TIPS ON HOW TO LOWER DATA USAGE ON AN ANDROID PHONE 1.Only Update Apps Over Wifi Google Play automatically updates apps. Unfortunately apps can have a large file size and use of a lot of data to download. In the Google Play settings, check Update over WI-Fi only then it will only update when you are connected to WiFi and wont use your network data. 2.Turn off Auto-Sync and Background data Auto sync is indeed a nice feature on Android but you can save large amounts of data by turning it off. Also disable background Data activity. 3.Widgets Fancy Widgets that tell you the weather and location plus update the news look nice and might provide you with useful information but they use data. Do you need to your phone to tell you the weather every 10 minutes? If the answer is no, consider removing them or changing the setting so they update less 4.Use Opera Mini to surf instead of your stock browser Browsing pages on Opera Mini reduces your data traffic to about 40%. As the browser uses powerful servers to compress data by up to 90% before sending it to your mobile the page are loaded at lightning fast speed and at the same time fight against high data usage. 5.Block Ads If you have download and used any free apps you may have noticed that they are ad supported. Unfortunately these use a lot of data as they connect to the Internet to download the ads. use any ad blocking app. i recommend lucky patcher or ad blocker (root only apps) 6.Use a Firewall You can use a firewall to restrict certain apps to restrict the network. You can achieve this by DroidWall, a nifty and free android firewall, but its only available for if you have rooted phone. You can check a box to select if an app can connect to the network or (3G) or Wifi. NB;this option is only applicable for phones with root access
Posted on: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 11:20:47 +0000
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