My phone says I used 3 gigs of data, but VZ shows 1.8. What data usage is not counting against my VZ data bucket? If it were a few megs, no biggie, but a gig of data is a lot.
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I'm at a loss to understand my data use. I check email every 30 minutes or so, and have the phone configured to download 4K tops. I receive around 25 messages per day, so that is 100K in downloads. I have weather checked every 5 hours, and it records data use, at around 40K per day. T-Mobile says I use 1.5MB per day.
Moreover, when I switched from the Treo to the T-Mobile MDA, my data use went from 50KB per day to 1.5MB, and my behavior is not significantly different.
As I have an unlimited plan, this only matters in roaming, but it matters a lot there, as travel that used to generate $10 in charges is now generating $450.
Any ideas about what might cause such large unnoticed data use?
Like you, I have my Cingular 8125 set to check emails every hour and receive 40 - 50 per day with the full message instead of just the headers. In addition, my weather program updates the forecast and current conditions every 2 hours. I may spend 10 - 15 minutes a day web browsing. When I divided the total data useage on my last bill by the number of days in the billing cycle, it cames out to just over 2mb/day. WOW!! Didn't know how much I was actually using.
However, I also have the Unlimited Data Plan with Cingular, so I don't incur extra charges for it, but 2mb/day seems pretty high to me.
Hey!
While using Smartphones for more than 2 years and beeing a computer-enthusiast I'm pretty much stumped at the moment.
I just got a 350€ phonebill ....
The first thing i did ofc was check my online-bill and see there ->
At 5 different days my handy consumed 500mb each within a few hours .
I didn't use any trafficmonitoring tools since i NEVER(!) topped 200mb. I just used my phone to surf a bit and check for e-mails.
This month i installed Skype. I did NO Phonecalls and chatted for a few hours tops which resulted in horrendous 2 gig traffic (my contract covers 1gb)
Just wanted to tell you guys to take care!
This is why I use 3G Watchdog Pro and APN Droid, because, you just never know
I had a similar problem last year, had a £99 bill which didn't get capped at £45 over like it should.
Hi,
I am on an unlimited plan with my mobile service provider.
Which do you'll recommend that I use Wifi or 3G? When am at home, I could switch off my apn and switch to wifi, but I need to know which you'll recommend.
I don't really use the mobile to browse or do anything special ... just that the mobile does its normal check (syncs my email through exchange and Gmail). Both exchange and Gmail mails don't really pull a whole lot of data so efficiency wise, I really don't care.
What I really need to know is which one uses more battery? If wifi uses more battery, I'll just use the 3G or otherwise.
Thanks for any input.
First off, idling on WiFi uses more battery than idling on 3G. Are you sure you have completely unlimited data though? For example, T-Mobile claims to have unlimited data and (which is true, they do BUT) they severely limit your data speeds after 5GB of data. If you're just idling getting emails and push notifications then you'll never hit 5GB (hell, I'm constantly on XDA on my phone and my wife is constantly on facebook and FML and we haven't even broken 2GB yet).
kenvan19 said:
First off, idling on WiFi uses more battery than idling on 3G.
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I have found this to be 100% the opposite with both my Nexus One and my Nexus S. I am running 3x push email accounts and I'll lose ~ 1% / hr on wifi and just over 2% / hr on 3G when the phone is sleeping (and i am sleeping). I saw the same behavior on the mt4g I had for a few weeks (although it sucked a bit more on 3G than 2%).
On every one of my previous win mo handsets (6800, TP, TP2) wifi was a battery killer, but I can say that on my 3 android handsets (as well as the other 2 at our company) wifi uses considerable less battery than the 3G radio.
Hi. I'm after a data useage limiter with rollover. Does one exist?
What I mean is say I have a 1000mb of data per month, starting on the first day of the month. What I want it for it to limit me to 1000mb/31days=32mb a day. Then if I only use 5mb a day for the first week, then on the 8th day it will let me use (1000-7x5)/(31-7)=40mb a day.
Hi, I have a limited data plan. I noticed since I bought the phone is consuming Cellular data even if I don't turn it on.
Like 1mb per day in minimum. But the problem, I think, is the consumption of battery because of that problem... the phone is new and some say that the battery takes a few cycles to adjust...
but anyone experienced this issue? or it's something active by default that does this?
Consider it as date time exchange from server.
You will definitely notice that 1 mb because on signal network phone makes data exchange like automatic time update etc.
giteshraheja said:
You will definitely notice that 1 mb because on signal network phone makes data exchange like automatic time update etc.
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But before when I didn't have data plan it wasted money. The mobile carrier told me that I had the mobile data on, which I didn't had.
Well consider as your bad luck then..