Hi all, I have been using mssmison's Eclair build on my vogue for the past two months, and have run up 100mb+ data useage, where on winmo I was only using 10-12mb.
I have activesync, calendar, and contacts for exchange sync turned on, as this is my work phone and I require these.
I also had google gmail account registered, but set to not sync anything.
No additional applications were installed over the base build. No web browsing or tethering etc, no web or GPS useage - phone has been used exclusively for email/calendar/contacts/phone calls.
Is there any way of finding out where the data useage is leaking? Does android phone home? Is the exchange sync not working very well, and resending/resyncing lots of data? (this is my suspicion based on exchange sync performance).
I've had to switch back to winmo due to the restrictive data plan I'm on for work, which is very frustrating.
Has anyone with the exchange stuff configured experienced a similar jump in data useage?
AaronNZ said:
Hi all, I have been using mssmison's Eclair build on my vogue for the past two months, and have run up 100mb+ data useage, where on winmo I was only using 10-12mb.
I have activesync, calendar, and contacts for exchange sync turned on, as this is my work phone and I require these.
I also had google gmail account registered, but set to not sync anything.
No additional applications were installed over the base build. No web browsing or tethering etc, no web or GPS useage - phone has been used exclusively for email/calendar/contacts/phone calls.
Is there any way of finding out where the data useage is leaking? Does android phone home? Is the exchange sync not working very well, and resending/resyncing lots of data? (this is my suspicion based on exchange sync performance).
I've had to switch back to winmo due to the restrictive data plan I'm on for work, which is very frustrating.
Has anyone with the exchange stuff configured experienced a similar jump in data useage?
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I would recommend a few things:
-Turn off data via the modem app when you're not using it (which you probably don't want to do since you constantly need exchange available I assume).
-Search the market for a data monitoring app for a better insight on what's using your data.
-Go into Settings>Security and Location. Uncheck the "Use wireless networks" and "Share with Google" boxes. I believe this can cause some extra data usage.
-Turn off Background Data and/or Auto Sync in the settings as well. Once again, you may not want to do this if you want exchange available constantly, but you could try just manually syncing/sending/downloading when necessary to minimize excess data usage.
Hope some of this can help! Good luck.
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I have just got myself a ADP1 using JFv1.41-ADP1.1
I get my phone plan through work as it is free but i unable to convince work to give me a data plan of sorts.
Is there a way to access GCal offline. So sync the calendar via wifi when i am at home and be able to access the data while im out on the road?
So far i havent been able to get this to work as when i try to open calendar it asks me to sign in.
If this isnt possible is there another app that can sync with Gcal and take it offline. I have seen other calendar apps but i want to be able to sync with GCal as this is what i currently use.
Thanks
Try Gsync my syncs perfectly.
Sync Gcal to Phone
Thanks for the suggestion but that program seems to sync a mac/pc with Gcal.
I may not have clear in my original post.
I want to be able to access Gcal on my phone even when i dont have data access.
So i want something to sync my phone to gcal
Thanks
i could be wrong, since i have a data plan, but i believe you should still be able to view your calendar without data.
Asks to sign in
I was under the impression that i should be able to access the calendar aswell as it syncs the data to the phone. But whenever i try to access it offline it asks me to sign in. But obviously when i try sign in it fails due to not being online.
Anyone know how to get around this??
I have my data connection disabled, with no WiFi and still can access calender. I only sync calender via WiFi when I'm at office or home. I've been doing this for the past months with no login screen. I think there should be some other problem with your calendar.
calendar no problem, but the problem with contacts, new contacts established categories do not appear on the phone.
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I'm on a limited data plan (50MB), so when I'm connected on Edge/3G (or even when on WiFi), I want auto-sync to work on Gmail only for push mail, and maybe to run IM (eBuddy) on the background.
Is there a trick/apps to do it?
As it is now, even when I don't do anything on my N1, just by leaving it on standby eats about 1MB in less than an hour.
thanks in advance
That's an insane data plan, is there no way you can get any more allowance?
Go to Account & Sync Settings and only choose to sync gmail? I don't really get the question, I assume you have already checked out the options?
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Oh and if it's eating 1MB/hour on standby you've clearly got an app that is sending/recieving loads of data and you should remove it.
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Go to Account & Sync Settings and only choose to sync gmail? I don't really get the question, I assume you have already checked out the options?
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Oh and if it's eating 1MB/hour on standby you've clearly got an app that is sending/recieving loads of data and you should remove it.
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Yup, I guess my question leads to how do I identify which applications? Is there any apps that allow me to block traffic for these apps which silently eat my data?
I came across DroidWall, but doesn't seem to work on Froyo, anyone know other alternative?
I noticed that within 15 seconds my phone used nearly 2MB of data. I was watching data go up in 3G Watchdog. I didn't have any apps open (other than background apps such as Google Talk, Gmail, the basics).
So I downloaded Network Counter to see which app was using the data. It turns out that it's the Dialer, Android System, and Settings that use significantly more data. That doesn't make sense to me. Any idea why these apps (which I thought didn't use data) use so much more than apps such as Gmail or Google Talk?
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Would depend on how often you have your phone synching with google and how many services you sync. I use 10-16 GB of data per month but still have the old unl plan. I also sync 3 google accounts, facebook and twitter as well as doing 90% of my internet usage though my phone. But I know I'm in the minority as well.
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Would depend on how often you have your phone synching with google and how many services you sync. I use 10-16 GB of data per month but still have the old unl plan. I also sync 3 google accounts, facebook and twitter as well as doing 90% of my internet usage though my phone. But I know I'm in the minority as well.
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You luck SOB!
I'm on the $25 2GB data plan. I'm on my wifi as much as possible and always turn off data!
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I noticed that within 15 seconds my phone used nearly 2MB of data. I was watching data go up in 3G Watchdog. I didn't have any apps open (other than background apps such as Google Talk, Gmail, the basics).
So I downloaded Network Counter to see which app was using the data. It turns out that it's the Dialer, Android System, and Settings that use significantly more data. That doesn't make sense to me. Any idea why these apps (which I thought didn't use data) use so much more than apps such as Gmail or Google Talk?
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Probably there are some apps on ur phone that are set to get updated automatically to newer versions.
Go to ur market app, and uncheck the "allow automatic update" from all of the google/android base apps. If u leave them checked, they would update when they detect a newer version.
u can get the list of all ur apps by clicking the 'my apps' link in market app. u would need to deselect it individually for all the apps.
I don't have anything set to auto update. That's why I am so confused by this. I guess it's not a big deal cause I use wifi a lot, but it would be nice to know why these things are using data.
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I downloaded an app called ZDBox to track my data usage seeing as how theres a 500 MB limit.
Its saying the News app used 300 MB of data, cant find a way to uninstall the POS.
Its saying HTC Sense used about 200 MB of data, cant find a way to disable the POS.
95% of my data is gone, wont be able to make it to the end of my billing period.
Coming off a blackberry, although I still have it.
HTC sense basically just uses data for weather, right? I dont see how that would account for 200 MB of data, its ridiculous.
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When opening text messages I get massive lag sometimes, is it a known issue?
that much of data usage seems abnormally high.
are you certain the app you using is showing the right figures?
could it be megabit instead of megabyte?
you could try netcounter, which is a highly reliable app for very close to accurate tracking...
dont think the apps in the background would eat up that much of data.
you could also check in 'accounts & sync' if auto-sync is enabled.
that is known to pull a lot of your data.
try turning off both background data & auto sync for a while
(you won't be able to use most of the internet apps like talk or market as it needs background data to be enable) but this will give you a fair idea if the background apps are actually using up all that data
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btw wat rom are you on?
I am on stock rom that came with my phone. Its only about a month old.
The counter is in MB not Mb, I have also received texts from my provider my data is 95% used up so im sure its accurate and definitely those 2 apps that it lists as the main data hogs.
What is accounts & sync, it sounds like email syncing to me. So I will lose email?
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I am on stock rom that came with my phone. Its only about a month old.
The counter is in MB not Mb, I have also received texts from my provider my data is 95% used up so im sure its accurate and definitely those 2 apps that it lists as the main data hogs.
What is accounts & sync, it sounds like email syncing to me. So I will lose email?
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that is a bummer isn't it!
by turning off syncing temporarily you will not loose any emails/data.
certain programs log into their own servers to retrieve/send information. other services sync your contacts & other data to the cloud
the next time you turn it on, everything will be re-synced.
you can find this in
settings>accounts & sync
if you are using auto-sync, you can disable certain accounts/apps to sync.
For instance...
Accounts&Sync > News > Sync news (uncheck). leave checked "update when opened" if you want news to refresh when you open the app, if not, disable that also. Same thing goes for Sense.
I'm only using google contact/mail sync rest are all unchecked
I have gmail and outlook on my phone, outlook can 'sync' email without me enabling the all sync services. For google products it seems all or nothing, with sync disabled I can't enable just gmail. I'd also like to point out that outlook can sync just calendar and emails without draining the battery. With wifi off gps on, data on, and just outlook checking for emails I can get 2-3 days of light usage (a few phone calls, texts, gps and music) with google's auto sync I get a day. Maybe.
may be you are using too many apps causing the power consuming to a great deal .. but to look at your post it does not seem so .. perhaps it would be good to see for other suggestions coming