Hey guys, i just got a GPRS data package from my service provider, but my package allows me to download 50 Mb of data a month, and an extra fee will be added for every additional Mb i use. I was wondering if anyone knows where i can find a cab file that would play the role of a traffic meter so that i can keep an eye on how much data i am using for incoming and outgoing connections in order to keep the monthly bill at a reasonable level. Thanks for the help in advance!
SPB wireless monitor is what you need.
Is there any freeware i could use because 19.95 dollars for such a program is quite steep for my purposes i think.
I went ahead and purchased the full version of the software, but i was wondering if i could add the SPB Wireless Monitor on my today screen while enabling TouchFlo 3D at the same time, so that i can monitor my data transfers quicker and easier just by looking at the home screen. Thanks!
Yes you can do it (Today in Manila)
I have your same Issue and this is the solution i have.
Using this software will enable Today screen in a new Manila tab added after the settings tab.
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-manila-today-page.html
Good Luck
Please note that you need to disable Manila from Today screen before installing the cab.
Thanks for your support, but i was wondering if i could have the data information on the home screen underneath the calendar and call history instead of having it on a different tab. If there is no solution to the problem then don't worry, i can live with it. Thanks anyway!
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Hello everyone
I was wondering if it was possible to make my idea real.
Is it possible to create an application like this?
It would be a complex data and call time counter.
For example I have 110 minutes (+110 minutes per weekend) programme and 1GB of data per month.
So let us say I would like to set my counter to count minutes (and data) during the weekdays and after I finish these minutes to start counting from the weekend minutes. Also it could inform me on the homescreen that warning! you have reached your monthly minute limit. (or data limit)
I would also like to make exceptional calls so the app would not count this time into the log.
It could work in the way like this:
You open the program where you have a simple menu. To set your counter you would: Click add new counter -> enter a name for it (eg Minutes per month). then you will be presented with some options like: monthly limit, exceptions, warn before reaching the limit, count sent sms, count sent/rcvd data, option for setting relation to another counter -> as I have mentioned. When I finish my monthly minutes, I can use another 110 weekend minutes into the same network. So i will be able to set option After reaching limit use [xy] counter.
So you would be able to set another counter for weekend minutes etc.
What do you think of such application?
Do you fin it useful?
Is it possible to make something like this?
Post your opininons please and remarks and ideas how to improve such an application and if it is even possible.
Thank you
there are good applications which do exactly this!
http://beta.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/wirelessmonitor/ (data traffic)
http://www.chi-tai.info/cs_batterystatus_xda_neo_wm5_im_cs.htm#Download (data & minutestraffic)
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thank you
defcon2000 said:
there are good applications which do exactly this!
http://beta.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/wirelessmonitor/ (data traffic)
http://www.chi-tai.info/cs_batterystatus_xda_neo_wm5_im_cs.htm#Download (data & minutestraffic)
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but no with touch flo 3.with this??????
Spb wireless monitor works perfect with TF3D without a today plugin. Just install it on main memory it will keep monitoring your traffic without needing to even open the application.
thank you...for minutes?????
Well, spb wireless monitor does not monitor your normal tariff. You need something like battery status which also means that you need second today.
LCMinutes is your friend: http://lctools.blogspot.com/
works without second today
Penicillin said:
LCMinutes is your friend: http://lctools.blogspot.com/
works without second today
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LCMinutes seems aa little complicated. I'm looking for a simple freeware call counter. I get 400mins free per month regardless of weekday/weekend and would like to know when I've reach this. Does anyone know of such an app?
Woild be a bonus if it works in tf3d.
defcon2000 said:
there are good applications which do exactly this!
http://beta.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/wirelessmonitor/ (data traffic)
http://www.chi-tai.info/cs_batterystatus_xda_neo_wm5_im_cs.htm#Download (data & minutestraffic)
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It is possible to have a 2nd today home screen?
Homescreen++ doesn't work with touchflo and is not an app which I can run. Only works with today screen so I wonder if it's possible to have two home screens?
Many thanks
Hello
I am a first time user of WM and am currently getting my way around apps which suit me. I was wondering if any of you know of a good MB counter which can track the amount of data I receive when I use the internet on my Touch HD. I am currently with Orange (UK) and they have given me a 500MB a month limit, which they claim is unlimited and that I would never be able to finish it (something highly doubt) so I need this tool just to make sure I do not go over the limit. It would also be handy if I could set up a reset date for every month. If anyone knows of an app which can do this please can you let me know and I would be truly grateful.
Cheers
spb wireless monitor
works fine
unless you stream video/audio over the mobile network, you will find it hard to use up 500mb on a hand-held device in my experience
unless you are daft of course and download attachments to emails, download software direct to the device (although cab files fine)
I also use Spb Wireless Monitor and it appears to work - just not sure how accurate it is (haven't tried to benchmark it yet) especially over HSDPA.
It has a very good interface and is easy to set up...
Cheers,
MjeSpoz.
Hey everyone,
Last month I gave a TP2 as a gift to a relative of mine, who is not the most tech savvy. Now, after having been in use for a month, my relative complained about an unsually high phone bill. So I checked it out, and it turns out that the phone used just short of 400 MB in a single month!!! The itemised bill showed that the phone sent or received several megabytes (usually around 4 MB) during times, when the noone was using it (like the middle of the night, 5 in the morning and so on).
The following services were enabled on the phone, that potentially use data:
- Automatic downloading of weather data
- Push notifications for Windows Live Hotmail (
- Windows Update
- Windows Customer Feedback Program
I've now disabled all of the above. Nevertheless, I have to say that blocks of 4 MB without actual use seem pretty excessive. I get push emails on my phone with Google Mail and I never have any more than a couple hundred kilobytes a month. And things like the Customer Feedback Program shouldn't use any data at all (if i recall the dialog explaining the service correctly).
Does anyone have any idea what could be the cause of all this? I actually feel bad for giving someone a phone that causes an astronomical phone bill without having been used excessively. Do you think my relative has some chance of getting at least part of the bill refunded?
Thanks for your input.
Easy.
Just delete the t-mobile setting under connection.
Or change the server to epc.1tmobile.com
Done!
Thank for the input, but I'm sorry to say that that does not actually apply in this case. It is a generic HTC Touch Pro 2, bought in Germany, running on the E-Plus network. Deleting the internet settings all together is not an option, since the phone is supposed to be able to go online (eg. to check stock quotes).
What I'm really wondering is:
- What, out of the services I mentioned, would use up such rediculous amounts of data for no aparent reason?
- How much data do other users see, who do not go online with their phone all day long?
PS: I forgot to mention that Google Latitude was also engabled at some point in time, but was then disabled on account of the fact that it does not update the location when the phone is in standby, and is thus, utterly useless.
Is there some kind of data service on that line? Is this a prepaid line or a post paid(monthy bill). The bill for this overage shows what? Does it show a charge per mb?
A program like SPB wireless monitor can report usage split between which applications are using the data. I don't know whether the trial version would be good enough to get to the bottom of this, but even paying for the full version would be worthwhile if it saves the big bills.
I agree that this is a very large amount of data for the phone to be using by itself!
Did you use Google Maps?
Edit: If not, I would definitely install spb wireless monitor.
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- How much data do other users see, who do not go online with their phone all day long?
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I go online with Exchange push, Gmail every 4 hours, Hotmail push, weather, web browsing, facebook, upload pictures, etc
and my monthly useage are around 100-150MB on average.
User who are not go online with their phone all day would be much less than my usage.
Check if she has websites set to push during those times.
Hey everyone,
The phone is on a prepaid plan, but it shows you very exactly how much data was used when.
By now I am fairly confident that the problem lies with Windows Live and Hotmail push notifications. I have in the meantime reactivated the Windows feedback thing (after all, we all benefit from the information I submit to MS ) and have not noticed any additional data charges. I have disabled automatic updating of weather data, but syncronized once manually and was shocked to find that it used a whopping 1.2MB!!! Absoulutely rediculous.
I have not reenabled Windows Update, but since there are no updates available anyway, I fail to see how that might cause as much data as was used.
Which only leaves Windows Live as the culprit. What I fail to see is how it managed to use up so much data when downloading E-mails. Even newsletters, which arrived on the phone too, rarely have more than a hundred or so KB.. and that includes pictures, which the phone does not download automatically.
Well, I'll install the SPB Monitor and let you know what my findings are.
xanthene
PS: There are no push pages set up
I 100% agree with you about the SPB Wireless monitor.
The new version of SPB wireless monitor is great. It will break down which programs are using what data amounts, which connections are being used and will even give a chart showing these things. You can view daily, weekly and monthly. It monitors USB, MMS, GPRS, and even WiFi but all you want is the gprs.
A weather program that uses 1.2 megs is rediculous. I use Weatherpanel (free) it updates once an hour including radar images for 3 cities and it uses about 400k per day!
It is a necessity on my Kaiser and if and when they bring the HTC to North America it will go on that as well.
Do you have facebook sync set up up? When I had it set to auto sync on the 2.1 beta I use on my Touch Pro it was blowing through data and battery.
She may have used less than the bill shows...some carriers round up on up on the data use/cost.
Thanks again for all your input, the matter is basically settled now. I've disabled data connections on the phone, preventing it from accumulating such rediculous charges without reason. Now the data connections just have to be manually turned on before going online - which isn't really an issue considering how little the phone is being used to surf around the net.
SPB Wireless Monitor obviously shows next to no data, on account of the fact that data has been turned off. I used it to read two news pages once and SPB reported 2.5MB. Again, pretty rediculously high amounts for some news. Looks like Opera isnt the most efficient browser. I should benchmark it against Skyfire and Opera 9.7b with Turbo when I have some time.
Regarding the units that get charged: data gets counted in increments of 10 kilobytes, which is more than fair on a prepaid plan.
Facebook sync is turned off.
I guess the matter is settled. Weather uses way more data than it should, and the only other service that I haven't tested yet is Hotmail Push. The cold, hard process of elimination clearly blames Hotmail.
Thanks for all your input.
is there any way to monitor the internet usage in WM 6.5 or any app that can do this? I would like to limit myself to an amount of monthly traffic in order to save money on a data plan offer.
SPB Wireless Monitor is easily the best, not free but works a treat.
I'd post a link but being a noob I can't
thanks
was hoping for free but I will check this one out.
I don't know if this helps or not but I downloaded the SPB wireless monitor trial and was very impressed with it. You can set a daily Mb allowance and if you go over the limit you've set it a pop up informs you of that.
The trail period elapsed and I thought I might buy it although it is quite pricey but have found subsequently that even though I can't access the rest of the features now the pop up has continued to work.
Obviously I can't change that limit or anything else for that matter but for the time being that limited functionality is enough for me.
I live in Bolivia, my cellular provider is Tigo.
I own and HTC Touch pro2 (AT&T HTC Tilt2) and I had this problem: Involuntary internet connections happen in my phone, my cellular provider has billed me 16 MB for internet navigation in a single day. Their explanation is that probably phone has connected in background using an application. I know the touch flo interface connects to download e-mail headers and weather reports, but I find difficult that this application can use 16MB What can be happening?
As I said all the 16MB were downloaded in a single day and the last 3MB in 5 minutes after downloading internet connection.
Besides the default applications I have just installed pocket e-sword, a bible reader that does not connect to Internet
Is there an application that downloads this quantity of information?
If so, how can I disable it?
Is there any way to see which is the server where my cell connected and what it was doing?
Is there any way to set up my phone with a max download data amount?
The solution that the cell provider gave me momentanially is to disable my internet conection, but that is not exactly what I want.
Thanks on advance.
Igor
Well if you are using Sense, it downloads weather if you dont have it set not to. You might also want to disable the "Get my location at anytime" feature, because it may use AGPS. But I really dont know what else would cause this other than the fact that it is Windows, and it loves its TCP/IP. but the best thing to do would be to use MoDaco - No data to disable the data connections, then when you want to use them just turn them back on.
Thank you
What's MODACO???
How do I disable "Get my location at anytime" ???
Modaco is another website with a forum.
Not sure if this is the latest version, but a quick google of this site turned up the Modaco No Data cab attached to this thread.
btw, you could use something like the SPB GPRS monitor to keep an eye on when internet connections are being made, and how much data is being down/uploaded. If you check task manager when you see a connection being made, perhaps we can trace where the data is being requested. I believe there is a demo version available of this program. I've not yet got a TP2, but can at least confirm that this monitor works fine on a TyTn II. You'll need to tell it which connection to monitor. Battery Status plugin for the today screen should apparently also do the trick.
If you ever get really desperate, you could always use WiFi at home to test without involving spending more, and use your PC to sniff the packets, check for what IP addresses and types of data are being requested. There maybe an app to do this directly on your phone, but I've not looked.