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Silently in the night.

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Roland Perry

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Dec 9, 2012, 6:29:07 AM12/9/12
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I went on a trip to London yesterday and took my Android phone,
activated the data (it's normally wifi only) on and spent my £1 on
T-Mobile PAYG, for 13MB of data (mainly looking at maps and trains
times).

When I got home I forgot to switch off the data, and although in "sleep"
mode overnight it's gradually sucked another 4MB of data (in bursts 15
minutes apart) and cost me a second £1. Grr.
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Roland Perry

Bob Martin

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Dec 10, 2012, 3:56:53 AM12/10/12
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Leave WiFi on - it will over-ride mobile data when available.

Andy Burns

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Dec 10, 2012, 4:34:22 AM12/10/12
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Bob Martin wrote:

> Roland Perry <rol...@perry.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> I went on a trip to London yesterday and took my Android phone,
>> activated the data (it's normally wifi only)
>> When I got home I forgot to switch off the data, and although in "sleep"
>> mode overnight it's gradually sucked another 4MB of data
>
> Leave WiFi on - it will over-ride mobile data when available.

But WiFi will suck up battery power as it optimistically attempts to
connect to every Tom, Dick and Harriet's SSID it gets a sniff of.

fred

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Dec 10, 2012, 5:20:57 AM12/10/12
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In article <h26RvfgD...@perry.co.uk>, Roland Perry
<rol...@perry.co.uk> writes
So, to sum up:

Silently in the night . . . . .

. . . . . . they made a holey (in your balance) in the nght?

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fred
it's a ba-na-na . . . .

Chris Blunt

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Dec 10, 2012, 5:25:11 AM12/10/12
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What phone is that? My Galaxy S3 only connects to Wi-Fi networks I
have told it to use.

Chris

Andy Burns

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Dec 10, 2012, 5:30:20 AM12/10/12
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Chris Blunt wrote:

> Andy Burns <usenet....@adslpipe.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> WiFi will suck up battery power as it optimistically attempts to
>> connect to every Tom, Dick and Harriet's SSID it gets a sniff of.
>
> What phone is that? My Galaxy S3 only connects to Wi-Fi networks I
> have told it to use.

Nexus One, yes Android let you turn off the automatic connection to
"open" access points and I do, but whenever it sees "protected" networks
it hasn't got credentials for, it seems to keep looking at them over and
over again, just in case it can connect now ...


Theo Markettos

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Dec 10, 2012, 3:28:23 PM12/10/12
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Roland Perry <rol...@perry.co.uk> wrote:
> When I got home I forgot to switch off the data, and although in "sleep"
> mode overnight it's gradually sucked another 4MB of data (in bursts 15
> minutes apart) and cost me a second £1. Grr.

Android does that. They haven't got their head around the idea that some
people still pay for bandwidth per KB, and that phoning home to Google costs
us money. I miss the Nokia way where apps would asking before opening a
data connection. Android 4.1 is better - at least you can stop individual
apps using 3G. For the rest of us a firewall will do it (eg DroidWall), but
requires root.

Theo
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