Google Play Magazine a data hog?

**Fuzzone** · 07-25-2012, 03:46 PM

So I noticed that my Google Play Magazine app is using extremely high volume of data on my network. I have not bought a single magazine. I downloaded one magazine but haven't even browsed through it completely. So, the question is why is is using all this bandwidth. Anyone else seeing this?

See attached pic.

**salsa2good** · 07-25-2012, 04:00 PM

yeah i disabled the app completly.

**Fuzzone** · 07-25-2012, 04:08 PM

How do you disable the app completely/permanently? Won't it start again by itself?

**Lanhoj** · 07-25-2012, 04:16 PM

Originally Posted by Fuzzone

How do you disable the app completely/permanently?

Settings--> Apps--> All--> Google Play Magazines--> Disable

**Fuzzone** · 07-25-2012, 07:00 PM

Oooh... this is cool. Thanks. This must be a JB thing. Couldn't disable apps in previous version.

**bayourock** · 07-25-2012, 07:13 PM

glad someone caught this. I occasionally (daily for my ride home) use my N7 tethered to my cell phone...

Don't need this app eating up all my data!!!

**phatboy29m** · 07-25-2012, 07:35 PM

Originally Posted by Fuzzone

Oooh... this is cool. Thanks. This must be a JB thing. Couldn't disable apps in previous version.

You can disable apps in ICS the same way.

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**Fuzzone** · 07-25-2012, 10:45 PM

Can anyone else verify if they are seeing the same thing?

Check yours by going to Settings-->Data Usage.

**Fuzzone** · 07-26-2012, 12:37 PM

Originally Posted by Fuzzone

Can anyone else verify if they are seeing the same thing?

Check yours by going to Settings-->Data Usage.

Anyone? I want to see if this is just me or a buggy app?

**moss27** · 07-26-2012, 12:54 PM

That seems like a looot of data usage. Are you sure that it didn't download all of your magazines when you first set up the app?

I downloaded all of my magazines on Zinio originally and it used up a lot of data to download the actual magazines to my tablet. But for it to use 12 GB on its own makes no sense, outside of that.

**Fuzzone** · 07-26-2012, 01:22 PM

Originally Posted by moss27

That seems like a looot of data usage. Are you sure that it didn't download all of your magazines when you first set up the app?

I downloaded all of my magazines on Zinio originally and it used up a lot of data to download the actual magazines to my tablet. But for it to use 12 GB on its own makes no sense, outside of that.

I downloaded the free Esquire, just to check the look and feel. Other than that I didn't do anything. I stopped and disabled the app yesterday and the graph now has flattened. See both the graphs now. The foreground is minimal however the background data is extremely high.

Any help or guidance in this regard would be much appreciated.

**NickA** · 07-26-2012, 01:49 PM

Originally Posted by Fuzzone

I downloaded the free Esquire, just to check the look and feel. Other than that I didn't do anything. I stopped and disabled the app yesterday and the graph now has flattened. See both the graphs now. The foreground is minimal however the background data is extremely high.

Any help or guidance in this regard would be much appreciated.

That seems really high. I downloaded 1 magazine and my foreground is 16.98MB background is 138MB.

**moss27** · 07-26-2012, 02:34 PM

Originally Posted by Fuzzone

I downloaded the free Esquire, just to check the look and feel. Other than that I didn't do anything. I stopped and disabled the app yesterday and the graph now has flattened. See both the graphs now. The foreground is minimal however the background data is extremely high.

Any help or guidance in this regard would be much appreciated.

Did you ever download/purchase any other magazines from this app on a previous device?

**Fuzzone** · 07-26-2012, 02:52 PM

Originally Posted by moss27

Did you ever download/purchase any other magazines from this app on a previous device?

Nope. Never.

**DreamSTi** · 07-26-2012, 03:36 PM

Thats a wicked high amount of data!

**tcat007** · 08-23-2012, 02:28 PM

I just looked at mine and it's at 3.6 gB. Haven't looked at magazines in 3 weeks, and then might have downloaded the free Popular Science.

I also see no data in the android/data/magazines folder, but I can read any of the magazines off-line. They are stored on the SD card "somewhere". But there sure shouldn't be 3.6 gb of usage this past week!

**Jaingo5150** · 08-23-2012, 04:42 PM

I did go to data settings and check. Almost a full gig of activity. Since the first week of setup, I have had very little activity. With that said, I only downloaded a few mags initially to see what it was all about, so in hindsight a gig of usage seems high to me.

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