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basalt

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Yes, another person asking for help with data leaks!

I've had my galaxy 2 months, the first day I had it I ran out of data allowance in 24 hours - I put that down to not having read up and leaving background data on, downloading too many apps etc.

I've been more careful since then - background data is only on whilst I access the Aps store and I turn off data services when I'm not accessing the web.

Except last night I forgot and had a text from o2 at 5am.

Is there any way of finding out what used 300mb in six hours despite background data being turned off ? The only thing running left on the phone was firefox - and just one wikipedia page at that, surely it's not spent the whole night refreshing the page and eating data?

I've installed 3g watchdog and set it to disable data at a low cut off but really that shouldn't be necessary. I don't have anything set to autoupdate, don't store data in the cloud, never use my phone for email and don't even allow the calendar to sync with google.

Between the data leaks and the 'overseas transaction' charges from the market I'm starting to wonder if I was better off sticking with my old fruit branded phone :(
 
basalt said:
Yes, another person asking for help with data leaks!

I've had my galaxy 2 months, the first day I had it I ran out of data allowance in 24 hours - I put that down to not having read up and leaving background data on, downloading too many apps etc.

I've been more careful since then - background data is only on whilst I access the Aps store and I turn off data services when I'm not accessing the web.

Except last night I forgot and had a text from o2 at 5am.

Is there any way of finding out what used 300mb in six hours despite background data being turned off ? The only thing running left on the phone was firefox - and just one wikipedia page at that, surely it's not spent the whole night refreshing the page and eating data?

I've installed 3g watchdog and set it to disable data at a low cut off but really that shouldn't be necessary. I don't have anything set to autoupdate, don't store data in the cloud, never use my phone for email and don't even allow the calendar to sync with google.

Between the data leaks and the 'overseas transaction' charges from the market I'm starting to wonder if I was better off sticking with my old fruit branded phone :(
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Verry big change you've downloaded a crap app that usses a lot of bandwidth....
You can try a thing but youll lose all your aps.. factory reset, if im right then the data use wil drop enormosley
 
Could I get away with just uninstalling apps one by one until the data usage stops? I don't understand how an app could be using data when I have background data turned off and always kill things in the task manager.
 
You said you downloaded 3d watchdog, did you get the free or paid version? The Paid version has an option to show app by app data usage if you have 2.2 or above. You can try this and see which app is using the data.
 
I've got the free version, I would add the paid version but I'm still fuming over the eight quids worth of "foreign currency transaction" charges I've been lumbered with from last months app purchases - the store seems to be set up in a profoundly daft manner.
 
I gave in, and bought it.
The problem looks like bloody firefox - left in background it's used 2mb in the last few minutes. I've removed it and I'll see what happens.
 
basalt said:
I gave in, and bought it.
The problem looks like bloody firefox - left in background it's used 2mb in the last few minutes. I've removed it and I'll see what happens.
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on pc firefox is the best, the app sucks though (did'nt know about this) but it's also a ram eater (50/60MB orso)
 
I also noticed Firefox was sending almost as much data as it recieved - so where was it sending it to?

The default browser I've also found doesn't screw up page formatting.

Thanks for the advice
 
Firefox is in Beta format and it might be sending information about it usage to the developers. I would just stick with the default browsers untill firefox gets out of beta and then try it.
 
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