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App to restrict access to mobile data for given app - should be wifi only

  • 04-07-2013 1:50pm
    #1
    RainyDay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,925 ✭✭✭


    Has anyone come across an Android app that will allow me to make sure that a particular network-hungry app only runs across wifi, and not across mobile data?

    It's cost me €30 per month for the last couple of months, so I want to make sure it doesn't keep happening. There aren't any useful settings in the app itself.


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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Settings - data usage - choose app - tick "Restrict background data"?


  • #3
    neacy69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,823 ✭✭✭neacy69


    delete the app?

    I'm sure there is hundreds that do the same thing and wont cost you as much in data charges


  • #4
    RainyDay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,925 ✭✭✭RainyDay


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Settings - data usage - choose app - tick "Restrict background data"?

    Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't have that option in settings. I'm running Gingerbread, if that makes any difference. When I go into settings, I have 'wireless and network' and them 'mobile network settings' but I don't see anything there about 'data usage' or 'restrict background data'.

    I've also check the 'manage applications' for this app, but I don't see anything there about restricting data.


  • #5
    MuppetCheck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,865 ✭✭✭✭MuppetCheck


    What is the app? If it's costing that much it's surely not worth having. You could also disable the mobile network when you don't need it.


  • #6
    RainyDay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,925 ✭✭✭RainyDay


    The app is Tumblr, and it provides some really good material. It's just too greedy on bandwidth.

    I don't want to disable the mobile network. I want to keep the mobile network for other apps, and stop Tumblr from being so greedy.


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  • #7
    donspeekinglesh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,877 ✭✭✭donspeekinglesh


    This app might do the trick.


  • #8
    RainyDay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,925 ✭✭✭RainyDay


    donspeekinglesh wrote: »
    This app might do the trick.

    Brilliant - seems to be working well now, giving me useful information on network usage, as well as blocking unwanted apps. THanks.


  • #9
    sentient_6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,780 ✭✭✭sentient_6


    RainyDay wrote: »
    It's cost me €30 per month for the last couple of months.

    What the absolute f*ck?! Surely there is something happening here.... not normally experienced by the apps average user? That has to be not normal. Surely......


  • #10
    RainyDay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,925 ✭✭✭RainyDay


    sentient_6 wrote: »
    What the absolute f*ck?! Surely there is something happening here.... not normally experienced by the apps average user? That has to be not normal. Surely......

    I dunno, you tell me, is it really that unusual?

    I'm on a 150 mb per month package, and Tumbler was running at about 50 mb per day, so I ended up with large extra data charges from O2. Am I the only one to fall for this?

    I'm thinking about switching to Meteor's 1.1 GB per month for €22.


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