Unknown Data Usage

[terryjwhiteside]

My data usage record shows I used about 61mb of data on Mar 20 at 1:42am...I'm not awake at 1:42am, I'm asleep and even though my phone is on I am connected to my home wifi.   What can account for this unknown, data usage?

[dabr]

@terryjwhiteside   Lol...hopefully, you were able to view the planet lineup, unfortunately, I only got to see Jupiter and Venus which are obviously the easiest to view anyhow and the rest were blocked due to too many trees and clouds.

[terryjwhiteside]

Thanks for this, I think I found the culprit that is using my data, it's an app called Star Tracker I was using to locate the 5 planet alignment this past week.  It used 167Mb of my 250Mb limit.  I have now turned off background data and will monitor to see what happens.

[dabr · Accepted solution]

@Andyrob26   Do you have Data Saver/Restrict Background Data enabled on the phone?  You should be able find them under Data Usage (Connections).

[Andyrob26]

Mine is doing the same.  It has come to the point that i now turn my data off when i dont need it.  I have tried forcing stop on some of my apps as i am wondering if something is updating and running in the background.  But when you have so many its hard to know which one.

[terryjwhiteside]

Thanks for the reply but I'm having a hard time accepting this explanation since I see a pattern of 2 data amounts for the same time most days eg. on on Mar 22 it shows 24.88Mb at 12:48am as well as 0.75Mb at 12:48am.  Again, at this time I'm asleep and phone is connected to home wifi. 

[hairbag1]

@terryjwhiteside 

try this for accurate data availability...

[softech]

@terryjwhiteside   no worry, the 61 MB was not consumed during 1:42.

PM only update the data usage twice a day.  So, the entry you see is the total data usage between 1:42am and the timestamp of the previous entry. So, pretty much the total usage for the 12 hours