Hi folks,
I run across an app to control the use of APN connection when I'm not using it and I found it really saves battery.
After using wifi at home for a while I discovered my N1 battery lasts way longer since APN is automatically disabled so I found one app to disable APN while I'm not using it outside my home's Wifi.
Just for the note it's free, app link:
http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-latedroid-juicedefender-pFAx.aspx
Thanks im at 65% after 11hrs 40 min on wifi...lets see how it goes today for me when I leave my wifi network.
Running Bionix Fusion, JACS OCUV w/ Voodoo & Colourfix, Zeam Launcher
I've noticed that recently (2 days ago) that my vibrant is constantly using the 3g data connection. Absolutely non stop. Not a big deal for me money wise since I have unlimited data, but it's destroying my battery just sitting on my desk.
I'm trying to figure out if it was a recent application install that did it, so I threw on droid wall and blocked pretty much everything that has no business connecting to 3G when I'm not using the phone. I did however leave open applications that either have no internet access in their permissions, have a fixed sync schedule (facebook 4 hours, etc.), or are a core android process (I dunno what ones to block or not). The kicker is that I don't even know if droidwall will show me proper results and eliminate the 3G activity icon from flaring up.
Is there any means to logs internet access by applications? I've done some searching but haven't turned anything up.
Thanks.
Hi,
I am using my N7 most of the time with my Galaxy S2 as a mobile hotspot. On The S2 I have a data limit of 3 GB per months. On the S2 I use 3G Watchdog to measure the traffic. This is great to see when I will get over my limit and it also shows me how much of this traffic was used by WIFI Tethering (which unfortunately this is much, much more than I thought). But of course it doesn't show me which apps on the tethered device used the traffic and to make things even more complicated, I also use my Transformer Prime sometimes on this Hotspot, which makes the situation even more intransparent
So, I am searching for an app to install on my N7 and on my TF201 which measures the net traffic and especially shows which apps cause the most traffic, BUT ONLY when the tablet is using the S2 Hotspot. Has anyone seen such an app ?
Thanks,
Hermann
The system one tracks All the WiFi usage, and since Android can't tell whether you're using a hotspot or mobile hotspot, I doubt if there's an app as such.
Also this is probably more attention grabbing in the Zappa and themes section of the n7 I think
Can anyone explain to me why tethering uses more data? I am replacing my head unit in my car with a Nexus 7. While I plan to have plenty of downloaded podcasts available, I also want the option of using streaming music services. When tethering I am using my phone as a WiFi hotspot, Nexus is running the latest version of SmoothROM.
So, for an experiment I set up tethering on my phone, checked the current data useage, opened Slacker on the tablet and played music for 15 minutes. In that time the Tablet (according to the phone data useage) consumed about 24MB of data. Did the same but then using Slacker on my phone, this time after 15 minutes, only 7MB of data. At that rate I would only get about 30 hours of music before starting to run into the ridiculous 3GB cap. While 30 hours is a lot, I have 6+ hours of commuting a week. As I wrote above, I plan to have a good number of downloaded content available, but am curious as to the difference between what on the face of it, should be the same.
Looking in a little deeper, on the phone it shows 5MB of foreground data, and 2GB of background data, on the tablet its about a 50/50 split showing 12MB for both foreground and background. I checked the settings, and the only differences were that I had Overnight refresh on the tablet switched on (not that it should make any difference as first, it was not overnight, and second I don't have any downloaded content for it to refresh) and off on the phone. On the phone I also have audio quality set to Best, but only set to Good on the tablet.
If someone can explain the difference to me I would appeciate it.
Thanks.
Edit: So upon further research it seems that Slacker changes the bitrate / codecs it uses when using wifi vs cellular networks. Even though the phone is using cellular data, the Nexus thinks its connected to wifi and so requests the higher bitrate. Wondering if there is a way to force it to use one vs the other.
Tethering via Bluetooth seems to convince my N7 that it's on a mobile connection.
naiku said:
Edit: So upon further research it seems that Slacker changes the bitrate / codecs it uses when using wifi vs cellular networks. Even though the phone is using cellular data, the Nexus thinks its connected to wifi and so requests the higher bitrate. Wondering if there is a way to force it to use one vs the other.
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This was going to be my suggestion, glad you figured it out. Some other apps have ways to adjust the data quality, not sure about Slacker. FYI, if you have an Android ICS+ phone, you can use Bluetooth tethering. It uses less power both for the phone and the tablet, and since it's not wifi, it might use a lower bitrate codec. Dunno.
Your phone is doing crap in the background. Its common.
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khaytsus said:
Some other apps have ways to adjust the data quality, not sure about Slacker. FYI, if you have an Android ICS+ phone, you can use Bluetooth tethering. It uses less power both for the phone and the tablet, and since it's not wifi, it might use a lower bitrate codec. Dunno.
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Slacker has an option to change the quality, but it appeared to make no difference (I had both set to the lowest setting). My phone does have ICS, so I will give tethering via Bluetooth a try and see how that goes.
BlackFire27 said:
Your phone is doing crap in the background. Its common.
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But the phone used less data than the tablet? Did you mean to write that the tablet is doing more stuff in the background? regardless, I looked specifically at the data useage of the Slacker app only. Which ruled out anything the phone/tablet may be doing in the background.
So, tried again this afternoon tethered via Bluetooth (which was a pain to get working for some odd reason). This time 15 minutes of Slacker useage only increased the data useage on the phone by 15MB. I am guessing that along with Slacker the tablet was trying to do background updates as well, I plan to turn on the minimize background updates later and try again. Either way it would appear Bluetooth streaming is the way to go.
Does the Data usage item still appear in Settings on a non-3G Nexus 7? If so, in that menu you can tap the menu button up top and choose "Mobile hotspots". Here you can select which wifi networks are in fact mobile hotspots rather than actual unrestricted Internet connections. When you are connected to these, at least in theory it will tell apps to stick to the low bandwidth features.
I am running Android O on Nexus 5X.
VPN, SSH, Proxy, all are blocked by my college and I have tried all sorts of things but nothing works. So, my only option for playing CSGO MP online is to use my mobile data (LTE). The problem is the background apps, system or otherwise, consume data and I start getting high ping rates. Like game will run fine for some time then in between it will get high latency. So, I want to disable all mobile data usage except that consumed by tethering. I have tried enabling data saver, and blocking for individual apps doesn't work.
So, there a way do it?