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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?
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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Lean946 said:
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?
I'm using CM 10.1.2 since it's out and noticed 2 annoying things:
1) Data usage stats are incomplete. It shows me e.g. a data usage of 110MB over the selected range but if I sum up the detailed usage of the apps shown below I come nowhere near the 100MB. In fact it sums up to about 20MB. I found those stats a very good help to keep my data usage under control but now I cannot know which app is draining my data any more.
Does anyone have this too or knows a solution for that? .../netstats was already emptied.
2) I have quite bad (often no) reception after I flashed the ROM. I have the "net mode" "3G+2G" enabled. However if I switch to "2G" it shows maximum reception. Is this a display bug or does it incorrectly try to connect to 3G network which is to weak? It is kinda fatal as I cannot receive calls or sms!
I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 4 from Verizon but unlocked and being used outside the US. The phone at random eats up my mobile data while WIFI is on. It also doesnt take small bits, VERY LARGE CHUNKS. Ive had over 1 gb cleared in a few hours.
Now ive made sure my settings are ok, my wifi advanced settings are set to never switch of wifi while the phone is idle. The phone also has the download booster which uses wifi and data together, thats set to off.
The verizon version of the note 4 never removes the data icon from the notification bar unless your sim literally cant use data. If you are in wifi, the E or H is grayed out, if you turn off mobile data, the E or H has a diagonal line thru it meaning disabled. When the phone is secretly using my data while on wifi, the H will go from being grayed out to normal color showing upstream and downstreaming for a few seconds then go back to gray.
The worst part is, the usage of data doesnt record ANYWHERE! The phone has the ability to show what apps are using data and how much, the secret usage doesnt show on any of them. The phone may show only 300 mbs used but my data plan shows i used over 1gb. Also, i have an app that constantly shows traffic up and down stream on my notification bar, it doesnt show the secret usage being used either. Ive reset the phone multiple times, removed all downloaded apps and left only stock apps and same results. I read a thread about the VERIZON CALLER ID APP and disabled it, still no help.
Any PROs in here who dealt with something like this before? Any help appreciated.
I guess everyone is as lost as I am here lol. Broken phone maybe. I didnt even root it!
My non-tweaked, non-rooted Redmi 5 has the annoying habit of connecting (via Mobile Data) to the net to sync/check for updates every single morning. It seems to override everything I do (I've disabled mobile data, I've cleared the list of Apps and System Apps that can use Mobile Data), I've set a limit of 0KB. Nothing works. The only thing I haven't tried is disabling Background Data for Android System, and that's because it's enabled by default and grayed out, meaning I can't modify it.
Is there a way to restrict all mobile data use for the Redmi 5, the way I was able to do with all my other android-powered phones? And is this problem a "feature" affecting all Redmi 5 phones, or a bug affecting only mine?
There is no way to sync apps and accounts if the option for sync is disabled. It's quite hard to understand by your explanation - does your mobile data and sync options gets automatically turned on after you've turned them off? And what you mean by "Android Sync" and "sync/check for updates"? If you mean that the device is checking for ROM updates, you can turn off that in Settings > About phone > System Update. Just know that without Wi-Fi/mobile data and sync option there is no way for syncing anything on your phone.
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There is no way to sync apps and accounts if the option for sync is disabled. It's quite hard to understand by your explanation - does your mobile data and sync options gets automatically turned on after you've turned them off? And what you mean by "Android Sync" and "sync/check for updates"? If you mean that the device is checking for ROM updates, you can turn off that in Settings > About phone > System Update. Just know that without Wi-Fi/mobile data and sync option there is no way for syncing anything on your phone.
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I have not turned Sync off altogether. I have, however, activated "Wi-Fi Only" under Settings>Accounts>Sync.
To recap, Wi-Fi only Sync is activated, Mobile data is off, Under "Restrict Data Usage" I have Deactivated Mobile for every single Installed or System App, I've set a Mobile Data limit of 1MB with automatic deactivation of Mobile data when 60% of the limit is reached. And yet, every morning Android System (whose settings are Mobile: Off, WiFi: On, , Background Data: On with no option to deactivate) overrides all these settings, turns on Mobile Data and performs some basic sync operation (roughly 100KB in volume). While the charges are negligible (around 1 cent a day), a. they will be higher if I'm abroad and b. I find it very annoying that there seems to be nothing I can do to prevent this unauthorized data exchange (I'm new in MIUI, but I never, ever had a similar issue with any of many Android-based phones I've used in the past).
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I have not turned Sync off altogether. I have, however, activated "Wi-Fi Only" under Settings>Accounts>Sync.
To recap, Wi-Fi only Sync is activated, Mobile data is off, Under "Restrict Data Usage" I have Deactivated Mobile for every single Installed or System App, I've set a Mobile Data limit of 1MB with automatic deactivation of Mobile data when 60% of the limit is reached. And yet, every morning Android System (whose settings are Mobile: Off, WiFi: On, , Background Data: On with no option to deactivate) overrides all these settings, turns on Mobile Data and performs some basic sync operation (roughly 100KB in volume). While the charges are negligible (around 1 cent a day), a. they will be higher if I'm abroad and b. I find it very annoying that there seems to be nothing I can do to prevent this unauthorized data exchange (I'm new in MIUI, but I never, ever had a similar issue with any of many Android-based phones I've used in the past).
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Uhm, Android System or MIUI ROM itself can't override your settings. Chances are that you probably have some malicious app installed and it has permission to manage your system/background connectivity settings. You can check this by going to Settings > Permissions > Other permissons > Modify system settings.
Nope, no malicious app there (only Skype and the preinstalled Music and Mi Remote apps have permission to change system settings). Besides, the only app that has actually consumed Mobile Data all this time iss, according to the Usage stats, Android System.
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.
johnson8c said:
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.
jhs39 said:
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.
johnson8c said:
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.
johnson8c said:
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.
johnson8c said:
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.