Pixel xl cellular data out of control

[lyle88]

Hi all, first post here, hope it's not a double up.

I've recently rooted my pixel and installed elemental x kernel and have recently been suffering from crazy cellular data use.

I have data saver on, sync only over wi-fi and any other setting I can find to minimise data use on.

Eg: In the last 20 mins I've gone through 100mb with the phone completely inactive.

Anyone else come across a similar issue?

Thanks

 

[Medicstud007]

I have the same issue with no solution

 

[modern911]

That caused by OTA update, since you're rooted, it try again and again and never sucess.
Please upgrade your Pixel to latest build to get rid of that.

 

[wyrdtrtle]

Wow, damn glad i upgraded to latest right after rooting, i have the smallest data plan i could get and that happening would kill me.

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[Larzzzz82]

I believe you can turn off the automatic updates in the developer options. I can on my Nexus 6 running 7.1.1.

Reading and waiting impatiently for my XL to be delivered...

 

[wyrdtrtle]

You can indeed turn it off in settings, but according to at least one person, apparently that does not necessarily stop it from happening. Or rather attempting to happen, if twrp is installed any ota will fail.

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[jhlarowe]

You can go to Data Usage under the Settings and look at your Cellular data usage and Wi-Fi data usage. This will tell you which applications are using up your data.

Right after I got my Pixel XL, I ran into an issue where an app used up 4Gig of wifi and 2Gig of cell data in about 30 minutes. Turned out to be a Disney game. The data usage screens showed this right away. I expect it was actually some of the ads the game was serving up. But, I will never install another Disney game because of this. Sorry grand kids.....

 

[jsbeagle]

You can indeed turn it off in settings, but according to at least one person, apparently that does not necessarily stop it from happening. Or rather attempting to happen, if twrp is installed any ota will fail.

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Actually the February update was able to install ota on my wife's Pixel despite being Verizon bootloader unlocked, twrp, & rooted. I'm not sure if she clicked "install" after it downloaded or not. She's usually careful to ask me if its ok to update or not.
Unfortunately the update broke all audio on the phone except over bluetooth. Google has already replaced it though.

 

[lyle88]

Just a quick update.

I reverted back to a nandroid image I had of stock android 7.1.1 with root and twrp with stock kernel. (In case it was an app ravaging my data)

Everything seemed fine until tonight. Data usage was slow and steady (with all data saving settings on, including automatic updates turned off), then boom, while I was at yoga (1.5hrs) 1gb used.

I'll try flashing the latest build to see if that fixes it. But if it's going to do this every time a new build is released I'm probably going to have to unroot and live the vanilla life. No fun.

In case its pertinent:
Running build number NMF26U with twrp, root, stock kernel.

The perpetrator listed under mobile data usage is: ANDROID OS (1.8gb ~2days)

 

[wyrdtrtle]

Sounds like it just keeps trying to update to NOF26W, so if you update it may well stop doing that.

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