I currently have a 10mb/month data plan allowance which I'm using for WhatsApp IM. The app itself has only used around 1 mb total over a couple of weeks, so thats all good.
However, once I activate 3g, other apps and services also automatically start using data. If I let this happend my usage will surpass my 10mb allowance in no time, and I will have to pay extra (I live in a country where data plans are crazy expensive).
So now I ask you: What are the best settings for making sure those other apps cannot use data, but that only WhatsApp can? Are there any apps to regulate this? Also, is it possible to create profiles (when I'm on wifi I obviously don't mind that other apps use the internet)?
Thanks in advance! By helping me you will save me a lot of hard earned money!
10mb plan? WTF pathetic plan.
My best guest would be to search around for a firewall app.
3dawg said:
10mb plan? WTF pathetic plan.
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Like stated in the first post, the price for data plans in my country is way too high so I had to pick the cheapest one. When I'm at home I have wifi anyways so this is only for on the go WhatsApp chatting. Changing the data plan is not an option.
ralphodog said:
My best guest would be to search around for a firewall app.
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THANK YOU! After googling a little I found this:
"Droidwall - Android application firewallRequiring you to root your Android device, DroidWall is designed to protect users who don’t have unlimited or at least generous data plans with their mobile networks from applications that habitually connect to the web to exchange information.
Cleverly, this app can tell the difference between Wi-Fi access and cellular data – as such it is able to permit all data transfer via Wi-Fi, requiring apps to be added to a whitelist in order for them to access the cellular data network.
Available free via the Android Market and AppBrain.com, note that DroidWall can only be installed on a rooted device."
Dont work on X10. This Programm need iptables and Sony Ericsson not activated it on X10.
Wolfbreak said:
Dont work on X10. This Programm need iptables and Sony Ericsson not activated it on X10.
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really? any other ways to do it then?
edit your etc\hosts
marius.b said:
edit your etc\hosts
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Could you please elaborate on this?
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is there any GPS software for the X10 ?? (using internal GPS only)
i sow in GSMARENA that the X10 have:
•No free GPS navigation solution
whats that mean ??
That means that the X10 doesn't come with a free navigation solution. But Google Maps works like a charm if you know how to use it. If you want to pay for a navigation program there's always CoPilot!
how come if he does have an internal GPS ?
will it be posible when we have a root accese? or never free GPS in this phone ??
I'm pretty sure, if you search the market you will find some free alternatives.
Not as good as the paid alternatives but it should be something free there.
amir84 said:
how come if he does have an internal GPS ?
will it be posible when we have a root accese? or never free GPS in this phone ??
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I'm not aware of any external GPS-solutions for any mobile phone since the SE P1. And why? The internal GPS works just fine! But if you don't have a flatrate data plan for your phone, sure, Google Maps isn't useful. But honestly, who doesn't have that for this kind of phone?
Check out the nav n go my way 2009 post in x10 apps and themes. Posted a link to download motonav. Works perfect for mine!
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CoPilot is very good and it's just a few bucks ..
the problem with a data plan here in europe is, that it is very expensive as soon as you are in a neighbor-country.
boo6 said:
CoPilot os very good an it's just a few bucks ..
the problem with a data plan here in europe is, that it is very expensive as soon as you are in a neighbor-country.
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CoPilot won't use any data. Its GPS not GPRS, no data is involved
Sorry, that's what I wanted to say ..
Sometimes when you're in a foreign country, no data plan can help you - so you'll need offline navigation. And copilot is an inexpensive solution for this.
bring the topic alive...
i'm from brazil and we have problems with data plan.. and i need gps... for sure that have navigation without use the data ? no gprs 2g/3g, at all ?
my diamond are dying i will probably buy the x10, great screen it have
thx.. and sorry the bad english
I use "Locus" and "GPS status", Locus provides offline maps and can record routes and stuff, but haven't checked if if it can suggest routes, GPS status, shows compas, altitude, velocity and stuff. Also I heard that google maps now has offline maps and it shows your current location
For what I understand he's asking for a navigation software that doesn't requires data access, one that can be used offline, not a free software.
I use Ndrive, works like a charm, but the map from Chile has some flaws, some little cities have only the main street, but nothing too bad when in big cities.
Also iGo is a great alternative, but a little slower than Ndrive.
Both have guided navigation without depending on data.
Navigon Select works great.it uses the phones gps without having to be connected to the internet since it stores the maps on your sd card.
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I read that google maps will have offline features in the near future.
Hi,
I am new on this forum, and I am happy I joined to this forum.
I have Xperia mini ST15i with android 2.3.4
I downloaded a version of skype raider(v. 2.5.0.160), but when i sign in i notice it does not show all contacts and all groups correctly.
So i installed IM+ to run skype, but it costs a lot on GPRS in my country.
I am wondering if anyone can give me a clean free version, and weather it will cost less than IM+ or not on GPRS.
BTW, I rooted my mobile, and I installed Droidwall, but IM+ still costs a lot.
Thanks in advanced.
most apps will cost the same as im+... i use e-buddy only through wifi tho. i have mobile data off. so either get an unlimited data plan or use wifi only, regardless of the app you're using.
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Thank you for the quick response. Actually I need to use skype on 2g and as I told you that's the reason of why I rooted my phone
i.e. installing Droidwall and control the data plan on gprs. So now I just need a recommended version of skype, besides I think skype app gives us more services not existed in IM+.
Have you tried imo.im?
Thanks, iI tried imo, and I found it costs more than IM+, but imo takes less time to sign in rather than IM+
There is new skyp in market!
I use it and it's perfect ;-)
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Really not sure if I am posting this in the right place, so apologies if that's not the case.
I like dropbox's Camera Upload feature, but quite often I find that it will saturate my internet connection and everything else on my network struggles. Especially if it is uploading video recordings off my phone.
Is there a way to place a speed limit to the data upload rate? Kind of like a bandwidth limiter for Android?
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Really not sure if I am posting this in the right place, so apologies if that's not the case.
I like dropbox's Camera Upload feature, but quite often I find that it will saturate my internet connection and everything else on my network struggles. Especially if it is uploading video recordings off my phone.
Is there a way to place a speed limit to the data upload rate? Kind of like a bandwidth limiter for Android?
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Many Android kernels got support for traffic shaping, so you can use the "tc" shell command to implement what you need. Maybe there's some rooted app able to manage this for you, since it's quite a tricky task.
But this is not such a good idea. Instead you should implement the traffic shaping in your WiFi/Internet router. If it doesn't support it native, I suggest you try some other software for it, e.g. OpenWrt, DD-WRT or Tomato.
kuisma said:
Many Android kernels got support for traffic shaping, so you can use the "tc" shell command to implement what you need. Maybe there's some rooted app able to manage this for you, since it's quite a tricky task.
But this is not such a good idea. Instead you should implement the traffic shaping in your WiFi router. If it doesn't support it native, I suggest you try some other software for it, e.g. OpenWrt, DD-WRT or Tomato.
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Thanks.
I have Tomato installed on an Asus RT-N66U router, but the bandwidth limiting options only work for LAN connections and not WLAN it seems.
A rooted app that puts a limit on a per app basis would be something I'd be happy to pay for.
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Thanks.
I have Tomato installed on an Asus RT-N66U router, but the bandwidth limiting options only work for LAN connections and not WLAN it seems.
A rooted app that puts a limit on a per app basis would be something I'd be happy to pay for.
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Hard to believe it's not working for WLAN connections, and even if so, you can apply the rules on the outbound Internet connection scheduling on source addresses. I.e. you can chose to implement the restrictions on either the receive- or transmit site. Do some more reading on QoS and I'm quite sure you'll manage to implement it as you need. But it IS tricky, even with the Tomato GUI, and would be as tricky as well using a rooted Android app.
And since I know it's not a such a good idea to implement traffic shaping in the Android itself, I'm not going to write this app.
Hey, I'm looking over internet for this exact thing, problem is my Galaxy Tab is hugging my internet, I need to limit it to say, 100kb/s up and down. My router is A-Link WNAP 3G router.
It would be even better to limit all WLAN traffic to 100kB/s because my computer is hooked with an ethernet cable :victory:
Can someone help me ?
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Hard to believe it's not working for WLAN connections, and even if so, you can apply the rules on the outbound Internet connection scheduling on source addresses. I.e. you can chose to implement the restrictions on either the receive- or transmit site. Do some more reading on QoS and I'm quite sure you'll manage to implement it as you need. But it IS tricky, even with the Tomato GUI, and would be as tricky as well using a rooted Android app.
And since I know it's not a such a good idea to implement traffic shaping in the Android itself, I'm not going to write this app.
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You are very wrong that it isn't a good idea to implement traffic shaping. All new cloud applications have Camera upload feature which clogs the upload of the whole network and then you cannot even surf with your computer while photos are uploaded (not to say videos).
Traffic shaper would solve this things for sure! I would even pay for that app on appstore.
I used bandwidth ruler from the play store to limit upload speed in my galaxy SIII and it works like a charm. but that requires root to work ,
here is the link :
mversion said:
Really not sure if I am posting this in the right place, so apologies if that's not the case.
I like dropbox's Camera Upload feature, but quite often I find that it will saturate my internet connection and everything else on my network struggles. Especially if it is uploading video recordings off my phone.
Is there a way to place a speed limit to the data upload rate? Kind of like a bandwidth limiter for Android?
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Dear Friend,
did you get what you was looking for?
because i am looking for an App which can control all or Each/ individual app to upload the files. likewise
google+ Google photos, Google hangout, Etc. which i hate the most to upload my photos . for them i have rooted my note4 and install AVAST Anti-Virus + Firewall to prevent the app to access the net .
Because i know what app we allow to access the internet they take away our personal information along with videos and photos which we don't know because our smartphones are 24/7 connected with DSL hight speed internet.
These type of Apps are fully controlled by the remote server to takeaway our data with minimum speed like 10KB to 30KB per mint.
I have already block the apps to access in the internet, but some reason i have to disable firewall, then most of the apps try to get updates, i need an app which can control /allow the app to upload in Bites not in KB or MB.
if you have something like that please advise
awaiting your reply
Thanks
Ismail
Hi
I know the title is confusing, I don't know how to rephrase it.
I have internet plan on my mobile contains 20GB of data and unlimited use of YouTube and other social media apps per month. I would like to download movies and big files by illusion the service provider that's through YouTube server or url? So it will be free and not consume from the 20GB!
I know it's stupid, but the idea never goes away from my head. And I don't know how to search about something like that! That's why I wrote this thread to see if there is something on earth near this idea?
Thanks
In case of Mobile Data the signal comes through your mobile service provider rather than your ISP. Hence use Wi-Fi instead of Mobile Data when downloading data.
hello, hope you all good
i have a small question
Some employe are stealing Internet from work mobile phones (these phones are for QR saning so have to be internet to send data to server. also no wifi there). for example every phone has 10gb on it's sim card but they finish it fast cause maybe sharing it with there phones
you can't handle more tham 100 mobile at the same time so is there any way how to hide apps with a good app? also if there is some cool app locker please share with me
THANK YOU.
meta_lic said:
hello, hope you all good
i have a small question
Some employe are stealing Internet from work mobile phones (these phones are for QR saning so have to be internet to send data to server. also no wifi there). for example every phone has 10gb on it's sim card but they finish it fast cause maybe sharing it with there phones
you can't handle more tham 100 mobile at the same time so is there any way how to hide apps with a good app? also if there is some cool app locker please share with me
THANK YOU.
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