I was wondering if there was a way to get free data from sprint either with a hack or something or a way to stop the data meter so it says you never used any data?
This is very doubfull, when sprint collects internet usage data, it's on their end.. not yours. No hack can get around this.
Again, i'm not expert on this... but I highly doubt it.
Hi,
I did a search for monitoring data usage, and came up with all sorts of things. I'm sure someone is using something good for tp2, can someone give me some suggestion on apps that monitors my roaming data usage?
Thank!!
Hi Guys,
I am wondering what kinda data usage you can expect from the DZ per month. I plan to use it for occasional web browsing, weaher updates, email and calendar sync.
I would like to download and use different apps - but concerned do a normal app always need to be connected to the internet for it to run or does it run locally and only connects if it needs to download any data?
Any thoughts will be very helpful.
Thanks.
Audette said:
I would like to download and use different apps - but concerned do a normal app always need to be connected to the internet for it to run or does it run locally and only connects if it needs to download any data?
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Apps will only access the Internet if/when they need to. So for a standalone app, that might be never.
So no, normally apps don't need to be connected to the Internet, unless that's part of their function (e.g. an online banking app that only works via the Internet to access your bank's servers etc).
Maybe I'm a little offtopic: is there any app that will show daily and monthly data usage for each application, but only data from the mobile network (no WiFi/USB)? It would be useful to know how much each app is using. With WM, I had SPB Wireless Monitor for that - so something similar would be perfect.
Audette: it's always better to get a data plan for a smartphone. Mostly much cheaper then pay-as-you-used.
darthmelk: try Check out "3G Watchdog" in the market.
I use 3G Watchdog, but it doesn't show data usage for each application (or I don't know how to display that?). That's the only thing it's missing.
There is one app that showed individual data usage, however this app itself was a massive drain on the phones CPU and battery so I would not advice using it.
In any event I forgot what it was called
I use about 500mb a month mobile data, but I use wifi whenever I can.
Try TrafficInfo or TrafficStats. They do show per application usage (sent/recieved). I just installed them yesterday and the TrafficInfo seems a bit nicer to me.
I am looking for an application that could show which application is currently downloading/uploading real time, something like netlimiter on the PC.
At traffic stats is what I was on about, watch out with these apps, by their very nature they will be a big drain on resources (and therefore battery life).
I had a quick try of Traffic Info. Maybe I was missing something, but this just seems to show Internet usage per application.
The problem is, it doesn't seem to distinguish between Internet usage via my phone carrier connection (which I'm more concerned about) and Internet usage via wireless (which I'm not concerned about).
Can anyone recommend an app which splits the two ? I would have thought that if something access the information at the correct level then it could differentiate.
I am using Network traffic counter (NetCounter) and quite satisfied. It does not track usage per application (and I don't really care...), but fully separate cell & wifi.
So far reached 735 MB on cell and 3 GB on wifi since got the phone on 9th November.
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I am using Network traffic counter (NetCounter) and quite satisfied. It does not track usage per application (and I don't really care...), but fully separate cell & wifi.
So far reached 735 MB on cell and 3 GB on wifi since got the phone on 9th November.
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Thanks, that sounds like what I'm after, I'll give it a try.
Hi,
Is there any way to monitor data usage on a per phone basis, per session basis and also a per APN basis and also a per app basis?
Any or all of these would be useful in order to verify accuracy of phone bill.
midas5 said:
Hi,
Is there any way to monitor data usage on a per phone basis, per session basis and also a per APN basis and also a per app basis?
Any or all of these would be useful in order to verify accuracy of phone bill.
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I use 3g watchdog to see what data I use so I don't exceed my allowance
yep, 3g watchdog is very nice.
if you want more then just data monitor i recommend 'ng call meter 3g'
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.zdworks.android.toolbox&feature=search_result
Hi there, I noticed that the data usage counter is not the same as what my network is counting. It looks like my network is only counting my download data while the phone is also counting my upload data.
Is this correct? If so, is there a way to disable my phone from counting my upload data as well? Thanks!