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Questions on monitoring and limiting data usage

I will be leaving my Verizon Unlimited Data Plan to go to AT&T plan since verizon doesn’t have service where I am moving.
I am not used to watching my data usage. Now I will have to when I move to ATT.
What’s the best way so when I am connected to WIFI on the Note 2 so it uses WIFI and nothing else? Do I turn off mobile data when on wifi? I have the Onavo app which I will restrict apps like YouTube and Pandora to wifi only so I don’t accidently get in trouble there. I want to make sure I don’t overlook anything and go over my data.

Android is pretty smart... if you are connected to wifi, mobile data simply won't be used. (One exception is MMS - which must transport over the carrier data network - but usually doesn't count against data allotments.)
In addition, new versions of android (such as jelly bean that the note2 has) allow you to set up limits for data usage. If you go into Settings, the 3rd item in the list is "Data usage." That option allows you to see what is using mobile data, allows you to set up your billing cycle (so you can monitor how much you've used for the current cycle), lets you configure a "warning" level (so if you reach that level of mobile data usage, the phone generates a warning message) and a hard limit (if you reach the hard limit, the phone prevents any more mobile data usage.)
As an example, I have a 3GB plan with a billing cycle that starts on the 15th. I configure the data usage stuff with a billing cycle that starts on the 15th, turn on the "set mobile data limit" and configure the red value (limit) to be 3072MB (same as 3GB) and the yellow (warning) to 2560MB (2.5GB)

I know about the data usage settings. Never dove into it though. I'll have to play around and see what works for me.

There's an App called My Data Manager that does what you want & it has more options than the built in data usuage of JB.

RMXO said:
There's an App called My Data Manager that does what you want & it has more options than the built in data usuage of JB.
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Thats true - I used to use it quite often and for quite a long time but the amount of memory space it took up on my Xperia Neo was just too much for what it was worth and so I had to remove it - these days its probably not too much of a problem but app size is still worth considering.
The reason I'm searching here is to try and figure out how to set the limits for Data in Jelly Bean - while searching I worked it out anyway so I'll put the answer here......
1) Open "Tools"
2) Select "Data usage" (in the WIRELESS & NETWORKS section) normally at the top of the menu
3) Turn on "Mobile data" by sliding the button to the right - then a popup will ask if you want to accept the charges etc - click Yes
4) Once you've done this a "Set mobile data limit" selection should appear - tick the empty tick box
5) then next to Data usage cycle - select the drop down and select "Change cycle..." - if this is not there hit the back button to exit then select "Data usage again in quick succession
6) Select the start day of your data cycle and then select "Set"
7) Now the Graph should show 2 colored bars - the red one being the max limit you can set by sliding it up and down and the yellow/orange one is the warning indicator you can also set by sliding it up and down.
In theory the warning should somehow let you know if you've reached your warning limit - (I've not reached the limit yet to see it) and when the upper limit is reached it should disable your data - but again I've not had this happen.
Once your done you can either select the back button to exit or you can slide the Mobile data switch back to the left.

[Q] Data roaming not staying on?

I had the luck of being on a special assignment for work earlier today where there was little to no signal. What bothered me was whenever the phone would switch to roaming, a notification would appear in the status bar saying I have lost data connectivity due to me roaming and not having data roaming enabled. So, I double checked everything, all roaming options are checked (domestic & international), then I went to Settings -> Wireless & Networks -> Data Usage -> Menu and Checked "Data Roaming". When I did that, the notification would disappear and the 3G icon would pop up for a second then disappear again, then the notification would come right back. I double checked, and sure enough, the Data Roaming box was unchecked again. And again. And again. Any ideas?
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Data usage

My data usage has been rising. the day my data renewed, it instantly went up to 10 mb of data used in an hour.

If you go to Settings > Data Usage, you can see which applications use data on your phone. As the notice says, what is shown on the phone is the data measured by your phone, and your mobile provider may account for data usage differently. Still, it may help you pin point which apps consume most of your data. You then may want to delete the apps in question if you don't use them a lot, find replacement apps, or limit data usage for these apps to WiFi only -- to access this capability, an additionnal app will be needed; try searching the Play Store for this kind of tool.

I had the same issue but found the my wifi setting was to turn off in sleep mode, you can adjust this in your settings, it helped to change it to never turn off. Also, in the hidden wifi menu, make sure your wifi is set to on, you can access this by going to your keypad in the phone and typing *#0011#. Staying in wifi as much as possible is great, also, use your data toggle.

Alexandre-P said:
If you go to Settings > Data Usage, you can see which applications use data on your phone. As the notice says, what is shown on the phone is the data measured by your phone, and your mobile provider may account for data usage differently. Still, it may help you pin point which apps consume most of your data. You then may want to delete the apps in question if you don't use them a lot, find replacement apps, or limit data usage for these apps to WiFi only -- to access this capability, an additionnal app will be needed; try searching the Play Store for this kind of tool.
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While looking at the list of apps using the data, you can tap on the ones you don't want running data in background. A detail menu comes up, at the bottom there is a check box to disable background processes on mobile network.
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Issues with restricting background app data (option isn't there?)

Im running OxygenOS 3.2.7 and when i go to Settings > Data Usage > Twitter ( under cellular data in this case), there is no option to restrict background data as there is supposed to be in stock Android, is this a feature they took out or something? Also when I'm on the Data Usage page, and go to Network restrictions in the top right menu, it only shows a list of metered WiFi networks.

I can't really remember as its been sometime since I switched to N but there were options to disable background cellular data in OOS 3.2.6 under the same settings.
Also the cellular networks settings have moved to the main settings page under "More" settings of Wireless and Settings.

interframe said:
Im running OxygenOS 3.2.7 and when i go to Settings > Data Usage > Twitter ( under cellular data in this case), there is no option to restrict background data as there is supposed to be in stock Android, is this a feature they took out or something? Also when I'm on the Data Usage page, and go to Network restrictions in the top right menu, it only shows a list of metered WiFi networks.
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This option is under SETTINGS>DATA USAGE. If you click an app there, you get the option to block background data.
Edit: I am also on OOS 3.2.7 and I get this option both on mobile data and wifi.

Galaxy S9 Data Icon persistent

There will be many times when my data icon will be persistent even on wifi.
I'm pretty sure it's not actually downloading anything because I don't see the download and upload arrows lighting up.
At times, the issue will go away, but in others it reappears. I've made sure to disable "Keep Mobile data turned on" in the developer options.
Has anyone else been experiencing this? I'm on T-Mobile.

Settings > WiFi > 3 dots top right menu > advanced > switch to mobile data (Turn off)

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Settings > WiFi > 3 dots top right menu > advanced > switch to mobile data (Turn off)
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Thank you. I forgot to mention that when I usually leave data and wifi on, wifi automatically overrides it. I still leave my data on because of this fact. Right now, it seems to be working (as in the phone is only showing wifi with both data and wifi enabled).

darklime said:
Thank you. I forgot to mention that when I usually leave data and wifi on, wifi automatically overrides it. I still leave my data on because of this fact. Right now, it seems to be working (as in the phone is only showing wifi with both data and wifi enabled).
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WiFi will override it as long as you do not have that setting enabled, if you do the phone will switch between data and wifi randomly when it thinks data will give a better connection
You do not need that setting enabled to leave data on, I do not have it enabled and my phone will switch to data once I leave wifi, that setting just gives the phone a dumb brain that barely works and forces it to switch back and forth regardless, it has never worked properly since the S5 series
You can safely disable that setting and still have data come back on automatically once you leave wifi