Maximising your Android device. - Airtime/Data Usage Control Have you ever had that feeling of regretting why you bought an android device? Times when your like : Oh the battery drains quickly! Oh the phones too slow or hangs! Oh its using up my airtime/ data @ d rate of #500 or 50mb per minute! All that would be past tense soon. Im about to give u ur pride back and make you realize what you bought aint no toy but a maximizable mobile hi-tech transformer in disguise. So lets take em one by one. PART 1 : AIRTIME / DATA USAGE CONTROL People get too scared of the android data consumption rate. But Hey! Your d one using ur cash up. So what we need is info n control. LECTURES There are 2 ways a mobile phone uses data/airtime. 1 Foreground data usage . 2 Background data usage Foreground data is simple, U open your opera browser and your phone connects n charges u for ur browsing. As you close d opera, d connection stops(if ur not downloading). Simply put FOREGROUND DATA IS DATA AN APP CONSUMES WHILE YOUR ACTIVELY USING IT. Background data is a tricky ghost rider or a night crawler or u can term it whatever it deserves. Your on ur homepage & ur finger touches the data on button and immediately Whatsapp retrieves 56 msgs, BBM 85 msgs, FB 38 msgs, 2go 99 msgs.(Stats for girls). For guys Whatsapp 10, BBM 6, FB 1, 2go 15 msgs. Ok your happy your droid is doing the pizza delivery job for you. But its taking its pay immediately and as the size & quality of d data delivered is, na so your money go dey commot sharp sharp FACTS TO NOTE 1- You cant browse or chat with mobile data off(Obviously). 2- Once your mobile data is put on, each app tries to connect to the internet (background data) to do their hidden business. 3- Most of these apps use up large amount of data without your knowledge. Few use little data (Stock/Follow come apps). 4- You really dont want 90% of these apps connecting behind you to do so. 5- Most apps u dont need connecting take up most data/airtime. 6- You can see the data usage of each app @ SETTINGS-DATA USAGE-(Scroll down). PRACTICALS There are 3 ways of controlling data 1.-BY DISABLING MOBILE DATA Goto Settings-Data Usage-Mobile data. This is d most popular method iv seen. Turn on d data, Do ur stuff, Turn data off.(Then check your balance and wail). Disadvantages are obvious. Chats wouldnt be as fluent as u want. Within 10 secs of data on ur android wound drink as much data/airtime as it wants. 2.- BY RESTRICTING ALL BACKGROUND DATA This mode stops all hidden data connection. So whatever app is active on ur screen has data connecting rights. This option would be most likely on androidversion4. Goto Settings-Data usage-Menu/option button-Restrict Background data- ok (u should see a red caution sign top of ur screen saying Background data restricted). This is good for browsing but not chatting. So now your android connects in a pay as u click mode. Now u can turn on ur mobile data without fear but no retrieval of msgs from BBM, WHATSAPP, FB etc till u open each app respectively. Each app u open now retrieves all its msgs & refreshes itself. If u exit d app or just jump out. It stops connecting. So assuming you want to open google to search sth. No fear of having BBM 50 MSGS, WHATSAPP 35MSGS once ur data is turned on. Just open ur browser, google ur stuff & come out like a boss(no hidden charges). When ur ready for BBM open d app retrieve msgs, reply do other stuff n bounce out like a boss. (Someone us smiling, I C U). 3.- RESTRICTING INDUVIDUAL APPS BACKGROUND DATA This is d best method of data control though it takes some effort to put in place. Simply put instead of restricting all background apps you can restrict only the apps u dont want connecting automatically( weather, google play, etc) and allow d once u use (opera, uc, bbm, whatsapp etc). Androidv4 goto Settings-Data usage-scroll down You should see a graph and all list of apps each with a data bar n size of consumed data. For each app you dont want connecting to net behind u. Click d app youll see another graph and a pie chart showing the apps consumed foreground and background data. Near d chart is a checkbox showing RESTRICT BACKGROUND DATA. Click dat box. Note: You must first remove restriction on all apps before doing individual restrictions. Repeat d procedure for other apps you dont want eating ur data from behind. Then congratulations. Your free from data prison in Android state. So after individual restriction. Even when your mobile data is on,automatic connection is only for those apps u didnt restrict eg Whatsapp, Opera, BBM, Nairaland etc. Now u can use 10 mb comfortably each day unless ur a phone freak. Final tips. U may need to download a data monitoring app. Because u may need to know apps dat use up data subscription or per day and d amount they use up. Eg of such are Net Qin Mobile Security, data monitor. Also for d UmuABA remember to reduce ur browsers picture quality. And for d Mbaise guys, you can off d pictures completely to save consumed data. Finally note dat Foreground data cant be blocked, so even if youve restricted d background data of an app/game. If u play such games with ur data on, d app is at liberty to milk you so long as ur actively playing it.
Posted on: Sat, 04 Oct 2014 22:17:30 +0000
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