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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.
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?
zarch1972 said:
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.
I've tried a few different ROM's the past few days... went from Liquid to 2-3 other then back to Liquid and now on AKOP M5...
Ever since leaving Liquid the first time I've noticed that my Picasa Web upload/sync is no longer working automatically.
I can manually push/share pictures to my Picasa folders, but where it used to be automatically almost instant after taking a picture now it doesn't do anything at all.
Anyone else having this issue?
Strangely enough I have the exact same issue on my dad's SGS II, but with an added twist where it doesn't seem to be able to access any of the Albums at all (no manual upload even) and says cannot get account info or something.
Yes picasa sync is with some issues lately, and it is staying at the top of apps that spend my battery cause it keeps syncing for hours....
ive made another thread but got no answers about this...
supposedly it's the facebook sync hack that's the culprit. Check out the release notes for the latest aokp which references it.
get an AOSP rom without the FB hack and picasa sync will work again.
Hello All
I have a GNex "yakju" updated to Android 4.2.1 (stock, non-rooted). After the update, I have seen that Android OS started taking a big chunk out of my mobile data plan, around 40-50 MB per day. Previously, I'd hardly see any usage from this process.
I have started to investigate this behavior by using tPacketCapture. So far I've managed to see a lot of traffic to google servers (173.194.35.163) and the hourly exchange server sync, but it's encrypted and I don't know how to extract the TLS key from the phone (not sure if it's possible). In one hour there were about 3.3 MB of data transferred (I'm running on 2G to conserve battery), with no background applications.
Right now I'm rerunning the test with Auto Sync Data off, to see if it's not some malware, but it's highly unlikely (almost all my apps are from the play store) and will rerun the test with Backup to Google turned off.
Anyone got any insight on this? I could post the pcap file somewhere (I've scanned it and I'm pretty sure there's no unencrypted personal information in there), but I don't know if it helps.
P.S.: I've seen a lot of similar threads on here but they relate to other phones, and the majority of suppositions were hinting towards the bloatware of the stock ROMs
Turning off sync should do the trick.
But I do hope to hear from you.
So I turned off sync and it seems to do the trick (only ~200KB in one hour and all traffic was from a facebook app that does not obey sync rules - flipster). I don't like having sync off since it means no more notifications for new e-mails, facebook or contacts, and also these services were turned on before the 4.2.1 update.
I'm trying a new run with sync on but disabling everything that I don't care for (photos, google+, backup, currents, notes). Looks good for now (~56KB in 10 minutes). I'll see what happens.
Another odd thing I saw in the initial run - data came in chunks of packets roughly 7 seconds in between (a lot of packets, including SSL handshake, at 300 seconds, then a few packets, then a lot of packets again at 307 seconds, then at 314 etc.).
Monitoring, will post results ASAP
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Hello All
I have a GNex "yakju" updated to Android 4.2.1 (stock, non-rooted). After the update, I have seen that Android OS started taking a big chunk out of my mobile data plan, around 40-50 MB per day. Previously, I'd hardly see any usage from this process.
I have started to investigate this behavior by using tPacketCapture. So far I've managed to see a lot of traffic to google servers (173.194.35.163) and the hourly exchange server sync, but it's encrypted and I don't know how to extract the TLS key from the phone (not sure if it's possible). In one hour there were about 3.3 MB of data transferred (I'm running on 2G to conserve battery), with no background applications.
Right now I'm rerunning the test with Auto Sync Data off, to see if it's not some malware, but it's highly unlikely (almost all my apps are from the play store) and will rerun the test with Backup to Google turned off.
Anyone got any insight on this? I could post the pcap file somewhere (I've scanned it and I'm pretty sure there's no unencrypted personal information in there), but I don't know if it helps.
P.S.: I've seen a lot of similar threads on here but they relate to other phones, and the majority of suppositions were hinting towards the bloatware of the stock ROMs
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Maybe you've already done this but have you tried going into the sync settings for you google account to see if any of the services are failing to sync? For me the browser sync had been continuously failed for 2 weeks before i realized it.
I did have some issues with calendar and Google Photos (I think) not syncing, but I thought it was because I cleared the cache of Google Framework Services in an attempt to get the update to 4.2.1 earlier. Not sure if it helps, since I don't remember seeing any sync errors these days. I've stopped Browser sync now, I'll see how my data usage changes.
vladk2k said:
Hello All
I have a GNex "yakju" updated to Android 4.2.1 (stock, non-rooted). After the update, I have seen that Android OS started taking a big chunk out of my mobile data plan, around 40-50 MB per day. Previously, I'd hardly see any usage from this process.
I have started to investigate this behavior by using tPacketCapture. So far I've managed to see a lot of traffic to google servers (173.194.35.163) and the hourly exchange server sync, but it's encrypted and I don't know how to extract the TLS key from the phone (not sure if it's possible). In one hour there were about 3.3 MB of data transferred (I'm running on 2G to conserve battery), with no background applications.
Right now I'm rerunning the test with Auto Sync Data off, to see if it's not some malware, but it's highly unlikely (almost all my apps are from the play store) and will rerun the test with Backup to Google turned off.
Anyone got any insight on this? I could post the pcap file somewhere (I've scanned it and I'm pretty sure there's no unencrypted personal information in there), but I don't know if it helps.
P.S.: I've seen a lot of similar threads on here but they relate to other phones, and the majority of suppositions were hinting towards the bloatware of the stock ROMs
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I faced the same problem, issue was somewhat with auto backup of data, sync of app data & people details in google account,
BUT the main culprit in my case was uTorrent application.
Even though there was no torrent added to it, i didn't even opened it,
it was using 1GB data daily on WiFi and in data usage it was coming under Android OS usage. I uninstalled it, everything went back to normal.
So try to look for such apps which eat up your data in background, it may not be an error of android OS as such.
Hope this helps, Press THANKS if it did help you
Enjoy
Hy,
anyone saw that the new gallery update brings "Browse your photos and videos in the cloud" functionality?
Now I sure dont see any option for this but at night I got a notification from Coud that "duplicates has been deleted"...
I dont know where I can find this features, but I sure dont want any photos/videos uploaded to cloud without my permission... So if anyone have any info on this, I would really appreciate it.
Best regards
X2
I have an htc one m7 that I just updated to the latest version, after a reboot it shows the same message "gallery cloud" duplicate... etc
It didnt ask for my permission, I have the htc sync disabled, cant seem to find the option to disable this POS. Not happy.
I just noticed this morning the same behavior. I am trying to find out where this service is coming from, why it is running without my permissions and why it is putting my personal information in the cloud somewhere and I don't know where or how to get it, shut it off, or change it. It has really pissed me off to no end. I am hoping someone has an idea.
Just came here looking for the same answer.
A bit of a **** move if HTC is uploading peoples pics without asking first!!
I've emailed HTC via the play store app and asked how do we turn this feature off. I'll post if I get an answer...
Chiming in. just saw this, not pleased. I'm thinking of disabling the app till a solution is found.
I might bin it too, don't want this feature using up my data allowance...I've got about 4000 pictures on my phone...
yea wtf
Same issue. my phone keeps giving me a Cloud Gallery notification every 10 minutes or so saying it deleted duplicate photos. What in the world HTC was thinking, we may never know. But they need to let us turn this off because I show it using my data. Not cool HTC.
To add to it, I open my gallery and its cycling through all of my photos. Constantly. I click a folder, then the 'highlights' starts fast-cycling through every single photo in the folder. Not like a preview as it used to (which was annoying). This needs to stop. As someone else mentioned, I also have thousands of photos on my phone and this is driving me nuts.
CrazyCypher said:
Hy,
anyone saw that the new gallery update brings "Browse your photos and videos in the cloud" functionality?
Now I sure dont see any option for this but at night I got a notification from Coud that "duplicates has been deleted"...
I dont know where I can find this features, but I sure dont want any photos/videos uploaded to cloud without my permission... So if anyone have any info on this, I would really appreciate it.
Best regards
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HTC Cloud Gallery does not upload any of your files to the cloud. It only indexes whatever you have on Dropbox, GDrive, FB, Flickr, only after you have agreed to link to those sites. If you see photos found by Cloud Gallery, those could be uploaded by Dropbox or GDrive automatically. You need to check their settings. Again, Cloud Gallery is a "read only" indexing service.
Started getting the same notification since the last few days -- and the worst part is that there doesn't seem to be a setting anywhere in the gallery app or in the system settings allowing to configure this "Cloud Sync" or turn it off all together.
And now I really don't know if my pictures got "synced" somewhere in someone's cloud Really annoying. Uninstalled the gallery app altogether with Titanium Backup root uninstall.
adri72 said:
Started getting the same notification since the last few days -- and the worst part is that there doesn't seem to be a setting anywhere in the gallery app or in the system settings allowing to configure this "Cloud Sync" or turn it off all together.
And now I really don't know if my pictures got "synced" somewhere in someone's cloud Really annoying. Uninstalled the gallery app altogether with Titanium Backup root uninstall.
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I have the same issue. Haven't found a solution yet but I wanted to let you know that freezing/uninstalling gallery will stop the cloud syncs but there are side affects.
I froze it and all seemed normal until I tried to set a contact image. Freezing gallery somehow disrupted the ability to link images to contacts. I tried it from within the contact app and through a third party gallery app and it wouldn't work either way. I had to defrost the HTC gallery in order to set the contact image.
There maybe other side affects but that was the only one that I ran into.