5 Best Ways To Reduce Mobile Data Consumption - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

5. Update your Apps Over WiFi Only
Many apps in Google play store get unnecessary updates by unnecessary i mean they are meant to fix bugs only, and have you noticed how many times all your apps were auto-updated without your consent, spending all them precious GBs, so wasting your finite date over useless updates is not a great idea. To disable Auto-Update you just need to open the Google Play Store and tap on the side tray button, click on Settings option and then select the “Auto-update apps” and select Auto-update apps over WiFi only.
4. Turn On Data Compression on Google Chrome
Most of us are Android users, coz this process is only for Android Users. And if you are an Android user you are also likely Chrome users. Most of us Don’t know that Chrome supports a feature that can reduce data consumption, Google states this feature should save you about 50% in data, without even feeling any difference. All you need to do is open Chrome and hit the menu button and select Settings, click Data Saver and then toggle the option and it done.
3. Cache Everything You Can
Like Google Maps and Google Play Music allow for storing data locally and many other apps. Make sure to save as many as caches and data you can while you are on a WiFi network. Afterwards you can enjoy your saved data without wasted Precious Mobile Data.
2. Avoid Online Streaming
The most awesome Things over the internet consume more data, this includes streaming videos and music, as well as looking through high quality images or GIF files. Try to avoid this kind of consumption as much as possible if you really want to save your mobile data. And if you need to watch it, make sure you change the settings and set quality at lower rates.
1. Restrict Background Data
Do you know that when your phone is not in use some apps spend your too much data. the feature we about to tell is actually one of the greatest features on Android. Background data allows apps to keep everything updated which leads to a great amount of Data wastage. so here is what you can do, Go into Settings > Data Usage and select Restrict Data for the apps that consume large amount of data and dont worry you can undo this by the same method.

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Question on Google Music/data usage!

Okay so let me say first that google music beta has made my music life a million times easier, it saves me space on my mem card an things like that. So, my question is, if I turn the "temporarily cache music" choice off in the settings, how much data does google music still use? Because I recently changed my plan to 200mb limited data usage, an I wanted to know whether or not turning off the cache still made the phone use data to stream, thanks so much in advance XDA
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Hi there,
Here is a data usage calculator tool:
"t-mobile.com/Tools/MBCalculator.aspx"
If you stream 30 minutes of music every day in a 30 day billing cycle your total usage would be roughly 900MB. There are 1024MB in every 1GB to put it in perspective. Streaming video and music is not recommended for plans under 2GB. On limited plans, it is a good idea to connect to wifi as much as possible.
Hope that helps!
I really only stream music at home (using wifi) and I have my favorite music on my memory card (for on the go). I can't thank you enough for replying to my post! And yes it helps greatly! I cut the data plan down because I needed a load off on the bill (most economic thing to do), so thank you once again
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Glad it helped,
I realize I did not address your question about the caching feature:
Weather or not you enable caching, data is still being used to stream your music from the google server. However, by turning caching on (which is turned on by default on the android app) your phone stores memory of recently played music files. This means that without connecting to a data network you can still play some music.
Better yet, you can choose specific songs to be cached to your phone by opening the google music application and long pressing on a song. From there an option should pop up that says "Available offline" and you can check the box. Just make sure to cache the songs you want while your on wifi because the act of caching does use data.
Once cached you can play those specific songs back anytime w/out using any data!
blastindamusic said:
Glad it helped,
I realize I did not address your question about the caching feature:
Weather or not you enable caching, data is still being used to stream your music from the google server. However, by turning caching on (which is turned on by default on the android app) your phone stores memory of recently played music files. This means that without connecting to a data network you can still play some music.
Better yet, you can choose specific songs to be cached to your phone by opening the google music application and long pressing on a song. From there an option should pop up that says "Available offline" and you can check the box. Just make sure to cache the songs you want while your on wifi because the act of caching does use data.
Once cached you can play those specific songs back anytime w/out using any data!
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Hi I recently downloaded Google music and I transferred my songs to my device, and I made those songs available offline, so if I set my Google music app to offline will I still he charged for using data if I'm only playing the songs I set for offline use?
just turn the setting on that says "Stream over Wi-Fi only" to be on the safe side

[Q] RAM

How do I free up RAM for my Samsung Note II LTE GT-N7105 on stock Android 4.3, rooted?
I am an Android retarded user looking for a patient teacher who will walk me through the Android RAM mysteries and answer a few question and, in exchnage, I can teach about the secret world of Traditional Neapolitan coffee infusion: home roasting, grinding, preparation and... savouring or, alternatively, Home Theatre! Your pick!
Smiles!
On average, at startup,
- Clean Master shows:
> 50% RAM
> 70% Device Storage
> 20% SDcard External Storage.
- Titanium Back shows:
> 500MB free RAM (of 2.11GB)
> 4GB free Internal+Media (of 10.9GB)
> 50GB free ExtSDcard (of 63.8GB)
Starting with these numbers, the device freezes after a bit of usage of the Swipe (Nuance) App. But I recently played with a 78 year old banker's GT-N7105, which was 20 times faster than mine, while running the same Swipe keyboard App: "My nephew geeks around a forum called xda-developers!"
1. In general, what's the relationship between installed Apps and RAM usage? Sometimes when I kill an app it frees up a bit of RAM, sometimes a lot and sometimes nothing at all.
2. Do installed (but not opened) Apps take up RAM space just by sitting in my Apps drawer? Should I uninstall all the Apps which I downloaded because "one day I might need it" and never used them or are they harmless (RAM wise) if I don't open them?
3. Do Apps which have been launched and now sit in the background take up RAM (as in Windows)?
4. Is there any difference between "fereezing" and "un-installing" an app as far as device operation speed is concerned?
5. Do I need to make sure that Apps don't start up if I don't need them (Google Play Services, Google Play Store, Goggle Translation, YouTube, Video Player, S Voice, Picasa Uploader, Nearby Service, Nearby Devices, SNS)?
6. If they eat up RAM, how do I make sure that they don't self start? Android Assistant App?
7. If background open Apps eat up RAM, is there a way to kill them automatically once I open a new one without loosing the cahced data which i might be using?
Thanks in advance for your time and expertise.
ascanio1 said:
How do I free up RAM for my Samsung Note II LTE GT-N7105 on stock Android 4.3, rooted?
I am an Android retarded user looking for a patient teacher who will walk me through the Android RAM mysteries and answer a few question and, in exchnage, I can teach about the secret world of Traditional Neapolitan coffee infusion: home roasting, grinding, preparation and... savouring or, alternatively, Home Theatre! Your pick!
Smiles!
On average, at startup,
- Clean Master shows:
> 50% RAM
> 70% Device Storage
> 20% SDcard External Storage.
- Titanium Back shows:
> 500MB free RAM (of 2.11GB)
> 4GB free Internal+Media (of 10.9GB)
> 50GB free ExtSDcard (of 63.8GB)
Starting with these numbers, the device freezes after a bit of usage of the Swipe (Nuance) App. But I recently played with a 78 year old banker's GT-N7105, which was 20 times faster than mine, while running the same Swipe keyboard App: "My nephew geeks around a forum called xda-developers!"
1. In general, what's the relationship between installed Apps and RAM usage? Sometimes when I kill an app it frees up a bit of RAM, sometimes a lot and sometimes nothing at all.
2. Do installed (but not opened) Apps take up RAM space just by sitting in my Apps drawer? Should I uninstall all the Apps which I downloaded because "one day I might need it" and never used them or are they harmless (RAM wise) if I don't open them?
3. Do Apps which have been launched and now sit in the background take up RAM (as in Windows)?
4. Is there any difference between "fereezing" and "un-installing" an app as far as device operation speed is concerned?
5. Do I need to make sure that Apps don't start up if I don't need them (Google Play Services, Google Play Store, Goggle Translation, YouTube, Video Player, S Voice, Picasa Uploader, Nearby Service, Nearby Devices, SNS)?
6. If they eat up RAM, how do I make sure that they don't self start? Android Assistant App?
7. If background open Apps eat up RAM, is there a way to kill them automatically once I open a new one without loosing the cahced data which i might be using?
Thanks in advance for your time and expertise.
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Ugggg I hate this app lately! Just spent ten minuets answering all your points fully and it gave me stupid permission error! Even wrote a nice analogy about ram and libraries...forgive me if I'm brief now
Sum it up
Poorly made apps or ones that need to stay in the background to operate fully or spy on you stay in ram, many don't, dump bad and seldom used apps, stay away from task killers, if you need one use watchdog, see what's actually using cpu, better battery stats or cpu spy can help too. Freezing is fine, v6supercharger can help you, setting background process limit in developer settings can help
You have a nice snappy phone, get rid of junk and use nice roms and you'll have no issues
Secret world of traditional neapolitan coffee infusion sounds intriguing
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i would suggest installing and using greenify, since u already rooted.
post #3 of that thread is worth reading, probably will answer most, if not all of your question regarding android ram usage
@an0nym0us_
Cool advice, thanks! I installed and I will try it now.
@an0nym0us_
Cool advice, thanks! I installed and I will try it now.
@demkantor
I only got the jist of it but I didn't really understand... any chance to try again, when you have more time on your hands?
There are 3 aspects that make up coffee flavour: the beans' quality, roasting and preparation.
Beans (origin, ripeness, homogeneity, dryness) and roasting (tempreature, duration) are, for now, out of your reach. But preparation isn't.
Most infusion's preparation depends on 3 basic parameters:
- temperature
- time
- contact surface.
Threfore brewing time and temperature and the beans' grind size (and also the grinding method) will influence the coffee taste: the greater the time, temperature (up to 95°C) and surface the greater the organoleptic proprieties' transfer will occurr. Which does not necessarily mean the better taste... more on that in the next lesson.
Organoleptic properties are the aspects of food or other substances as experienced by the senses, including taste, sight, smell, and touch, in cases where dryness, moisture, and stale-fresh factors are to be considered.

How do I freeze data usage stats?

I am looking to stop my phone from tracking the amount of data I use. I am rooted on 4.4.2. I found this thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2494991) from a while back, but when I open /data from Root with amaze the folder is empty. That solution really only suggests deleting the tracking file where I moreso want to just stop it from logging new information.
The goal here is to prevent individual apps from tracking how much data I use as they disable certain features after a set amount. I am pretty sure they just check the log rather than actually track the usage themselves as they seem to count ALL data, not just what's used by the specific app.

lollipop data usage limit for specific apps

hy guys
i want to that is there any method to limit network data usage for specific app.i know there is restrict background usage,and limit data e. g 1 gb but for all apps. i want to set data limit for a specific app. like uc browser can not exceed 1gb data limit but other apps can
hope there maybe a method
Hi actually there is no such setting that's embedded. So basically you have to install a third-party application which goes by the name of "Data Eye", it uses it's in-app VPN to control Data usage of specific apps.
Like this reply if I was able to help you. :laugh:
thanks buddy i will try
i tried data eye but it has no option for specifying data for a specific app. it only blocks and unblocks apps
Currently only this option is available in 5.1.1
ok thanks

Possible to export storage stats per application?

Samsung Xcover3, Marshmallow, unrooted, noob.
Is there a way to export (as CSV for example) storage, and possibly data transfer, stats per application?
I'm using an oldish phone with limited storage as a bike GPS, and mainly just go online through wifi to get maps and the occasional app I might want to add. I'm using NoRoot firewall to limit what can get through, but I find that G**gle etc manage to squeeze a lot of stuff down which I don't necessarily want. So for now I'd like to be able to export lists of installed apps with their storage, before and after wifi connection, to see if I can understand what's coming down, and what I can block or delete later.
Is there such an app? Or can I interrogate Android for that info from a connected Linux machine?
In the longer term I'll think about taking control of the device with a new OS, but for now I'd like to try the above.

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