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iko
Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen

Hello @CS_Agent,

There are several errors on my data usage:

June 24, 2017 12:38 917MB

June 23, 2017 12:50 219MB

June 22, 2017 12.02 466MB

 

In particular on June 24 I know for sure I was connected to the wifi network at work. Can someone look into this please, as this was the last of my data and I was very careful not to spend it, it must be an error.

Thanks.

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Reset your data usage statistics then monitor your phone's measure against the PM system; allow 1 day for the PM system to catch up.

OR get a data tracker app: https://www.igeeksblog.com/how-to-track-iphone-data-usage/

 

I've been with PM 3 years and their data measure has never been wrong.


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iko
Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen

Most of the usual culprits were had cellular data off, i.e. the Apps store, the Mail app, and many others. I wasn't traveling (sleeping) so Waze or Google Maps couldn't do it. Facebook Messenger, Viber, Zangi, Whatsapp show absolutely no data transfer anywhere near that time (midnight). There was no OS update. So, it's a mystery to me how almost 1G of data was used up while I was asleep, and with no trace of such transfer on the phone. That's why I insisted that there must have been an error on their system. The way they dealt with it was "it's your problem, end of story." AFAIC they lost a customer as soon as I find a similar plan elsewhere. 

srlawren
Retired Oracle / Oracle Retraité

@iko did you investigate on your iPhone to see what apps were using data?

 

This post from @Rockdaddy22 might be helpful:  https://productioncommunity.publicmobile.ca/t5/Plans-Add-Ons/Data-add-on-not-working/m-p/173894/high...


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iko
Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen

I contacted the mods privately, two of them replied. Apparently the system shows that I used up over 900MB on July 24th, right after midnight. I was sleeping at the time, and as far as I know the iPhone was connected to wifi. I insisted that there must be an error, they kept saying  "the system shows you used up over 900MB in an hour and a half, bla bla." And so the story ends, I'm not happy with the way they handled this.

srlawren
Retired Oracle / Oracle Retraité

@iko do you use MMS messaging, particularly on those days, to send or receive lots of pictures or videos?  I believe it still shows up in your daily data usage but does NOT come out of your available data amount.  


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What apps have background refresh/auto update turned on? 


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iko
Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen

Apologies, all cases are from July.

 

The iPhone has Wifi assist turned off for many months.

 

I thought that I could tag @CS_Agent

to go off of @Luddite some android phones also have a similar feature, so best to browse your settings if thats the case

Luddite
Oracle
Oracle

If you have an iPhone be sure wifi assist is turned off, otherwise you may be using cellular data even though connected to wifi.


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ShawnC13
Oracle
Oracle

@iko, do you mean July instead of June or are you talking like last month and now just bringing it up?

 


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Nsk143
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