blackberry useage?
 

So on my virgin account details it list's blackberry useage for every 15 mins or so even though i haven't used it in a few hours looks like this

15-Jul-10 16:41:07 BlackBerry usage £0.00
15-Jul-10 16:27:07 BlackBerry usage £0.00
15-Jul-10 16:12:09 BlackBerry usage £0.00
15-Jul-10 15:57:11 BlackBerry usage £0.00

Is that normal or is some app doing this, the one i have downloaded is twitter but im not signed on to that at the moment

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Do you have your Blackberry setup to check your email?

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Don't Blackberrys have a push system like iPhones? Maybe it's that.

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Yeah I set up an email on it, is that refreshing every 15 mins or so looking for new emails?

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Probably, yes

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Ok so next question if it's doing that every 15 mins how much of my 25mb email useage is that going to be using?

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Surely that depends how big the emails are? - attachments that kind of thing.

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Thing is i haven't recieved any emails yet, but it's still doing something every 15 mins or so

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It has to connect to see if you have any emails. That's what it'll be doing.

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But if i'm not recieving anything it won't really affect my useage if it does it every 15 mins or so? noone has my email yet lol.

Oh is the email useage 25mb a day or a month cause I read somewhere it was a month but on the virgin site on the fair policy section it said it was a day

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It can't receive anything unless it checks to see if there is anything to get, maybe you can send yourself an email to check it's all working ok?

I doubt you're going to go over your limit just by it checking.

BUT

Here's a couple of thoughts. Do you NEED to have your emails within 15 mins? Why not an hour or even two? You could change the setting to check it less often then it would use less data. and save the battery a bit too.

There will be a setting somewhere that will allow it to just download the subject / heading so you can check to see if it's worth downloading the rest of the email. If you do that you can just not download the ones with pictures 'till you can look nn your computer.

You'll have to wait for someone else to give you blackberry specific replies I'm afraid - I've got a HTC Desire so I can't help with that, sorry :(

edit - it's 25mb per day.

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Yeah i'll change it if I can figure out how to so it only checks every 2 hours or so, the email address is a blackberry one, haven't bothered setting up my hotmail one most of my emails are just from internet sites rather then people

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Let us know how you get on :) :tu:

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Will do

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Also normally when it checks your emails it'll only download the headers normally so a fairly small amount of text which will barely dent your data plan

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One more question, does the twitter for blackberry app count towards my internet useage or my email useage?

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Are they 2 separate things?

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The Blackberry uses the BES (Blackberry Enterprise Server) to push data to your phone. The blackberry will not "search" for email as the network sends it directly as soon as an email has been picked up by your POP or IMAP email server. Thsi has no bearing on your data limit as its not part of the broadcast data network (your 3G basically).

You shouldnt incur charges for any data access for email usage unless its being run through a third party app like Gmail which wont use the BES. You would need to be receiving a HELL of a lot of emails to breach your daily AUP limit on BB email, by default all graphics are turned off and attachments tend to be filtered beyond 10Mb so that help. In many years of (heavy) Blackberry email usage on many networks, I have yet to see a single charge for email usage.

Also, your twittier app will count towards your data usage as it transmits over the GSM network.

Hope this helps

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That's about the twitter app cause i have been using that but my useage balance hasn't gone down atall according to my account the only time it went down when I was browsing some websites. Does blackberry messenger count towards the data useage?

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No, BBM also passes through the BES so shouldn't contribute towards your data cap, but even if it did it would be minuscule.

Do you have any apps on your BB (weather, news, eBay etc etc) as these can all use data even while you arent in them! There is a weather app that changes its icon based on your desired weather location as a perfect example.

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No just ubertwitter but as I said it dosen't seem to be taking up any of my useage. You say bbm uses bes do you mean bis, because bes only works if i'm connected to a wifi.

So has much data does ubertwitter take up, I don't keep it running just log into it when I want to send a tweet so say I logged into it 12 times a day and maybe send about 3 twitpics how much data would that take up

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Doesnt Ubertwitter refresh when the app is closed? The official Twitter app seems to pull data for 72 hours after you open the app even if you dont access it again in that time frame. Makes sense as your updates are live when you access the app, but I dont use ubertwitter so not to sure about that one.

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It might do either way it dosen't seem to be taking up much data so it's all good, a friend of mine has a 500mb month deal and she's on ubertwitter all the time and far as i know hasn't had any problems