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Originally Posted by jujuinla View Post
Hi epage,
I recently encountered a problem and it seems it was caused by DIal Central.
It started when I realized I used all my date plan (500Mb) within less than a day and doing nothing special on my phone but sending a few emails and IMs.
I found out that my phone was sending a lot of data by itself and, using Wireshark and xterminal, found out it was communicating constantly with a google IP and that it was initiated by an app using some python component.

Dial central using a python component (python alarm I think), I decided to uninstall it, even though it was not running (just an icon on the desktop) and all data exchange stopped -- finally!.

I am not sure what is wrong, I had DC for a long time on my phone. I just updated Maemo before when it happened.

Just wanted to let you know, I'd like to understand what happened.
Except for notifications (which are disabled by default) DC only creates traffic based on user interaction. My focus was on battery life but it also helps people with limited data plans. If you check the log, "~/.dialcentral/dialcentral.log" or Ctrl+l (lower-case L) to copy it, it lists all of the times DC downloads from the web. It could possibly give a hint if something is going crazy.
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