Minutes/data monitor?

[MasterBlaster76]

What is the best app for accurately monitoring minutes/data on a phone contract? Most of the ones I've searched have had mixed reviews.

 

[Chewie]

I've found just using the carrier's app is fine

 

[sanjeevaloria]

dial *123*10# for airtel 2g & *123*11# for airtel 3g.

 

[Abhas]

dial *123*10# for airtel 2g & *123*11# for airtel 3g.

He is based in UK, and they don't use Airtel.

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Which phone are you using?
Android's built-in data manager is good.

 

[MasterBlaster76]

He is based in UK, and they don't use Airtel.

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Which phone are you using?
Android's built-in data manager is good.

Galaxy s3 Mini - where can I find Android's built in manager?

 

[ShamiLoverGlipGlops]

Galaxy s3 Mini - where can I find Android's built in manager?

You can go to settings and then should see an option of Data Usage. Select the cycle (dates) from which you want to see and you should be good to go. Even you can monitor your wifi statistics

 

[Abhas]

^This, I've found it quite accurate on my phone (Galaxy S4). You can set outright limits, warnings so that you don't exceed your plan. Has saved me a lot of times, when I tether, and stupid Dropbox starts downloading everything.

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I'm not sure which app can monitor minutes though. Every phone has a counter, but it'll have to be manually reset each month.

 

[MasterBlaster76]

You can go to settings and then should see an option of Data Usage. Select the cycle (dates) from which you want to see and you should be good to go. Even you can monitor your wifi statistics

Yeah - for some reason you can't choose the date cycle - I need it to start on the 19th and end on the 18th but it seems locked to 1-30th of the month. That would be perfect for my data monitoring needs. I'm not too fussed about my minutes because I do most of my chatting via texts or whatsapp - although I have a new girlfriend now (yay!) so will be making more use of my 500 mins per month.

 

[ShamiLoverGlipGlops]

^This, I've found it quite accurate on my phone (Galaxy S4). You can set outright limits, warnings so that you don't exceed your plan. Has saved me a lot of times, when I tether, and stupid Dropbox starts downloading everything.

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I'm not sure which app can monitor minutes though. Every phone has a counter, but it'll have to be manually reset each month.

Again back here in States, each carrier has their own software. This means I just log in and see the minutes used.

 

[Abhas]

I can set the date on mine, in the Data usage cycle, click on change cycle and set 19.

 

[MasterBlaster76]

I can set the date on mine, in the Data usage cycle, click on change cycle and set 19.

Weird. I'm on S3 mini - but I can't see any option to change cycle - there appears to be a dropdown menu that says 1-30, but when I click that nothing happens.

Edit: Never mind - I've sorted it now; I had to uncheck 'set mobile limit' then I was able to set it how I want.

 

[Aswin8]

Onavo Count is cool,using it for a long time.If you want it simple,inbuilt data usage is enough,but you dont have much options in data usage.

 

[MasterBlaster76]

I could do with something for my minutes after all - I thought the usage texts they send you would do the job but it seems the text they send you isn't very up to date; I spoke on the phone with my new girl yesterday for 90 minutes and it's still saying my minutes are untouched.

 

[Abhas]

Just hope your new girl doesn't find this thread..

 

[sanjeevaloria]

use unlimited data plan is best & no need check data usage