Hi all,
I've been looking for a solution to my concern over the amount my HD2 will chew through the 500mb data usage on my mobile contract, but can find no way for the hd2 to monitor this natively and so far my collection of useful links to hd2 apps are limited. Does anyone know if there is a program that will monitor the amount of data used across the internet link? google is less than helpful right now, it keeps filling the beginning of my searches with links for bit torrent sites
Al.
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Apologies if this is not the right place to ask but....
I am considering getting an HTC Diamond Touch and I am on O2. Their "unlimited" data plan has a fair usage policy of 200Mb per month. Is this enough? I intend using push email, my personal IMAP email (with regular polling) and some web browsing, perhaps the odd bit of YouTube etc etc.
Also, if I am connected to my WiFi router at home and browsing the web, I assume that O2 dont know anything about that and it does not form part of the 200Mb.
Thanks
wifi does NOT count towards fair use.
youtube in any considerable amount will easily amount to over 200mb. Depending on the type and scope of the email you're getting as well as the content of the websites you're visiting, you may very easily surpass 200mb.
try installing a data counter for a month and see how much you use.
You should be greater.
In case you haven't noticed, dslreports.com's mobile speed test, http://www.dslreports.com/mspeed?jisok=1&more=1, is quite slow, slower than 3G speeds, during American business hours (usually under 500Kbit/s) and is unacceptable to use to test a 3G phone. I've checked this plenty of times from my office computer that would otherwise get around 4Mbits. I appreciated their public service with this thing but the site for our purposes is presently unusable.
In addition to my own server that I use to give out small cabs over a dsl line, I have a shell account on one of my ISP's servers on their lan which is linked to multiple telcos on plenty of fiber and I would be willing to offer it to the XDA community (... but not to google) for a 1MB speed test site just like dslreports's mspeed except with plenty of bandwidth. I have no caps so this is no skin off my back and I would not post any advertisements of any kind nor would I solicit donations.
We've got to have a reliable speed testing site that doesn't require flash or heavy java. How else are we going to compare radios? Tethering every time?
So would any of you who knows enough HTML and either php or java or ruby or whatever like to make a simple speed testing page that clocks the download, does some math and redirects to a page with the speed at which the person was downloading? If so, let me know and I'll drop it on the shell and stealth forward to it off a subdomain on my blownfuze.org thing.
Doug
there are many such sites other than that one
problem is that when general network traffic is high
the more "jumps / routings" away from the server
where the test site is
the more you tested speed will be affected
Hi everyone, sorry if this in the wrong section, feel free to move it.
I have searched but not found anything suitable.
I'm looking for a Winmo app to record the number of texts and minutes (and poss mobile web usage) each month, that will then reset at my billing date each month.
I have the excellent Spb Wireless Monitor already for the mobile web, and have tried an app called LCMinutes, but its quite fiddly to set up and use.
Using the HD2.
Is there anything anyone can recommend?
Thanks
here it is;
LCMinutes
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=354103
Basically LCMinutes is an application that keeps track of phone calls, SMS, and data traffic, calculates their charge based on user defined rate plan, and thus keep user informed of the up-to-date balance information: like current charges, used free minutes, used free messages, used free data allowlance, expire date for prepaid plans, etc.
Have fun,
Senax
Moved as not software release.
Hello!
I've found a lot of discussions about data counters, but generaly they all come to some users having good expirience with a particular app and others finding it unreliable.
As my data traffic costs get insanely high after i break the monthly limit, I'm pretty paranoid about my usage, so I myself installed fiew data counting apps and compared results. No two ever showed same figures that could be considered identical for practical purposes.
As I see that's an issue for manny users, I'd like to opet this discussion again here, but from a bit different aproach.
I'd like to know what methods apps use to collect data traffic statistics, what causes them to sometimes do it inaccurately, and is there maybe some superior method that can realy be relied upon?
I use 3G Watchdog and this is very reliable.
It counds UP and DOWN data usage so this could mean data usage appears higher than what your operator charges.
I check my Tesco account and my data usage there is very similar to that of 3G watchdog.
As many are asking for a similar trick , I would like to share a tool that is of use for the following :
Small mobile data plans that get expired quickly (500MB , 1GB, ..)
Tethering data plans that are limited to a fixed amount and get exhausted rapidly
One of few solutions for this , is to use a bandwidth limiter that :
Sets the connection speed to fit to your needs (preventing many app from stealing bandwidth)
Sets tethering upload/download speed and therefore increase the tethering data plan life time
Drastically accelerates all the connections
Recently added to the store and tested in many devices the app is available here :
Bandwidth ruler free on goolge Store
For more details, Its dedicated XDA thread :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-bandwidth-manager-android-t2972889