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Help S3 Music Player uses lots of Mobile Data in the background - how to stop it?

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Tzast

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Hi,

I've noticed recently by looking at my phone's Data Usage app, that Music Player app uses so much Mobile Data even when I don't use it :confused:

Initially I hadn't realized at all but then I got a text from O2 to say I'm reaching my limit of 1GB. Went back to my phone to check Data Usage and Music Player app was at the top for Mobile Data with 350-400MB or something like that. I've recently started listening to music from my phone but not downloading from the net, just from my phone memory card so may be it relates to background data?

The Data Usage app allows you to restrict background data per application and also disallow Auto-sync Data, which i've done both for Music Player app, but then the other day I happened to listen to music again and mobile data went up to 25MB. How can it be, and why had it not worked???? :mad:

I wonder whether there is another music app with more control over data etc... and also whether there are any ways to stop this app from running at all?

It seems to be a system app as I can't uninstall it!

I wonder whether it has to do with some android service running in the background which could mean it might have the same effect on the other music app?

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks :o
 
Howard Hopkinson said:
It can be disabled as far as I'm aware. Go to Settings/Applications/All tab and locate the app there. Tap on it and you may see an option to disable it. You might want to clear the cache and data as well and hit force stop.

Personally I use PowerAmp as my music player of choice and I think it's the best music player out there.

https://play.google.com/store/search?q=poweramp
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You can also try going to settings>data usage & press on the app in question, then check the "restrict background data usage" box. At one point, the gallery app was sucking huge amounts of data on my phone & this fixed it- might be an alternative if you don't want to completely disable it.
 
my monthly bill went from $165 to $328 on the next month after i started using Google Play...I was What the F uck?

So what I did was i placed my music files on my phone....I know is not my 7,000 songs from my Ipod but i cant afford another $328 a month!!!!!
 
ceva321 said:
my monthly bill went from $165 to $328 on the next month after i started using Google Play...I was What the F uck?

So what I did was i placed my music files on my phone....I know is not my 7,000 songs from my Ipod but i cant afford another $328 a month!!!!!
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Unless you set Google Music to stream on WIFI only, you're going to be eating data every time you listen to music. I think there's also a setting in there related to quality- if you stream it at full quality (320kbs I think) it's going to blow through that quick. Just get a 64 GB SD card & load you music onto that instead of internal storage- should be enough space for your 7000 songs...
 
Howard Hopkinson said:
It can be disabled as far as I'm aware. Go to Settings/Applications/All tab and locate the app there. Tap on it and you may see an option to disable it. You might want to clear the cache and data as well and hit force stop.

Personally I use PowerAmp as my music player of choice and I think it's the best music player out there.

https://play.google.com/store/search?q=poweramp
Click to expand...

Thanks Howard. "Disable" button is not active. I could only clear the cache and force stop the app, but not disable. I even tried Settings\uninstall but doesn't let you uninstall it while other apps you can.
 
rcsrich said:
You can also try going to settings>data usage & press on the app in question, then check the "restrict background data usage" box. At one point, the gallery app was sucking huge amounts of data on my phone & this fixed it- might be an alternative if you don't want to completely disable it.
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Hi rcsrich,

Thanks I'll try that again. Also, when you have selected the app as you described above to "restrict background data", if you press then the menu there is also an option to "Auto-sync data" which I have also disabled. I'll play some songs again with mobile data on to see what happens.

thanks for your help
 
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