Hello,
I haven't been using my phone today, this is just with very light browsing and leaving it idle.
NetCounter reports 700MB+ data usage already for "Today". How can this be? In the past 7 days it says I've used 5GB. What is stealing all this bandwidth?
I haven't installed many applications, can you guys think of anything that comes on the phone by default that would use this much data?
Something appears to be constantly syncing. Do you have Exchange installed? If so try removing it and adding it back.
I just captured a tcpdump of the network traffic and will load it up in wireshark to see if I can identify anything out of the ordinary.
Alright,
It's the facebook client. It's busy syncing all my friend's pictures and recent uploads :-/
andrew500 said:
Alright,
It's the facebook client. It's busy syncing all my friend's pictures and recent uploads :-/
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wow, that's a lot of updating. I'm going to take a stab in the dark and say your battery life sucked lol
Glad you got it figured out, and that I don't have facebook set up.
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Why is it BB apps update instantly and Android ones don't?
Examples
Facebook notifications aren't instant. You have to refresh to see em.
Emails, same thing or it you can set it up to check every 15 min.
BB if someone emails me, I get it as soon as it's sent. Same for facebook.
Are their apps or ways to change this?
buffnutz1 said:
Why is it BB apps update instantly and Android ones don't?
Examples
Facebook notifications aren't instant. You have to refresh to see em.
Emails, same thing or it you can set it up to check every 15 min.
BB if someone emails me, I get it as soon as it's sent. Same for facebook.
Are their apps or ways to change this?
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I use Gmail and it is instant push notification. I don't have to sync anything. I use exchange for my work email which is also push notification and it is instant without any syncing required.
As far as FB goes, I have mine set to notify me through my gmail account and as soon as I receive a comment I get an email instantly.
I also came from a BB and personally will never go back. Good luck
I found the BB market not very useful..but I did have a VZ curve without wifi.
I had issues with syncing working well with task killing..
Once you upgrade to android 2.2 get rid of advanced task killer and automatic task killer..
I've had no issues with syncing since..
buffnutz1 said:
Why is it BB apps update instantly and Android ones don't?
Examples
Facebook notifications aren't instant. You have to refresh to see em.
Emails, same thing or it you can set it up to check every 15 min.
BB if someone emails me, I get it as soon as it's sent. Same for facebook.
Are their apps or ways to change this?
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Ohh yeah and another thing that I hated about my BB, the thing had virtually no memory on it and I had to constantly deal with a memory leak issue that was basically a known factor with BB's.
I was constantly cleaning and clearing cache on a daily if not 2-3 times a day basis.
My Dinc has never had any issues with this and in fact has plenty of memory to go around.
The only other problem i could complain about on my Dinc is the battery issues but I have been using the Seidio 1750 battery, and have rooted the phone and am running SetCPU and also turned off "Background data always on" and my battery life is awesome now!
Im running the latest version of QIK for the EVO. In doing some reading I have read that leaving QIK running drains the battery faster then having it not run. HOWEVER when I click SIGN OFF, I get a message "Signing off will remove your QIK data from this phone" .. what does that mean?? when I sign back in, will it put my linked contacts back??
Is this program actually a battery drainer??
Thanks...
I'm not sure about the sign off issue, but I tried installing the very newest version of Qik, and it drained my battery like no other app. Not even close either. And I knew it was the app because I changed nothing other than installing the app, and I was losing closer to 15-20% an hour.
are you sure? I havent seen anyone else report this...
I seem to be having some very poor battery life myself. The only thing I can think of is that recently (days) ago, I installed the Qik app to try it since a friend of mine just purchased on Evo. I've just uninstalled it to test this theory.
I'm glad to see it wasn't just me. I fail to see why qik needs to have a background task when it isn't running - it has no reason to notify me about anything. I uninstalled it and my phone is back to making it through the day.
I wouldn't be surprised. I used to have Fring (another video chat app) installed on my phone and that was a battery drainer. I'm guessing these video chat apps have to stay open and 'listen' for a potential incoming call or video chat session.
abanh said:
I wouldn't be surprised. I used to have Fring (another video chat app) installed on my phone and that was a battery drainer. I'm guessing these video chat apps have to stay open and 'listen' for a potential incoming call or video chat session.
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Sounds about right. Can't receive a phone call if the phone isn't on, right?
Anyways...
The reason it's a battery drainer is because not only does it have your screen on constantly, but it's also using the front facing/rear facing camera, recording video, up streaming the recorded video, and down streaming video. That's when you're using it. When you're not, it runs in the background for potential video calls, like stated above. It's using your data almost constantly; sending and receiving small packets that tell it "No requests yet!"
As for the data loss, what it's saying is that when you sign out, you're signing out. Your User ID and Password is no longer saved, and from what it says, you're videos and general user data will be erased from the phone. However, all of the videos you've taken are saved on their website, and is accessible from their app once you sign back in. If you choose to sign back in, the app will read your contacts like it did before.
I have Qik installed, and my battery is unaffected. I just sign out when I close it that way it won't run in the background. If all else fails, you can always just manually end the process using .Free Advanced TaskManager. It's available in the market place, and is a huge help. I love it. Look for the Icon with a blue phone inside a blue gear. There are several apps with similar names, and it may not show up as the first one.
Hi,
My daily 3g useage today is currently at 64Mb, which is just crazy. I haven't used the internet, you tube, etc; and on checking watchdog 3g pro it indicated that it is my Mail that has received this amount. But, that's impossible, the mail size -when check on laptop through Outlook- is around 3 Mb.
Has anyone got any idea why the mail seems to think it has received 20 times this? Is it the Mail app, or Watchdog 3g pro?
I am running Modaco r11 rom, with most of superfluious components removed.
I don't think it's syncing issue Facebook or any other app. Could another app to receiving this data and it is assigned to Mail.
Just a bit confused. The same thing happened in December, but I think that was related to Advanced Task Killer Froyo, which I uninstalled and haven't had the problem since. But this does seem to happen every two to three months - wierd phantom data.
Cheers
Bumping this as again have had crazy 3g usage - 122mb in 1 day, but same as before, from mail. No way have I used that much, but Orange confirmed it. Only change us that I am.using insertion Rom.
Any ideas why my mail app seems go crazy every do often & download 'ghost' data (idea: is it stuck partially downloading something? In a kind of mobius data loop?)
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If I was you I would sort the problem out. Delete the account then add it again. It seems pretty weird though.
Swyped...
default refresh values at peak times are like every 15 mins.... have you changed this?
I personally don't auto sync enabled.... only refreshes when I open
Cheers for the replies.
Hmm, I might try deleting the accounts and reinputting them. But it has happened before, and I seem to be the only one with this problem. Could it have something to do with my email provider (which is also my ISP)? Anyone got any technical knowledge about this type if thing?
The prob with manually refreshing the email is that I'm self employed and out and about alot, so need the email frequency set quite regular so I am not constantly looking at phone - it's set for every 15 mins; that said, I hadn't even set it download whole emails.
Could it be something from rooting? But that should make not difference. Or is there any malware that could be doing this...as you see, grabbing at straws here...
Oh, and the Rom I am using is Insertcoin not insertion (damn that predictive text)
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Hi everyone,
I wondered if anyone could should some light on google+ for me?
I've had for the GN for a little over a day nowand for whatever reason I thought I'd check my data usage. Google+ has somehow managed to use 296mb even though I don't use google plus at all.
I've figured out that the camera does an auto upload, so I have disabled that, but is there anything else that I can turn off to help keep this data usage down to a minimum because 250mb per day is pretty heavy...
Any help would be hugely appreciated as I'm completely new to android.
Thanks all.
Probably you have activated the automatic picture upload to Google+? This could be managed within the app. Under settings you could manage that this upload will only be done by WIFI or you could completly stop this upload!
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floateruk said:
Hi everyone,
I wondered if anyone could should some light on google+ for me?
I've had for the GN for a little over a day nowand for whatever reason I thought I'd check my data usage. Google+ has somehow managed to use 296mb even though I don't use google plus at all.
I've figured out that the camera does an auto upload, so I have disabled that, but is there anything else that I can turn off to help keep this data usage down to a minimum because 250mb per day is pretty heavy...
Any help would be hugely appreciated as I'm completely new to android.
Thanks all.
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I think the only killer is instant upload of pictures and videos. Did you even take 200+Mb of pictures? Everything else is pretty harmless apart from synching contacts and that wouldnt take up much. Just set your uploads to only go over a wifi connection and it should be fine.
Mark.
Thanks for the replies guys
I think i took a total of six pictures just messing with the camera. I think ill stay off the camera for a day and see if the data calms down.
Ive turned auto upload off so hopefully itll sort itself out anyway.
It was probably just initial contact/data sync and then picture instant upload. If you turn off instant upload in the settings you'll be fine.
You can also just turn off background data for G+ in the data use settings if you're not going to use it.
I've had Google+ issues too today.
I haven't got instant upload ticked, but now that i'm home and on wifi, google+ is say here rattling away at 4% CPU and appears to be constantly downloading something, but god knows what as I've been home 4 hours and its not stopped.
"System Panel" app shows my Network on the phone constantly downloading upto 1mb/sec. I confirm this is Google+ by force stopping the app and the network usage and CPU drops to zero.
I do have a rather large Picasa collection, but as these are already with Google, i'm not sure why it would do anything with those....
I've rebooted the phone since the force stop and all is quiet, no downloading.
Opened Google+ again.... a little download when I went into photos, but all quiet.
Opened Gallery, its shows all my albums, but no extra traffic or CPU.
I wonder if Google+ just got its knickers in a twist somehow?
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I do have a rather large Picasa collection, but as these are already with Google, i'm not sure why it would do anything with those....
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It'll be syncing them to your gallery then. They've probably all appeared in there now.
Data usage of google plus
I have the same problem with my Galaxy Nexus.
I found that a backup of all my pictures in picasa is automatically kept under:
/data/media/Android/data/com.google.android.apps.plus/cache
which appears as "USB storage data" in Google+ App info.
This backup starts even if the "Make available offline" option in the Gallery is not selected and since I have many pictures in Picasa, the total amount of storage used is almost 2GB !
In order to avoid this undesired synchronization of google+, I had to disable the "Sync Google Photos" under my "Sync Settings".
I also removed by hand the above directory to recover the (precious) space in my phone.
Unfortunately this is causing the side effect that the instant upload is not anymore available for photos and videos.
It would be highly desirable that an option is introduced to disable this google+ synchronization.
Hey guys,
2 days ago I noticed my battery life went to complete crap. Today I hit my mobile data limit. Checked things out, it looks like the Exchange Service is going crazy. Only changes I have made to the phone in the last week were marketplace updates. mainly marketplace itself (to google play) and I downloaded angry birds. I don't believe either is causing this.
Any tips where to look?
There are some known issues with Exchange ActiveSync and battery usage that have been resolved in 4.0.4. If you are not running this, you should upgrade—perhaps it will resolve your issue.
CompletelyNumb said:
Hey guys,
2 days ago I noticed my battery life went to complete crap. Today I hit my mobile data limit. Checked things out, it looks like the Exchange Service is going crazy. Only changes I have made to the phone in the last week were marketplace updates. mainly marketplace itself (to google play) and I downloaded angry birds. I don't believe either is causing this.
Any tips where to look?
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Can you check "Days to sync" option for Exchange account? May be you set it to "All" and it is downloading whole data from exchange server. It is "Two weeks" by default.
I'm running Franco kernel M2 and AOKP M2. Franco was just recently updated but otherwise this data issue just appeared out of nowhere.
Sync was set to 30 days. No major changes in email usage happened either.
Right now I've got the background data disabled to prevent it but obviously thats a temporary solution... :s
Is it possible for apps to just not go to sleep and keep trying to download nothing? Maybe it was just a temporary glitch. I'll turn the data back on and see what it does.
Do you think the data is most likely from attachments? If a data wipe/reflash doesn't work, I'd consider asking about your security settings for whomever hosts your exchange server. I'm unsure the specifics of the security settings server side in terms of android devices, but in theory "monitoring screen-unlock attempts" could drain battery and up data.