Hi everybody,
I am looking for an app sort of 3G Watchdog.
The problem I have encountered:
I have a provider with both "normal" 3G data volume (1 GB) and roaming 3G data volume (50 MB) inside of foreign europe countries.
As the roaming data package is rather small, I would like to keep an eye on that (after 50 MB it gets rather expensive). The only method I found so far is to deactivate the watchdog, when I am in my home country, otherwise the 3G measurement will combine all used data traffic, both home and roaming.
Is there any app which can distinguish between these two sorts of data amounts and keep track of them?
Thank you for any hint,
kind regards,
ww
Try Onavo Lite, launched just today - works like a charm.
guyrosen said:
Try Onavo Lite, launched just today - works like a charm.
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Looks quite promising - but I have a few change requests - where should I adress them - here?
Kind regards,
ww
Sure, or just email us. Will be glad to hear thoughts.
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So I've had this S743 for 3 days now and I thought I had it setup correctly to use wifi for data comm.
wifi enabled and selected to use my home network. I can see the radio tower status icon.
Under the comm manager data connection is off.
I have a very simple $45/mo plan with no data plan.
Over the last 2 days I have been surfing the web a bit did some email tests with my ISP and used the on board GPS app which is horrible. Not heavy usage but experimentation to see if I like how the phone works.
Then after 2 days I get an email from AT&T that I have extremely high data usage exceeding my account limit and that I should sign up for a data plan at once.
$29 over 2 days for this little bit of fluff? A total of 2,900kb in data.
So I call up AT&T and they tell me this and that and want me to sign up for a plan which I may do.
But I want to be able to know that the datacomm is happening via WIFI when I can see it's in service.
They also told me that all GPS data is forced through 3G and bypasses WIFI???
Can anyone here give me an idea about what I may be doing wrong and whether AT&T is correct about the GPS service?
Is there a better GPS app that doesn't do this? This one pretty much stinks anyway. A resolution of 1000 meters doesn't cut it.
AT&T also informed me that I can't have a smart phone without a data contract. Really? I've had one for 6 years.
Thanks for any light you shed on the subject.
One th I have subsequently found out is that if data connection is off and wifi is off then when I go into IE and start surfing it does bring up pages. Then when I go back to the Comm Manager the Data Connection is still off for an instant and then it automatically turns itself on as though it had been turned on by use of IE and the status was just being updated.
Is there any way to stop this?
The only way to completely stop data usage is to delete the APNs from within the Settings->Connections dialog.
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The only way to completely stop data usage is to delete the APNs from within the Settings->Connections dialog.
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What exactly are APNs? I don't see anything labeled that way in that section on my phone.
Thanks for the reply.
Try to download the NoData app; google it. I believe it's freeware. Toggle all connections to "Disabled" and that should do the trick..
About the GPS; all I can think of is that the QuickGPS app (under desktop accessoires or whatever it's called in english) automatically downloads new info about the GPS locations.
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Try to download the NoData app; google it. I believe it's freeware. Toggle all connections to "Disabled" and that should do the trick..
About the GPS; all I can think of is that the QuickGPS app (under desktop accessoires or whatever it's called in english) automatically downloads new info about the GPS locations.
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Thank you.
I did manage to delete the APN and that did work but now I've decided to keep this phone, put it on an AT&T GO-Phone plan and add a very limited data plan. So I will be trying to find a better way to make certain it doesn't always automatically go for the GSM even when you have it turned off.
I looked at your suggestion but it sounds like it conflicts with netframe 3.5 which I have installed.
OK,
UK T-Mobile user.
Stock rom, unrooted
I'm in France on holiday and T-Mobile don't allow auto data roaming, to stop huge bills - they force you to choose a bundle - the £10 for 50mb is not bad, compared to other UK providers.
Trouble is Android system and app upgrades use huge quantities of data (Angry Birds Rio was 20Mb alone). Most of my apps are on auto-update, as I have a generous data allowance at home.
Q: Is there an Apps Roaming whitelist application to allow/deny the system apps and services from using roaming data, whilst still allowing GMail & nominated browser?
Q: Also, monitoring data - I always used SPB Wireless Monitor (on WinMo), but on Android this has proved to be inaccurate by up to 20%, I'm trying 3G Watchdog, and with the "pre-Froyo traffic counting interface" option selected, this seems to be working well.
Any other suggestions?
Cheers
En_Croute
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En_croute said:
OK,
UK T-Mobile user.
Stock rom, unrooted
I'm in France on holiday and T-Mobile don't allow auto data roaming, to stop huge bills - they force you to choose a bundle - the £10 for 50mb is not bad, compared to other UK providers.
Trouble is Android system and app upgrades use huge quantities of data (Angry Birds Rio was 20Mb alone). Most of my apps are on auto-update, as I have a generous data allowance at home.
Q: Is there an Apps Roaming whitelist application to allow/deny the system apps and services from using roaming data, whilst still allowing GMail & nominated browser?
Q: Also, monitoring data - I always used SPB Wireless Monitor (on WinMo), but on Android this has proved to be inaccurate by up to 20%, I'm trying 3G Watchdog, and with the "pre-Froyo traffic counting interface" option selected, this seems to be working well.
Any other suggestions?
Cheers
En_Croute
Sent from laptop connected to wife's Blackberry - £15 for unlimited BB roaming data
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try this
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.googlecode.droidwall.free&feature=search_result
so far working fine on me.....
Cheers - trying this now.
Hey guys,
I recently switched to fulltime android phone again after 1 years of absence.
However, the country where i live have 3 different networks with 3g.
I am suspecting that the one i am on, does not really have good 3g coverage, or is heavily used.
I get NO DATA or 2G connection a whole lot and im living in the "city".
I've been looking at Google Play for an application that ONLY monitors the connectivity.
I would like to know how much of the on time i am on NO DATA, 2G COVERAGE or 3G COVERAGE (wifi excluded or included).
The apps that exists from what i found only shows "MOBILE" or "WIFI" Usage.
Such apps showing amount of gigabyte downloaded on each won't help me much as if i am on 2G, i won't be able to download much..
If anyone knows of such an app (speedtest would be perfect if they could show this somehow and provide data on their netindex.com site).
Again, all i need to know is the amount of time i am on 2g data, 3g data, no data.
With that i will test my current sim for a week, get the other 2 sims for another 2 weeks, and based on the outcome of the statistics, chose which one to keep.
Let me know!
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oh, thanks.. normally i know it all so i rarely post questions.
Hi
you should try 'Traffic Monitor' from RadioOpt GmbH
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.radioopt.widget
Gives you Wlan and 3G overview, and details on the traffic per application. Its free und i like it.
Greetings,
cinq
xdacinq said:
Hi
you should try 'Traffic Monitor' from RadioOpt GmbH
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.radioopt.widget
Gives you Wlan and 3G overview, and details on the traffic per application. Its free und i like it.
Greetings,
cinq
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thanks unless it shows 3G and 2G separately it wont help my purpose..
Hi all,
Is it possible that my WIFI usage somehow faultily gets counted as data usage(3G), in any android device, particularly in Galaxy S2 I900?
I know it sounds silly, but here's what happened:
I just got 3G activated yesterday.
Through WIFI i downloaded about 600+ MB of data (Sygic)
Through 3G I browsed 2-3 small YouTube videos.
Today when i contacted my carrier (Vodafone India), They say my data usage is about 700 MB in last 2 days. That looks like my WIFI + 3G usage.
Hence this doubt.
Does anyone know of anything like this happening before?
Also, is there any way I can analyze my data usage for the past 3 days?
Now I have learnt my lesson and installed MyDataManager from android market, but it can only analyze data usage from the day of it's installation. Is there any other way I can analyze previous data usage?
PS: I swear I did the download through WIFI. I could see the WIFI signal strength indicator in my status bar. Neither the e(edge) nor the H(hsdpa) was seen.
Please help.
Thanks.
Network cannot charge for data downloaded over WiFi they do not know what WiFi you used . WiFi and network data re separate components .
You made a mistake and did not use WiFi but mobile data .
WiFi signal on and Data in use .
jje
JJEgan said:
Network cannot charge for data downloaded over WiFi they do not know what WiFi you used . WiFi and network data re separate components .
You made a mistake and did not use WiFi but mobile data .
WiFi signal on and Data in use .
jje
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Sorry, im pretty sure i used WIFI.
That's the reason im asking, is it possible that due to some fault in the device, it will somehow log the data downloaded through WIFI as 3G data, because unless there is some fault at the device's end, the network couldn't even know of our WIFI usage.
Also would it be possible that the device does an auto switch from WIFI to carrier data (due to any reason like weak WIFI signal strength) and fails to reflet this on the notification bar(still shows as WIFI on the bar)?
Has anything like this happened to anyone? I just want to cross check before I contact my carrier further. Anyways once i get my connection logs from carrier, it should show the server from which data was downloaded and that should make it clear.
>> WIFI signal on and data in use.
Is this possible? Doesn't the device switch to WIFI whenever its on? I thought WIFI takes priority over data by default
Pretty sure yep thousands if not millions say that when they get a big bill from the network . Network measures data at source and charges they dont get the data from your phone and charge you .
jje
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Pretty sure yep thousands if not millions say that when they get a big bill from the network . Network measures data at source and charges they dont get the data from your phone and charge you .
jje
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Is it possible that the phone shows as WIFI on the notification bar while it is actually using carrier data?
I don't have any issues paying the bill if i have done the usage. I just want to analyze what happened here so that it won't repeat again.
I am pretty sure the notification bar had only the WIFI symbol and not the data indicator. since i had 3G activated recently, i was very conscious about it and watching it quite frequently.
Also previously i had similar over billing issues with my carrier and they promptly gave a reimbursement upon thorough analysis of the situation. so carrier mistakes isn't also something unusual.
I don't know how old your signature is but if you are running ICS rom then you can use built-in data usage monitor (in settings) to verify the volume of data used.
Installed Data usage monitor
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I don't know how old your signature is but if you are running ICS rom then you can use built-in data usage monitor (in settings) to verify the volume of data used.
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The signature is update to date mate.
I don't have a build in data usage monitor, but I have installed one from the market - My Data Manager
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JJEgan said:
Pretty sure yep thousands if not millions say that when they get a big bill from the network . Network measures data at source and charges they dont get the data from your phone and charge you .
jje
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After much analysis and discussions with the carrier, I have finally found out the issue.
As pointed out by jje, the usage has actually happened at my end.
The WIFI had become unavailable many times in between the download, and the download had switched to carrier data.
To avoid any such occurrences again, and to help people manage their data usage better, I have compiled a simple list of best practices here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25660370#post25660370
Download 3G watchdog
Hey buddy! a great app to keep watch of your 3g plan is 3g watchdog, it advices you when your plan is getting low on data, and its also very useful and user friendly, there is also a paid version with more features
Market: 3G watchdog
Also Onavo count is useful too!
Market: Onavo Count
Tried it
Tuner420 said:
Hey buddy! a great app to keep watch of your 3g plan is 3g watchdog, it advices you when your plan is getting low on data, and its also very useful and user friendly, there is also a paid version with more features
Market: 3G watchdog
Also Onavo count is useful too!
Market: Onavo Count
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Thanks mate... I have tried 3G watch dog and many more apps.
I find My Data Manager more likable.
It's simple, free and has all the same functionality - it notifies when ur usage is reaching threshold.
One good thing about it is that it stays cleanly in the notification area. When you pull down your notification bar, you can see it there, it shows 2 horizontal progress bars indicating 3G usage and WIFI usage each. It also shows number of days left in your bill cycle.
Pretty handy
Hi Guys,
I've been looking for a solution to my problem but found nothing solid so far.
Case looks like this: I'm traveling a lot. In Malaysia (where I live) I have unlimited data package and I don't really care how much data is downloaded by my apps via 3G or WiFi - in short, i don't care.
Problem starts when I'm traveling - if I'm abroad, I'm trying to minimize 3G data usage to save some money. Problem is that many "data hungry" apps start downloading the data as soon as they detect there is internet connection available. Most of the apps doesn't care if it's 3G or WiFi data connection. Some apps allow you to configure if they can use 3G or WiFi only - but not all.
I would like to be able to control if particular app has access to Internet via WiFi only or 3G+WiFi. Is there any way to achieve this?
P.S. O course - it would be a "dream coming true" if there was a way to control if App can use WiFi only or 3G+WiFi or "WiFi+3G (local) and WiFi Only (roaming). I don't this something like this exists but ... it would be nice
Thanks for hints in advance.