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Do you have any idea how much data you are using on your BlackBerry?
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I must admit that I didn't have a clue myself. I am most of the time in the Netherlands, on my flat-fee connection, no roaming.
However, a couple of days ago I installed our Mobile Data Alerter on my BlackBerry 8310. According to the application I had already used about 7 MB at 7 am in the morning when I got out of bed. My first reaction was telling our developer that his application must have some error. 7 MB during the seven hours that I was asleep?! 24 MB in 24 hours, no way!!
The same amount of data was presumably used three days in a row and therefore last night I decided to do some testing and quit all programs on my BlackBerry before going to bed. So I quit Viiigo, Sametime, Google Latitude and UberTwitter and went to bed. This morning I immediately sent my apologies to the developer because with all applications down and just mail, calendar and addressbook synchronisation I used 108 KB during the night. So the application was right after all.....
I then just started UberTwitter and one hour later I had burned an extra MB!! It turned out that I had enabled GPS tracking in UberTwitter. Disabling GPS brought the usage down to normal figures.
So, I am glad I found this while still in the Netherlands and not after my holidays.
My advice: check what you are running before going on holiday (or leave your BlackBerry at home). The Mobile Data Alerter can be a great help!
Bookmark :
I must admit that I didn't have a clue myself. I am most of the time in the Netherlands, on my flat-fee connection, no roaming.
However, a couple of days ago I installed our Mobile Data Alerter on my BlackBerry 8310. According to the application I had already used about 7 MB at 7 am in the morning when I got out of bed. My first reaction was telling our developer that his application must have some error. 7 MB during the seven hours that I was asleep?! 24 MB in 24 hours, no way!!
The same amount of data was presumably used three days in a row and therefore last night I decided to do some testing and quit all programs on my BlackBerry before going to bed. So I quit Viiigo, Sametime, Google Latitude and UberTwitter and went to bed. This morning I immediately sent my apologies to the developer because with all applications down and just mail, calendar and addressbook synchronisation I used 108 KB during the night. So the application was right after all.....
I then just started UberTwitter and one hour later I had burned an extra MB!! It turned out that I had enabled GPS tracking in UberTwitter. Disabling GPS brought the usage down to normal figures.
So, I am glad I found this while still in the Netherlands and not after my holidays.
My advice: check what you are running before going on holiday (or leave your BlackBerry at home). The Mobile Data Alerter can be a great help!