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Sh*t - 6GB Data transfer??

Hi,
my mobile service provider sent me a bill, wich contains 6GB data transfer (and I have no flat-rate). I'm 100% shure, that I didn't caused that data traffic.
Are there log-files for data transfers at the Touch HD device? I used the "standard" ROM with no traffic manager installed.
Thanks for you help.
Regards
hqqh

hi, as far as i am aware, there is no inbuilt logs of data transfer
but 6GB?!?!?!?!? what on earth have you been doing with your device? using it as a modem for a desktop pc???? downloading loads of video on it?
i thought i was pretty having at surfing, emailing (no attachments thats just silly) etc etc and i dont get through my allowance of 500MB per month
seems an awful lot of data transfer, if you are not sure you've used this up, then i would challenge your service provider
an idea of data usage is here:
http://online.vodafone.co.uk/dispat...fpb=true&_pageLabel=template09&pageID=MB_0005
but also consider that this is a 3g usb stick for a full size pc, the data usage on a pda should be considerably less for the same sort of usage as you are less likely to have such big files going back and forth
i used that to guestimate that to use 6gb you must have.....
surfed for 5 hours daily, sent 30 emails daily, downloaded 100 mp3 each month, downloaded 50 high res pics each month and downloaded 4 movies each month
that or youve been watching shed loads of streaming porn!
seriously, its not unknown for service providers to get their data billing wrong.....
just a thought, you havent got it setup as a mobile hotspot or something?

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Hi,
thanks for you answer.
I don't use the HD as modem or mobile internet device. Only if I have a wlan connection, I check my emails or some news pages!
This 6GB download should be taken place at one day according to the bill. If you take the theoretical download speed of 7,2MBit/sec this should have taken about 2 hours. But I this under real conditions a bandwidth of 7,2MBit/sec * 0,5 or 0,3 --> I should have downloaded or streamed 5 - 7 hours.
So my plan is to do not pay for these 6GB (580€) and then the moblie service provider has to check the technical equipment. Hopefully there is an error .
Does someone has experience with not correct bills?
Regards
hqqh

i had an incorrect bill, hence my reply
i told them what you are saying basically... that i could not have shifted that much data overnight while i was asleep (i cant remember how much it was now, several hundred MB i think.... which while possible i knew i did not do due to the times the data was transferred.... that was with the HTC Charmer which didnt havent wifi so couldnt have been hacked over wifi somehow (bluetooth was permantly off and unless you were stood outside my front door, you would connect via BT anyway)
they didnt argue and credited my bill
as you are talking about 580euros, then persoanlly i would put a block on the direct debit or however you pay your bill to make sure they dont take the payment then challenge them... this action could mean you breach your contract though
what ever you do dont just not pay them and wait for them to contact you... i would ring your service provider now if i was you

I do a lot of browsing and I often watch a few YouTube videos each month and I've never really gone over 1GB, so something very strange must have happened for that much data to have been used, especially if you don't even browse the web or anything.

Can they deliver to you a detailed bill with when you have downloaded these 6gb.
I use internet access alot, and I reach my 5OOmb limit only one month over 12. It was when I have used alot poping email with big attached files.
You said you that you sometimes alless the net on wifi. But are you sure that you are using only wifi and not gprs.
The best solution for you for the future is to deactivate gprs data access. You will find tools to do it like HDTweak or others.

Could I have screwed up my 3G settings?

I have an 8525 with a WM 6 rom (by ATT, picked up here). I have customized everything I got my hands on here.
I have a 3g connection using ATT's network, but the good speeds that I used to see have recently become terrible. I'm wondering if it could be my phone- either due to my screwing up a setting or just deterioration. I'm in the Raleigh/Durham area in NC, USA that has good coverage.
Using dslreports speed test, I used to see 450 Kb/s or more but now, I barely get 150 kb/s. That's Edge level and it drops below that all the time too. I've seen as low as 60 Kb/s- that's old time modem speed!
Before you ask, I am pretty sure that I am connecting through 3G- first of all, I see the 3G icon when I connect. I also have switched to edge manually and saw the E icon (with bandswitch). I got an ATT rep (who had a new blackberry) to connect and try the speed test, and he got great speeds, right next to me, so I know it's not about the spot I was at (besides I get these awful speeds wherever I go). My wife has an old iphone and gets the same speeds as I do.
I am wondering if this plan has become speed limited somehow? Or could I have used too much bandwith and been capped to low speeds? Is there such a thing? I use wmwifirouter and a usb cable to tether my laptop, but I don't stream or anything. I am careful about my usage (monitored) and it never got to a 1 GB per month.
Any ideas on how I can check? I am hesitant to go to an ATT store, since in my experience they are not real experts and I don't want them messing around with my phone/account, taking away the smartphone connect plan and making me pay for a pda connect plan or something.
Is there a setting in WM that I could have screwed up? I did use the gprs auto disconnect registry tweak, but I don't think that's the cause.
Any ideas would be appreciated.

Maybe you should consider asking under the section for your phone 8525 and not the Titan section.

Could I have screwed up my 3G settings?

I have an 8525 with a WM 6 rom (by ATT, picked up here). I have customized everything I got my hands on here.
I have a 3g connection using ATT's network, but the good speeds that I used to see have recently become terrible. I'm wondering if it could be my phone- either due to my screwing up a setting or just deterioration. I'm in the Raleigh/Durham area in NC, USA that has good coverage.
Using dslreports speed test, I used to see 450 Kb/s or more but now, I barely get 150 kb/s. That's Edge level and it drops below that all the time too. I've seen as low as 60 Kb/s- that's old time modem speed!
Before you ask, I am pretty sure that I am connecting through 3G- first of all, I see the 3G icon when I connect. I also have switched to edge manually and saw the E icon (with bandswitch). I got an ATT rep (who had a new blackberry) to connect and try the speed test, and he got great speeds, right next to me, so I know it's not about the spot I was at (besides I get these awful speeds wherever I go). My wife has an old iphone and gets the same speeds as I do.
I am wondering if this plan has become speed limited somehow? Or could I have used too much bandwith and been capped to low speeds? Is there such a thing? I use wmwifirouter and a usb cable to tether my laptop, but I don't stream or anything. I am careful about my usage (monitored) and it never got to a 1 GB per month.
Any ideas on how I can check? I am hesitant to go to an ATT store, since in my experience they are not real experts and I don't want them messing around with my phone/account, taking away the smartphone connect plan and making me pay for a pda connect plan or something.
Is there a setting in WM that I could have screwed up? I did use the gprs auto disconnect registry tweak, but I don't think that's the cause.
Any ideas would be appreciated.

when did you do the test on dslreports? a few days ago I had the same problem. slow speed result. I took out my sim, put it in my 3g usb modem, got blazing speeds sitting in the same spot.
tried again later at night on my tytn again, speed went back up. maybe dslreports was being wonky during that time frame?
also, blackberry's I believe compress data so their speed tests are off. AFAIK

Thanks for writing. This is not a new issue for me, I've been watching the speed get bad for a while- I've used dslreports on and off for the last couple of months, checking the speed. The only thing I did recently was get someone else with 3g to test their speed for comparison. In dslreports, using the simple speed test, it used to tell me that the 100 KB file was too small (I was too fast) and I needed to try a larger file, like 1MB. Now it takes me 5-6 seconds to get that 100 KB file.
I'm curious if ATT might be capping speeds, since I tether my laptop every once in a while. Still, as I said earlier, I was always careful about my bandwidth usage. I'm trying to isolate the problem, so that I go to ATT as a last resort to complain about the speed, since they'll probably want to change my plan to PDA connect.

Did you ever stop to consider that may be why your speed is being cut back?????
I found with my parents internet connection, they were using dial-up (I know stone age but it was enough for them) and Telstra in Australia let the speed go fine while under contract but as soon as the contract was up it was disconnection after disconnection, they were plastering my parents to go with broadband and when they discovered that they couldn't, with satelite.
We changed them to another company but as soon as the contract period was up, guess what, same problem.
ATT might be doing the same to you to get the ****s with the plan you're on and upgrade or move to another plan.
Just a thought...

Well, they haven't pestered me for anything and I've not heard them limit speeds like this- but that's why I posted, to see if anyone had any experience with it. Lots of people use the setup that I have, so someone else should know something.

[Q] Does Samsung disable the p2p [torrent] download via LTE for Galaxy Note 3??

Well, I been facing this since the day I bought my Note 3 about a month ago...
I'm tried to download the torrent files via LTE but it doesn't downloading, well it work when comes to Wi-Fi connected.
We can see the peer sources are pretty much there, I can't understand why this happen can't download under data network...
Since the normal download is working well, only torrent unable to download, I doubt is Samsung has limit / disable p2p
download via data network on their device ...
Anyone facing the same problem? or is there anyway to solve this??? Thanks for your helps guys... <3

Are you sure it's not your provider blocking torrent in general or that specific port(range)? E.g. did that work on your previous LTE-smartphone on the same provider?

Estoroth said:
Are you sure it's not your provider blocking torrent in general or that specific port(range)? E.g. did that work on your previous LTE-smartphone on the same provider?
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I'd have to agree that if it's working via WiFi, the issue is the cellular provider blocking torrent traffic.
Try installing a VPN (e.g. Tunnelbear) and see it works over LTE when the VPN is connected.
Regards,
Dave

That's provider-based, not Android-based.

I've tested myself on three UK. Works fine so itll be your provider.

ikenny928 said:
Well, I been facing this since the day I bought my Note 3 about a month ago...
I'm tried to download the torrent files via LTE but it doesn't downloading, well it work when comes to Wi-Fi connected.
We can see the peer sources are pretty much there, I can't understand why this happen can't download under data network...
Since the normal download is working well, only torrent unable to download, I doubt is Samsung has limit / disable p2p
download via data network on their device ...
Anyone facing the same problem? or is there anyway to solve this??? Thanks for your helps guys... <3
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I feel you there... I'm on T-mobile. My galaxy note 2 allowed me to do torrents just fine on LTE. But for some reason they do not like to work at all on my note 3... Sometimes 1 will work. but that's if I'm lucky

FYI Stock lolipop tether bypasses T-mobile tether data caps

Just tested the built in tether from the settings and was able to pull down over 25 gigs with no warning texts or slow downs.
Very nice to not have to use a 3rd party app because the performance of stock tether is vastly superior. Could barely even tell i was tethering, just got a little warm but didn't slow the phone to a crawl like some other apps do :good: very impressed just make sure you have an apn using fast tmobile and ipv4 and you should be good to go. Possibly a user agent switcher on a browser but that's it

I'm tethering on at&t unlimited grandfathered data plan. Apparently the aren't throttling anymore unless you are on a congested tower. I'm often hitting close to 60mbps down. Good times.

For t-mobile. I don't believe the stock app bypasses tethering. From what I've read on Nexus 5 forums the stock android tethering app sends data to the carrier to indicate tethered devices. From my experience. I have an unlimited data plan, with either 3 or 5GB cap of tethered data. I found that over several days i was watching streaming video, and got it to about 5GBs, and then the next day, my connection seems to be throttled. This is evidenced by doing speedtest on both my ipad (tethered to the idol 3) and then the idol 3, from the same location within minutes of each other and seeing a vast difference in the download speed I got between the devices.
I want to do this test a few more times to just make sure I wasn't in a shotty connection area, but my belief is that t-mobile throttles but its not an immediate cut off. You might get above the cap, but eventually they catch up with it and shut you down.
Anyone else have this experience?

mikeisgo said:
For t-mobile. I don't believe the stock app bypasses tethering. From what I've read on Nexus 5 forums the stock android tethering app sends data to the carrier to indicate tethered devices. From my experience. I have an unlimited data plan, with either 3 or 5GB cap of tethered data. I found that over several days i was watching streaming video, and got it to about 5GBs, and then the next day, my connection seems to be throttled. This is evidenced by doing speedtest on both my ipad (tethered to the idol 3) and then the idol 3, from the same location within minutes of each other and seeing a vast difference in the download speed I got between the devices.
I want to do this test a few more times to just make sure I wasn't in a shotty connection area, but my belief is that t-mobile throttles but its not an immediate cut off. You might get above the cap, but eventually they catch up with it and shut you down.
Anyone else have this experience?
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I've found "easytether" to be the only solution for me with t-mobile as it uses adb to create a network connection that doesn't send the "tether" tag. It's usb or bluetooth (windows only) though..works well enough for my needs with my laptop. Once the device is rooted a small change can be made to make the device use the same apn for tether as well as phone and the problem goes away. I tried pdanet which supposedly does the same thing via wifi but t-mobile still blocked/throttled my traffic.