high data usage - upload only

[tildesley]

hey

dunno if anyone has any ideas but thought i'd try here.

what could be uploading between 250mb and 500mb of data every day? im on 4S with ios5, the only programs i think could be

• mail.app - set to google's imap, i've heard rumours but i don't think its thats much
• bakery story - my missus got me into it but i havent heard any bad reports
• viber - same as bakery story, no bad reports.

the thing is that it is upload only, nothing download wise apart from facebook & twitter, which i dont understand

 

[HazyCloud]

Could be iCloud trying to sync your contacts/data. Apparently people have found the issue in their diagnostic reports. (I've read that some feel this is the battery issue as well, but others not using iCloud still have the battery problem.)

 

[tildesley]

Could be iCloud trying to sync your contacts/data. Apparently people have found the issue in their diagnostic reports. (I've read that some feel this is the battery issue as well, but others not using iCloud still have the battery problem.)

ive got icloud backup off, docs & data off... do the diagnostic reports/contacts/notes really mean that much data a day? it all seems a little insane to me, i mean im looking at 15gb a month just upload, heck i dont cover that on my home laptop!

 

[OneMike]

I think iCloud doing data backup.

 

[tildesley]

I think iCloud doing data backup.

icloud data backup is off and my icloud usage is 0%

 

[Krevnik]

hey

dunno if anyone has any ideas but thought i'd try here.

what could be uploading between 250mb and 500mb of data every day? im on 4S with ios5, the only programs i think could be

• mail.app - set to google's imap, i've heard rumours but i don't think its thats much
• bakery story - my missus got me into it but i havent heard any bad reports
• viber - same as bakery story, no bad reports.

the thing is that it is upload only, nothing download wise apart from facebook & twitter, which i dont understand

Where are you getting the information on the data use?

 

[lpeedin]

Are you sending diagnostic reports to Apple? If so turn it off.

 

[tildesley]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_0_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9A405 Safari/7534.48.3)

From cell usage in settings & a program called Idataspy. The programs were a best guess, because everything runs in the background I can't check it off program by program

 

[Krevnik]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_0_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9A405 Safari/7534.48.3)

From cell usage in settings & a program called Idataspy. The programs were a best guess, because everything runs in the background I can't check it off program by program

All something like iDataSpy can do is estimate based on cell usage data Apple provides. A better cross-check is your bill, but that doesn't tell you what data was download or upload.

If this data is going over WiFi, there are a few things that could be happening, including WiFi syncing (if you use it). Diagnostic reports over WiFi will generate data too.

 

[tildesley]

All something like iDataSpy can do is estimate based on cell usage data Apple provides. A better cross-check is your bill, but that doesn't tell you what data was download or upload.

If this data is going over WiFi, there are a few things that could be happening, including WiFi syncing (if you use it). Diagnostic reports over WiFi will generate data too.

diagnostic reports are off for sending, im guessing it still produces them though

its all going via gprs/3g so i can see it been recorded in cellular data usage, so it must be sitting there all day uploading stuff to clear 250mb, also the battery down to 3% in 10hrss. ive got rid of my mobile imap access to google to see if that solves it, just wait and see now...

 

[Krevnik]

diagnostic reports are off for sending, im guessing it still produces them though

its all going via gprs/3g so i can see it been recorded in cellular data usage, so it must be sitting there all day uploading stuff to clear 250mb, also the battery down to 3% in 10hrss. ive got rid of my mobile imap access to google to see if that solves it, just wait and see now...

You might want to confirm that the phone is reporting correctly by checking your usage with the carrier. They only report total data, so it will only help you confirm if the upload + download ~ carrier's records. I know AT&T and Verizon both update that information on a regular basis because of the tiered data plans.