Hi folks, I am looking at a driod to replace my WM6.5 unit and up till now I have managed to avoid using anything that needed data, reason... I live in Australia and the telcos know how to charge for data like it was gold.
But as a LOT of the new apps and services require data then I have to look at the plans and make a stab based on expected monthly data usage...
I know, I know, how long is the piece of string......
What I am asking is can people give me a rough estimate of monthly data usage on any network with any apps enabled, I reckon with good and bad I can figure out what may be feasible for my selection.
email usage is light, web next to nothing (for now) and not sure about other services, I have wifi at home so would attempt updates and stuff there rather than OTA
Any help would be much appreciated.
Cheers
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Well, not sure of my exact data usage, but it would be sure to increase 10 fold (it did for me at least coming from a blackberry). There is so much stuff that can be gained through apps that use data. Maybe you could tell us the various price ranges for the data plans and decide that way?
Aldo there are tons of apps that will monitor your data and give you alerts and such so the fear or unintentionnaly going over is slim.
Hope this helps.
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Chopes said:
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Well, not sure of my exact data usage, but it would be sure to increase 10 fold (it did for me at least coming from a blackberry). There is so much stuff that can be gained through apps that use data. Maybe you could tell us the various price ranges for the data plans and decide that way?
Aldo there are tons of apps that will monitor your data and give you alerts and such so the fear or unintentionnaly going over is slim.
Hope this helps.
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Thats the problem from my end, none of the telcos are helpful as such, they range from 200mb to 1gb but are ALL different in price, so one charges x for 200mb on y cap and another is double for the same 200mb but a different cap
So what I needed was someone to say what they do on an average month, 2mb, 20mb, 784mb, 3.2gb etc etc, this way i can figure out the cort/benefit ratio of cap/plan v's qouta and extras
It seems to me that many apps I use give my flexibility in this area. The main apps I use that download data are configurable of how often to check for updates. For example, I can set my weather widget to download new info anywhere from every 15 min to every couple hours. Also, syncing with gmail and other google services can be turned on and off so you could only have it on when on wifi. Twitter and Facebook apps also have settings to change how often you have them refresh the data. So if you don't use too many apps or just set all of them to only update manually you can limit your data usage by a lot.
OK, can I just ask people to actualy state
HOW MUCH DATA YOU USE PER MONTH
Thank you.
my first month, i have no idea how but i used 3.3gb.
every month after that has been around just under 1gb, except last month when i had to tether my laptop because my home internet was out for a week, the data for that month showed 1.2gb.
I have two widgets, facebook and twitter that sync about every 2-4 hours, i adjust them some times to sync less and i manually sync them if i want to read and am bored. I have newsrob which syncs my google reader articles, sometimes i have that sync every 4 hours sometimes fully manual. I have background data turned on almost all the time and gps turned on always updating my location with latitude, i have gmail and an exchange account syncing for work using ssl. i have last.fm scrobbling all the music i listen to and stream music with it occasionally, not all the time. i browse the web on it quite abit whiel sitting at home and watching movies with the girlfriend as well as look up random facts and other things i come across day to day.
let me know if you need any other input!
I use on average somewhere between 900mb and 1.2gb
Thats streaming Pandora most of the time I'm in my car, using GPS maybe 2-3 times a week and pretty heavy data usage in other ways (i.e web surfing and apps)
I don't do much tethering or downloading of large files. I have tethered a few times but nothing that I would call average.
I used to use about ~2 GB when just using it for Pandora, hulu, and browsing. Now I'm at around 7 GB since I tether.
For comparison, I used 65mb on my bb bold 9000 and now 1gb on my n1. Mostly because its so fast! I do not really stream. I only browse, email, chat and some videos. Its a lot of usage from just browsing
before froyo i ran about 1-1.5 gb a month, now ive tethered a lot and started listening to more music so im up to about 4 gb
silashack said:
OK, can I just ask people to actualy state
HOW MUCH DATA YOU USE PER MONTH
Thank you.
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billing cycle: 7/20 - 8/19
data used: 36Mb
txt (sms to you non american types ): 16
minutes: 13
what I'm using that is data intensive:
google maps- hourly, with two 2 hour driving trips using it
gmail - it pushes all emails
email - check every 15 minutes, two additional accounts
maverick pro - uses gps and data
pandora - no usage this cycle, i usally stream at work, and i'm on vacation this week
normally, if i use pandora, it's for 4-6 hours per day, at roughly 1Mb / 15 mintues
there, hopefully you'll have an idea what a typical nexus user will burn through in a billing period.
I have a 500mb plan, and to date (over a year) I've only come close to that once.
I have Twitter refreshing every 10 minutes, GMail push, Email every 15, and Facebook every 30. Plus some web browsing (of relatively light sites). No video or audio streaming.
On average I'm around 250mb a month now, because we have no wifi at work. When I was in school (wifi on campus, and at home), I never went over 100mb. Usually less than 50.
~600MB monthly.
It consists of me tethering the laptop on the way to work and back ~2 hours a day, mostly. When I didn't use it and just surfed for fun, I'd get ~150MB monthly. When I didn't surf at all, the data apps put me at ~40MB monthly. I'm using Gmail, Gtalk and several smaller-scale apps like Astrid.
THANK YOU THANK YOU to those that actualy posted figures, the plans over here are rather stringent and no way could you support some of the figures you have indicated without incurring signifiacnt costs, I now have an idea that data costs are a priority something I have to factor in to the overall package, and unless the telco has an unlimited plan I have to read the fine print for excess charges VERY clearly.
Thank you once again
I hovered around 7-11gb a month when I was on att wireless. Their footprints issue great in Miami. I swapped to T-Mobile and they suck. Its horrible. I hardly ever touch my phone now. And it shows! I now hover around 300mb-800mb
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Hello Everyone
i got very big bill from Bell Canada for Packed data useage. i dont know how i reach to so much data when i have wireless at both home and work. i saw the billl and those time either i am home or at work and some time even phone is idle. buse its says like i used 2 hours and those at my work, how can i used 2 hours at workkkkk.
please help me if anybody have any idea or there is any apps for track mobile data used. or there is any thing that we can stop using mobile data when we are on wireless..
thanks in advance
Samir
if you are on 2.1 eclair use 3G watchdog
if you are on 2.2 froyo use 3G watchdog + TrafficStats
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=765081
3G watchdog is very accurate it shows exactly the same as my FIDO account tracks
if you do not have a 6GB or unlimited data package, turn off the APN
download the APN on/off switch on the topic i linked above
Thank you so much for fast reply.....
i have 6 gb plan and last month i reach to 11 GB as per their bill. some of long useage even in night when i sleeping.
pls help
11 GB ?!?!?! i think Bell is BSing you some how.
I'm a download freak, i do 100 MB daily at least (Market Updates), and i come no where close to my 6GB data plan
then i have roughly 15 email / contacts account sync
and my DropBox account
and some times i torrent TV series (300Mb~400Mb) to watch in my phone when i'm on the go and don't have access to my home computer
and all that doesn't break past my 6GB.... i've no clue if Bell is accurate or not.
but assuming they are right... then you better check for malware or stuff like that installed by accident in your phone.
as in like all your stuff is being send off to some place in the background without your knowledge.
(just me being paranoid)
if you install Froyo you can then use TrafficStats
and if will tell you exactly which App is doing all the sending/receiving that is wasting your 6GB account
you are right, i am very surprise tooo and the thing is i have wireless internet at home and work. this all charges in purticular one week Oct 21 to Oct 28 otherwise all ok. for that week like 1000,400,300, 500 mb lots of time. do you think i should call bell and findout about that..
Is there anything that can give me kind of log or something that i can find what really happened in that week and my wireless internet was all the time.
thanks for your help
I'm 10 days into my monthly usage and already I've used 1.5gb, but I hardly use the phone. Is anyone elses' that high?
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I'm 10 days into my monthly usage and already I've used 1.5gb, but I hardly use the phone. Is anyone elses' that high?
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There's a bug with WP7 that causes excessive data usage. Read about it in the main WP7 general section. There's a thread with a link to the story there.
After talking to the tmobile rep, he suggested I use WiFi, but that has a bug also lol.
I primarily use Wifi as it's available 90% of my day. I have the 200mb limit through TMo so I had data turned off for the first 20 days or so except when I needed it. The last 10 days I left it on and closely monitored my usage and I'm at 52mb. Now, I'm not d/l videos and trailers or streaming music, just email and web browsing. I'm thrilled by how little data I've used so far. Going four or five links deep into ESPN or Yahoo amounts to fractions of a mb.
And when I have both WiFi and Data enabled, I've never had an issue of it using data rather than Wifi.
They(tmo) said to monitor this and report back...they said Microsoft is looking for feedback and that's why I started this thread .
Hello, I don't know where to ask this, asked on few places but didn't got answer.
Here is my problem: I'm using Lumia 520 with WP 8.1 Developer Preview. I'm experiencing huge amount of data usage by People app (hub). I have Outlook, Nokia and Google accounts added. Outlook set to download new content as arrive and Google account set to manually get new content. I get few mails every day on Outlook and not even check Gmail, but it keeps using my data, last two weeks it used 70 Mb for 2 days, then next week 68 in two days. Nothing changed for few days, I didn't changed settings for that app, and sudenly 2 days ago it spent 43MB of that when phone was idle, just for People app. Today, it is 84MB for People app, I've set data limit and turned off background data for all apps, even then it managed to spend few MB. I'm on limited data plan, and this is frustrating for me, it spends more than half of my data useless. When I connect phone to wifi, nothing happens, it spent 1MB on wifi on people app.. Help me, what to do to stop this?
Thanks!
Hey y'all I just picked up a turbo on Friday and love it so far but I'm having a problem with the navigation on google maps, no matter what I try it won't accurately follow where I'm at what so ever and I'm kinda at a loss. Anyone run into this or have any tips for me?
I'd try these things if you haven't already
.make sure it's set to high accuracy under location
.coear cache and data for maps
.if it's still not working correctly, uninstall updates and then reinstall them
I've not had this issue personally but lemme know if that works. We'll get it figured out man
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Hey y'all I just picked up a turbo on Friday and love it so far but I'm having a problem with the navigation on google maps, no matter what I try it won't accurately follow where I'm at what so ever and I'm kinda at a loss. Anyone run into this or have any tips for me?
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I was having problems with accuracy the last week or so. It always had me located about a block from my actual location. I don't think it was the phone itself causing the issues. I turned the phone off and back on but still had the same problems. Today it was working normally.
A warning about setting your location to High Accuracy. When you do that, it will also reset the "Scanning Always Available" setting under Advanced Wi-Fi. This setting allows Google to scan for networks even when your Wi-Fi is turned off. If I am using maps, I don't see any need to turn on Wi-Fi locations. I am not connected to a Wi-Fi network while driving.
Did all of this and success!
THANKS!
I'm glad it's working buddy!
How much data are you all using with google maps/navigation? I used it a while back and used .1 GB for about 20 minutes of navigating. I'm on a 2 gig per month data plan so I can't do that very often
I'm not sure off the top of my head but twenty minutes is about my commute to work, so I'll test and let ya know tomorrow
As an option to Google Maps, you might like to consider Waze. I use both apps, but mostly Waze. Regarding data usage, I just took a 5-hour (300 mile) trip with Waze on the entire time. The data usage was 2.67 MB.
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How much data are you all using with google maps/navigation? I used it a while back and used .1 GB for about 20 minutes of navigating. I'm on a 2 gig per month data plan so I can't do that very often
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Sorry about the delay bud, I work 24 hr shifts and remembering what I'm supposed to do the next day often escapes me until my cycle ends haha. So, for 20 minutes of nav with Google Maps and location set to high accuracy, mine only used 0.01GB.
karlmf said:
As an option to Google Maps, you might like to consider Waze. I use both apps, but mostly Waze. Regarding data usage, I just took a 5-hour (300 mile) trip with Waze on the entire time. The data usage was 2.67 MB.
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Waze is really nice if nothing else for the heads up on cops running radar on long trips
No problem. Thanks for checking. I'll try it again and see if it's better. Maybe last time there was some abnormal reason for the high data use. I live in a really small town so I don't need navigation except every once in a while. I just didn't want to blow my whole months data on a trip.
For the past several months I've noticed this but now I want an answer or solution.
My phone is rooted and I have GravityBox installed so I can use the network traffic monitor tweak, among other things. Something I've noticed is that after a reboot, and I guess periodically throughout the day, I'll have a strange upload happening for up to about 2 minutes.
I've checked the data usage for both cellular and WiFi and I've found that neither of them are accurate to the usage listed for the apps. For cellular it is saying that I've used 1.2GB over the course of the pay period. I've checked with my network and my phone has only actually used 280MB so far into the pay period, which closely lines up with my calculated 290MB after adding up all the app usages. The same is also true for WiFi data usage as well, I'm not as concerned as I have no cap, but it says that I've used 12GB however adding up the individual apps only comes out to 3GB. So this would imply nothing is actually being uploaded.
I thought maybe it is an app or process hitting a local socket on loopback for one reason or another, but I just checked with using ping to send large 32kB packets 100 times a second to the loopback and no change in the network traffic monitor at all.
So something is being uploaded after all, or maybe ping's traffic isn't included? The upload rate might clue something in, as it is always 10-15MB/s, which is higher than my broadband upload speed. I don't know, I'd just like my data usage to be accurate so I don't have to worry about using it up for the month.
Anyone else experience the same thing?
Goggle Play Services and Android Services are constantly pinging, uploading whatever.
A minimum of 2/1 to up to 4/2 or more a minute at idle. That's with Google Transport, Framework, all cloud and social messaging disabled or removed. I started using Karma Firewall, blocking the former to reduce battery consumption... it worked.
I'm using a stock load so that's as deep as I can easily peer into the Android mess.
I also block numerous Samsung, other 3red party apps as well as Playstore. I temporarily lift the package and/or firewall block as needed. Near zero usability issues, a great reduction of wasted bandwidth and aminimum 1-3% increase of battery life.
Google Firebase is yet another worthless hog along with all Google, Samsung, App and carrier feedback... gone.
The typical Android is a hornet's nest of unwanted internet activity and an orgy of user data leaks.
Google is the biggest offender of all; a scope storage wolf in sheep's clothing.
Unacceptable.
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For the past several months I've noticed this but now I want an answer or solution.
My phone is rooted and I have GravityBox installed so I can use the network traffic monitor tweak, among other things. Something I've noticed is that after a reboot, and I guess periodically throughout the day, I'll have a strange upload happening for up to about 2 minutes.
I've checked the data usage for both cellular and WiFi and I've found that neither of them are accurate to the usage listed for the apps. For cellular it is saying that I've used 1.2GB over the course of the pay period. I've checked with my network and my phone has only actually used 280MB so far into the pay period, which closely lines up with my calculated 290MB after adding up all the app usages. The same is also true for WiFi data usage as well, I'm not as concerned as I have no cap, but it says that I've used 12GB however adding up the individual apps only comes out to 3GB. So this would imply nothing is actually being uploaded.
I thought maybe it is an app or process hitting a local socket on loopback for one reason or another, but I just checked with using ping to send large 32kB packets 100 times a second to the loopback and no change in the network traffic monitor at all.
So something is being uploaded after all, or maybe ping's traffic isn't included? The upload rate might clue something in, as it is always 10-15MB/s, which is higher than my broadband upload speed. I don't know, I'd just like my data usage to be accurate so I don't have to worry about using it up for the month.
Anyone else experience the same thing?
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I'm actually experiencing this for the past few days, have you found a solution yet? I literally tried everything. From clean flashing my rom, trying different kernels, firmwares etc. I checked my data usage its registering via phone settings, but not on my broadband settings. I'm having 5-8mbps uploads every 4-8 mins (it varies).