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mdeblaz

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I noticed that my data usage has been up significantly ever since getting the Thunderbolt. (And please hold your comments about using it more because it's a new phone... I have been using it the same as I did my Eris)

Over the past year with my Eris, my data usage topped out at just under 400 MB in a month... and usually averaged about 200 MB per month.

Now, with the Thunderbolt, I have fewer apps installed so far, and have been using data pretty much the same as I did with the Eris.

I checked the data usage when I first switched from the Eris to the Thunderbolt. On Mar. 20th data usage was about 150MB. I checked it again this Friday and I was at 350MB... and today my data usage is now over 500 MB. It's rising at about 50 MB per day - no matter how much I use it.

In just over a week, I've used more than my average monthly data usage over the past year - and nearly as much as my highest month of 400MB.

Granted, you can consume data much more quickly with 4G... but is there more background data being used by this phone? What is using so much data?

Has anyone else seen this happening?

I wasn't that worried about tiered data pricing (based on my average usage last year), but if this is the case, then more people should be worried about the tiered data plan
 
mdeblaz said:
I noticed that my data usage has been up significantly ever since getting the Thunderbolt. (And please hold your comments about using it more because it's a new phone... I have been using it the same as I did my Eris)

Over the past year with my Eris, my data usage topped out at just under 400 MB in a month... and usually averaged about 200 MB per month.

Now, with the Thunderbolt, I have fewer apps installed so far, and have been using data pretty much the same as I did with the Eris.

I checked the data usage when I first switched from the Eris to the Thunderbolt. On Mar. 20th data usage was about 150MB. I checked it again this Friday and I was at 350MB... and today my data usage is now over 500 MB. It's rising at about 50 MB per day - no matter how much I use it.

In just over a week, I've used more than my average monthly data usage over the past year - and nearly as much as my highest month of 400MB.

Granted, you can consume data much more quickly with 4G... but is there more background data being used by this phone? What is using so much data?

Has anyone else seen this happening?

I wasn't that worried about tiered data pricing (based on my average usage last year), but if this is the case, then more people should be worried about the tiered data plan
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Yeah, i was thinking about it too. I had a Dx before, and usually i was ending up with less than 1GB per WHOLE month. Now, it is 1 week and a half, since i am on TB, and i am NOT doing anything "extra" with it, but when i checked my data usage few seconds ago, it showed up almost 2.8GB!!! WTF? :eek:
 
So, today I barely used my phone while at work... a few emails to check and a few calls... maybe browsed the internet for 10 minutes... 18 MB used???

I know I don't use the phone that much... so the numbers don't seem that big... but the main point is what is using all the data?

6.7GB? What are you using bittorrent?
 
There has to be a serious data leakage when calculating Thunderbolt data on Verizon's side. I have no idea what exactly is going on but I'm at 20GB which is a few GB per day!!!
I don't torrent, just speedtest and check twitter facebook email. I work 5 days a week so the phone is most of the time in my pocket. At night I USB tether to speedtest since I have a very fast WiFi at home, and at work, so I have no reason to use my phone for streaming, torrenting etc... Weird.
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I can't wait to see my usage tomorrow once they update today's data. I didn't even tether today.
 
if you set the phone up from verizon directly there are a lot of services in the background it will automatically saint using up your data go ahead and turn those off in your data usage will go way down
 
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