[Q] Absolutely insane "android os" data usage - Samsung Galaxy Nexus

I've been trying to wrap my head around this.
Running yakju 4.0.4 on a Roger Gnex. Before this I never noticed anything out of the ordinary. But I never came close to using all my data plan. Then I received a warning of my usage. so I crunched the data screen to get some day to day numbers... This is just "android os" mobile data, not what its also pulling on wifi.
19th to the 25th combined 8mb,
Then on May 26 it shot up to 42mb.
27th = 56mb.
28th = 49mb.
29th = 47mb
30th = 55mb
31st = 45mb
1st = 45mb
2nd = 42mb
3rd = 41mb
4th = 59mb
5th = 63mb
6th = 73mb
7th = 76mb
8th = 81mb
9th = 80mb
10th = 80mb
11th = 65mb
12th = 74mb
13th = 80mb
14th = 75mb
15th = 46mb
16th = 53mb
17th = 398mb!! (now I know why I started dying 1/2 way through the day)
18th = 583mb!!!
19th = cutoff for my period... (barely made it under my 6gb plan)
I deleted anything that was updated or installed around May 26th as well as June 17th. It didn't work. I continued to chew through around 500mb of data a day. I did a factory reset, it seems to help but android os was still 80-90% of my data usage and it was around 100mb a day. So I installed a new version of the os, and for a couple days I though I might be in the clear. And then today my phones dead before dinner and there's 400mb sitting under "android os" yet again!!! not to mention what's under wifi. And the days not yet over.
I am at a loss as to why this is happening and what the heck is using android os. I don't want to have to cripple my phone by un-installing everything and turning off features, but I can't survive too many 500mb data days. I'd be out of data in a week, not to mention it's killing my battery...
Any ideas on how to figure out what's using "android os" so I can kill / fix it?

Trying to add pics but its not going well....

Not sure if you need root to run "top -m 15" in the terminal. OS Monitor should work though. Unhide system processes and sort by CPU usage.
Then you'll see what processes are frequently running. Some people think Google Backup Transit can go rogue for data in the Android OS process agglomeration.
You'd imagine a rouge process would show up fairly regularly if you watched it...

Woooooooow. That's insane.

I'll take a pure guess here and say Gallery or fackbook syncing of photo's that you are taking?

Jezz_X said:
I'll take a pure guess here and say Gallery or fackbook syncing of photo's that you are taking?
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Originally I thought so as well so I turned sync to wifi only and also tried with it off. It didn't appear to help. No matter what I can't account for the amount of data we are talking about. I don't have that many pics on the phone to account for a single day, let alone concurrent days.
I just un-installed every single app (the few that I re-installed on the new os) I have on the phone to see if that makes a difference. Try an empty phone and see what happens...

Does Gmail sync properly (check if there is any exclamation marks on any of the syncs)?
Swiftkey'ed on my CM9 Galaxy Nexus

Herman76 said:
Does Gmail sync properly (check if there is any exclamation marks on any of the syncs)?
Swiftkey'ed on my CM9 Galaxy Nexus
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Never seen anything like that. It looks normal far as I can tell...
Just for the heck of it I installed 4.1 jb, see if that solves the problem...

Made it 12 hours on mobile and only used 2mb of android os data. Looks like 4.1 could be my solution to this problem.

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ICS data usage reporting accurate?

I apologize if this has been brought up before, but the data reporting in ICS is almost double what the myverizon app is showing.
Just wondering if the usage shown by Verizon is going to catch up. If not I got a lot more streaming I can do
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do you have a task killer installed, if so then you may be killing the myverizon tracker their for its not collecting all data
You need to set the data usage to match your billing cycle dates than it should match. I have found that it needs set manually.
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Don't know about VZ, but comparing Tmo's website and ICS's data meter, they're almost identical (ICS was a few MB ahead)
The 'Total Data Usage' meter appears to be relatively consistent with my operators readings (Sunrise/Switzerland).
On the other hand, the 'per app' reading appears to be completely off the wall. (See this thread.)
etbrandt2 said:
I apologize if this has been brought up before, but the data reporting in ICS is almost double what the myverizon app is showing.
Just wondering if the usage shown by Verizon is going to catch up. If not I got a lot more streaming I can do
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Measured by your phone. Your carrier's data usage accounting may differ.
My carrier (Unitel, Laos) is reporting me using just over double the data ICS is reporting.
I'm on O2 in the UK and the ICS data is about 85 mb behind the networks calculation ?
Two days ago I was pushing 2GB and now suddenly I have only used 608 MB? How can that be explained?
Has anyone seen their usage suddenly go down for no reason?
I'm in the middle of the billing cycle. I've done nothing to the phone.
Now I've lost all faith in the data usage meter.
GR
GPSRider said:
Two days ago I was pushing 2GB and now suddenly I have only used 608 MB? How can that be explained?
Has anyone seen their usage suddenly go down for no reason?
I'm in the middle of the billing cycle. I've done nothing to the phone.
Now I've lost all faith in the data usage meter.
GR
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You remember to move the slider to correct date? It doesnt do this by default so it looks like your data usage dropped everytime you go to the data usage section.
Yes, it doesn't matter where the sliders are set, I get the same result.
It appears to have forgotten about one week's worth of data, my first week. I got the phone on the sixth and now it is showing zero data used until the 12th.
My usage cycle is set for 27th-26th, so it doesn't make any sense to me that it would suddenly forget about six days of data.
It's forgotten about the data used on the wifi side before the 12th as well.
Any ideas?
GR
For me the "data usage" on the phone was reporting slightly higher than VZW, but imo that's better than slightly lower!
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You need to set the data usage to match your billing cycle dates than it should match. I have found that it needs set manually.
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There is no way to set it manually! If I am wrong please correct me.
GPSRider said:
Two days ago I was pushing 2GB and now suddenly I have only used 608 MB? How can that be explained?
Has anyone seen their usage suddenly go down for no reason?
I'm in the middle of the billing cycle. I've done nothing to the phone.
Now I've lost all faith in the data usage meter.
GR
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Yes I have experienced the same! I was around 3GB, my phone went completely dead on a Sat night, when I plugged it up in the car and tried to boot it back up it apparently didn't have the juice to boot all the way. I let it charge for a while, booted it, all my SMS tones had been reset and so was my "data usage"!! Sucks!
Well, I have let the battery run down until the phone turned itself off several times, but I hope this is not causing this problem. That would be a pretty significant bug!

[Q] Data usage for weekly plan - help

Hi, I'm trying to create a widget/progress bar to show weekly cellular data usage. The built-in fields can give me my Monthly data usage just fine, by using #NTMTHM29# which resets on the 29th of each month. However, I'm going to be moving to a weekly data plan and I'd like to know how I could monitor my weekly data usage. I can see that there is an option to display "Cellular data usage current week" which I assume will reset every Monday, but if my data plan starts say, on a Thursday, how could I cover this?
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
OK, I've managed to suss this out. As usual it's quite simple
For anyone who's interested, this is what I've done.....
7 rich text modules (one for each day of the week)
Let's say your weekly data allowance starts every Thursday....
Your 'Thursday' module would be:
$#DE#=Thu?#NTMTH1#$
This is saying "If today is Thursday, show me today's cellular data usage."
Your 'Friday' module would be:
$#DE#=Fri?#NTMTH2#$
Which says "If today is Friday, then show me the last 2 days' worth of data usage."
and so on, until you get to Wednesday which will show the last 7 days. Then the whole process starts again on Thursday and the data usage starts again.
There will only ever be one module that displays, as only one has met its' condition (i.e. the day of the week), all the others will show nothing. Works perfectly.
Dead easy to put into a progress bar too for a visual indicator.

[Q] Where does the data usage value come from?

I'd like to put an indicator of some sort to show me the current month's data usage on my mobile network and found a variable that could retrieve this number: #NTMTHM6# where 6 is the first day of the month in the cycle. However, the 26 mb it reports is significantly off the 360 mb Android reports (which I confirmed with my cellular provider and is accurate).
Of course, I did my research on these forums and learned that if you clear your cache this number is reset to 0 so I can only assume this is why I have such a large discrepancy. I don't remember if I did clear the cache but 26 mb sounds real low and could be only one day's usage.
Where does Zooper get this usage number? It looks like it could be pulled out of the OS since Android reports it so couldn't Zooper just fetch this number? Is there any way to set the correct value or will I have to wait till the next cycle to get accurate readings?

Android 7 Background Processes using 230GB per month

-->Update: using "network connections app" today I found "skmsagentservice" , on three occasions in the list, used so far a gigabyte each ( just within hours today). Any thoughts as to what thats about, how to stop, virus/hacked?
I have an S7 active that is using about 230GB per month in background processes. Theres not much on the phone, just twrp, and a few apps. Apps only used 500 Mb during each of the months. I tried malwarebytes, comes up clean.
Anyone know what could cause this, or how to stop it?
I have not hard reset because I do not want the phone to update the os im using now which is currently 7.0 Feb1, 2017 sec patch. All auto updates turned off, system update off, android auto updates off.
Is there an app that will say exactly what background process is sucking up so much data, and what it is doing?
Android 7 Feb 1, 2017 Sec Patch
-->data usage --> wifi data usage --> at the top "android os" --> foreground= 64kb, background = 230 GB (not kb, not mb)

Sudden high foreground mobile data usage - Filter Provider 4.0.18

[UPDATE]
Contacted Samsung Support - the app is related to Knox in some way, and the spike in usage happens to coincide with the latest software update. I still don't understand the high foreground data usage, but will monitor.
I have a 1GB data plan and never bothered to enable a relevant data usage alert because I never go over that.
This morning, however, I got a system notification to let me know I'd used 2GB of data (default setting I think). Well that's peculiar, I thought to myself.
Without exception the app with the highest mobile data usage is TuneIn Radio (650 MB for August) because I listen use it every day on my commute to and from work. But now I have a very close runner up, "Android OS" (581 MB for August: 568 MB foreground, 12.69 MB background).
That doesn't tell me much, and when I go one level deeper the app in question is actually Filter Provider V4.0.18. Now, not only do I have no idea what that is or what it does, but for previous months it never exceeds 30 MB. And more oddly, background usage is always higher than foreground.
I've attached two screenshots, one from August and one from July and shows the huge difference
Hoping one of the very smart people on XDA can enlighten me

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