Hey guys, I just bought my wife this phone last week and put her on the limited data plan since she is mostly on wifi. Question is what apps are eating data in the background while she is off wifi? I have so far turned off google background synching and thats it. Any more suggestions?
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I have never closely tracked my data use since I am on an unlimited plan. If you are concerned about bloat eating into your wife's 200mb though, then I would root and put Iced Glacier (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=844594) and AdsFree on her phone.
IG is stock without bloatware. I have been running stock since I got my phone at release and finally decided the current batch of ROMs we have are stable enough to play with. IG is running great, a bit faster than stock, some minor graphical tweaks, but still otherwise identical just minus the bloat crpa.
AdsFree will redirect all advertisement servers to 127.0.0.1 (localhost; the phone itself) so that ads don't download and eat into your precious quota. AdsFree does require root, though.
badaphooko01 said:
Hey guys, I just bought my wife this phone last week and put her on the limited data plan since she is mostly on wifi. Question is what apps are eating data in the background while she is off wifi? I have so far turned off Google background syncing and that's it. Any more suggestions?
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I am thinking of doing the exact thing with a family plan member, I will be installing a task killer and ad free, but I have installed an app (pro version - costs under $4) on mine that tracks data usage by program on the network - not WiFi (which is free anyway).
It is called 3G Watchdog. The free version does not break it out by app. So far, I have been surprised how much email program is using. i do not get a lot of emails, so ( am assuming it is background activity (like checking periodically for new mail).
It is set up for billing period and your plan limit. i also loaded my plan moth-to-date usage in, and it has been tracking pretty good against my TMo usage in "MY Account". When you switch over to WiFi - no activity is recorded - which is exactly the way it should be to monitor your paid data usage.
For their limited plans (with mb limits) - this app is a must.
Each Android Wear smartwatch has a step counter built in, which is cool. It keeps your history, but from what I can tell the data isn't saved anywhere. I used my G Watch for a few days, then applied a factory reset. My history was completely gone and it started over again. Is there a way to save this data? Does anyone know if Runtastic or Runkeeper does? I presume the data will eventually be part of Google Fit, but I would like to save the data now.
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Rob1968 said:
Each Android Wear smartwatch has a step counter built in, which is cool. It keeps your history, but from what I can tell the data isn't saved anywhere. I used my G Watch for a few days, then applied a factory reset. My history was completely gone and it started over again. Is there a way to save this data? Does anyone know if Runtastic or Runkeeper does? I presume the data will eventually be part of Google Fit, but I would like to save the data now.
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I'm also interested in saving this data programmatically. I'm writing an application that will save this data to the server and then combine it with some other analytics. Maybe we can access SQLite to get that data? Does anybody know?
Hey guys,
I just published an application that can export the data into a CSV file, as well as count the amount of time that you are walking for (in addition to just the steps). You can find it here:
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sm.stepsassistant
Let me know if there are any bugs!
Also, it was *just* published, so if it isn't visible yet, it will be soon.
don't have my watch yet but downloading your app for when I do! thanks!!!
i would imagine apps like myfitnesspal should add support for this very shortly...
Hey guys,
My carrier made some updates to the service today and one of the biggest differences is that some apps won't count towards mobile traffic. I have been using the data limiter/counter built in Android for quite some time now and it's really close to what my carrier accounts so I rely on it to not go over the data cap.
Is there any way to stop apps such as Spotify to count towards the amount of mobile data on the Android counter?
I'm sorry if it's not clear enough but this is the way I am able to explain it better. In case you don't understand what I want, just tell me and I'll try explaining it better.
Thanks!
Don't think you can on the stock data usage settings
I guess I'll get back to 3G Watchdog. Sucks to have yet another app running on the background but I guess that's the only solution.
Thanks!
I have a Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge, on ver 6.0.1; Build No:MMB29K.G935FXXU1APD1
Notice couple week ago, I have finished my monthly data quota of 3Gb, upon checking data usage close to 1/3 is consumed by "Android OS" in background.
Since then, I been on quest to find out what actually caused the drain on data. I have tried
1. Run in safe mode, "Android OS" in background continue
2. Factory reset, "Android OS" in background continur.
3. "Reset Network Setting", work for a couple a day, then "Android OS" in background came back again.
4. Off all Google Account Sync and Off background data, "Android OS" in background continue too.
Now I am really out of ideas... really disappointed with Android now.... planning to sell off my phone and switch to Iphone
Just as a comparison, between 7am to 1pm today, "Android OS" already consumed 37Mb; while my web brwsing in the same period only used up 95mb. And I have Facebook app disabled already.
at a 'wag' I'd speculate that you have one/all of the background reporting enabled (diagnostics, security reports, app scanning, et. al.).
you could also take a walk through the 'optimize battery usage' settings to restrict the various apps to limit their usage.
these things are discussed in the battery consumption thread(s) but they also affect data usage.
^^^ what he said
I had the same issue the very first week I got the device (800+ MB consumed by Android OS) - it automagically stopped once I greenified and Dozed the sh!t out of it.
Mind you, even at the beginning I had no sync and most of apps disabled for background data usage.
Sh!ty implementation if you ask me: it almost looks like a collusion between Google and the carriers to waste your data. Why on Earth would they otherwise have "Download boost" and "Smart network switch" which both suck up your precious little data (I speak as a Canadian screwed by the monopolies...).
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Why on Earth would they otherwise have "Download boost" and "Smart network switch" which both suck up your precious little data
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"duh" - they can bill you for more data consumption, makes complete sense to me!
I had the thought that it'd be very nice (from a user' point of view) of everything not absolutely necessary was disabled by default and a nice 'wizard' walked you through enabling of ANYTHING which will use background data, location, or radio (essentially anything using power or money). Sort of the mirroring the "secure by default" ethic where everything would need to be individually opted-in. Alas, I feel this is contrary to the interests not only of the phone carriers (who want to bill more for data service), OEM (who want to regularly sell you a new device), and Google (who wants to leverage data of/about/by you to create $).
Or maybe I'm just a little cynical.
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^^^ what he said
I had the same issue the very first week I got the device (800+ MB consumed by Android OS) - it automagically stopped once I greenified and Dozed the sh!t out of it.
Mind you, even at the beginning I had no sync and most of apps disabled for background data usage.
Sh!ty implementation if you ask me: it almost looks like a collusion between Google and the carriers to waste your data. Why on Earth would they otherwise have "Download boost" and "Smart network switch" which both suck up your precious little data (I speak as a Canadian screwed by the monopolies...).
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how you greenify Doze? dont think it is available on Sammy phone.
I started to monitor the "Android OS" usage every 5~10min... what I notice is, it starts drain data every time I go online, e.g. surf net, FB app, etc.
So for example, surf net at 10:00am... and close the browser... 5 min later I will notice the "Andoird OS" data consumption increased by another 2-3Mb.
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how you greenify Doze? dont think it is available on Sammy phone.
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2.9beta2...read the forum thread in the Greenify section.
Ok, seems to have found a solution. I boot into recovery and
1. wipe cache
2. wipe data
now it is running ok. "Android OS" no longer draining data in background.
Not quite sure why the previous two time factory reset via setting menu wont do the tricks though.
I have the same trouble! Android SO consumes a lot of data, I'm gonna try your solution I hope it works!!
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Any solutions for this ? im still having this problem.
forum.xda-developers.com/note5/help/guide-how-to-fix-android-os-battery-t3423150
You may wanna check the wakelocks, probably most often used will be your evil one
AASAservice
Download the Package disabler in google play and disable the system app named AASAservice. You will be OK. I found this solution through a data manager app called DATAEYE. If you still worry about your data usage, you can try to use this app too.
Ipse_Tase said:
^^^ what he said
I had the same issue the very first week I got the device (800+ MB consumed by Android OS) - it automagically stopped once I greenified and Dozed the sh!t out of it.
Mind you, even at the beginning I had no sync and most of apps disabled for background data usage.
Sh!ty implementation if you ask me: it almost looks like a collusion between Google and the carriers to waste your data. Why on Earth would they otherwise have "Download boost" and "Smart network switch" which both suck up your precious little data (I speak as a Canadian screwed by the monopolies...).
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Samsung is actually very open about it. They said that first and foremost, it is the carriers, that are their customers. Not the average Joe blow like us.
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lgh197219721 said:
Download the Package disabler in google play and disable the system app named AASAservice. You will be OK. I found this solution through a data manager app called DATAEYE. If you still worry about your data usage, you can try to use this app too.
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Any specific "Package Disabler"? Since there is are at least 10 of them. Who si the developer?
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Any specific "Package Disabler"? Since there is are at least 10 of them. Who si the developer?
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I think he's talking about BK package disabler Pro which is what I use too, great app.
However, cant remember now if this is possible in MM but in Android 7 Nougat you can restrict data usage for anything you like except apps that really need to use data like facebook and your browser etc, but you can still restrict them from using background data regardless, screenshots below, as far as I'm concerned, theres not really much on my phone that I want accessing my data without me knowing about it, I don't send picture messages etc, and I don't need weather and traffic updates every 10 secs etc.
Can anyone tell me what is this?
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Hi Guys,
I am trying to get Android not to track data usage of an specif app, but the only option I could found was to shut down app data usage at all.
But I dont want that, I just want that android do not consider this app's data usage in the total count.
This happens because my carrier offers me some free data usage on certain apps (whatsapp and deezer), so I dont want them to be on the systems data usage statistics...
Is it possible?
ps: I know I can probably download an data control app to get this like I want, but I wanted to keep using Android native data control.
Thank very much!