Data usage

doelani

Son got phone for Christmas and data package activated yesterday evening. Just checked and of His 500mb data allowance has used 96 mb in just over 24 hours :eek:

He has phone on wifi in house and I have just turned off background sync for data. Should turning this off reduce the usage? He says he has been using it on Facebook and to play games when out but as these games have been downloaded I take it they do not use data ?

The phone is Sony Xperia play.

Thanks

grumbler

Apparently 100 Mb is about 100 web pages. IMHO, without downloading/streaming video/music it's difficult to use 100Mb during one day.

doelani

grumbler wrote: »

Apparently 100 Mb is about 100 web pages. IMHO, without downloading/streaming video/music it's difficult to use 100Mb during one day.

That's what I thought to. Everyone else in house have smart phones and have never used as much.

I am wondering if maybe a game he has uses live streaming? Not sure if games do that.

[Deleted User]

If the games he is playing keep a score then this could be updating online when he is playing them.

He would need to check this out aswell.

Dxxx

robbies_gal

isnt the data charged at pr rata when u first activate

ie u dont get the full months allowance till hyour billing date

doelani

gabbyevs wrote: »

isnt the data charged at pr rata when u first activate

ie u dont get the full months allowance till hyour billing date

As it is pay as you go got full months allowance allocate yesterday when activated.

doelani

Thanks for replies.

Think it must be the games and also he has said now he Watson YouTube earlier but not for long :rotfl: that could mean any length of time.

Told him to keep background data turned off and only use YouTube and games on wifi, see how it goes for a few days, all we can do.

Done a search online after I posted and a lot of people with same issue with this phone so not just us .

Thanks again

GT60

What games is he playing?
Just so i can chech our boys phones for this issue.

Thanks and good luck

doelani

GT60 wrote: »

What games is he playing?
Just so i can chech our boys phones for this issue.

Thanks and good luck

Mostly a FIFA game, think it is FIFA 12

Just had a web chat with O2. They said even when connected to wifi in house phone is using data allowance unless we turn data off each time we want to use wifi, so even if phone shows we are connected to wifi we are using allowance !!!

Someone tell me they are talking rubbish ?

We have been using wifi for years and never counts as data allowance , we never turn data off , if in range of wifi it connects to it and overrides he data service.

GT60

doelani wrote: »

Mostly a FIFA game, think it is FIFA 12

Just had a web chat with O2. They said even when connected to wifi in house phone is using data allowance unless we turn data off each time we want to use wifi, so even if phone shows we are connected to wifi we are using allowance !!!

Someone tell me they are talking rubbish ?

We have been using wifi for years and never counts as data allowance , we never turn data off , if in range of wifi it connects to it and overrides he data service.

On our phones we are asked by the phone if wifi is to be the MAIN conection but we still turn OFF the data thing. we have Nokia's and samsung's

doelani

GT60 wrote: »

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On our phones we are asked by the phone if wifi is to be the MAIN conection but we still turn OFF the data thing. we have Nokia's and samsung's

We have sansungs and HTC, have never had to turn off data at home. I think will get him to reset the phone todat in case it asked was wifi main connection and he missed it, but when I was using it last night I showed wifi connection to data.....