Hello I just get my Xperia X10 and need to know a few questions about the data usage. I am orange Dolphin 15 plan I get 250mb of internet usage per month. If I am at home using wifi does that use 250mb which I am allowed each month ? I use facebook and the auto update timescape thing. How much MB will that use ? Will I only be able to use timescape with 3g or can I use 2g to get updates aswell ? Gentle Jesus
no the 250mb is ONLY when running 2g/3g connection, NOT wifi As an examble last month i had wifi on for all my permanent stuff at home all 3g updates for twitter etc used about 200mb
I would suggest you keep wifi on at all times when it is available, otherwise any apps connecting to the internet will use your data
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+1 but I don't use it as I have a 3GB data plan, and I've only ever gone over it once in nearly 2 years, which was when I didn't have broadband at home, so I was using tether apps
hahaha so do i but its neice to see how and where i use data when not connected to wifi simply cos i can
ha thanks guys again im new to all this android stuff so yea just hope I dont go over my 250mb usage on the first month haha I dont think I will have many apps anyways but only time will tell. Also is there a way to set timescape so that I can manually update it on my own instead of every 15mins or 30 mins etc cos i only use it for facebook ?
Why bother with Timescape at all if you only use it for facebook? I don't see the point. Just use Facebook for Android (download it from the market even if you already have it -- I found the one my X10 came with was actually out of date even though the version number appeared to be up to date. I re-downloaded it and got better features). I use a data counter called... Data Counter It works just fine, it monitors both my 3g usage and my wifi usage (even though I don't really need it to monitor my wifi usage, but it's nice to be able to see what I -would- have used had I used 3g) and puts them in separate categories, and then counts everything by day / week / month / total. Since installing the app maybe three weeks ago, I've only used something like 180 megs, and I did a lot of surfing PLUS I tethered it one day to my netbook and surfed the net that way for a couple of hours .. I'm kinda disappointed in myself, because I have a 6 gig dataplan, obviously I have to kick my data consumption up a bit rofl. Time to do more tethering. That being said, every time I put my phone away, I turn off 3g, so I don't have anything polling the 3g network / pulling data while I'm not looking.
I use Call Meter NG. It's free and monitors the usage of calls, SMS and Data with lots of different features to suit your billing mode. It works a treat.
