topic Re: Notifications in Pay Monthly

Notifications

gemz4the1 — Sat, 24 Jan 2015 16:36:05 GMT

Is it possible to set up a text alert service that tells you how many texts, minutes and data you have left so that you don't have to log into My O2 to check?

Re: Notifications

Anonymous — Sat, 24 Jan 2015 16:46:40 GMT

just txt Balance to 21202 and you get that.

Re: Notifications

Anonymous — Sat, 24 Jan 2015 16:49:00 GMT

It would be a nice feature Gemma if O2 did offer that.

Re: Notifications

gemz4the1 — Sat, 24 Jan 2015 16:52:10 GMT

Does that only give you your remaining balance and not told you how much data you have left? @Anonymous

Re: Notifications

gemz4the1 — Sat, 24 Jan 2015 16:54:32 GMT

I just tried your suggestion @Anonymous and the response was my remaining text and minute allowance. It says for data allowance I have to go on My O2. It's a bit silly if I have little or no data left to have to use it to check it. The data was what I wanted really as my nephew needs to control his data usage more.

Re: Notifications

Anonymous — Sat, 24 Jan 2015 17:02:16 GMT

As I'm on PAYG - a different platform to Contract - if I send a text 'balance', I'm told of my minutes, texts and Data.

Shame this can't happen for you but to be honest I find it as easy to log into the myo2 app.

Re: Notifications

gemz4the1 — Sat, 24 Jan 2015 17:05:48 GMT

On the last 5 occasions that I asked my nephew to log into My O2 on his phone, he ended up on YouTube and Facebook so i'm still waiting to find out lol. I think it was renewed 2 or 3 days ago so his allowance should be ok for now but I doubt it'll last more than 2 weeks.

Re: Notifications

gemz4the1 — Sat, 24 Jan 2015 17:10:57 GMT

Why does anyone want to know their remaining allowances?

He can't watch numerous YouTube videos if he has only 100MB of data left and 1 week before his allowance refreshes.

Re: Notifications

Anonymous — Sat, 24 Jan 2015 17:15:28 GMT

@gemz4the1 wrote:
On the last 5 occasions that I asked my nephew to log into My O2 on his phone, he ended up on YouTube and Facebook so i'm still waiting to find out lol. I think it was renewed 2 or 3 days ago so his allowance should be ok for now but I doubt it'll last more than 2 weeks.

He's going to have to learn self constraint and use his available allowance wisely or be left with Wifi use only until his next anniversary date.

You Tube can use a lot of data along with videos etc on Facebook.

Re: Notifications

Anonymous — Sat, 24 Jan 2015 17:44:40 GMT

@gemz4the1 There is an app called Onovo that can give you lots of info about data usage and you can set it up to alert you when you are approaching your data limit. Not sure if that would be of use or interest to you. You can use it on wifi if available so saving your data allowance.

Re: Notifications

Anonymous — Sat, 24 Jan 2015 17:51:28 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
@gemz4the1 There is an app called Onovo that can give you lots of info about data usage and you can set it up to alert you when you are approaching your data limit. Not sure if that would be of use or interest to you. You can use it on wifi if available so saving your data allowance.

Hi @Anonymous

That was one app I was initially interested in until I found out its owned by Facebook. They know too much about people's activities as it is. 😄

Re: Notifications

jonsie — Sat, 24 Jan 2015 17:53:29 GMT

Simple solution is if he runs out of data he pays extra out of his own pocket. He will soon learn...

Re: Notifications

Anonymous — Sat, 24 Jan 2015 19:54:42 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
@gemz4the1 There is an app called Onovo that can give you lots of info about data usage and you can set it up to alert you when you are approaching your data limit. Not sure if that would be of use or interest to you. You can use it on wifi if available so saving your data allowance.
Hi @Anonymous

That was one app I was initially interested in until I found out its owned by Facebook. They know too much about people's activities as it is. 😄

I did not know that @Anonymous I used the app for a while after I got my first smartphone but soon realised that my usage was rarely if ever going to exceed my allowance so I uninstalled it. I rely now on the My O2 app and have developed the habit of checking usage regularly.

Re: Notifications

gemz4the1 — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 08:27:51 GMT

Thanks for your advice guys