every now and then...
So of course, we're working on it, and talking with them and at the moment she have internet connection.
BUT I noticed something crucial, In about 3 hours she lost 33% of her battery.
why?
Massive wakelocks from Google services (40mins, 261count), Lookout (24mins, 5count), fullsync (Whatsapp, 13mins, 1count), Google talk (7mins, 19count).
Even after having data connection (the signal bars are green) something was wrong, as the phone heated to 34degrees (in normal its 29-31)
I appreciate your help in solving that issue.
I find it a bit inappropriate that every time I dont have internet connection the phone will lose it mind.
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why?
Massive wakelocks from Google services (40mins said:
Read the millions of battery posts may help.
But you have multiple apps trying repeatedly to access a connection .
Lookout is one well known battery drainer .
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So as long as I have data connection ON but my internet from Orange is actually blocked, applications will repeatidly try to access the internet?
The only cure for this is to disable data as long as I dont actually get one?
Lookout is a battery drainer? What else can I use for protection if not lookout?
I didnt notice wakelocks on my own device (which has data connection available) and I heard around that lookout is not a big battery drainer.
I use it just for scanning new apps I download from here and there...no freq. scans or anything like that
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 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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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
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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
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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
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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?
My phone is getting really hot (like, uncomfortable to have in my pocket).
I went to dev options, and activated the overlay cpu usage to check which process were eating up my CPU.
Top of the list 99% of the time is system_server.
Other symptoms:
– I can't open a terminal session (terminal emulator starts but no prompt, I can't kill it either)
– installing an app takes ages (both the downloading and the installing)
– the wifi symbol in the status bar has both arrows (upload and download) displayed all the time
– some network related activities seems to be very slow
com.google.android.tts and android.process.acore make also regular visit to the top 3 processes, but they are far from system_server.
I have CyanogenMod 11 M3 on a google edition of the S4, encryption is on. I have around 2GB free on my internal storage and 20GB on the external SD.
Any further troubleshooting ideas?
Its an app. Probably one with spyware to be more specific. Either way it's constantly sending or receiving data. Have you installed anything around the time this started happening?
I will deinstall progressively the latest apps I installed and see if it helps.
What I noticed too:
– re flashing CM 11 M3, cleaning cache and davlik cache helps. But just for a short while. After a couple of hours it starts again.
– the network activity is constant but pretty low. Below 10kB/s all the time, regularly below 1kB/s
– I can't uninstall anything right now, every app I uninstall says “uninstalling” forever.
– turning airplane mode on makes it a bit better: phone is still hot, but not uncomfortably so.
How does an app hide its process like this without root access? I didn't thought it was possible in Android. I can only see system_server...
i have the same problem with you
this problems starts couple days ago, and until now i still curious of what happen to my phone
i used xperia z1 now,
does anyone can help to solved this problem
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)