If you are an active Internet user, then you know the situation when the number of spending traffic turns out more than I wanted. To protect yourself from such trouble, it suffices to establish a limit on the volume of Internet traffic consumption in megabytes that you plan to spend over a certain period of time.
The restriction measure will be useful if you need to spend, say, no more than 50 MB per day you order with a specific goal or if they are provided by the terms of the tariff plan. This will allow not to go beyond, and not stay with zero balance or what is even worse - negative. It will also be relevant if at the beginning of the month several gigabytes of non-tariff traffic that needs to be distributed with equal parts is coming.
How is the process of traffic restrictions?
The limit is set in the appropriate settings item, as well as with special applications that can be downloaded from Google Play.. Thus, you can highlight the funds built into the phone and third-party applications.
Built-in funds
If you decide to use the standard features of Android, then open: Menu - Settings - Data Transfer (the path may differ depending on the device model and software shell). In the "Data Transfer" section there may be a "Mobile" tab.
Here, the number of megabytes used, which used this or that day during a certain period of time, is quite informative. To activate the restriction function, you must mark it with a check mark in the Mobile Network tab.
Set the limit for Wi-Fi is not possible, as it is assumed that the traffic is unlimited.
The main advantage of this methodand, lies in the absolute simplicity and lack of need to download additional software. You can specify the volume to achieve which access to the network will be discontinued. And so that this does not happen suddenly, the boundary limit installed in advance will warn the limit about reaching the limit.
Of flaws You can select uncomfortable adjustment of the parameters, as well as the absence of an event reset. This means that you need to attend settings every day and point the day when the restriction will act.
Third-party means
Internet traffic restriction in My Data Manager - Internet package planning
Most of all in My Data Manager you will enjoy a huge number of settings and parameters in comparison with the standard Android facilities. You can set the conditions for your tariff plan, and the program will automatically calculate consumption for a given period (month, quarter, half of the year), or to establish on the repetition of the day, week, month. It is possible to eliminate applications with zero traffic taking into account (some social networks Or navigation cards for which the operator does not remove the fee), select the time and place where scheduled tasks will be triggered, as well as monitor consumption from the status row or widget.
Internet traffic restriction in My Data Manager - Different Settings
If you do not want to spend a lot of money on your mobile Internet, then use it.
Outcome
The superiority of third-party software above the standard way to limit traffic is more than obvious. Flexible parameters will allow adapt to any tariff plans and stretch the provided megabytes at that time, as far as it is necessary. You can easily automate the entire process and not interfere with the application of the application, or to conduct an adjustment if necessary when it is necessary.
In addition to installing the limit on megabytes, you can optimize consumption by.
Cell phones Mobile traffic is increasingly used. Read on and we will show you how to manage data.
Just a few years ago it was almost unheard that several GB of mobile data could be transferred. Now applications are more "weighing" (often the applications themselves and their updates are greater than 100 MB), and the streaming of music and video is becoming increasingly popular and with all this you can easily use traffic limit in a matter of days.
Hour view of the video on YouTube and now you have no multiple weight gigabytes. And if you watch the video in HD format, the traffic is drowning like water ... use streaming music services, such as Google Play Music or Spotify? You can spend about 120 MB per hour. It seems not very much, but imagine that you use these services every day for an hour, the week is already 840 MB. An hour per day for a month and will already spend about 3.2 GB. If you use a tariff plan with a 5 GB of traffic package included, then in a month you will spend 65% limit on music only.
Of course, you can buy traffic additionally for money, but who wants to pay? Before you pay for a more expensive tariff or for an additional traffic package, we offer several tricks to reduce the transmitted data (and control).
How to view the number of data transmitted
First of all, you need to check how much data is transmitted. If you do not know how much traffic is used, it will be incomprehensible how to change the structure of data consumption.
The easiest way to check the use of data is a web portal of your cellular provider. If you never spend the limit, then it may be worth moving to a cheaper rate. If you never put the traffic package to you, then you definitely should read the article further.
You can also view data consumption statistics and on Android device. Go to Settings -\u003e Data Transmission. You will see the screen approximately as here:
If you scroll down, you will see the use of mobile data with applications, as can be seen on the second screenshot above. It is important to note that these graphs show only data sent through a cellular connection for data transmission, and not through Wi-Fi connection. You can always "hang" on YouTube by connecting to Wi-Fi, but in statistics it will not appear. If you want to see data use statistics via Wi-Fi, press the menu button and select "Show Wi-Fi Traffic".
It is worth noting that you will need to specify your payable cycle here to accurately calculate the use of data. Since your data will be dropped on the first day of the new cycle, it does not matter that you used a month before, so the result will not distort.
In addition to the graphics, you can set the traffic limit in which you will be shown a warning, or install the limit, adjusting the slider on the graph at which the transfer mobile traffic will be disabled. Do not forget to enable the "Limit of Mobile Traffic" option.
After reaching the limit, mobile traffic will not be transmitted until you turn it on again.
How to control the use of data
There are two types of traffic consumed: when the user uses the application and knows that it works over the Internet, and the use of data in the background. When watching video or downloading a new album, you consume a traffic package if you use mobile data transmission, not Wi-Fi Internet. Obviously, in order to use less data, you need to stop streaming content and download files.
Less obvious data transfer is the "background transmission" in which a large number of traffic. Checking new messages in the Client Application Client or checking new letters in electronic mail and other background processes are constantly consumed by traffic. Let's figure out how to reduce the background data consumption.
First, find out which applications consume data
First, let's figure out which applications actually use a lot of traffic. Go to Settings -\u003e Data Transfer and see applications using data. Click one of them to see more information. Here we see on the usual data transfer and work in the background:
Now that you know what applications use more data you know what to optimize.
Use of traffic saving in Android Nougat
Android 7.0 Nougat appeared new feature with the speaker name "Traffic Saving". It allows you to limit the consumption of background traffic and provides the ability to conduct a white list of applications that are allowed to use data in the background.
To begin with, pull down the notification panel and click on the gear icon to go to the settings menu.
In chapter " Wireless networksClick on "Data Transfer".
Under the traffic used, you will find the "Traffic Saving" option. That's where fun begins.
The first thing you need to do is turn on the switch that is on the right above. The new icon will be displayed in the status bar, as well as to the left of the remaining data icons (Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, cellular communication, etc.).
Remember that as soon as you include this, data background access will be limited to all applications. To change this, click on "Unlimited data access".
After that, a list of all installed applications on your phone will appear. Using the slider next to the applications, you can add them to a white list, allowing the background data transmission.
It is worth keeping in mind that it applies only to mobile traffic and will not touch the Wi-Fi connection.
Limit the background data transfer
If you do not have Android Nougat, then you have other options.
Open the application that uses a lot of traffic. Watch the settings of this application, it is possible to reduce the number of notifications (for example, VKontakte) or disable them completely. This will greatly affect not only the traffic consumed, but also on the discharge of the battery.
True, not every application has such settings. There is another way ...
Go to Settings -\u003e Data Transfer and click on the application. Turn on the "Limit background mode" switch.
Disable all the background data transmission
If this is not enough, you can also disable the entire background data transmission by one switch - this will reduce the use of data, in most cases, but it may also be inconvenient. From the data transfer point, click on the menu and select "Limit Background. mode". This will disable background data for all applications.
Disable Application Update
Google understands how valuable mobile traffic is, so that application updates will occur automatically only when you are on Wi-Fi by default. To check this open Google Play Store. Go to the settings and check that the "Auto-update" item has been selected "only through Wi-Fi".
Buy frequently used applications (to remove advertising)
Frequently available applications in the free version with advertising and paid version. The fact is that advertising is not only annoying, but it also uses traffic. Therefore, if you want to reduce traffic consumption, you can buy a paid version of the frequently used application.
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Modern smartphone, among other things useful featurescan provide. From this possibility of your mobile device Increase many times. But, as they say, for everything you need to pay - Mobile Internet communication must be paid in accordance with the tariff plan, which has certain limitations internet traffic. Exceeding the amount of dedicated traffic can cause significant financial expenses.
English word traffic Translated as "stream", "Movement". In principle, traffic is the amount of data that has passed and sent over the communication channel. Mobile traffic (or Internet traffic) means directly the amount of information measured in megabytes or gigabytes, which entered your phone through mobile Internet. Since the transfer of mobile communication data remains quite expensive, so the maximum amount of monthly traffic is stipulated by the tariff plan of your cellular operator.
And how to control your mobile traffic on the Huaway phone (Honor)?
To establish control over the cost of Internet traffic, you need to make the following information in the smartphone settings:
- monthly traffic limit;
- date starting monthly traffic.
At your request, your smartphone will track your traffic and when you exceed a monthly limit to disable mobile data transmission, or notify you about approaching the Internet traffic limit threshold.
The procedure for inclusion of mobile traffic control on the Huawei smartphone (Honor):
1. Enter the "smartphone".
On the first page of the smartphone settings, find the item " Wireless networks"And click on it.
2. On the Wireless Networks page, select " Data transfer».
3. On the Data Transfer page, log in to the data settings, and for this, click on the icon in the upper right corner of the screen:
- "Settings" icon.
4. On the page " Settings»You must make the data of the monthly traffic limit according to your cellular telecommunications tariff plan.
To do this, select the section " Monthly traffic limit"And in the window that opens, make the size of the traffic that is measured in megabytes (MB) or gigabytes (GB). (In our case, this is 1.0 gigabytes).
5. To make a monthly traffic start date, select " the date of the beginning", And in the window that opens, make the day of commencement of the monthly traffic. (In our case, this is "1" number of current month).
6. For the convenience of control over the cost of Internet traffic, you need to install alert threshold, when you approach which the smartphone will notify you.
This is done in the section " Traffic notifications"Where the slider is set to the threshold of a monthly limit (as a percentage) and the threshold of the daily limit (as a percentage).
Click to go to the section where 10 recommendations are set out with detailed instructions By their implementation.
Not many mobile network operators give unlimited Internet access, so we, as a user, have to install the limit of Internet traffic. Many users can say that it is necessary to download special applications for this, and I agree with them to some extent. But now I'm going to tell about the way for which you do not even need to download any applications, because Android has such an opportunity.
So let's look at how to install the limit of Internet traffic and how to use it correctly.
To do this, do a few simple steps:
- Step 1: Come in the system settings and find the "Data Transfer" item;
- Step 2: In the menu that opens, select the desired network (in two symptoms of smartphones there will be two, as in this case);
- Step 3: We put a tick against "Install the limit" and agree with the notification that has licensed;
- Step 4: Now the schedule left to establish the internet traffic limit, which you need. The orange line is responsible for the warning, and the red is for disabling the Internet when the installed limit is reached.
This method allows you to set the limit of Internet traffic for a whole month. If you need a daily limit, then it will be necessary to change the date of the start of the statistics period every day, and the limit value itself set as you need for one day. Yes, do not forget to configure the limit of Internet traffic according to the tariffs of your operator.
Example 1. Your Internet provider provides you with 5 GB of Internet traffic for a month. Here everything is simple, go in the settings, put the checkbox "Install the limit" and on the chart setting the necessary limit of Internet traffic.
Example 2. We will offer your mobile operator gives you 50 MB per day. We put a tick opposite "Set the limit", set the desired limit on the day (first set a warning, and then the limit value), and then set the date of the statistics on the day that you need. Do not forget every day to translate the start date of the statistics period.
But this is not all possibilities. In this menu, you will be available detailed statistics of Internet traffic flow, for this you need to scroll down. With this statistic, you can find out which of the applications uses the most of all traffic. Oh yeah, I almost forgot, there is another item in the limit settings - "Show when blocking". This item is activated automatically when the limit is turned on. Using this option, an air circle appears on the lock screen displaying information about traffic flow information. For yourself this option, I always leave the included.
This is the functionality in itself android. I hope the article brought good for you. If any questions arise - do not hesitate, ask them in the comments.
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Mobile traffic flow is the amount of data downloaded to the device and sent from it through a mobile network. To reduce traffic consumption, we recommend checking and, if necessary, change the data transfer settings.
Traffic saving mode
On the android devices 7.0 and later versions are available special mode that helps to spend less mobile traffic.
How to check the flow of mobile traffic
Follow these steps:
How to establish a traffic flow warning and a common limit
Background traffic restriction for applications (Android 7.0 and earlier versions)
You can limit the use of background traffic for individual applications. Remember that this may affect their functionality. For example, you will not receive messages from applications until you open them.
First go to the settings such application And check if it is possible to limit data to it. After that, follow the instructions below.
To view and limit background traffic for the application:
Disable data transfer in roaming
While in the zone where your telecom operator has no coverage, you can connect to networks of other operators using the Internet roaming function. For this, your operator may charge an additional fee. To reduce traffic costs, disable this feature.
In some places, Internet roaming may be the only way to connect to the Internet.
