Recent content by dbiggins71

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    Excessive Background Data Usage - Google Play Store?

    Hmmm, just reading up on 3G Watchdog and seems as though there may be issues with it on Lollipop - seems as though a few people are experiencing inaccurate readings. For example, it reports 500MB MORE than my Vodafone app. Going to try and alternative and see how that goes...thanks for all your...
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    Excessive Background Data Usage - Google Play Store?

    The biggest app is Facebook at 65mb, but that's for the last 6 days (I can't see how to see stats from today only in Data usage?) However, 3G Watchdog reports "OS Services + others" as 250MB for today only...why doesn't Data usage report this?
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    Excessive Background Data Usage - Google Play Store?

    It's showing 297MB for the past 6 days which is wrong, as 3g Watchdog shows 300MB for today only ("OS services + others" - 250MB on it's own)...
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    Excessive Background Data Usage - Google Play Store?

    Nope, it wasn't Play Store as mentioned above. I restricted background data for the Play Store, but something else ate up my data this evening...my photos are set to backup via wifi only, so it's not that. Just had a thought - when I upgraded to Lollipop I performed a factory reset, but didn't...
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    Excessive Background Data Usage - Google Play Store?

    That's exactly what I did, and it still munched it's way through 250MB of data this evening while I was walking home and listening to music...really not happy about this, and I'm even contemplating switching to the dreaded iOS if it continues...
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    Excessive Background Data Usage - Google Play Store?

    That's the problem - plenty of my apps were downloaded via the Play Store, so not an option really...
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    Excessive Background Data Usage - Google Play Store?

    Hi folks, Since upgrading to Lollipop a few days ago on my S5, I've noticed that something is downloading an enormous amount of data in the background. I usually use around 60mb a day, but on average the phone is chewing up around 300mb per day. On the first day after upgrade it ate up...