Verizon vs T-Mobile (data hog) - Samsung Galaxy Nexus

I used to be in T-Mobile and switch to Verizon because of g.nexus.... i got the phone last Monday so its been 5days playing with this phone, I've notice that it consume a lot of my data for five days and I check the built in data usage and I've already used 1.12g.. I turn off all my email ,fb sync... I don't watch video just regularly checking mail and browsing some site..I also installed the onavo apps from market to tweak my data usage.
Can anybody confirm that there g.nexus also consume data a lot.
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I use less than 50MB in a day of heavy use...
But I use all wifi at home and any time I happen to be sitting in or near a starbucks etc.
It's ALL about usage pattern.

landrian18 said:
I used to be in T-Mobile and switch to Verizon because of g.nexus.... i got the phone last Monday so its been 5days playing with this phone, I've notice that it consume a lot of my data for five days and I check the built in data usage and I've already used 1.12g.. I turn off all my email ,fb sync... I don't watch video just regularly checking mail and browsing some site..I also installed the onavo apps from market to tweak my data usage.
Can anybody confirm that there g.nexus also consume data a lot.
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Are You In A 4G Network? You May Be Thinking Your Using A Little Bit Of Data, But In Actuality Your Doing Stuff So Quickly That It Consumes More And More.

I hardly use the lte only use 3g... my old galaxy vibrant from tmobile doesn't consume like that... but thanks for the comment.
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I read in some post that opera mini is good for browsing and it use small amount of data...and also the skyfire for video streaming...
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I left the Google+ instant upload on, and when I transferred all my pictures over to my Nexus, I didn't realize until 650mb later that they were all being uploaded. Now I have Google+ set to upload on wifi only.
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But besides that, I seem to be using the same amount if data as I did on my T-Mobile GS2
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Have you taken a look at Data Usage under settings? Isn't always accurate, but gives a pretty good example of what's doing what.
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Native89 said:
Have you taken a look at Data Usage under settings? Isn't always accurate, but gives a pretty good example of what's doing what.
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This is the first thing you need to do. The phone itself just doesn't magically suck data--it's one of your apps.
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When you got the phone and signed into your Google account did all your previous apps download? That will consume a lot of data.
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Are You In A 4G Network? You May Be Thinking Your Using A Little Bit Of Data, But In Actuality Your Doing Stuff So Quickly That It Consumes More And More.
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This is a misconception. 4G uses the same amount of data as 3G for the same task. It doesn't matter how much quicker it is. To use more data, you have to be doing more things, not the same things quicker.

I bought a non subsidized GNex with unlimited data on TMoUSA, so I don't even worry about how much data I use.
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Birdsfan said:
I bought a non subsidized GNex with unlimited data on TMoUSA, so I don't even worry about how much data I use.
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You will eventually get throttled.
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[Q] Tasker for Gnex

anyone know any good tasker profile for the gnex?? any profile that is useful for everyday life..or profile to make it like the s3 direct call ant etc.
There are lots of possibilities, what are you looking for it to do.
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I'm looking for like s3 direct call from the people app. Like open the app and click on the contact and put at your ear and it call
Or
Turn off 3g when certain app open that doesn't require 3g
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It is possible to them 3g off when it get bad signal. I have 3g on when screen on and 3g off when screen off.
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Assuming you're looking for battery battery life, I would recommend sticking to 3G permanently, rather than switching all the time (which takes up far more battery)...
There's a profile setting under net, phone where you can select when you want talk to be done in certain signal
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danger-rat said:
Assuming you're looking for battery battery life, I would recommend sticking to 3G permanently, rather than switching all the time (which takes up far more battery)...
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but if i keep it on the whole time, wouldnt it use more battery compare to turning on/off
unless turning on/off actually drain battery which i doubt
i'd agree that if you switch it on and off continuously, it will drain more. probably gotta create another connection with the cell tower, rather than maintaining it, i suppose. This is my guess, might be wrong.
But if you floor the accelerator and then lift your foot off, floor it again, that will burn through your fuel faster than if you just left it on
I used to think that leaving data on full time would kill my battery, but it doesn't seem to impact battery very much at all. You just have to make sure that you don't have a lot of things syncing all the time.
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So just leave 3g on full time. How about when playing games?? Leave on or turn off
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I don't play enough games to know if it would affect it or not.
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airkenada said:
So just leave 3g on full time. How about when playing games?? Leave on or turn off
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Depends. If the game is ad supported, yes, turning off 3g will affect a lot
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Question for you all: truly unlimited throttle

So about mud day yesterday, I was watching YouTube, all of a sudden everything started buffering no matter what video I watched. Downloaded a couple files and speeds were only 30kB/s. Didn't think anything of it. Thought it was the host. Didn't do much else but use tapatalk and noticed things were a but slow. Did a speed test and it shot up to like 300kB/s then hovered around 30-50kB/s felt that awfully strange.. as that's what would happen on my old throttle plan.
So I went to bed not thinking of it.
Got up this morning and speeds were the same. Stayed the same for the entire day til I got fed up and called T-Mobile. They "said" I wasn't being throttled. And after I *****ed they "reset" my phone on their network and things were back to normal.
Has anyone else experienced like symptoms? I'd hate to think they went this low to throttle us..
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Are you sure you have the truly unlimited 4G plan... Or the unlimited data with let's say 2gb, 5gb or 10gb of 4G data.
If you have the truly unlimited data then you shouldn't be throttled. But if you have one of the other three plans where they cap the 4G data then they throttle you after that certain point.
Or maybe t mobile was having issues with your tower and had to reset the connection?
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It wasn't just my area though, both s2 and s3 showed same speeds. And yes I have the truly unlimited.
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How much data have you used this period?
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This had to be all of tmobile last light because me and 3 buddies at work were all stuck on edge till 8 am
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Why is this posted in general? Not to sound an a$$ but yeah..
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You weren't being throttled. I'm in southern cali and had horrible speeds this morning.
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agtitan said:
How much data have you used this period?
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17gigs but that doesn't matter.
imtjnotu said:
This had to be all of tmobile last light because me and 3 buddies at work were all stuck on edge till 8 am
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well that reassures me that they weren't throttling me.
shahkam said:
Why is this posted in general? Not to sound an a$$ but yeah..
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And because I had general open in tapatalk and didn't realize it. Lol sorry I'm human.
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Lol no worries i just hate cluterred forums :/
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17 gigs? I really don't see how most people can go over 5 without tethering. I use my phone constantly and I've never gone over 2. Even with what I use on wifi, which might be another 2gb, is still not even 5gb's. So, I can only ASSUME you have been tethering, and they figured it out. That would explain the throttle.
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17 gigs? I really don't see how most people can go over 5 without tethering. I use my phone constantly and I've never gone over 2. Even with what I use on wifi, which might be another 2gb, is still not even 5gb's. So, I can only ASSUME you have been tethering, and they figured it out. That would explain the throttle.
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Get Netflix.....
tony yayo said:
17 gigs? I really don't see how most people can go over 5 without tethering. I use my phone constantly and I've never gone over 2. Even with what I use on wifi, which might be another 2gb, is still not even 5gb's. So, I can only ASSUME you have been tethering, and they figured it out. That would explain the throttle.
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You get 100 uses of tethering anyhow. Then they block you. But as psykhotic said get Netflix and watch HD movies and then tell me how much data you use. Not to mention you can download torrents via your phone. And I never use WiFi except for when transferring files to my phone.
But irregardless, it's unlimited, there shouldn't be a throttle period.
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Get Netflix.....
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Yes. This and gogoanime plus a movie streaming website.
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elesbb said:
You get 100 uses of tethering anyhow. Then they block you. But as psykhotic said get Netflix and watch HD movies and then tell me how much data you use. Not to mention you can download torrents via your phone. And I never use WiFi except for when transferring files to my phone.
But irregardless, it's unlimited, there shouldn't be a throttle period.
Yes. This and gogoanime plus a movie streaming website.
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What do you mean you get 100 uses of tethering?
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.....irregardless
I could certainly reach well above twenty gig with Tune in radio, Hulu, Jetflicks, and Netflix.
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I just streamed music to and from work and I used up 5gb in 2 weeks... now if you don't have a full time job and don't commute in traffic m-f then you won't understand
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No not 100 uses of tethering.
You can use 100 MB before the block you if you already used the work around on the software they have on the phone.
The program by default on the phone though will actually block you right away.
Unless you use a custom APN then you get blocked after 100 MB.
If you change your User Agent on your browser the the User agent of the phone and you won't get blocked.
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17 gigs? I really don't see how most people can go over 5 without tethering. I use my phone constantly and I've never gone over 2. Even with what I use on wifi, which might be another 2gb, is still not even 5gb's. So, I can only ASSUME you have been tethering, and they figured it out. That would explain the throttle.
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Just syncing my phone after a factory reset uses over 5.
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redhooka said:
Just syncing my phone after a factory reset uses over 5.
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Soooo.... why not factory reset while on wifi? I don't understand why people treat the network as a substitute for a home network?
And streaming music doesn't use that much data, you'd have to watch 8 or 10 movies on Netflix to hit a gig. Don't tell me you watch 10 movies a week on your phone. I feel sorry for your eyes.
It is the abuse of the system that will do nothing but raise data rates for all of us. Thanks alot people, enjoy your rerun's of Charles in Charge.
Netflix even on the phone does use more then that. A 2 hour movie would be about 600 mb for that one move.
I use around 25gigs lol
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any one else using a huge amount of data?

Lately my data use has quadrupled and I use WiFi about 90% of the time. I've used 65 % of my 10gb. I have a week to go. I just switched us to mobile share last month. I am wondering if I have something wrong with my phone.
What makes you think its you and not someone else on the share plan?
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Att gives a break down by device
Oh ya, forgot about that tool.
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Att thinks it may be my device and gave me a credit in case I go over. They'll be calling me in a couple out days to follow up.
They sure are being generous lately
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They sure are being generous lately
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Well a little history is in order I suppose.
I've never come close to my 3GB cap. When I started in mobile share, I signed up for the 6 GB plan. Within two weeks I was at 65% of allotted use, so I switched to 10GB. Two weeks later I was again approaching the limit. I don't stream video, or Pandora, or anything like that. Something in my device is constantly connecting to 4G I'm seeing dumps of 50-60 MB at a time when I know for sure I'm home and on wifi.
I've seen what you guys are have been talking about. I don't download music or anything just average use like Pandora, Facebook, and of course xda.... And where I used to use around 4 ro 5 gigs a month my last bill showed I had used 17.2 gigs. Glad I'm grandfathered in on the unlimited plan. But seems strange how data has went up so drastically but I haven't changed the way I've used this phone and I've had it since the day it came out.
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What rom are you running? I'm on rooted stock jelly bean. I've never seen data use like I am seeing
Serenity 1.2 note 2 port, and but have been running this rom a long while. I my data usage has just jumped up this past month by triple or more!
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That's what I'm experiencing as well.
I just noticed something. When connected to Wi-Fi I still see the 4g lte indicator. It didn't turn off until I switched on airplane mode then enabled Wi-Fi after I disabled airplane mode, the mobile indicator stayed off. I wonder if mobile data isn't shutting off when I have Wi-Fi enabled.
Did you install any new apps when you started to notice this happening?
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Nope. Just updated to rooted stock jellybean.
I tend to go through a lot of data but I went through 5 gigs one day
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I can confirm this on stock rooted JB...I've gone through 3 GB of data and I haven't even been downloading/streaming. If you use Avast! AV there's a network monitor that tracks your data usage. Mine says "system apps" are responsible for the heavy usage, but doesn't specify which apps.
Given a rooted device, BetterBatteryStats can track data usage with (theoretically - without knowing exactly what the problem is, this is an educated guess) a better breakdown of services than just "system data". Might be worth a try.
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Given a rooted device, BetterBatteryStats can track data usage with (theoretically - without knowing exactly what the problem is, this is an educated guess) a better breakdown of services than just "system data". Might be worth a try.
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Thanks I will look at that

Tmobile hspa+ goodness

Picture says it all lol
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I don't get it??? And I have a thread full of speed test posts.
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looks like someone got throttled. that's only time I've ever seen speeds that slow.
Well how much data have you used? Also, how far are you in your service month? Maybe try not using much, if any, data for a day or two and see if your speeds increase.
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Cyphers23 said:
Well how much data have you used? Also, how far are you in your service month? Maybe try not using much, if any, data for a day or two and see if your speeds increase.
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Sent from heaven.
Try switching to Sprint. That should work out /great/ for you.
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If you want help with this you can post more info maybe switch apn or something maybe a rom you're on, give us some info to help you...
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I get speeds like that sometimes, and I have unlimited data so its not throttled.. After a while the speeds go back up
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Looks like a spike that happens from time to time. Radio tower work, server work or a large amount of users using tons of bandwidth at once. Or well, all 3. Just play the waiting game with this and post back.
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Extreme data usage

Hello, so I've been I've been searching around and haven't come up with a definitive answer. I've had the s4 for a couple months now and have been using an excessive amount of data, when I haven't been doing anything out of the norm. With my s2 I had a5 gb plan and only got throttled once in awhile, but with the s4 my data has jumped tremendously. I've used almost 16 gb this month and 21 gb last month.
Android os is to blame for 6gb this month and 12 gb last month, all clocked in as back ground usage. Why? Wth is this phone doing to use so much data. . I have unlimited no throttling plan, but if I was still on 5 gb I'd be screwed. I just would like to know how I can stop this.
Thanks
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bobby3306 said:
Hello, so I've been I've been searching around and haven't come up with a definitive answer. I've had the s4 for a couple months now and have been using an excessive amount of data, when I haven't been doing anything out of the norm. With my s2 I had a5 gb plan and only got throttled once in awhile, but with the s4 my data has jumped tremendously. I've used almost 16 gb this month and 21 gb last month.
Android os is to blame for 6gb this month and 12 gb last month, all clocked in as back ground usage. Why? Wth is this phone doing to use so much data. . I have unlimited no throttling plan, but if I was still on 5 gb I'd be screwed. I just would like to know how I can stop this.
Thanks
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Its called tethering.
bobby3306 said:
Is called that's a wrong answer, as I don't use anything but hot spot which has its on use shown and only have 500mb.
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Dude, nothing on your phone, other than maybe a torrent client, can use 21 gigs of data without your consent. And since its saying "Android system" is responsible for the data usage, its you tethering. Period. You asked, so i answered.
What part of saying I don't tether other than hotspot which I'm limited to 500mb from Tmobile do you not understand? Also said I haven't increased use from my what ive done on the gs2 and actually there are several posts online of others experiencing this as well but no solution. I did ask but you surely haven't answered.
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LTE could be the answer it uses much more data to get data back to you faster.
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Your attitude isn't going to get anybody to help you. People are offering you advice, no need to be rude.
As far as your data, it can be many things. I would start by keeping track of each app's data usage over a few day span.
What towle is saying is right. We do this to try to help people. We don't get paid for this. We do this voluntarily, and if you have a bad attitude nobody will want to help you.
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Well try calling T-Mobile. They can tell you exactly the reason why your phone is using so much data.
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nicotheandroidguy said:
LTE could be the answer it uses much more data to get data back to you faster.
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Thanks for reply, I have been connected to Ite alot lately, but would that show as android OS usage thou? and its background data
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Do you happen to have/use Google Music/All access? Its been known to eat thru data and hit your cap in the matter of just a few days.
edit- BTW if you got to settings/data usage it'll tell you what apps are using the most data;
And another thing. Read the forum rules. No cursing. And be nice. This isn't our problem. It's yours.
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I have been having the same problem too. That is why I have been on Wi-Fi this month. I also do not tether or use Google music. I have talked to T-Mobile reps and I get the same response,"have you been using any Google applications or tethering." Any help would be greatly appreciated, Thanks.
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Adam0524 said:
Do you happen to have/use Google Music/All access? Its been known to eat thru data and hit your cap in the matter of just a few days.
edit- BTW if you got to settings/data usage it'll tell you what apps are using the most data;
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nope I don't stream music, no video, I only email, surf the Web, fb, eBay, I do have to upload Alot pix for work, but no more than I've done b4 the gs4.
And I know about data usage, the most is getting clocked in under Android os
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And another thing. Read the forum rules. No cursing. And be nice. This isn't our problem. It's yours.
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Actually Alot of people have this problem, while searching b4 coming here I've read serval baffled users. Some not lucky enough to have unlimited data and getting poundedwith $800 phone bills for overages.
Like I saidI'm not here to argue, but don't tell me how im using my phone. If you can't handle being told your suggestion isn't the cause than you need not reply.
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PeƱaran561 said:
I have been having the same problem too. That is why I have been on Wi-Fi this month. I also do not tether or use Google music. I have talked to T-Mobile reps and I get the same response,"have you been using any Google applications or tethering." Any help would be greatly appreciated, Thanks.
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yes, this is Def a real issue, tethering is Def not the cause for one thing it shows as it's own data consumption for hot spot Tmobile Gave me the same and kept telling me you must be doing this and that. Would say nope sure haven't. There final conclusion was well we don't know. But on the gs2 I never exceeded 6gb, if I still had the same plan id been throttled the second week
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bobby3306 said:
yes, this is Def a real issue, tethering is Def not the cause for one thing it shows as it's own data consumption for hot spot Tmobile Gave me the same and kept telling me you must be doing this and that. Would say nope sure haven't. There final conclusion was well we don't know. But on the gs2 I never exceeded 6gb, if I still had the same plan id been throttled the second week
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Yeah it looks like a software bug that shows Android system using alot of data so that could be play music all Access, tethering, or a bug.
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Install custom recovery and flash a better (& smaller) google apps package. Here it is. Any ROM. Any device. http://goo.gl/g9nBgZ enjoy. ((If you're running android 4.2.2, here's a direct download link to the latest gapps file. Its called yourzgapps. http://fs1.d-h.st/download/00065/sMh/YourZgappsXS-4.2.2-2013.08.14.zip simple. Download, reboot recovery, & flash + reboot + hurray!! ))
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Install custom recovery and flash a better (& smaller) google apps package. Here it is. Any ROM. Any device. http://goo.gl/g9nBgZ enjoy. ((If you're running android 4.2.2, here's a direct download link to the latest gapps file. Its called yourzgapps. http://fs1.d-h.st/download/00065/sMh/YourZgappsXS-4.2.2-2013.08.14.zip simple. Download, reboot recovery, & flash + reboot + hurray!! ))
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I'll give it a shot and see if it helps any thanks
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nicotheandroidguy said:
Yeah it looks like a software bug that shows Android system using alot of data so that could be play music all Access, tethering, or a bug.
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I've gone thru and froze all those apps in hopes of diagnosing that being the cause, ive froze 1 at a time and Monitored the use trying to determine if one was causing it. There all froze and have been for week and Android os still used 1.4gb in a week
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bobby3306 said:
I've gone thru and froze all those apps in hopes of diagnosing that being the cause, ive froze 1 at a time and Monitored the use trying to determine if one was causing it. There all froze and have been for week and Android os still used 1.4gb in a week
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I've got no clue what else it would be sorry.
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