Mysterious Data Usage in Middle of Night

liquidzoo wrote:

{quote:title=Jeff Bessling wrote:} And yes now that I am back I have barely used any data.{quote}

This is the part that REALLY concerns me, and I'm sure many other people.

Something is going on, and AT&T really needs to figure out what it is.

I have a thought! I had a 100+MB overnight data usage 'event' in the first week on a 3gs/AT&T on a 200MB plan. I've read all the forums about turning everything off. So why bother having a smartphone then? Apple has simply missed the mark. Their products are incompatible with infrequent internet phone users. You buy a low data plan thinking that you don't access the net or use email etc. on the phone outside your Wi-Fi only to find you get sucked dry in sleep mode.

We'll AT&T said we could return the 3gs within a month if it didn't work. Well guess what? This 3gs POS is going back to AT&T tomorrow...

i'm almost positive there has to be something turned on in your phone. i have the att 200mb plan and use my phone regularly and have never gone over 200mb. i even went on a 10 day roadtrip recently and used it way more than usual and didn't go over. i will say i don't stream video or audio unless on wifi, and i don't have email on my phone but other than that i'm a regular user. my wife has email on hers and she still only went over 200mb once. why don't you do a thorough check of your settings before returning the phone.

My daughter is having the same issue right now. Did you find out what's going on? When I called ATT they said her phone's been hacked and told us to be careful using public Wifi. I'm sure lots people uses public Wifi these days since it's free and convenient when you are away from home. ATT agreed to refund us extra data charges but these activties are still happening even though she truned off Wifi....

Your iphone is sending diagnostic data to Apple. Go to Settings--->General--->About, scroll down to Diagnostics and Useage, click on it. Then click Don't Send. By default iphones are set to Automatically send diagnostics information to Apple. If you don't opt out, you are automatically opted in. Gotta love technology making decisions for us.

Hi all, just been reading through this thread as I'm on a bit of a Data Usage quest myself and I think I've found a quick solution.

Firstly, turn of all your data usage and reports, these will run randomly and as we've found out, the phones go into cellular data mode as soon as they are put into sleep mode. These reports can run at any given time and can easily use up a large chunk of your data when accumulated. Those settings are through General > About.

Scroll to the bottom of this page and into Diagnostics and Usage BUT as below, there is yet another setting for this further in another area. Set these to Don't Send.

Seeing as the phones go into cellular mode when they are in sleep mode, so they instantly start processing any data as cellular data, make sure your email and notifications are on manual only instead of auto-fetch as once any updates are noticed on a server, the phone will fetch those updates as well but also, go into:

Setting > Location Services

Scroll to the bottom and look for System Services

Turn off the options for DIAGNOSTICS AND USAGE.

Turn off the options for Location Based iAds

Turn off the options for traffic

I had the very same issue as so many seem to be having with extra high data usage through the night, around 70 - 80Mb which was killing my 200Mb data plan initially setup as I use an approx 90% WiFi connection. We've now already upgraded my plan to a 3Gig plan to avoid over-use and extra charges but now finding these settings, the phone barely uses 300Kb in any one day.

Something to try and would love to hear any more feedback if this helps you all too 😉

Neil

Hi all, just been reading through this thread as I'm on a bit of a Data Usage quest myself and I think I've found a quick solution.

Firstly, turn of all your data usage and reports, these will run randomly and as we've found out, the phones go into cellular data mode as soon as they are put into sleep mode. These reports can run at any given time and can easily use up a large chunk of your data when accumulated. Those settings are through General > About.

Scroll to the bottom of this page and into Diagnostics and Usage BUT as below, there is yet another setting for this further in another area. Set these to Don't Send.

Seeing as the phones go into cellular mode when they are in sleep mode, so they instantly start processing any data as cellular data, make sure your email and notifications are on manual only instead of auto-fetch as once any updates are noticed on a server, the phone will fetch those updates as well but also, go into:

Setting > Location Services

Scroll to the bottom and look for System Services

Turn off the options for DIAGNOSTICS AND USAGE.

Turn off the options for Location Based iAds

Turn off the options for traffic

I had the very same issue as so many seem to be having with extra high data usage through the night, around 70 - 80Mb which was killing my 200Mb data plan initially setup as I use an approx 90% WiFi connection. We've now already upgraded my plan to a 3Gig plan to avoid over-use and extra charges but now finding these settings, the phone barely uses 300Kb in any one day.

Something to try and would love to hear any more feedback if this helps you all too 😉

Neil