Android System - Huge background data usage

[Guest 75markus]

i just found out that it is screencapture.apk ...

what the hell ... :unsure: :)

Edited May 17, 2011 by 75markus

[Guest Stevvie]

WOW sent 13MB, and Auto sync is OFF (I just checked)

[Guest jonuwz]

I suspect the statistics are wrong. The totals don't add up.

I've just disabled all outgoing traffic on my router, and i'm not seeing anywhere near enough blocked requests in the firewall logs to support that volume of traffic.

1KB /s is about 500 blocked requests a second. I've seen ~ 20 requests to google, amazon, cachefly and akamai technologies. All reputable.

John

[Guest wapz]

following this with great interest. somebody at xda once suggested the 0 process could be processes with root privileges.. not sure if that makes sense. network location could be a better guess.

if you google for it you'll find more people have the same issue on different handsets but I don't tgink anybody cleared up what it really is..

[Guest jambezuk]

I suspect the statistics are wrong. The totals don't add up.

I've just disabled all outgoing traffic on my router, and i'm not seeing anywhere near enough blocked requests in the firewall logs to support that volume of traffic.

1KB /s is about 500 blocked requests a second. I've seen ~ 20 requests to google, amazon, cachefly and akamai technologies. All reputable.

John

I'm starting to suspect the same thing but can anyone else confirm this with online billing, checking data usage against phone's readouts?

I'd sign up for online billing right now but I'm not at home and don't have my a/c number!

James

[Guest jonuwz]

following this with great interest. somebody at xda once suggested the 0 process could be processes with root privileges.. not sure if that makes sense. network location could be a better guess.

if you google for it you'll find more people have the same issue on different handsets but I don't tgink anybody cleared up what it really is..

In android, every app runs as a different user, so that apps cannot access each others data.

In unix, users have a user identifier. So user "app_9" could have a uid of 10008 (for example)

So you have mapping of uid -> user -> app

Spare parts displays the app usually. I guess if it can't find the app associated with the uid, it just displays the uid.

uids < 10000 are reserved for system.

you can find these in android_filesystem_config.h

The uid of 0 is always root though

John

[Guest unfun]

sorry if this is a noob question but does that mean: some process running with root privileges uses the most data on my phone, and if so, should i worry? i am new to android so i really don't know much about it.

[Guest soundsk]

Any news on this? Flashed fr17 from stock (wiped of course) and i'm getting the exact same thing, as soon as i turn on 3g the up-down arrows appear and start blinking. I have the same "0" app consuming traffic.

What can i do?

Cheers!

[Guest jambezuk]

Any news on this? Flashed fr17 from stock (wiped of course) and i'm getting the exact same thing, as soon as i turn on 3g the up-down arrows appear and start blinking. I have the same "0" app consuming traffic.

What can i do?

Cheers!

At the moment I think the general opinion is that the data is inaccurate :P I guess hold on till it's proved either way. There are a few of us in the same boat.

[Guest unfun]

so i am on cm7 now and i still face this problem, any news?

[Guest jambezuk]

so i am on cm7 now and i still face this problem, any news?

Same boat... I suspect it's just bad data as previously concluded. Battery life is 'as expected' with CM7 certainly for myself, despite the apparently large data consumption.

[Guest simon_als]

I have the same "0" process before, and accidentaly when i re-bake the FR18 without SQL tweak , the "0" process is gone...

Could anyone claify on this as well.. right now... i am checking is the Battery life better off without SQL tweak....

Edit : Sorry it is not related to SQL hack..... will test again

Edited June 14, 2011 by simon_als