Hi folks,
If this is repetitive information, please forgive me, as I don't recall seeing this posted before. I'm here to let you know (you may already!) that Public Mobile community member @IWIK has built a great data usage tracking application for Android, named "Data Witness". You can find it in the Google Play store here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.iwik.datawitness
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EDIT 2021-Sept-29: you no longer need to reach out to IWIK to get a free voucher. Instead, just install the "Data Witness PM" app, which is free for use on Public Mobile network:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.iwik.datawitnesspm
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IMPORTANT NOTE: The app does cost a small amount on Google Play Store, but, thanks to @IWIK's generosity, he is giving it away FREE for Public Mobile users! To get it free, send @IWIK a private message, and [s]he will respond with a download code to get it for free.
What does it do?
Once installed and configured (more on that shortly), you can track your data usage against your plan alltoment, and it allows flexibility for PM's 10, 30, and 90 day plans and any data amount you choose. The easiest way to use it once all set up is to create a (or multiple) widget on one of your home screens, and it looks roughly like this:
You can see it here in the middle of my screen. You can customize this highly when you create the widget--custom colours, opacity of the background, etc. But in a nutshell it shows you the percentage of your plan's data allotment you've used so far this term, how many days are left in this term, and even gives you bar graphs so you can visualize this info. You can see in mine, my days are slightly ahead of my data usage, so I'm tracking well to not run out of data during this 90 day cycle.
If you don't want to set up a widget, you can also get this info by just going into Data Witness:
Installing and configuring
You can install it from the Play store link I used above. Launch the app and there you can set up a number of configuration items. Here's the main config menu:
From here, you'll want to pop into General settings and set up you plan details:
Log into your PM self-serve account and grab your current data usage amount and use that in the first setting shwon above. At your next renewal date, this will reset automatically to zero, as DW will be with you from the start of that cycle instead of part way through. Set your data limit based on what's in your plan (I'm on the 6GB/90 days plan), and your plan length and your last cycle start date. This is all you need to do to start benefitting from Data Witness right away!
There are a number of other settings you can tweak. I don't fully understand all of them, but this is how I currently have mine set up:
(I'm not sure of the ramifications of not having it check while the screen is off.)
Here you can tell it (using the sliders) when to let you know you're getting close to using up your data, and optionally have a persistent notification (you probably don't want that on, but it's a personal preference).
That's all there is to setting it up and basic usage. As I mentioned, there are a ton of options to personalize your widget(s). First of all there are two widget sizes to choose from:
And once you choose one and place it on a home screen, a ton of settings:
Enjoy!
outside of just the 30/60/90 reminders, from what i see visually you sorta have to do the math in your head regarding percentages used vs overall. would you be able to spread the months apart in a vertical graph chart, possibly a different colour per 30 day period, and have those graph bars fill as you use your data? i think the visual feedback provided by that in conjunction with the reminders would round this app out fairly nicely and give a little boost to the aesthetic of the GUI.
where the $ figures are could be 10% - 20% - 30%, etc
where the city names are could be days 1-30 / 31-60 / 61-90
just a thought to spruce up the inside of the GUI, mate.
Hi all. Been using Data Witness for almost 2 months now, wanted to share my experience.
Overall, it is working great.
I am not a heavy user, but my wife uses my WiFi hotspot to watch Youtube videos during our daily commute.
When I first started using DW, I was manually tapping the "Force usage check now" button after finishing my internet sessions -- if I remembered! The usage numbers were significantly less than Public Mobile's website. I believe it is because I kept forgetting to tap that button before restarting my phone, which I did often because it was buggy - in fact, it would crash & reboot by itself at least a couple times a week.
Now I have monitoring enabled, set to run every 30 minutes. DW's number is usually a bit less than PM's, but given I have a 12GB plan I think the amount is insigificant.
Thanks again
@srlawren - Thank you for much for the continuous support.
@IWIK - I got your private message, truly thankful for the prompt response and the redemption code. I am now able to start monitoring my data usage, 
As a side question, I tried enabling "Show persistent notification with usage" but the setting will not stick as I am still able to clear the notification and will need to re-enable each time for it to show (monitoring did continue to run smoothly), is that user error on my end?
I am running Nexus 5 with Android 6.0.1.
Please advise,
Thanks again
