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How do I check data usage?

This may sound like a stupid question, but when I first got the G2 I was about to check my data usage, but now I forgot how. I've gone to my.t-mobile.com and I've check the My Account app. My memory has lapsed!

Checkin' the ole data stream...
Once upon a time it was #DATA#, but I don't think that is the case anymore...

You can see you're data usage on T-Mobile.com. Log into your account, click on Account Use, click on the phone line in question, then scroll down and you will see the Data section.

There are a few apps on the market that monitor usage. But I imagine they also drain the battery.
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RuncaProfundus said:
There are a few apps on the market that monitor usage. But I imagine they also drain the battery.
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Those apps only moniter when there on. So if u dont run the app all the time it wont give you the right data. But yea log into t mobile and ur see it there
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Now for another question, why is my.t-mobile.com so SLOW?

3G Watchdog is a really nice app to handle data consumption and is very lightweight on both the system and the battery. Look it up on the marketplace.
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Data: 3,754.251 / Unlimited Megabytes
BAH!! That's just minor surfing and listening to Pandora. No tethering.

Bell unlimited social networking

Hi, in my plan on bell Canada it says I have unlimited social networking but do you know or that covers HTC friend stream ,I called and they do not know.. thanks
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Humpty bump hump
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Aodhan said:
Humpty bump hump
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I think this means you are allowed to carry your mobile into social events and not get charged for it!
but seriously, its probably you can access twitter, facebook, myspace etc for no charge?

i know that, but is it for the official app, friend stream ?

Aodhan said:
i know that, but is it for the official app, friend stream ?
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I can only assume that they look for facebook etc in the addresses that are being visited by the widgets or normal browser.
Took me 2 minutes to find the info on their website
http://www.bell.ca/shopping/PrsShpWls_SmartphoneCombo.page
(4) With select HSPA devices (excludes BlackBerry) within network coverage areas available from Bell Mobility in Canada. Includes basic features of select applications (included at time of purchase), browsing and use of content and services hosted directly by Facebook.com, Twitter.com and Myspace.com. Use of other sites, applications and links (including games, pictures and videos hosted on other sites, other than sites included) are not included. Excludes premium and short code text messages.

voodooboy3000 said:
I can only assume that they look for facebook etc in the addresses that are being visited by the widgets or normal browser.
Took me 2 minutes to find the info on their website
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See now this is what I love seeing. A junior member that finds information in a jiffy!
I can confirm that unlimited social network with all Canadian carriers (Don't know about the other ones) includes any widgets connecting to social networks. Considering Friend stream uses the facebook authentification process and streams its information from facebook itself, you can surf all you want on it unlimited (Pictures, videos, etc.) but the minute you click on a facebook link, an external link, it goes through a regular data plan.
The unlimited social networking is a scam to me, really...

Yeah i mean really, I called bell twice and they couldn't even tell me. Thanks so much guys.
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New Notification

I've been running CM7 since the last "Alpha" release and have it updated with the Oct 22 update. I don't recall exactly when, but I started recieving these "optout" notifications. I don't know if it's related to CM7 or something else, but they're not cool at all . Does anyone know where they're coming from or how to stop them?

An app you installed
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I started getting those after playing angry frogs
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Have you tried opting out at xapush.com?

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An app you installed
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The only app I have installed now that was not before I switched to CM7 is Go SMS Pro. Has anyone had any experience with it?

Go sms pro doesn't do that, but i don't use go fb chat. What opens when you click it?
Edit :
http://blog.fortinet.com/airpush-pushes-the-envelope/
Found this after a bit of research. Looks like an adbased app on your phone is using their apk. Seems they do support opt out, but aren't doing a good job a securing your identity period.
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abhaxus said:
Go sms pro doesn't do that, but i don't use go fb chat. What opens when you click it?
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http://blog.fortinet.com/airpush-pushes-the-envelope/
Found this after a bit of research. Looks like an adbased app on your phone is using their apk. Seems they do support opt out, but aren't doing a good job a securing your identity period.
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I'm not going to click those %^#$%#$%#$ Spam messages... I clear all the notifications. The only features of Go SMS Pro I use are SMS & MMS. I don't have Facebook, Myspace, Google+ or any other "Social networking" (Read: Stalking) crap. Want nothing to do with any of them. Any ideas how I can track down where it came from? I've looked at the installed apps and services with Titanium Backup and nothing stands out. Unless One of the other apps got 'updated' to include this new 'feature', Go SMS seems the most likely suspect at the moment.

SubnetMask said:
I don't have Facebook, Myspace, Google+ or any other "Social networking" (Read: Stalking) crap.
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wats a myspace?

Although I usually have 150-200+ apps installed at any one time, I started getting those annoying little "notifications" almost as soon as I installed the free version of the IPhone keyboard. Not cool at all...

How often do they come up? Is it at a predetermined time or is it random? A relatively easy way to narrow it down may be to look at market reviews of suspected apps.

Girlfriend had this problem. There's an app called airpush detector on the market. Download it to see what's causing the ads
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Hey had this same problem in my case it was MP3 downloader.
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data usage monitoring

hi,
im on a rogers 100mb data plan per month. can someone tell me, how do i see how much ive used with my sgs. cant find any logs or anything that says. thx!
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still looking for a solution but am testing a few apps..
if i find anything ill update.
my next diary post should be tomrw nite.
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data manager - https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mobidia.android.mdm&hl=en
the best

syamsoul said:
data manager - https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mobidia.android.mdm&hl=en
the best
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this is the best
+1

i use "3g watchdog" it is very stable and accurate.

I'm also using "3G Watchdog". has always been very accurate for me. also the widget and optional statusbar-icon come in handy.

3d watchdog is awesome! thx guys! this is the one for me.
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Per app
Installed Onavo today (featured on the market) which shows the apps that are using your data as well.
Looks nice, but I'm only using it for a day now.

Therer are several good monitoring-apps, except for the ones already named you could try NetCounter and PhoneUsage. With the last one you can monitor you calls, text and data traffic.

Broken303 said:
I'm also using "3G Watchdog". has always been very accurate for me. also the widget and optional statusbar-icon come in handy.
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Last time i use watchdog , tethering is not calculated in.
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Flash ICS rom and youll have that built in
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+1 to all.
Onavo drains battery and is annoying.
SOme roms, like MIUI have a nice 3g monitor built in the OS. And a firewall. SO this will help keep the balance

zodiaxe66 said:
this is the best
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+1 for this

syamsoul said:
Last time i use watchdog , tethering is not calculated in.
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i'm not tethering that much, but i think they fixt that with one of the last updates. not sure though.

I've been using 3G Watchdog for a while and I'm very happy with it. Alerts you when you're close to busting your cap and it can even toggle off data before you go over your limit. You can have a data usage indicator in the notification bar and as a widget, if you want, too.

note that some carriers exclude certain downloaded content, and some charge per MB rounded session etc which doesnt get taken into account with most apps
often the carrier itself has an app which tells you your account usage and can send warning message when about to reach limit. Not sure if rogers has this but worth checking out

Traffic Monitor is very accurate, gives more data (tethering, current period, current day ...), is free
but is less colorful...
Regards

Anyway to get around T Mobile's tethering monitoring

I am running Juggernaut ROM and used it to tether quite heavily this past few days. I received a text message from T Mobile telling me to sign up for their tethering plan. I think they were monitoring the amount of data usage I was using and I exceeded some limit over a certain time frame. Is there anyway around this? Previously I only tethered for a few hours at most. Thanks.

No way around it
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Google how to change the user agent on your internet browser. The T-mobile upsell page only shows up when it detects you're using a desktop browser via the user agent. Try tethering to a tablet or Google Chrome with the user agent set to Firefox and it works fine even after they send you the message saying your tethering is blocked.
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sffish said:
I am running Juggernaut ROM and used it to tether quite heavily this past few days. I received a text message from T Mobile telling me to sign up for their tethering plan. I think they were monitoring the amount of data usage I was using and I exceeded some limit over a certain time frame. Is there anyway around this? Previously I only tethered for a few hours at most. Thanks.
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Use the wifi tether root app I've been using it since day one and never got in trouble
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Wow i tether for 2 months my PC my xbox and everything and tmobile said nothing ;D

so what, they cannot prove it, I used to tether 5gb a month with horrible Sprint and got a few notices as well.

fastfed said:
so what, they cannot prove it, I used to tether 5gb a month with horrible Sprint and got a few notices as well.
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They can prove it actually they can see the mac address of every device on their network and they know if a device using their network isn't a phone or isn't one of their phones
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The quick workaround for the tether monitor upsell is to use a VPN... You can use a free service (I use VPN Reactor) or a paid service (such as StrongVPN).
To find and setup VPN Reactor, use HTTPS://www.google.com to perform a search... VPN Reactor is a secure (HTTPS) site and the upsell notice will not appear (which you might have noticed when checking any other secure site, such as GMail).
I hope this helps those looking for a solution to the tether upsell notice.

Idk if this is possible but using cm9 and aokp I have had no problems with tethering, and from what I have been reading perhaps aosp derivative roms don't have this issue?
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No problems here using the native tethering app.......haven't had any messages or run ins with the upsell page. BTW I'm using FIREFOX on my laptop with some add-ons.

I opened titanium backup and froze "tethering manager" and now I can tether for free.
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schquigly said:
I opened titanium backup and froze "tethering manager" and now I can tether for free.
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They still know you're doing it.

I got this same text message from TMobile, even though they recommended getting a tethering plan I didn't and they said I wouldn't be able to tether anymore.
To this day I'm still tethering, so I don't believe they can do anything to stop the tethering if you are on a custom ROM.
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thatkidfades said:
I got this same text message from TMobile, even though they recommended getting a tethering plan I didn't and they said I wouldn't be able to tether anymore.
To this day I'm still tethering, so I don't believe they can do anything to stop the tethering if you are on a custom ROM.
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I dunno what they can do about it. Maybe charge you? Maybe shut down your data completely? Who knows

Wow I had just rooted my cousins phone and came across this issue as he got two text messages briefly after tethering.

download Logging Test App and the pro key off the market, gets rid of CIQ in juggs and not to mention makes the phone run like its ass is on fire... just be sure to run threw everything, and try not to brick yourself.... and if you don't backup and loose your os.. i just might die laughing
after running this i no longer got thoes nasty " we know your tethering " texts
Edit: i forgot to post the link lol http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=17612559

schquigly said:
I opened titanium backup and froze "tethering manager" and now I can tether for free.
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No, you cant. Freezing that does not somehow hide your tethering data usage
BTW TMo will be stopping free tethering with ICS: http://support.t-mobile.com/thread/25504?start=0&tstart=0
http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...e-tethering-if-you-ever-had-it-to-begin-with/
http://androidcommunity.com/t-mobiles-free-tethering-ends-with-ics-upgrades-20120515/

blackangst said:
No, you cant. Freezing that does not somehow hide your tethering data usage
BTW TMo will be stopping free tethering with ICS: http://support.t-mobile.com/thread/25504?start=0&tstart=0
http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...e-tethering-if-you-ever-had-it-to-begin-with/
http://androidcommunity.com/t-mobiles-free-tethering-ends-with-ics-upgrades-20120515/
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yeah, you've got to get rid of tethering manager completely.... in other words find a rom that doesn't need it!

TMo can stop you from tethering if they want to, It's just a balance of the expected revenue gain and the likely backlash. If a nasty message accomplishes one without the other, it's a no brainer.

If you are rooted on a custom rom from the development section most likely you shouldn't receive any messages. That doesn't mean they aren't tracking your data. You will be throttled to 60kbs when you've reached the limit. For most people that's 2 or 5 gigs of data. There used to be a work around for the throttle but it's been patched.
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