How do I check how many MB GPRS I have used with O2?
Is there an automatic way?
I'm currently with o2 payg but o2 only provide wap and mms over gprs for payg customers. I would like to move providers to one that will allow full gprs web access on a payg basis (pay per MB or something)
A full contract is not an option at the moment.
Anyone have any suggestions ?
thanks,
malty
I'm currently with orange and TESCO (O2)
Both providers allow full GPRS facilities
orange is probably the best, in the long-term
I buy £10 and convert £4 into £16 (4MB) of GPRS
You then get a SMS when it is activated and another when it is used up
It is valid for 1 month
There is also one days unlimited GPRS for £1
Otherwise the standard rate applies at £4 per MB
TESCO uses the O2 network
Flat rate of £4 per MB
how do you go about converting the orange credit into gprs ?
Is it full web access ?
Do you need them to set it all up (enable) for you
To convert the calling credit for uswe with GPRS, convert £4 into "orange world"
Call 450 from your handset and follow the voice menu for "extras"
Would this allow me to use an Orange PAYG sim for full GPRS on my XDA1?
got an orange sim, set it up and its all working perfectly.
thanks for the recommendation !
malty
Yes animmo
The orange PAYG will work with most GPRS devices
However, you will be charged the normal rate per MB
The trick is to load your phone with sufficient credit and then convert this as and when required in bundles of £4 into "orange extras" (or £1 for a days unlimited access)
been on this a couple of weeks now and it works a treat. Ive gone for the free text top up tariff (1000 text messages free if you top up total £30 in a month) plus i've had 2 £4 gprs bundles and a load of free picture messages.
All in all works out very well
One very slight problem I dont know if this is device or provider related. If I connect to the internet then try to send/receive a MMS message, it wont connect to the orange mms server. Conversely if I send/receive a MMS message i cannot then connect to the internet. I have to soft reset the device to switch connections, almost as if a server cache isnt being emptied or the modem isnt being fully reset or something. Going into and out of flight mode doesnt cure it either, just a soft reset.
Any ideas with this fellas ?
thanks,
malty
i'm reading that fair usage also means on your wifi connection?
how can they restrict what you get off your paid for wifi connection data wise?
Ok so the situation:
I bought my xperia s on contract of 12 months (MTV nexxt) which allows me to have 500MB of data with unlimited speed (actually it's like 400 kB/s or around 3 mb/s) but after that the DL/UL speed was supposed to drop down drastically but i was allowed unlimited internet with low speed. I'm over 500MB and when i checked the "slowed down" speed, it was like 15kB/s..i was like @#!*&
So my question:
By searching over the internet i found out that if i use proxy to use internet (youtube, google etc), the ISP won't be able to check my internet data used (am i wrong?)
Is it possible for me to fool the ISP from checking the amount of data i've used because in the contract it says 500MB but i was at like 800MB when my data speeds were slowed down.
Hi All,
I recently changed to Dommel, a provider in Belgium, who gives a very detailed list of mobile data use.
I was astonished that I use mobile data every day while my mobile data is standard off because I have Wifi at home and at work.
After asking an explanation from Dommel, I searched the internet for an explanation for this problem and the only relevant thing I found was the following thread:
http://android.stackexchange.com/qu...ing-used-even-when-mobile-data-setting-is-off
In essence, they say that every time you call or get a phone-call, your phone reverts to 3G, HSPA+ in my case, if your provider does not support VoLTE (= telephony over 4G, packet based in stead of circuit-based) and goes back to 4G (LTE) after the call, leading to small amounts of data use during each protocol-switch. Apparently, this hidden data usage while mobile data is off happens all over the world but as only small amounts of data are used, most people do not notice it.
I compared my data usage with my call history and sometimes they coincide, sometimes not.
Then I noticed that many of the small data usages coincide with the typical moments I commute between home and work. Hence, moving seems also to consume small amounts of data maybe due to the handover from one antenna to the other, maybe because one supports 4G and the other only 3G.
I also noticed that amount of data consumed varies between 0.0002 MB and 0.18MB -- one would expect that a protocol switch between 3G and 4G or a handover between antennas consumes more or less equals amount of data.
Luckily, I remained in Belgium when I consumed about 50MB this way and it only cost me a few EUR/month. Looking at the data roaming tariffs of my provider, it turned out that if I had the same issue while traveling in Algeria, it would have cost me about 600 EUR (Yes, you read it right: six hundred EUR for 50 MB).
I have also good news: setting the preferred mobile network type to WCDMA (=3G) in the mobile settings seems a work-around to this problem. According to the tech guy at the provider-side, I did not use any data anymore with this setting unless I put mobile data to on.
I would really like to understand what is going on. Unfortunately, the tech guy at the provider-side really tries to help but seems to understand even less about this issue than myself.
Hence, I felt it is time to call the experts: xda-dev Does anybody understands this hidden data usage while mobile data is off?
regards
Dries