I was wondering, is there a built-in counter for minutes/txts/internet usage?
If not, is there an application which you would recommend?
I'm assuming there's no such function?
oohh, now that would be useful. Currently I have to log into my Orange account online and via the website I can find out how many remaining mins and texts I have - although it would be better and more senisible to have an app on the Hero that retreives such info.
For internet usage I use a app called NetCounter which tracks the amount of data which has been transfered over Wifi and (more importantly) mobile network.
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Does anyone here know how data-hungry Touchdown Exchange is? I just installed it, and recently got a warning about data usage from my network provider for the first time. It could be a coincidence, but it made me curious about whether TOuchdown regularly pulls down large volumes of data (e.g. auto-downloading email attachments).
Does anyone have any knowledge of how Touchdown manages data usage?
We don't automatically download attachments, you have to implicitly choose to download them by default.
There's nothing in TD that would drastically increase your data usage unless you chose to download your entire inbox or something like that. By default, TD only downloads 3 days worth of mail.
I'd watch it for a day or use one of the many bandwidth tools to watch the data usage.
We can check the size of the DB and see if it's really TD causing it. Our support team can walk you though this. You can reach them at [email protected]
Cheers,
Ron Goins
NitroDesk Inc.
I would like to be able to set a limit that allows me to stop individual apps from taking up too much data.
eg Don't allow any app to use more that 100Mb in one day
or
YouTube can only use 100MB per day or week or month.
etc...
Is there such an app? I've only found apps that let you set a limit per month, which is not very useful if an app accidentally uses up 90% of your data allowance in the first week.
Thanks!
I am looking for an app that you can install on a phone that will send daily reports of data usage for that phone, specifically data that was used on the cellular network, via email or SMS.
I think something like:
3G Watchdog Pro SMS extension (I cannot post the link, it's in the play store)
although I haven't used that app, as it requires the paid version of 3G Watchdog Pro. I'm not against paying for the app, but I thought I would look for free alternatives first, and I'm not entirely sure it will do what I want.
Certain MVNOs don't provide an online resource for checking data usage. I know that this is part of the cost with using an MVNO versus a top carrier. Being being able to see a report of data usage for accounts, even if it's just a daily report, can help to monitor data usage and activity. It would be easier if I could have all of this information reported to me daily, rather than having to physically review the data usage on each phone.
I'm just wondering if there are any such apps available or if the referenced 3G Watchdog SMS Extension is the only one. And I don't even know what all it reports.
I will let you know I am a novice to actually understanding how wifi works, but I was wondering if there was an app that would temporarily shut down incoming/outgoing communications (through wifi only preferably) when I am connect to a public wifi like at school or some cafe? With the exception to allow use of dolphin or any other browser surf the web for less private matters. Why? So apps like facebook, banking, email, ebay's personal information cannot be intercepted by a hacker on the same network.Thanks!
I guess the other answer I am looking for is: Do apps like facebook resend password data on use when you have remained logged in from the last session?
EDIT: I have seen some permissions apps, and settings within my rom. Was wondering if there was something that would block all apps at once like a profile setting.
Disclaimer: I know nothing on how to configure firewalls except for adding apps to the whitelist/blacklist.
Tried using NRFW and I noticed a few things:
1. I've consumed 12.54GB and 9.77GB was by NRFW. What's happening please.
2. I've tagged some apps that can only connect when I'm on wifi, yet I'm still getting notifications when I'm on mobile data. For example, the Facebook app and some games.
3. How do I determine which IP address should be allowed or blocked? For example, I see IP addresses pointing to Akamai and my ISP.
4. Is it a good idea to turn off background data? I restricted it on mobile data and allowed it when on wifi but some apps would not load properly even when I'm connected to a wifi network.
Thanks in advance! And please excuse me if I posted this in the wrong forum.
EDIT: I'm referring to Grey Shirt's NoRoot Firewall.
I read up a bit and learned that 1e100.net are Google's servers. I understand that these point to ads too. I also noticed my ISP's name shows up under these.
Do I allow these or do I block them?
First of all: sorry for answering so late ;-) ...:
- in my opinion, your traffic from internet is being redirected through this NoRoot Personal Firewall unto your smartphone
- so, the 9.77GB you mentioned were 'routed/directed' through the NRPFW - the rest was not (? - maybe for Android-Updates or anything?)
- as you could most probably see, all of these 9.77GB were allowed to pass through from the internet servers (akamai or google or microsoft or ibm or yahoo or many more..) to your smartphone ('s apps / system apps)
- notifications about your mobile connection(s) MAY simply be wrong (as i found out) - seemingly a bug in the NRPFW-app (?)
- akamai is one of the " intermediate servers" or main server for a couple of websites:
for example, when you open the 'WashingtonPost'-website on your smartphone, (all) contents from their website are upon an akamai-server, because 'WashingtonPost' does not have a server on its own inside their office building maybe big enough to handle all traffic from their website to all readers in the world
- your Internet Service Provider has intermediate servers for (any) web content, too - so, you might want to allow their internet addresses
- furthermore, background data is transferred when you have an email-app and this app (gmail or yahoo-app, e.g.) is transferring data even if you had closed the email-app (so you cannot see it anymore on your launcher) or it's even running in background and checking if there's new mail when auto-started while your smartphone is booting.