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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.
About a week ago my phone started downloading 'something', about 80 megs of something, every night. It must happen in the middle of the night, I've never been awake to witness it happen. When I look at my phone in the morning I have no system messages, nothing indicated in download manager, basically no hint that anything had happened. I would not have noticed had I not been checked my data usage with my provider.
3G Watchdog attributes it to "Downloads / Media Storage / DRM Protected Content Storage / Download Manager". I have no idea what is afoot here. I don't remember much changing in the last week except for the Market update that was pushed out. No ROM changes or anything radical like that.
Look for advice how to isolate this and make it stop.
HTC Desire Z running Gingervillain 1.5
Thanks in advance.
There's nothing like a podcatcher that runs at night? Or maybe updates? Hmm...
Not that I am aware of. And I hoped that 3G Watchdog would tell if that was the case (I only installed it last week, to try and sort out this problem.)
I have my market updates set to manual. I'm not subscribed to any media services as far as I know. And this is the same amount of data every night. Is there any possibility I'm received an OTA Android update or something that my phone doesn't know what to do with?
I tried *#*#4636#*#* but could not figure out how to get any bandwidth usage stats out of it, so for now this is all the detail I have.
twelvebit said:
About a week ago my phone started downloading 'something', about 80 megs of something, every night. It must happen in the middle of the night, I've never been awake to witness it happen. When I look at my phone in the morning I have no system messages, nothing indicated in download manager, basically no hint that anything had happened. I would not have noticed had I not been checked my data usage with my provider.
3G Watchdog attributes it to "Downloads / Media Storage / DRM Protected Content Storage / Download Manager". I have no idea what is afoot here. I don't remember much changing in the last week except for the Market update that was pushed out. No ROM changes or anything radical like that.
Look for advice how to isolate this and make it stop.
HTC Desire Z running Gingervillain 1.5
Thanks in advance.
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If you don't have any podcast apps installed and set up to run, or anything obvious like that) you could always mount your media card on your computer and sort by date to see what's new.
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If you don't have any podcast apps installed and set up to run, or anything obvious like that) you could always mount your media card on your computer and sort by date to see what's new.
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Thanks, good idea. I just did a complete search via USB connection (I assume this only checks the SDCARD and not the phone's internal memory?) and I can't find anything new from the last few days. There were no new media files except for a few photos I had taken, and no large system files or anything I couldn't explain.
It definitely doesn't seem like I'm lost 80 megs of storage every day, I probably would have noticed that (maybe.)
twelvebit said:
Thanks, good idea. I just did a complete search via USB connection (I assume this only checks the SDCARD and not the phone's internal memory?) and I can't find anything new from the last few days. There were no new media files except for a few photos I had taken, and no large system files or anything I couldn't explain.
It definitely doesn't seem like I'm lost 80 megs of storage every day, I probably would have noticed that (maybe.)
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Only thing I can think then is to check your sync settings and make sure all the apps you've installed since this has happened are from trusted sources (a few botnets have shown up in Android recently); that and go through your list of installed apps to see if there's anything there that you didn't install (note: there is a rogue app that is listed as 'System' but doesn't have the default Android system icon out there).
Does the app that caught this distinguish (damn, how do you spell that word?) between something actually being downloaded and just general network traffic? Your device may just be hammering the towers for a better signal or something like that.
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Actually, there's a means to do this in Spare Parts
Dial *#*#4636#*#* (or launch Spare Parts if you have it installed)
Click Usage Statistics
Click Battery history
Click the Other usage dropdown
Click network usage
Since this is happening at night, you'll need to reboot before bed and then select "since boot" to see what happened overnight.
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Only thing I can think then is to check your sync settings and make sure all the apps you've installed since this has happened are from trusted sources (a few botnets have shown up in Android recently); that and go through your list of installed apps to see if there's anything there that you didn't install (note: there is a rogue app that is listed as 'System' but doesn't have the default Android system icon out there).
Does the app that caught this distinguish (damn, how do you spell that word?) between something actually being downloaded and just general network traffic? Your device may just be hammering the towers for a better signal or something like that.
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I just eyeballed all of my applications and I don't see anything I don't recognize. Nothing called System. A few system-ish things where I don't know what they do, but they all have Android icons.
I did have all untrusted applications selected because I installed the Amazon app store a while ago.
The Watchdog app seems to indicate the downloaded data is happening all at once, it's not cumulative data from the day, I can update it real time and see what's happening. Moreover, nothing has changed with my location or phone usage, and I normally would have 1-2 megs of data usage a day tops.
Tonight I will shut of 3G data when I go to bed and I'll see if it generates any kind of warning overnight. Good thing I have a big data plan...
twelvebit, I ran into the same problem you had as my phone was also downloading 80-90 megs data every night for about three days before I noticed it. I also narrowed it down to Download Manager. Another problem I had with it is that it uses a constant data connection at every phone bootup. I had to manually force stop Download Manager at every bootup so that it'll free up the data connection again. I pretty much went through my phone and SD card and there was no new files of any type. I don't use any podcast apps. I also didn't install any new apps before this started. After a couple of days of trouble shooting, I gave up and just did a complete wipe. The phantom data stopped after I reinstalled a new rom and hasn't pop back up since. I was running CM 6.1. Sorry I couldn't be of much help.
I just turn my data off at night because for some reason my phone would do the same. I even got rid of my weather widgets because I couldn't figure the problem out. For weird reason android does that mystery downloading.
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So I left data off overnight, and as soon as I turned it back on this AM it immediately did performed the phantom 77 meg download. There was no indication on the phone anywhere that it was downloading anything, it's only because I looked a my usage stats that I saw it happened.
Guess my next step is to wipe...?
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I just turn my data off at night because for some reason my phone would do the same. I even got rid of my weather widgets because I couldn't figure the problem out. For weird reason android does that mystery downloading.
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Did you go into Spare Parts to see what app was pulling the most data?
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Did you go into Spare Parts to see what app was pulling the most data?
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I flashed to the nightly cyanogenmod this AM, and in doing so I guess I lost my stats. I've never really used spare parts before. It doesn't look like "the" download has been attempted since I reflashed, but that's typical since it happens once per night.
Right now my biggest network using item is called "0", the others are dialer and android system. What is 0? When I try and select it, spare parts crashes.
Is there a way to get hard numbers out of spare parts, or just the graphs? (it's showing blue and pink bars for each.)
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I flashed to the nightly cyanogenmod this AM, and in doing so I guess I lost my stats. I've never really used spare parts before. It doesn't look like "the" download has been attempted since I reflashed, but that's typical since it happens once per night.
Right now my biggest network using item is called "0", the others are dialer and android system. What is 0? When I try and select it, spare parts crashes.
Is there a way to get hard numbers out of spare parts, or just the graphs? (it's showing blue and pink bars for each.)
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Not sure what '0' is.
Spare Parts just gives you the bar graph but I did another search and found 'Stats' and 'Onavo' in the Market, both should help you find the problemed app. Again, Spare Parts should show it if you reboot before bed and then check it in the morning and narrowing it down by "since boot".
EDIT: I take that back, hit the bar graph in Spare Parts and it gives you the actual data.
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Guys, I'm having the exact same problem and I am puzzled why it's happening. I came across something from the droid forum:
In brief, to quote the poster:
I found a thread on the Cyanogenmod forums that supports the idea that while my oldish CM kernel was effectively blocking an OTA from installing, it wasn't preventing it from repeatedly downloading and attempting install. There is an app to fake the fingerprint so an OTA is not even downloaded since it appears to have already been applied. Just installed it so no confirmation of the fix yet, but I should know in a day or so. I'd pretty much concluded that the issue was an OTA since it was always coming via 3G even when I was at home with Wifi on. If it had been a misbehaving app, it would have originated on the phone and would have used Wifi. An OTA originates from the carrier so always comes via 3G. IMHO.
Any comment?
It's a little too early to declare victory, but last night was the first night on the new ROM and the phone did not do any inexplicable downloading.
If I learn anything else I will post it here for those others who are suffering the same issue.
Get traffic counter. It'll tell you what's using those megabytes. I used almost 1GB on my phone and it was the friend stream app on HTC Sense & Sensation.
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This seems to have been asked in a few previous posts, however, I can find no definitive answer.
My problem revolves around a spike in data usage last night. I had decided with the announcement of Google Reader being retired (grrr) I would replace gReader as my default RSS reader with RssDemon (which actually turns out to be just as good).
Once I had manually added all my feeds into RssDemon, I decided to uninstall gReader. This was whilst at home and connected to wi-fi.
Within a couple of hours I received my preset warning over data usage, which upon checking had spiked up 140mb due to 'Removed Apps'.
Now, having only had the phone a couple of weeks, I have monitored data usage very closely from day one, to ensure there are no background services wasting my data plan.
My gReader usage before uninstalling was around the 35mb mark. Why on earth would it jump up so high just from removal ?
Has it actually used the data or is it possible it is an error in the calculation within the Usage app itself ?
Any help / advice greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Lee
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I think you might have misunderstood how these forum type things work mate
You may want to try and start your own thread
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Hi
I have two Note II's. One I bought and rooted (Korean made) then had a few problems so I bought another (made in China - different sellers).
Anyway the first one is good now with PACMAN AOKP 4.2.2 the other still fully Samsung.
I cant get my work exchange email to work on either. Any recommendations for an app? Will happily pay if it will work.
secondly I would like to install a nice bootanimation on my rooted device, something tasteful like the mega droid walk. Will this work on my 4.2.2/ Have had issues installing any bootanimations so I rerooted and dont want to stuff it up again
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TommyPeanuts said:
I think you might have misunderstood how these forum type things work mate
You may want to try and start your own thread
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humble apologies = my error entirely
no worries mate
Anyone able to offer any possible explanations ?
Did you ever change roms? And restore data via titanium backup?
Because if you o store usage data via titanium backup then there is a chance of getting it corrupted. Sometimes after reset it would show me that system. UI has use 1.97 his which actually real racing 3 has use this is I think it's because android signs apps unique id on the basis of which it stores data usage. When you reset it probably assigns them which overlap which previous ones which caused the data usage to show wrong info.
this is SPARTAAA
TommyPeanuts said:
This seems to have been asked in a few previous posts, however, I can find no definitive answer.
My problem revolves around a spike in data usage last night. I had decided with the announcement of Google Reader being retired (grrr) I would replace gReader as my default RSS reader with RssDemon (which actually turns out to be just as good).
Once I had manually added all my feeds into RssDemon, I decided to uninstall gReader. This was whilst at home and connected to wi-fi.
Within a couple of hours I received my preset warning over data usage, which upon checking had spiked up 140mb due to 'Removed Apps'.
Now, having only had the phone a couple of weeks, I have monitored data usage very closely from day one, to ensure there are no background services wasting my data plan.
My gReader usage before uninstalling was around the 35mb mark. Why on earth would it jump up so high just from removal ?
Has it actually used the data or is it possible it is an error in the calculation within the Usage app itself ?
Any help / advice greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Lee
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Does your carrier not provide you with an option to check actual data usage from their end? You could compare and see the actual one with the built in usage data.
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The Dreaded "android.process.acore has stopped" Error: Is there a Master List of....
So I got this error withing hours of first turning on my new Galaxy Note last night, and I just figured it was because I disabled an app I shouldn't have. So I reset to factory settings, and everything was fine. Fortunately, I'd saved most of my big media to the SD card.
Today, I got the error again. This time, after wandering the Internet for a while, I was (very haltingly) able to get rid of it by clearing the "Contacts Storage" cache.
Looking online, there are apparently three apps people suggest clearing the cache for to get rid of this error. So, the logical thing to do would be to disable all three apps to prevent the error from ever popping up in the future? The three apps are:
Contacts
Contacts Storage
Downloads
I don't believe I ever make use of any of them, except maybe the Downloads app, depending on how it works. When I download something from Chrome, for example, I always use the ES Downloader w/ ES File Explorer.
So--my question is this: are these three apps safe to disable? And a related question: is there a master list somewhere of the various pre-installed apps Samsung put onto the Note 2014 that are safe to disable? With no app windows active, my note idles with 47% RAM usage which seems excessive to me, and I'd also like to minimize the chance of future errors like the android.process.acore thing.
Of course, I'm also an idiot, so it's entirely possible that the best course of action for me is to just stop talking, stop messing with apps, and just leave everything as-is.
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Of course, I'm also an idiot, so it's entirely possible that the best course of action for me is to just stop talking, stop messing with apps, and just leave...
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Yes, why not? And I will not say that you or someone else here is an idiot but I never understand this cleaning and killing. I mean like you see, your tablet becomes only instable. And there is really no lag of memory. The note has mostly 3GB which is more then most high-end phones have today and enough. And when the note use this memory then be happy because then the resources are perfectly used.
So, why removing stuff when you can't use the free space?
PS. I never got this exception and I use all 3 apps.
My understanding is that the error is caused not by the app per second, but the update process. Like the data gets corrupted somehow.
Anyway, as for why I want to do this, my understanding is that all of these pre-installed programs are constantly running in the background... which means they're consuming battery power. By disabling some , if I can, I hope to maximize battery charge.
I had that error on boot when installed gravitybox xposed module, just ignore it.
I was able to get rid of the error after several resets, but I'd still like to disable some of these background apps to improve battery and free up some ram.
I thought for sure I saw a master list thing here, somewhere, but the thread must have had some weird title or something because I haven't been able to find it again.
Arsene_Lupin said:
I was able to get rid of the error after several resets, but I'd still like to disable some of these background apps to improve battery and free up some ram.
I thought for sure I saw a master list thing here, somewhere, but the thread must have had some weird title or something because I haven't been able to find it again.
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Here you go:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2514703
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Here you go:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2514703
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That's not it. It was a list of apps that could be safely disabled via the app manager, no rooting necessary.
Hello together,
actually till now i was a silent reader and never had any big issues, but the topic i have since Saturday giving me question marks all over and i would kindly ask if any of you guys have any (even litte) ideas--
I'm using a Huawei P20 and had excessive mobile data usage the last 7 days, coming up with my provider's mail "You have used up to 80%" ...
What I found out so far:
6GB Download Usage / 100Mbyte Upload Usage
under "System & Services" as "General" - so not really helpful.
19. Juni ~ 1,76 GB
25. Juni ~ 0,8 GB
26. Juni ~ 4,3 GB
27. Juni ~ 1 GB
What i checked so far:
1) System update
Should not be the point - my P20 runs with version 10.0.0.185 (that is dated 2020) and Upload via WLAN is enabled
2) Google Play Updates & Huawei AppStore
Should anyhow show up as separate app but even if, update via WLAN only is enabled
3) Virus / Malware
Should also not be the point. Which virus downloads over 6GB data, i'm using bitdefender since 24. June and i'm a dev by myself, so not that easy that i install viruses or malwares ..
To go closer to what app it is i started to limit my bandwitdh to 300Mb and turned of my wifi since yesterday. Also using the app "data counter widget" helps to at least figure out what falls under "General".
Current situation
The only thing i could find out is that the app "com.huawei.iconnect" (Geräteverbindungsservice) have used like 40Mb Mobile traffic today. ( Download ! )
No other app i found, at least not today. And it seems the data which shows under "Energy usages" is only countable for the current day, not the days before..
Does anyone of you guys have other ideas to track down the issue or did anyone encounter something similar?
Hi, I have same problem. Did you find a solution for that problem?
Hi Daven,
i'm still in contact with the Huawei Support, even the technical one, but they did not yet gave me an exact reason why this was happening.
It seems indeed to be the "com.huawei.iconnect" app that is responsible for that.
Support told me that this app is responsible for updates, but that sounds a bit vague to me.
They told me to deactivate "Background data" for the apps:
1) AppGallery
2) PlayStore
3) System updates.
But, they are already set to only download by Wifi.
I did not exactly what they told me to do. What i tried was disabling Mobile data for "HMS Core". And at least in the last 3 days i did not had any excessive usage of "com.huawei.iconnect".
But that might not be the solution.
I will also deactivate mobile traffic for all huawei apps and see if it works for longer time.
Did you check if it's also that app responsible for it? How much data usage you had? And i guess you set all the app and system updates to Wifi only ?
What i did so far that seems to work ( for now )
1.) I deactivate mobile and roaming for the apps:
- HMS Core
- HMS Service framework
- Systemupdates
- AppAssistent
- AppGallery
2.) Setting a daily mobile download limit to be able to act before it happens again
Anyway, absolutely amazing that you buy an not so cheap phone and after 2 / 3 years you won't get any security updates anymore ..
"NaviDot"? Is it the component of the system navigation?
You may try to deactivate this NaviDot on your Huawei P20 Pro.
Settings - System
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NaviDot
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Wrong Thread? No one said something about NaviDot nor P20 Pro
I must say, i'm done.
Yesterday another 260MB Systemapps
Today another 880MB Systemapps
Today 150 MB from the com.huawei.iconnect App.
The another 730Mb i could not even find where it is coming from not even a single systemprocess is listing that download.
260Mb every day? Thats my traffic.. 10 Gb per month.
To be mentioned: It's still DOWNLOAD not UPLOAD
I feel like Huawei is implementing **** in 3 year old phones to get people buy new one's.
I'm a Linux Admin by myself, so it should be not the problem in front of the screen.
Ii thought about even erase the phone, but what would this change? I didn't install anything in the last weeks ......
Interesting fact:
I just deinstalled "com.huawei.iconnect"
And suddenly it shows in the App "Data Widget Counter"
Removed Apps: 881 Mb
This is interesting.
How you deinstalled "com.huawei.iconnect"?
How you deinstalled "com.huawei.iconnect"?
[GUIDE] List of bloatware on EMUI safe to remove
Hi all, i was working on a guide on the vast amount of packages that we find already installed on EMUI by default and safe to remove because i'm sure that it would be useful for users like me, users that doesn't like to have space occupied on...
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Last answer from Huawei regarding the app and complaining about another data usage of 1 GB:
Huawei: "Just deinstall/deactivate it".
I pretended to be stupid and ask them:
"How can I uninstall them - it's a system app. And what does this app do?"
I noticed that the data starts to grow when I am connected to wifi without internet (wifi with an exclamation mark). I still can't fix this problem. Have you managed to solve it yet?
Did you check that the app i mentioned is causing this issue?
My problem seems to be solved after i deinstalled it.
Huawei was not helpful. last message was "they don't even know this app". Does Huawei not know what apps they are using? I find other threads about this app so im pretty sure it is from Huawei.
I think, that's same app iconnect.
Which ADB command you use for uninstall this app?
see the links i sent you above, it's written there
Thanks, it's help