HI all

My motorcycle service manager has a high usage issue, causing a large biill. I have an iPhone so not up to speed on Android, I hope some of you droiders can offer some possible causes.

I dont have any real info yet apart from that he has downloaded a few games. My only thoughts are push email, but I would not have thought that would have used a lot. He's with Telecom, 120Mb Data Extra and got a bill of a few hundred dollars. He did mention something was happening every 8 minutes.

Not seen any other threads of note on this here, although is there a possibility that he thinks wifi is on, but it isnt and that the downloaded games used 3G? Altho games won't be very sizeable will they?

I also read here about syncing, is there any syncing while on 3G that can cause high data usage?


I will ask him to tell me what Mb was used in the month that caused the bill, and what utility apps he may have got, that may give a clue.

------------I do see these on a Google search------------------

"Sounds like the phone is constantly updating e-mail,message , facebook etc...mine did that til i switched off the ' background sync' option...check all the auto-sync settings.
Its a handy feature but you really need an add-on allowance of at least 1gb / month for this feature alone."

And also

"With the "Background data" and "Auto-sync" options disabled, the phone continued wasting my data. I finally isolated the problem to two culprits: the email client, which will use data regardless of whether I allow it to, and the snsService, although I do not have any social networks configured on the phone (I use a web browser for access)."

   

Cheers all