Top 7 Ways To Minimize Data Usage In Android

by **mohsen01** Mon Feb 17, 2014 1:42 pm

If you are an user of Android phone , you must be having an active Internet Data Connection for sure because there is no fun without internet. It's like a PC without internet where you can just sit and play games and not able to utilize the resources and capabilities of device completely. But at the same time , there are several apps and services of Android which remain continuously active and cause additional Data Uses to the user.

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If you are using a limited internet connection plan or paying for every kb that you are downloading , you must take note of where your data is being exhaust in order to control it. Of course why to pay additional charges for background and useless processes. So Today , I am providing you some quick tips and tricks to avoid getting over charged for additional Data Usage.

1. TURN OFF DATA CONNECTION WHEN NOT IN USE

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Most of the people are not concerned about this but you should always turn off your active data connection while it is not in use. It means you should only enable internet connectivity when you want to use it. It will avoid unnecessary background apps to use and consume your Data and will also enhance battery life of your phone upto great extent.

2. TURN OFF AUTOMATIC UPDATES

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Many apps installed in your phone regularly check for the availability of their updated version over the internet including your Android operating system firmware itself. These apps keep on downloading updates , some of these updates are necessary while many are useless. It is recommended that you turn off Automatic updates for as many applications as possible.

3. UPDATE ONLY WHEN CONNECTED TO WIFI

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Go to settings tab and make some changes in your Firmware update settings. Set it to Update over Wi-Fi only. This setting will prevent any firmware updates being done from your Mobile data usage. Your phone will automatically start updating when it will be connected to some Wi-Fi connection. Hence it will not use your phone data helping it to save.

4. USING LIGHT WEIGHT BROWSERS

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Web Browsers have capability of reducing the usage of data amount. If you are visiting number of websites and surfing internet continuously , it is always recommended that you should use some Light Weight browser for your session. Light weight browsers will compress the size of web pages before downloading it to your phone. Some of the most effective light weight web browsers are : Opera Mini , Chrome , TextOnly.

5. USING THIRD PARTY DATA MANAGER

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If you don't want to perform any settings manually , you may switch to Automated data manager available in market. There are many apps available in Google Play Store which keeps you aware about your total data usage so far and data available. These apps also lets you know which app is using more data and you should take control of. You don't need to install any third party app if you have Android 4.0 or higher version because it provides in built monitoring service.

6. USING AD BLOCK PLUS

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Ad Block Plus is an outstanding app capable of blocking all Ads from your device including the Ads which are shown inside any app or game. AdAway is also very close competitor to Ad Blcok Plus so you can use any among these top two apps.Both of these apps work on every android phone without rooting it. Ad Block Plus removes Ads from your phone and help to save Data Usage.

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7. AVOID USING TASK KILLERS

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Task killers removes all cached files in your phone. Browsers normally saves the webpages and several other contents on web in cache memory of your phone for future use. Next time when you load the same pages , it will be loaded faster by simply fetching from the phone memory. So if you use Task Killer apps , all your cached files will be removed from phone memory and everytime you visit some webpage it will have to be loaded from web and will cause more data usage.

* There were some basic ways to save data usage in your Android phones. I hope you would be able to save sufficient amount of data using these simple tricks. If you have some more simple tricks other than these , feel free to comment below.