Consumption of data's on Android phones has made many individual to divert their attention from buying android devices...Android phones are designed in such a way that it works underground without you noticing,thereby causing your data to get exhausted on time even without you browsing at all with your phone.Also some android apps are also design to run on background basis, which in the process of running underground it also consume your data.
How will i know that certain apps is making used of data underground ?and how to stop my android phone from consuming a lot of data?.... All the question mentioned above will be address in this article all you need to do is to read along to know how.
How will i know the apps that eat up data underground without noticing
To know which apps on your android phone that normally eat up data on your phone, from your phone menu goto >>> Settings >> from their goto / look for >> Data usage >>………click on it ,under this menu you will see all application that are installed on your phone, tap on any one of the apps to see the one that works underground... When you tap on the apps you will see two words attached below the app e.g foreground and background... If you notice that, background for example is reading up to a megabyte (mb),you should know that,the particular app you opened is working underground. Just like the picture below.
How to stop my applications from running underground.
To stop apps from running underground on your Android phone,all you need is to restrict any apps that run or work underground, i believed by now you can be able to detect apps that run underground from the above procedure. Now to restrict an application all you need to do,is to scroll Down your phone screen when you at the Data usage stage,tap on a app, and you will see as mentioned before foreground /background ,all you need to do is to scroll down a bit ,you will see a thick box ,mark and press OK.Just like the picture below,you have just stop an application from running underground on your phone. Do the same procedure to any other apps you find out running underground, to enable your data to last long on your devices.By restricting certain apps it will stop to run underground when not in use.
Note :-Some applications may stop to function after restricting it,all you need to do is to unthick the box to allow it to work, as you can not restrict such types of app.If you are the type that make use of Google play store, don't restrict the apps called Google service because if you do ,you won't be able to access your play store ,i hope this help you in restricting apps to stop unnecessary data usage without you noticing.... Thanks please make use of the share button , happy weekend
