Is there a way to observe the data usage on the phone? I am on a data plan with 0.5GB usage cap, and I want to know when I am reaching it.
search the android market place for 'netcounter'
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.
adrungil said:
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.
I just installed "My Verizon" app to check my data usage. I noticed that there is an *Important note" – usage data reflected in My Verizon Mobile is not updated in real-time. Usage data reflects latest available information since last bill.
I am wondering how frequently is the data usage updated. I googled it. Someone said 8 hours and someone said 24 hours or even 72 hours.
Does anyone know exactly how frequently the data usage is updated at Verizon?
I have a 6GB plan and somehow I have used up 16 gb of data and apparently yesterday I used 8gb on my phone. I have unlimited Wifi at home and I always connected when at home.
I didn't leave the house yesterday.. but some how I managed to used 8gb according to my phone company which is Bell Canada. Called and they informed me that the charges were legitimate and there is nothing I can do about it.
My whatsapp (plus) showed that it used 12gb and that's crazy to me. Rom - Dynamic Pop 6.0 with Canadian Data fix. Please help guys..
Guys I did not use 16gb of data but some how my phone company is getting that information from my phone.. how is this possible ?
I don't think you should have used whatsapp plus, it's not an official app. Normal whatsapp uses very little data.
If it's whatsapp plus that caused it (go to settings > data usage and look for any big spikes in usage by any app), then you should uninstall it and hope that these issues don't happen again.
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I don't think you should have used whatsapp plus, it's not an official app. Normal whatsapp uses very little data.
If it's whatsapp plus that caused it (go to settings > data usage and look for any big spikes in usage by any app), then you should uninstall it and hope that these issues don't happen again.
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but how could whatsapp plus use 8gb of data in one single day according to technical support?