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[Q] Application to show network usage per apllication

Hi! I'd like to now whether it's possible to check which application is using the network, and how much it uses it. I've heard that in "Spare parts" selecting "Battery history > Network usage" you can check this, but on Samsung Galaxy S it only says that the data is not available. If there is no such app is there a ROM that enables this data?

I've had the exactly the same problem! Would be grateful for any ideas or apps to determine what is downloading data

i'm using 3G watchdog
best app so far that tells me my usage

I don't think 3G Watchdog tells you what app is actually using it though.
OffTopic: AllGamer your droptest video made me cringe :/

AllGamer said:
i'm using 3G watchdog
best app so far that tells me my usage
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But it does not show usage per application. There appears to be no app that can do this
Edit: The Battery history menu can show network usage on the Froyo JPC firmware. Use the SGS info app, can be found free on this forum or as a purchase on the Market.
Or dial *#*#4636#*#*
It doesn't look right though, Just a blue are red bar for each app, including the Dialer, an app called "0" which has the highest usage here, and "1010". No number to go with the bar.

danamoult said:
I don't think 3G Watchdog tells you what app is actually using it though.
OffTopic: AllGamer your droptest video made me cringe :/
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at least you can sleep well knowing our phone can stand all those abuses and still lives
unless you drop the phone from over 1.5 meter tall

I'd really like this too. Definitely want to know where all my data is going.....

well if you think of it, you are only doing these as the very basic:
1. email (text)
2. web (text & video streams)
3. calendar sync (text)
4. contact sync (text)
5. facebook sync (text)
6. tweeter sync (text)
7. IM and/or (text)
less conventional data usage
8. Fring <------- video uses more
9. internet radio stream <--- high data usage as well, but less than video
10. FTP server (depends on usage)
11. Torrent (depends on usage)
12. Remote Desktop / VNC <--- medium data usage
so in the end, there is no way you do not know where you are using losing your data to

That is mostly true - but sometimes you have mystery usage.
Today, for instance, i got ticked off, and disabled background sync entirely. I already have my emails only polling every hour, and weather every 6 hours. (with background sync off, it shouldnt even poll at ALL.) I don't have any facebook/twitter stuff, and didnt even go near the web browser. The phone somehow STILL used over 10mb of data in about 5 hours. I dont know what is using this data, and its annoying me.
Thus the continued request to find a program that will show usage PER APP.

I have the same issue

Same problem here, its only been 3 days and i already have 100mb of data usage. I've downloaded some apps but not enough to give me 100mb of data! This is realy weird and frustrating.
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Well, i have discovered that such a program does indeed exist.
BUT - it only works with froyo. BOOOOO!
I have the page bookmarked for when i get it though!
Here it is: TrafficStats

Nice, now all my Galaxy S needs is Froyo...

i'm so looking forward to froyo
2 more week to go
i too want to install that Traffic tracking App

Android System and OS using a lot of data plus 17-20% of battery

My battery life has not been as good since I upgraded the ROM a few weeks ago. The biggest culprit seems to be the Android System and Android OS. Each of them typically use about 8-10% of the battery, so it's not uncommon for them to have used 20% of the battery combined.
In addition, Android System uploads a bunch of data. In a full day, Android system typically sends 3-5 MB and receives 400-900 KB.
Android OS (is this all apps combined??) has uploaded 500-1000 KB and receives 10-20 MB.
I've frozen the apps on the receommended list (except for a couple I use like the ATT code scanner). Use no social network stuff. I do have Exchange plus two Gmail accounts + 3 K9 email accounts setup.
I can't seem to manage any setting change to reduce the battery/data usage of these two.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=983636
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DarrellRaines said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=983636
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I've done all those things except for (Settings > Data manager > Data Delivery > social apps > sync over wifi), which I did actually do a couple hours ago on one last run through the settings to make sure I hadn't missed anything before posting here.
What the heck is android system uploading? Is that motoblur backing things up? I have searched XDA and googled and while I have seen the question about Android System with large uploads, I have yet to see a solid answer as to what's going on.

tnedator said:
I've done all those things except for (Settings > Data manager > Data Delivery > social apps > sync over wifi), which I did actually do a couple hours ago on one last run through the settings to make sure I hadn't missed anything before posting here.
What the heck is android system uploading? Is that motoblur backing things up? I have searched XDA and googled and while I have seen the question about Android System with large uploads, I have yet to see a solid answer as to what's going on.
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I think it's constantly receiving contact numbers and contact photos and status' from facebook. no way to turn that off i dont think unless your rooted. i know anytime i call someone, their status and facebook pic is new and haven't seen it before almost every time.

tripleh3lix said:
I think it's constantly receiving contact numbers and contact photos and status' from facebook. no way to turn that off i dont think unless your rooted. i know anytime i call someone, their status and facebook pic is new and haven't seen it before almost every time.
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I am rooted, and have frozen most of the apps on the recommended list.
I don't have facebook or twitter accounts setup. Only Exchange, Gmail and some K9 IMAP accounts.

using traffic monitor, i found that the calibrate compass service, which seems to be a whole suit of services sucks down a lot of data. its been using about 1gb data a month. which im sure is putting some strain on the battery.

Multiple email accounts will cause a great deal of data usage on their own. Especially an exchange account and a gmail account.
If you can, why not use the gmail account to send and receive all the email for the imap accounts. I do this with my business accounts and my personal email.
You also may be syncing your contacts and all with both the exchange and the gmail account which would cause extra data and would be a bit over kill.
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Google + = huge roaming data charge

Never started thread before but wanted to warn Google + users that the app will upload pics BY DEFAULT. Just been hit with £300 bill for just a few days on holiday in USA. I had a 25mb/day limit and found G+ had consumed 111mb which is more than all the other apps combined! So be warned.

4braid said:
Never started thread before but wanted to warn Google + users that the app will upload pics BY DEFAULT. Just been hit with £300 bill for just a few days on holiday in USA. I had a 25mb/day limit and found G+ had consumed 111mb which is more than all the other apps combined! So be warned.
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Actually its not by default when you first sign into the app it give you the option to turn off instant upload, set it to instant upload on just wifi or on wifi and mobile.
But it is a good point to remember when going on holiday or planning on taking alot of pictures to make sure this (and dropboxs similar feature) are turned off

zacthespack said:
Actually its not by default when you first sign into the app it give you the option to turn off instant upload, set it to instant upload on just wifi or on wifi and mobile.
But it is a good point to remember when going on holiday or planning on taking alot of pictures to make sure this (and dropboxs similar feature) are turned off
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True but you should have to opt in not opt out. I'm using Droidwall now to stop all those data hungry apps

always use wifi
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AW: Google + = huge roaming data charge
I use LBE to control internet access of certain very data intensive apps, among them are dropbox, skydrive, youtube... For those apps access to the internet is granted as long as there is a wifi connection. But as soon as the apps want to access the internet through the mobile network LBE asks me whether to grant access or not. This way I have never experienced any unpleasent surprises.
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Email used 4GB of data in 4 days?

I haven't had this problem before, though for some reason my email decided to use a ridiculous amount of data in 4 days, I'm not sure why and I'm wondering if anyone else has had this problem. I haven't changed anything since I got the phone. The settings are to check every 15 minutes in the background for new email. For now, I've restricted the background data, but I'm wondering why this happened. Any ideas?
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Did you figure out what happened ?
My wife today got data usage warning and it showed 3GB of data used by email from Feb 4-6.
I put data restriction on the phone and will call provider tomorrow to see if the can cut off data if it reaches certain number.
Thank god we have 6gb monthly or there would be some insane bill to pay.

Wow... Wtf lol. That's crazy.
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toyopl said:
Did you figure out what happened ?
My wife today got data usage warning and it showed 3GB of data used by email from Feb 4-6.
I put data restriction on the phone and will call provider tomorrow to see if the can cut off data if it reaches certain number.
Thank god we have 6gb monthly or there would be some insane bill to pay.
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You can always set a warning and also set a limit on your android phone so it doesn't use up all your data or go over. It's extremely helpful.
Also, check your data usage through your carrier first. It's possible that the phone may have calculated the data wrong (could be a bug or something).
Third, if it has really really used 4gb of your data then it maybe because you synced all your emails and while syncing all the emails, it may have amounted to 3-4GB (which doesn't seem possible to me). Good luck!

what sort of email is it? pop3 or is it an online system (hotmail, gmail, yahoo)
if you set it up for IMAP or some sort of setting to sync your entire online based mailbox with your phone it could easily bring in that much data... after years I finally cleaned out my gmail and am back down to only using 2GB haha

Isn't syncing with email done when you setup new email account ?
The phone worked fine for 2 months and this happened all of a sudden without adding any new additional email aco****s.

Could it be you got emails with large attachments like photos or pdf files? If photos are not resized they can easily run over 3 MB a piece. Same thing with pdf files they can be huge.

Sounds to me like another Auto-Sync funjob. When my girlfriend got her old HTC, it plastered 450mb in just 3 days syncing only e-mail. If I was you, I'd turn it off. Auto-Sync that is. Unless you desperately need it sync'd then I don't see the harm in simply opening the app and clicking refresh

When you first set up your email account on your mobile device, make sure next time you sync your mail via wifi. If the image download button is check under settings, un-check it.

That's ridiculous, I'm on my email every day, pandora for hours, youtube constantly, and amazon mp3 cloud, and have only used 550MB since January 31st.

Sinfamy said:
That's ridiculous, I'm on my email every day, pandora for hours, youtube constantly, and amazon mp3 cloud, and have only used 550MB since January 31st.
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I won't disagree that that is a crazy amount of data use... I'm almost done with my first month on the tmobile $30 plan (5gb) and dispite downloading a few movies via torrent, a good bit of netflix and hulu, LOTS of pandora and streaming music from my google and i'm right around 4gb so far after trying to kill all 5gb...

Well sinfamy, it all depends how much you use it. I can say that in 2 days, according to my device data usage I've used 728mb of data.

[Q] 'Android OS' consuming more than half a gb of mobile data?

Why is Android OS consuming so much data? The only thing I can thing of is YouTube because I've watched some hd YouTube videos on mobile data for a few videos, but under Data usage, it says YouTube used only 6.71 megabytes of data, I'd expect it to be a bit higher than a few megabytes but I don't think I watched .5+ gb worth of youtube.
I wanted to post screenshots but I can't because I'm a "new" user, even though I've been a member for nearly 3 years. Anyway, I'll explain it: When I click 'Android OS' to get more details, it says all of it is background data. absolutely none of it is foreground. The button for 'view app settings' is unclickable.
I went to China recently and I'm worried that when I used the wifi in a hotel there, they might have secretly installed spyware on my phone, I wonder if this data is the spyware sending data to its servers. I have read news articles about this happening to laptops, so I am concerned.
Keen to read your replies. Thanks in advance.

Could it be software update? Or possibly Google syncing, like Picasa which syncs your photos or app data.
Go to settings / accounts / and click on your Google account and see what syncs you have on. Maybe try turning some of them off.
While your there check what other syncs you have on, like Samsung account.
Maybe not the problem but still a good place to start. When I first got mine I noticed a heap of data being used and it was Picasa.
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Downloads from the Play Store also come under Android System (well, they seem to for me), and not Play Store.
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