I have a dumbline I used to upgrade my iPhone 5, sold my old phone so the total cost of keeping my unlimited is $457 total cost(including the $10 a month for my dumb line) for my 64GB iPhone 5!
Well worth it to keep unlimited!
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Crazy iPhone 5 Data Usage!
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I have a dumbline I used to upgrade my iPhone 5, sold my old phone so the total cost of keeping my unlimited is $457 total cost(including the $10 a month for my dumb line) for my 64GB iPhone 5!
Well worth it to keep unlimited!
Data (MB): 21.83 of 3,072
Data (MB): 212.1 of 3,072 (Deactivated)
Here is what AT&t is telling me. You guys got me confused: what are my looking at right now (I only have 3gB of data per month...)
Data (MB): 212.1 of 3,072 (Deactivated)
Here is what AT&t is telling me. You guys got me confused: what are my looking at right now (I only have 3gB of data per month...)
even when on Wifi, the iOS keeps push connections live using the data network. Apparently Apple believes this is better when wifi, so when you get out of wifi coverage, the iphone never actually loses the connection with the push server.
Yes, but what you fail to realize is that your comments are entirely irrelevant to this thread/topic. Pipe down.
I thought Apple added a feature that, when the wifi was taking too long would use cellular data instead.
lol exactly.
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Don't be mad at him for it. You guys KNEW that the data speeds would be faster, thus concluding that little 2gb cap limit wont help you in the long run.
But if your wifi is slow, 3g/4g kicks in for it.
I'm on VZW's unlimited plan...it doesn't affect me either way. It would be nice, however, if people like us (unlimited users) stopped cluttering threads up with useless "sucks for you" comments.
Settings -> General -> About -> Diagnostic and Usage at the bottom. Make sure that's set to Don't Send. Otherwise it will upload a few megs of stuff to Apple every night. A co-worker had this enabled and roamed out of the country and came back to a lovely data roaming bill.
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Guys if you are using iTunes match and you set it to download stuff when you are on WIFI, even if you have it set not to download over cellular it will do it anyway when you leave the wifi connection. I used up half my data for the month in the 15 mins it takes me to walk from my house to the train station and the 10 minutes it takes me to get to my desk from the train station combined. I shut off cellular data altogether until I get back hom on WIFI. Hopefull it will finish downloading all my music and stop eating my lte data.
I am pretty sure my reply was perfectly relevant to the replies I quoted, thanks for looking though.
I've noticed that too. I think there's a bug with the counter. I noticed the amount the phone reports and then I check my Verizon account--it shows a lower value. I have unlimited data so it doesn't really matter to me
It's probably counting wifi and cellular.
Guys, there have already been threads on this.
It's a bug, I confirmed by turning on wifi and watching a few youtube videos, my counter climbed by a few MB. I have called Apple and let them know, and they said I was the first call about it.
You all need to call them because the more input they have, the quicker they will prioritize a fix. Always call to report bugs, it helps them and us.
Mine even started showing "tethered data usage" and I don't have a mobile hotspot activated, plus wifi and bluetooth were both off. I called Verizon and they had no activity, yet the phone started counting all data as tethered. When I hung up from Apple, the tethered data had magically reset to zero....then went away after restarting the phone.
Don't trust the usage meter, it's a bug in iOS6.
And above all...call Apple, all of you!!!
It's a bug, I confirmed by turning on wifi and watching a few youtube videos, my counter climbed by a few MB. I have called Apple and let them know, and they said I was the first call about it.
You all need to call them because the more input they have, the quicker they will prioritize a fix. Always call to report bugs, it helps them and us.
Mine even started showing "tethered data usage" and I don't have a mobile hotspot activated, plus wifi and bluetooth were both off. I called Verizon and they had no activity, yet the phone started counting all data as tethered. When I hung up from Apple, the tethered data had magically reset to zero....then went away after restarting the phone.
Don't trust the usage meter, it's a bug in iOS6.
And above all...call Apple, all of you!!!
its not a bug. If your phone has low wifi connection.. it gauges the 3g/4g network [whichever you're in and is strongest] and uses it. Obviously this isnt the case if you're downloading 50mb apps or something
I said $22.50, and your actual cost is $22.85/month.
Like I said, if you're happy with a 76% price increase to keep unlimited, more power to you.
Keep unlimited data and never stress...
Or...
Threads concerned about how a network with double the speed doubles your data usage?
Technically my bill is only $9.99 for the other phone after I took the data off that line, bringing my bill to: $129.99.
My bill before.. $89 unlimited talk & text. $30 data.
I have LTE turned off, and I doubt my 3g is stronger than wifi. I also know this because my phone was showing the data usage, but Verizon was not. The 220+mb of data my phone said I used was actually only 39mb when checking with Verizon.
And that doesn't count the times where "tethering data usage" shows up and starts counting ALL of my data usage as tethered....pretty hard to do with no hotspot activated.
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Speak of the devil, the "tethered data usage" just showed up again under the cellular usage counters. It's counting all data and cellular data is staying at zero.
Pretty hard to do with:
1. no hotspot activated
2. wifi off
3. bluetooth off
Yet it keeps counting as I do things....amazing eh?
definitely... considering I use 25-30 gb per month
average 13gb over here.
Very odd..
but on the iPhone 5.. it says
Sent "36 MB"
Received "208 MB"
Oh yeah.. I just happened to got kicked off WiFi too. Didnt even notice till now.. it was 198 MB, went to 208 MB in just a few minutes.
Odd. Think I'm going to go get a replacement or something because i'm having WiFi issues (turning off by itself or something).
EDIT - Now it's saying unable to join my WiFi router connection at home. WTF.
but on the iPhone 5.. it says
Sent "36 MB"
Received "208 MB"
Oh yeah.. I just happened to got kicked off WiFi too. Didnt even notice till now.. it was 198 MB, went to 208 MB in just a few minutes.
Odd. Think I'm going to go get a replacement or something because i'm having WiFi issues (turning off by itself or something).
EDIT - Now it's saying unable to join my WiFi router connection at home. WTF.