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[IDEA] App Sync countdown app

Hi everyone,
Relative n00b here so please excuse the amateurish question. Anyone know of an app that would tell you at what time or at what interval 3rd party apps such as Facebook, Twitter, Newsrob, etc (these are a couple that i have) would start syncing data? I've had dramatic battery life improvements by increasing the time interval for data syncs (for example while I'm at work I'm more than happy for these apps to sync only every 2 hours), but you have to go into each apps' settings menus to discover and/or change their timings.
So my app idea here is to have a high-level overview of the data sync schedule on an Android phone. That way, if you d/l something new, you can quickly go into the schedule app and see if this new app's hitting servers every 5 minutes and stop it before it drains too much battery and/or bandwidth.
Just an idea. Anyone know of a pre-existing tool for this? If not, might be a good rainy-day project.
-Carl

[Q] Data usage.

How aboute the data usage of phone 7?
Does it stil use large amounts or is this solved with one of the updates?
Can't really find a clear answer.

not noticed it being high, but then i never did, perhaps some more anti windows phone FUD going around?

Make sure you switch off the automatic e-mail checking, location and hub updates. The People hub will not update until you actually open it, but then keep in mind: if you have Windows Live, Facebook, Google etc, they will all update once you open the hub - the pictures, status updates, messages and so on will eat your data. Set your e-mails to be checked manually. Disable reporting services.

Thanks for the info. I checked with my provider today and found out that i have 1gig limit, so i don't think it's a real problem.

thjansen said:
How aboute the data usage of phone 7?
Does it stil use large amounts or is this solved with one of the updates?
Can't really find a clear answer.
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Hey, i have:
1x exchange mailbox sync (mail, contacts,calendar...) - 15min check
1x gmail acc - only mail - hourly check
weather set to update every hour
set up all sync (fb, twetter, linked in)
WiFi mostly off (save battery) when not needed.
Data usage ranges from 90-150MB/month.

New Galaxy S3 has reached monthly mobile data limit in 24 hours!

After 2 years with trusty Nokia N8 I took delivery of an S3 with ICS on T-mobile here in UK yesterday with 750mb monthly data plan, more than I have ever used before on the Nokia.
I spend much of yesterday downloading Android updates and Apps on my home wifi, no problem.
This morning on 3G i get the warning I have reached my 750mb limit... in 24 hours!
The culprits are background data downloads by Opera Browser (Turbo Mode) 351mb and Android OS background 301 mb.
I have no idea what is going on especially the Opera Browser as I had only browsed a few pages.
Could somebody help me please to identify what might be going on. My first 24 hours with the lovely S3 is turning into a nightmare!
Thanks.

Does the Opera browser try to cache future web pages you may visit in turbo mode, thus using your monthly data?
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Do you have background data on?
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Remove that opera, and limit the playstore to wifi only in the playstore settings.
Turn the data limit option on and set it to x MB per day / month to control it.

Did the data usage so on the phone give you the warning or did it come from your service provider?
Sometimes i transfer things with samba through wifi to my pc, and my phone reads it as data usage.
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Skander1998 said:
Remove that opera, and limit the playstore to wifi only in the playstore settings.
Turn the data limit option on and set it to x MB per day / month to control it.
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how do I limit daily usage and not monthly?

ooooh u bought the s3 ouch. best off leavin wifi on or disabling background data and auto sync when on 3g
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You can't. Only monthly.
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Use some guys apps from the play store like traffic data, etc for daily limiting
☞★Swyped from drajax's Galaxy S3!!! *♂ツ
Hit thanz if I helped!
" Tomorrow .... its a brand new Today "

Check opera settings and check if it's trying to cache webpages on mobile data, and for the AndroidOS settings, disable sync for your google account and just sync it when you are at home manually, also check other sync settings, see if they are seen as "AndroidOS" not the app also disable Samsung account sync.
And on a limited plan be sure the mobile data limit is set to make sure there are no unexpected fees.
And finally, on the data usage page press the menu capacitive button and check "restrict background data" this will ensure there is no data being transfered in the background unless you are on WiFi, for example your google account will not sync out and about, but it will once you connect to WiFi.

thank you for all these quick responses. To answer questions. I have since switched off background data as soon as i found out. T mobile website not yet able to show my usage to see if phone mistook wifi use for 3g. Opera turbo is supposed to shrink data before it gets to phone. It shrunk 1.7gb to 244mb goodness knows why so much. I was just browsing help forums. Is gt normal for 301mb of android os background to go on on day two ofowning phone?many thanks. Typed from tiny Nokia n8 screen

scotsmantom said:
thank you for all these quick responses. To answer questions. I have since switched off background data as soon as i found out. T mobile website not yet able to show my usage to see if phone mistook wifi use for 3g. Opera turbo is supposed to shrink data before it gets to phone. It shrunk 1.7gb to 244mb goodness knows why so much. I was just browsing help forums. Is gt normal for 301mb of android os background to go on on day two ofowning phone?many thanks. Typed from tiny Nokia n8 screen
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My usage from 14th Oct to today (so 2 days) is 198MB, which is including everything, background data is about 56.66MB, that includes Android OS, dropbox, skype and a few more apps.
Depending on the apps installed you could see some huge background data numbers. As for your browser I would swap Opera for Firefox or chrome, chrome for me has used 150KB background data for me and caching websites is only done over wifi by default.

Dont know if you're using Picassa as well? I've heard this can also be one of the culprits when syncing...
I dont use it myself so dont know..

Lol, sync Picasa album should be the culprit, turn it off
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on my i9305 i havent set any limits and only used 771mb in 10 days. and ive used the phone for updates etc

picasa raped me once.
just restricted its use to wifi.
luckily for you (and me!) T-Mobile don't charge anything if you go over limit and they still let you browse, email, facebook, tweet etc. only restrict streaming videos!

lozfromcorby said:
picasa raped me once.
just restricted its use to wifi.
luckily for you (and me!) T-Mobile don't charge anything if you go over limit and they still let you browse, email, facebook, tweet etc. only restrict streaming videos!
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Hmm restricting streaming videos would be a bad thing for me, love watching youtube on the bus lol

Many thanks for prompt replies. I have taken on board all replies to avoid this again. No more opera or background update on 3g. Thanks very much

[Q] Some unknown application is using a lot of packet data

My Samsung Galaxy Y GT-S5360 has Android version: 2.3.6. My phone isn't rooted.
Recently some unknown app is using my 2G packet data mysteriously. I am on a cheap internet plan, so this uses up good percentage of my data; though I can ignore it. But my phone becomes hot (~35° C) and obviously battery gets used up. The mysterious usage eats up data ranging between 4-20 MBs. I am unsure if it is random or just that I am lucky to notice this and stop it before it goes SPARTA.
To find out, I tried out various usage monitoring apps, but that none helped to find out which app uses the data. The overall usage in the monitoring app accounts to the used sum, but no signs of what app it is.
I just have Google account(with sync off for Picasa albums) and WhatsApp listed in my Accounts and sync settings. Both have been ON since the day I have this phone, but this thing is happening recently, so I cannot blame them. Also, I do not have much that'd get synced and use this lot of data.
I have disabled auto update of my phone and the Play Store apps.
Due to low internal memory, I have uninstalled all of the default app's(i.e Google Map, Talk, Mail etc) updates except Play Store.
For having a clear idea I will list down the apps whose services are ON on my phone:
WhatsApp
Rocket Player - com.jrtstudio.AnotherMusicPlayer
Assistant - com.speaktoit.assistant
Battery Solo Widget - net.maicas.android.batterys
Notification Toggle - de.j4velin.notificationToggle
DRM Content - com.sec.android.provider.drm
Software Update - com.wssyncmldm
Email - com.andoid.email - I do not use this. Never used it.
Google Services (2 processes and 3 services) - Cloud-to-Device Messaging service, NetworkLocationService, Google Message Service.
Messaging
SnsService
Time
SyncmlDS - com.smlds
Maps * 2 (dunno why, but I see 2)
Software update - com.sec.android.fotaclient
Swype
I had linked all the possible apps to their Play Store page for your convenience to know about the app if in case you didn't, the system didn't allow me to, it says I need minimum 10 posts, upon which I do agree.
I had a thought if the counter on my service provider's side is bugged, but I have seen the uplink and downlink symbols continuously lighted, I switch on my packet data and find a crazy amount of data getting accounted in my usage.
PS: I stay in Mumbai, India. I am on Aircel's GSM network.
Will be thankful if you can help me find a solution to this problem. I have tried to provide most the information that I thought would be helpful, please ask if you need more information.
Thanks for reading such big post.

none of those apps listed (if downloaded from the playstore) should cause large ammounts of data usage
Whatsapp out of all of them would most likely be the largest
If your phone is hot its most likey an app is running all the time stopping the phone from going to sleep (as long as you havent got the phone on charge as this will also stop phone sleeping)
you can use this app to see what app is stopping the phone from sleeping
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.uzumapps.wakelockdetector&hl=en_GB
All you can do is flash stock rom via odin and then re-test if you feel you have a rouge app

Bad Battery Life

Hey, so im an heavy user of Instagram and Telegram, i have many accounts within Instagram i manage and im using an Parallel App that enable me to have 2 Instagram accounts, Also im using an Telegram modded app with many accounts.
Those things DRAIN my battery, even when my phone is locked i lose 15% for 8 hours of not touching my phone.
Is there anyhow to make the battery better? I saw some awesome results for some of you.
Like disable Bixby, Any Instagram/Facebook Modded app that requires less battery or so?
Thanks!

Put the app to sleep mode and restrict background data.
Facebook is a big drain but I only lose about 2% ON Standby in 5 hours. I can also use Facebook for about 5 hours straight and still get 9 to 10 hours Screen on time.
Nearly all my apps are in sleep mode and restricted background data. Apart from Google, Gmail, Calendar and those that won't let me change the settings.

You probably gave Instagram and Telegram permission to ignore battery optimization when you installed the apps so they can provide instant notifications but Instagram, Telegram, and dating apps that provide instant notifications need to always be running in the background to do it and keep your phone from ever going to sleep--even when you aren't using it.
If those apps are excluded from battery optimization you need to choose whether instant notifications or battery life are more important to you.