Holy batman wtf happened to my data?

dmo580

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So apart from falling asleep while reading an article on my laptop last night and having my phone in my hand and waking up at 5am find it low on battery and plugging it in to charge, I got to work at 8am today went to a meeting from 9-11am at a supplier. At the supplier I turned on my hotspot to VPN back into my company to pull a few emails.

I can understand the hotspot use.. 100mb so quickly? Ok that's fine, but how did hangouts, Google Play store, etc explode?

I'll admit I updated a few apps these past few days: Lightflow, Foursquare, Greenify, but all that does NOT add up to that much transfer. And how the hell is Hangouts using so much data? I have an Ingress chat going on, but unless they're pasting Wikipedia articles in there, I sho uld be ok. Even if they went wild with 640x480 images, I shouldn't have that much data.

I also have Google+ Sync OFF and it greenified. WTF is going on? Pulse has its sync off. I almost want to say is it possible to have an error in reporting? I don't even believe these stats. It doesn't make sense.

My phone alerted me that I was at 2gb during my meeting and so I shut it off. This is ridiculous. May 31 - June 7 = 2gb? How the hell do I get through my billing cycle?







Clearly something went down June 7th, but even if you look at May 31 - June 6, I still cannot understand how Hangouts wastes so much data.

 

simms22

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what rom are you using? a few of the latest commits(dalvik/skia) are causing the phone to report data usage wrong on the phone. its not reporting wrong to your provider, just to your phone. you can always check your usage with your provider(tmobile via mobile site). to fix this, delete the files in /data/system/netstats/(i believe).
 

peedub

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Cyanogenmod also had issues in one of its latest builds. It was only an issue with calculations though, so it didn't go rogue and download half the internet for you... don't worry.
 

dmo580

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Use an app from play store to control your data usage everyday.

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Thanks but it was a bug in CM. Its very unlikely that the pulse or hangouts could gobble up so much data

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