Re: 'Typical' data usage
 

How are the data logging tools?

Anything out there that can keep a counter based on the type of connection?

Re: 'Typical' data usage
 

There is a counter that keeps track of how much cellular data you have used (and some widgets to show/reset said counter)

Re: 'Typical' data usage
 

There are some tweaking that you can do: tell email client to download only when connected to wifi and so on. In my opinion it could be better (there are suggestions in brainstorms) but it is already workable, without surprises (if you set it up so that it always asks for a connection).

Re: 'Typical' data usage
 

Could someone please advise or list where these counters are able to be accessed on the system directly?

I'm in the process of disputing the data charges as stated on my mobile bill and would like to be able to list and export the counters to correlate them with those in the statement.

Any assistance with this is appreciated.

Cheers,

Andrew

Re: 'Typical' data usage
 

I don't think there is a detailed log of data activity on the device. There is however a cumulative counter of cellular data sent/received in Settings ->Phone -> Data Counter

Re: 'Typical' data usage
 

If you will need to do this frequently, there is a widget named Personal Dataplan Monitor (available in App Manager).

Re: 'Typical' data usage
 

Yep, and this is what I'm using currently to guage my data use over 3G. Its a great app but there is significant difference between what the dataplan monitor is reporting (approx 250mb combined up/down) vs what my carrier bill is stating (approximately 700mb - assuming this is combined up/down).. hence my motivation to get a more detailed breakdown.

Re: 'Typical' data usage
 

The data plan counter doesn't measure some types of traffic (non-IP packets for example) and I suspect that the widget just reports the same number in a more convenient way. What the carrier chooses to count may be somewhat different, but it doesn't sound like a plausible justification for the huge discrepancy that you see.

I am currently using a prepaid SIM and only connect to Wifi. The data plan counters always show zero bytes as you would expect but running ifconfig in an xterm shows a nonzero byte count for the phonet0 interface even though it hasn't ever been given an IP address.

I haven't selected a carrier data connection or sent or received any text messages since rebooting yesterday, but the phonet0 interface shows:

RX bytes:90416 (88.2 KiB) TX bytes:3616 (3.5 Kib)

In the last few minutes, 16 new packets totaling 192 bytes have arrived.

All that I can suggest is watching the raw byte counts on the interface and see how that aligns with the values reported by the data plan monitor. It restarts from zero after every reboot so note the total before rebooting.

Re: 'Typical' data usage
 

Some carriers have an accounting policy such as "minimum 100kB per session". If you just use a few kB at a time, this can result in a big discrepancy.

Re: 'Typical' data usage
 

My carrier has a 10kB per session minimum.

In Germany, other carriers like Tchibo (which uses the o2 network), have a minimum of 400kB per session! (!!!!!)

The typical data usage I've observed is appromimately 1.2 GB per month, up- and downstream combined.
I rarely use WiFi, I listen to online radio, use the browser a lot, update my apps using 3G ;)