so in 10 days i've almost hit my 3 gig limit. i BELIEVE the culprit is google music. what it seems may have happened is i clicked on "resume music" in driving mode (thinking it was resuming after i took a call) and i had high quality streaming on. so now every time i got in my car and started driving, music would play in the background (my phone is teathered to my radio w/ bluetooth) and would just suck data down. i'm not positive this is what is going on but it seems the only explanatin for the data charges i'm getting on my bill (midnight on saturday, 570MB of data). of course ATT told me it was A) because facebook was running in the background and B) that they do updates after midnight (600MB worth apparently).
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Anyone else experiencing high data usage on the x10? I installed netcounter 4 days ago and it says I've used over 45mb. I consider myself to be a light user, no timescape update, no email/weather apps. Auto update switched off etc. I will browse the web and use facebook for say 20-30 minutes a day, check out the store and thats about it.
The phone seems to be accessing the internet on a regular basis, if I have the phone near my alarm speaker I can hear a lot of interference. Its like it is constantly accessing my data connection.
I'm not too worried about costs as I have 500mb per month, but it does seem unusually high. I'm sure this is draining the battery as well Any ideas?
Have you got "location services" switched on? that will use the network.
Data usage does seem to be very high when compared to other phones, last month I clocked up 650MB+ (on a 500MB bundle) even though I was mostly using WiFi. Just had to bump up my data package to unlimited as the extra 150MB cost me nearly £20.
I think you have some programs or widgets which have automatic update.
Is something with X10 or android in general.
I opened a thread like this sometime ago but nobody knows anything.
My experience:
Factory default, nothing configured (twitter, facebook, email, etc), background sync disabled, gps disabled, etc and i had like 12Mb/day day without doing anything.
I ve been having a problem with my x10 downloading crazy amounts of data the last fewdays. for example i left it on over night and in the period from midnight to 8am it used 75mb with only email set to update. when i woke up i could hear it through my computer speakers contantly downloading so i went into the app manager and forced some programs to close, as soon as i closed google talk the data usage stopped and it hasnt started since. this is all despite the fact that ive never used or even opened google talk. so if you are having problems with high data usage its worth checking google talk even if youve never used it.
does anyone know of a way of uninstalling without root or an app that can stop it running without interfering with other apps?
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I ve been having a problem with my x10 downloading crazy amounts of data the last fewdays. for example i left it on over night and in the period from midnight to 8am it used 75mb with only email set to update. when i woke up i could hear it through my computer speakers contantly downloading so i went into the app manager and forced some programs to close, as soon as i closed google talk the data usage stopped and it hasnt started since. this is all despite the fact that ive never used or even opened google talk. so if you are having problems with high data usage its worth checking google talk even if youve never used it.
does anyone know of a way of uninstalling without root or an app that can stop it running without interfering with other apps?
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Use a task killer like Taskpanel, then you can set it on the killer list, so it wont run.
Bloke
thanks, got it to auto kill that but ignore everything else.
I got the DX the day it came out and really like the phone(minus the BS bootloader), but I've been having an issue with my 3G shutting off while I'm listening to the app RadioTime. I listen to ESPN radio every morning on my way to work and, but ever since I got the DX it cuts out every 5 - 10 min and I have to hit pause then play to get it running again. I know for a fact that it's not an issue with the app or even location because I've gone the same route using the same app with the Incredible and Droid1 before that with no issues. I've tried everything I can think of, such as leaving the screen on and changing the battery profile, but nothing works. I know others have experienced this problem, and it is so annoying, it's making me second guess keeping this phone.
Make sure Background Data is enabled and that the data sever shuts off during peak hours.
That's all I got. Sorry.
I second that, cypher. It fixed my 3G problem. Mine was doing the same thing with Pandora and I finally realized a week later that Background Data was the culprit. Now, if I knew how to fix the wifi.
Yes this is happening to me also. It kinda sucks, my GF with an ERIS gets perfect signal where I do not. Bummer.
My background data is enabled and I'm using the Performance setting on the battery manager.
Maybe try turning off the WIFI ?
I've noticed the same thing when using pandora. In fact my phone gets hot when this happens. It is always in a low signal strength environment. eventually it will return, but it takes a while.
I was finally able to get an update on my data use since launch day, Nov 8th. I connected to the net via AT&T 3G for the first time at 10:48am Nov 8th, AT&T's last update for me is at until 12:07am Nov 10th, I've used.... Ar you ready for this.. 614.69 MB Data in the first 37.75 hours I have owned the Focus, my first smartphone btw.
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I was finally able to get an update on my data use since launch day, Nov 8th. I connected to the net via AT&T 3G for the first time at 10:48am Nov 8th, AT&T's last update for me is at until 12:07am Nov 10th, I've used.... Ar you ready for this.. 614.69 MB Data in the first 37.75 hours I have owned the Focus, my first smartphone btw.
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There's gotta be something wrong on their end. I've had that phone for almost exactly the same amount of time and am at 64MB for my current cycle. Fortunately I'm grandfathered in with the old unlimited plan...
Have you called tech support?
How many apps did you download? I know that really large apps for wifi/usb for download, but I had some large spikes on my 3G also.
I'm keeping an eye on it too, but it was roughly around when I started downloading a bunch of apps on the marketplace
Something is up for sure. After Id been asleep for about an hour on the 10th, my phone sent ~47.5MB of data.
11/10 12:07 AM wap.cingular Internet/MEdia Net Sent 48753KB
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My phone was plugged into the wall charger on night stand next to bed. I was out cold by 11PM on the 9th. Hmm.. I notice all data usage displayed on my account page with AT&T shows only 'sent' data, not received. Is that normal? Should it show sent and received?
Nov 8th, my original set up was at home, using Zune to ad apps, music, videos, etc. Got to work and powered down, plugged into wall to charge, phone popped back on automatically and everything was gone. So I downloaded the apps I wanted to tinker with the most over the air.
Nov 9th, I plugged my phone in when I got to work, I streamed Zune and Last.FM music for most of the day (~5-6 hours). Left phone unplugged from wall to test battery. I used the maps traffic and location service. I have all location services active. I have 4 email accounts linked. Two to send new emails as they are received, one every hour, and one manually. I have xbox live on. I surfed the web a few minutes at a time for maybe 1 hour total browsing with the other 3 hours during work. I also watched the movie "UP" via Netflix/3G (1-2 Bars, which quality was perfect after about 3 minutes). Showed the daughter how to use the maps, search. I also have my pics to auto sink to Sky Drive; but I only took about 5 pics total first two days. I also have record phone location, and find phone location faster checked.
640MB is believable with the usage you say. Lets say you are streaming 5 hrs of music at 64kbps. This will add up to 144MB in music streaming alone. This is not to mention 1.5 hrs of "UP" at a much higher bit rate.
Hello,
I got a Samsung Galaxy SII I-9100, stock rom, no modification, and no rom update since I bought it.
Since this week-end, I see very frequent data uploads (green up arrow lights up, and network mode changes from 3G to H+). It happens every few seconds/minutes and stays for several seconds or minutes.
Because of that, my phone battery lasts less than a day instead of 2 full days and nights, and it probably also eats my data plans.
I uninstalled all the applications I downloaded, restarted the phone many times, disabled background data and auto-sync, with no success.
I've installed Radioopt Traffic Monitor, I can see the data being uploaded (around 50 KB in 6 hours), but according to the app, it's not send by any application.
The only work around is to long press the power button and disable "Data network mode". But still, I would like to use data and auto-sync without killing the battery (as I was doing before).
Any idea? I heard it might be related to the network itself. I'm on Vodafone Ireland. Might it be anything I installed?
Thanks for your help.
All your apps any apps .
Apps are set to download/update 24 hours a day .
Check each app and turn off its data connection or use an app like Quick Settings to turn mobile data on/off ,
jje
In my opinion 50kb in 6 hours aint high at all..
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Hey,
I've found the answer, it might help somebody else in the same case:
I'm on a prepay contract and I had no credit, so I guess the phone was trying to connect to the APN, and the connection was refused, and it was doing this in a loop. After topping up, the problem disappeared.
Cheers
Same problem with my SGS2 but my phone is not sending 50 KB in 6 hours...but rather 200 MB in 5 hours !
I'm not on a prepaid contract, though.
here is a screenshot of the process sending all those data, if anybody can help me...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1148369