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?
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?
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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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
Hello everyone. I am sorry for my crappy english even if I did not wrote my first sentence yet.
I live in Lithuania and here, in my country my mobile network operator offers free Facebook browsing for everyone. You just turn on data connection on your android and you ready to go. You can do everything you want in facebook completely for free: watch videos, chat, upload something. Speeds are really good (now you can even use 4G if your phone deals with it). If you want to browse youtube or google (or anything else) you need to pay then.
Yesterday I noticed that you can chat for free on "messenger" app too. I think it is because "messenger" connect thru the same facebook port or something (I dont know, im bad at these technologies). Anyways, my question would be: is there any way to use browser connected thru that facebook port or something? So my operator would think I just browsing in facebook while I would browse google or something else? Is there a way to configure mobile or just a browser to work like that?
I not really use mobile internet often, because I have wifi, but this is realy interesting.
Anyone got an a answer ?
Someone at work installed a spy app on my Huawei mate 20 pro.
They are able to see all my internet history in real time. They are also able to see network traffic on other computers on the same wifi. Not sure how they are doing this? I'm fairly certain they can also see photos I've taken, and traffic going through a VPN.
I am willing to pay someone if they can help me figure out when it was installed and the name of the app.
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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.