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Help HTC Desire constant data use

Jusnt incase anyone is interested, ive just called orange about my 500mb limit and got the normal schpiel ,, "oowh we didnt know the phone would use so much data, no one else has brought this to our attention" etc....

but....

Theyve bumped me accross to a patnther tarrif now for no extra charge that gets me unlimited data with a 5gb FUP. Don't think i have any risk of passing that amount :)
 
strange I was told by the girl at Orange customer support that 500Mb is the limit that they give to their business customers and that there is no other limit to opt for. She also said that as long as I didn't go over the allocation every month then Orange wouldn't be imposing any extra charges on me.
 
supercalle said:
Wow, this thread made me worry as I'm getting my htc Desire this week, I have to pay 3$ for each MB of data usage xD I'm gonna get broke pretty soon I guess...
Is it possible to use 0MB of data?
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It's more than possible to use 0MB of data, and you can do so and still use the phone for what it's meant for if you have access to WiFi and just disable Mobile data.

I use mine all day every day for email, internet, streaming and browsing the app market. I've only used 2.63MB in the last two weeks, and that's only because I turned on Mobile data to see how well it worked and spent a little time browsing the web, otherwise I'd still be at 0MB.

Of course, if you don't have access to WiFi either then it does become a little pointless having a Desire, although I guess it's still perfectly possible to turn off both WiFi and Mobile and just use it as a basic phone.
 
DaddyCee said:
strange I was told by the girl at Orange customer support that 500Mb is the limit that they give to their business customers and that there is no other limit to opt for. She also said that as long as I didn't go over the allocation every month then Orange wouldn't be imposing any extra charges on me.
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They are full of sh*t! I was told that with my 500mb limit i would definitelty be charged if i go over.

You get told something different everytime. When i bought the phone i was offered a deal i was going for but the girls pc crashed and had to be transfered to someone else. New woman had to start all over again and without me even pushing her (had to push the other to get the deal i was going for) I got an even better deal, dropped another
 
Ah ok. Well I'm still going to pop in today and have a chat in store if I dont have any luck then Ill phone them.

If you don't mind me asking what tarrif were you on before they put you onto panther? How much were you paying and are there any other changes with being on panther?
 
Ok yeah I just did the same thing, went into the orange store asked about panther and the guy said to phone up and they will swap me onto panther no problem.

Just rang orange now and with no fuss the woman has swapped me from

Dolphin 30
500 minutes
3000 txts
unlimited internet (500mb)

TO

Panther 30
400 minutes
3000 txt
unlimited internet (5gb FUP)
free orange sat nav
and something about free picture messages

No charge and I was impressed by how simple and fast this was to do.

:)
 
do i need to have been on orange for a while to get upgraded to panther?

I'm looking at buying a desire off of dial a phone on orange but can see myself going over the 500mb/month cap!
 
Nope, I've had the phone 2 months now which is how long I've been with Orange. I think you can upgrade from your Orange account online or phone 150 and have them sort it for you. :D
 
is there any app that let me choose wich app can use data and wich one doesn't?
I am traveling a lot and roaming is quite expensive but I use webtext to send text while roaming as it's cheaper. but everytime I connect the data to send the text the phone use a lot as all the app use data. any ideas how to allow only webtext to connect to the internet?
thanks
 
Bought a HTC Desire last month. Had the same issue: lot of data usage without using it or some minutes. 100MB in 4 days.
I found the main issue: not apps (even if certainly better to oversee them) but Wifi. If Wifi is on but not connected, the 3G connection becomes mad. I guess that the worse situation is when you move in a city full of wifi spots.
Advice: use "3G watchdog", put the "wifi on/off" and "3G on/off" widgets on your main page. Use one or the other but not both at the same time.
Does it help?
 
flashsam said:
You can use TrafficStats to see which apps are using your data connection.
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If you look at it TrafficStats itself is an absolute monster for connection use. I couldn't work out why, except for the ads. I just use spare parts now instead.
 
I had a similar problem and found out the main culprit was the standard HTC Mail app, which only had my Hotmail account set up in it. I'm guessing this was because it was checking every 15 minutes and pulling down the same stuff over and over. I logged into Hotmail on my PC, set it to forward my mail to my gMail account, and disabled the HTC Mail app (removed the Hotmail account and set it to manual) and just use the gMail app now, and my data usage is probably a third of what it used to be (typically 4 or 5 MB a day, on a 500MB tariff you need to be under 15MB).
 
Do Orange text you when you are nearing/at your monthly limit?

O2 text you when you reach 80%, then when you hit it, slow your connection down til you enter a new billing month. That sounds a lot fairer than just letting you go over then charging you like mad when you do, which is what it seems it what Orange do?

I'm newly on Orange and haven't had my first bill yet; I'm careful to only d/l apps when I'm at home connected to my WiFi, but I do have Friendstream, Gmail and weather widgets running on my phone. I do a little bit of light browsing during the day at work (usually checking one or two forums or news sites). Sometimes when browsing I click -menu - windows, and find that I have several web windows open that I didn't realise I had open.

Reading this thread has now got me a bit worried about much data my phone is munching through without me knowing.

When I was on the phone to O2, cancelling my old contract, the guy on the other end was going through the details of their contract that I didn't end up taking, and he assured me that 500mb was more than enough and most people don't go anywhere near it.

Two different sales staff in Carphone Warehouse told me the same thing.

Here is a table on the O2 site which shows how much you can do with 500mb here It does seem quite a lot.

What is the best data monitoring app out there?
 
I'm on Orange, and have been since April, and after my first month I've never even approached the 500MB (I usually end up around the 250/300 mark). However my friend has gone over (on the same Dolphin plan that I'm on), and they apparently put you on a daily rate for every day you use data once you're over your limit, and it's like 60p a day. Of course that has a fair use too, but you'd have to be really going for it to go over your own limit AND the daily limit too. I think you'd have to be really stupid to rack up a massive bill, even if you were on the daily rate all month that's only an extra
 
Downloaded 3g watchdog. And found the amount of background data my phone is using is quite modest - nothing much to worry about.

However, I went online and browsed a couple of forums - literally scanned through a thread on each, was online less than 10 minutes - and was shocked to see I used something like 15mb. Bearing in mind my 500mb-a-month limit, that's almost a day's worth of data in 10 minutes. That's shocking.

I'm going to install tapatalk or forumrunner to solve that problem, but have a problem with watchdog;

It's telling me I've used 18mb of my allowance since I installed it, BUT says that's 0% of my total - I even altered my monthly allowance from 500mb to 160mb since I was 10 days away from my billing date but it still said 0%

I'm not the best at maths but even I know that 18 is more than 0% of 160, or even 500!

why won't the percentage figure go up with the usage?
 
Bomberman said:
If you look at it TrafficStats itself is an absolute monster for connection use. I couldn't work out why, except for the ads. I just use spare parts now instead.
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What ads? The only 'ad' in mine is one asking you to buy the paid version (which I'll probably do as its pretty useful).
 
Nice that when you buy the phone they tell you that your HTC is going to be a datahog. I used 50mbs today without doing anything. So I'm going to try some of these things and see if it works.

I am wishing I didn't upgrade from my blackberry at the moment.
 
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