Can anyone explain how these get their data?
I ask as they don't seem to match anything.
For example if I use #NTMTH1# to give me today's cell data usage it returns 42MB. But if I use the mobile data option in settings it tells me 29.75MB?
Same scenario for cell data used for the current month. It doesn't match.
Am I missing something?
Anyone?
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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 think I managed to say a lot of money by going with a low data plan, but they're telling me the android is going to constantly ping the Internet using up all the data allowance. Is there a way to disable the data functionality when I don't want it (like turning off wireless on a laptop)? When I'm connected to a Wi-Fi network, does it automatically use the local network instead of data minutes? If not, how can I make it do that.
I was able to find my data usage on my.t-mobile.com and verify that as long as Wi-fi is available, it will use it instead of the data plan. I was also able to confirm through another test that images in text messages don't count on the data plan, but under texts instead.
This is good. Now I have to find out how to tell if applications are pinging the network on their own or not.
yes indeed
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.
sent from my S3 Sammy Bean.
Can someonde give me an idea of whts going on with my device?
My data plan is always set to be disable, i only use wifi.
Even so, i receive a message every day for my carrier saying they have discounted $ from my plan. I should receive this message only when i use the data plan conection.
How the hell is an app or android or some system activating my data plan even if its off ??
i have no idea else.. i tried everything.
What apps are showing they've used data?
XperienceD said:
What apps are showing they've used data?
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none!! this is the weird stuff...
ive made some change to the apn to not use data plan for agps, lets see if it helps...
So I went into Settings -> Wireless Networks -> Data Usage... I wanted to try enabling the notifications, they seemed to work fine but I decided I didn't really need to be notified about data usage since switching to an unlimited plan, problem is I can't turn the data usage notifications off now? I can't change the data amount to nothing like it used to be before. Zero doesn't work either.
Anyone else run into this?