I activated the AT&T $15 for 250MB plan on my Tab. I've got the AT&T widget that displays exactly how much data I've used so far, and it goes fast.
Are there any good apps for managing data usage people recommend?
In particular, I like to sync things like Google Reader/GMail/Google Voice. However, it'd be great if there were a way to set non-essentials like Google Reader to sync only on wifi, while having GMail and Google Voice continue to sync whether on cellular data or wifi.
Due to the Android OS architecture you cannot set up I/O resource access on a per-application basis unless the app has the feature built in. That means, you can not control from an app how other apps access resources.
This happens because all apps run in their own containers that can access the system through the permission system. This helps isolate apps and prevent other apps from interfering with their environment. Access is one-way: from the app to the system. The system or other apps cannot enter another app environment.
Thus, as long as Google Reader does not provide the feature to sync only over WIFI, then you cannot block it in any other way except disabling your data.
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after switching to opera mini, my bandwidth consumption declined by about 30%
you may want to give it a try
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.opera.mini.android&feature=search_result
turruso said:
after switching to opera mini, my bandwidth consumption declined by about 30%
you may want to give it a try
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.opera.mini.android&feature=search_result
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Perfect suggestion turruso!
@manekineko: if you also browse the Net a lot using your device, you might give Opera a chance. Using the Opera Turbo feature will help you save a lot on your plan because they compress pages before transferring them to your phone.
Perhaps you are looking for something like traffic counter (from the market) it monitors cell, wifi, call and SMS and let you set limits to those.
Also calculate billing and monitors the installed apps data in and out
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PBL1 said:
Perhaps you are looking for something like traffic counter (from the market) it monitors cell, wifi, call and SMS and let you set limits to those.
Also calculate billing and monitors the installed apps data in and out
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I'm using the official AT&T traffic monitor for now, and I've been happy enough with it, so I'm mainly looking for ways to keep my data usage low when out and about.
I know what you want! (maybe) Its called DroidWall. Its a firewall controlling which apps and services uses what type of connection (3g or wifi). Ive been using it, and drastically reduced consumption of data plan by more than half.
zagitariuz said:
I know what you want! (maybe) Its called DroidWall. Its a firewall controlling which apps and services uses what type of connection (3g or wifi). Ive been using it, and drastically reduced consumption of data plan by more than half.
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That's a great suggestion! Only thing that keeps it from being completely perfect is it'd be nice if there were a way I could only prevent background data from an app on 3G, but allow it still for when I'm directly opening the app myself, like when I'm browsing Google Reader.
cheatman said:
Perfect suggestion turruso!
@manekineko: if you also browse the Net a lot using your device, you might give Opera a chance. Using the Opera Turbo feature will help you save a lot on your plan because they compress pages before transferring them to your phone.
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I'll second Opera with Opera Turbo. If I'm on wifi I use Dolphin HD and when I'm not I use Opera. It's cut down on my data use more than I expected.
Some time within the past 3 days Android OS (as per Settings\Data Usage) downloaded 59 mb background traffic via mobile data connection . This happened without me permitting anything or intentionally downloading anything. Typically my total background data traffic for Andoid OS is a few mb per month.
The 59 mb were enough to exceed my contract limit, and now I have to pay a high penalty-like charge for each mb. I want to learn what happened there, so I can do something to prevent this to happen in the future. Thanks for all hints and tips!
Check out which app is using so much of data :thumbup:
If the app isn't needed uninstall it and also disable auto updating of apps :thumbup:
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Check out which app is using so much of data :thumbup:
If the app isn't needed uninstall it and also disable auto updating of apps :thumbup:
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Thanks!
No app has auto-udating enabled.
Let me detail this a bit. 59 mb are shown as Android background traffic. No app is showing any mobile data traffic of that size, neither foreground nor background, with one exception which is Boat browser's foreground data traffic, obviously being my internet usage. All other positions counted together are around 6 mb only.
What apps or functions are causing background data traffic in Android OS? If one of the websites I visited had for example a video file pushed on me which I did not notice, does Android OS count this as Background traffic?
Pls. close the thread.
This would not have happened with my previous Symbian based device. Frankly, how Android could become so strong is beyond me. Or better: I suspect why.
hello xda members, i would like to know which is best data management tool available for android xperia z, actually hell lot of data is getting used don't know how, i guess its some system app which is using it, is there is anything available paid or free which can restrict data usage to some limited apps which i want ? & monitoring which particular app is taking how much data ?
thnks, waiting for the reply
gaganailawadi said:
hello xda members, i would like to know which is best data management tool available for android xperia z, actually hell lot of data is getting used don't know how, i guess its some system app which is using it, is there is anything available paid or free which can restrict data usage to some limited apps which i want ? & monitoring which particular app is taking how much data ?
thnks, waiting for the reply
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Hey..
You can use this app to monitor your data usage per app wise.(there is a free version available too)
Also you can use a firewall app to restrict the mobile data or wifi usage for any app you want.
Cheers.
I am looking for a way to restrict the bandwidth quality to an app: Example below
I have playstation Vue app install on my Android phone and its eating up my data so I thought I could restrict the bandwidth settings to max of say 500kbps to an app. How would one go about doing this?
Do we have a app out there that can restrict the speed of the bandwidth so to say?
Hi,
I just wanted to ask what is "android OS"? when it comes to data usage.
Here is my issue:
I recently check my data usage under phone settings and surprised that "android OS" was the second highest data usage. It consumed roughly 9GB of data in span of 1 month. Mostly of my activities was video streaming via modified youtube app. and downloading on my chrome browser.
I am also using softether vpn app which requires root to run.
I just wanted to make sure that his data usage of android OS were not due to some malware.
Thanks in advance