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[Zaleramancer]

1.7GB in less than a week.

:/

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Yeah, you need to delete some stuff.

[TheSoupster]

Yeah, it's not to do with onboard memory (so deleting apps you've already downloaded won't help), it's the amount of data that you're grabbing from the Internet. For example, my phone has a 1GB download limit which is fine for just browsing websites, but is eaten up quickly if I try to stream YouTube videos etc. Streaming music/downloading apps also uses up allowance relatively fast.

How many GB per month does your data plan allow?

[TheSoupster]

...so, any data you grab over that allowed limit (for me, 1GB) costs a lot. $10/GB for you.

You need to see what your allowance is, and how long till the end of the month, and then work out how much you can use the Internet without going over the limit. If you have an android phone there are a lot of apps which monitor Internet usage which is handy.

[Zaleramancer]

Two GB.

Of course, I have to share with the rest of my family.

I only use it for web browsing, but everyone else?

[TheSoupster]

You share your smartphone with your family?

[Celadon's Penultimate]

I don' think it's actually HIS...

[TheSoupster]

Ah, fair enough... In that case I'd definitely install an Internet Usage monitoring app, if whoever's phone it is is cool with that! Some show what the allowance has been used for (ie video, music, web, images etc, nothing specific), so you could find the culprit! I've clearly been living away from home too long, forget the hassle of sharing stuff with the rest of the clan... :P

We had a 5GB download limit on the family Internet a few years back, and it was a nightmare...! My mum marks exam papers which tend to download in batches of 800Mb or so, so we had barely anything to use ourselves...

[Zaleramancer]

Yes, but I fear what has eaten up so much of it. Downloading Apps.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

 I'm thinking THOSE are the actual problem. Undownload those apps, and your memory will likely be restored.

[TheSoupster]

I may be well off on this, but it's surely the downloading of the apps, not the storing of them, which is the problem, as its an internet usage issue. It has nothing to do with the phone's in built memory, as far as I can see. Zale's used 65% of his Internet allowance so far this month, and so nothing can be done to get that allowance back. You can, however, make sure the rest isn't used up too quickly.

Unless you meant the apps themselves were downloading things in the background, which could well be the case.

I reckon, from what you've said Zale, that one of your family members is using up more of the internet allowance than yourself (be that by downloading apps, streaming videos, whatever), so maybe chatting to them if you get any more messages from AT&T could be an option. 65% isn't too much, so you've still got plenty of allowance left for the month (almost 1GB, so you should be completely fine)

[Celadon's Penultimate]

 Dang, Soupy, I was trying to be optimistic...but, yeah, you're likely right, the downloads wouldn't be limited if he could just undownload them to make room for more.

[Zaleramancer]

Thank you, my soupy friend!

I'll try to convince my family to hold off on downloading things and using YouTube..

And I think I shall try to not go on wiki reading binges again..

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[Zaleramancer]

I live in a desolate wi-fi-less place.

[TheSoupster]

Not a problem, my... Zaley(?) friend. :P

And  for the lack of wifi... Whereabouts on the planet are you from, if you don't mind me asking? (Love the fact that you can ask that in a forum, and have no idea what the answer is going to be. )

[Zaleramancer]

A small town in Northern Mississippi.

[TheSoupster]

I'm reading 'Northern Mississippi' as 'Somewhere in America, Probably' due to my pretty terrible American geography. :P

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Uh, oh, I mean, sorry to hear that.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

We're in the southeast.

I'm like a couple states away in Florida.