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Whats using my data

  • 30-04-2011 12:08pm
    #1
    Rylan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 373 ✭✭


    Just checked my cellular data usage there and it has 4gb+ recieved and 4gb + sent. Checked it about 2 days ago and there was only a couple of hundred on each. What is using my data. I dont upload anything and am working all day so dont get to use the phone much and also have wi-fi at home. What is going on. Going to get slaughered by vodafone next bill.


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  • #2
    stephendevlin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,307 ✭✭✭stephendevlin


    Rylan wrote: »
    Just checked my cellular data usage there and it has 4gb+ recieved and 4gb + sent. Checked it about 2 days ago and there was only a couple of hundred on each. What is using my data. I dont upload anything and am working all day so dont get to use the phone much and also have wi-fi at home. What is going on. Going to get slaughered by vodafone next bill.

    Do you have an iphone?

    If so you may have updates for e-mails etc turned on. it checks for mail every 15 mins


  • #3
    Rylan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 373 ✭✭Rylan


    Sorry yes.. Its an iphone 4. I don have updates for e-mails that chect every so often. Have them switched off now but 4gb sent and recieved. i dont even get that many e-mails.


  • #4
    stephendevlin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,307 ✭✭✭stephendevlin


    could be something running in the background as you can have multiple apps open at the same time. do you use the net on the road or anything.

    Also are you sure your properly connected to wifi at home?


  • #5
    Rylan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 373 ✭✭Rylan


    Definately connected ok to wifi at home. May have left apps running in the background but i thought that they froze or paused in the background so as not to use up data.


  • #6
    Rylan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 373 ✭✭Rylan


    Anyone know how much vodafone charge for their data above the allowed 2gb


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  • #7
    Sad Professor
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,693 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    4GB is an awful lot. I'd be inclined to think you might have lost your wifi connection for a while without releasing it. You need to go through your apps and see what ones could have used that much data so quickly. Do watch a lot of video on your phone?


  • #8
    Rylan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 373 ✭✭Rylan


    Rarely watch video on the phone TBH. Wifi is always on and it automatically connects to it.


  • #9
    mad muffin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    Have you synced with iTunes recently?

    To me it looks like a bug. If you only had a couple hundred Meg only a couple of days ago and all of a sudden you have 4 gig+ you would have noticed your battery being hammered.


  • #10
    dodzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,153 ✭✭✭✭dodzy


    Rylan wrote: »
    Anyone know how much vodafone charge for their data above the allowed 2gb
    I'd start with a re-mortgage.......and go from there ;)


  • #11
    Rylan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 373 ✭✭Rylan


    Just found a link on another site about this. Might help if someone has the same problem. It seems that it is a bug on the iphone 4 and has happened to a lot of people.

    https://discussions.apple.com/message/12490822?messageID=12490822


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  • #12
    ironclaw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,004 ✭✭✭ironclaw


    Rylan wrote: »
    Just found a link on another site about this. Might help if someone has the same problem. It seems that it is a bug on the iphone 4 and has happened to a lot of people.

    https://discussions.apple.com/message/12490822?messageID=12490822

    Thats interesting. I had a similar problem in that about Christmas time I looked at the meter and since that July I had used 8GB. Which was frankly impossible (I used at most 100 - 300MB per month with Meteor). So I'd imagine its just a fault.


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