I've also wondered what the mystery-data-usage is -- often in the middle of
the night, when my phone is at home & on wi-fi & I'm asleep anyway! The
times that my usage is listed (in the online info it's listed by time &
date) is happening when I'm *not even using my phone*, it's not doing
anything but sitting on a table. I have *no* notifications set, *no* pushes,
*no* mail or info fetching.
??

Someday I may have to call & ask them what-gives on this.

Even though I'm not close to using my allowance, I *am* on a limited plan --
so why are they using up some of my bytes??
bj

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From: "RJMcW" <rjmcw@yahoo.com>
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 3:35 PM
To: <apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [apple-iphone] Data usage

> I just upgraded to iPhone 4, and I'm trying to keep an eye on my data
> usage.
> I checked it at 8:17 this morning (using the *3282# text message to AT&T)
> and my total so far this month was 317.7 MB. The phone basically sat
> unused on my desk all day, and when I checked *3282# again at 3:27 this
> afternoon, my total is now 328.8MB. In other words, it used 11 megs, just
> sitting on my desk doing nothing. No phone calls, no internet browsing, no
> GPS fixes. How come?
> I have push notifications turned off, data roaming off. 3G is turned on,
> but I didn't actually use the phone for anything.
>

I wasn't addressing the issue of being more (or less) up-to-date, rather that the app doesn't use text.

Myself, I've opted out of text. The app works better for me.

YMMV.

sj

Sent from my iPhone

On Nov 19, 2010, at 6:20 PM, "Piper" <pcdoc_99@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>
> --- In apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com, Mushi <mushicat36@...> wrote:
>>
>> Why not try the ATT mobile app? Doesn't use text.
>>
>> sj
>>
> The AT&T App is no more up to date than the text message, in fact I suspect it gets it's information from the same place.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>

I thought that texts from AT&T were free. AT&T has told me several times
that the ones to check minutes, balance, etc. do not come out of your
monthly text allotment.

One thing I found when I was getting chunks of unexplained data was I had
some games that use OpenFeint. I had it turned on. When I turned it off,
most of my unexplained data stopped. You might have some games that are
updating or sending stats to the server. OpenFeint is on a lot of games
that I have but now I always click on "off". It is a scoreboard type
feature.

-==-
-=[ Sharon Jean ]=-
-==-

I've also wondered what the mystery-data-usage is -- often in the middle of
> the night, when my phone is at home & on wi-fi & I'm asleep anyway! The
> times that my usage is listed (in the online info it's listed by time &
> date) is happening when I'm *not even using my phone*, it's not doing
> anything but sitting on a table. I have *no* notifications set, *no*
> pushes,
> *no* mail or info fetching.
> ??
>
>
>
> > I checked it at 8:17 this morning (using the *3282# text message to AT&T)
> > and my total so far this month was 317.7 MB. The phone basically sat
> > unused on my desk all day, and when I checked *3282# again at 3:27 this
> > afternoon, my total is now 328.8MB. In other words, it used 11 megs, just
> > sitting on my desk doing nothing. No phone calls, no internet browsing,
> no
> > GPS fixes. How come?
> > I have push notifications turned off, data roaming off. 3G is turned on,
> > but I didn't actually use the phone for anything.
> >
>
>
>
>

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

You're right about the AT&T texts!

I forgot.

sj

Sent from my iPad

On Nov 20, 2010, at 10:34 AM, sharonx9 <sharonx9@gmail.com> wrote:

I thought that texts from AT&T were free. AT&T has told me several times
that the ones to check minutes, balance, etc. do not come out of your
monthly text allotment.

One thing I found when I was getting chunks of unexplained data was I had
some games that use OpenFeint. I had it turned on. When I turned it off,
most of my unexplained data stopped. You might have some games that are
updating or sending stats to the server. OpenFeint is on a lot of games
that I have but now I always click on "off". It is a scoreboard type
feature.

-==-
-=[ Sharon Jean ]=-
-==-

I've also wondered what the mystery-data-usage is -- often in the middle of
the night, when my phone is at home & on wi-fi & I'm asleep anyway! The
times that my usage is listed (in the online info it's listed by time &
date) is happening when I'm *not even using my phone*, it's not doing
anything but sitting on a table. I have *no* notifications set, *no*
pushes,
*no* mail or info fetching.
??

I checked it at 8:17 this morning (using the *3282# text message to AT&T)
and my total so far this month was 317.7 MB. The phone basically sat
unused on my desk all day, and when I checked *3282# again at 3:27 this
afternoon, my total is now 328.8MB. In other words, it used 11 megs, just
sitting on my desk doing nothing. No phone calls, no internet browsing,
no
GPS fixes. How come?
I have push notifications turned off, data roaming off. 3G is turned on,
but I didn't actually use the phone for anything.

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From: "sharonx9" <sharonx9@gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2010 11:34 AM
To: <apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: [apple-iphone] Data usage

> I thought that texts from AT&T were free. AT&T has told me several times
> that the ones to check minutes, balance, etc. do not come out of your
> monthly text allotment.
>

They are free. I don't have a text allotment; I get charged for any texts I
do send or receive, but not for the ones I've gotten from ATT.

> One thing I found when I was getting chunks of unexplained data was I had
> some games that use OpenFeint. I had it turned on. When I turned it off,
> most of my unexplained data stopped. You might have some games that are
> updating or sending stats to the server. OpenFeint is on a lot of games
> that I have but now I always click on "off". It is a scoreboard type
> feature.
>

I turn off any such "features" as soon as I see them in the options, and I
usually go right to options with a new game so I can turn off the noise. :-)

I have used those games very little -- mostly just once or twice when first
d/l to see whether or not I like them.

Even if something like that has escaped me it doesn't explain why it's using
*data plan* rather than the wi-fi everything else uses when I'm home (unless
I'm actually using the phone as a <revolutionary thought> *phone*, when it
uses *phone minutes* not data).
bj

IOW it's the slowest data connection available.

Otto

On 20 November 2010 00:49, Piper <pcdoc_99@yahoo.com> wrote:

> GPRS Basicly it's 1G.......
>

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Forgive me if this was answered already. I probably missed it but when is the iOS update coming?
Thanks.

Before end of month, they haven't given a date yet.

Sent from my iPhone (please excuse incorrect auto-corrected words).

On Nov 20, 2010, at 9:40, "Robin" <donandrobin@me.com> wrote:

> Forgive me if this was answered already. I probably missed it but when is the iOS update coming?
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>