Bandwidth usage and Firewall for Android

[IdlePhaedrus]

For those of you who are conscious of bandwidth usage, I found a useful 'FireWall' app for Android over the weekend called DroidWall (requires root).

It lets you allow / refuse access to Wireless or 3G on an application by application basis. I have not been able to test it fully yet, but it appears to do the business.

Unfortunately it does not have a notification system, i.e. "Application x is attempting to access the 3g network, do you want to allow it yes / no / this time only / remember this setting" etc. But it is still pretty handy if you want to enable 3G, but only limit it's use to a sub-set of applications to reduce bandwidth usage.

Phaedrus

 

[Maddmatt]

I've been using it myself, seems pretty good. Nice bonus is that you can block apps that only use the internet for ads, so they don't waste overpriced mobile data on stupid ads.

 

[EtienneK]

Get Adfree Android from the Market to block adds.

Also, get TrafficStats from the market to see which applications are using all your bandwidth. Very useful.

 

[DAE_JA_VOO]

Yeah, I've been using Droidwall for a while now. Amazing app

 

[reactor_sa]

Is there any other good/better firewall or adfree ap? I'm using adfree but still get ads in some games like angry birds. 30minutes of angry birds used like 2mb of data on ads. Not to mention the annoyance of the ads blocking important screen space!

 

[CranialBlaze]

Is there any other good/better firewall or adfree ap? I'm using adfree but still get ads in some games like angry birds. 30minutes of angry birds used like 2mb of data on ads. Not to mention the annoyance of the ads blocking important screen space!

Adfree is the best but it cannot block all adds, not possible without blocking more essential things, thier is an app on the market though that specifically blocks ads in angry birds, but seriously that game is worth paying for and its like $1

 

[Speedster]

3G Watchdog is also pretty handy for this.

 

[CranialBlaze]

3G Watchdog is also pretty handy for this.

I used, random gussing and throwing darts at a dart board would of been more accurate, it was out by 90mb on my nexus s. I had used 100mb and it tracked 12mb.

 

[Malfeasant]

^sorry to hear that. Its perfectly accurate on my SGS. Even going so far as to track the data used when I'm tethering my phone or using it as an AP.

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[Elimentals]

I used, random gussing and throwing darts at a dart board would of been more accurate, it was out by 90mb on my nexus s. I had used 100mb and it tracked 12mb.

I think we have already established that there is something very wrong with your phone as per the other Monitors showing your data use as System instead of the normal apps. I honestly dont think 3G watchdog was the problem in your case.

Personally I love the way MIUI built in "Monitor" app handles all of the related info for me without the need of Market applications, as per image below:

 

[CranialBlaze]

I think we have already established that there is something very wrong with your phone as per the other Monitors showing your data use as System instead of the normal apps. I honestly dont think 3G watchdog was the problem in your case.

Personally I love the way MIUI built in "Monitor" app handles all of the related info for me without the need of Market applications, as per image below:

Eh maybe, even with it reading system as data user the values are correct so system must be using it for something.
Tried a custom mod before, never again. Phone spent 3 weeks in JNB cuz of cyanogen. Absolutely nothing worked after installing it, the only button that never crashed was menu. Then trying to put stock back the phone just freaked out and bricked itself.

Overall the accuracy is their so i still blame 3G watchdog, it missed 90% of the usage and tracked 0 on wifi.
Friend also used it on his Desire HD and it was just as useless so its not just my phone that its inaccurate on.