[sla_steve]

Hi,

In anticipation of o2 cutting my unlimnited data allowance in october or whenever they are planning on doing it I have been keeping an eye on my data allowance and have noticed data usage every morning when i switch it on.

Now ive kept an eye on it when botting up and its always with range of my wifi and connected to it according to the icon so how can this be!?

Heres a few entires in my data allowance page on o2:

09 Jun 10 07:24:35 idata.o2.co.uk 3575 0.000
10 Jun 10 08:48:57 idata.o2.co.uk 25693 0.000
11 Jun 10 07:38:27 idata.o2.co.uk 1830 0.000
12 Jun 10 08:36:21 idata.o2.co.uk 13902 0.000
13 Jun 10 10:29:17 idata.o2.co.uk 1157 0.000
14 Jun 10 07:27:48 idata.o2.co.uk 4974 0.000
15 Jun 10 07:27:26 idata.o2.co.uk 8940 0.000
16 Jun 10 07:21:18 idata.o2.co.uk 4081 0.000
17 Jun 10 07:32:28 idata.o2.co.uk 27 0.000
18 Jun 10 10:33:03 idata.o2.co.uk 23474 0.000
20 Jun 10 10:58:34 idata.o2.co.uk 422 0.000
21 Jun 10 07:27:48 idata.o2.co.uk 16251 0.000
23 Jun 10 07:44:03 idata.o2.co.uk 27530 0.000
24 Jun 10 07:37:05 idata.o2.co.uk 29327 0.000
26 Jun 10 09:06:09 idata.o2.co.uk 1325 0.000
27 Jun 10 09:41:50 idata.o2.co.uk 4877 0.000
28 Jun 10 07:31:30 idata.o2.co.uk 37468 0.000

These are all times when i booted up my phone and as you can see the amounts vary wildly and are quickly adding up!

[Daveoc64]

Have you checked the usage meter on the phone itself?

Settings > General > Usage

[sla_steve]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Daveoc64

Have you checked the usage meter on the phone itself?

Settings > General > Usage

Its up around the 3gb mark and only updating every 100mb

[stafs]

Perhaps it's like my phone and wi-fi only turns on when the phone is physically turned on.

Edit: Deleted original message as I realised I'd got the question wrong.

[sla_steve]

Quote:

Originally Posted by stafs

Assuming those numbers are megabytes, that covers about three quarters of a month and you haven't even reached half the monthly allowance. I don't think you have much to worry about.

ah but i do. Ive only included the "morning mystery data" above. My past 3 months usage have all been 600-900mb. The above is data im not actively using or getting any benefit from!

[stafs]

Sorry, I've totally mucked up the this conversation history in this thread. Are those figures bytes or megabytes?

[sla_steve]

the above is kb. So the total of that given is 200mb which is a heck of a lot of data to not know where its going!

[denzil28]

It's most likely apps running or checking for updates or finding your location, e-mail checking in with server to see if you have e-mail. Even if it doesn't download anything it still uses a bit of data. it all adds up quite quickly if you do not manually amend your settings for each app not to use push notifications and location based info.

Not only does it use data, but also uses battery life. once i had turned off all the pushes i don'r really need on mine, i found my battery life extended by almost 50% (rough estimate).

[prking]

I'm pretty sure that the data use registers when the connection does. So those amounts aren't occuring at those times, they are the data used up to those times from the time the connection was made.
So there is no mystery data transfer when you reboot.

[ginock]

From what I have read people who took a contract out before the changes came into place it might not change due to a change of TOS being forced so you may find you are not affected, this is purely based on what I have read this so this may not be the case.

[sla_steve]

So I have turned off all notifications and set my emails to manual receive so there really should be no data usage unless I instigate it.

Turned on my radio yesterday morning and turned on my phone. For about 4 minutes after bootup there was the failair interference on the radio signalling data comms.

Sure enough on my o2 data usage there was 77mb recorded at 7:34.

[denzil28]

Quote:

Originally Posted by sla_steve

So I have turned off all notifications and set my emails to manual receive so there really should be no data usage unless I instigate it.

Turned on my radio yesterday morning and turned on my phone. For about 4 minutes after bootup there was the failair interference on the radio signalling data comms.

Sure enough on my o2 data usage there was 77mb recorded at 7:34.

Have you double clicked the home button to make sure no apps are running in the background and made sure all location requests are turned off and do the test again?

[sla_steve]

Its been going on since before os4.0 so i dont think thats it!

[prking]

Quote:

Originally Posted by sla_steve

So I have turned off all notifications and set my emails to manual receive so there really should be no data usage unless I instigate it.

Turned on my radio yesterday morning and turned on my phone. For about 4 minutes after bootup there was the failair interference on the radio signalling data comms.

Sure enough on my o2 data usage there was 77mb recorded at 7:34.

77megabytes in 4 minutes? You would be hard pushed to do that.

If you can hear it interfering on the radio, its likely to be 2.5G so even more unlikely.

[sla_steve]

right so im guessing this is just some sort of billing total being done at not actual usage?

Im confused then as to why it only happens when the phone is on?

Can i also suggest other people check their data usage and see if they see similar?