I will be travelling to a foreign country next month. I have arranged to get a SIM while in country so I can continue to use my private Google maps and GPS on my phone while I am there. There are, of course, bandwidth restrictions and costs, so I am looking to keep the traffic utilized by my phone to an absolute minimum when utilizing the data signal via the SIM. I ran a traffic monitor on my data connection over the last 24 hours and with limited use of the phone, it still managed to cumulatively send/receive almost 180MB of data.
Can anyone suggest any apps or have any suggestions (short of uninstalling all of my other passive data-using apps) to control what apps are permitted to use the data connection? Any assistance is appreciated, thanks!
*I'm rockin' a Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II (SCH-I605) in case that affects anyone's response.
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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.
ashasaur said:
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.
GorillaHuman said:
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.
I am the IT guy for a rather large home remodeling company and previously we have a company cell phone for each employee. I had an idea to which has the possibility of saving the company a ton of money.
I have (and have for quite some time now) a laptop in every truck with a 3g wireless access card and unlimited plan. Through the use of windows 7's "netsh hosted network" built in ability to make a laptop be able to tether and function as a repeater of the 3g access as wifi hotspot I could, in theory, switch all the company phones over to Galaxy players and use apps like google talk or text plus to make calls or send text messages and emails. This would allow the employees all of the ability of a cell phone (through the tethered 3g on the laptop) without having to have a contract for each device. Since every team has a laptop in their company truck(s) they can take that into the house and use it for the wifi hotspot to connect too. Also whenever they are not at work the use of the company cell phones is prohibited so losing the ability to call after work hours is a non-issue.
My boss (the owner) has one major concern. All of the current phones have remote viewing, tracking, and logging software to keep tabs on the employees. The issue is all of the apps I can find are controlled by SMS to send commands to perform specific actions. Since the players wont have SMS these apps will not work.
Does anyone know of a way I can set up the remote viewing (screenshots, live screencasts, log files of sites viewed GPS coords calls made etc, and tracking) or an app that can do it that works well with the Galaxy Players.
Presumably these 3rd party apps use some service that sits and looks at SMS messages as they arrive, so you could create your own service that sits and waits for GTalk messages.
Alternatives include a service running on each handset that simply communicates its status back to home base at set intervals (via the laptop + 3g connection), or send an SMS to the laptop and have the laptop contact the device connected to it and ask for the data you want, then upload it, etc.
Sounds like an interesting project anyway
I think this program will work for you and is a 1 time charge..
http://www.spectorsoft.com/products/eBlaster-Mobile-Android/index.asp
I have it on all my employee's cell phones and on my daughter's tablet. It does GPS tracking but it only sends updates every 15 minutes so you do not have real time tracking of the phone/tablet like you would with other programs... But it is $70 total, not $20 or $30 a months like most other programs..
Not sure if it will do everything you need but I know it will work with a teethered tablet
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
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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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
samydroid said:
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
Is there an app that will let me set firewall rules on a per network basis? Basically so my home network has full access but my 3G hub blocks certain apps. If I have to pay for the privilege then so be it. It will cost less than going over my data usage due to drop box camera upload haha. I am running ics on a Samsung galaxy tab 2 7 (GT-P3110).
Cheers, Bryn