How To Monitor How Much Data Your BlackBerry Consumes
In this part of the world, the blackberry internet service is the cheapest form of internet access available for just N1,500 ($9 USD) a month with unlimited data if you are on the Etisalat Nigeria BlackBerry Complete plan and 3GB of data for those on Glo BlackBerry Complete.
Those of you on either of the above mentioned blackberry data plans, don’t have to fuss about data as you would almost never use up the data allowance but the reverse is the case for those of you on the MTN Blackberry Complete Plan which offers just 200MB of web browsing and download monthly.
Ever since the launch of this plan, there have been folks that have complained about not being able to browse the internet after some days of web browsing while some folks claim that the data limit is none existent on their end, as they’ve downloaded far more than the allocated 200MB of data.
For those complaining, here’s how to track the amount of data your blackberry device is using up so you don’t get caught unawares.
Simply run a quick search for Traffic Monitor For BlackBerry application via BlackBerry Appworld then install and configure as shown in the images below.
The application allows you to check your data usage over days, weeks and months as well as running a speed test to determine how fast your network is.
Simply go to Settings and tick Enable Cellular Traffic Limit. Set Limit to the monthly data allowance allowed by your mobile network then set Warn at to whatever percentage of data usage you’d like.
Here’s what the above configuration does.
When your data consumption hits 50% of 100MB which is supposed to be your data allowance for the month, the application would immediately warn you on the home screen of your device by showing an icon such as that which appears circled in red in the first image at the top of this article.
Do please note that for some reason, the Traffic Monitor For BlackBerry isn’t compatible with all devices as is the case with some BlackBerry apps. I’m currently using it on a BlackBerry Curve 3G with OS 6.
Hope this helps someone out there
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MTN 200MB data provision is a compressed data not ordinary data and 1MB compressed data will be like 6MB ordinary so MTN 200MB will be like 1200MB. I have experiment it with MTN week with 50MB data allocation and I used 100MB in a day I used more 600MB in all
The compressed data doesn’t affect downloads oh!
But I did download a lot and listen to a lot of online radio for free.
Well I use a blackberry curve 3g and am on the etisalat blackberry complete plan!I recently upgraded to os 6 and for reasons I can’t fanthom,I am unable to download anythin that exceeds 4mb!so am wondering if etisalat has a limit or if mine is a perculiar problem
RIM servers set the download limit. If you were able to download files dat exceeded 4mb on your previous OS, you might want to consider downgrading again.
Or you could just make use of uc browser or podtrapper for your downloads
Thanks for the great job you are doing!but the previous version was OS5,and I couldn’t do much downloads,hence the upgrade nd the uc browser won’t allow me download as well!its just baffling,dnt know whatelse to do
Can you view web pages with UC Browser? Make sure your settings are set to BIS