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Hi,
After upgrading to Android 4.3 on my S4, I have noticed a process/application named Unified Daemon(EUR) which is using up a lot of data. Does anyone know what this process application and does and how I can reduce the amount of data it uses? It is eating up around 10-15% of my data each day.
Thanks
Nilz
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The Unified Daemon is Unified Daemon application for Weather, Stock , News app.
It shows the total data usage from ‘Accuweather.com’ and ‘Yahoo Finance and Yahoo News’,
and the data is requested by Alarm / Desk Clock / S Planner / Camera / Briefing app.
Data usage will be different according to setting of each user.
For example, data usage depends on how many you set the city in Weather app, how many you set the
Stock or Category in Yahoo finance and news.
If you want to reduce data usage by those apps, Set the suitable refreshing period (None/1h/3h/6h/12h) in
setting of each application because refreshing needs additional data usage.
Just do an online search for it. There's info available in other forms.
Really? Thanks for the useful advice. I searched everywhere before I posted and could not find a concrete answer. That's why I posted here to see if anyone else has a similar issue.
You can enable and disable this service by going to
Settings-->Data usage --> (scroll down)--> click on Unified Daemon --> (scroll down) --> "Check" Restrict background Data.
I did this 2 weeks ago with no visible side effects. Unified Daemon used about 608MB of data in 2 days.
I still don't know what it is for. I'll continue the research and will post it up here if I'll find anything.
I have a reason to believe that VZW installed something that internally or virtual jacks up the data so we go over it.
However that is just a theory, I could be wrong.
All I know my data usage got stabilized after I did steps above
Good luck!!!
It would be good to know what that is. I have it on my phone, but it's not currently running, and hasn't used any data.
The Restrict background data that you check in that location is not just for that app, I think, but for all background data except when connected to WiFi. (On my S4, at any rate, when I tap any of the apps listed in Data usage and then tap Restrict background data, I get a warning that this "may stop apps that depend on background data working when Wi-Fi is not available," and suggests looking at individual app settings instead. This is basically the same warning you get when you tap the Menu key in Data usage settings and then tap Restrict background data.) But if you mainly connect over WiFi rather than 4G, you wouldn't see any effects.
I tried this also last week, but my Yahoo Weather widget stopped working when not connected to Wi-Fi. So after looking at some settings with Yahoo weather, I checked an option to Retrieve photos on Wi-Fi only and this seems to have reduced the amount of data the Unified Daemon (EUR) process is using. I also unchecked the Restrict Background Data option and the usage is a lot lower than before.
The odd thing is that I have had this widget before the 4.3 update and I only noticed the high usage after the 4.3 update. Not sure if the 4.3 update has changed the way Unified Daemon(EUR) is processing stuff.
On Samsung Galaxy S4 go to settings, data usage and among the many apps that show, find the Unified Daemon(EUR) and force it to stop using 'background' to do it's deeds. Then only works via wi-fi and life is good.
So I had +1GB of data used in two days when I was connected to wireless the entire time. I went to the local Verizon store and they took the phone to the back for the tech to look at it. He had to call someone and found out that Samsung has put this software on all S4 phones for all service providers, ATT, TMobile, etc. and hasn't told anyone! It updates all your software 27/7 so it is constantly running and using data!! I'm calling Samsung tomorrow to complain, let them know they should have notified customers and that I want $10 for a months worth of data.
So did you call Samsung and get any info? This app is using a ton of data on my phone as well.
I was on hold for over an hour after being ‘escalated up’ to get some cash back for the extra data they used, so this has not been resolved. Prior to being escalated, they researched the issue and showed me how to get it off my phone. If you go to the “settings” on your phone at the top and go to ‘More” then “application manager” the scroll over to the “Running” column and scroll down till you see the Unified Daemon, tap it, then tap ‘stop’. Then go back to the ‘downloaded’ column and find UD again, tap “clear data” and if you see an ‘uninstall’ option, tap that. I’d go back and repeat to make sure it’s gone! I hope I remembered that correctly.
Diane
The Unified Daemon is Unified Daemon application for Weather, Stock , News app.
It shows the total data usage from ‘Accuweather.com’ and ‘Yahoo Finance and Yahoo News’,
and the data is requested by Alarm / Desk Clock / S Planner / Camera / Briefing app.
Data usage will be different according to setting of each user.
For example, data usage depends on how many you set the city in Weather app, how many you set the
Stock or Category in Yahoo finance and news.
If you want to reduce data usage by those apps, Set the suitable refreshing period (None/1h/3h/6h/12h) in
setting of each application because refreshing needs additional data usage.
It is a weather clock service. It is the same for any weather service that you use on your phone (yahoo, google, accuweather, ect...) The data usage depends on your phone searching for update on the app.
I had 2GB of data used by this B.S. program yesterday on my Samsung Galaxy S4.
Feb 0GB
Mar .05GB
Apr .09GB
May .1GB
June 3, 2014 @ 4:15AM PST: 1.94GB
WTF is going on???? I haven't changed or downloaded any Weather, Stock, News App's etc. as my phone has been running fine with less than 1GB TOTAL of monthly data use up until this. I was NOT able to remove Unified Daemon(EUR), however, I did turn it off. I don't need to see weather, stock, news or whatever is "sucking off my data" bad enough to use 2GB of data when I have not changed any settings or downloaded any new apps in well over 2 months.
Go to SETTINGS
Device Column
Application Manager
Go to the RUNNING column
find Unified Daemon(EUR) and tap to open
Tap CLEAR DATA
Tap TURN OFF
RESTART phone
Go to SETTINGS
Device Column
Application Manager
Go to the TURNED OFF column
Ensure Unified Daemon(EUR) is turned off with 0.00GB being used
Thank you for the information. You were a big help. I have turned it off after being referred to Samsung. Samsung tech tried to help, but finally said it was the carrier. Very annoying. I only buy 1 G, because I don't use that much data as a rule, so I was surprised to see such a rapid increase.
When my alarm goes off it will freeze and I can't shut off my alarm. I have to wait for it to go into snooze and it will say the "unified daemon has stopped" it is getting really annoying.
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