My data usage has been rising. the day my data renewed, it instantly went up to 10 mb of data used in an hour.
If you go to Settings > Data Usage, you can see which applications use data on your phone. As the notice says, what is shown on the phone is the data measured by your phone, and your mobile provider may account for data usage differently. Still, it may help you pin point which apps consume most of your data. You then may want to delete the apps in question if you don't use them a lot, find replacement apps, or limit data usage for these apps to WiFi only -- to access this capability, an additionnal app will be needed; try searching the Play Store for this kind of tool.
I had the same issue but found the my wifi setting was to turn off in sleep mode, you can adjust this in your settings, it helped to change it to never turn off. Also, in the hidden wifi menu, make sure your wifi is set to on, you can access this by going to your keypad in the phone and typing *#0011#. Staying in wifi as much as possible is great, also, use your data toggle.
Alexandre-P said:
If you go to Settings > Data Usage, you can see which applications use data on your phone. As the notice says, what is shown on the phone is the data measured by your phone, and your mobile provider may account for data usage differently. Still, it may help you pin point which apps consume most of your data. You then may want to delete the apps in question if you don't use them a lot, find replacement apps, or limit data usage for these apps to WiFi only -- to access this capability, an additionnal app will be needed; try searching the Play Store for this kind of tool.
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While looking at the list of apps using the data, you can tap on the ones you don't want running data in background. A detail menu comes up, at the bottom there is a check box to disable background processes on mobile network.
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I have a plan with 350 MB, but I overstepped it this month. So, is there a program with which I can totally disable 2G/3G data for certain period of time (until 22nd ) and to continue to use voice and WiFi?
Highl1 said:
I have a plan with 350 MB, but I overstepped it this month. So, is there a program with which I can totally disable 2G/3G data for certain period of time (until 22nd ) and to continue to use voice and WiFi?
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Do try APNDroid. Its free and able to do exactly what you ask!
Basically it will disable your 3G by changing the APN values and backing it up. Once you need to use 3G again, it restore the original values to your APN settings.
No reboot required! 3 to 5 secs is all it takes to disable/enable 3G
Great, just tried it. Thanks a lot. I only hope data connection won't start somehow by itself
Be aware that sometimes, when you uninstall APNDroid it can mess your APN values and you will have to re-enter them manually
iuzar said:
Be aware that sometimes, when you uninstall APNDroid it can mess your APN values and you will have to re-enter them manually
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Can't say I encounter this.
You encounter this before? Perhaps you might want to let the author know so can fix it?
APN droid is perfect dont worry.
If you uninstall it with your connection off, you can fiz this by going to your apn settings from Settings>Wireless...>Mobile Networks...>Access Point names>the current apn>Rename it and remove the apndroid from the name.
Thats it.
I would recommend 3G Watchdog. It automatically switches to 2G when you reach previously defined data limit.
APNDroid didn't help, data connection was still turning on after WiFi wents off
But this helped
1. Type *#*#4636#*#* on your dial pad
2. Select "Phone Information"
3. Press "Menu" soft key
4. Select "More"
5. Select "Disable Data on Boot"
6. Reboot
I can also recommend to use '3g Watchdog' combined with 'APNDroid' (both free)
3g watchdog will let you set your monthly data allowance (350MB) so that it resets its counters at a specific date you set (i.e. the 1st of each month) You can then set 3g watchdog to turn off your data connection (via APNDroid) when you've used a percentage amount of data of your choice (i.e. 99%/100% of your allowance for that month).
I'm using APNdroid and 3GWatchdog together and they work great so far.
One thing you have to be careful of is if you are using a task killer. If it kills 3GWatchdog and then you use your data connection, the data you send or receive won't be added to the amount of data in 3GWatchdog.
So be careful with it, especialy if you set your task killer to autokill applications
I recommend data-on-demand. It's free and shuts off your 2g/3g automatically + post reboot without having to mess with the settings. When you want to start it back up again, just go into the settings and set it as turned on.
The best program to enable/disable 3G i recommend Smoda Widget.
You can find it free in the market
Battery Defender works greats for me.
Quick Settings.
It's on the market, one click to disable APn and wifi along with other things, ringer, brightness, bluetooth etc.
Hi,
I've been looking at a few of these 'locate' apps, including Seek Droid, and also the HTC Sense app (with the new HD Rom).
It seems each of these needs the phone to have an active data connection to be able to locate the phone, and do the other features, such as lock / send message / ring.
I have a limited data account so have a toggle for on/off data connection, which I leave off by default.
As such, if I loose my phone, it will 99% likely have the data connection toggle 'off'. And therefore these locate apps won't work.
Does anyone know of
a) a locate app which will turn on data connection?
b) a locate app which doesn't need data connection and can just work with network reception
c) a method of remotely turning ON the data connection (ie turning the toggle from Off to On) -- on this note, i've seen app 'Tasker' which looks like it can do this, but it is extremely expensive...)
Thanks in advance
Rob
No and to be honest it is hard to locate your device and do things like you said without a data connection. Just use something like Where's My Droid which uses text and gps to locate your phone. It isn't exactly what your looking for but it is a nice compromise. Just use the security for your phone to be safe. How much data have you got for your phone?
I hope I'm posting this in the proper category.
Namely, I'll be leaving my home country very soon and travel abroad and I will most certainly need to occasionally do SSH connection to my server over 3G, which leads me to data roaming. Now, data roaming at my carrier is super expensive, so I was wondering if there is a way to completely disable data while in roaming, but still be able to connect to 3G and EDGE when I explicitly tell the phone to do so (eg. for SSHing somewhere or checking in on Foursquare, refreshing Twitter timeline, etc).
I saw that there's an option to uncheck Data Roaming in Wireless & Network settings, but I would say that will completely turn off all data connections and NOT allow me to manually and explicitly initiate data connections. Is that true? Is there a way to make it connect to 3G only when I explicitly tell it to while remaining disconnected otherwise?
Allow all phone data settings on. Download APNdroid or similar (APN on off widget) from the market. Open app and set any preferences, then add widget to home screen. Activate by tapping on off on (or something like that). Green on, red off.
All it does is rename the APN settings so it "fails" to connect.
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I hope I'm posting this in the proper category.
I saw that there's an option to uncheck Data Roaming in Wireless & Network settings, but I would say that will completely turn off all data connections and NOT allow me to manually and explicitly initiate data connections. Is that true? Is there a way to make it connect to 3G only when I explicitly tell it to while remaining disconnected otherwise?
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Your quite correct in that it will stop data connections, but why not turn it back on when you want to connect?, the other possibly cheaper option would be to, as long as your phone is not networked locked, buy a local PAYG sim with data and use that in your phone when you want to use 3G
Buying local sim would be wise option....
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A local prepaid SIM is a good idea, far cheaper than using data roaming.
Additionally, to avoid background data usage, you might want to install Droidwall and allow only the SSH app to connect to the internet.
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Your quite correct in that it will stop data connections, but why not turn it back on when you want to connect?
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Because I want only that one application to use the data connection when I want it to, without all other apps opening their own connections for sync and other stuff, since I have a lot of apps and accounts that sync in certain periods of time (this is an Android device, after all ).
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Additionally, to avoid background data usage, you might want to install Droidwall and allow only the SSH app to connect to the internet.
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Exactly what I needed! Many thanks for the suggestion, I'll try it out!
I will be leaving my Verizon Unlimited Data Plan to go to AT&T plan since verizon doesn’t have service where I am moving.
I am not used to watching my data usage. Now I will have to when I move to ATT.
What’s the best way so when I am connected to WIFI on the Note 2 so it uses WIFI and nothing else? Do I turn off mobile data when on wifi? I have the Onavo app which I will restrict apps like YouTube and Pandora to wifi only so I don’t accidently get in trouble there. I want to make sure I don’t overlook anything and go over my data.
Android is pretty smart... if you are connected to wifi, mobile data simply won't be used. (One exception is MMS - which must transport over the carrier data network - but usually doesn't count against data allotments.)
In addition, new versions of android (such as jelly bean that the note2 has) allow you to set up limits for data usage. If you go into Settings, the 3rd item in the list is "Data usage." That option allows you to see what is using mobile data, allows you to set up your billing cycle (so you can monitor how much you've used for the current cycle), lets you configure a "warning" level (so if you reach that level of mobile data usage, the phone generates a warning message) and a hard limit (if you reach the hard limit, the phone prevents any more mobile data usage.)
As an example, I have a 3GB plan with a billing cycle that starts on the 15th. I configure the data usage stuff with a billing cycle that starts on the 15th, turn on the "set mobile data limit" and configure the red value (limit) to be 3072MB (same as 3GB) and the yellow (warning) to 2560MB (2.5GB)
I know about the data usage settings. Never dove into it though. I'll have to play around and see what works for me.
There's an App called My Data Manager that does what you want & it has more options than the built in data usuage of JB.
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There's an App called My Data Manager that does what you want & it has more options than the built in data usuage of JB.
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Thats true - I used to use it quite often and for quite a long time but the amount of memory space it took up on my Xperia Neo was just too much for what it was worth and so I had to remove it - these days its probably not too much of a problem but app size is still worth considering.
The reason I'm searching here is to try and figure out how to set the limits for Data in Jelly Bean - while searching I worked it out anyway so I'll put the answer here......
1) Open "Tools"
2) Select "Data usage" (in the WIRELESS & NETWORKS section) normally at the top of the menu
3) Turn on "Mobile data" by sliding the button to the right - then a popup will ask if you want to accept the charges etc - click Yes
4) Once you've done this a "Set mobile data limit" selection should appear - tick the empty tick box
5) then next to Data usage cycle - select the drop down and select "Change cycle..." - if this is not there hit the back button to exit then select "Data usage again in quick succession
6) Select the start day of your data cycle and then select "Set"
7) Now the Graph should show 2 colored bars - the red one being the max limit you can set by sliding it up and down and the yellow/orange one is the warning indicator you can also set by sliding it up and down.
In theory the warning should somehow let you know if you've reached your warning limit - (I've not reached the limit yet to see it) and when the upper limit is reached it should disable your data - but again I've not had this happen.
Once your done you can either select the back button to exit or you can slide the Mobile data switch back to the left.
Hello
I am New to Sony Xperia ION I am Facing battery Drain Issue. Its draining Tooo Quicky.
Is there any Solution For the Same
Please comment if there is Solution
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Firstly, JD will refer to JuiceDefender
1) You will need JD anything above the free version (Google it)
2) Open JD and go to the "Status" Tab at the top
3) Enable
4) For "Profile" Choose Customize
5) A "Settings" Tab should Appear at the top, if not, close JD and re-open it.
6) Mobile Data can be Enabled or Disabled here as well as WiFi and Location
a) Turn them on and off for what you want, if you want Mobile Data and Wifi to turn on and off on specific apps you can just leave them Enabled.
b) "Schedule" Turning this on will turn on your data every 5m(minutes), 15m, 30m, 1h(hour) or 2h so it can push email and other apps you have set to use data.
c) "Night" this you can use to turn off data while you sleep and for how long you want it off
d) "Apps" You can enable this setting to pick apps that are allowed to use data or turn it off to let them run as they usually do.
e) "Interactive" will pop up a window while JD is in the background and you can pick what JD allows the app to do (will go over more of that soon.)
f) "Configure Apps" We will open this to turn app data on/off on when you have it open, on all the time.
1a) Tap "Configure Apps"
a) "Internet Apps" Apps that use the internet
b) "Configured Apps" These apps are configured by you already.
c) "All Other Apps" These apps usually do not need the internet so they do not need to be configured.
2a) Move to any App under "Internet Apps" and tap it
3a) What do the taps mean?
a) "Enable" This app is enabled, when it needs data it will only use data when you have the app opened.
b) "Enable/Screen off" This app is on and using data while the screen is off and or while the app is opened.
c) "Disabled" This app will never use data
d) "Do Nothing" The app will use data when it needs it, JD won't bother its operation.
4a) Examples
a) "Pandora" I have this app set to Enable/screen off so while I have the app running in the background it will still use data, or while the screen is off it will use data.
b) "Ebay" This app is Enabled, when I open the app and I am looking at it it will use data, but if I hit the home button it stops using data, wont use data while screen is off.
c) "AccuWeather" Disabled, this app will only use data when my Schedule turns data on for ALL items on my phone every 2 hours, it will then update anything it needs to then end data usage for two more hours.
d) "Root Browser Lite" Do nothing, This app will use data whenever it wants regardless of JD rules unless data is disabled.
Using this set up for me, data is always off unless an app needs it that I allow to use it while the phone is asleep (Enable/Screen Off) or I open an app that I have set to "Enable", "Do nothing" or "Enable/Screen off." Not only will this cut back on your data usage or Wifi usage, it cuts back on Awake time, Wake locks, and battery drain from those items and other issues caused by data usage.
Hopefully this helps you with your JD problems and saves you some battery life, on my Ion I have been able to go for two days without a charge with light to moderate use.
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Use juice defender also go to your account syncs and shut off any emails and other accounts that sync then go to app store hit the settings button and set to update over WiFi only
dhavalsankhala said:
Hello
I am New to Sony Xperia ION I am Facing battery Drain Issue. Its draining Tooo Quicky.
Is there any Solution For the Same
Please comment if there is Solution
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here it says;
As such, when I went to *#*#4636#*#* and into phone information, I noticed that the signal was jumping all the time from HSPU to UMTS.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2186911&nocache=1
In my country it only supports GSM. so I changed the signal type from LTE WCDMA GSM to "GSM only". And it is super battery saving now. I advise u to use only the required signal type in your country. More of it suck the battery.