Solved: Galaxy S3 Help??

Anonymous · ‎22-04-2013

Just upgraded to samsung galaxy s3 mini, i have 500mb of data allowance but it has all been used! used to have a blackberry which i had, facebook, twitter, emails, sky sports news, games open all the time and never used anywere near all my data. yet with the galaxy it has used all data within a short space of time. how do i stop it using the data so quickly!

Anonymous · ‎22-04-2013

How quickly have you used this data LJ25 - and what sort of usage are you subjecting the phone to?

Unless you're streaming films or constantly playing games over the mobile network 500 mb should last ages!

Also, have you got auto-synch on constantly and are away from wi-fi access?

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Anonymous · ‎22-04-2013

You will use data more quickly as the blackberry compresses the data so as not to use as much what you can do is use wifi when possible and maybe set your email not to fetch very often if you have that set up and make sure there are no data hungry apps running in the background

Anonymous · ‎22-04-2013

to be honest no idea how to use this phone, how do i turn off apps i dont use? my boss has the s3 but not the mini has loads of apps running and uses a whole lot less data!

Anonymous · ‎22-04-2013

I have to be honest and say I'm an Iphone user and am not to ofay with the android system so I wouldn't want to give you any wrong advice there are a lot of android fans on here and hopefully one of them will pick up on this soon sorry I couldn't help more

Anonymous · ‎22-04-2013

thanks for your help its all appreciated, i found the blackberry so much easier to use if im honest!

Anonymous · ‎22-04-2013

turn off location settings on apps that you dont want to use your location as they will use up data quickly trying to find your exact location, turn off mobile data & use wifi where possible

MI5 · ‎22-04-2013

Most likely cause is the sync interval, rather than open apps. If you look in settings you will see all your accounts. Go into each one and see how frequently they are syncing. Also, check the facebook app settings as this defaults to sync everything at something crazy like 1 min intervals.....

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Anonymous · ‎22-04-2013

A change always takes some getting used to I sure you will be a whizz at it in no time

Anonymous · ‎22-04-2013

@MI5 wrote:
Most likely cause is the sync interval, rather than open apps. If you look in settings you will see all your accounts. Go into each one and see how frequently they are syncing. Also, check the facebook app settings as this defaults to sync everything at something crazy like 1 min intervals.....

This man is a legend on android he will sort you out

MI5 · ‎22-04-2013

After that vote of confidence I'd better get my finger out

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