I have a MyTouch 3g and I was checking my data usage and since the beginning of the month I used over 247mbs of data whereas my brother has used less than 40 with the same phone. I'm normally connected to wifi, and the only app I use a lot that uses data is Facebook. Also when I check my data usage I see that my phone is using data while I'm asleep, anyone have any tips for using less data on my phone?
Turn it off while you're not using would be a good start, CM6 has a data on/off switch with the power control widget. Turning off sync would be another option, also found in the power control widget.
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Hey i know ive asked quite a lot of questions in the past but here i am with more.
1) I was wondering if there was an app to turn you data on and off so you switch from wifi to 3g data
2) I was also wondering how you can tell what your usage is mabye an app that doesn't count wifi as well.
There is an HTC Widget to turn the main radio off on the CDMA version. On my phone it is under:
Press "+" from the home screen-->HTC Widget-->Settings-->Mobile Network
On the CDMA phones that shuts down both voice and data. If you have a GSM version, i am not sure what it will do.
On the GSM version, if you just want to turn mobile data on and off but leave the phone "on", you can hold down the power button to bring up the "Phone Options" menu, and one of the options "Mobile network" - press this and it will toggle mobile data off and on.
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Dave
blood9656 said:
Hey i know ive asked quite a lot of questions in the past but here i am with more.
1) I was wondering if there was an app to turn you data on and off so you switch from wifi to 3g data
2) I was also wondering how you can tell what your usage is mabye an app that doesn't count wifi as well.
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There's a couple of good apps for turning data on/off. The one I prefer is APNDroid as it's got a notification icon that can be displayed in the taskbar to indicate whether data is on or off. Placing a shortcut on your home screen make it easy to change whether data is active.
The app I use for monitoring data is NetCounter which is easy to use and clear to understand.
I recently used them both on a trip to Dubai as I wanted to prevent data roaming charges. APNDroid deactivated the data connection and at the end of the week long stay, NetCounter was showing zero data usage during the trip.
Thanks im also abit worried about all the ads that come with apps or games do they use much data and when an app like taskiller shows them still running does that mean they are using data?
And if i got my phone a week ago will it have the latest and fastest rom?
There's an HTC widget that allows you to switch wifi on and off, thus swapping from 2/3g to wifi. Also, take a look at Y5, its good for managing when you have wifi on / off.
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Ok ill have a look i was more worried about apps running in the background as ive found that when you press the home button they don't actuallly exit.
I suggest that what you really need is Netsentry. This will monitor the traffic on all the Hero network interfaces (usb, Wi-Fi, 2G/3G) and warn you when any particular interface hits a user defined limit. It will also "self-reset" the counters according to a schedule that you define.
For example, say you are on Orange with their miserly 500mb data limit, and you're billing cycle starts on 1st on the month, you could set up Netsentry to warn you when you get to say 475mb, and automatically reset the counter on the 1st of every month.
I'm sure there are other apps that do something similar, or even better, but Netsentry seems to work well enough for me.
Regards,
Dave
Do you guys leave this on or off? I left it on always on my HTC hero but it did drain the battery faster... its found in the wireless networks / mobile networks setting...
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surfnhawaii808 said:
Do you guys leave this on or off? I left it on always on my HTC hero but it did drain the battery faster... its found in the wireless networks / mobile networks setting...
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Yeah i'm a little confused too. Does this have to be checked to get the gmail pushed?
Yeah, I leave mine on unless I'm using wifi calling, in which case I can use wifi for data. You can turn it off if you wanna save battery life tho. It obviously means you can't use anything that uses data, like texts, emails, internet, maybe calls even.
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Yeah, I leave mine on unless I'm using wifi calling, in which case I can use wifi for data. You can turn it off if you wanna save battery life tho. It obviously means you can't use anything that uses data, like texts, emails, internet, maybe calls even.
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why would this affect txts and calls? it isn't airplane mode...
If you uncheck mobile networks, then its pretty much airplane mode. If you'd like to save battery, then you can set the Network Mode to GSM only and uncheck the "always on mobile data" Will save quite a bit
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EDIT: Apologies. The always on mobile data keeps a pretty constant connection with the network so downloading can happen faster. Since the connection to the network is already on and active, a download can be plopped in quite fast. It is unnecessary for data connections, but is helpful
FYI I just unchecked it and tested my GMAIL and I still get my e-mails pushed. Lets hope I get better battery life.
You will simply see a larger delay when you request the phone to pull data... also push services MAY function and may not...
You may only get gmail when you pick up your phone and use the data some other way... at which point the phone opens up the data connection and any information can flow over data.
I would doubt that the push server will be able to signal the phone to turn on data, so it may check periodically or only catch the push command if you have your data pipe open already (as described above).
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Hi everyone, im running typhoon cm7 v3.0.0 and i was wonderin if there is a hack to make tmobile believe we are using less data than we really are? I hate it once i hit 5gb downloaded data my data connectuion speed slows down drastically and i hate it!!! So if anyone knows a solution plz help.....
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No, you cant do that
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Really wish this was possible......wud make the hd2 the best phone available!!!!
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i disagree
there are some really effective tricks that can be used to Significantly reduce your data usage on android. i use data a lot on my phone and i never hit 100MB data usage. how in the hell you are able to hit 5GB? anyway try the following tricks:
1. use "Droidwall"to only allow certain importantapps to access the the 3G connection. the less important apps can run or update just fine from WIFI
2. use "adblock" this will block connection to all ad servers
3. only allow opera mini and Operamobile w/Turbo enabled from droidwall to save data. if you want to use another browser (cant really see why) use them when you are on WIFI.
4. avoid push mail if you can. it will kill your battery and may end up eating your data plan to some extent.
5. use "3G watchdog" or something similar and place a widget in the homescreen to constantly remind you of the current data usage.
Well I have not really done any looking for it, but there was suppose to have been a work around of some kind to still be able to get 3G and 4G speeds after you were throttled. But I also heard T-Mobile has already found out about it and fixed whatever glitch was in the system. You can do some digging if you want, bit it might be in vain when or if you find it.
Now don't get me wrong I think if they say unlimited it should mean unlimited, but I am not going to get into all of that as it as been beatin to death. But if you are going over 5Gig every month I want to know what the heck you are doing too cause until almost two weeks ago when I accidently busted my laptop screen. I tethered my HD2 via WiFi like for like 14 to 16 hours a day and only got up to 3.5 gig once. You might seriously want to think about a home internet set up or start using some local WiFi hotspots more. Heck I know a guy that goes to the local Hardee's and sets for 6 to 8 hours a day just to use their WiFi for free. I have set there for 4 hours befor. r,
Thanks for all ur replys........me personally am a huge fan of call of.duty...and i play online most of the time....tethering my phone is excellent thats why i use it......i heard a hack about one of the droid phones on verizon that did this sort of thing so i thought it wud be possible on my hd2.......
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5gb on a mobile connection? what the hell are you doing to use that much data?
This has frustrated me to no end. Does anybody know if there is an app that will switch from HSPDA to 2g? Preferably one I can set to a schedule? The WiFi calling app is the only one that seems to do this flawlessly, however it requires a WiFi connection.
When I am at work I do not use my phone for anything except phone calls and my calendar, so I do not have any need for 4 or even 3g coverage... And my phone just drains battery trying to establish these connections.
I've tried using APNdroid but it just force closes my phone process.
Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated. I'm running elite sense 2.6 if that matters at all.
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So you want to keep 2g (edge) or no data whatsoever?
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Use Widgetsoid, fantastic
chrisokaly said:
This has frustrated me to no end. Does anybody know if there is an app that will switch from HSPDA to 2g? Preferably one I can set to a schedule? The WiFi calling app is the only one that seems to do this flawlessly, however it requires a WiFi connection.
When I am at work I do not use my phone for anything except phone calls and my calendar, so I do not have any need for 4 or even 3g coverage... And my phone just drains battery trying to establish these connections.
I've tried using APNdroid but it just force closes my phone process.
Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated. I'm running elite sense 2.6 if that matters at all.
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What ROM are you using?
I was wondering since when I am home and primarily using wifi instead of my 4G data, will using wifi calling save me on battery as well? I usually turn data off because I save a lot of power that way. On my nexus one I get about 5 days of use with 1 charge in Airplane mode.
Thanks in advance.
Yes wifi will use considerably less power across the board.
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