Comments on: Track Your iPhone’s Data Usage With DataMan

By: Johnny Ixe

Johnny Ixe — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:39:52 +0000

If you reboot your iPhone, you should open DataMan before and after you reboot your iPhone. This ensures that your data usage is properly recorded and DataMan continues to track your usage in the background. Thanks.

By: bfabry

bfabry — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:03:32 +0000

I’ve purchased DataMan and have been impressed with it’s features. Lately, I’ve not been accessing this app as often, and have been assuming the app would alert me if I was getting into trouble. However, my observations seem to indicate that if I don’t load the app frequently, it can miss huge amounts of data.

For example, I did not open the app for a week, then once I opened it, I saw zero usage for that day and the first part of that week. (I know I had some usage in there)

I do tend to turn my phone off every night, am I supposed to have to re-run the dataman app every time I turn my iPhone on?

By: Fred

Fred — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 06:06:15 +0000

I’m having the same problem. AT&T says I’ve used 517 Mb in the past week, even though Settings => General => Usage says I’ve only used 40 Mb, and even though I’ve been on WiFi most of the time, and both my iPhone and AT&T’s bills agree that I used 485 Mb TOTAL for the 1st three months I had my phone (up till this past month).

Something VERY bogus is going on, I’ve read numerous similar posts on other blogs. AT&T’s completely implausible explanation has been reported uncritically. I am NOT using that much data, certainly NOT on their network (probably not even that much on WiFi, but they’re not supposed to bill me for WiFi, right?) I’m not convinced the data usage is actually happening. I’m suspicious their system is either incorrectly logging WiFi data transfers, incorrectly logging non-existant data transfers, or getting hacked and mailiciously manipulated to read false numbers.

Either way, they’re billing people as though that data usage is actually happening, and I’ve not yet heard of anyone getting a real response from them, where they acknowledge it’s their mistake, and wipe the false usage numbers from the bill. Customer service I spoke to wouldn’t even entertain the idea. Best I got was a $30 credit from an AT&T store manager for 2x $15/200Mb overage charges.

By: Ethan

Ethan — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 19:49:07 +0000

I’m on WiFi 90% of the time, Yet I’m still consuming 4-500mb per month. I just bought dataman and am curious to find out where all this data usage is coming from! I do commute every day but rarely use maps or stream music.. We’ll see!

By: Johnny Ixe

Johnny Ixe — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:31:07 +0000

You can try this link:
ttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dataman-real-time-data-usage/id393282873?mt=8

Thanks for your support!

By: Johnny Ixe

Johnny Ixe — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:26:37 +0000

Dion, you may find our advance Precise Tracking feature useful for your iPhone. DataMan is the only app that can closely track your usage every 10 minutes and alert you the moment you exceed your self defined thresholds. You will definitely find that DataMan saves you more than $1.99 :)

By: Ronald Stepp

Ronald Stepp — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 20:44:40 +0000

The app doesn’t exist in the app store for either ipad or iphone… Is it new?

By: Dion Forster

Dion Forster — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 19:25:25 +0000

Hi Nick,

Thanks for the post – here in South Africa data costs are high. On average we pay US$1 per 3MB (R2 per MB). For this reason I have also been quite careful to have an app that monitors my data usage on both my iPhone 4 and my iPad 3G.

However, I use iDataUsage, simply because it was much cheaper than DataMan. It gives me push notifications and will also tell me what my remaining data is for the remainder of the billing cycle, as well as how much data I can use per day to remain within my data bundle (I have 1.25 Gigs on each of my iPhone and iPad).

The only downside is that if you reboot, or power down, your iPhone or iPad before opening the app it looses the data monitoring since it was last opened. At least you can update your usage manually.

Regards from Cape Town,

Dion

By: Johnny Ixe

Johnny Ixe — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 12:33:23 +0000

Thanks for your support of DataMan! We like to assure our users that your location data is private. It’s stored only in your phone. It’s neither shared nor transmitted.

Plus, you can turn off Geotag to conserve battery life.

By: Josh Sunshine

Josh Sunshine — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 08:16:09 +0000

Note that if you have an iPad with 3G, DataMan also works on there. Even on Verizon.