Dataman is free & gives cell & wifi. It can send an alert when you use too much. It auto resets on a bill date you provide.
David
On Feb 19, 2012, at 4:42 PM, "N.A. Nada" <whodo678@comcast.net> wrote:
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> On Feb 18, 2012, at 1:20 PM, whiterabbit32@gmail.com wrote:
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> > So people weren't monitoring their data/minutes usage themselves? It's nice to have the cell provider monitor the usage for that but I also monitor it. Always have.
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> Alice, what do you use to monitor it?
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> I have not found an easy way to track data usage from the iPhone. I use PhoneView to keep a call log on the iPhone, but it does not give any data usage information.
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> If I go to Settings > General > Usage > Cellular Usage, I am told that I have used:
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> Call Time, current period 6 days, 1 hour, & lifetime 6 days, 1 hour
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> Cellular Network Data, sent 455MB, received 3.5 GB
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> Last Reset: Never
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> I know that is wrong. It is a 3GS that I bought July 2009. I know I have had many months that I have used 1-2 GB of data. I have done only one Restore of the Phone, after I installed iOS 5.0.1 in October 2011, because of a syncing problems. That might explain the 3.5 GB of data, but I hardly use the phone mode, so 6 days is more like the total usage from July 2009 on. From October 2011, it should be less than 400 minutes or 6 hours 40 minutes, NOT 6 days. I have averaged just over 100 minutes/ month for the last 10 years, and recently under 100 minutes/ month.
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> I'm with AT&T and never use all my calling minutes so I don't know if they give a warning text for calling minutes, but how would they give a warning for data usage if the target is moving for "unlimited" data.
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> Right now, I monitor my usage from my phone bill. And of all the utilities I have paid, the phone companies are the only ones that are consistently in error. The telco's are the only ones I have caught charging me, family and friends for calls we did not make, and I am talking going back pre- Ma Bell break up. So why should we trust them on data usage?
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> The last time, I had to threaten Verizon that I would press fraud charges with the FCC if they did not credit back 900 pay as you go minutes. I had bought a phone and calling minutes for a friend I hired as an employee. They were adding calls to his account for calls made from the East Coast, 20 minutes after he made a call on the West Coast, to me. That is an awfully fast flight cross country. I should have filed the charges anyway.
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> The electric company, occasionally used to guestimate a bill, when they could not make a reading, but it would be corrected when they read the meter the next month.
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> I wish there was an app that would track the cellular data usage and the WiFi data usage separately.
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> But the thread is about declaring war on unlimited data users, and 2GB is definitely not the largest users, if they include the tiered users in to the total. AT&T is playing games to get the "unlimited" users to give up the plan that AT&T grandfathered.
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> Brent
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