Hey, how TF can I stop this?
This has only started recently, less than a week. My battery is just getting its ass kicked.
My day to day is work, on WiFi, always full barrs Sunday - Sunday. I stopped spectrum mobile from gps location yada yada but it doesn't do anything or help.
Ditch spectrum
But the price and reception is too good.
The app. Not the service
This is a Samsung, right? There should be a way to turn off / limit background usage
I did turn it off on Wedneaday :(
Spectrum is so bad bro. The line is $40/mo for a 50GB data cap.
US Mobile is $34/mo (when you pay for the year up front) and includes 100GB of QCI 8 data on Verizon and then truly unlimted data @ 1Mbps. They support AT&T (darkstar), T-Mobile (GSM), and Verizon (warp) and if you activate via eSIM, you can change them at any time. So if you're going on a trip and you don't get service with Darkstar, you can swap to Warp for the weekend if you want.
I've been using them for about a year now and they're badass. I pay $96/yr (I pay up front) for service. Only includes 2GB of data, but I'm home or at work all the time, so it's not been an issue. Everything else is unlimited.
Excuse me but what the hell are these prices? 34$ a month for 100GB of 5G data? 8$ a month for 2GB? This is a rip off
As Childish Gambino says: "This is America"
Are you insane? The same plan at Verizon is $65+/mo and it uses traffic shaping to limit your video quality to 480p. lol. It's effectively half the price. Not even to mention that on Verizon you're limited to 60GB/mo;
Unlimited data is restricted to on-device smartphone usage. After exceeding 60 GB/mo of 5G Ultra Wideband, 5G or 4G LTE mobile hotspot data, mobile hotspot data reduced to speeds up to 3 Mbps when on 5G Ultra Wideband and 600 Kbps when on 5G / 4G LTE for the rest of your monthly billing cycle.
Lol go look at german mobile carrier prices.
Then you will actually cry.
I pay 5.99€/month for unlimited voice and SMS, plus 200gb/month. 4G only, no 5G, but who cares.
For a little bit more (9.99€ without shopping for offers) you get unlimited* data on 5G too.
But in my mind that way too expensive.
I don't pay 40 a month lmao. I pay $60 for two lines on spectrum both with 30gb cap and 2g if you go over that cap (I've never gone over once). Nothing comes close to spectrum here. Even boost mobile for the same plan is $60 a month per line. Verizon is almost double. And I'm not about getting contracted up. I've had spectrum mobile since it first came out and I've had 0 issues. Either my phone is shit or this app updated to a broken version draining my battery. My wife has an iPhone and is not effected at all. I see no logical reason to drop my carrier at all.
Is the phone carrier locked? Can you install a carrier neutral stock ROM?
it is locked yes.
Totally unrelated, but I’m wondering if you saw the Boost post a couple of days ago: it is not private and sends your data to advertisers 😢 Maybe seek for an alternative? There are many ☺️
If you turn GPS back on, does the behaviour change?
Have you rebooted your phone recently?
Have you asked your telco?
I turned gps off to see if it would save battery.
I restarted my phone last night (I was not receiving texts from one person because my phone was "offline" though I could talk to everyone else)
I did not do that yet.
Sometimes clearing the app data and cache can also help. Not sure if it's the answer here but worth a try.
I will give that a try. Gotta find the cache first lol.
I doubt that I'll help unless spectrum has a extra shit app.
Custom ROM :p
Might be able to disable it with adb?
Uninstall spectrum mobile app. Reevaluate in 48 hours
You cannot uninstall the app but I did uninstall the updates and then denied access to everything possible on top of location.
You can. ADB is your friend.
https://www.xda-developers.com/uninstall-carrier-oem-bloatware-without-root-access/
pm list packages | grep '<OEM/Carrier/App Name>'you can try to see withspectrumCan you not? Is that an android thing or an America thing?
UAD-ng should let you remove it.
Or since you're on samsung, add it to the deep sleeping apps list.
Probably not necessary for the phone to function right? If not, look into using adb to remove it completely. Only do this if you're comfortable in using command line and enabling developer mode on your phone