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On Saturday, the 21st, I took a long trip to attend my niece & nephew's birthday party. Ever since I got back, late that night, the T-Mobile WiFi calling feature hasn't been able to get past "Enabling..." I live in the foothills of the Rockies where there's no cell coverage, so without the WiFi calling feature my Vibrant is basically an expensive MP3 player.
I've been Googling and searching this forum for two days, but none of the proposed solutions I've found apply. I haven't installed any new apps that might be fouling things up. I haven't even updated any apps since last week. I also cleared all the application data through the Application Manager, as well as clearing both the cache and dalvik-cache. I've been rebooting like a mad man, but no luck so far.
I've been running TW's Bionix-V ever since it was released and have never had any problems with it. The WiFi Calling connectivity would blink out on me occasionally, but I always chalked that up to the fact that the only DSL service available in our area is pretty ****ty and slow. Usually, when I leave the house I change the settings to "Cellular Preferred" and the phone will pick up the signal as soon as I move into the coverage area. When I'd come home, I turn on the WiFi and switch the setting back to "WiFi Only." I usually had to reboot under these settings to get the WiFi Calling to engage, but rebooting hasn't done me any good these past two days.
The only thing I did differently, this weekend, is I turned off the "Use Packet Data" setting to conserve battery life, cuz we were gone for 16 hours on Saturday and I didn't have a charger with me. But, I turned it back on as soon as we reached the house.
Has anyone had this problem? Any thoughts on what the culprit might be? I have to say I've almost reached my wits' end. If I can't think of anything else to try in the next 24 hours, I've decided to try re-flashing the APK. I can't imagine what good that'll do, unless my SD card data has become corrupted or something, but it's the only thing I can think to do that I haven't tried yet.
Any help or suggestions, any at all, would be greatly appreciated!!!
Well I woke up this morning and had a few texts and I replied well my replies were coming 2 hrs before the original msg was recieved and it showed up before the recieved one. Then it sent me 2 hrs back in Pacific time which I live in Iowa and my phone says im in Seattle. The weather lockscreen, maps, weatherbug widget all say Im in Seattle. Then I did a factory reset it took me to my right location for about a hr then right back to Seattle. So I took it to a local store and they swapped me out for a brand new one. Everything was fine until I downloaded the HTC update and now Im back in Seattle again, time is 2 hrs behind to obviously, and now I cant get the phone icon for the lockscreen its not even in the list. And it was working before I did that update but afterwards nope, and as far as I knew that update was to fix the phone icon problem like the 3rd day it was out. This is my 3rd phone and pretty tired of the problems. I love the phone but with these problems idk. Anybody have any ideas?
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Well I woke up this morning and had a few texts and I replied well my replies were coming 2 hrs before the original msg was recieved and it showed up before the recieved one. Then it sent me 2 hrs back in Pacific time which I live in Iowa and my phone says im in Seattle. The weather lockscreen, maps, weatherbug widget all say Im in Seattle. Then I did a factory reset it took me to my right location for about a hr then right back to Seattle. So I took it to a local store and they swapped me out for a brand new one. Everything was fine until I downloaded the HTC update and now Im back in Seattle again, time is 2 hrs behind to obviously, and now I cant get the phone icon for the lockscreen its not even in the list. And it was working before I did that update but afterwards nope, and as far as I knew that update was to fix the phone icon problem like the 3rd day it was out. This is my 3rd phone and pretty tired of the problems. I love the phone but with these problems idk. Anybody have any ideas?
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Update your Profile in Settings > Software Updates > Update Profile > restart
Eric1985 said:
Well I woke up this morning and had a few texts and I replied well my replies were coming 2 hrs before the original msg was recieved and it showed up before the recieved one. Then it sent me 2 hrs back in Pacific time which I live in Iowa and my phone says im in Seattle. The weather lockscreen, maps, weatherbug widget all say Im in Seattle. Then I did a factory reset it took me to my right location for about a hr then right back to Seattle. So I took it to a local store and they swapped me out for a brand new one. Everything was fine until I downloaded the HTC update and now Im back in Seattle again, time is 2 hrs behind to obviously, and now I cant get the phone icon for the lockscreen its not even in the list. And it was working before I did that update but afterwards nope, and as far as I knew that update was to fix the phone icon problem like the 3rd day it was out. This is my 3rd phone and pretty tired of the problems. I love the phone but with these problems idk. Anybody have any ideas?
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Hey man. I understand your frustrations. Sometimes the little quirks and bugs that come during the early life / launch time of a device can be irritating. I wouldn't say that the location problem is actually with the phone, but rather with Sprint's network. I've had that happen on my Evo 4g, my roomate has had it happen on his Shift, and my girl has also had it happen to her Evo. I really don't think it's specific to the phone, hence the reason you had it happen on the previous and current phone. I never took any OTA updates, so never had the phone icon problem. From what I remember reading back when the phone launched, a factory reset was supposed to take care of it.
In the meantime, I would go to menu>settings>date & time, then uncheck 'automatic'. Then manually enter the date, time zone, and set the time. Leave it like that for a day or so, and then set it back to automatic. That's what I've done each time I had the problem in the past, and that always took care of it. I'm not sure what causes it, but it's not phone specific.
I would just stick it out and try your best to deal with the minor things for now. We are very close to getting S-off, at which time the devs of xda can iron out the quirky bugs that HTC left in the stock ROM. Also, HTC is usually pretty good with releasing OTA updates for bug fixes. Once we have full root with recovery, all we'll have to do is wait for a dev to go through the OTA and package it up in a safe to flash zip, and not worry about losing root while staying up to date. Keep your 3d man.
Thanks, ya I did the profile update then restart, when it started back up my weather lockscreen had the right location but weatherbug, maps, were still Seattle. I hit the power button then woke it right back up and the lockscreen says I'm right back in Seattle. Within a min it switched on me. It just seems weird to me my 2nd one I had it for like 3 weeks and no problems till this morning then the brand new replacement does the same thing within 3 hrs. Maybe I will just factory reset again then DON'T install the firmware update
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If I have wireless location on with wifi, my location will almost always be way wrong too. It would be nice if there was a setting that would prevent it from using wifi to determine location. If i'm connected to my home wifi connection and I turn on wireless location, it'll put me in San Diego (1500 miles from where I live), and my time will go back 2 hours. If I turn wifi off, it will put me within a mile or two of where I live.
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If I have wireless location on with wifi, my location will almost always be way wrong too. It would be nice if there was a setting that would prevent it from using wifi to determine location. If i'm connected to my home wifi connection and I turn on wireless location, it'll put me in San Diego (1500 miles from where I live), and my time will go back 2 hours. If I turn wifi off, it will put me within a mile or two of where I live.
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Ya see its weird I have ALWAYS used wifi at home I never turn it off unless obviously I leave the house then I dont even turn my mobile network on unless I need the net for something. Ive had the Hero, Epic, Evo, Nexus S, Optimus for a few weeks, BB, all just wifi at home its faster and saves battery and have never had this problem until the last 18 hrs and its 2 phones in 1 day
So, I'm pretty sure that Straight Talk is throttling me. Days on the phone with customer service, and "reprovisioning" my data, and no change.
Could it be that I'm running Baseband i717 UCLC5 with Kernel UCLE3-UCLE577875?
I was thinking maybe I had a bad radio or modem combo or something..
Anyone else throttled on Straight Talk? Argh.. they were the perfect carrier until this nonsense. I don't even stream that much! Know it's in their TOS that they can cut off data or do whatever, but still..
Straight Talk data throttling.. FIXED!
God damn, after reading HowardForums and using this advice. Essentially insisting that they switch my account over to the $30 plan then back to the $40 plan.
Now my internet speeds are back to blazing.
I didn't have to speak the manager's manager to get this to happen. They do try and lead you through all the BS: Change your APN etc.. I tell them I did all that and to please switch my plan. I finally ended up with a Philipino girl who was nice enough to just try switching plans. This required I turn off the phone while they reset everything. Booted up after the plan switch and everything is normal. Phew. Guess I'll have to stream my music from my home server over SSL encryption. :-D
When you call 866-667-6472(using a different phone) you have to speak to one of THEIR MANAGERS! (I know you are a manager, but I want to speak to YOUR manager a senior manager) after that instruct them to manually change your plan to the $30 plan and then back to the $45 unlimited plan. When they start this process (even if they don't tell you to) turn off your phone and remove your battery. That takes around 10 minutes so be patient and that should be it. After talking to my rep (senior manager) it became obvious that she was not lying and had no idea straight talk was throttling and tried to nhelp me anyway she could. Back to 6Mbps download speed WaHoo!
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Wow, thank you for this information. I too was throttled big time . I went from 5megs/sec down to .1
I tested my speeds in major cities like NY, Jax, Orlando, Philly, Charlotte and it was the same.
Straight talk said they were not throttling me so I went ahead and just bought another SIM and voila I was right back up in speed.
Next time I will try the above and let you know.
Did you have to change your phone number with the new sim?
Maybe that would be easier.. I dunno.. guess it's six of one..
Update: Two days later, without using any extra data.. throttled again.
Going to call them and ask them to switch my plan back and forth again..if
throttled again, other carrier, here I come.
In the ongoing Straight Talk Throttling Saga..
Another phone call.. this time half an hour on the phone.. they reset the plan(s) back and forth. Data speed back. Will see if it lasts. Got them to pony up 5 days free service for all the hassle.
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I'm hearing horror story's of ppl throttled for BS.....I'm their now I'm getting .2mb dl speed.....the thing is......I'm always on wifi and only dl from wifi.....idk what to do at the moment tho
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I use ST also and have been getting the throttle 160 kbps for about 7 days now. which is OK because I did use about 2+GB last month. but I do not tether I do have wifi at home and will begin to use it more. BUT!! If you are listening Straight Talk You need to set some clear standards. if I violate them I expect to get throttled. 160 kbps is unusable you need to do more like 500 kbps that is still a 90% cut in speed. and most of all when I reach the end of my billing cycle and start a new one, I should automatically be reset to full speed. Which is were I am now. last Sunday started my new month and mid day Monday is when I noticed that I can no longer use Google Maps. just when I really needed it. Oh and a txt warning email something would be nice!! NOT a phone call I do not answer strange numbers they can leave a message. So that is my opinion I think most people would agree with this and ST does not come off as doing shady business practices.
I went through all this a few weeks back. First three weeks with them got great speeds everywhere in two states. Then went 10 days where I never got above 200k. They made me mess with the phone and then reset something on their end. I've had about 10 days of perfect speeds everywhere in PA and MD.
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Another phone call.. this time half an hour on the phone.. they reset the plan(s) back and forth. Data speed back. Will see if it lasts. Got them to pony up 5 days free service for all the hassle.
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Does this reset your balance? I.e. if you're in the middle of a month, do you lose the remaining days?
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Guys, you don't even need to call in and change your plan to stop the data throttling. All you need to do is:
1. Call 611
2. Once you get ahold of a rep, say these exact words: "I called customer service yesterday because my data is not working, at all. My email won't load and everytime I access the internet it gives me an error saying it cannot connect to the web. The representative I spoke with yesterday took me through some trouble shooting steps with my APN settings to see if that would help and if it didn't work that I should call back and request for a network refresh or an account refresh."
3. The rep will say something like, "Ok, I will be glad to help with your problem today. I will need to transfer you to complete this transaction." They may also state, clearly, to you the ToS of Straight Talk (sections 6 and 7) regarding data usage and throttling and you need to acknowledge this in some way.
4. Once transferred repeat what you said above to the next level up rep. He/She will complete the process.
5. Now that the process is complete, please turn off your phone for 60 seconds then turn the phone back on but let it sit for a few minutes so it can register and reset it's settings and then you should see a return in normal data speeds.
Note:
- Always be curtious and kind to the reps. If you don't get your way with one of them don't get mad and hostile. They are only doing their job. Just hang up and call back till you get someone who will do it which won't be hard.
- Always say please and thank you when appropriate and always say "not a problem" when being placed on hold.
- Don't mention anything about data usage or throttling to them when placing this call to the exception of acknowledgement.
- Don't use your data like crazy after you successfully unblock your data or you will be throttled again.
- You may be subject to being throttled randomly after this call at anytime and calling back to them with these steps will always fix this issue if this happens so don't be alarmed.
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A network/account refresh does what it says. It refreshes the network and your Straight Talk account on their side and removes the data throttle (temporarirly at times) so it behaves as if it were freshly setup just as it was on day one.
I used to have data problems also, but here recently I have noticed that my data speeds have returned to what they were when I first switched to ST. I haven't called them or done anything different with my settings, other that my usual flashing once every couple days.
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How is the overall straight talk service? I've been debating switching to that myself
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joe012594 said:
Guys, you don't even need to call in and change your plan to stop the data throttling. All you need to do is:
1. Call 611
2. Once you get ahold of a rep, say these exact words: "I called customer service yesterday because my data is not working, at all. My email won't load and everytime I access the internet it gives me an error saying it cannot connect to the web. The representative I spoke with yesterday took me through some trouble shooting steps with my APN settings to see if that would help and if it didn't work that I should call back and request for a network refresh or an account refresh."
3. The rep will say something like, "Ok, I will be glad to help with your problem today. I will need to transfer you to complete this transaction." They may also state, clearly, to you the ToS of Straight Talk (sections 6 and 7) regarding data usage and throttling and you need to acknowledge this in some way.
4. Once transferred repeat what you said above to the next level up rep. He/She will complete the process.
5. Now that the process is complete, please turn off your phone for 60 seconds then turn the phone back on but let it sit for a few minutes so it can register and reset it's settings and then you should see a return in normal data speeds.
Note:
- Always be curtious and kind to the reps. If you don't get your way with one of them don't get mad and hostile. They are only doing their job. Just hang up and call back till you get someone who will do it which won't be hard.
- Always say please and thank you when appropriate and always say "not a problem" when being placed on hold.
- Don't mention anything about data usage or throttling to them when placing this call to the exception of acknowledgement.
- Don't use your data like crazy after you successfully unblock your data or you will be throttled again.
- You may be subject to being throttled randomly after this call at anytime and calling back to them with these steps will always fix this issue if this happens so don't be alarmed.
Other Info:
A network/account refresh does what it says. It refreshes the network and your Straight Talk account on their side and removes the data throttle (temporarirly at times) so it behaves as if it were freshly setup just as it was on day one.
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Tried this... it didn't fix the throttling for me. They were helpful though and everything went as you described, except for the wanted outcome.
knoshann said:
How is the overall straight talk service? I've been debating switching to that myself
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For me its great i made the switch a month ago love it have 4g speed everywhere Where T-Mobile had dead zones. I'm online a lot no throttling but i don't watch videos on my phone so. Switch you will notice the Difference and call quality is great
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Just an update on my throttling issue. I emailed them and got a call back from them later. This person fixed my throttling issue. I turned off my phone, they did something on their end, and I turned it back on... no more throttled connection. Prior to this, https connections would fail due to the low bandwidth, the play store would say it wasn't connected, etc.
Just attempted this. The manager went through my browsing history, became rather uptight and questioned me about my browser usage. He then read to me the Data and Throttling terms and even caught onto my tether. He then went on to tell me that since I was now aware of the terms, usuage against them after my next refill will result in my service being shut off.
In short, it didnt go well...at all.
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Just attempted this. The manager went through my browsing history, became rather uptight and questioned me about my browser usage. He then read to me the Data and Throttling terms and even caught onto my tether. He then went on to tell me that since I was now aware of the terms, usuage against them after my next refill will result in my service being shut off.
In short, it didnt go well...at all.
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Not to point fingers but what was your data usage?
I had to call about throttling 3 days ago and after asking for a network reset they asked me to restart my phone (international Galaxy note 2, cut down sim to micro sim) and after the restart it was at full speed again. I asked what they did and they claimed nothing. I had restarted five times already but was still at 30 kB/s. I wish I knew how long I had been running slow since I'm on wifi a lot.
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Staight does throttle your speed they just wont admit to it i can say i switched to net10 nd i hve not had my speed throttled
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I can say that besides being throttled I have just as great coverage phone\data as I did with at&t..My average DL is about 6mbs UpL is around 1.5mbs witch I find to be good enough. ..On the other hand I was only 10 days into my month and was Indeed THROTTLED. .my data usage for 10 days was 1.3 gigs...Hardly any..averaged 108mbs per day...1 day I hit 300mbs and thats when I was throttled..I did indeed read up on how to fix the problem. .called CS and that failed a few different times..gonna have to wait till next month and keep data down even more than I already do...I dont tether or Stream..Just use the Browser...
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hey guys,
I got some issues with data usage, cycle, and graphs. i was wondering if anyone knows the answers to these questions of course without using another app or rom's data usage.
1) I was wondering if we can set the white lines to show the billing cycle (1 month) by default instead of the last 7 days only? I have to scroll back everytime to check.
2) my data usage reset on me a couple of times without me doing anything. Im not sure whats causing that, but i do have a theory that there is a "lag" of when you set your cycle and when the resets happen.
So if you initially have set on the 15th, then you change to the 1st.
And if its the 13th today. I think there is a reset on the 15th, then it goes to your new billing cycle.
This is just a theory, im not 100% sure. Can someone verify this?
If this is true, how can i make it instant instead of the delay?
Guys - I've just come from an HTC Sensation on JBMIUI to a Lumia 620. There is no 620 forum yet but the same question applies AFAIK to all WP8 phones and this is currently the most active WP8 forum - so apologies - I hope this sparks some useful discussion.
I'm on a Vodafone UK work contract with a meager 500MB data allowance each month. Having watched the Jimmy McGee video on the front page of XDA about why he has given up on WP8 (one key reason was his data use trebled from his Android handset), I'm now seriously worried about my own data use.
Vodafone UK don't support Data Sense and won't cap my data use through their systems (as Tesco's can do with one click in their web based account manager - Yea! Go little guys!). Voda do however like to royally stick it to you for exceeding your allowance. One month when they had accidentally removed my data bolt-on, I got a bill for over £400 for just under 700Meg of data - no warnings of approaching or exceeding my limit or of running up a bill 20 times my normal monthly amount - the bastar... er... not nice people!
Thankfully they eventually backed down and even apologised for that little mistake and I am a low enough data user to never have exceeded my data allowance on any other occasion.
BUT - accidentally running up this sort of bill would count as a disciplinary matter with my employer - so - is there any other way anyone has found to accurately monitor / track data usage? If not I'm going to have to switch off data and only turn it on when I absolutely need to - a major pain in the ass and one which kinda defeats the purpose of having a smartphone in the first place
Any suggestions gratefully received, equally, comments from longer term Lumia users who have managed to run their phone without sky-high data use would be good to hear!
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Guys - I've just come from an HTC Sensation on JBMIUI to a Lumia 620. There is no 620 forum yet but the same question applies AFAIK to all WP8 phones and this is currently the most active WP8 forum - so apologies - I hope this sparks some useful discussion.
I'm on a Vodafone UK work contract with a meager 500MB data allowance each month. Having watched the Jimmy McGee video on the front page of XDA about why he has given up on WP8 (one key reason was his data use trebled from his Android handset), I'm now seriously worried about my own data use.
Vodafone UK don't support Data Sense and won't cap my data use through their systems (as Tesco's can do with one click in their web based account manager - Yea! Go little guys!). Voda do however like to royally stick it to you for exceeding your allowance. One month when they had accidentally removed my data bolt-on, I got a bill for over £400 for just under 700Meg of data - no warnings of approaching or exceeding my limit or of running up a bill 20 times my normal monthly amount - the bastar... er... not nice people!
Thankfully they eventually backed down and even apologised for that little mistake and I am a low enough data user to never have exceeded my data allowance on any other occasion.
BUT - accidentally running up this sort of bill would count as a disciplinary matter with my employer - so - is there any other way anyone has found to accurately monitor / track data usage? If not I'm going to have to switch off data and only turn it on when I absolutely need to - a major pain in the ass and one which kinda defeats the purpose of having a smartphone in the first place
Any suggestions gratefully received, equally, comments from longer term Lumia users who have managed to run their phone without sky-high data use would be good to hear!
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I'm in the same boat on GiffGaff PAYG.. I ate through £10/data in one day. The trouble is WP8 still has an active data connection even when wireless is turned on. I am not sure if it's just the small period when wireless kicks in from wake, or if it's on all the time, but either way there is unnecessary data usage and no way to disable account sync like you would on Android.. (bar disabling data completely). In my opinion this is a huge bug...
Battery saving seems to disable data sync well, however it also disables location services.
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I'm in the same boat on GiffGaff PAYG.. I ate through £10/data in one day. The trouble is WP8 still has an active data connection even when wireless is turned on. I am not sure if it's just the small period when wireless kicks in from wake, or if it's on all the time, but either way there is unnecessary data usage and no way to disable account sync like you would on Android.. (bar disabling data completely). In my opinion this is a huge bug...
Battery saving seems to disable data sync well, however it also disables location services.
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When the phone is asleep, Wifi is also asleep unless a background app specifically calls for it. Any data access the phone needs while it is asleep is done over the data connection. There fore your phone will always use data when it is asleep, even if you are in a wifi connected area that the phone is setup for. It does this to conserve the battery as seeking a wifi connection all the time uses more battery that the phones radio does.
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When the phone is asleep, Wifi is also asleep unless a background app specifically calls for it. Any data access the phone needs while it is asleep is done over the data connection. There fore your phone will always use data when it is asleep, even if you are in a wifi connected area that the phone is setup for. It does this to conserve the battery as seeking a wifi connection all the time uses more battery that the phones radio does.
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Which is ridiculous imo, neither android nor apple have this behaviour (I have both). Presumably leaving wireless on would be a workaround.
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Which is ridiculous imo, neither android nor apple have this behaviour (I have both). Presumably leaving wireless on would be a workaround.
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Depends on the Android. My HTC Inspire was setup so it would use data while asleep and wifi was only active when it was awake. This maybe a default setting that AT&T phones have. I say this becuase my Desire was also an AT&T phone although I was running energy ROM on it but that ROM worked the way I just described as well.
This is only an issue for those who have very limited data packages and IMO should not be using a smart phone if that is the case in the first place. I had a 2GB package and it was close to being over used each month. So when I got my 920 I went to a 3GB package which is just right for my use. If I go over they charge me 10 bucks for each GB of overage.
If you are unable to get a similar plan in your area then it seems to me the provider is trying to put a cap on smart phone users and that would mean it may not be a good idea to have a smart phone on that provider unless you have money to spare. Just my opinion of course.
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Depends on the Android. My HTC Inspire was setup so it would use data while asleep and wifi was only active when it was awake. This maybe a default setting that AT&T phones have. I say this becuase my Desire was also an AT&T phone although I was running energy ROM on it but that ROM worked the way I just described as well.
This is only an issue for those who have very limited data packages and IMO should not be using a smart phone if that is the case in the first place. I had a 2GB package and it was close to being over used each month. So when I got my 920 I went to a 3GB package which is just right for my use. If I go over they charge me 10 bucks for each GB of overage.
If you are unable to get a similar plan in your area then it seems to me the provider is trying to put a cap on smart phone users and that would mean it may not be a good idea to have a smart phone on that provider unless you have money to spare. Just my opinion of course.
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I had a HTC Desire before the Galaxy Nexus, and I do remember it turning off wireless when asleep, however it never reverted to a data connection. I can't remember how the GN was, always on I think. I've used all three phones on the same contract and the WP8 is the only one that has made a data connection whilst asleep (I would have seen it before in the last three years of use, and its only happened since using this phone).
Agreed that most people have a plan. On Giffgaff in the UK you can buy a plan for a month (a goodybag), however if you use virtually no data (because you are always within the vicinity of wireless) its even cheaper to stay PAYG. Ordinarily I can make £10 last a couple of months for calls and texts (free intra network). But I burned £10 on data in one day last week, and I never even touched the phone!
This is the article I was referring to when I said I thought it was a 'bug':
http://wmpoweruser.com/no-universal-data-counter-feature-in-wp8-as-data-sense-is-carrier-dependent/
Adding insult to injury, Windows Phone 8 still hasn’t solved some of the painful problems of Windows Phone 7: it still leaves mobile data on even when connected to WiFi, and turns WiFi off when the screen is locked, which together can lead to completely unnecessary usage of mobile data. Arguably, solving these two trivial problems would be much more useful to the majority of Windows Phone users than introducing carrier-exclusive data-saving features.
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marky9074 said:
This is the article I was referring to when I said I thought it was a 'bug':
http://wmpoweruser.com/no-universal-data-counter-feature-in-wp8-as-data-sense-is-carrier-dependent/
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Hasn't this issue been partly rectified with the Portico update? They added a setting to keep WiFi on behind the lock screen. Also If you do not want to use data and sync your accounts manually you can turn on battery saver, as that stops most if not all background syncing and makes you do it manually to save battery, in this case it is more about saving data.
I would highly recommend turning on battery saver and seeing if this reduces your data usage. However just remember you will have to manually sync all your accounts to get updates.
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Hasn't this issue been partly rectified with the Portico update? They added a setting to keep WiFi on behind the lock screen. Also If you do not want to use data and sync your accounts manually you can turn on battery saver, as that stops most if not all background syncing and makes you do it manually to save battery, in this case it is more about saving data.
I would highly recommend turning on battery saver and seeing if this reduces your data usage. However just remember you will have to manually sync all your accounts to get updates.
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Battery saver works well, but (i'm pretty sure) it turns off location services as well, which is a shame.
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marky9074 said:
Battery saver works well, but (i'm pretty sure) it turns off location services as well, which is a shame.
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I just tested it and you can turn on location with battery saver on. I fired up Nokia drive and everything worked.
Bjd223 said:
I just tested it and you can turn on location with battery saver on. I fired up Nokia drive and everything worked.
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So it does took forever in drive beta, but in HERE Maps worked straight away...
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