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Q: iOS 7 cellular data settings won't save on iPhone 4s???

I'm using a 16GB iPhone 4s, with the latest version of iOS 7 as of writing this, version 7.0.3. Whenever go to the "Cellular" settings on the main settings page and turn OFF cellular data usage for a lot of my apps except for a few key apps that I need it for (Mainly Mail, FB Messenger App, Google Maps, and What' s App that I leave on), the moment I back out and come back in, almost all the apps I turned cellular off for are back on again. I've tried turning background app-refresh off thinking it was overriding my cellular settings, nothing. I've tried restarting my phone a bunch of times, nothing. Nothing I do seems to fix this issue and it's frustrating because I have the minimum data plan from AT&T and I can't turn cellular off completely because I don't have a texting plan and depend on iMessages, FB Messenger, and What's App to get messages from people, and a lot of times it can be urgent so I need to figure out how to fix this stupid bug. Anybody else have a similar issue and/or know how to fix this?

iPhone 4S, iOS 7.0.4

Posted on Nov 15, 2013 11:49 AM

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  • by bugeyedsunnies,

    bugeyedsunnies bugeyedsunnies Apr 15, 2014 6:32 AM in response to Narimaan
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    Apr 15, 2014 6:32 AM in response to Narimaan

    This was amazing thank you !! All my cellular settings are now back to working they way they should , thank you !!

  • by nuno.bett,

    nuno.bett nuno.bett Apr 15, 2014 7:23 AM in response to bugeyedsunnies
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    Apr 15, 2014 7:23 AM in response to bugeyedsunnies

    Glad I could help

  • by miss808,

    miss808 miss808 Apr 22, 2014 12:42 AM in response to nuno.bett
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    Apr 22, 2014 12:42 AM in response to nuno.bett

    Wow, your directions were so clear! I am so happy I was able to fix this with your assistance, mahalo mahalo nui loa!!

     

    I found this issue/glitch to be extremely annoying, I believe it showed up after I used the "reset statistics" button, I needed to reset my data usage for my new phone cycle. However, I am not 100% certain that is truly when the glitch showed up.

     

    Thank goodness for peer-to-peer help. You patiently and thoroughly typed out the steps and I sincerely appreciate you for that.

  • by nuno.bett,

    nuno.bett nuno.bett Apr 22, 2014 4:24 AM in response to miss808
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    Apr 22, 2014 4:24 AM in response to miss808

    Glad I could help once more

  • by SpartanV295,

    SpartanV295 SpartanV295 Apr 26, 2014 11:17 PM in response to nuno.bett
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    Apr 26, 2014 11:17 PM in response to nuno.bett

    Bro your awesome, I went to apple they did not know what they were talking about and decided to do a new phone i said, **** with that just restored same issue till i followed your steps and bam no more issues with cellular data. Thank you so much.

  • by SpartanV295,

    SpartanV295 SpartanV295 Apr 26, 2014 11:29 PM in response to nuno.bett
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    Apr 26, 2014 11:29 PM in response to nuno.bett

    also I did this on windows 7 and it does work

  • by nuno.bett,

    nuno.bett nuno.bett Apr 28, 2014 5:25 AM in response to SpartanV295
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    Apr 28, 2014 5:25 AM in response to SpartanV295

    Glad to ear that it also works on Windows.

  • by mark_martin,

    mark_martin mark_martin May 10, 2014 11:46 AM in response to Narimaan
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    May 10, 2014 11:46 AM in response to Narimaan

    hmmmm how come its not working in my phone ive followed the step by step but still i cant turn off my data on safari, calendar, contacts, cydia, facetime, mail, notes, passbook.

  • by arisarts,

    arisarts arisarts May 12, 2014 2:14 PM in response to nuno.bett
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    May 12, 2014 2:14 PM in response to nuno.bett

    You are a life saver !

     

    It happened to me twice.It is the only solution that works.

    I think that the corruption happens when the phone is switching from wifi to cellular data somehow.

     

    I got 2 and 3 as values in my database file.

     

    Thank you my friend .

     

    I hope apple will see this solution and reproduce the issue for further debugging :)

  • by nuno.bett,

    nuno.bett nuno.bett May 14, 2014 3:19 AM in response to mark_martin
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    May 14, 2014 3:19 AM in response to mark_martin

    mark_martin wrote:

     

    hmmmm how come its not working in my phone ive followed the step by step but still i cant turn off my data on safari, calendar, contacts, cydia, facetime, mail, notes, passbook.

    Hi mark_martin, from what you've written I can't tell why it's not working for you.

     

    In either case, it seams that you're running a jailbroken device and probably some app that you installed is overriding iOS default behaviour.

     

    If you find a solution for your problem please share it afterwards.

     

    Best regards,

    Nuno Bettencourt

  • by mbb1978,

    mbb1978 mbb1978 May 16, 2014 3:27 PM in response to Narimaan
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    May 16, 2014 3:27 PM in response to Narimaan

    nuno.bett

     

    I gone through all the step one by one, and after rebooting the iPhone the problem still not fixed.

     

    I've done it twice to make sure I didn't miss anything, but still the **** apps keeps switching back on

     

    any help will be appreciated

     

    Thanks

  • by Rockh555,

    Rockh555 Rockh555 May 21, 2014 1:08 PM in response to nuno.bett
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    May 21, 2014 1:08 PM in response to nuno.bett

    Great tutorial   Unfortunately it doesn't work on my 4s Doesn't seem to overwrite when sent back to phone. Tried different combinations of toggles on apps to proove, something must be stopping the overwrite .

     

    Forgot to say Win 7.

     

    Message was edited by: Rockh555

  • by nuno.bett,

    nuno.bett nuno.bett May 22, 2014 3:01 AM in response to mbb1978
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    May 22, 2014 3:01 AM in response to mbb1978

    mbb1978 wrote:

     

    I've done it twice to make sure I didn't miss anything, but still the **** apps keeps switching back on

    It happened to me once on step 16 that file CellularUsage.db was not replacing the original. Be sure that on the right side of the screen your viewing the WirelessDomain/Library/Databases/ folder in order to overwrite the CellularUsage.db properly.

     

    If you just used the search option and wrote "CellularUsage.db" the tool will look for that file in every folder but the right window will not be positioned on the WirelessDomain/Library/Databases/ folder.

     

    I agree this may seem a bit tricky, but I didn't make iBackupBot

     

    Maybe the same applies to Rockh555

  • by mbb1978,

    mbb1978 mbb1978 May 22, 2014 4:22 AM in response to nuno.bett
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    May 22, 2014 4:22 AM in response to nuno.bett

    First of all thank you very much for replying, that's very kind of you.

     

    My iPhone 4S is on iOS 7.0.6, and my mac mini has OSX 10.6.8.  Just to let you know.

     

    I actually have done it the way you said in the reply, even at the first 2 times.  I didn't search for the file, I looked for it manulay.

     

    but still did not work.

     

    I've noticed that the Permission for the "Cellularusage.db" is (-rw-r--r--) in the iBackupBot.  Could this be why it's not rewriting the changes, because it's write only for the admin.

     

    I had a similar problem before, although I AM the ADMIN, but for some reason, the permission didn't let me rewrite.

     

    Also on Step 13, should I EXPORT the file before DISCONNECTING it, or just disconnect.

     

    And Last thing, Step 17, when I right click the imported Cellularusage.db, a window has 3 checkboxes, the upper 2 boxes checked and the third is not.  Could that be the problem.

     

    Thank you again nuno.bett, I realy appreciate you helping me, and I hope you can solve this problem because I couldn't find any help anywhere else.

  • by karencheah,

    karencheah karencheah May 22, 2014 4:37 AM in response to nuno.bett
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    May 22, 2014 4:37 AM in response to nuno.bett

    Please help!  I'm up to step 17 but I got the message "No device connected".  I have my iTunes open and I can see my phone there but not on iBackupBot.

     

    I'm quite sure your solution will work as I have already found the value 2 in those apps that won't turn off.  But now I can't restore the edited values.

     

    I have checked FAQ on iBackupBot's site but couldn't find anything there.  Hopefully, you'll know something.  Thanks in advance!

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