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Phantom iPhone data usage update - Speedy - 10-24-2012
My original thread:
http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1,1362985
An update:
My daughter's iPhone 4 (iOS5) has used 51.07 MB of data since our monthly billing period started on 9/29. Unfortunately for her, I confiscated her iPhone on 9/24 (five days before the beginning of the billing cycle) for one month as punishment for a very major infraction. I shut off the phone on 9/24 and hid it where she could not get it (deep in one of my tool boxes, no way she found it). Last night I took it out and plugged it in to recharge so it would be ready for her today, it turned on upon connection of the USB cable and I almost immediately turned it off. It doesn't sync to that computer so it just charged. I just now gave it back to her and then decided to go to AT&T's billing center via my iPhone app. So, no use save for a couple of standard text messages or so that were received when I plugged it in last night just before I turned it off yet 51.07 MB of data usage while it was (mostly) off!
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This is the results of my usage of my iPhone 4 from last month 8/29 - 9/28 (completely unrelated to my daughter's usage) from three 'sources':
from my AT&T statement: 152 MB
from DataMan app: 103.9 MB cell, 947.2 MB WiFi
from Onavo Extend app: 178.23 MB cell (doesn't do WiFi)
I reset both Onavo and DataMan at the same time but on 9/29, not 9/28 when AT&T ended its billing period.
Onavo reports individual app usage (DataMan doesn't) in MBs:
GasBuddy: 0.23
Apple iPhone Maps: 0.343
AIM: 0.114
Web: 1.451
iTunes/AppStore: 1.121
SyncedDefaults: 0.883
RunKeeper: 0.551
iOS: 109.63
App download: 53.75
OTACrashCopier: 0.202
ubd: 0.280
MobileMe: 3.28
Apple GPS: 4.72
Other: 0.141
Total: 176.696
I don't know exactly what 'App download' is because I don't download apps via cell data. I certainly don't know what 'iOS' downloaded. I have read that if you plug in your phone overnight it won't use the cell signal for phantom data so that is what I do. So, I have used about a dozen MBs on my own volition. Sucks.
(I don't have Onavo on my daughter's phone so I don't know what type/app/data was used.)
Edit: I forgot, I replaced her battery during that period. I left it off but did charge the new battery to make sure it would charge, it was off while charging. The phone may have received a couple of texts then. Checking her usage with AT&T, it shows seven total texts, seven minutes of calls (I would say the call minutes were about what she used this morning.)
Re: Phantom iPhone data usage update - decay - 10-24-2012
did it update to iOS 5.1.1 by any chance?
Re: Phantom iPhone data usage update - Speedy - 10-25-2012
It had updated prior to this past month to the latest version of iOS5.
By the way, Onavo is a much more informative/useful app than DataMan - in my opinion.
Re: Phantom iPhone data usage update - graylocks - 10-25-2012
Speedy wrote:
It had updated prior to this past month to the latest version of iOS5.
By the way, Onavo is a much more informative/useful app than DataMan - in my opinion.
if you got it in the last few months then you have DataMan Lite. the Pro version was pulled by Apple. I have it and it is much more useful to me than Onavo. the usage was pretty much dead on with mt AT&T billing and I can tell daily what apps are using what. don't know why the Pro version got jailed.
Re: Phantom iPhone data usage update - Speedy - 10-25-2012
Yes, it seems I don't have the pro version. I did get it a few months ago, paid the $.99 and thought I got the pro version. But you prompted me to do a bit of research and I see that the pro version offers much, much more than my version. Too bad it got pulled because from my research it appears to be a more powerful and comprehensive tool than Onavo. But I wouldn't recommend the currently available DataMan version 3.5 over Onavo.
graylocks wrote:
[quote=Speedy]
It had updated prior to this past month to the latest version of iOS5.
By the way, Onavo is a much more informative/useful app than DataMan - in my opinion.
if you got it in the last few months then you have DataMan Lite. the Pro version was pulled by Apple. I have it and it is much more useful to me than Onavo. the usage was pretty much dead on with mt AT&T billing and I can tell daily what apps are using what. don't know why the Pro version got jailed.