-->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)
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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?
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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.
Ever since upgrading to Lollipop (5.0.1), my G3 has been consuming vast quantities of mobile data (much more than it does on Wi-Fi) , at a rate that is threatening even my 1GB monthly cap. I have never had this issue with this phone before upgrading, nor with any other phone I have owned, and I can't find any resources about it online. It appears to use small amounts of data (a few KB) continuously throughout the day, not in large chunks, so it is not Google trying and failing to download a software update like come CM users have seen.
I uninstalled every app that I did not have before the Lollipop upgrade, as well as any potentially troublesome apps, to no avail. Then I tried booting into safe mode, removing all my synced accounts except the main Google one, turning off sync for that account, turning off data backup, clearing the caches of all my apps, and not opening any non-stock apps for a day. Even with all that, it still ran through a few megs in just an afternoon. Turning everything back on and setting accounts back up did not increase or decrease the data consumption. Restricting its background data does stop it from using mobile data, but it also seriously cripples my device (Play store stops working, sync stops working, calendar etc. stop working...)
I attached screenshots that show its data usage. It decreased considerably around June 9th because I finally got Wi-Fi in my room. But even still, it continues to eat my data for no apparent reason. I REALLY want to avoid a factory reset (and I doubt it would help anyway, since it was factory reset for the upgrade, and running everything completely stock doesn't help).
Can anyone give me some ideas here?
Info about the phone:
Model: LG-D851 (T-Mobile)
Android version: 5.0.1 (stock, rooted)
Kernel version: 3.4.0
Software version: D85120b
Network: olleh (South Korea, the same SIM card I used with the phone before the upgrade)
Google Play Services version: 7.5.71 (1955121-430)
Google Services Framework/Google Account Manager versions: 5.0.1-1602158
Hey, try limiting background data. There should be a tick above the usage graph.
Also many people have problems after upgrading to lollipop, including me, you should try factory reset. I had like half of my apps broken and frequent crashes after upgrading.
Martin
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Hey, try limiting background data. There should be a tick above the usage graph.
Also many people have problems after upgrading to lollipop, including me, you should try factory reset. I had like half of my apps broken and frequent crashes after upgrading.
Martin
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Hi Martin, thanks for the reply. I'm trying to avoid restricting background data because I often have to go long stretches without Wi-Fi, and a lot of my apps stop working properly if background data is restricted. And I don't want to factory reset because it takes me days to set my phone back up to how it was.
Hi, I have the Sprint G5 and I have My Data Manager installed to help keep track of my data usage. Now, I've only had the phone less than 2 weeks.
I've noticed that there is something called Quickset SDK that is using data everyday. I think it's used around 125MB already. I've googled it but can't really find out much about it except that it had something to do with the remote control app, "QuickRemote", that can pre-installed on the phone. But, I have that app disabled so why is it using so much data? And is there any way to stop it without root?
Mine used 112MB since May 20, when I activated. Perhaps it deals with LG setting up the sprint environment? If you click data under that app, it leads you to android OS, so it's something part of the system. To find it I also had to choose show system apps.
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Mine used 112MB since May 20, when I activated. Perhaps it deals with LG setting up the sprint environment? If you click data under that app, it leads you to android OS, so it's something part of the system. To find it I also had to choose show system apps.
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But, I finished setting up my phone over 2 weeks ago and still Quickset.sdk is using an average of about 15MB/day. That's gonna end up using about 450MB of my data in a month!
My quickset SDK now says " 755 mb used since AUG 2"
So thats about 250 MB per month , but I dont have ability to check day by day etc
[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
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"?
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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