Razr nonstop data access

[jrmdroid]

i decided to put a smart action together to turn off data sync and cell data all day everyday. when home it is on wifi.. i am doing this so that it keeps the data access to a minimum.

 

[Sydman]

Same thing happened to me yesterday. Battery lost 10% in like 15 minutes on 3g and it was due to the Motorola music app downloading 250+ MBs of data. Had to force stop several times before it quit.

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Can't you open the music app and go into the settings and tell it to stop pulling album info and song lyrics from the net? Won't that solve the problem?

 

[Sydman]

Not sure if this helps, but I work on a computer all day with internet access. So I pretty much turn everything off, Bluetooth, Wifi, 4G (stay on 3G only), and background data. So basically I can do only text and phone it seems. I'm hesitant to turn off Cell Data because I'm not sure if I can get texts and calls as quick... If I can, then what is the purpose of leaving Cell Data on?

I have a smart action to turn off cellular data and background sync when I turn off my screen and I still get phone calls and text messages, but don't get emails until I turn my screen on then it pulls them down right away. So yes you will still get calls and text with cellular data off, but you can't access the web or send MMS

 

[epphllps]

Can't you open the music app and go into the settings and tell it to stop pulling album info and song lyrics from the net? Won't that solve the problem?

It has never done it before. Album info and lyrics do not amount to 250+ MB of data on less than 50 songs. No motocast running either. Also, yes, I do have that turned off excluding lyrics. Had the phone since the 11th and first time it happened was yesterday and I use the music app everyday.

 

[Sydman]

Yeah that is weird, I have it all turned off myself except the lyrics as well. I listened to a few songs last night before bed and my media server isn't even listed as using my battery at all anymore. Something else has to be making it kick back on, there is a program on the market called Autostarts that tells you what actions causes other things to be triggered. You can download that and just see what is causing media server to come on but you can't disable anything without be Rooted.

 

[epphllps]

Yeah that is weird, I have it all turned off myself except the lyrics as well. I listened to a few songs last night before bed and my media server isn't even listed as using my battery at all anymore. Something else has to be making it kick back on, there is a program on the market called Autostarts that tells you what actions causes other things to be triggered. You can download that and just see what is causing media server to come on but you can't disable anything without be Rooted.

Thanks for the reminder. I purchased Autostarts when the Evo first came out and forgot all about it even though I have always seen it in MY APPS. Time to do some investigating. I am definitely rooted so maybe this can save some battery life.

 

[Sydman]

Oh heck yeah if you are rooted that is even better because you can disable whatever it is making it come back on. Yeah Autostarts is a great program, I am still waiting for the SBF to release till I root.

 

[revelated]

Doesn't happen to me, but I can say that the "Music" app that's on here is not a standalone app from what I can tell. It's defaulted to assume streaming media. Can't delete it and can't reset it to get rid of the streaming part.

I usually am forced to use Amazon MP3 (which can play local music as well as Cloud Player music) or Google Music (which I don't really care for because you don't have many shuffling options) on this phone. Could do Winamp I suppose, but then it takes over audio operations when you plug in the headphones, which I don't want.

 

[mtwotheatt]

Same issues

Hello,

I joined just to say that I had the same problems as described. Yesterday it downloaded around 300mb on WiFi after doing about 80 on 4G. I installed RadioOpt Traffic Monitor from the market and did some troubleshooting:

With the Music widget on, it seems as soon as I play a song over MotoCast after turning the phone on, it'll start downloading several MB's. The settings for "Live Music Information" in the app don't seem to reliably affect this.

The only solution I've found that has worked since yesterday is to disable the Music widget and not play any songs in the app. I have not had a single MB downloaded since around 6pm last night since making this change.

I assume this will be fixed via an update if it's already been brought to Motorola's attention.

Thanks,
Matt

 

[davishusband]

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Happy Holidays!!!

 

[jrmdroid]

Hello,

I joined just to say that I had the same problems as described. Yesterday it downloaded around 300mb on WiFi after doing about 80 on 4G. I installed RadioOpt Traffic Monitor from the market and did some troubleshooting:

With the Music widget on, it seems as soon as I play a song over MotoCast after turning the phone on, it'll start downloading several MB's. The settings for "Live Music Information" in the app don't seem to reliably affect this.

The only solution I've found that has worked since yesterday is to disable the Music widget and not play any songs in the app. I have not had a single MB downloaded since around 6pm last night since making this change.

I assume this will be fixed via an update if it's already been brought to Motorola's attention.

Thanks,
Matt

I hoping that moto fixes this issue as well. Motocast is a great tool for accessing folders shared on your computer.

Advice is to be carefull on rebooting your phone. The music app will start and you will be downloading huge amount of data again. I just removed the shared folders for now until moto can fix, (at least I hope they fix it) so that there are no surprises.

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[Oaklands]

Thanks for sharing that. I had just defrosted the Music app yesterday and noticed I did not get near as much time yesterday. I did use the phone a bit more and it would have made it way past bed time, so I went on and took the opportunity to drain the battery completely by playing a movie while I was watching tv.

 

[doniago]

Just wanted to note that InternetScheduler Pro is a pretty good app for scheduling 3G on/off periods, though it's not extremely user-friendly. Still, you can set periods where the 3G is off, and even have it turn on every X minutes for email checking and such.

 

[droidbionicmaster]

Also try the data saver that is on the device under ur settings

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[pico1]

I dunno about data, but I refreshed my phone last week from scratch because of high Android OS use, and now it's been stuck on 74% for a while now. I wish there was a more accurate way to see what's using the AOS.