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Help Dialer Suddenly A Network Hog

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I've searched and searched via Google and have found mentions of a similar issue, but no resolutions and no issues exactly like this. Hopefully someone here can shed some light on this. Here's the problem:

I've had my Charge for about a month and a half and can't complain about the battery life because it's been very good so far. With no use except for GMail auto syncing and popping the screen on to check in once in awhile it would drain at about 1% per hour. Obviously when I actually used it for calls or web browsing it would drain much faster. Anyway, yesterday I noticed that the battery was draining much quicker than usual - around 3% per hour with no use. This was with NO changes - no new apps, no settings changes, etc. In fact, the only thing I used the phone for was to receive one text message and then delete all of my existing messages.

So today I went to troubleshooting mode. I had previously downloaded Spare Parts so I started checking around in there and the only odd thing I saw was the Dialer app under Network seemed to be using a lot of bandwidth. Now here's the weird part: I turned off 3G and WiFi and it continued to use data, and lots of it. I turned off background data, and it continued. The only way I could get it to stop was to turn on airplane mode, which obviously just kills everything. I'm also seeing that I've got a higher than usual "Time Without Signal" under Battery Usage -> Cell Standby which may be related but I'm not sure.

Does anyone know why the Dialer app would be using "data" that's not actually 3G data? It would make sense if I was making a phone call or sending texts or something but the amount of data sent seems to just continue to grow with the phone just sitting on my desk.
 
bbexperience said:
I've searched and searched via Google and have found mentions of a similar issue, but no resolutions and no issues exactly like this. Hopefully someone here can shed some light on this. Here's the problem:

I've had my Charge for about a month and a half and can't complain about the battery life because it's been very good so far. With no use except for GMail auto syncing and popping the screen on to check in once in awhile it would drain at about 1% per hour. Obviously when I actually used it for calls or web browsing it would drain much faster. Anyway, yesterday I noticed that the battery was draining much quicker than usual - around 3% per hour with no use. This was with NO changes - no new apps, no settings changes, etc. In fact, the only thing I used the phone for was to receive one text message and then delete all of my existing messages.

So today I went to troubleshooting mode. I had previously downloaded Spare Parts so I started checking around in there and the only odd thing I saw was the Dialer app under Network seemed to be using a lot of bandwidth. Now here's the weird part: I turned off 3G and WiFi and it continued to use data, and lots of it. I turned off background data, and it continued. The only way I could get it to stop was to turn on airplane mode, which obviously just kills everything. I'm also seeing that I've got a higher than usual "Time Without Signal" under Battery Usage -> Cell Standby which may be related but I'm not sure.

Does anyone know why the Dialer app would be using "data" that's not actually 3G data? It would make sense if I was making a phone call or sending texts or something but the amount of data sent seems to just continue to grow with the phone just sitting on my desk.
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I have the exact same problem, but nobody I've talked to has an answer. My dialer uses almost 20mb per day, despite no phone calls being made. It kills my battery.
 
Huh. So now I am intrigued after looking at this on my own phone. And not just from the dialer being so high on the list. But what is "0"? With each item in the list you can select it & see more detailed info, but if I try to look at "0" it force closes Spare Parts every time. "1010" does the same thing.

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I have the same problem!
 

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Interesting... hopefully someone has an answer. I'll get spare parts and check mine this evening if I have time.
 
rcyphermd said:
same problem also.....what the heck is "0"?
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The numbers are user id's. Zero is root. My guess is that most people seeing "0" as their highest network usage are people who tether.

For me, unplugged 11 hours, dialer had 1,522,178 bytes used (1,367,977 received and 152,201 sent). It was third from the bottom in my usage list, with barely a sliver of a bar.

My biggest usage is bluetooth (UID 1002), which used approximately 5 times more than my second highest usage, which is my podcast application. My podcast app used 205,177,946 bytes (roughly 200MB). That puts my bluetooth usage around 1GB in 5 hours! I can't say what it is for certain, as Settings keeps crashing on me when I try to check, but the bar is about 5 times larger. I have been listening to podcasts at work today, but that is still a lot of network usage.
 
Cilraaz said:
The numbers are user id's. Zero is root. My guess is that most people seeing "0" as their highest network usage are people who tether.
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Well, from my picture above with the "0" you can see I am rooted. But I do not tether. Wifi at home, which was on this list but far enough down to not be seen, and then 3G outside of the house of course. The pic I posted was done at home.
 
rcyphermd said:
I do not root, nor tether, yet have all the zeroes.
Weird.
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There are processes that run as root on a non-rooted phone. They would just be things pre-installed in the base OS or bloatware. "Rooting" a phone just gives outside applications access to the root user.
 
My charge has been using battery up like crazy recently.....cannot figure out why. I was down to 75% after 2 hours this morning with minimal use. Used to get 10-12 hours
 
I don't know guys but this is pissing me off!!! I font know what else to do. I stop everything from syncing.
 
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