Help Android OS using an increasing amount of data. Up to 10gig now in a month.

[Carlos Nexus 5]

Hello all.

There is something wrong with myself or my Nexus 5.

All auto updates are off, been like this for months, background data was enabled the whole time.

I don't know what has changed, in the attached files you see March to April 17mb, April to May 33mb, then from may upwards it goes crazy from 6gig then 10gig.

I have now installed AFWall but i feel this is a bandage not a fix to this strange problem. I don't know if it's working yet also.

Anyone had similar cases? Where do i head?

Cheers Carlos

 

[jasondamery]

i went through this and it was a factory reset and turning on all background data that fixed it. Do you also have google photos, drive, most google services disabled?

 

[Carlos Nexus 5]

i went through this and it was a factory reset and turning on all background data that fixed it. Do you also have google photos, drive, most google services disabled?

Hello Jason

A factory reset is in my mind, such a shame tho. Everything google is disabled to a limit. Things like Google maps don't run properly without your account enabled, drive i dont use and disabled, photos i have to check, do you mean 'gallery'?

Just to clarify, factory reset, no recovery, ENABLE all background data.

 

[jasondamery]

Enable all background data first and see if that helps. Disable google drive and google photos all together. See if that works. If not then a factory reset from your settings and dont do a recovery from a previous backup, start a new one. I actually started a new google account just for the phone like in play store and maybe that helped too.