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I don't know if its the phone or the app, but Google Play Music is using a lot of data. I have about 3300 songs uploaded, and a few hundred pinned to my device. I have "only download on wifi" checked and I don't have "stream high quality" checked, but its sitll using a lot. This morning, after streaming two songs, it had already used over 50mb. Yester it used almost 400mb to stream maybe 10 songs. Is this normal? I put it on shuffle and skip songs a lot, does it still use data when you skip songs? Anyone else having issues with this?
i only started using google play music a couple of weeks ago but also noticed it uses quite large amounts of data. I think it depends on the quality of the music being streamed back to you. With my collection most of it is in 320kbps so i expect quite large amounts of data to be used while streaming it to the device.
hope this helps.
I just don't see how when the songs are 5-6 mb each, it uses about 5 times that much data when I stream it
I have noticed that to. On a 40 minute journey it uses about 400-500mb of data and my limit is 1gb.
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Same thing, using the app for a day brought me 500MB, and I listened to maybe 50MB worth of stuff. Checking the app in data management that most of it is background downloading. Don't know what's causing this but it was happening before the recent update to the new google music. Not fun.
If it makes you feel any better, I've been streaming music on google music and to my amazement apparently used 77 GIGS on the music app according to my phone's data usage monitoring. This all happened in a matter of 24 hours. However, when checking my usage online with the carrier's website, all I see is <.5 GB for yesterday's usage. I'm at work so I can't post a screenshot, but it does leave room for thought on how our phone's data usage monitors data as opposed to our carriers.
ayo123 said:
If it makes you feel any better, I've been streaming music on google music and to my amazement apparently used 77 GIGS on the music app according to my phone's data usage monitoring. This all happened in a matter of 24 hours. However, when checking my usage online with the carrier's website, all I see is <.5 GB for yesterday's usage. I'm at work so I can't post a screenshot, but it does leave room for thought on how our phone's data usage monitors data as opposed to our carriers.
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You aren't running CM RC3 are you?
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Yep. The Google music app eats up data like crazy. a 40 minute cruise would take up around 600mb of my data. Lucky I have unlimited data though.
Anyways, people have said that spotify and other streaming apps have a much lower data usage. You could try those instead.
1) check settings/google-account/name.gmail.com and check sync music is unchecked
2) if you are using a rom like carbon for example, the new dalvik cache system misreports data usage, check with your carrier for real stats.
[Q] "Google Services" app suddenly started using unusually high background data
Please see the attached screenshots of data usage for the past three weeks. Two weeks ago I noticed a steep increase in the amount of background data used by Google Services, from the usual 1 ~ 2MB per week to something as high as 16MB per week. From what I can tell using 3G Watchdog, the majority is outbound traffic. I'm a light data user, only turning on 3G when I'm in transit for 2 hours a day to check email and chat on Hangouts. I don't recall changing anything significant on my phone in that period, aside from app updates and upgrading to 4.3 on the 24th. I'm on a light data plan, with only 100MB monthly quota, so this increase is very significant for me. Right now I have the restrict background data option enabled for Google Services to try to curb this new problem, but I'd still like to know what's going on.
to be honest, that usage is very normal, and still considered not much. anything can cause it to go up this little, yes it only went up a tiny bit. your usage, syncing, background notification checks.. id suggest more that 100mb for any smartphone as 100mb isnt really realistic for a smartphone.
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to be honest, that usage is very normal, and still considered not much. anything can cause it to go up this little, yes it only went up a tiny bit. your usage, syncing, background notification checks.. id suggest more that 100mb for any smartphone as 100mb isnt really realistic for a smartphone.
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Yes, it went up a tiny bit in absolute terms, but relatively this is huge. We're talking about 1000% of what was normal for that app, without change in my usage pattern. I hear you though. 100MB a month is crazy low these days, but for what I use my phone for, it had been more than enough for the past 7 months that I've had the phone. I usually end up with 20 ~ 30MB to spare every month.
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Yes, it went up a tiny bit in absolute terms, but relatively this is huge. We're talking about 1000% of what was normal for that app, without change in my usage pattern. I hear you though. 100MB a month is crazy low these days, but for what I use my phone for, it had been more than enough for the past 7 months that I've had the phone. I usually end up with 20 ~ 30MB to spare every month.
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20-30mb to spare? really?
yea, in relative terms, it is a huge difference. i average about 250-350mb per day, id never servive with only 100mb.
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20-30mb to spare? really?
yea, in relative terms, it is a huge difference. i average about 250-350mb per day, id never servive with only 100mb.
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Haha, yeah, my friends on unlimited data couldn't believe it either when I told them I survived on 100mb. They use that up streaming a short youtube video. I'm in wifi range for most of the day. When I'm not, I keep it to emails, text chats, and the occasional live transit locator. On the rare occasion when I do browse the web on the go, I use Opera Mini to compress the traffic. It's definitely doable :silly:
I have the same problem as the OP, only my data usage is 450MB in under an hour. This has never used more than 2-3MB per day in all the time I've had an Android phone. I didn't even realize it till I got a message from my service provider saying I have used 80% of my monthly limit. :crying:
On checking data usage, I found the culprit to be Google Services, under which I see Play Services, Services Framework, Account Manager, Contacts Sync, Network Location and Bookmarks Sync. Is there anyway I can find out which of these 6 caused the data download?
My location access is disabled, and so is my App update over mobile data. My gmail and contacts sync are enabled, but I doubt if that would take 450Mb.
I have now restricted background data, but I sure would like to know the reason for this sudden spurt in data usage.
TIA
Some people are reporting around 180Mb/day data wasted by Google Services since 4.3 OTA was launched. Remember the size of the 4.3 OTA update is exactly 179Mb. MOST (if not all) the affected are using custom ROMs.
Can it be the cause? Maybe the OTA is being downloading again and again but it can't finish the installation process due some reason, possibly related with custom ROMs / Kernels / whatever.
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Some people are reporting around 180Mb/day data wasted by Google Services since 4.3 OTA was launched. Remember the size of the 4.3 OTA update is exactly 179Mb. MOST (if not all) the affected are using custom ROMs.
Can it be the cause? Maybe the OTA is being downloading again and again but it can't finish the installation process due some reason, possibly related with custom ROMs / Kernels / whatever.
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I am using Carbon ROM, but I don't have any notification for any update...besides I thought OTA update will be a foreground process?
Cheers
canveen said:
I am using Carbon ROM, but I don't have any notification for any update...besides I thought OTA update will be a foreground process?
Cheers
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I don't know, but probably yes according to these people wasting data since OTA was released.
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Some people are reporting around 180Mb/day data wasted by Google Services since 4.3 OTA was launched. Remember the size of the 4.3 OTA update is exactly 179Mb. MOST (if not all) the affected are using custom ROMs.
Can it be the cause? Maybe the OTA is being downloading again and again but it can't finish the installation process due some reason, possibly related with custom ROMs / Kernels / whatever.
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I'm on stock everything, although I did manually flash 4.3. If it's downloading the OTA repeatedly, then it's doing it really slowly for me (like 2MB/hour). That's an interesting theory though.
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Some people are reporting around 180Mb/day data wasted by Google Services since 4.3 OTA was launched. Remember the size of the 4.3 OTA update is exactly 179Mb. MOST (if not all) the affected are using custom ROMs.
Can it be the cause? Maybe the OTA is being downloading again and again but it can't finish the installation process due some reason, possibly related with custom ROMs / Kernels / whatever.
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who's reporting? may you please refer me to it?
my case appears to be the worst among the bunch: Google Services used 4.4 GBs of data since the 27th
I'm on a cm10.1 nightly on a galaxy nexus and over the last 2 days google services has eaten 300+mb of data (approx 180 the first day then 120 the second until I hit my limit). The 4.3 OTA may very well be causing this problem.
Is this a widespread problem? How can we fix it?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=44157799#post44157799
Some further insight into the problem.
Carbon rom here. Same issue. Massive google services data usage in last few days. Like 600mb + a day.
What is going on?
nexus 4 data usage - google services
canveen said:
I have the same problem as the OP, only my data usage is 450MB in under an hour. This has never used more than 2-3MB per day in all the time I've had an Android phone. I didn't even realize it till I got a message from my service provider saying I have used 80% of my monthly limit. :crying:
On checking data usage, I found the culprit to be Google Services, under which I see Play Services, Services Framework, Account Manager, Contacts Sync, Network Location and Bookmarks Sync. Is there anyway I can find out which of these 6 caused the data download?
My location access is disabled, and so is my App update over mobile data. My gmail and contacts sync are enabled, but I doubt if that would take 450Mb.
I have now restricted background data, but I sure would like to know the reason for this sudden spurt in data usage.
TIA
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******* I'm having the exact same problem! my phone has used almost 500mb in the past day and now I only realised when my data provider sent me a warning message!
just lost 735MB in 3 days! nexus 4 CM 10.1.0-RC2
that's gonna cost me...
Just an update on my phone's situation:
Yesterday I flashed the phone back to stock 4.2.2 (including userdata, so everything was wiped), then upgraded to stock 4.3 again using the Google update service this time (I manually flashed 4.3 last time). I then did a factory reset and wiped cache. Initially the "Android OS" app ate up 6MB of 3G data in an hour without me using the phone at all, but all data usage is now back to normal after I turned off wifi network location service. I'm not entirely sure what did the trick, but I backed up and restored all my apps after the wipe using Titanium, so it's unlikely that a third party app was the culprit. I'll keep an eye out to see if the problem does come back, but for now it seems to be fixed. Not sure how this would help those of you running CM rom.
System Update Issue
I've noticed this same issue since i updated all my Google Play applications last 07/30. Before the update, I did not have this high bandwidth consumption.
Anyways, i've been researching in my phone and tried the following solutions:
First, I restricted Google Services background data, this did not work, it was still consuming my data. So I kept researching and found something interesting, i went to About Phone - System Update, and noticed my phone was consistently trying to update to 4.3 JB (which is 183 MB), and after the download was complete, then a "verification failed" error message was displayed.
At this point, i thought, This is probably the cause i've been losing all of my data. I am running ParanAndroid along with franco kernel for some time, maybe this is the reason the update is failing.
So, a rough solution i did to this meanwhile: Go to Settings -> Apps -> All and disable Google Services Framework, this will ensure that the update is not constantly being downloaded, however, many Google applications will have issues.
Try switching off Wifi and Mobile network location in the settings.
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Indeed it all started on 30th for me too. A fix would be lovely! wonder if the latest CM10.1 nightlies have this problem
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Some people are reporting around 180Mb/day data wasted by Google Services since 4.3 OTA was launched. Remember the size of the 4.3 OTA update is exactly 179Mb. MOST (if not all) the affected are using custom ROMs.
Can it be the cause? Maybe the OTA is being downloading again and again but it can't finish the installation process due some reason, possibly related with custom ROMs / Kernels / whatever.
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I just checked the system updates tab in my settings and it keeps redownloading 4.3 due to it not being able to install correctly. It is redownloading the rom again and again. Does anyone know how to disable the OTA?
Recently my battery life has really been on the up and up. I'm not sure what it is but after all the app updates it has really flatlined, meaning I can get 2 days on it now. One extra thing I did was delete the cache under app storage along with another wipe cache partition. Previously also I used to notice my phone battery would drain at night but now it just pauses any drain. Anyways anyone noticing this?
I haven't noticed any improvements (Pure edition running 5.0). What build/version are you on?
I agree : I'm using mine in LTE mode, location in high accuracy mode, Google now activated, gmail outlook and corporate mails in push, all sync activated including drive and google + and WiFi off but always available for location : with that settings I have 18h off-battery with between 3h30 and 3h45 SOT.
For weekends, it last from Saturday morning to Sunday evening off-battery with between 1h30 and 1h45 SOT per day.
It is a XT1092 used in France, moto official ROM and no root.
I believe recent battery improvement to come from LTE network improvements : more cells, better signal= lots less work for my device.
I'm very satisfied. I have a few bugs on 5.0 but nothing huge, no random reboots or app crash. My only one deception : no 5.1 for my moto x for now and I want it because I like security and does not accept that a simple factory reset would allow a thief to use my encrypted device. I have heard 5.1 will correct this by asking thief to log on last known Google account to use the device.
It could also be the latest version of google play services finally fixed some memory leak and wakelocks
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I haven't noticed any improvements (Pure edition running 5.0). What build/version are you on?
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I am on the 5.0./pure version. Try the cache partition wipe as well as the storage cache wipe. Need to do both
Where are these cache wipe settings located at?
One is at wipe cache partition. Which requires a restart with buttons pushed. Google that one. The other one is under settings - storage - cache- delete apps cache
Maknora said:
One is at wipe cache partition. Which requires a restart with buttons pushed. Google that one. The other one is under settings - storage - cache- delete apps cache
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Thanks
The other one is under settings - storage - cache- delete apps cache
mine worked around 2 days after cleaning battery stats in recovery
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mine worked around 2 days after cleaning battery stats in recovery
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How do you clean battery stats in recovery?
I'm experiencing great battery too since a couple of days ago. It seems that the new Google Play Services fixes the memory drain. I did a wipe cache too but not a cache partition.
I cleared the app cache in settings and did a cache wipe from recovery and my battery life hasn't improved at all.
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mine worked around 2 days after cleaning battery stats in recovery
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If you actually mean the battery stats, then that myth has been debunked ages ago: https://plus.google.com/105051985738280261832/posts/FV3LVtdVxPT
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mine worked around 2 days after cleaning battery stats in recovery
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Is it best to let the battery full drain after doing this? Or anything else you recommend?
I had my battery heating up to 100+ degree and did a partition clear and it has helped with the heating but I still get less than a day with my battery. No root, 5.1.
I downgraded the other day to 4.4.4 - and for the first time since November, my phone's battery lasted me a full day from 6am - 11:30pm. I don't know why I didn't do this sooner.
I'm really doubting 5.1 is much better. Someone keep us posted on the battery life on 5.1. Otherwise, I'm content to stay on 4.4.4 for a longggg time.
I mentioned this to a coworker the other day. Its a very noticeable difference in battery life.
No changes here, I keep getting high cell standby usage (between 10 and 15%) and pretty bad battery life.
I can not figure it out! But Google is killing me!
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The issue started in late march or april. In the period between Feb 22 and Mar 21 Android OS used 893kb of data. The following month it was 1.01 GB, then 1.7 GB. Now I have turned off mobile data completely after having Android OS suck 153 MB of my 1 GB monthly allowance just after 2 days (while mostly being on wifi).
I have found quite a lot of threads regarding this, but none of the solutions worked for me so far.
I have tried disabling google backup
I tried enabling android's data saving option
I have no automatic wallpaper switch, which could be using data (I change them maybe once a week)
I deleted all apps that I don't need. Most have their own placeholder on the data usage screen and are using normal amounts of data. The problem is, I don't see which of the services under Android OS are using the data, so I have no idea really.
The following services are listed under Android OS in the native data usage app:
com.quicinc.cne.CNEService.CNESeviceApp (this one is on the top bar)
Android System, Call Management, Settings Storage, Nfc Service, HwMMITest, Input Devices, Key Chain, com.android.wallpaperbackup, com.android.huawei.hiddenmenu.main.HiddenMenuApp, Fused Location, com.qualcomm.timeservice, Call Management, Settings
Any ideas?
mariancerny said:
The issue started in late march or april. In the period between Feb 22 and Mar 21 Android OS used 893kb of data. The following month it was 1.01 GB, then 1.7 GB. Now I have turned off mobile data completely after having Android OS suck 153 MB of my 1 GB monthly allowance just after 2 days (while mostly being on wifi).
I have found quite a lot of threads regarding this, but none of the solutions worked for me so far.
I have tried disabling google backup
I tried enabling android's data saving option
I have no automatic wallpaper switch, which could be using data (I change them maybe once a week)
I deleted all apps that I don't need. Most have their own placeholder on the data usage screen and are using normal amounts of data. The problem is, I don't see which of the services under Android OS are using the data, so I have no idea really.
The following services are listed under Android OS in the native data usage app:
com.quicinc.cne.CNEService.CNESeviceApp (this one is on the top bar)
Android System, Call Management, Settings Storage, Nfc Service, HwMMITest, Input Devices, Key Chain, com.android.wallpaperbackup, com.android.huawei.hiddenmenu.main.HiddenMenuApp, Fused Location, com.qualcomm.timeservice, Call Management, Settings
Any ideas?
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I've heard that this governor profile helps if you load it in ex kernel manager. https://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p/general/kernel-profile-interactive-governor-t3550620
Also what rom are you on? If your rom is listed in my thread then you can download and flash it and download wakeblock from the play store and block wakelocks that are draining your battery.?
https://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p/general/taking-wakeblock-requests-t3583397
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I've heard that this governor profile helps if you load it in ex kernel manager. https://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p/general/kernel-profile-interactive-governor-t3550620
Also what rom are you on? If your rom is listed in my thread then you can download and flash it and download wakeblock from the play store and block wakelocks that are draining your battery.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p/general/taking-wakeblock-requests-t3583397
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I am running stock Android, just rooted. I would love to avoid the hassle of flashing new kernels, etc.
The battery drain is not that bad at all. I just can't keep my 3G on, or else it will drain my data in a few days (or rather hours of non-wifi time).
I got a 700MB drain in TWO HOURS the other day. TWO HOURS!!!
Halp,plz.
Not much to say.
Factory reset.
Do not restore your apps.
See if it helps.
Did you try any of the data usage monitoring apps from the playstore?
Hi
I've got a Moto E4 running android 7.1.1 (latest software update in France). No problems at all until just recently. Battery draining at about double normal rate for no apparent reason. When I go into battery usage details the categories (Screen, wifi, google play services) only add up to about 12% total yet the drain is 70% total. Don't know if that's relevant or not.
So I cleared the cache partition and problem seems to be fixed. Then 2 or 3 days later, high drain rate again. Cleared cache partition again and for 3-4 days no problem, now drain back again. No new apps downloaded recently. No unusual usage. Most apps have sync permissions turned off.
Has anyone any ideas or suggestions other than factory reset which I'd really rather avoid if at all possible?
Thanks very much for your time on this.
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Have the same problem. Any solution?
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Have the same problem. Any solution?
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Yep - block javascript in chrome (site settings) - problem went away immediately. Then allow javascript on different pages gradually to work out which one(s) are causing the drain. For me it was the BBC news site - I think there was a problem with video autoplaying and getting stuck in some sort of loop. Hope it works for you too.