A lot of times we wonder what is eating up our data most especially smartphone users that subscribe for large amount of data thinking that it would definitely last them for the whole month. So bad, things won’t work that way since they don’t control their mobile data usage.
For people using BlackBerry you are safe from this data leakage issue. Well, the internet blessings didn’t spread to Android OS devices and other smart phones like Lumia and so on.
One of the things that consumes data the most is background services. Which you can actually turn off if you know how. But if you don’t know you’ll learn it right now.
What you didn’t know is that you can actually use less data on android OS devices if you control your data usage. Doing it is easy, let us take for instance your pay for a 1GB of MTN data from Ngbuzz SME data share. This can last you for a month if you don’t stream online or download large size (in terms of data) applications or run unnecessary updates without checking the newly added features if you really need to carry on with the new version or use what you already have.
Here is how to manage your data usage on an Android device.
- Go to settings
- From the list of all the settings press Data Usage
- Press the option button and check the box that has the text “Restrict background data” beside it.
- With that setting turned on no application will use your data unless you permit it.
- Also you can set limit so when you surf the net to some point that consume much data the device will prompt you to either continue as you have exceed the limit or quit.
- To do that simply check the data limit box from the same Data Usage setting.
