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I am buying a Milestone and it has 500MB data per month. During the day if I am out I will check my Twitter and email. Sometimes I go on the net and sometimes check my facebook. Will 500MB per month be enough for this?
Thanks.
iWannaBeAdored said:
Hey.
I am buying a Milestone and it has 500MB data per month. During the day if I am out I will check my Twitter and email. Sometimes I go on the net and sometimes check my facebook. Will 500MB per month be enough for this?
Thanks.
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OH YES.
I use my phone much more than you on the internet, and have never used over 100MB/month... I used 70MB once, but then i was using my phone for streaming video
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OH YES.
I use my phone much more than you on the internet, and have never used over 100MB/month... I used 70MB once, but then i was using my phone for streaming video
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Lol great! Thanks for mentioning that Here is the contract I got:
Motorola Milestone (free)
24 Month contract with Orange @ £30 per month
5 months 1/2 price line rental
1200 Mins
Unlimited Texts
500MB data
Same as what i have 16MB per day, using Twikini\Facebook\Opera Mini Native\Weather\Email 60min check i clock up about 10MB a day
Using SPB Wireless Monitor to keep a track of usage.
oh wow... I'm glad that it works for you guys, but I rarely use LESS than 4GB/month!!
I've searched the forum before posting this and couldn't find a similar thread, so here's my question (2 actually):
1)How big should a 3G data plan be, for the Nexus S?
2)Also, is there a way to allow only a few apps to connect to the internet through 3G, while the rest use only wifi?
I want to use it for checking mail on 2 accounts, send/receive about 40-50 messages daily (through whatsapp), a little navigation on Google Maps, 2-3 clips on youtube and checking a couple of webpages each day. In my country, unlimited data plans are a rarity and the most common are 50mb, 250mb and 500mb.Thanks!
I'm in the US and use my phone for just about everything all day so I eat up about 100 MB a day. I use wifi anywhere I don't get 4g coverage as well. I would say to be safe go with the 500 unless it is a major price difference. If you have access to wifi regularly and keep track of data usage a plan with even 250 MB should be OK. Hope this helps a little.
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Agree, but it depends on your usage, for me 250mb is enought, but some months i push the limit (what costs 6 cents for 1mb, not a big deal).
I'd recommend if can to get the 500 or if possible 1gb.
I'm using my phone for about the same plus surfing the net and my monthly usage is about 600 - 700mb.
Try the app Call meter 3g so you can keep track of your usage. It doesn't count wi-fi traffic.
Good luck
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Well, after some intensive reading over the internet, I think that I could settle for 500mb. In the android market, there's an app called Droid Wall (needs root) and that should make sure the only apps connecting to the internet through 3G are those I want. Thanks for your help!
Now reading about rooting the NS
EDIT: also, I've found something called 3G Watch Dog, so it's easier to keep an eye out on the data traffic over 3G.
flodb113 said:
Well, after some intensive reading over the internet, I think that I could settle for 500mb. In the android market, there's an app called Droid Wall (needs root) and that should make sure the only apps connecting to the internet through 3G are those I want. Thanks for your help!
Now reading about rooting the NS
EDIT: also, I've found something called 3G Watch Dog, so it's easier to keep an eye out on the data traffic over 3G.
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even if you don't use a firewall (like droid wall) stand-by usage is not that big, the problem is YOUR usage, you can easly take a month with 20mb if you only let it to stand-by, but if you watch 3 youtube videos, 20mb is gone!" =o)
Wow... I go over my limit of 5gigs almost every month I guess I am one of Those heavy data users I have been hearing about.... Too bad we have this terrible bit shortage I can only Hope the carriers stumble onto a new rich source of bits to satisfy my need
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newspeak said:
Wow... I go over my limit of 5gigs almost every month I guess I am one of Those heavy data users I have been hearing about.... Too bad we have this terrible bit shortage I can only Hope the carriers stumble onto a new rich source of bits to satisfy my need
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Well I think 5gigs is far.. I mean FAR from what I'm capable of over 3G. Whenever there's a wifi hotspot available, I prefer connecting to the internet through it. The 3G connection is just for those areas in which there's no wifi in sight.
500Mb is sort of like the minimum where I am. The quota usually comes in 500Mb, 1G, 1.5G, 3G, 5G...
For me, I will stay under 500Mb if I don't use services like Google Maps or Waze, if I do, I will be around 700-800Mb a month.
So I have really nothing on my One X, a few apps but I just uploaded about 5 gigs of music, a measly 740 songs and I'm left with only slightly over 3 gigs of storage left.
I've tried Google Music for the past few days and maybe its my location, but on my usual jog every morning it seems to not load all the time, and its also a battery drain vs playing from the stock player with music on the device.
I like this phone, but to only have this low amount of storage left is a deal breaker for me.
Why not try dropbox or google drive? I got an extra 28gb this morning on db just fooling around
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Why not try dropbox or google drive? I got an extra 28gb this morning on db just fooling around
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Won't the streaming be a killer on battery life and the data plan? This is the main reason I haven't embraced cloud storage.. besides the fact that I'm paranoid about putting my data just "out there" like that.
I have the unlimited data plan, and rarely worry about that... But heck I'm not sure ...
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Reamer09 said:
Won't the streaming be a killer on battery life and the data plan? This is the main reason I haven't embraced cloud storage.. besides the fact that I'm paranoid about putting my data just "out there" like that.
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Yes it will drain ur battery quickly
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Why not try dropbox or google drive? I got an extra 28gb this morning on db just fooling around
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Because he likely doesn't have an unlimited data plan. He likely wants the easy solution of having immediate access to all of his media right on his phone.
I have it worse. I used to carry a few movies on my phone with me and watch them while I work in the office. Now I bring my movies in on a wifi drive and copy them to my phone 1 by 1 to watch them. Annoying workaround but it gets me by.
This "cloud" BS doesn't work. I don't understand how people are expected to use 28GB of "cloud" storage and NOT go over their data cap. Especially with 1.5 GB movies.
I stream from work and during my workouts, and the hit to battery isn't all that bad to be honest. I get home with 50% or so remaining without fail.
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To add insult to injury, you can only disconnect 4 devices from google music in a year. What's that mean? Well when we get an unlocked bootloader and decide to load roms, I hope you aren't loading them often because each new rom is a new tethered device to your google music account. Womp womppppp
No, I do have Unlimited Data on ATT, that's not the issue.
The issue is a great phone crippled with no storage, I'd rather play music from my phone, load some movies to watch when on an airplane or something, but with the One X, you just can't do it, well yes you can but you have to become a media manager. Why?
I had the International One X when it came out, plenty of room with 32 gigs, but the phone was too buggy for me. I live in LTE, but I'd rather have 32 gigs and no LTE then 16 and LTE.
Looks like the GS3 will be my next phone, good thing I have 45 days to return this to Best Buy.
I stream Google music at the gym daily. It can eat up your data. But battery is just fine...
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cpcrazyfly said:
I stream Google music at the gym daily. It can eat up your data. But battery is just fine...
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From what ive read, google music's bitrate makes it's streaming eat 4x more data per song than pandora.
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From what ive read, google music's bitrate makes it's streaming eat 4x more data per song than pandora.
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I wonder if that is with Pandora set to "normal" (versus "high") audio quality, which is default. That bitrate sounds awful, and I can't stand it.
Just loaded my music on the One X and went for my usual run.
One hour of music from the player with the battery at 99% when I started, came back and it was only at 97%.
When I used Google Music, it would be around 87%.
For all the people complaining about movies, check out an app called plex. I have a 5 terrabyte system with windows that i have plex server installed on. Its a really easy set up and allows access to all your media on the server. Only issue is that you have to have the pc on all the time. You can have access to thousands of movies or tv shows that you have downloaded. Here are some screen shots of the app. Both my friend and I have servers and you can connect to multiple and stream to each others movies. The server is free, you just have to pay for the android app. (i am not associated with plex lol).
USB host mode getting enabled would solve lots of issues. There's a 64 GB flash drive on woot today for 30 bucks.
All of this is true, but the bottom line is why only 16 gigs of storage.
bothfly said:
All of this is true, but the bottom line is why only 16 gigs of storage.
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margins
16 GB costs less than 32 or 64
bothfly said:
All of this is true, but the bottom line is why only 16 gigs of storage.
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Not a clue. I would wish we could have had removable storage but i assume because they wanted the unibody form factor and the slimness of it, that there wasnt room. However, i am not sure why they changed from 32gb to 16gb. The memory cant be all that different in size.
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For all the people complaining about movies, check out an app called plex. I have a 5 terrabyte system with windows that i have plex server installed on. Its a really easy set up and allows access to all your media on the server. Only issue is that you have to have the pc on all the time. You can have access to thousands of movies or tv shows that you have downloaded. Here are some screen shots of the app. Both my friend and I have servers and you can connect to multiple and stream to each others movies. The server is free, you just have to pay for the android app. (i am not associated with plex lol).
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My Verizon router blocks Plex. I haven't been able to find a way around it. But that absolutely does not work for people with limited data plans....
bothfly said:
All of this is true, but the bottom line is why only 16 gigs of storage.
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My question would be, why did you buy the phone knowing what the storage capacity would be and knowing what you wanted to do with it, then come on here and complain about it?
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So I have had the One X since the day after it was released. I have Unlimited ATT Data and today, what 18 or so days after I bought it I hit 2 GB of data. The reason is I am using Google Music to stream, I use it everyday for about an hour on my jog. Sure I do a little surfing and searching, but really so far nothing else.
So I'd say about 3 gb of data a month will be my usage because of the low amount of storage I have to use Google Music.
Mazel tov!
That's not a lot. I was using more than 200mb every day but I had to switch to WiFi since I'm on the 2gb plan.
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I hit 4 GB after two weeks. Tethering plus my email app went haywire and started burning up data for some reason.
Cool Story Hansel.
I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but you can have Play(Google) Music cache music locally so you don't have to burn up data (and battery life) streaming it. Might not be a big deal in this particular situation, but just FYI.
I think it is odd that pandora uses less data then google music does.
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I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but you can have Play(Google) Music cache music locally so you don't have to burn up data (and battery life) streaming it. Might not be a big deal in this particular situation, but just FYI.
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Yeah that won't eat up 16gb of storage quickly or anything
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I do have Google Music set to cache, but that is only for buffering. I think what you mean is to download music and play the songs offline. I have around 800 songs thats about 4 gb of data. I added all the songs and the end result was I only had 2.9 gb of total storage left on the phone.
This is almost a deal breaker for me, I've had the One X for a few weeks and in fact I had the International version before which of course has 32 gb of storage, which IMO is just the right amount. The ATT version is to low and no expandable sd cards make it worse.
I have pre ordered a Galaxy S 3 and will mess with them both to see which one works best for me. I also have my iPhone 4S to fall back on, but the screen size makes it almost not doable anymore.
Netflix is the bane of my data plan. I'm sure AT&T hates me by now.
I noticed the same thing. I dont pull down nearly as much data streaming 128k streams from tunein as I do from google music (not set to high quality).
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So I have had the One X since the day after it was released. I have Unlimited ATT Data and today, what 18 or so days after I bought it I hit 2 GB of data. The reason is I am using Google Music to stream, I use it everyday for about an hour on my jog. Sure I do a little surfing and searching, but really so far nothing else.
So I'd say about 3 gb of data a month will be my usage because of the low amount of storage I have to use Google Music.
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AT&T unlimited data plan users have up to 5gb in a month before their data speed would be reduced. At 3gb per month, you should be fine.
I have used 3.1 gb in 22 days.
does anyone know the transfer bitrate of the music from google music, both on the high quality and lower quality streams? i stream almost exclusively over wi-fi at my office, so i haven't really followed my GM data usage too closely.
How do people survive with such little data..?
Next Bill Cycle: 06/06/2012
Data (MB): 6658.7 of Unlimited (Deactivated)
Data (MB): 35956.7 of Unlimited
The deactivated one was from May first until the 8th when I picked up a One X. Used a whole gig just getting it setup that night.
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fitchpuckman said:
does anyone know the transfer bitrate of the music from google music, both on the high quality and lower quality streams? i stream almost exclusively over wi-fi at my office, so i haven't really followed my GM data usage too closely.
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Google's support documents state upto 320kbps. So that'd be high quality, normal would probably be 192kpbs.
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How do people survive with such little data..?
Next Bill Cycle: 06/06/2012
Data (MB): 6658.7 of Unlimited (Deactivated)
Data (MB): 35956.7 of Unlimited
The deactivated one was from May first until the 8th when I picked up a One X. Used a whole gig just getting it setup that night.
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Google's support documents state upto 320kbps. So that'd be high quality, normal would probably be 192kpbs.
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Thanks, I thought I had seen 320kbps at some point, but i missed it on a quick search. I half expected a www.lmgtfy.com response to my question. Normal quality was really what i was wondering...sounded like at least 192kbps, since 128 probably would push out such his data rates. Speaking of which, how the hell are you going through so much data?! that's impressive, i must say.
I hit 3 GB within the first week, and 4GB a week later. Mostly tethering and app experimentation (one went haywire and burned through a ton of data).
I got throttled a few days after that, but AT&T seems to have lifted the throttling today. Not sure why but not complaining.
AT&T throttles back speeds of those who still have unlimited plans...I upgraded data w the vivid but wonder how much they reduce speeds by..I stream music through Rhapsody at 192 kbps and my data hits at least 3 gb per month..usually 4 but it's only another ten bucks...just hate that there is no true unlimited plan left..well I guess sprint does but their coverage is horrible..
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Does anyone have an issue where their One x eats data by an insane amount in a short period?When I first got my One X I went thru 1GB of data in like 2 days. I tethered for like an hour and the rest was just basic usage from my X itself. I've done a master reset since then and loaded a few my apps and usage seemed to have slowed but it still seems to use data more than normal. I noticed "Android OS" was using a lot of data. A lot of it was when I watched YouTube clips. Has anyone had this issue?
Edit: So I turned off wifi for a moment to browse on just the mobile network. The few pages I clicked on and scrolled thru for the past 5 or 6 minutes resulted in 4mb of data used with just the browser. Does that seem normal to anyone?
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Does anyone have an issue where their One x eats data by an insane amount in a short period?When I first got my One X I went thru 1GB of data in like 2 days. I tethered for like an hour and the rest was just basic usage from my X itself. I've done a master reset since then and loaded a few my apps and usage seemed to have slowed but it still seems to use data more than normal. I noticed "Android OS" was using a lot of data. A lot of it was when I watched YouTube clips. Has anyone had this issue?
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Do you have auto-sync and auto-backup turned on? Settings>Privacy>Backup and Settings>Accounts
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AT&T throttles back speeds of those who still have unlimited plans...I upgraded data w the vivid but wonder how much they reduce speeds by..I stream music through Rhapsody at 192 kbps and my data hits at least 3 gb per month..usually 4 but it's only another ten bucks...just hate that there is no true unlimited plan left..well I guess sprint does but their coverage is horrible..
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You "upgraded" to tiered data? That's far from an upgrade.. The unlt'd plans you get atleast 5GB(for lte owners) unthrottled, usually more, with a few hours/days unthrottled after. Even throttled you can do 500kbps.
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Do you have auto-sync and auto-backup turned on? Settings>Privacy>Backup and Settings>Accounts
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I do have auto sync turned on. But I turned off auto backup (just now, I have tried turning off auto backup beforei wiped but it didn't change anything ). The weird thing is its not like usage happens out of no where its when I actually access data apps like the browser or FB. I can literally see my data usage go up from the last time I checked it a few minutes ago on the usage meter.
Anyone know how much data a typical 1:30 movie would use? I lost my unlimited upgrading to this phone now I'm always worried that I'm going to go over my limit. At most I only plan on watching 2-3 a month.
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Just noticed I put this in the wrong section my bad if someone can move that be great!
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I use my phone to tether my ps3 for netflix daily. A 45 min show uses 500mb consistently. A movie is around 1gb, it depends on if it is hd or not.
Using netflix on a non unlimited plan is going to burn your data fast.
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Serinety said:
I use my phone to tether my ps3 for netflix daily. A 45 min show uses 500mb consistently. A movie is around 1gb, it depends on if it is hd or not.
Using netflix on a non unlimited plan is going to burn your data fast.
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Is there a way to pick between SD or HD? I pretty much would only watch it on 4g cause if I'm somewhere with wifi I'd use my laptop. So annoyed that I had to get rid of my poor unlimited.
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I feel sorry for people that got screwed out of their unlimited data like this. It makes things like netflix/slingbox etc etc virtually unuseable.
I pre-ordered my G3 to make sure this didn't happen & I have a few spare Rezounds I could swap to if needed in an emergency.
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I feel sorry for people that got screwed out of their unlimited data like this. It makes things like netflix/slingbox etc etc virtually unuseable.
I pre-ordered my G3 to make sure this didn't happen & I have a few spare Rezounds I could swap to if needed in an emergency.
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yea it sucks I hardly ever went over 3gb with my last phone but 4g is so much faster that its actually enjoyable to surf and watch videos on it if I knew that I may have bout it outright. Now I pay $50 for 5 gb rather then $30 for unlimited sucks.
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You can set a max streaming limit of 100mb/hour in your account settings. I'd suggest you do that.
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There are three choices:
Manage video quality
We know that some of you have Internet data caps and we want to make it easier for you to manage how much data you use.
We offer 3 video quality settings to help you manage your data usage. No matter what level you choose, your Netflix membership price will remain the same.
Good quality (up to 0.3 GB per hour)
Better quality (up to 0.7 GB per hour)
Best quality (up to 1 GB per hour, or up to 2.3 GB per hour for HD
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There are three choices:
Manage video quality
We know that some of you have Internet data caps and we want to make it easier for you to manage how much data you use.
We offer 3 video quality settings to help you manage your data usage. No matter what level you choose, your Netflix membership price will remain the same.
Good quality (up to 0.3 GB per hour)
Better quality (up to 0.7 GB per hour)
Best quality (up to 1 GB per hour, or up to 2.3 GB per hour for HD
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Hmm. I must have been mistaken. 0.3gb is much better than 1gb though.
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I feel sorry for people that got screwed out of their unlimited data like this. It makes things like netflix/slingbox etc etc virtually unuseable.
I pre-ordered my G3 to make sure this didn't happen & I have a few spare Rezounds I could swap to if needed in an emergency.
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Yep they make you buy a data plan, charge an arm and a leg for it and then your so limited your basically choked off. I'm on wifi far more than 4g. They should offer a plan with no data.
I've notice they don't really market the phones as screaming devices for watching foorball and movies any more.
VZW sux
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Hmm. I must have been mistaken. 0.3gb is much better than 1gb though.
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No you were just watching with the "best" option.
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I use my phone to tether my ps3 for netflix daily. A 45 min show uses 500mb consistently. A movie is around 1gb, it depends on if it is hd or not.
Using netflix on a non unlimited plan is going to burn your data fast.
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That data sounds about right if it were on the computer. But I'm unsure if Netflix on Android adjusts for the smaller resolution, I'd assume it does. So the latter numbers would sound about right.
Ever since I dropped Netflix My data has gone down by 5 gb