After upgrading one of the lines on my Verizon account, I lost my unlimited data. I wasn't too worried about this, since the worst month of usage I ever had was 2.5GB, and that was with never using Wifi. I figured everything would be fine.
I have been monitoring my data usage and am getting towards the end of my first cycle on the new plan. Two days ago, our usage jumped up by about .5GB. When I went in and checked, I discovered it was my line that was at fault. If the time on Verizon's page is to be believed, my phone used 557MB of data right when I left work.
For the record, I leave data off all day while I'm at work, turn it on when I leave for my 10min drive home, then am on Wifi the rest of the night.
I investigated this incident further on my Bionic through the Data usage area, and it seems like Opera Classic (my browser of choice up to this point) is at fault. I usually leave a few tabs open (Android Central, Droid Life, CNN, and my local newspaper), but nothing that should have used data like this. And I doubt I even opened Opera until after I got home anyway.
I also had another incident where this occurred about a week and a half earlier. 300MB was used. Again, based on the Data Usage app it seems that Opera was the culprit.
I'm still within my data cap, but am concerned if something like this would happen right at the end of a cycle, forcing me into an overage before I realize it and backdate in a change.
Any idea what may have happened here? Could there have been some kind of endless loop that just kept downloading a page over and over?
Any thoughts on how to investigate this further?
Any suggestions on how to prevent this in the future? I have seen some people on the web claiming Chrome did this to them, but the only solution was to uninstall and move on to another browser.
Thanks in advance for all your help!
I have been monitoring my data usage and am getting towards the end of my first cycle on the new plan. Two days ago, our usage jumped up by about .5GB. When I went in and checked, I discovered it was my line that was at fault. If the time on Verizon's page is to be believed, my phone used 557MB of data right when I left work.
For the record, I leave data off all day while I'm at work, turn it on when I leave for my 10min drive home, then am on Wifi the rest of the night.
I investigated this incident further on my Bionic through the Data usage area, and it seems like Opera Classic (my browser of choice up to this point) is at fault. I usually leave a few tabs open (Android Central, Droid Life, CNN, and my local newspaper), but nothing that should have used data like this. And I doubt I even opened Opera until after I got home anyway.
I also had another incident where this occurred about a week and a half earlier. 300MB was used. Again, based on the Data Usage app it seems that Opera was the culprit.
I'm still within my data cap, but am concerned if something like this would happen right at the end of a cycle, forcing me into an overage before I realize it and backdate in a change.
Any idea what may have happened here? Could there have been some kind of endless loop that just kept downloading a page over and over?
Any thoughts on how to investigate this further?
Any suggestions on how to prevent this in the future? I have seen some people on the web claiming Chrome did this to them, but the only solution was to uninstall and move on to another browser.
Thanks in advance for all your help!
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