Windows Phone 8 excessive data usage for People?

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#133555 26-Oct-2013 13:44

I do have a few accounts on my Windows Phone: two Office 365 accounts, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Windows account obviously. I do not use the People Hub for communicating with Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn folks, using instead the specific apps for each service.

Even so, still used almost 500MB of data in just over 15 days:

It seems even if you don't use the people Hub it still chews data in the background. A bit of an urgent update needed seeing most people would have this on mobile data.

I really hope Microsoft releases an update that doesn't have to wait for telcos' approval.

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#922038 26-Oct-2013 14:06

Mines only used 15mb in 30days (mobile data) and i use it as my primary FB browsing app

holy crap ive used 1.5gb in IE on wifi in the same time frame!

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#922058 26-Oct-2013 14:35

Interesting. I also use mine as my main FB\twitter app. Granted I don't use it all that much, or have that many contacts who are very active on either, but it's only used 4MB for the last 28 days. I do have my data sense data limit set very low though... I've used 4GB on all apps on wifi though ;-)

EDIT: Ah ok, clicked through on the link and it seems it's an issue with twitter picture downloads - I only follow a few people on twitter.

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#922061 26-Oct-2013 14:39

I only use the people hub integration for both Facebook and twitter on my phone. Used 24 MB on 3G and 17MB on WiFi. Still have 19 days remaining. Have GDR3 on the phone.

Do whatever you want to do man.

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#923646 29-Oct-2013 16:21

Wish Data Sense was available on Vodafone NZ.

/poke JohnR

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#923690 29-Oct-2013 17:35

Data Sense is available independently of telco now. I am on Vodafone for example...

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#926805 4-Nov-2013 06:18

Hi - I was going to start a new topic but maybe this is related...?

I have Telecom's 500Mb/month plan and currently my 920's "system" chews through about 35% of this...?!?

I've still got two days to run till the end of my billing cycle's month but I'm currently sitting at:

85Mb used via mobile; and
95Mb wifi

under the grand heading of "system".

I've done what every self-respecting person does when they need info: Googled. But that didn't result in enlightenment.

Any ideas...?

How's everyone else's breakdown on "system" usage for data consumption...?

I'm not running anything in the background that can't be turned off (and is turned off) that could be chewing through this.

TIA!

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#926829 4-Nov-2013 08:38

Ragnor: Wish Data Sense was available on Vodafone NZ.

/poke JohnR

its in Phone Update 2 / GDR2. Which Windows Phone 8 hardware do you have?

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#926831 4-Nov-2013 08:44

freitasm: Data Sense is available independently of telco now. I am on Vodafone for example...

some Data Sense features do require back end telco support, obviously those features like viewing your data usage as the carrier sees it, and a few others don't work as none of the NZ networks have implemented it

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#926832 4-Nov-2013 08:46

Yes... But the essential bits of monitoring is there, which is a good step.

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#926834 4-Nov-2013 08:49

For sure, great to have and see what's going on in the phone, just pointing out there's more to Data Sense than just the UI. You should see when you install GDR2 Data Sense will show you what was happening prior too.

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#927100 4-Nov-2013 16:36

nathan:
Ragnor: Wish Data Sense was available on Vodafone NZ.

/poke JohnR

its in Phone Update 2 / GDR2. Which Windows Phone 8 hardware do you have?

HTC 8X (Model # PM23200) OS version 8.0.10327.77.

Should be getting GDR3 soon I imagine, see if that makes it available. Otherwise I could always do the developer unlock thing.

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#927109 4-Nov-2013 16:49

freitasm: Data Sense is available independently of telco now. I am on Vodafone for example...

Interesting, thought it was still a carrier limitation, must be not enabled for my particular HTC 8X model yet.

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#927111 4-Nov-2013 16:56

Ragnor:
freitasm: Data Sense is available independently of telco now. I am on Vodafone for example...

Interesting, thought it was still a carrier limitation, must be not enabled for my particular HTC 8X model yet.

HTC decided to skip GDR2, so you'll go straight to GDR3

as you've seen you don't have Data Sense in your current WP8 ROM

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#929084 7-Nov-2013 20:38

apparently HTC have disabled DataSense in HTC 8X GDR3 in ANZ

here is how to get it back
http://www.auswinphone.com/?p=11991

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#929127 7-Nov-2013 21:44

Saw the trackback , and popped over to have a look. AT this point I haven't been able to do this with GDR2 phone that I have as well.

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