2.1 GB data in 20 days - Weather Channel app

[jgreg02]

What is going on with the Weather Channel app. It used 1/2 of my allowed data in 21 days. Is the Pie, Android, Galaxy S9+, or settings or app?

It was set to run in background. However only 1/2 the data was for that.

 

[Kizzy Catwoman]

What is going on with the Weather Channel app. It used 1/2 of my allowed data in 21 days. Is the Pie, Android, Galaxy S9+, or settings or app?

It was set to run in background. However only 1/2 the data was for that.

That is frightening! I wish you could manually restrict apps using data.

 

[B. Diddy]

Could it be due to ads? Does it serve up any streaming video ads?

 

[Sizzers]

That is frightening! I wish you could manually restrict apps using data.

You can.

Go in to "App info" and click on "Data usage". You will then see the option to turn off background data usage.

 

[adonesc76]

What is going on with the Weather Channel app. It used 1/2 of my allowed data in 21 days. Is the Pie, Android, Galaxy S9+, or settings or app?

It was set to run in background. However only 1/2 the data was for that.

Personally I'm not a fan of individual weather apps. Being on Android One I don't have to worry about that. What I did was I use a widget from the Google weather app. It appears as a micro icon of either a sun/rain drop/cloud/snow flake (depending on the weather) located next to the date and day on the Home Screen.

When I click on it, it opens the Google weather app and I get today's in depth weather report, tomorrow's and a preview of the next ten days or so.

Personally I've found it way more accurate than anything the Weather Channel or even the local TV or radio weather predictions are.

I'd never use a weather app because of the same reason. The memory it eats as well as draining battery power...

Don't know if this is of any help...

 

[Mike Dee]

Personally I'm not a fan of individual weather apps. Being on Android One I don't have to worry about that. What I did was I use a widget from the Google weather app. It appears as a micro icon of either a sun/rain drop/cloud/snow flake (depending on the weather) located next to the date and day on the Home Screen.

When I click on it, it opens the Google weather app and I get today's in depth weather report, tomorrow's and a preview of the next ten days or so.

Personally I've found it way more accurate than anything the Weather Channel or even the local TV or radio weather predictions are.

I'd never use a weather app because of the same reason. The memory it eats as well as draining battery power...

Don't know if this is of any help...

If you are using a widget to open an app then you're using an app unless I missed something.

 

[adonesc76]

If you are using a widget to open an app then you're using an app unless I missed something.

It's not an app. It's a shortcut to Google's weather service... sorry I wasn't clear enough...

Doesn't use any memory or battery life.

 

[tekjunkie28]

Personally I'm not a fan of individual weather apps. Being on Android One I don't have to worry about that. What I did was I use a widget from the Google weather app. It appears as a micro icon of either a sun/rain drop/cloud/snow flake (depending on the weather) located next to the date and day on the Home Screen.

When I click on it, it opens the Google weather app and I get today's in depth weather report, tomorrow's and a preview of the next ten days or so.

Personally I've found it way more accurate than anything the Weather Channel or even the local TV or radio weather predictions are.

I'd never use a weather app because of the same reason. The memory it eats as well as draining battery power...

Don't know if this is of any help...

I wouldn’t say it’s more accurate the TWC or local news people. They all get the forecasts and what not from the same people although the local stations my use a more localized forecast model.

And I just rezzed a thread from June. FML sorry

 

[B. Diddy]

And I just rezzed a thread from June. FML sorry

LOL, no problem with this. Some people re-animate a musty corpse of a thread that's 5 or 6 years old!