I happened to be traveling this week and my phone decided to download the 1+GB update file in the middle of the night, effectively trashing my data remaining for the month.
Is there a setting to prevent it from downloading those updates unless I'm on wifi?
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I was at 1.3GB of data used for the month as of last night (there are 3 days left in my billing cycle). Today when I woke up, I am at 1.9GB. I installed a couple games last night...one of them being a gameloft game, Asphalt 6, and it told me it needed to download an additional 500MB of data. But in my home, I have wi-fi on all the time. I even use JuiceDefender to automatically keep me on wifi and have my data disabled when I am near my router.
So anyone have any idea why or how the game would have used my data connection to download the data instead of wi-fi, even though I was actively on my wi-fi connection?
Or is it more probable that my statusbar was glitched out and was showing wi-fi even though data was actually the active connection?
Or is it more probably that I'm dumb.
I am on the Verizon 2gb plan and typically use .5 -> 1.0 Gb per month. This has been for at least 6 months now. My billing cycle starts on the 7th and today when I checked my data usage I had already used about .5 Gb. Upon looking further I found that almost all of this was used by my SiriusXM app. Now, here's the thing, I have used this app for a long time. I only use it at home when I work in the evenings. I am always connected to my WiFi when home. Then I remembered I had noticed one time that I was home and saw at the top the screen the up/down data icon, then "3g", then the WiFi icon. I didn't give it much thought, but given this latest development I've been watching it and notice that it does the same thing on occasion. This is odd for 2 reasons. I have 4g coverage, and it should be off when connected via WiFi. If they are both on how do I know where the data is coming from?
This started after the last update from Verizon (I am not rooted). So I checked with them, but they had no knowledge of this and could only offer a "master reset". I declined. So, I thought in the meantime I would just turn off mobile data to be save. So I pull down from the top and turn it off in the bar at the top. It stays off until the screen times out or I plug in the charger, then it comes back on. I even set up a rule in tasker to turn it off when connected to WiFi, no joy. This is the ONLY tasker rule by the way, it wasn't even on the phone before this.
So, has anybody seen this and can you offer some suggestions?
Thanks,
Jim
Is anyone else having loads of data used by android system in the last couple of weeks?
Apparently my data is all ready used up and its only december 8th, I've never had this before and even stranger it happened while I'm within range of my wifi.
This phone had worked great for me right up until the release of nexus 5x, coincidence? Or {enter conspiricy theory here}.
You may have the phone backup turned on in the backup and reset settings, or something else (auto-sync) unrelated to conspiracy
Sync over wifi only
Then there's probably something else that has been activated. Try restricting background data.
The system update can fail to download due to insufficient space, and retry over and over again.
I'm not using the phone in a different way than I have been all year, if anything I've been on wifi more in the last week.
Is it possible that my wifi isn't working all the time so the phone decides to use cellular because it was already sending data?
jimlad said:
I'm not using the phone in a different way than I have been all year, if anything I've been on wifi more in the last week.
Is it possible that my wifi isn't working all the time so the phone decides to use cellular because it was already sending data?
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Yes if your mobile data are always on. The device automatically switches to mobile data when wifi is off, out of range,...
I can't figure this out to save my life. 6039s Android 6. No root. No special mods. Nothing. Bone stock.
In the middle of the day today I suddenly started getting a horrendous wakelock. I thought it was a Google Play issue but it turned out that it's some kind of mobile data issue.
My LTE connection isn't working right. It's slow for some apps and non existent for others.
For instance my sports score app loads at 2G speeds. My web browser seems to work okay. But my t mobile tuesday's app gives me a big warning that I'm not connected to the internet at all. And the Google Play app gives me all kinds of warning that I need to have background data enabled to use Play, but background data IS enabled.
Making matters worse, when this issue is happening my phone enters a miserable and unstoppable wake lock that drains the battery so fast it hard to even charge it. And it saps up the system resources to heavily that the phone slows down to a crawl and can't be used for anything else. Not to mention the phone gets insanely hot from the excess processing. Could a tower issue that's causing a connection problem cause such a wakelock?
I tried doing a reset of the radio connections in settings, but I don't think it actually did anything because all my settings and connections were still there. Still had my wifi password, BT connections, etc.
I tried wiping cache in recovery but it didn't work. Says it did it. But on reboot I didn't get the "app 1 of 82 is updating". So I don't think it actually did that either.
I cannot figure this out to save my life.
I thought maybe it was a tower issue. But my wife has the exact same phone and it's working fine. I called T Mobile and they said they are having a tower problem near my house, but still...wife's phone is fine. And I've seen this problem now in 3 different locations across about a 5-6 mile range. So I have to have been on more than 1 tower in that time.
When I turn on wifi and have a wifi connection the problem goes away entirely. That's telling me that the problem is the system getting upset that it doesn't have a solid internet connection. Changing the connection to 3G or 2G does not solve the issue.
The problem lasted the whole second half of yesterday, was fine overnight while I left wifi on, was fine on day 2 when I was back to 4G networks, and then suddenly is back again.
Anyone got any ideas or suggestions?
Is there some server android is trying to stay in constant contact with that I can block the connection to? Perhaps limit background data to something? I can't figure out what.
This update was irrelevant. Turned out to be a red herring. Still having the problem.
Nevermind this update. STill having the problem
I give up. I'm about to throw the phone against a wall to smash it. The system has become totally loused up. Whenever it goes into these goofy wakelock states the system is so overtaxed that everything takes forever to process. Nothing solves it.
And its' getting worse. Now I have oddly limited connectivity.
T Mobile's tech support was useless. They had me thinking it was a tower issue. That was 3 days ago. Now suddenly they have no records of a tower issue in my area over the last week.
I can make voice calls. But I cant' send text messages. I can use my web browser to search the internet, but not SOME apps that need data like a weather app or Google Play. Other apps work fine to pull data.
Yet it says I have an LTE connection the whole time.
This is the single weirdest issue I've ever seen on Android.
What in the hell could have just jumped in out of nowhere and started causing these issues?
Anyone having issues with Wi-Fi dropping all the time after latest update? When I say "all the time" I mean like every couple of minutes.
All network settings reset.
MAC set static.
It's the only one of maybe 30 Wi-Fi devices in house with the issue.
Wi-Fi AP rebooted.
Phone rebooted.
Phone is maybe 1 metre from the access point most of day.
Nothing seems to keep it stable.
The phone's unusable and I've only got a couple of weeks to return it if this doesn't get fixed.
did you flash the new firmware or was it ota