Help Chrome randomly pulled 1.42GB data - not using

[SD Buff]

EDIT - turns out the APP ripping data is Chrome. I only use chrome for looking at a message board for the most part an up until a couple days ago the most data Chrome has used for a one month cycle is .04GB. In three days it pulled 1.42 GB - screen shots below. Not streaming or anything... Any ideas?

Never had this issue before. Only use dropbox and google photos for back up and both are set for WIFI only. Just got a text alert my data is 75% used and 70% of that is Could/File Sharing.

Verizon service. Don't have verizon cloud enabled or even set up for that matter. Can't figure out what could possibly be using data. Any suggestions how to find the culprit? I have enabled and disabled both settings in google and dropbox.

Any idea how to figure out what APP is out of whack? Only on the 3GB plan and don't even use half of it most months. Don't think I even have 3GB worth of photos/videos/etc. on my phone.

 

[SD Buff]

I know this is a really stupid question. There is simply no way of figuring out what APP is doing this, right? Just realized I could find the time and date of when its ripping data. I know I wasn't connected to WIFI at these times - but I also know I wasn't doing anything that would use data at this time either. What could it possible be? I've checked every single setting and they're all set to WIFI only.

 

[mikedt]

Should be. If you go into your phone's data options, you should see something that looks like this. A breakdown of every app that's using wireless data. This is an Oppo, and I'm not using Verizon of course.

I pre-pay for 1GB a month, and can see it's all well within.

 

[SD Buff]

Doh. Thanks so much. Never had to use that. OK. So hopefully last dumb question. Turns out it's Chrome. But here is the thing -- since one of the big data pulls was this morning at 9:33 -- I know I was on a short phone call, not using the browser and didn't use it again for a couple hours. And when I do use chrome - its just to check a message board - I am not downloading or anything data intensive.

I googled for the problem and came up empty. Any idea???

 

[mikedt]

Did you leave Chrome streaming something and forgot about it? If it's doing a wobbly or something, try resetting and clearing its data and cache from Settings >Apps.

 

[SD Buff]

Nope. Never stream anything aside from itune radio, pandora and youtube - all using the respective apps. And even then, its just for a short while. Really don't use Chrome for anything other than checking a message board. Went back six months and the largest data use Chrome has used was .04GB before this. Cleared data, cache from APPS and cleared everything from Chrome-Settings. Hopefully that works, so strange.