Help Data leakage from Android OS

[shadowvfx]

Recently my data monitor has shown the Android OS taking up many times what it used to. Up until about a month ago, it would use an average of 3-5 MB a month. Now it's using almost 2 MB a day! This might not sound like much, but I don't have a large data plan and this is eating almost 40% of my data plan usage, and I don't even know what it's doing.

My monitoring program shows the uses of ALL my apps that I could possibly think of and I don't know what the OS could be doing that is making it siphon my data like it does. I've disabled account backups and such, but it still seems to be leaking data somehow.

Do any of you have suggestions?

 

[Skyroket]

what application do you use to monitor data?

 

[shadowvfx]

I use (and have been using) Onavo Count.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.onavo.android.onavoid&hl=en

 

[Skyroket]

hmm i'm using onavo too. Dont see any leakage. Try to reinstall onavo. Set your data plan again( what's left of it) and monitor. I'm sure it's one of your application that you're not aware of.

Onavo shows me exact data usage KB to KB. And you have to set your billing cycle a day before. If for example your billing cycle ends on 25th you should set it Reset at: 24th of every month.

 

[geekygrrl]

I had a similar issue which led to throttling before i realized it. It ended up being the native email client. Not sure that's the case here, but it's worth a moment to look.

 

[james27007]

Seems this is an issue with the phone, others have had the same issue including my wife's:
http://androidforums.com/t/533615-t-says-i-used-4gb-4-days-12gbin-past-week.html

http://androidforums.com/samsung-ga...uld-causing-phone-use-12gb-data-one-week.html

Use "My Data Manager" from market to see exactly what is using the data, unfortunately it looks like only a factory reset will fix it