Just did a quick calculation...it have used 42.36 megs so far for this month...so that works out to about 3.53megs a day. I do have a smart action rule though that switches my data off from 22:00 to 06:00 in the morning. I mostly use whatsapp, email and a little browsing on some days if I need to look something up at work.
So...with that avg usage a day I should use about 100meg in a month.
Last edited by Ockie; 13-06-2012 at 08:33 AM.
Now why you loer en kyk gelyk?
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Do you have an Exchange and/or other account set up for getting work emails?Originally Posted by ocleroux
So y'all need to hide yo uzis, hide yo assault rifles and hide yo bazookas 'cos they disarmin' everybody out here!
-Darkmatter2525
Nope...just push gmail in the gmail app.
Now why you loer en kyk gelyk?
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You see, that's a big one. Fortunately my work pays the bill for my work phone, but even with just 1 exchange account (downloading attachments disabled), it goes up to 300MB easily just through emails, calendar & contact sync and the occasional reading a news article through Google Currents.
And those are some of the main reasons people use a smartphone, with these tiny data bundles we can't even use the things properly.
So y'all need to hide yo uzis, hide yo assault rifles and hide yo bazookas 'cos they disarmin' everybody out here!
-Darkmatter2525
Well...I can access my work email via owa...and frankly this is my personal phone and dont want work emails coming through on it for which I then would have to pay for. I do my work @ work when I get here @ 7 and if there is a bit left over that I need to reply to urgently, then I can log in from home on my laptop. But I guess a lot of companies these days requires their staff to have their email with them when they not in the office.
Now why you loer en kyk gelyk?
Is ek miskien van goud gemake?
PS: One way around the xchange thing would be to have gmail go pull your emails from your work box and then push it to your phone only when there is a new email.
Now why you loer en kyk gelyk?
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I'm pretty sure exchange does that anyways... but the whole point is we shouldn't have to look for work-arounds. Android wants to be connected all the time. It's just like a few years ago when we were trying all kinds of fancy tricks to get Steam games activated or games/programs to skip auto-updating on our pathetic Telkom capped accounts and how everyone hated it. Once cheap uncapped came around, Steam became instantly loved and having stuff always up-to-date became a convenience. The same thing will happen if we get uncapped (or at least decent sized) mobile data plans.
So y'all need to hide yo uzis, hide yo assault rifles and hide yo bazookas 'cos they disarmin' everybody out here!
-Darkmatter2525
mmm not sure...but as far as I know the only email service that is true push on Android is gmail and perhaps Yahoo. Reason for this is push is controlled by the C2DM google server. If your exchange server aint connected to the c2dm server, then push wont work. But perhaps I am wrong. Perhaps someone with more knowledge of how it works can inform us.
Now why you loer en kyk gelyk?
Is ek miskien van goud gemake?
Yes, a massive 14.73MB for the month of June.
But it does not tell me how much was used through Onavo, so I assume that it was the 201mb reported by ICS.
So if I did not have Onavo installed, I would have used 215MB, and that equates to a 6.8% saving.
Not really a substantial amount.
It also only lists the apps that it saved data on, yet I know that there are apps (like teamviewer) that I use where it will not be able to save on, and since all data goes through Onavo, this data then is not recorded.
NOPE 29mb per day when the phone is just idling.... few whattapp msgs, opened FB once and 5 emails (No attachments so less than 130kb for all)......
IT sucks bigtime as my wife's galaxy tab have ALL these things running 24/7, syncing every 30min nesw 24 etc.... and according to 3g watchdog she uses less than 1mb per day.... heard this from other people to...
She has the same version of FB on her tab that i have on my S3
SO the big question is.... Is it ICS that has increased the data hunger????
So far i am pretty dissapointed!!!
25MB in a WEEK? That's almost nothing, I don't see how you manage that actually. I only use my phone for things like browsing etc when I'm connected by wi-fi but even so it uses about 300MB in a month. The data bundles the SA networks give us with smartphones are beyond pathetic.
To think, I read an article yesterday about an American complaining that he has to pay $30 per month for an uncapped package on his smartphone when he's a light user, only using about 1-2GB per month.
Just another reason why I love MIUI
I dont know why Google don't just copy their data manager as it works like a dream.
.... and thanks for all the fish.
Definitely not ICS. I have Gingerbread on my RAZR. Pretty much still the same usage as with Froyo or Eclair too. I call BS on the Tab using that little data though, doing all those things.. It's probably connected to the wi-fi at home/work.
So y'all need to hide yo uzis, hide yo assault rifles and hide yo bazookas 'cos they disarmin' everybody out here!
-Darkmatter2525
yeah the tab is on wifi when at home.... but when at the office it runs on 3G and uses very little of the data..... so no BS!
I sat and compare them both last night.... If i use fb my data jumps incredibly and with the tab for the same use i only uses kb's..........
maybe hers using cached data or something?
Now why you loer en kyk gelyk?
Is ek miskien van goud gemake?
How would i know that? If so how do i get my phone to do this to use minimum data
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