getting charged for tethering, but I'm not...?

download 3gwatchdog from the market. It will let you know if you are using 3g data. If you can prove to your provider you arent using data, they should take the charges off. But I doubt they would charge you unless they are actually seeing you using data. Its possible the phone is using 3g data when you think you are on wifi.

 

Hi, are you connecting your phone to your computer in internet sharing mode? I don't think this works through wifi (only 3g data) I could be wrong though....

 

Ask your carrier to put a data block on your phone.

 

wow... that sucks...

i would find away to record your usage....
for your records..
then next month.. ask them for a full report of your usage.

so you can prove they have wrong info on you. maybe your account got mixed with someone else?

are you sharing plans with anyone?

 

It sounds more like he's got no data plan (as he stated), but since he's using Android, it's using data anyway when he's off wifi. Also, there are just some things that it will not use wifi for. When I left the country (left my phone at home, turned on), it was downloading 140kb every day around the same time despite being connected to my wifi router continuously.

So yes, if he's go no data plan, and uses even a little data when out and about, he's going to get raped on data charges. He can either get a data plan, or ask his carrier to put a data block on the plan.

 

he said.. he turned off mobile data... it cant send or receive...
he also said.. they accuse him of tethering.. that is a lot of data to assume that!

i dont think the phone is doing this by itself... it leads me to think it is an error in reports by the carrier.

 

Sorry, I missed this.

 

You'd be surprised what your apps might be doing. It's not just browser and Market, any app that pulls data into the phone can potentially start sucking data.

 

I just got a Samsung 550 with Virgin. It is my first smart phone so I was pretty new to data usage etc. I did know ahead of time that downloading and using sites like youtube would eat up a lot of data, so I didn't do that. My data plan only has 100mb on it so i figured that would be fine for just checking email occasionally. So wrong....the phone was automatically defaulted to "Enable always on" which meant it was ALWAYS connected to the cell phone tower data and all the apps on my phone were constantly running and using that data. After 5 days, I had used 200mb-way over my limit and i didn't understand why. Of course Virgin couldn't explain it to me (their CSRs aren't exactly experts in anything) and they just kept telling me that I was using my phone too much for downloading and surfing the net, which I wasn't. Long story short-turn off "enable always on"!!!!! I only use it if aboslutely necessary-IE I don't have Wi-Fi access available. LazarX is right. You never know what your apps are doing and if you are constantly connected to the cell phone tower instead of wi-fi and you don't have an unlimited data plan, your usage charges will be through the roof!!!!

What I don't understand is why Siiva was still being charged data when he had this disabled and was only using Wi-FI???? If this happens to me, I am going back to a dumb phone, why should I get charged data usage when I am only using my own Wi-fi connection????

 

I AM tethering and haven't been charged for it, maybe it's just included in the data thing.

What plan are you guys on? If you have a smart phone you can get the unlimited data with everything else for only $25...sounds like that would solve a lot of problems!