Went through my entire 10Gb plan already, including 3GB in one day. Yeah, it's a software issue. Talking with Rogers now, and it's a known issue. They don't want it to go public though.
They have 10 gig plans? The biggest I have ever seen is 6 gig plans, which I switched back to now. Had to go through 3 reps at Rogers in order to change my plan. Was paying more for 500mb of data a month with the rest of my plan then I am not with a 6 gig plan.
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At the end of the last billing cycle I was above 80% data usage out of 6GB. This was only after having iPhone 5 for 2 weeks! Ever since I've had an iPhone since 2008, I haven't used over 2 GB, and that was also due to heavy usage of the camera on trips, etc. I have an iPad 2 paired with it at work for data, and been using it there for the last 12 months. I still never cracked 2 GB, until after i picked up iPhone 5. I'm already at my 80% threshold today with 12 days left to go in this cycle. Definitely, something is out of wack here.
I busted my 6G last month in 2 weeks - I was shocked but knew my usage was up so I figured I'd wait until this month to investiage fully (I had maxed my cap the month before by relying on netflix for travel, but just at the end of the month).
Since my billing cycle started yesterday I reset my counter on the phone and also the Dataman app and found that while streaming one podcast, which apple's app lists at 75Mb, the actual data usage was over 400Mb - during this time the only other thing I did was check facebook a couple times (which I later tested to only be using a couple Mbs at most). All other apps were closed in the 'task tray' so I'm reasonably sure that the podcast app is my problem. This also follows the behaviour from last month after I upgraded to iso6 with the new podcast app, because I got hit with a couple days where I used over a Gb, which I thought was borderline impossible, but I had been streaming 2-3 podcasts on those days, expecting it to be less than 300Mb, however now the math makes sense at 400Mb per episode.
Right now I have my data turned off completely since I have a lot of pocasts downloaded that I still want to listen to today at work and I also don't trust that the app isn't using data in other ways...but when I get home i will be looking for a better solution (synching through itunes and staying offline isn't a great option for my habits). Hoping that this is the only issue.
found that while streaming one podcast, which apple's app lists at 75Mb, the actual data usage was over 400Mb
Well that IS interesting. I listen to podcasts daily. I always sync my phone, but I've found that sometimes the podcasts have the little download icon beside them...even though I had done a sync. I may have listened to a few without realizing...and if they are that big...holy hell! They are 'listed' at 50-70 megs...adam carolla podcast...but if they streamed 4 times that size or more, that is a little unfair.
The other thing I've wondered is if the podcast app just streamed instead of playing the local file, without even showing it.
Well that IS interesting. I listen to podcasts daily. I always sync my phone, but I've found that sometimes the podcasts have the little download icon beside them...even though I had done a sync. I may have listened to a few without realizing...and if they are that big...holy hell! They are 'listed' at 50-70 megs...adam carolla podcast...but if they streamed 4 times that size or more, that is a little unfair.
The other thing I've wondered is if the podcast app just streamed instead of playing the local file, without even showing it.
Back on post 37 of this thread, I posted that I was suspicious that the Apple's Podcast App was the culprit. Since dumping that app, and instead using the paid app Downcast, my data usage went back to normal.
I had no actual numbers, so this is very interesting to me.
Perhaps Apple should have spent more time on the functionality of the Podcast app than they did on that shitty skeuomorphic reel to reel tape interface (from the original Podcast app). The update helped the usability of the app, but was simply candy coating on top of a severely flawed application.
I'm pretty sure the Podcast app was one of Scott Forstall's babies. Hopefully Jony Ive will get things cleaned up on iOS. There's work that needs to be done.
If it's not ready, don't ship it. I'm glad that they're sitting on iTunes 11 a bit longer. I was just saying a couple weeks ago, that I 'd be afraid to install it based on the buggy stuff that came with iOS6. In short, I have been losing confidence in Apple's ability of execute as of late. Hopefully they get back on track.
Well that IS interesting. I listen to podcasts daily. I always sync my phone, but I've found that sometimes the podcasts have the little download icon beside them...even though I had done a sync. I may have listened to a few without realizing...and if they are that big...holy hell! They are 'listed' at 50-70 megs...adam carolla podcast...but if they streamed 4 times that size or more, that is a little unfair.
The other thing I've wondered is if the podcast app just streamed instead of playing the local file, without even showing it.
I had issues where synching with itunes was deleting files that I had downloaded manually over wifi so it's possible that if there was a download button next to your tracks then the same thing happened. Also, it's a bit of semanctics, but I don't suspect that the app is labelling the size of the podcasts wrong, I suspect it's just downloading them multiple times when streaming (instead of cacheing one copy). Anytime I download the files from other sources the file size seems accurate.
I just noticed that the update to Downcast has the option to limit streaming to wifi so that also solves that problem.
Maybe the new iOS 6.0.1 released today will fix this.
I was curious about this too however, either way, I'm not going back to the apple podcast app now that I've paid for a superior alternative. There has been some speculation that there's also data seep happening when switching from wifi to 3g so hopefully that will be addressed.
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