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Need App to Measure Data Usage

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brianbro

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Am currently using 3G Watchdog (free) to measure data usage on VZ using Droid-X. Measurements off by 50% to the low side. Are there any more accurate apps out there?
 
I'd get 3G Watchdog Pro. You can specify the block size of the provider. I noticed that I am perfectly accurate with 3G Watchdog Pro after setting my blocksize to 1kb instead of 1byte.
 
I wrote an app called Network Observer that will give you network stats. It's not free, but it's cheap. It'll show you the bytes sent and and received since your last reboot for mobile, non-mobile (wifi, etc), and total network statistics.

The data comes straight from the android api, so I'm not sure how much more accurate you can get.

The app will also show you on an app by app basis how many bytes each app has transmitted and received.
 
Does Network Observer re-set iself when my billing period ends? What do you mean by "re-boot". Can I see day by day & week by week? Will it display used vs quota?
 
brianbro said:
Does Network Observer re-set iself when my billing period ends? What do you mean by "re-boot". Can I see day by day & week by week? Will it display used vs quota?
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Rebooting is the same as restarting your phone. Your device is really just a computer with a phone, not the other way around.

The Android OS resets all of its network statistics whenever you reboot/restart. I don't show day by day, or week by week, unless you reboot, wait a day and look, or reboot, wait a week and look. However, this is a feature I was considering adding.

I felt it would be useful to be able to see daily useage. I have a free app that shows it, but it doesn't show me what apps are using the network, so I wrote my own.

The ability to enter a quota and see how much you've burned up wouldn't be to hard to add either.

I'd offer you a free copy for helping me review changes as I implement them but the Google Marketplace will take it off your phone if I refund your money. I'm not happy about that... it would be nice if they either had coupon codes or just allowed me to refund without interfering with my business.

I'll have to see if the Amazon app store will allow me to do that. Network Observer hasn't been approved yet, but a couple others that I uploaded before it were just approved today. If I can work out getting you a free copy via Amazon, and you'd like to help with beta testing, I'd be happy to hear your input.

If you want to just buy it from Google Marketplace and act as a beta tester I'll try to make it worth your while via making the app do what you'd like it to. You'll just have to take my word for it that I will.

-Leonard
 
Are you saying that a person who shuts his phone off at night will see a discrepancy between that which VZ says is one's usage vs what the Android OS states?
 
I use NetCounter, it tracks both 3G and Wireless data usage.

I also use PhoneUsage to track my voice minutes, and Norton Utilities will also track usage of voice and data, but it's not as customizable in the voice minutes section as PhoneUsage. Since Norton has additional functions, if they updated to allow configuring for unlimited incoming, and unlimited evenings and weekends, I'd probably uninstall PhoneUsage and have one less app running.
 
Just to note, network traffic statistics provided by Android SDK TrafficStats class is only in API 8 and above which mean for Android 2.2 and above

If your device is Android 2.1 and below you won't get it.
 
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