How to conserve your smartphone data plan
Android phones has gotten more sophisticated than ever and it’s seen as one of the best smart phones OS. With its increased apps and features that make use of lots of data it’s quite easy to blow up your data plan’s cap and then incur overage charges on the go.
Five years ago, it was almost impossible to completely exhaust 3GB of data on your phone unless you are a heavy downloader, but now watching ten minutes of YouTube video daily, is enough to add about 1.5GB of data to your monthly usage. In view of this, would be sharing with you some tips that you can use to reduce the data usage on your android phone.
1. Turn Off Siri Or Google Now
These baked-in services offered by Android and iOS are extremely useful at certain times, instantly offering geographically relevant and personalized scheduled information at the touch of a button or voice activation. But they can also be invisible data hogs, since they’re always accessing where you are and what you’re doing to serve up all that magical info. Unless you’re traveling, consider keeping these services “off” and save them for moments when you really need their help.
2. Use mobile friendly browser
Android comes with its own pre stock Web browser, but that doesn’t mean you are stuck to always use it. You can decide to switch your browser to something more data friendly like Opera Mini (Opera Mini is a free and speedy little mobile browser that compresses websites before sending them to your Android device in order to reduce your data usage). Opera Mini claims to compress sites by up to 90%, which can mean huge savings.
3. Turn off auto updates
Yes, you want to make sure all your apps to date, especially those you most often use and rely upon. Nobody wants to miss out on the latest features, fixes, and updates. But auto updating while on a wireless network connection can result in megabytes of unplanned data consumption. Save the app updates for your wi-fi network.
4. Switch to Wi-fi while when
available
when you are within the proximity of a usable open hotspot, switch your phone off of cellular data and rely on an internet connection for browsing, texting, and emailing.
5. Turn off auto uploads for photos
many of us really do share our life’s moments throughout the day, big and small, through our photos. But automatically uploading photos is a fast way to hitting the data limit brick wall, so after uploading a handful of uploads to Facebook or Instagram, wait till you get to your wi-fi to upload.
6. Limit Push Notifications
Push notification can be a necessary burden for work related communication, but usually unnecessary during personal hours. Especially if you grant every app loaded on your phone approval to push info your way throughout the day. Turn everything but the most necessary notifications to “off” and you’ll save a modest amount of data throughout the month...and probably more than a little bit of your sanity.
7. Use mobile websites view when available
More sites are offering mobile screen optimized editions with all the extraneous image-fat trimmed (and also optimized for smaller screens).. The mobile edition of sites load faster and use a fraction of the data required for the full desktop edition. For favorites, bookmark their mobile site URL.
Most Web sites have full and mobile versions. The differences between the two are their layouts and amount of content. Generally, the mobile version has far fewer page elements to load and is optimized for viewing on a smaller screen.
7. Turn on usage alerts
Even the most diligent practicing all the tips above will find instances where data limits become a concern. It’s all too easy in this day and age of social networking, emailing, texting, and browsing online to eat up a big chunk of your allotted data in just a few hours, especially when traveling or away from the home/office. So setting your Data limit will let you know when you have over used your data.
8. Reducing clearing the cache.
If you don’t clear your cache often, you’ll end up using less data because your browser won’t have to constantly re-download images and other Website assets. If you like to visit the same Website often, obsessively clearing your cache forces your device to redownload the same basic information each time you visit the site. It’s a waste of data, and if you use a task-killer app you might be wasting that data without knowing it.
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