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Android Data Usage...

Can't believe I had a text from o2 stating I had used all my 500MB data in only two weeks...without hardly using the internet away from wifi, ok I have had my data and auto update on until now.
With Windows Mobile I never got close to the 500mb per month, why does Android use so much ?
Am I doing something wrong?

THUDUK said:
Can't believe I had a text from o2 stating I had used all my 500MB data in only two weeks...without hardly using the internet away from wifi, ok I have had my data and auto update on until now.
With Windows Mobile I never got close to the 500mb per month, why does Android use so much ?
Am I doing something wrong?
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The majority of apps that you use with ANDROID run in the background and need this turned on for it to work.
If you want to minimise this impact go to the settings, wireless networks and change the background data option to off so that the apps cannot use this all the time. You usually have a constant connection to data when you have android.
This is from what I noticed having got a similar message from Vodafone, once I took the steps above then it stopped but I am arguing with Vodafone atm anyway as I signed an 'uncapped' contract, they are trying to screw me.

I had the same issue with t mobile, two months running I hit my 1gb limit and had my already speed limited access severely cut until next pay date. On t mobile though, if you buy an Android phone you automatically (or should) be put on a unrestricted speed 3gb plan, I sent them a few emails blagging I needed more data usage due to 'work' and they happily upgraded my allowances on speed and usage happily, I'd recommend trying the same, bit of advice though, try getting an email direct to o2s tech support rather than customer services, they usually just try and fob you off, best of luck!

[Q] Help—Phone using large amounts of data

I got a text from o2 on Sunday saying I'd used 80% of my data allowance—a huge amount since Tuesday!
I've disbaled data for now while I try and figure out what's gone wrong.
I checked the stats on the phone under network usage and it seems that 'Media' has been using the most (nothing else comes close). This has DRM Protected Content Storage, Download Manager, and Media Storage in the package.
I've been on the same ROM for ages (Rod's MIUI) and haven't installed any news apps recently…
Anyone have this problem before or know what's gone wrong??

Have you been using Pandora or another online radio app? Streaming movies?
Sent from my Nexus One using XDA App

Use Network Counter by mapeapps to get an idea of what is using data...

I use Google Listen Alot by the end of the month I used 2 GB minimum of data

SPB Mobile Manager will tell you which apps are download/uploading and how much

I've got an app called Monitor (it came with the ROM) that lists the apps and what they've used. Download Manager is listed as having used it all.
I haven't been streaming anything unusual no.
Does anyone know what Download Manager would be used by? I've disbaled it's 3G access and turned my data back on, I'll see how things go...

josemedina1983 said:
I use Google Listen Alot by the end of the month I used 2 GB minimum of data
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For me, a single 3 hour podcast ( I <3 listen) is 90+ meg. Add a little bit of twitter and facebook into the mix, 2G is easy to break in one billing cycle.

This is just silly now. I've disabled Download Manager with firewall but it's still using data, apps must be using it and my monitor isn't logging it as the app but that process.
I've had data turned off all day apart from a couple of times to check mail but I've just checked and I've somehow used over 50MB!
Can anyone help?

I think I've figured out what's happened if anyone is interested.
I've had the Android update alert popping up for ages now but I was waiting for Rod to update his ROM before I installed a new one. It's gone now so I'm guessing it's been trying to download the android update in the backgroud whenever I've had a signal.
Serves me right to not updating to a ROM that gets rid of the update alert I guess.
This is gonna be a fun month with no data allowance…

Are O2 that stringent about their data caps or are you a frequent abuser? It pisses me off no end that caps are even in place, especially on 'unlimited' plans, but when they get all pedantic it makes me rage!
FWIW, Vodafone have always been good to me if you're ever thinking of switching. And i abuse the hell out of my data allowance

I've used the full 500MB so I've turned data off, rather not face a large bill...

I've updated ROM from Rod's 2.5 to 2.9 as it had apparently removed the updater. I did this today, in the last few hours Media Storage has used 265MB (on wifi as I still have 3g disabled) even though I've been doing nothing.
Anybody have any clues as to what's going on? I've tried googling with no luck. I did see a couple of similar sounding things and mention of a patch to disable OTA updates... anybody know anything about it?

[Q] Mobile Data on Nexus 4

I purchased a new, unlocked, Nexus 4 several days ago. I had a new SIM card installed by T-Mobile the same day. Since I have a plan with a 2 GB mobile data download, I want to keep an eye on my mobile data use. I set up the entire phone using only WiFi, and the data download info under WiFi shows it. The Mobile data also continues to grow.....not by much...only 5.24 MB over three days. Other than several phone calls I am not aware of any data downloads via the mobile phone. Can anyone help by telling me what gives? Thanks.

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I purchased a new, unlocked, Nexus 4 several days ago. I had a new SIM card installed by T-Mobile the same day. Since I have a plan with a 2 GB mobile data download, I want to keep an eye on my mobile data use. I set up the entire phone using only WiFi, and the data download info under WiFi shows it. The Mobile data also continues to grow.....not by much...only 5.24 MB over three days. Other than several phone calls I am not aware of any data downloads via the mobile phone. Can anyone help by telling me what gives? Thanks.
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Not sure what caused that but even if you go over your 2GBs of data you won't be charged, you will just be reduced to edge speeds.

phasr241 said:
I purchased a new, unlocked, Nexus 4 several days ago. I had a new SIM card installed by T-Mobile the same day. Since I have a plan with a 2 GB mobile data download, I want to keep an eye on my mobile data use. I set up the entire phone using only WiFi, and the data download info under WiFi shows it. The Mobile data also continues to grow.....not by much...only 5.24 MB over three days. Other than several phone calls I am not aware of any data downloads via the mobile phone. Can anyone help by telling me what gives? Thanks.
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an app or two working in the background, checking in possibly. maybe even a badly behaving app. you can turn all mobile data off.. main phone settings, data usage, mobile data off(will tell you here what apps are using how much data).

Thanks to all for the help....
simms22 said:
an app or two working in the background, checking in possibly. maybe even a badly behaving app. you can turn all mobile data off.. main phone settings, data usage, mobile data off(will tell you here what apps are using how much data).
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My thanks to everyone who helped me.
I found this answer to fit my situation best. Per your advice I found what apps are using the mobile data, and each one to what extent. I also found that I can turn my mobile data off. I had no idea that certain apps periodically use the mobile data in the background. Obviously this is my first smartphone. Thankfully, I have several Nexus 7's to have a least a little experience with this device.

phasr241 said:
My thanks to everyone who helped me.
I found this answer to fit my situation best. Per your advice I found what apps are using the mobile data, and each one to what extent. I also found that I can turn my mobile data off. I had no idea that certain apps periodically use the mobile data in the background. Obviously this is my first smartphone. Thankfully, I have several Nexus 7's to have a least a little experience with this device.
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first smartphone, huh.. i feel that youll probably have more questions. if you do get stuck somewhere, feel free to pm me, ill help where i can.

[Q] Little data roaming despite disabled

I have now for the second time the problem that I have many little data roaming connections while abroad, despite data roaming is deactivated in Android. They are so small (always exactly 30 kB, which seems to be the smallest quantity my provider is billing) that it's virtually impossible to produce them with normal traffic. I always have much larger data connections, even without using my phone (at least 100kB up to 1MB and even more if I use it, of course). In this case I had 9 of those connections while little more than 24h. Last time when I had this problem half a year ago, I had those connections for an entire week with the same frequency (~10 per day).
In both incidents there was an OTA update available for the Nexus 4. This time I received the update notification at some point during my stay abroad. I had wifi connection most of the time, so I assume the update was downloaded using the wifi connection (the roaming traffic is too small for the update by far). I did not install the update until I returned back home. Last time my phone wasn't able to download the OTA update, since I had a custom rom installed at that time. It is possible that it tried downloading the OTA update for the entire stay back then (and even before and after - I noticed increased traffic over normal mobile internet at home). I switched back to the stock rom a while ago and thus was now able again to receive official OTA updates.
This time I was staying for 8 days in Chile, last time was around one week of Italy. My provider is Orange Switzerland.
What can be the cause of this? I am absolutely certain that data roaming was disabled in Android both times. Could it be that Android somehow bypasses the disabled roaming when checking for OTA updates? But it would have to do it when already knowing there is an update, so what's the point of doing this? Or could it be a provider initiated connection to notify the phone of the update? What can I do to prevent this from happening in future?
Thanks for any input!
Martin

Are you disabling mobile data and roaming or just roaming?
You could also try deleting or changing your default apn to prevent this from happening.
When I travel outside of Canada, I do not incurr any roaming charges when I turn off mobile data and roaming,

Thanks for the reply. I just disabled data roaming. I am abroad quite a lot, apart from these two incidents I never had any unexpected roaming charges. It must be somehow connected to the OTA update.
I will try disabling mobile data next time, maybe also disabling updates. But I also would like to understand how this can happen. Would it actually be possible that my provider initiates data connections to push the update notification? On the other hand my phone doesn't make those connections all the time, so it cannot just be the regular checking for updates. If it just received the notification via wifi, it would have downloaded the update via wifi immediately. So there must be some kind of mechanism I do not understand.
I also noticed that some of those roaming data connections occurred during the night, when I actually had wifi in the hotel for sure. This doesn't make any sense to me at all...

I don't want to take a chance so I disable all data connections, including roaming, as well as sync, software and app updates, and anything else I can think of that might try to access the data network.

Disabling sync etc. is not an option, since I want to use it via wifi. Besides, this must be either a bug in the Android update mechanism (which is persistent over some versions apparently) or my provider is doing something stupid. In the first case I would like to inform the devs, in the second case I won't pay for the data roaming, since I wouldn't be responsible for it.
Any ideas how to find out which one is true? Is here by chance anyone who either
a) has received a bill with many very small data roaming connections despite roaming was disabled while an OTA update was rolled out, or
b) was on the contrary abroad while the OTA update was rolled out and received the update notification via wifi, and has not seen any such roaming connections on the bill?
Thank you very much!

Wow, I can't even imagine worrying about overages and roaming charges... T-Mobile FTW!
Which custom ROM are you running? If it's not stock, there shouldn't be anything that has to do with an OTA, unless that functionality is not removed for some odd reason. Does the data usage utility show any useful information?
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Which custom ROM are you running?
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I am on stock right now. During the first incident I ran some stock ROM, but I no longer remember which one. The data usage shows me Android OS would have transferred a 15.65 KB.
Edit: T-Mobile has no roaming charges if you are outside the US?

Have the same problem. Just one week ago I was on holiday. They also charged me twice for a 30 KB connection on different days (Orange Swizerland). I first thought it's maybe because I installed a custom rom but it also happened to my brother whose phone is 100% stock.
Did you found a solution?
Regards

Interesting. So it is an Orange problem after all...
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Did you found a solution?
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Not really. I now disabled the OTA update service (using the disable service app), so this cannot happen any more (I believe). Also I will switch to another provider at the end of this month, so if Orange is doing something strange, I will no longer be affected.

Same thing happened to me this month on my Nexus 6P on android 7.1
It used between 0.00mb and 0.04 mb (according to my data usage logs from the telephone company) (Telus)
Any other person figured out how this could happen and what's the solution?

had this last month. On Oreo 8.1 Stock + root Essential Phone (see here for details) https://forum.xda-developers.com/essential-phone/help/data-roaming-charges-despite-disabled-t3796715
Anybody has an idea?

[Q] System Apps East Up My Mobile Data

Hey guys! This time round i really need your help!
Today i opened up the Data Usage in settings and found out some strange apps that ate up 2G!! of my phone data! (See attachments)
Anyone knows what are those? and how to fix it?
It's really urgent.. I dont want to pay extra bills since it's already too expensive,sigh...
THANKSSSS

I had a similar existence this week. One week into my month, I had used 1.5GB. Looked in data usage. It tells me that FlickFolio had used almost a GB of mobile data, all background. I haven't used FlickFolio in months, and I checked my settings in it, it's set to only upload through wifi. Really weird.