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#1 ·
Taking a closer look @ my data usage since this past month, I went over 2.39G (charged @ $49.62 by rogers!). I have no idea how that happened seeing I don't stream THAT much - esp w/ wifi @ work. I have an app installed that does the job, but felt I should ask what others are using.

Anyone out there using one worth mentioning?

thx!
 
#3 ·
Didn't realize it was expanded now. I recall looking in prev OS's and prob never went back.

This still seems odd. 50G since sept '13 and I had 8.4 (my allowance + the overage) of it in 1 month?? very bizzare. And no warning (of course) form Rogers that I'm getting close.

I'm going to reset it for my next billing cycle and see what happens, and compare it to the 3rd party monitor I have and see.

Thx John.
 
#4 ·
I refused to pay a data overage bill once unless the provider could tell me what the data was used for. They absolutely couldn't -- as previously mentioned, Apple does not allow that level of access to the processes. The fun part was, the provider actually acknowledged the problem with that and waived the fee.
 
#20 ·
I may be a bit OT here, but as a fairly new user of an older iPad 2 with iOS 7, is there any real way to tell whether a wi-fi or cell account is going to be used to download data?

To prevent any cell use with a shared GSM account, I've just been turning Cellular use Off and wait until I'm near any wi-fi and use it.

But even with cell use disabled, I'll swear that there were some slight increases to the cell data. So how come when my cell in Settings is turned Off??

Similar to but not as bad as these users discovered with unwarranted cell use downloads:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5364520

Bottom line is I can't completely trust the Settings settings, as cell use don't always seem to be Off completely.
 
#40 ·
I just realized that it was May 9, 2014 9:38 AM that I installed the SIMM card into my iPad 2, but why has it taken so long for the Last Reset to say so, as for months until now it had been saying "Never", and cell data had been enabled for some use. Not exactly exacting and up to date reliable info. :(

But maybe it finally updated itself correctly somehow and I guess I'll never know how or why it took so long.
 
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