+acachebox Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 I just got my Verizon bill for Jan. It showed a 5 fold increase in data usage. We were in Fl and were doing Geocaching but that is all. No streaming or other usage. One day showed 2 periods where .3 and .2 GB were used. We were east of Appalachicola maybe in a low coverage area but we have cached in such areas before. My question is what could account for this as while we are home and caching for the same amount of times per day never showed this high usage. Quote Link to comment
+Team DEMP Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 I just got my Verizon bill for Jan. It showed a 5 fold increase in data usage. We were in Fl and were doing Geocaching but that is all. No streaming or other usage. One day showed 2 periods where .3 and .2 GB were used. We were east of Appalachicola maybe in a low coverage area but we have cached in such areas before. My question is what could account for this as while we are home and caching for the same amount of times per day never showed this high usage. Did you track the increased usage to the Geocaching app? You can see, at least since the last time you reset your usage stats, how much each app has used by going into Settings --> Cellular and scrolling down a bit. Each app listed should show the usage since the stats were last reset. Quote Link to comment
+acachebox Posted March 2, 2017 Author Share Posted March 2, 2017 (edited) Did you track the increased usage to the Geocaching app? You can see, at least since the last time you reset your usage stats, how much each app has used by going into Settings --> Cellular and scrolling down a bit. Each app listed should show the usage since the stats were last reset. having never been in the section of my phone let me list waht i found. Call time Current period 4 days 1 hour Life time 4 days 1 hour Cellular data usage Current period 19.5 gb Current period roaming 7.5 gb Under Cellular usage for geocaching classic 752mb If that is a life time usage I find that very low compared to the other app on the phone considering I know I spend far more time geocaching than I do on weather bug. I see voice is enabled in cellular data options but data is not Is there a way to reset these counters and follow usage in the future? Edited March 2, 2017 by acachebox Quote Link to comment
+Team DEMP Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 Scroll to the bottom of that same screen and click Reset Statistics. Quote Link to comment
+TeamRabbitRun Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 On my android version (6.0.1), those stats get reset whenever I FULLY recharge the phone's battery. I find it under Settings...System...Battery. Click on a listed app and you get all sorts of info in its usage, data-wise, processor-time-wise, etc. Quote Link to comment
+TheLoneBaker Posted March 25, 2017 Share Posted March 25, 2017 I just got my Verizon bill for Jan. It showed a 5 fold increase in data usage. We were in Fl and were doing Geocaching but that is all. No streaming or other usage. One day showed 2 periods where .3 and .2 GB were used. We were east of Appalachicola maybe in a low coverage area but we have cached in such areas before. My question is what could account for this as while we are home and caching for the same amount of times per day never showed this high usage. I think the new app may indeed use more data. I'm currently stuck with only 3G or extended coverage and the old app used to be a bit slow sometimes but would load the closest 30 geocaches easily enough. On the new app I can sit there for 5 minutes and still be waiting on the nearby caches to show up. And it's not the data connection at fault because the map itself will load. Quote Link to comment
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