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Unknown data usage early morning

With the changes to the data plans, i decided to look at my wifes data usage on her iphone. What i have found is odd and a bit concerning. Overall her data usage is pretty much nothing, except for something that occurs every morning around 1 or 2 am. I have included data usage on the AT&T account below. As you can see, something happens around 1 or 2 am every morning, i just dont know what it is. The amount of data being transferred is REALLY high if you ask me, as high as 75336KB back on the 17th. I called AT&T support and they said it was the phone updating or mail being downloaded, basically they have no idea. I have the mail set to fetch manually already. Anyway to determine what is going on???

06/04 01:22 AM phone Internet/MEdia Net Sent 3368KB
06/03 01:45 AM phone Internet/MEdia Net Sent 18906KB
06/02 01:45 AM phone Internet/MEdia Net Sent 6878KB
06/01 01:45 AM phone Internet/MEdia Net Sent 9460KB
05/31 07:45 PM phone Internet/MEdia Net Sent 1918KB
05/31 01:27 AM phone Internet/MEdia Net Sent 7551KB
05/30 02:27 PM phone Internet/MEdia Net Sent 1224KB
05/30 01:17 AM phone Internet/MEdia Net Sent 2685KB
05/29 01:39 AM phone Internet/MEdia Net Sent 8120KB
05/28 01:39 PM phone Internet/MEdia Net Sent 5410KB
05/28 01:07 AM phone Internet/MEdia Net Sent 5068KB
05/27 10:42 AM phone Internet/MEdia Net Sent 21778KB
05/27 01:06 AM phone Internet/MEdia Net Sent 10419KB
05/26 09:26 AM phone Internet/MEdia Net Sent 20657KB
05/26 01:50 AM phone Internet/MEdia Net Sent 8467KB
05/25 02:21 PM phone Internet/MEdia Net Sent 18086KB
05/25 01:25 AM phone Internet/MEdia Net Sent 5249KB
05/24 01:25 AM phone Internet/MEdia Net Sent 1012KB
05/23 01:25 AM phone Internet/MEdia Net Sent 12978KB
05/22 01:25 AM phone Internet/MEdia Net Sent 9749KB
05/21 01:41 AM phone Internet/MEdia Net Sent 19166KB
05/20 01:17 AM phone Internet/MEdia Net Sent 23860KB
05/18 11:56 PM phone Internet/MEdia Net Sent 15440KB
05/18 01:06 AM phone Internet/MEdia Net Sent 29900KB
05/17 01:12 AM phone Internet/MEdia Net Sent 75336KB

Posted on Jun 5, 2010 4:56 AM

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truerock

Level 1

10 points

Mar 10, 2014 12:19 PM in response to mjmsbrown

mjmsbrown,

I have been studying this issue.

A couple of questions...

At night when you reset your statistics, are any apps running on your iPhone... that is, do you shut-down all running apps before you re-set cell-data statistics? I'm not trying to be rude - but, just to verify... do you know how to shut-down apps (double click the "Home button", etc.)?

I also use ATT. When I look at my cell-data usage at:

https://www.att.com/olam/displayUsageDetails.myworld?isWebTabInFocus=true&select edCtn=xxxxxxxxxx

the usage data is about 2 hours behind real time. How many hours is your ATT detail data-usage behind real-time?

When you say "turning the phone off" are you putting the iPhone to sleep by briefly pushing the power-button or powering-off the iPhone by holding the power-button down for 5 seconds?

But, anyway... to answer your question... If the ATT detail cell-data usage report says your phone used 5040KB at 1:46am I would think you would have to see that on your iPhone cell-data usage screen.

Mar 10, 2014 12:20 PM in response to GoatRider

Yes, about right, but it's MTSOs (switches), not individual towers that summarize the data usage. A switch controls many towers.

Mar 10, 2014 12:37 PM in response to mjmsbrown

If I may make a modest proposal, rather than extending this 4 year old thread with over 2,000 posts, start a new post with your observations, so new viewers are more likely to see it without having to navigate over 140 pages.

Mar 10, 2014 2:09 PM in response to Lawrence Finch

I started a new thread on the topic here:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5982199

Pettitp

Level 1

8 points

Jun 23, 2014 2:18 PM in response to mjmsbrown

Interesting enough.... phone completely turned off for 3 days. Still high amounts of data showing in the am...... There is something that should really be done to stop all of the people from getting charged for data they never use.

cgema

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4 points

Oct 24, 2014 7:01 AM in response to cnpeyton

Sorry this thread is older, I'm at a loss as the data usage is out of control on our 4 phones. Everything that can be shut off is, no fetch, no push, no auto updates etc… Basically we have dumbed down our "smart" phones.

this is just a small sample of what every phone shows daily:

truerock

Level 1

10 points

Oct 24, 2014 8:01 AM in response to cgema

cgema,

Have you looked at Settings, Cellular to see which apps are using cell data?

RPS36

Level 1

8 points

Feb 12, 2016 9:57 AM in response to kiterbruce

I have the same problem with usage but don't see the IMAP issue but will look more carefully now that you have mentioned it. It is a real aggravation that the app is using so much memory. In my case, it always reverts to 2.6 GB. Seems that it should not even be more than 100 MB since the actual messages total less than 5 MB.

Busby359

Level 1

4 points

Dec 18, 2016 3:03 PM in response to vartanarsen

Same problem every 2 hours some data is used and it verys from 2 hour interval to the next

Unknown data usage early morning