I use very little data on my phone, looking at my provider's billing
it's usually only a few kB at a time with the odd 1Mb lump. However,
while I usually remember to turn the phone off when I cross the
channel on a ferry from UK to France I sometimes forget and then even
1Mb costs a ridiculous amount (not roaming in the middle of the
channel!).
Fortunately I'm on PAYGO and rarely have more than £5 credit so that's
my maximum loss but it's still annoying having to top up at an
inconvenient moment.
I guess I could just turn data off and see if anything stops working.
I use very little data on my phone, looking at my provider's billing
it's usually only a few kB at a time with the odd 1Mb lump.
On stock android you can see how much data is used overall within a
month, and per-app how much data has been used in the last four months.
Frank Slootweg wrote on 15 Mar 2024 16:14:11 GMT :
If your phone does not have those statistics - mine (Samsung Galaxy
A51 Android 13) doesn't have stats in the detail Any mentioned
My Samsung Galaxy on Android 13 has them.
No need for additional apps.
I use very little data on my phone, looking at my provider's billing
it's usually only a few kB at a time with the odd 1Mb lump.
On stock android you can see how much data is used overall within a
month, and per-app how much data has been used in the last four months.
Andy is correct (as usual).
On my Android 13 Samsung Galaxy, it's trivial to see overall data usage by Wi-Fi and by each individual app, each sorted by most data per app first.
Settings > Connections > Data usage > Billing cycle & data warning
Settings > Connections > Data usage > Mobile data usage
Settings > Connections > Data usage > Wi-Fi data usage
When you click on either of those latter two, you get the choice of
months backward to survey, with a list of each type of data used by each
app, in a most to least data sort (at least mine does that by default).
If your phone does not have those statistics - mine (Samsung Galaxy
A51 Android 13) doesn't have stats in the detail Any mentioned
But point taken
Andrew <andrew@spam.net> wrote:
Frank Slootweg wrote on 15 Mar 2024 16:14:11 GMT :
If your phone does not have those statistics - mine (Samsung Galaxy
A51 Android 13) doesn't have stats in the detail Any mentioned
My Samsung Galaxy on Android 13 has them.
No need for additional apps.
But we don't know which phone *Chris* has, do we!? :-)
But indeed, Chris may not *need* such a powerful app, but if he tries
it, I'm sure he'll *like* it.
Andy Burns wrote on Fri, 15 Mar 2024 08:19:34 +0000 :
I use very little data on my phone, looking at my provider's billing
it's usually only a few kB at a time with the odd 1Mb lump.
On stock android you can see how much data is used overall within a
month, and per-app how much data has been used in the last four months.
Andy is correct (as usual).
On my Android 13 Samsung Galaxy, it's trivial to see overall data usage by Wi-Fi and by each individual app, each sorted by most data per app first.
Settings > Connections > Data usage > Billing cycle & data warning
Settings > Connections > Data usage > Mobile data usage
Settings > Connections > Data usage > Wi-Fi data usage
When you click on either of those latter two, you get the choice of
months backward to survey, with a list of each type of data used by each
app, in a most to least data sort (at least mine does that by default).
My android 11 device simply doesn't have 'Connections' in Settings.
can you take a look at these screenshot collages I made for
you just so that you and I can tell if the GUI you have on your Pixel is
kind of sort of similar to the GUI that is native on my Samsung Galaxy?
<https://i.postimg.cc/4y4JCRXY/datausage.jpg>
<https://i.postimg.cc/C5wKFfsL/appdatausage.jpg>
<https://i.postimg.cc/qMM7Sy71/billingcycle.jpg>
Is that pretty much what you see on your Pixel for app data usage?
it depends on how you interpret Andy's "the last four
months". I agree, you can interpret our (your and mine) stats as being
equal to what Andy described.
Frank Slootweg wrote:
it depends on how you interpret Andy's "the last four
months". I agree, you can interpret our (your and mine) stats as being equal to what Andy described.
Amount of data, per app, per month for the last 4 months (not a total
for the last 4 months)
<https://i.postimg.cc/4y4JCRXY/datausage.jpg>
<https://i.postimg.cc/C5wKFfsL/appdatausage.jpg>
<https://i.postimg.cc/qMM7Sy71/billingcycle.jpg>
Is that pretty much what you see on your Pixel for app data usage?
Yes, all of those look very close to what the Pixels can show, seems manufacturers are tinkering less with the firmware they provide ...
That's what I meant, different ways to interpret what you
wrote.
I use very little data on my phone, looking at my provider's billing
it's usually only a few kB at a time with the odd 1Mb lump. However,
while I usually remember to turn the phone off when I cross the
channel on a ferry from UK to France I sometimes forget and then even
1Mb costs a ridiculous amount (not roaming in the middle of the
channel!).
Fortunately I'm on PAYGO and rarely have more than £5 credit so that's
my maximum loss but it's still annoying having to top up at an
inconvenient moment.
I guess I could just turn data off and see if anything stops working.
Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> wrote:
I use very little data on my phone, looking at my provider's billing
it's usually only a few kB at a time with the odd 1Mb lump. However,
while I usually remember to turn the phone off when I cross the
channel on a ferry from UK to France I sometimes forget and then even
1Mb costs a ridiculous amount (not roaming in the middle of the
channel!).
Fortunately I'm on PAYGO and rarely have more than £5 credit so that's
my maximum loss but it's still annoying having to top up at an
inconvenient moment.
I guess I could just turn data off and see if anything stops working.
In this thread, the responses have been mainly concentrating on what
you asked, "Can oe tell what apps have used data?" ("oe" is "phone"?).
But re-reading your post, I realize that your actual *problem*, not question, is unvoluntarily spending money on roaming data.
If that's indeed the problem, why don't you just switch off data
roaming? Any half decent phone should be able to do that.
If that's indeed the problem, why don't you just switch off dataBut I need roaming data sometimes, so I'd have to remember to turn it
roaming? Any half decent phone should be able to do that.
on and off. However having roaming data turned off by default does
seem to be the best place to start from at least.
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