AT&T Mywireless vs "Settings/General/Usage for data usage?

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  1. Derek87, Sep 20, 2010

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    hey all,

    i know the "phantom usage" has been discussed to death, but now i'm left wondering something of sort of the opposite:

    1. so for my current month, my iphone (reset the evening my previous billing period ended for conservative estimation) shows 12.6mb sent and 76.9mb received = 89.5 mb total

    2. mywireless app using AT&T tabulation shows: 59.67 mb of usage...

    i have had very little appreciable usage in the last two days, and i've noticed this growing discrepancy over the past week...

    so...am i being set up for a big delayed usage "hit" by AT&T or does the iphone internal log somehow "overcount" for certain network usage?

    anyone else seen this?

    thanks!
     
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  2. slickmacke, Sep 20, 2010

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    Could the 30 extra mb's have been accumulated while on wifi? If so then your phone would see it, but att will not.
     
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  3. Derek87, Sep 20, 2010

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    maybe? i don't know...i was just wondering if others had seen this sort of trend with their own data usage...
     
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  4. Irish Rose, Sep 20, 2010

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    Those extra MB that you are seeing could be from a previous billing period, from delayed data using. I've had it happen on my account as well, but it usually doesn't amount to much.
     
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  5. Derek87, Sep 20, 2010

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    i'm sorry, perhaps i wasn't clear:

    the usage is higher for my iphone's iOS tracking which suggests that there is a severe delay from the AT&T end of things, else the iphone 4 calculation is off and/or somehow getting some miscounted data from mixed usage with wifi as someone else suggested. (of course, this all assumes that the iphone is tracking and counting things in real time...)
     
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  6. lush242000, Sep 20, 2010

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    Perhaps AT&T is like a bank and only updates once a day?
     
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  7. b-rad g, Sep 20, 2010

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    As long as you go by the usage on the phone you should be good. But yes the AT&T usage should "catch up" to what you have in the phone usage.
     
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  8. Savor, Sep 20, 2010

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    Buy the Data Usage app for 99 cents in the App Store.

    Then use Opera Mini with Edge/3G if you can't get WiFi. Use Safari with WiFi. RSS if you need to.
     
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  9. Carlanga, Sep 20, 2010

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    AT&T Mywireless is delayed (this is normal), it takes around one day (or more sometimes) for them to reflect the data usage. Also if you send MMS I think the iPhone's internal stats (Settings/General/Usage) counts them in also, but AT&T doesn't since it passes as a SMS charge for them in iPhones...
     
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