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How much data do you use?

Just curious.
Many "unlimited" data plans still have some type of monthly cap (e.g. 5GB) that many people are not aware of, and if you go over that cap, they can terminate your data plan without notice. Has this happened to anybody?
Here are some baseline data usage traffic that I've measured:
-refreshing CNN rss hub containing 10 headlines: 8KB
-updating 8 cities in touchflo weather: 17KB
-launching opera to google homepage: 20KB
-activate send/receive for one new email: 26KB
-launching factory youtube player: 240KB
-opening youtube homepage via opera: 324KB
-using opera to get to yahoo mail inbox: 360KB
-launching google maps and playing around for about 2 minutes (panned around, opened street view, opened satellite view, got directions once): total ~1024KB = ~1MB
-playing a 5 minute video using factory youtube player: 20767KB = ~20.3MB
So, data usage can really add up if you use it everyday. Using about 170MB a day adds up to 5GB in a month. How much data are you guys using per day or month?

i have a 200MB plan and the last to month i used about 20-30mb each ^^ didnt happen to use it much
imo its almost impossible to get 5gb ^^ i hardly get hsdpa (not even 3G) so its kinda crap with my phone.. 200mb is overkill for me uses a lot of battery as well

only just got mine but have "unlimited" usage on my vodafone uk tariff....nice little small print in the "fair use policy" show unlimited to them actually means 500MB a month.....I hope I don't breach it.
Anyone recommend a nice little Data monitor to make sure?

definitely spd wireless monitor. costs a small bit but its awesome..

i usually average 50-100 mb a month on my kaiser ising manilla weather at least once a day, little bits and bobs of browsing, push e-mail with 2-3 emails a day, the ocasional small file download off the net, occasional you tube use...
but my fisrt month with touch hd i used 250mb, i think i did a lot more browsing, downloading and you tubeing. not had my second bill yet

on N!ghty's recommendation I grabbed a copy of SPB Wireless Monitor......very good little app. Not going to make use of the today screen plugin due to Touch HD's theme...but still..check it every now and then and it's doing the job.
NOTE: anyone else hate SPB's icon set...bunch of balls (atoms?) stuck together...just...shocking!

I had used spb for data monitoring a while ago but had switched to Efficasoft GPRS Traffic Monitor. I install it on my SD card so that after each hard reset I don't lost the month to date data. No reinstallation either after each hard reset. Just make copy the shortcut for spgm.exe to the startup folder and spgtc.exe to the Start Menu and I'm done.

I have flat rate data plan, fine print says it's 10 gb per month. To be honest, haven't breached a 1 gb yet Although I expect to be around 3-4 gb once I start traveling around again these days...

My plan is only 250 mb in a month.
It is very easy to reach.

I used spb wireless monitor to get those numbers above...I recommend it for those who don't have unlimited data because it also lets you set an alarm after a certain amount of usage to help prevent going over.
In case others like me didn't know this...leaving your data connection on all the time doesn't use up any data. However, obivously, it will use up data when it updates things you have set to automatically update (like email, weather, etc).

Is there any way to look it up on the touch hd software without installing a new app like efficasoft or spb wireless monitor?

pori said:
Is there any way to look it up on the touch hd software without installing a new app like efficasoft or spb wireless monitor?
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No, Windows Mobile itself doesn't support it .

i get 500mb through Orange's "unlimited internet"
curious to see how my first month's bill comes out.
In my first 4 days i've been using it alot setting things up, fiddling around and sending myself .cab files and images etc when in the office (as didn't have the USB cable or blutooth)

I too have a vodafone "unlimited" package with a fair use policy of 500mb....I've used 45mb in the last month.
To give you and idea of my usages...I have my emails set to download via contract internet (HSDPA) every 5 minutes...I use the internet about 10-30mins a day on contract internet...so 40mb is pretty good.
I don't use it do grab torrents or anything like that obviously

On a 1Gb plan with Three. Normally use 500 - 800Mb each month, most going towards youtube entertainment on the bus.
If I go over my cap, I get billed and the rates are shocking O___o

I watch a couple of videos but mainly it's just browsing for me, I rarely go above 200-300MB.

eaglesteve said:
I had used spb for data monitoring a while ago but had switched to Efficasoft GPRS Traffic Monitor. I install it on my SD card so that after each hard reset I don't lost the month to date data. No reinstallation either after each hard reset. Just make copy the shortcut for spgm.exe to the startup folder and spgtc.exe to the Start Menu and I'm done.
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I use SPB and use Sashimi to help load everything back after a flash.. One thing it will do is backup and then restore you 'My Documents' to the phone so I haven't lost the SPB data for a while.

I get through about 1-200mb a month on O2 uk. I also use the online billing to keep an eye on how much I go through. It's update daily so I never have any issues with using too much

Although I haven't measured the data usage or anything, I'm sure that if you're surfing through Google's mobile proxy
http://www.google.co.uk/gwt/n (for the UK; make appropriate adjustments for your country)
your data usage will be less than if you were viewing web sites directly, as the proxy strips down a web site to its bare essentials... Of course, this means you won't get the full browsing experience, but it's good for web sites where you're mostly interested in the text content.
On the other extreme, a browser like Skyfire (which attempts to replicate the PC browsing experience on your mobile device) is probably going to hit your bandwidth hard.
It would be interesting if someone did a comparison of data usage with these two methods.

New ROM for Orange customers

HTC has released a new ROM for Orange customers.
It can be found on the HTC website.

good find, now if only htc would be so kind as to give a changelog

Could anybody who has downloaded this tell us what the major differences are please. Don't want to be bothered to download it if it tries to fix a problem i haven't got - if it aint broke etc.

peterc10 said:
Could anybody who has downloaded this tell us what the major differences are please. Don't want to be bothered to download it if it tries to fix a problem i haven't got - if it aint broke etc.
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Same here, I want to know what changes it will make, No point doing all that hard work for a minor bug that I don't have.
Thanks.

peterc10 said:
Could anybody who has downloaded this tell us what the major differences are please. Don't want to be bothered to download it if it tries to fix a problem i haven't got - if it aint broke etc.
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Same here, I want to know what changes it will make, No point doing all that hard work for a minor bug that I don't have.
Thanks.

Well I've downloaded and installed the update - I'm one of those "strange" fellows who assumes that an update should just be applied as it will "update" things.
What have I found:
No real differences to anything at all. I did have a bug whereby the browser would start turning itself off randomly (both WiFi and 3G and with 1 or more tabs open & many different sites so no idea what caused it - happened both straight after a reboot and also when been left on for a few days) This no longer seems to be happening.
My main bugbear with it now is that I've found that I can't see all the programs that I used to have on the Store. I can see Twidroid free but not Twidroid Pro (which seeing as I've paid for it I'd rather like to download again!) I also can't see Space Physics - again I can see the lite version but I've paid for the full game and that's not showing anywhere.
I can see other programs that I've previously purchased & able to download (CoPilot, Retro Defence) but it's irritating in the least to not get the full versions of other programs I've paid for already.

m_memmory said:
Well I've downloaded and installed the update - I'm one of those "strange" fellows who assumes that an update should just be applied as it will "update" things.
What have I found:
No real differences to anything at all. I did have a bug whereby the browser would start turning itself off randomly (both WiFi and 3G and with 1 or more tabs open & many different sites so no idea what caused it - happened both straight after a reboot and also when been left on for a few days) This no longer seems to be happening.
My main bugbear with it now is that I've found that I can't see all the programs that I used to have on the Store. I can see Twidroid free but not Twidroid Pro (which seeing as I've paid for it I'd rather like to download again!) I also can't see Space Physics - again I can see the lite version but I've paid for the full game and that's not showing anywhere.
I can see other programs that I've previously purchased & able to download (CoPilot, Retro Defence) but it's irritating in the least to not get the full versions of other programs I've paid for already.
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I wouldn't worry about that. It sometimes happens when a carrier releases an update. They need to 'validate' it with the big G before it gets access to protected/paid apps...

m_memmory said:
Well I've downloaded and installed the update - I'm one of those "strange" fellows who assumes that an update should just be applied as it will "update" things.
What have I found:
No real differences to anything at all. I did have a bug whereby the browser would start turning itself off randomly (both WiFi and 3G and with 1 or more tabs open & many different sites so no idea what caused it - happened both straight after a reboot and also when been left on for a few days) This no longer seems to be happening.
My main bugbear with it now is that I've found that I can't see all the programs that I used to have on the Store. I can see Twidroid free but not Twidroid Pro (which seeing as I've paid for it I'd rather like to download again!) I also can't see Space Physics - again I can see the lite version but I've paid for the full game and that's not showing anywhere.
I can see other programs that I've previously purchased & able to download (CoPilot, Retro Defence) but it's irritating in the least to not get the full versions of other programs I've paid for already.
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Thanks for the reply, frankly I haven't come across the bug on my browser, which goes to say, I won't need this update.
Shahin

I have just installed this and there are no real differences except they have added a 4x4 (i.e. the whole screen) People widget, and increased the size of the thumbnails on the People widget.
Tristan

Applied this update. Readme did not work. Now my headphone connection autosense is fsuked. HTC still haven't confirmed the changelog.

Hi,
I am new here and I am Hichjacking this thread, as my problem is in regards to the ROM Update on Orange.
As someone posted in this thread earlier, I do have the same issue that some of my paid apps are no longer available for me. ie Silent time, my backup pro.
I was able to get my MyBackup Pro online, however Silent time pro is not available. Is this also probably because its not approved for the new ROM update yet, although its not nearly 2 weeks old.
I can live without the other ones, but I loved Silent time Pro.
Can anyone help me and shed some light?
Markus

[Attention] Big Data usage have reported with WP7

We have many report for big data usage on wp7 also when i usage data connection my hd2 is too hot.. that make me sceptical..
for that reason i make this thread if is not the right place please mod move it to the right place
Microsoft say: the problem coming from 3rd party apps
Some other say the problem coming from many differnet update that use the wp7 system e.g.email update, contacts update/facebook and more
Some other report says the HTC hub is one of the reason... use so much data..
That you can do is: set all account manual about the sync
Just go to settings / account and tap every account and set it manual
Fot htc hub go to in to hub and settings , do the same..
HERE you can found what Microsoft say!
HERE the report of HTC hub!!!
PS. is simply blog but have some good news.. so take a look around for other news..
Edit
Thanks for report i fix a little bit the body of the message..

I don't know if this is true or not. I am not experiencing heave data absorption without my knowledge. I can check my data consumption on the Voda website and I have a 1Gb allowance each month. I've been using WP7 as soon it went semi-public and I'm still having about 780Mb out of 1Gb left. (last update was yesterday) It is not like I am not using the internet, but I do check on mobile websites as it just renders faster and it doesn't need the zoom too often. Multitouch zoom on HD2 is a bit of a problemchild.
I do had my concerns about the social networking integration as I thought it would pull everybody's picture gallery to my phone and would upload every picture that I have to Skydrive, but that doesn't seems to be the thing.
Overall, though the WP7 was not meant for the HD2, it's going to be here for always on my phone. sob...

do you always
write your posts
like this?
and of course
you always need to
post in wrong sections?
There is not useful information in your post. "We have many report for big data usage on wp7" Who are we? What is many? Disable Data connection if you don't like traffic. Connect on Wi-Fi, log all connections from your computer and take a look where the traffic goes and you'll know what app you need to delete.

Funnily enough I just happened to check my bill after reading this and I'm up to 750mb since the start of the month. Normally I'd average about 200mb at most.
I had the HTC hub installed which has been promptly removed so I'm gonna keep an eye on it now and see if that was the cause of the massive data jump.

Pretty old news and really annoying way of writing.
why
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I did notice a single big jump in data downloading on initial setup, this was because of facebook i think, not the facebook app, didnt happen until i had set that up so my feeling is its downloading pictures and other info, if you have many many friends on FB this would be exponential. anyhow, i didnt notice this until i got a out of starage space message, because my SD card hadnt worked first time round. So, if that is indeed the case and not just a huge coincidance connect up your phone to your PC and install/setup facebook, then see what happens

Tazzimus said:
Funnily enough I just happened to check my bill after reading this and I'm up to 750mb since the start of the month. Normally I'd average about 200mb at most.
I had the HTC hub installed which has been promptly removed so I'm gonna keep an eye on it now and see if that was the cause of the massive data jump.
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so its real problem... thanks for your report... the reason of this thread is to learn if is real problem and where coming from..
i'm scary about data i have only 120mb data plan

vartp said:
"We have many report for big data usage on wp7" Who are we? What is many? Disable Data connection if you don't like traffic. Connect on Wi-Fi, log all connections from your computer and take a look where the traffic goes and you'll know what app you need to delete.
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You are right! we = (I some other chefs + some beta tester of our roms and some blogers)
Nice way...!!! Do you know any program that can count the traffic? Do you have count any program?

Another thing to add to the 'Reasons to avoid WM7 like the plague and stay on Android' list.

Share Wi-Fi from your computer/laptop, connect mobile through it, install any traffic counter or firewall on your PC (or use proxy that provides logs/reports), look where your traffic is going. I don't care about traffic on my mobile at the moment, so I am not going to check it myself, but that's pretty easy task.

Checked Mine
Although this may be in the wrong section, and been covered several times. I just now decided to check my usage.
T-Mobile USA
Data: 690.2357 / Unlimited Megabytes
Been using WP7 since it was released, HTC HUB was installed at first, uninstalled it last week.
As far as writing like this.
Personal Preference.
You don't like it, Don't read it.

cdguider said:
Data: 690.2357 / Unlimited Megabytes
You don't like it, Don't read it.
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What is your average usage with wm6.5 or android?
+1 for your comment
maybe is in wrong section i did search before post it i did not found something + as you know when you typing the heading you can see if any other thread have the same heading
also i post it here because i want to find the problem and fix or tweak the problem together.. we do not have the kitchen but we have the registry editor maybe that can help us..

I got a text from tmobile today stating I was being capped on my data speed for the remainder of the billing cycle this month because of too much data usage ....

cabrone said:
I got a text from tmobile today stating I was being capped on my data speed for the remainder of the billing cycle this month because of too much data usage ....
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too bad my friend...
but finally this thread help from problems little late but better late than never

Simple solution. Get unlimited internet without fair usage nonsense As I usually go over 1 GB with my HD2 regardless of the OS that's what I did. You pay a little more but don't have to worry that a facebook photo may cost you 1 Euro

Gents,
Keep the posts on topic and watch the flaming please, thanks.
Moved to Q&A

cdguider said:
Although this may be in the wrong section, and been covered several times. I just now decided to check my usage.
T-Mobile USA
Data: 690.2357 / Unlimited Megabytes
Been using WP7 since it was released, HTC HUB was installed at first, uninstalled it last week.
As far as writing like this.
Personal Preference.
You don't like it, Don't read it.
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Yep, i have the same issue. This is a problem.

TheOnly1 said:
Simple solution. Get unlimited internet without fair usage nonsense As I usually go over 1 GB with my HD2 regardless of the OS that's what I did. You pay a little more but don't have to worry that a facebook photo may cost you 1 Euro
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perhaps you can pay for their airplane ticket, provide food and lodging at your place so that they can experience this solution of yours.

haksam said:
perhaps you can pay for their airplane ticket, provide food and lodging at your place so that they can experience this solution of yours.
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Well I noticed Mine was hogging data at 5 in the morning well I was still sleeping. I did a comparison and in 2 days My win 7 HD2 used 125 Mb data and my HD2 with win 6.5 used 60 Mb. I used them pretty much equally.

Old news to me.

[Q] High Wifi Usage - Kaspersky Mobile Internet Security

Hello,
Apologies if this is in the wrong forum - please feel free to remove it.
I installed Kaspersky on my device yesterday at approximately 1100 GMT.
Since then there has been a huge amount of data activity originating from the application. Approximately 430 MB worth of background data has been used...
What exactly is this?
At the end of yesterday it was approximately 230MB however, at the end of today it has now nearly doubled to 430MB.
I am trying to scratch my head and wondering what is going on here?
Please find attached screenshots displaying data usage...
Process for installation -
1) I used Android Chrome to navigate to kaspersky.com/downloads/product...ile_for_android
2) Because I downloaded the APK direct from the site I was asked to allow downloads and installations from "Unknown Sources" - I didn't think this was a problem as it is Kaspersky after all....
3) Downloaded and entered my serial and that was it....
Any help or assistance would really be greatly appreciated.
With thanks,
AD

Andyroid232 said:
Hello,
Apologies if this is in the wrong forum - please feel free to remove it.
I installed Kaspersky on my device yesterday at approximately 1100 GMT.
Since then there has been a huge amount of data activity originating from the application. Approximately 430 MB worth of background data has been used...
What exactly is this?
At the end of yesterday it was approximately 230MB however, at the end of today it has now nearly doubled to 430MB.
I am trying to scratch my head and wondering what is going on here?
Please find attached screenshots displaying data usage...
Process for installation -
1) I used Android Chrome to navigate to kaspersky.com/downloads/product...ile_for_android
2) Because I downloaded the APK direct from the site I was asked to allow downloads and installations from "Unknown Sources" - I didn't think this was a problem as it is Kaspersky after all....
3) Downloaded and entered my serial and that was it....
Any help or assistance would really be greatly appreciated.
With thanks,
AD
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you dont need an anti-virus for android, uninstall it. it was probably downloading/uploading data/libs to check for any malware/adware/viruses. besides, its wifi data usage, does it matter, or is your wifi limited?

simms22 said:
you dont need an anti-virus for android, uninstall it. it was probably downloading/uploading data/libs to check for any malware/adware/viruses. besides, its wifi data usage, does it matter, or is your wifi limited?
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But I always hear about malware on Android? Why would you say it isn't required? I'm quite interested to know....

Andyroid232 said:
But I always hear about malware on Android? Why would you say it isn't required? I'm quite interested to know....
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Bumpity bump
Anybody here?

Andyroid232 said:
But I always hear about malware on Android? Why would you say it isn't required? I'm quite interested to know....
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I've never heard of anyone getting malware on their Android device. Not to say it doesn't exist, but I'm pretty sure it's rare. You can easily monitor what apps are using what resources with the various Android menus. If something is suspicious, you can easily uninstall it. Worst-case scenario, you can just reflash your ROM and since you have a Nexus device, it's pretty simple to do. I would uninstall Kaspersky.

[Q] Android System uses alot of data.

I'm monitoring my data usage on my phone because I have al limited data subscription. Now I see Android System Using alot of data (background) when the phone is in standby. I dunno what for, when I press to look at the stats it just says Android System. I don't backup, only sync my contacts, gmail and agenda. Is there someting I'm overlooking that uses data through the android system. Its frustrating because its eating my data away without the knowledge on what or which program is using.
Maybe someone can inform me what to do? Used 90 MB in the last five days only on Android System.
SOLVED: It was a app called Dumpert.nl (dutch app for funny movies) everytime I played a movie it was loading as Android System. I noticed it when Dumpert wasn't showing any big data usage while using 3G.

Duveldg said:
I'm monitoring my data usage on my phone because I have al limited data subscription. Now I see Android System Using alot of data (background) when the phone is in standby. I dunno what for, when I press to look at the stats it just says Android System. I don't backup, only sync my contacts, gmail and agenda. Is there someting I'm overlooking that uses data through the android system. Its frustrating because its eating my data away without the knowledge on what or which program is using.
Maybe someone can inform me what to do? Used 90 MB in the last five days only on Android System.
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restrict background data in data usage in setting

I have similar problem, but it is still within my data plan limit, so I just ignore it!
What I hate are these general terms in the data monitor app. Android system! Please google try to break it down to something more detailed for a normal user!
I also have quite a lot of data used by the play store, although I never download or update apps except on WIFI! I'm not sure how I got this data used!
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Restricting the background data isn't possible with Android-System. It's bugging the hell out of me. I come from iPhone and if this isn't going to be sorted out soon. I will get a iPhone because this is not normal. I want to be the one who is using data and not the system alone. Google needs te be more specific on this subject. Nobody knows what "Android-System is doing. All the information is blocked.