Forum Discussion
Data usage
Late to the chat but from what I can read, every Smarty forum regular seem to be advocating for checking our phone settings again and again when everyone says nothing has changed from their previous provider.
I've just purchased a £15gb data only sim for my campervan, pretty much only used it for google maps between 2 and 4 hours a day and a couple of youtube videos, and I've ran out in 4 days! I repeat, 4 DAYS. 15gb! For comparaison, I reset my stats on my iphone to check my vodafone usage, in one day of almost 6 hours on my phone, 3h47 on maps, 35mins on youtube, having Polarsteps set to always allow tracking my location, hotspotting to my laptop for another hour of youtube, plus all the other background stuff etc.. it used 1.9gb
Personally, I think it makes no sense. I don't see why it would somehow use that much more just because it's casting it to my phone over wifi rather than being directly in it. I'm probably just going to get a refund and pay a bit more money but for something that actually works, especially since the chat support wasn't very helpful..
Mickael_2930151 One thing that might be worth checking on the YouTube videos - what definition are you using as the amount of data is higher for the better qualities.
Once again, nothing has changed from my previous usage on vodafone to smarty.. The issue is not how much data we're using, it's the discrepancy between providers while using our devices the same exact way.
Mickael_2930151 Although you say nothing has changed, are you sure that there have not been any updates on the phone?
I say that because my phone is currently downloading an operating system update that takes over 30 mins - and that is on fast broadband. Now that could certainly eat a load of data (I thought I saw a figure of 8Gb just before it started)
