android.uid.phone high wifi usage

BVictory21 · May 15, 2019

Hello there!

I have a Huawei P20 Pro, and recently - 4 days ago - I noticed that android.uid.phone began to use a massive data on wifi, not on mobile data though. I have been looking around on the internet, however I did not find any solution yet. I tried scanning with anti-virus apps, however nothing was found, tried restarting the phone, and leaving it off for a while, then turning it back on, nothing worked.

Here is a pic about it:

I hope you can help me!

Thanks in advance!

ocnbrze · May 16, 2019

so that is from what i read a temp folder that any process can use to dump data onto and be able to pull data from there without having to compute the info again if it needs it. it gets deleted and reformed every time you boot up the phone. what is uid?

ur pic is from a speed test. it will not reflect the actual data consumption. this is a system app and is normal. i would not stress over this.

BVictory21 · May 16, 2019

ocnbrze said:
so that is from what i read a temp folder that any process can use to dump data onto and be able to pull data from there without having to compute the info again if it needs it. it gets deleted and reformed every time you boot up the phone. what is uid?

ur pic is from a speed test. it will not reflect the actual data consumption. this is a system app and is normal. i would not stress over this.

The pic is from the enetwork usage from the speedtest app. However this issue as I mentioned appeared recently only, and it also affects the internet in the whole house, as the ping rises to above 1000 ms, also it does use up data, but this issue appears with WiFi on only.

ocnbrze · May 16, 2019

if it is ahuge issue for you i would try a factory reset. i do not see what else you can do at this point.

BVictory21 · May 17, 2019

Well that's what I would like to avoid, or do at last. I will wait for a bit and hope it stops doing this, meanwhile I hope there will be a solution other than resetting the phone.

mikedt · May 17, 2019

Maybe there's some rogue app or game using a system process that's pinging and phoning home to a server in China?

Try the phone in safe mode so it's only the system stuff running, and see how the data usage is then

BVictory21 · May 17, 2019

mikedt said:
Maybe there's some rogue app or game using a system process that's pinging and phoning home to a server in China?

Try the phone in safe mode so it's only the system stuff running, and see how the data usage is then

It seems like, in safe mode the issue is not represented. I guess I should test out what apps are causing the problem?

Edit: Seems like, the 3rd party apps weren't causing problems, as I removed all of them and the issue is still there. Could this be an Android 9 issue or a huawei issue?

mikedt · May 17, 2019

Try Netstat, that should tell you what process it is and exactly where it's connecting to, like if it is something Huawei, or Google, etc.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rinacode.android.netstatplus

BVictory21 · May 17, 2019

mikedt said:
Try Netstat, that should tell you what process it is and exactly where it's connecting to, like if it is something Huawei, or Google, etc.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rinacode.android.netstatplus

Weirdly, neither netstat, or any other data monitor shows this data usage, only Speedtest's newest datamonitor, I still couldn't get around the problem, even though I tried different netstat apps too. I start to begin to think the only solution is a phone reset.

BVictory21 · May 19, 2019

Update: The issue has been fixed, turns out it was some kind of syncronization problem!

Ancenhhh · Dec 31, 2020

I had the same problem with my nova 7i just now. Turns out it was the gallery syncing all the videos and photos to the cloud lol.

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