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At&t data plan

I noticed something weird today..
I have a 2 GB per month data plan.
So far I had used 412.1 MB.
After I checked via *3282#
I didn't use wifi and only used h to download a full 200mb rom on my phone, use applications like pulse, xda, etc that need internet connection.
However, I checked it afterwards and it's still the same 412.1 MB..
Is data connected to using the internet and downloading stuff?
Can someone explain because this doesn't make sense.....
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Keep checking back with it. I don't think it updates right away and before you now it your at your 2GB.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App

Some "eye openers" based on what I observed:
1. Apps like speed test that are seemingly so simple take up ~8-10 MB per test.
2. Weather updates etc though seem less make up for it by checking for data every now n then depending on updates interval
3. Every message on google voice takes up more than just a few KB per text sent
Not just this, when u download 200 MB of data, its uses more than 200 MB for the initial connection establishment, to verify if the packets reached or not, etc.
I would recommend installing an app like "3G data monitor" to monitor ur data activity so u can find out where the drain actually is.
All said and done, it takes close to 24-48 hours for ur data usage to get reflected when u use the 3282 command.

Thanks for the answer.. I guess the delay is the problem.. I'll think about downloading 3g watchdog... anyway thanks
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Use the att my wireless app more accurate
Your welcome
Now you say/press thanks
Teaching manners one person at a time

At&t has a disclaimer that I read that says it may not include recent usage. Same applies for texts and minute usage.
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DATA exceed 1GB since using HTC Incredible S

Since I switch from my Milestone to HTC IS, my data plan for the past 2 months exceed the limit of 1GB. I don't understand the reason behind. I 've never had such issue before while using my MM.
I have installed some data tracking software and notice within 2-3 hours, the download could be 14MB with my phone idle / on-standby.
I have to turn the sync of all service to manual. This is unacceptable.
Till now, I am not sure the actual cause. I only saw a lot of services are running in the background pulling data. Such as Calendar, HTC Sense, HTC Hub, Map, FB, etc, even though I have set it to manual sync.
If anyone has any idea on this, please update me. Many thanks.

I would suggest you try Network Counter (search in market, or www.mapemapps.com)
This will give you a way to track individual applications data usage.
Cascading effect - you'll know the rogue program that has been eating on your bandwidth

I'm not sure about your problem but I myself turned off HTC Sense and HTC Hub sync as I found it takes 5-10 mins for a single sync which consumes a great amount of power.

This was the reply from HTC, very disappointed:
"With reference to your query, when you do not use data connection you may turn it off: home page>menu>settings>wireless&networks>untick network.
We are deeply sorry for the inconvenience you are experiencing and thank you for your consideration. As this could be software bug, hence nothing much we can do about it.
Thank you for your continuous support of our products and services"

I don't mean to sound rude, but this is likely something simple. I doubt it has anything to do with the phone itself. Are you sure you just haven't forgotten to put the passwords in for your wifi networks or something.
Sent from my HTC Incredible S using XDA Premium App

Atrix HD AT&T Smart Wifi using data?

Hello all.
I work at a Best Buy in the mobile department. Today I had a lady come in and show me that her Atrix HD had used 85 MB of her 200 MB data package. She told me that in the previous month her phone had exceeded her allowance and that she was only two weeks through her current month, and that with her old phone she had barely used the 200 MB at all.
I checked the data usage settings and found out that AT&T Smart Wifi accounted for 60 MB of that 85 MB of usage.
What I would love is if anyone of you have the Atrix HD on the stock ROM with that app, for you to go into your settings and check to see if Smart Wifi is using inordinate data like her phone is. The reason why is simple: AT&T bundled the app into a software update for the phone and made it uninstallable. The average user is not going to figure out how to stop the app from chewing up data like that, so it's potentially costing a lot of people money. If you see similar data usage to what I'm describing, I would love it if you could post screenshots. I want to tip off the tech sites if I can corroborate this, because if this is a real issue and it goes public, we have a chance to make AT&T fix it.

thelastholdout said:
Hello all.
I work at a Best Buy in the mobile department. Today I had a lady come in and show me that her Atrix HD had used 85 MB of her 200 MB data package. She told me that in the previous month her phone had exceeded her allowance and that she was only two weeks through her current month, and that with her old phone she had barely used the 200 MB at all.
I checked the data usage settings and found out that AT&T Smart Wifi accounted for 60 MB of that 85 MB of usage.
What I would love is if anyone of you have the Atrix HD on the stock ROM with that app, for you to go into your settings and check to see if Smart Wifi is using inordinate data like her phone is. The reason why is simple: AT&T bundled the app into a software update for the phone and made it uninstallable. The average user is not going to figure out how to stop the app from chewing up data like that, so it's potentially costing a lot of people money. If you see similar data usage to what I'm describing, I would love it if you could post screenshots. I want to tip off the tech sites if I can corroborate this, because if this is a real issue and it goes public, we have a chance to make AT&T fix it.
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Nothing on my Atrix HD shows AT&T apps using data at all, but I also skipped that portion of setup and use T-Mobile on my AT&T model.

thelastholdout said:
Hello all.
I work at a Best Buy in the mobile department. Today I had a lady come in and show me that her Atrix HD had used 85 MB of her 200 MB data package. She told me that in the previous month her phone had exceeded her allowance and that she was only two weeks through her current month, and that with her old phone she had barely used the 200 MB at all.
I checked the data usage settings and found out that AT&T Smart Wifi accounted for 60 MB of that 85 MB of usage.
What I would love is if anyone of you have the Atrix HD on the stock ROM with that app, for you to go into your settings and check to see if Smart Wifi is using inordinate data like her phone is. The reason why is simple: AT&T bundled the app into a software update for the phone and made it uninstallable. The average user is not going to figure out how to stop the app from chewing up data like that, so it's potentially costing a lot of people money. If you see similar data usage to what I'm describing, I would love it if you could post screenshots. I want to tip off the tech sites if I can corroborate this, because if this is a real issue and it goes public, we have a chance to make AT&T fix it.
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I disabled mine. I don't know about the app itself using data (although it might download lists of AT&T access points or something), but I did see someone over on AtrixForums.com say that it seemed to make their home WiFi connection unstable when it was running. They were seeing cases where their home connection would disconnect and then subsequent data would be over the carrier connection. I tried it on for a while and generally didn't see that issue, but I saw a blip or two where it looked like the Smart WiFi app may have put the AHD's WiFi to sleep causing it to flip back to carrier data... Between that and the fact that I saw little value to the app, I disabled it.
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I disabled that crap. Dumb app....
Sent from my MotoAHD

I use smart WiFi, but it's not in my list of apps using data. In that same list, you can disable background data if you have a data limit set. I've disabled background data for every app in the list, and it's made a HUGE difference in my data usage. Only used 114 mb this month, and the billing cycle ends in 2 days...
Deep rooted in the mAtrix HD...
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I had to disable it also, it was disabling my wifi leading to crazy data usage.

+1 , Smart Wifi was acting like a Smart Ass , i deleted it too .

[Q] Excessive data usage on Cyanogenmod 10.1

Hi, some months ago, I put cyanogenmod 10.1 on my Galaxy Ace. It wasn´t very fast, but caused no problems and was usable. This morning, I woke up only to find out that my phone used lots of data overnight. I got a text from my carrier saying I'm 2,5 gigs = 100 euro's past my limit. The Android data usage menu states that the Google Play store used 2.23 GB, but auto updating via mobile network is disabled and I only have 7 apps installed.
I know that I can't undo the usage, but I'd like to know what may have caused this excessive data usage.
i.imgur com/tOiCXEH.jpg (I can't post links yet, so I put it this way)

sgalaxyace said:
Hi, some months ago, I put cyanogenmod 10.1 on my Galaxy Ace. It wasn´t very fast, but caused no problems and was usable. This morning, I woke up only to find out that my phone used lots of data overnight. I got a text from my carrier saying I'm 2,5 gigs = 100 euro's past my limit. The Android data usage menu states that the Google Play store used 2.23 GB, but auto updating via mobile network is disabled and I only have 7 apps installed.
I know that I can't undo the usage, but I'd like to know what may have caused this excessive data usage.
i.imgur com/tOiCXEH.jpg (I can't post links yet, so I put it this way)
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Maybe a app dowloaded data over the night?
I though of something like a gameloft game app who needs lots of data..
Sent from my GT-S5830 using xda app-developers app

you must have installed apps like facebook and gmail etc and left background data and auto sync on which sucked up your free data so i would suggest that you should disable background data when not using phone especially playstore

sgalaxyace said:
Hi, some months ago, I put cyanogenmod 10.1 on my Galaxy Ace. It wasn´t very fast, but caused no problems and was usable. This morning, I woke up only to find out that my phone used lots of data overnight. I got a text from my carrier saying I'm 2,5 gigs = 100 euro's past my limit. The Android data usage menu states that the Google Play store used 2.23 GB, but auto updating via mobile network is disabled and I only have 7 apps installed.
I know that I can't undo the usage, but I'd like to know what may have caused this excessive data usage.
i.imgur com/tOiCXEH.jpg (I can't post links yet, so I put it this way)
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You should install 3G Watchdog in Play store for a better control in the use of your 3G, a game, facebook, twitter, google sync is the cause that your phone use a lot of data. Cheers and be careful with your 3g use.

Data Usage Inaccurate and Uploading Data When Not?

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.

Namelesswonder said:
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).