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after a day without 3g

When I first got my Incredible and when I had my Eris I was not getting the battery life I needed so I would also turn Mobile Data off when it wasn't needed. Now that I'm rooted I leave it alone because I'll get 18-24hrs out of a stock battery. But I can understand the OP point, no need for people to freak out lol

It's pretty impressive even with mobile data off that you're at almost 33hrs Uptime with 79% still . That's just insane , the DroidIncredible I dont' have connected to a Mobile Network at all is at 43hrs with 44% Left. I still use the phone just not as a phone but I still have more usage then that lol
 
REYES said:
Dayyyymnn, you really DON'T use your phone do you? lol. I know when my phone is on stand by it takes 5+ hours for it to lose 1% (assuming it is sleeping). I use my phone a whole hell lot more now that I know what I'm doing with it and my girlfriend can attest to that. lol.

Battery nazi! lol, jkjk.

EDIT: By the way, is your phone rooted? If so, are you using SetCPU?
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Lol, na I was busy ALL weekend writing for college, so I only used about 4 hours outta that. but I keep 3g off. I am rooted, stock OTA 2.2 ROM, s-off, 2.15x official radio, with the hydra stock undervolt. helps alot.
 
A bit off topic but i really want to know how you guys are using 2-3 GB a month on data? I'm always using 3g, browsing, watching videos, streaming music (all via 3g) and i'm never over 400-500mb a month. What the hell are you maniacs doing ? Sorry for off topic, but i'm truly amazed at these numbers. JT
 
MutantCheese said:
I leave 3G off while I'm not using. I placed the Mobile switch widget on my homescren and turn 3G on when I need it, then off when the phone is idle. I can easily make it from 6am to 11pm on one charge.
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So can I, without turning 3g off.
 
JuniorNA said:
A bit off topic but i really want to know how you guys are using 2-3 GB a month on data? I'm always using 3g, browsing, watching videos, streaming music (all via 3g) and i'm never over 400-500mb a month. What the hell are you maniacs doing ? Sorry for off topic, but i'm truly amazed at these numbers. JT
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Tethering.
 
Does anyone turn off "Enable Always-On Mobile Data"?

Under "Settings" then "Wireless & Networks" then "Mobile Networds" and then uncheck "Enable Aways-On Mobile Data"

This turns off 3g when your phone is locked and improving battery life.

For me, I don't need 3g when the phone is locked. I do still get my text, calls, emails, and facebook updates.

I have notice atleast a 20% battery increase.
Anyone else use this? I don't see why HTC didn't put this as a default setting when shipping out the phones... everyone I know have set this to off.... anyone else in these forums?
 
ikadakimas said:
Does anyone turn off "Enable Always-On Mobile Data"?

Under "Settings" then "Wireless & Networks" then "Mobile Networds" and then uncheck "Enable Aways-On Mobile Data"

This turns off 3g when your phone is locked and improving battery life.

For me, I don't need 3g when the phone is locked. I do still get my text, calls, emails, and facebook updates.

I have notice atleast a 20% battery increase.
Anyone else use this?
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I use to do this , but didn't notice much of a diffrence. Stock battery gets me easily through the day so I leave it on.
 
Taylored said:
Tethering.
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Ok. I can understand tethering is using a lot of data. But give me an example where you (or anyone here, since it's not directed at you personally, but anyone) are somewhere that you have your phone and laptop and need internet access immediately?

I have tether also, never used it yet because i work all day by a computer, and if anything happens, i have my phone to RDP into server. So I still don't see how 3-5g is used unless you're using 3g 24/7 for 30 days straight :)
 
ikadakimas said:
Does anyone turn off "Enable Always-On Mobile Data"?

Under "Settings" then "Wireless & Networks" then "Mobile Networds" and then uncheck "Enable Aways-On Mobile Data"

This turns off 3g when your phone is locked and improving battery life.

For me, I don't need 3g when the phone is locked. I do still get my text, calls, emails, and facebook updates.

I have notice atleast a 20% battery increase.
Anyone else use this? I don't see why HTC didn't put this as a default setting when shipping out the phones... everyone I know have set this to off.... anyone else in these forums?
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doing this kills some IM programs, emails from coming in and other data related apps. its better left on
 
I never has that "enable always on mobile data" turned on . It's been off since day one and I haven't seen a difference at all. I don't use aim or Google talk or Google voice so maybe that's why I haven't noticed. I would keep it unchecked. YMMV of course
 
JuniorNA said:
I never has that "enable always on mobile data" turned on . It's been off since day one and I haven't seen a difference at all. I don't use aim or Google talk or Google voice so maybe that's why I haven't noticed. I would keep it unchecked. YMMV of course
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the disadvantages have been well documented in several threads, i dont think Gtalk is effected either though
 
JuniorNA said:
Ok. I can understand tethering is using a lot of data. But give me an example where you (or anyone here, since it's not directed at you personally, but anyone) are somewhere that you have your phone and laptop and need internet access immediately?

I have tether also, never used it yet because i work all day by a computer, and if anything happens, i have my phone to RDP into server. So I still don't see how 3-5g is used unless you're using 3g 24/7 for 30 days straight :)
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The people who have 3gb+ monthly usage are probably using their phone as a primary computer(I do) or are using their data plan as their primary internet access(I do).
Some users hit 20gb with no problem. I thought that was insane too until I hit 12gb.
 
Taylored said:
The people who have 3gb+ monthly usage are probably using their phone as a primary computer(I do) or are using their data plan as their primary internet access(I do).
Some users hit 20gb with no problem. I thought that was insane too until I hit 12gb.
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Taylored, that's INSANE ! 12 to 20 GIG a month! Wow. I always heard that verizon had a soft-cap and would start charging customers after 5gig of data, which is what their softcap is. Unless maybe these users like yourself and myself are grandfathered in?

I just looked at my usage for the month, 200MB so far and i'm 15 days in. I prob won't even hit 500MB this month.

I know we did a real DERAIL on this topic, and I totally hijacked this thread, and I apologize. (i should be more responsible), i'm just amazed that people use that much data. When you say using the phone as your primary internet plan, do you mean you do not have cable/dsl/fios at home and you tether with your laptop and phone at all times? Then i can understand how data can get that high, but for people that are just browsing, and watching youtube videos, and even streaming movies or tv shows on Hulu or something equivelent, I dont' even think they would hit 1-2gb. I am friends with a guy that used to be on the network repair team in Verizon Wireless states that after you go past 5gb for the month, you were throttled down from EVDO-RevA to 192kb per second. Really our throughput is about 1.5 mb per second, we never really get a full 3g connection, but i guess thats more than enough speed to do some internet surfing and watch some you-tube videos.

You guys must be grandfathered in, because I heard that new plans are soft-capped at 5gig, and I heard that throttling kicks in at 5g a month. Unless i read the terms of service wrong, but I always heard the unlimited plan is not "truly" unlimited.

Sorry to the original poster, i this conversation went WAYYYYY off topic. I apologize.
 
Taylored said:
The people who have 3gb+ monthly usage are probably using their phone as a primary computer(I do) or are using their data plan as their primary internet access(I do).
Some users hit 20gb with no problem. I thought that was insane too until I hit 12gb.
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You are exactly the type of user that is causing the carriers to put caps on data usage. If everyone used 12 GB a month (at this point in time), data service would be dog slow. There is simply not enough bandwidth available to server lots of users with that kind of usage.

I use about 1.5 to 2 GB a month. Thats with HEAVY webserfing (3-4 hours a day...not BSing...lol), some slingbox (1 - 2 hours every week), 500 -700 txt messages a month and light you tube usage (2 hours a month).

I also have the normal weather widgets, news and other things that can eat data turned on all of the time.

I do sometimes use my phone as a hotspot for my laptop....and even when I've used it for work through VPN (connected up to 10 hours a day for 4 days straight), I didn't use more than 2 GB.
 
sbmhome said:
You are exactly the type of user that is causing the carriers to put caps on data usage. If everyone used 12 GB a month (at this point in time), data service would be dog slow. There is simply not enough bandwidth available to server lots of users with that kind of usage.

I use about 1.5 to 2 GB a month. Thats with HEAVY webserfing (3-4 hours a day...not BSing...lol), some slingbox (1 - 2 hours every week), 500 -700 txt messages a month and light you tube usage (2 hours a month).

I also have the normal weather widgets, news and other things that can eat data turned on all of the time.

I do sometimes use my phone as a hotspot....and even when I've used it for work through VPN (connected up to 10 hours a day for 4 days straight), I didn't use more than 2 GB.
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just so you know, that is not data
 
beenz said:
Streaming Pandora or Slacker all day will also cause high data usage
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Which is weird because the web based Pandora pulls songs as FLV files that are about 2MB in size. It shouldn't really be pulling much more than 30 to 40 MB per hour.

Compare that to web surfing to a message board where a few idiots use 5MB animated gifs as avatars. 15MB to read one damn page. :eek:

Anyways....
My Data usually flips back and forth between 1X and EVDO at home and occasionally at work. So, the vast majority of my data usage is over WiFi which is much Faster and more Battery friendly.
 
I dont worry about battery that much anymore..got a 3500mah battery..with a fat case that eveyone talks about..looks like a bigger phone now.. dont mind it..kinda ruin the apperance of the phone though.... doesnt look sleek and slender like an evo haha
 
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