Re: Mobile data on

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?

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Each and every restart does it.
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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