By Sam Cater —

Samsung Phones - What is causing extreme polling to 'mobile.pipe.aria.microsoft.com'?

Showing a flurry of requests for Microsoft Telemetry, one after the other

Noticed a sea of requests to 'mobile.pipe.aria.microsoft.com' from my phone thanks to Pi-Hole. I did some digging with an App called 'ReThink DNS', which allows you to see which Apps are making which DNS requests (very good tool). Turns out it is the 'Link to Windows' App and/or Service. Both can be disabled if you 'Show System Apps' in the 'Settings->Apps' Menu on your phone.

All gone now. Thanks Microsoft for draining my battery unnecessarily for the past 6 months, since I've had this phone.