Hello,

started using my N900 4 days ago updated to the lastest firmware.

Yesterday night went to sleep at 1AM Data counter showed 12MB downloaded and 2MB uploaded through 3G woke up this morning with 40MB downloaded & 3MB uploaded.

I have updated everything (applications) that day over wifi and no new updates are available for my device running the latest firmware... Online application running that night were Ovi Contacts + RSS + OM Weather.


Another N900 with a friend and colleague did the same also he ended up loosing all his monthly quota!



any ideas?



thanks

omg same here. So my brother wasn't whining for nothing. I also exceeded my monthly quota and was always connected to wifi.

mine does the same but only if i want it to! if you are using the weather widgit then that updates about every 30 mins and will send/receive data. I also use FB and Twitter feeds as well as AP News feeds so mine is always updating.
Personally i just disconnect connections over night or when i dont need it to save usage and battery. cheers

i agree with you... but you have many applications that requires constant data transfer... i only have Email Messaging + Ovi Contacts + OM Weather widget and they were on for the past 3 days with 11MB in total consumption what happened yesterday night to have the consumption increase 30MB in one shot? knowing that all applications and firmware were updated over wfif & no new updates are available so that to say it might have updated something in the background over night...

I wouldn't expect that scale of data from just RSS & weather, but I guess it depends how many (and what size) feeds and how often they're updating.

@arzleb: I'm not sure what to say, but one thing I can tell you is that Maemo will never forcibly or automatically install updates without your say-so. Nokia's attitude (which is good) is essentially "you own the darn phone - you do what you want with it", and so they don't meddle with things like that. There is an app that adds a "Tablet Mode"/"Phone Mode" button to the power button menu, which would allow you to switch off phone functionality temporarily, if you wanted to make sure it didn't use data. Other than that, I can't help you, as I don't have a cell plan on my N900.

i removed all RSS feeds & removed the RSS widget.

i am still on Ovi contacts + Weather + Email so far in the past hour total data spent is 250KB.

still monitoring it tough!

@jaem thank you for your input.

thank God that i had the Data counter widget installed or i would have never discover this, my friend exceeded his monthly quota i am just waiting for him to confirm if he used the RSS or not. that might narrow it down.

You may want to adjust the update frequency settings for e-mail and weather. Also, I think some apps allow you to only update when on wifi, or similar options.

i'm not sure but the RSS service might also download pictures inside the feeds, and that's a pretty beefy chunk of data, especially if it's updated often.