Help Standby data usage?

[jay454]

I had the exact same problem, only worse...For the first two months, no problems, no complaints, phone worked great...but then all of a sudden in one day i got a text saying "you've use 75% of your data usage..", then 85, then 95, then $10 over, then $50 dollars over...I couldn't figure out what the problem was. I called Telus, they credited me back because It was completely out of character (I'm a construction worker, not a 16 year old girl). Unfortunately technical support offered no solution. The problem persisted, 6 days into the month im over my limit, and didnt know what to do. I downloaded the netcounter app (while on wifi) and watched my data climb steadily. So I downloaded app killer, and as soon as I killed email, they data stopped. Not sure what the problem is, must have been an update or something. Motorola needs to solve this issue quick, because this is not what I paid for, nor was it an app I haphazardly downloaded. This is a default program which offers you the option to check your email from your phone. My email application used 700mb today. If you're concerned about checking your email, buy a blackberry or an iPhone. Actually I would steer clear of Android altogether. With issues like this, who knows what could go wrong next.

 

[Szadzik]

If you set up your GMail account through Email app and not GMail it will poll the server a often as you tell it to. Nothing to do with Motorola. If you set it up to poll every minute no surprise you had problems.
With GMail it is different because it does not poll the mail server and saves data and battery.

 

[Brendanmurphy]

I had the exact same problem, only worse...For the first two months, no problems, no complaints, phone worked great...but then all of a sudden in one day i got a text saying "you've use 75% of your data usage..", then 85, then 95, then $10 over, then $50 dollars over...I couldn't figure out what the problem was. I called Telus, they credited me back because It was completely out of character (I'm a construction worker, not a 16 year old girl). Unfortunately technical support offered no solution. The problem persisted, 6 days into the month im over my limit, and didnt know what to do. I downloaded the netcounter app (while on wifi) and watched my data climb steadily. So I downloaded app killer, and as soon as I killed email, they data stopped. Not sure what the problem is, must have been an update or something. Motorola needs to solve this issue quick, because this is not what I paid for, nor was it an app I haphazardly downloaded. This is a default program which offers you the option to check your email from your phone. My email application used 700mb today. If you're concerned about checking your email, buy a blackberry or an iPhone. Actually I would steer clear of Android altogether. With issues like this, who knows what could go wrong next.

To be honest this message seems to me to be nothing but spam..... An email application will not use 700mb of data a few days into your billing cycle. I would be surprised if it ever used 700mb in a month period. Now if you have it set to download all attachments and the full emails, and your friends email you nothing but hundreds of porn videos a day then maybe its possible. Otherwise your a troll.

 

[TelusMilestone]

To be honest this message seems to me to be nothing but spam..... An email application will not use 700mb of data a few days into your billing cycle. I would be surprised if it ever used 700mb in a month period. Now if you have it set to download all attachments and the full emails, and your friends email you nothing but hundreds of porn videos a day then maybe its possible. Otherwise your a troll.

lol well this old lady who bought a LG Shine Plus, came in the other day and said I don't even know how to use this phone but I got a text message saying I went over my data limit already? I said well have you been on youtube streaming video or streaming radio as that will cause it to go up pretty quick. Her response was "What's a youtube?" lol So I went to go check her browser and it had not even been launched! It was asking to pick english or french as the language. She said her kids were messing around with it but she had used 1.2gb in six days lol and was asking us how to answer her phone! So sometimes yes something is up and she did have 25 emails received but didn't look into it any further and credited the charge and blocked all data. She left happy lol.