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Hi,
I'm still kinda new to android and settling in with it, but just today I went over 100% of my data plan. I found the message a bit odd as I had a message not too long ago (about 6 hrs ago) saying I was at 65%. I didn't use the data much in the 6 hr time period, I only used the facebook app a few times and I think thats all that I used that would normally use the data plan. or could it be the widgets? I only had beautiful weather widget and super clock on as well as the facebook and youtube widgets. would having performance mode on be the reason as to why I jumped from 65% to 100%?
What data plan do you have?
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I had something similar happen with my wife's Atrix. Both mine and hers have the 2gb plan. We use wifi at home and work so we don't push all that much data through at&t.
We went out for dinner last week, away from wifi for about an hour. Not long after we got home, a notification arrived saying her phone had hit 2.7gb!! I had looked at util a few days prior an both were at 20-30mb. The util report on their website said all 2.7gb had been used that day, starting at the time we went out. I used my phone as much as she did, and mine showed a more reasonable 4mb for the day.
To hit that, her phone would have had to be downloading at a sustained 6mbps the whole time we were off wifi. Best speed I have seen through at&t in my area is 2.5mbps.
Customer service opened an investigation, but it will take til the 21st. In the meantime, the overage still shows on my account.
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I have the 200 mb data plan (lame right? ) but last I checked on my data usage was the previous night, and I only used up less than 100 mb, and this weekend only I medium usage of navigation for android and did some internet surfing and used youtube outside of the house and without wifi. But today I had barely touched my phone except maybe 2-4 times and at 8 am I found that I used up nearly 30k kb and 77k kb at 10 am
It would be interesting if you could use wifi and put it through a proxy on your home network to see. If it's something in the radio it may not show
Since you're on Wifi at home have you checked your home data usage?
do you guys have any app to monitor your data usage? 3G watchdog can tell you exactly how much data each app is using, maybe something is syncing in the background...but 2gb should be plenty if you are not downloading or streaming videos.
Didn't have a data monitor running before but you bet I have both phones monitored now!
It has to be a monitoring error. All she was doing at the time was web browsing...no video, app installing, etc.
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I have been using 3G watchdog to see how much data I am actually using. I have a grandfathered unlimited data plan and at the end of the month (near the end) I have only used 1.5GB! I have been tethering my laptop, my Xbox 360 (netflix and Battlefield), I have also been streaming Pandora and Youtube videos. As well as downloading apps, etc.
I also have auto sync for weather, email, and facebook.
How the heck have people been using up so much data?
Haha, I hear ya. I max out under 2GB each month and I have unlimited as well. I have no idea what other people are doing. Maybe they don't have internet at home. I can see myself easily using way more than that if I'm tethering at home as well.
well I wasnt using wi-fi at home and I had to reinstall apps multiple times(before TiBU) so that was alot of usage right there but to be honest I dont really see a reason to tether the phone with these abysmal speeds
I can see myself going over... when Im not near wifi I download my torrents (this includes movies and gigs of free apk's I find out there) with my 3G and this isn't me tethering lol I just download straight to my phone
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Magic_Bunny said:
I have been using 3G watchdog to see how much data I am actually using. I have a grandfathered unlimited data plan and at the end of the month (near the end) I have only used 1.5GB! I have been tethering my laptop, my Xbox 360 (netflix and Battlefield), I have also been streaming Pandora and Youtube videos. As well as downloading apps, etc.
I also have auto sync for weather, email, and facebook.
How the heck have people been using up so much data?
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Wow, if I tether my laptop I'll be using over 25 gigs per month!
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drock212 said:
I can see myself going over... when Im not near wifi I download my torrents (this includes movies and gigs of free apk's I find out there) with my 3G and this isn't me tethering lol I just download straight to my phone
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What app for torrents?
blaque72 said:
well I wasnt using wi-fi at home and I had to reinstall apps multiple times(before TiBU) so that was alot of usage right there but to be honest I dont really see a reason to tether the phone with these abysmal speeds
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I Seattle the speeds have been pretty good for me. I have just have my XBox connected then I can play games online smoothly with no lag.
bleuiko said:
What app for torrents?
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Adownloader search torrent in the app store and it'll pop up. Its the best free one out there
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Magic_Bunny said:
I have been using 3G watchdog to see how much data I am actually using. I have a grandfathered unlimited data plan and at the end of the month (near the end) I have only used 1.5GB! I have been tethering my laptop, my Xbox 360 (netflix and Battlefield), I have also been streaming Pandora and Youtube videos. As well as downloading apps, etc.
I also have auto sync for weather, email, and facebook.
How the heck have people been using up so much data?
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Not buying it. You either use WiFi 28 days a month, or you only tethered for 30 seconds a day.
I tethered my laptop to watch a few videos, (under 5 minutes each, maybe 5-10 videos total, SD) instant messengers, and just general browsing, and my xbox to download some DLC. 8GB, and I was limiting myself to an hour a day on my laptop, and trying to skip days if possible. Not to mention constant app updates (per month, god, between 20-100?) this was a few months back, I have home internet now, so it's not an issue anymore. But no, I don't buy 1.5GB. Sorry.
Next Bill Cycle: 04/02/2011
Data (MB): 7373 of Unlimited
Messaging: 3846 of Unlimited
First android phone. I stream a lot though.
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When I had unlimited on my tigers htc dream I tethered to my lappy... I was using lime 50-200gb a month easily. Now with Atrix 1.8gb but wifi monitor apps would say I used atleast 5gb this month. Also ttorrent off market is good.3 dollars and unlimited dl speed. I hit speeds of up to 2.6 mb/s =)
Do most of you using massive amounts of data not have access to wifi or choose not to use it for some reason?
I think I'm able to use wifi for at least 75% of the time, so I don't really end up using much network data. I'm not even close to 1 GB with only a few days left in the billing cycle according to my account page. It definitely feels like I use at least 1-2 GB of data in a month (including wifi) so I got an app to satisfy my curiosity. Interested in seeing how much I actually use. I've only tethered a couple times since I often have access to wifi, so I'm sure that really slows my network usage.
I use wifi 80% of the time, since March 4th, I've used about 500mb of 3G and 3GB of wifi.
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I got my phone a few weeks ago before the data cap went into affect. I've been syncing up my music from amazon mp3 (about 20 gigs). All of a sudden I can't connect to 4g. I looked at my data usage and its about 16 gigs. I'm not planning on hammering at the 4g like this once i have my music on the SD card...but wtf?
Is this throttling or just a phone/radio issue? I'm rooted on cm7. I dont have any network connection - just goes to 4g but stays gray then disappears then does it again.
You should probably just call customer support and ask them if there are any problems with your account and what you're doing.
I duno, at 16gigs it could be throttling. I agree with RunNgun42 and just call to verify.
it actually looks like 4g is down in NYC. Two of my coworkers have the thunderbolts (1 on cm7 MR1 (through my guidance) and the other stock) and both have 4g issues as well.
Doubt it... I'm at 25 gigs and still haven't been throttled
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I don't know. If you just got the Bolt and are already over 16gbs in a couple of days and you aren't paying for tethering, they might have dinged you.
T-mobile did that to me the first month, got throttled about 10 days in. The rest of that month was painful.
They won't remove your data if you're being throttled.. They'll just reduce the throughput at which it moves through your phone.. Sounds like just a radio issue.. Or as another poster mentioned, a data outage.
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In the last few months I've noticed my data usage on my phone has been astronomical. I consistently used 2gb for a year, but once att started cracking down on tetherers I installed traffic monitor just to see what data I am using. I do not tether and only stream music an hour or so a day and then facebook or twitter. I do not have any syncing on ever. *3282# just told me I have used 5gb but according to traffic monitor app I have used 2.5gb, has anyone else noticed any discrepancies between what att says and a 3rd party app?
I am not worried about my data since I am unlimited and don't tether just found it odd.
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I have run into quite a few issues with random data usage bursts and have actually had to contact AT&T about it, but to no avail. They say that, because of the fact that it's all third party apps, they have no idea how or what is using the data. I have moved to ICS via the CM9 alpha's and I have noticed a massive reduction in background data usage due to the built-in data monitor and some of the controls it's given me.
For reference, I am on a 200mb AT&T plan and normally can keep it under 150 without too many issues.
I've noticed in the last 3 months that for some reason my data usage has been getting close to the 2 GB limit. It actually went over one of those months. I've started using 3G Watchdog to monitor what's been using all my data and I've started just keeping wifi on while I'm at home. Google Music and the stock music app seem to be using a lot of data. I'm at around 500 MB so far this month and my next billing cycle starts on the 2nd of next month. It'd be way higher than that if I wasn't using wifi. On wifi alone it says I've transferred close to 600 MBs.
I got my rezound around 2 1/2 weeks ago and as of this posting I have used 7.022 gb (I'm 15 days into the 31 days of the billing cycle). This is the highest I've ever used so I was just wondering..what is amount of data everyone uses on a normal basis and what the Max amount of data you ever used? Does having a 4g phone significantly increase data usage? I haven't done anything special that I didn't do with my old 3g phone..
average for me is about 50GB/month. most i've ever used was like 110GB(tethered & downloaded/installed all my steam games on my new laptop).
i do a lot of streaming & tethering.
if you're unlimited, don't worry. they only care if 3g users are using too much data.
I use about 7 gigs a month on rare occasions.. depends how much netflix i watch.. i usually use about 2-4 gigs a month on average.
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voxigenboy said:
average for me is about 50GB/month. most i've ever used was like 110GB(tethered & downloaded/installed all my steam games on my new laptop).
i do a lot of streaming & tethering.
if you're unlimited, don't worry. they only care if 3g users are using too much data.
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That's crazy..everyone keeps saying verizon throttles, did you get throttled?
voxigenboy said:
average for me is about 50GB/month. most i've ever used was like 110GB(tethered & downloaded/installed all my steam games on my new laptop).
i do a lot of streaming & tethering.
if you're unlimited, don't worry. they only care if 3g users are using too much data.
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I used 25gigs last month. glad to know I'm not in the top 5%
Used like twenty last billing cycle, so far two thus far.
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antispiral said:
That's crazy..everyone keeps saying verizon throttles, did you get throttled?
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i've never been throttled and know someone who always goes over 100gb and never gets throttled either. had heard from a verizon employee that they only care about people on 3g using too much data. apparently there's plenty of 4g to go around.
I've used 5gb in the past 4 days.. Average 25-50ish. I also load obscene amounts of webpages lol
22G last month and am at 15G this month. Use easy teather for my laptop alot streaming Netflix
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voxigenboy said:
average for me is about 50GB/month. most i've ever used was like 110GB(tethered & downloaded/installed all my steam games on my new laptop).
i do a lot of streaming & tethering.
if you're unlimited, don't worry. they only care if 3g users are using too much data.
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Haha Big Red can suck on my unlimited data plan. I WILL NEVAR GIVE IT UP. NEVARRRRRR!!!!!!
I've used about 2GB a month on my Rezound... less than I thought I would actually.
consistent
60 gb per month. when i was in virginia using 3g , i was throttled even using thunderbolt. now in chicago with average 60, never had a connection on 4g less than 7 down and 4 up. usually my speed runs 15 down and 10 up on rezound.
I use 2-3GB max.
Who cares. I have unlimited
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DbZ Gokuu said:
Haha Big Red can suck on my unlimited data plan. I WILL NEVAR GIVE IT UP. NEVARRRRRR!!!!!!
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until everyone is on a lte device (verizon has stated they are not making anymore 3g smartphones, which leads everyone to believe the next iphone will have lte), and then I would guess throttling will come into play.
Personally I use on average about 7-8gb a month. But I don't tether. I prefer a wired connection for my home internet, much more stable speeds and reliability.
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Thanks for the input..I'm glad to see I'm not the one using so much data. For a while I thought that myverizon data counter was rigged.
damn i wish i had UNLIMITED DATA or 4g, i dont even know wat the 4g icon look like lol im on wifi all day every day so i average less then 1gig a month jus thinking bout changing my data to 750mbs but dont wanna lose my 4gig
Damn, some of you live it up haha.
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I Am Marino said:
Damn, some of you live it up haha.
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This is the only fast unlimited. I'm enjoying this.
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