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Might it be your router that's dropping you?
That may be true, but this is happening while we (my wife, myself and the iPhone) are asleep.
131 mb of data while we sleep?
MotionMan
Might it be your router that's dropping you?
does iphone drops wifi if it is in 'sleep mode' to optimize battery? i know that android does. so when you unlock the screen after it has been idle a while, can you see it connecting to wifi?
I've noticed similar activity, but never investigated further as I never come even close to my 2 gig limit.
12/25 12:54 AM phone Internet/MEdia Net Sent 11107KB
12/26 12:49 AM phone Internet/MEdia Net Sent 1677KB
12/28 12:29 AM phone Internet/MEdia Net Sent 46826KB
12/31 12:45 AM phone Internet/MEdia Net Sent 28820KB
01/01 12:06 AM phone Internet/MEdia Net Sent 9120KB
Always around the same time period.
I do have wifi at home but most of the time I keep it off on the phone because I'm a prick and want to use all the AT&T data I can since I pay for it.![]()
12/25 12:54 AM phone Internet/MEdia Net Sent 11107KB
12/26 12:49 AM phone Internet/MEdia Net Sent 1677KB
12/28 12:29 AM phone Internet/MEdia Net Sent 46826KB
12/31 12:45 AM phone Internet/MEdia Net Sent 28820KB
01/01 12:06 AM phone Internet/MEdia Net Sent 9120KB
Always around the same time period.
does iphone drops wifi if it is in 'sleep mode' to optimize battery? i know that android does. so when you unlock the screen after it has been idle a while, can you see it connecting to wifi?
This is a routine update of your daily data activity on your device to ensure the accuracy of your data billing. Customers are not charged for data usage, given that no data session is generated. It’s not uncommon for devices that are ‘always on’, like iPhone, to process data event records for billing purposes after a certain amount of inactivity or after long periods of time. It’s also separate from how our system lets you monitor your data consumption.
back with the 3gs, there was a huge uproar over this
what ended up happening was the 3gs logged all data usage during the day and then sent out the data at night
so everyone thought it was double counting data when in reality it wasn't
http://www.everythingicafe.com/att-explains-late-night-data-usage/2010/07/29/
So, I wonder, why did this NEVER happen before on my wife's iPhone and has NEVER happened on the other three iPhones we have on this account.
I use data a buttload more in a day than my wife does in a week.
MotionMan
don't shoot the messenger.
...Julie G. writes:
I got my Windows Phone 7 the day it came out, and as of yesterday I completed my first full month of service. With this phone I do not stream, I hardly surf the internet, I mostly have the location services turned off. I do have Facebook connected with Windows Live so I do get the updates on the people hub and pictures hub and I do play Bejeweled quite a lot as I am addicted. I do have my Yahoo mail and Outlook mail synced to the phone. Beyond those few things, I do not do much else with the phone.
On December 22nd I received an email from AT&T saying that I was close to my 2GB data limit which truly shocked me as I feel I do not use data that much. I went and looked at my AT&T account online and noticed that my phone was sending huge chunks of data seemingly in patterns. For instance on November 21-24 it sent between 30 and 50 MB of data at 10:41pm each day and Dec 1-4 it sent between 30 and 50 MB of data at 9:41am each day. On December 23rd I turned on airplane mode so my phone could no longer send data. I turned airplane mode off briefly on December 23rd and the phone sent 400 MB of data. I called AT&T yesterday, December 28th, but they said that there was nothing that they can do to figure out what was happening on my phone.
There's more, but you get the idea.
Yes, this is a curiously common problem, and I'm sort of shocked Microsoft hasn't addressed this publicly yet, either to confirm it or to offer a fix. Basically what's happening is that the phone is utilizing the 3G data connection even when Wi-Fi is available. It's not clear what app(s) or part(s) of the OS is causing this, but it's definitely widely-reported.
Coincidentally to this, I've been tracking my own data usage on the Windows Phone Secrets blog. I suspect my monthly data usage gains are tied to this same problem. I also think this might be tied to Marketplace somehow. But I just don't know for sure.
Microsoft? If this is your fault, as I suspect, you're costing people money on this one.
no kidding with unlimited they can put 10gb a night i could case less.
p.s. make sure you disable mobilehunt on installous 4.![]()
I was hoping maybe the OP here would have stumbled onto something that fixed his issue.
if it's women, then chances are they are emailing photos to each other and that's using up all the bandwidth
otherwise its an app like pandora running in the background, lately i've been turning off 3g when i get home
A couple of things that were repeatedly discussed was the fact that the times on the AT&T billings do not always represent the actual time of the usage. Apparently some types of usage are aggregated and billed daily (or at least later than the usage). There were dozens and dozens of posts about middle of the night billings when the phones were not in use.