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From: Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk>
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Subject: Re: Mobile data on
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 22:03:17 +0000
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Andrews wrote:
> Ed Cryer wrote on Tue, 19 Nov 2024 12:54:14 +0000 :
> 
>>>> Something is switching on mobile data. I thought it was me for a while;
>>>> maybe a stray finger or thumb over the drop-down settings. But it still
>>>> happens occasionally, even though I've been very careful.
>>>> How can I find the app that's doing it?
>>>
>>> Each and every restart does it.
>>>
>>
>> No it doesn't; at least not on my phone.
> 
> It always amazes me that people respond to the gibberish of the Joerg troll
> (where Joerg Lorenze doesn't own a helpful bone in his entire body).
> 
> Anyway, ignoring the Joerg Lorenze troll... Andy Burns told me about
> NetGuard long ago, which, if you do determine the app that's causing the
> problem, you can turn off mobile data specifically to it (you have control
> over every single app with NetGuard).
> 
> Now your question though is how to determine which app it is.
> 
> Every app lists in the settings (on my Samsung anyway) how much mobile data
> it used. Let me look for you with, oh, let's say "NewPipe...
> a. I go to Settings
> b. I go to Apps
> c. I search for NewPipe
> d. I scroll down and it tells me I used 3.81GB of mobile data since Aug 1.
> 
> Actually I don't do it that way because I use the Muntashirakon App
> Manager, but you probably would do it that way - so I checked for you that
> way so that you could follow in my footsteps.
> 
> Of course it's a PITA to have to look at every app that way, but since the
> data exists, there is likely an app that rolls it all up for you somewhere.
> 
> Next I went back to the general settings (Android 13) and searched for
> "mobile data" and it came up with "Mobile Data Usage" which showed last
> "month" I used 2.44GB of mobile data (where a "month" to Android is
> whatever you set it to be and where mine is set at the 1st of each month).
> 
> When I click on "Mobile Data Usage" within that activity, it shows me a
> graph and then it sorts all my apps by the amount of mobile data they used.
> 
> That's what I think you need to do as the top app in that list uses the
> most mobile data & the bottom app in that list uses the least mobile data.
> 
> Good luck. Let us know how it worked out as my suggestion is:
> a. Follow the steps above to locate the offending app
> b. Limit what that app can do with mobile data
> 
> Note: There's probably a third-party app for all this but I didn't look.

Hello Andrews.

Your solution seems heavily dependent on third-party apps and specific 
software; Android 13, Newpipe, NetGuard.
I don't have any of those.

Ed