Help 1.9 GB of Data in a month?!

SchumiFan · Nov 23, 2011

Hey everyone. Brand new here, but not to the Android platform.

Anyway, to cut a long story relatively short, I just got off the phone with Orange Mobile here in the UK after I noticed I'd been charged

Snazzy · Nov 23, 2011

The included widget AP news is a known data hog even if you are not actively using it. It is a poorly written widget that needs a fix badly.

Google around "sg2 AP news data usage" and you will see lots off folk have id this a data hog.

Russell Ng · Nov 23, 2011

Get 3G watchdog pro to see which app is eating into the data. Second, set the AP news data and weather widget to sync in a more reasonable time, say every 12 hours or 24 hours.

Third, try off the data when you play games. I was playing Zenonia 3 with 3G on and it ate up 25MB in 20minutes of playing. The games works without 3G on either. This might occur for other games.

Video streaming like you tube takes up a lot of data too.

Cheers

WilfMoralee · Nov 24, 2011

Some tariffs include wifi data used in the allowance so check to see if your orange tariff is one of these.

augustya · Nov 24, 2011

Russell Ng said:
Get 3G watchdog pro to see which app is eating into the data. Second, set the AP news data and weather widget to sync in a more reasonable time, say every 12 hours or 24 hours.

Cheers

So I had a similar question if I have a weather APP the native accuweather app that comes with SGS-2 if it is constantly on my home screen and is showing the weather tempertaure if is there on my home screen will it constantly be using the Internet I have a only 1 GB 3G data plan, that way my 1GB limit get over in what 1-2 days.

Russell Ng · Nov 24, 2011

Its fine to have it on the homescreen looking pretty. Its really when it syncs that uses data. You can set it for example to 3 hours for syncing or none, where its manually. Each time it syncs, it doesn't really takes up much data. From 3G Watchdog, its less than 100kb each time.

But if it keeps syncing for data every couple of hours, it would build up. I set it to manual update currently.

SchumiFan · Dec 6, 2011

Problem seems to be solved now. I completely disabled the news and weather from updating at all...and the 3G watchdog has been keeping me in check for how much I've been using.

I spoke to some really nice people at Orange, eventually, and they understood that it was a problem with the phone and that they should have mentioned that that app would suck up a lot of the data so out of a goodwill gesture, they waived the bills for the extra downloads. Phew!

simes6600 · Dec 6, 2011

the sky news app is set to update every hour by default. used up a heap of mbs. didn't notice this till I installed 3G watchdog.

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