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Data Usage for Syncing (Google, Facebook etc)

royal23

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Jun 8, 2010
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hi
i've used the search and read all thread that include "data" in the post's title. lots of it was helpful, yet i have a few questions.

this morning as a test to see how much data my phone uses just for syncing and any kind of background data, i turned on the network data and syncing.
after 20 mins it was up to 1.5mb (according to my data counter widget).

i downloaded the Spare Parts app which shows me what instances use how much data; very useful.

the 1.5mb i'm stating here already exlude RSS updates and a few web pages i loaded this morning. This 1.5mb is ONLY the syncing stuff.

so my question is: why and how can it be so much data?!
i use gmail and google calendar and contacts, and have some 400+ friends of Facebook (FB).
calendar and FB were already synced yesterday before i went to bed.
how can anotehr sync use so much data? it wasn't my email (Gmail) as there weren't many this monring.

the calendar sync apprently took up 468kb, and a process called "UID 10027" which i presume is FB? used 555kb.

i'm really puzzled by these numbers. as google sync happens frequently throughout the day unless i activate it, usually i get up to 15mb a day without actually doing much (i.e. no browsing, no rss feeds updates, no streaming).

why is the FB and Google sync taking up so much data?

btw, i donwloaded FB for android, which replaced the FB for HTC application (so now i have inbox, and not the stupid "Take a Picture" in the app thank god) which doesn't even use the sync from the account settings but has its own update cycle which i had turned to 'manual'.


ps:
i already switched off the "use wifi for location" because i heard google maps otherwise constantly searches in the background
 
hi,
well i noticed that their updates etc are only displayed when i select "show FB friends" in the people app, and they seem to be only updating once i scroll down to any given name... do you think they are still updated in the background?

wish i could figure out what the calendar does, it really makes no sense to me.
 
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