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What app downloaded 600 megs..?

  • 27-05-2011 5:06pm
    #1
    ando
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,439 ✭✭✭


    O2 rang me today to say that my data charges are at nearly €200 :O It turns out my iphone downloaded nearly 600 megs without me knowing last Sunday.

    Is there anyway to know what iPhone apps are downloading? I know you can see the stats of how much is downloaded by the phone, but I'd like to see what app is the culprit?


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  • #2
    Shane732
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,998 ✭✭✭Shane732


    ando wrote: »
    O2 rang me today to say that my data charges are at nearly €200 :O It turns out my iphone downloaded nearly 600 megs without me knowing last Sunday.

    Is there anyway to know what iPhone apps are downloading? I know you can see the stats of how much is downloaded by the phone, but I'd like to see what app is the culprit?

    What apps have you got?


  • #3
    ando
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,439 ✭✭✭ando


    Vlc
    Vlc streamer
    tunein radio
    shazam
    facebook
    budweizer promotion app
    angry birds
    gangstar mv
    who wants to be a millionaire
    asphalt 6
    zod zombies
    acwild
    acworld
    pocket gold
    star chart
    NES a.d+
    my o2
    sky news
    rte 3g
    tomtom
    full fitness
    worms
    tc2:usa
    zs
    plane finder
    umk3
    istunt2


    I have setup a data package on my account and every day since my problem its been ok, download about 5 megs a day average, but yesterday the phone downloaded 275 megs????? I just need to find out what is downloading, I cant believe its that hard to find this out, no info on the net about this or anything?

    iPhone 4. Os 4.2.1


  • #4
    Blazer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,472 ✭✭✭✭Blazer


    tomtom stands as it's 1.9gb in size alone.
    I think the last update pushed it up maybe 100-200meg so any chance if was this?
    Can you remember if you updated tomtom and what was your previous version?


  • #5
    rivalius13
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 893 ✭✭✭rivalius13


    Sc@recrow wrote: »
    tomtom stands as it's 1.9gb in size alone.
    I think the last update pushed it up maybe 100-200meg so any chance if was this?
    Can you remember if you updated tomtom and what was your previous version?
    App and Podcast downloads are capped at 20MB over 3G, can't have been that.

    You're running an old version of iOS, take it you're jailbroken then? Could be a JB app leaking data or something.


  • #6
    Shane732
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,998 ✭✭✭Shane732


    Yea is it jailbroken?


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  • #7
    Doodah7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,798 ✭✭✭Doodah7


    Tunein radio will gobble vast amounts of data if left to its own devices...


  • #8
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    The fact that he has a NES emulator installed suggests that the phone is jailbroken. Therefore its not likely that the usual iOS backgrounding rules will apply, so it could pretty much be any app at all (well, except radio apps unless you're in the habit of leaving the volume down).

    That alone would make it harder to track down. I think the OP will just have to be more careful about what he leaves running in future.


  • #9
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    I've got myself into the habit of turning off packet data when I'm not explicitly using it. Got a bit of a shock when Vodafone's website claims I used 872.4MB of data over the last 2 weeks while my iPhone only says 199MB. I'm covered as I have 2GB to spare but I'm playing it safe nonetheless.


  • #10
    kin9pin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 959 ✭✭✭kin9pin


    Tunein radio would use about 225MB in an hour wouldn't it?
    I remember THIS THREAD that also seems to blame tunein.


  • #11
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    kin9pin wrote: »
    Tunein radio would use about 225MB in an hour wouldn't it?
    I remember THIS THREAD that also seems to blame tunein.

    On a 128kbps stream it should in theory use 56.25MB in an hour.


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  • #12
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    I thought you can only download 20MB over 3G? :confused:


  • #13
    ingen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,076 ✭✭✭ingen


    ando wrote: »
    O2 rang me today to say that my data charges are at nearly €200 :O It turns out my iphone downloaded nearly 600 megs without me knowing last Sunday.

    Is there anyway to know what iPhone apps are downloading? I know you can see the stats of how much is downloaded by the phone, but I'd like to see what app is the culprit?

    lucky you, recently, when abroad i had discovered, that my phone while roaming, used 1.6 GB of data, :eek: i had the 500mb add on on the account, and it went 1.1GB over that!


  • #14
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I thought you can only download 20MB over 3G? :confused:
    From the iTunes Store.


  • #15
    Stuxnet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,739 ✭✭✭Stuxnet


    theres a sweet sbsettings toggle tweak in cydia
    its called RemoveBG,

    click it to kill everything that shouldnt be running when not using the phone


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