So last night my internet went out, and i opted to tether for the time it would be down.
My data usage indicator says i used 1.2 gb, but it can only "Account" for roughly 300 mb on a per app basis. Any idea where the other 900mb could have gone or why it did not register it?
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Just checked my monthly bills and seems I'm using around 1.5GB a month in data. That seems high to me, so I thought I'd see how you all were doing.
I leave my wifi on, so whenever I'm in range, my phone connects to my wifi network and stays on it while I'm at home. Only time I really use data is at work or school, though I don't do much web surfing on my phone then. Primary uses are Gmail, Gtalk, and web surfing. I've occasionally used it for navigation with Maps. No tethering at all. I'm not even rooted.
In February I only used 500mbs but in January I used nearly 4GB
Do you have a limit or are you just interested in what other people use? lol
How do we check?
stewart1988 said:
In February I only used 500mbs but in January I used nearly 4GB
Do you have a limit or are you just interested in what other people use? lol
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Just interested... I thought most people were using around 500ish mb, so I thought mine was excessive though I don't think I use it that much.
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Log into your account on T-mobile.com, drill down to a specific month's bill, along the left click on See Call Records. That will show your specific monthly usage, and you can then click on the Data tab and it will show you a total data usage number.
Edit: Just checking the older bills, when I had the G1, I average 300-400mb per month of usage. When I got the Nexus One is when that jumped by 400-500%.
Get either of these apps
3G Watchdog or NetCounter
They will watch your usage and let you know when u reach ure data plan limit, (you put ure data plan limit in so it knows what it is )
i used 700MB last month with 1GB data allowance
Just over 500mb over Feb (only had nexus from 12th so it's actually only 16 days)
Average per day is 40-50mb or so of standard use and that jumps to 200+ using spotify (streamed music). Most heavy use is at home on wifi - syncing offline playlists etc.
Wow, that is crazy. I'm on AT&T with an unlocked Roger's Dream to get 3G signal (soon upgrading to a Nexus on T-Mo) and I use my phone & 3G excessively for streaming, tethering, internet, everything basically. In January I used 12.5 gigs In february I think I only used about 4.5 gigs, but I'm ALWAYS over at least 4 gigs. Wow lol
I have a very fast internet connection at home, so I only used 646MB of data last month. But, I expect that to go up since using Subsonic on my Nexus One does not destroy my battery as much as it did on my G1. But, now my wife has the G1, I wonder what our total data usage is going to be for this month (especially since we are travelling next weekend)...
I use about 5-10 gigs monthly for downloads and everything..but i do have a 50 gigs plan at ridiculously cheap price so i don't mind using data 24/7
I have the Galaxy S I9000
If I turn on the Wifi and its got a signal, will that take over from my Network usage on the broadband.
I only download emails to my phone (7 Accounts) but this month my Usage has been very high.
Normally each month reads 830Mb/1GB (Mb's left/Allowance) Give or take 50Mb
This month it was 131.33Mb/1Gb
I don't know where the usage has gone as I'm doing nothing different then before.
Most of my usage is 5-30 Kb with the odd 600 Kb
I checked my data usage over 4 days and its averaging about 2.8Mb a day. I can't see how I have used almost 1Gb for a month.
The only things added to the phone in the last month was Amazon Kindle/Xbox Live and PowerAMP
When I download a book from Amazon I always turn on my WiFi and have 3-4 bars.
Is my phone using my Network Data usage even though I have the WiFi on.
PS my wife has 1 email address on her phone and see never uses her data for anything other then checking her Gmail. She only had 17 simple text emails last month and here usage was also reading 133.78Mb/1Gb. I can't see how she has used up her quota for the month.
Both phone are on separate accounts and connected to the METEOR IRELAND network.
If I turn on the Wifi and its got a signal, will that take over from my Network usage on the broadband.
Not unless you turn the mobile data OFF >. suggest quick settings from the market .
I only download emails to my phone (7 Accounts) but this month my Usage has been very high.
Smartphone is data always on and background sync and apps use data 24 hours .
Unless turned off >. Quick settings mobile data off unless needed .
jje
I installed Quick Settings and turned off mobile data but left on MMS data.
Thanks for the help with this. It means that I can now disable mobile data quickly when I'm in a wifi hot spot.
Because everything loads quickly when my WiFi is on (A lot quicker then when its off) I assumed it was not using mobile data at all. Silly me
Just carried out a little test on the phone using Quick Settings.
I turned off WiFi and enabled mobile data, I then turned on WiFi and the Mobile Data automatically disconnected when the WiFi was enabled.
I'm not sure if it always did this or if its only since in installed quick settings.
If Mobile Data does not switch off then in quick settings you can use Mobile Data APN as the preferred setting for on /off .
I am using Auto Wifi toggle with quick settings to aid battery life .
http://www.appbrain.com/app/auto-wifi-toggle/com
jje
I cant explain your problem, but I use a program called Tasker that might solve your issue.
http://tasker.dinglisch.net/
I have it set to turn on 3G when I unlock the screen and turn it off again when the screen turns off. I also turn on 3G for two minutes every 30 minutes and auto-sync my email.
With this program you can also set you WiFi to turn on based on your location and a host of other things. There is a 7 day trial in the Market.
I installed 3G watchdog about a month ago and I have been keeping an eye on my data usage.
Since the month started I have only used about 10mb. This its consistent with every other month since I got the phone.
I think the high usage last month was a network issue. Its something I'm going to have to keep an eye on as I don't want the buggers charging me for something I haven't used.
Hi, I've buy an Italian Vodafone Galaxy Tab about 3 weeks ago so I'm a new users of this device (and Samsung's Android device too).
Two days ago I use the 3G data connection for the first time, and I've noticed a huge amount of data traffic monitoring the connection with traffic monitor (you can find it on the market).
I have an HTC HD2 with android before, and I use about 112 Mb of traffic in a mounth.
In one day with galaxy tab I've used 50 Mb of traffic leaving the connection actived but not in use.
So I monitored the situation and realised that :
when I turn on the 3G data connection and I leave it on stand by it doesn't generate traffic.
If I only open the browser or any application that use data, than I close it with task manager, the GT start to use data on stand by like 1 Mb every 5 minute or less.
All the auto-update of the application installed is turned off, and also the auto sync (I'm not a noob of Android) and I kill all the background app.
Anyone of you knows a solution for this problem?
It's a little bit annoying because I've a limited data plan and I can't use so large amount of data, even if I open a single web page without any plugin it use 4 Mb or even more (like 300Kb for the web page and the rest is ghost traffic).
Thank you in advance for any suggest
Hi, I've been using my S3 4G for quite some time now and on a mobile plan which gives me 2GB per month for free. I've never exceeded this 2GB and usually don't even reach 1.5GB. However, this month there has been an unusual spike in my mobile data and my apps are taking up so much more. The only reason I can think of is that there were a few days where I used data at home (I usually only use it when I'm outside) because my Wifi was down. Other than that my usage is roughly the same. So could anyone please help me fix this? Thanks!
My data cycle starts on the 8th of each month. Will include screen shots of my mobile data screen below.
the reason for me is quite obvious...you used your mobile connection while your wireless was down....and used it for some time...i did the same once(didn't lost wi-fi, lost power all together for 1 night)...
amsyarj said:
Hi, I've been using my S3 4G for quite some time now and on a mobile plan which gives me 2GB per month for free. I've never exceeded this 2GB and usually don't even reach 1.5GB. However, this month there has been an unusual spike in my mobile data and my apps are taking up so much more. The only reason I can think of is that there were a few days where I used data at home (I usually only use it when I'm outside) because my Wifi was down. Other than that my usage is roughly the same. So could anyone please help me fix this? Thanks!
My data cycle starts on the 8th of each month. Will include screen shots of my mobile data screen below.
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Nothing suprising here mate, the apps data usage on the pictures tell everything, there is nothing to fix here! just be careful with your mobile data usage and try to avoid apps using a lot of data while youre on mobile data
I have a 2GB per month plan, which is about 66 MB per day. I'd like to tell Tasker to turn Off Wifi for the day once my usage gets to 66 MB. At midnight it can turn On Wifi back on.
Is this possible?