Hi all,
Android OS seems to be using about a gigabyte a day of WiFi traffic. Does anyone what this might be, could it be a false reading, and could you guys please check if you have similar readings. (Under Mobile Data, enable Show Wi-Fi usage in the menu).
I've searched for the solution already and people mentioned Google backup, auto-uploading of photos, various syncing or uploading services etc... And all of that is disabled since I've never used it. I'm not noticing anything else suspicious including battery life so I'm pretty confused right now.
Thanks.
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Hi,
hope this is ok for this forum, but is there any app which monitors all apps and their indvidual data usage? Over the last couple of days I seem to have used a lot of data (way more than I usually do) and was wondering whether a particular app is responsible.
I have turned off all sync (background as well) but still data usage is mounting.
Anyone any ideas?
Thanks for anything you can suggest,
Rich
For the last couple of week my phones system apps have been using appx 10-15Mb per day in 3G data and I have no idea why.
It's chewing up most my allowance and I'm going to have to disable the APN soon if I can't find out what's causing it.
I know it's a system app as i'm using TrafficStats Lite but it doesn't tell me exactly what the source of the problem is. It lists the below under the section that is causing me the problem:
Contracts Storage
Dialer
People
com.android.providers.applications
Plugin sample
com.android.providers.userdictionary
Hi,
first of all try market://search?q=pname:com.curvefish.apps.trafficinfo
shows trafffic per app
maybe you try to disable background sync?
a other option would be droidwall, so you can enable every app that should get internet access and the others wont get it - needs root.
cya
TrafficInfo doesn't give me any better info than TrafficStats Lite.
Also, disabling background sync doesn't tell me why the system is suddenly using up 10-15mb a day when it has never used anything like that in the 10months i've had it.
Droidwall will be useful in the short term until I can find out why my system apps are using so much data though.
Thanks.
Hi,
Sorry to bring up this old thread, but since a month or so I have been noticing the exact same thing on my HTC Legend. Got a 500MB monthly limit, never got even close to consuming it all... but in November, data usage got crazy and I hit the limit.
3G Watchdog shows me these apps as the top data consumer: "People", "com.android.providers.userdictionary", "Dialer", "Contacts Storage" and "com.android.providers.applications". These all show up as one combined entry, and for example have consumed 9MB only yesterday.
Anyone know what exactly is going on here?
Thanks for any advice,
wwwald
wwwald said:
Hi,
Sorry to bring up this old thread, but since a month or so I have been noticing the exact same thing on my HTC Legend. Got a 500MB monthly limit, never got even close to consuming it all... but in November, data usage got crazy and I hit the limit.
3G Watchdog shows me these apps as the top data consumer: "People", "com.android.providers.userdictionary", "Dialer", "Contacts Storage" and "com.android.providers.applications". These all show up as one combined entry, and for example have consumed 9MB only yesterday.
Anyone know what exactly is going on here?
Thanks for any advice,
wwwald
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Ask in section for HTC Legend, not in the one for the desire.
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Ask in section for HTC Legend, not in the one for the desire.
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Sorry for that, will do.
Not sure if this is a bug or something, but my Android OS usage is extremely high from 40-50%. Also the Android OS always is downloading something, my wifi icon is always downloading when on wifi, but it doesn't when I'm on a mobile network. Is anybody else having the same issues? Also my auto-sync is only for my Google account which includes Gmail, Calendar, Contacts and Google Music. See the attachments for usage statistics.
Install BetterBatteryStats (there's a free xda version available), do some reading on how to use it, and you'll find your issue easily.
Make sure all bloatware is removing from your phone, that did the trick for me.. I get 22-24 hours of usage.. on 4G of course.
I have the same problem here. Android OS uses most of the battery, whereas display only uses 20-30%, kind of weird
But the phone still gives me power for all day long
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All my bloatware is removed, I got factory unlocked so I don't have the usual carrier stuff. Think I'm going to root and flash the AOSP rom onto my phone.
Its an error in reporting with ICS, it is not actually draining.
Hi everyone, it is the first time I post to this forum and any help will be appreciated.
As you can imagine I am having problems with battery drains and wakelocks on my Samsung Galaxy S4 on T-Mobile. The phone is Rooted. The battery drain started on October 3rd or 4th. Before that everything was working correctly (as far as I know). The battery drain all pointed to Google Services. (At first it was Google Play Services, but now it is just plain Google Services) Up to 35% or more of my battery plus making my phone really hot. Research said it has to do with the location services and google now.
To avoid that battery drain I followed a lot of tips and the only one that kind of helped (if I want to keep google now active or my GPS running) has been: Disabling the network and wireless location option. And removing from my places any one I had saved associated to a specific network or wifi. This reduced and almos eliminated my NLP and NLPCollector wakelocks. But now I have an EntriesRefresh_Wakelock that is keeping my phone awake about 30% of the time (Wakelock Detector). Although this is not consuming as much of my battery as before, this is clearly not the way it should work.
Can anybody explain a bit more what is this EntriesRefresh_Wakelock and how it can be eliminated? I appreciate your help.
Thanks,
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Hi everyone, it is the first time I post to this forum and any help will be appreciated.
As you can imagine I am having problems with battery drains and wakelocks on my Samsung Galaxy S4 on T-Mobile. The phone is Rooted. The battery drain started on October 3rd or 4th. Before that everything was working correctly (as far as I know). The battery drain all pointed to Google Services. (At first it was Google Play Services, but now it is just plain Google Services) Up to 35% or more of my battery plus making my phone really hot. Research said it has to do with the location services and google now.
To avoid that battery drain I followed a lot of tips and the only one that kind of helped (if I want to keep google now active or my GPS running) has been: Disabling the network and wireless location option. And removing from my places any one I had saved associated to a specific network or wifi. This reduced and almos eliminated my NLP and NLPCollector wakelocks. But now I have an EntriesRefresh_Wakelock that is keeping my phone awake about 30% of the time (Wakelock Detector). Although this is not consuming as much of my battery as before, this is clearly not the way it should work.
Can anybody explain a bit more what is this EntriesRefresh_Wakelock and how it can be eliminated? I appreciate your help.
Thanks,
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The EntriesRefresh_Wakelock is a google search/now wakelock. You can temporarily fix it by force closing Google now after you use it, and also by stopping auto sync, if you really don't need Google Now to be updated often. Other than that im trying to come up with a real solution myself.
Recently mdnsd has started appearing in my batter usage as one of the top battery offenders. I've done some googling and have found that everything from an application for a drone to location services issues to corrupted files on the sd card can cause problems with mdnsd.
I have formatted my ext sd card and turned off location services with no luck. I've also dumped many non essential apps.
Is there someway I can find out what app is triggering this service so that I can fix it?
I'm pretty much on the same boat: read about the same possibilities and tried the same tricks, but mDNSd usage keeps climbing as the day goes.
Coincidence or not, all the images in a specific folder on my device's internal memory were mysteriously deleted about the time this bug appeared. I'm using a '14 Moto X BTW.
Overall battery life doesn't seem very affected though, if at all. Guess it would be good if someone with a rooted phone could gather some more info on these stats.
TBueno said:
I'm pretty much on the same boat: read about the same possibilities and tried the same tricks, but mDNSd usage keeps climbing as the day goes.
Coincidence or not, all the images in a specific folder on my device's internal memory were mysteriously deleted about the time this bug appeared. I'm using a '14 Moto X BTW.
Overall battery life doesn't seem very affected though, if at all. Guess it would be good if someone with a rooted phone could gather some more info on these stats.
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Something to do with firefox for android? https ://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ show_bug.cgi ?id=1215012
I do use Firefox occasionally, although sync is off.
mDNSd does appear when I'm on wifi, but usage is negligible. When I'm on cell data though, it'll keep climbing the stats long after I've closed Firefox, up to the top of the list.
It's not exactly a battery leech, but it does make a dent. Good to know Mozilla is on top of it.
http://www.haesbaert.org/openmdns/mdnsd.8.html
A little info about what it does. I found I was getting it too. I also found I didn't have Greenify set up properly and Firefox was not included. It is now. We'll see.
Greenify works on non-rooted phones now.
I had dismissed Greenify for unrooted devices before, didn't seem "elegant" enough, required user action or an unsafe screen lock etc. But looked into it again because of this very issue, and boy, it really does wonders on a locked device too! One or two "hibernate now" taps a day is enough to make all backgroung creeping apps behave.
For mDNSd though, it doesn't seem to do the trick, as it kept sucking on my battery yesterday even though Firefox had been stopped and properly hibernated with Greenify. I haven't launched Firefox today, and mDNSd doesn't show in stats.
Scrolled quickly through "all apps" looking for something related to mDNSd that could maybe be stopped through app info, but it's probably more like a service. Will try to avoid Firefox for now until Mozilla issues a patch.
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Something to do with firefox for android? https ://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ show_bug.cgi ?id=1215012
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Yall should read this. In the last 2 comments they say Firefox 42 is causing it. The commenter said he had to uninstall Firefox to stop it. I have too. I'll be giving Chrome another try. Or maybe it's time to check out all the available browsers again. Thanks @elircorajan for finding it.
I went to the play store and gave it a bad rating explaining about the bug. Maybe if everybody did it would get Mozilla's attention.
Update: I'm giving the stock browser a try. It seems quite a lot better than it used to be.
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TBueno said:
I'm pretty much on the same boat: read about the same possibilities and tried the same tricks, but mDNSd usage keeps climbing as the day goes.
Coincidence or not, all the images in a specific folder on my device's internal memory were mysteriously deleted about the time this bug appeared. I'm using a '14 Moto X BTW.
Overall battery life doesn't seem very affected though, if at all. Guess it would be good if someone with a rooted phone could gather some more info on these stats.
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I had the download folder delete itself right infront of my eyes, was downloading on Firefox. I'm on an S6 edge
Thx to the person who found the issue to be Firefox. I spent about 15 minutes searching for MDNSD before I found this.
I just deleted Firefox. I've been using Chrome, and a little Opera, anyways. I really miss the Android browser for the text flow feature.....
After uninstalling Firefox Beta, the mdnsd usage disappeared and the battery life seems to be much better.
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razvu said:
After uninstalling Firefox Beta, the mdnsd usage disappeared and the battery life seems to be much better.
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Not only that, the occasional lag I was having seems to be gone. I've settled on using Chrome for now. I've also got rid of Firefox in my computer and I'm using Chrome there too.
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Same thing for me (Samsung Note 4). Battery drying up in less than a day, with mdnsd at the top of the list. Uninstalled Firefox and battery back to normal - average a day and half or more.
Firefox 42.0.2 was released yesterday (December 2) and supposedly fixes this issue.
Having the same issue but have never had Firefox always used chrome so not sure what else could be causing it.