HTC Sense UI Data Usage
I’ve had my HTC Desire for almost a year now and I think it’s an excellent phone and still one of the best Android phones on the market.
I have had one problem with it though. It’s been using data at a rediculous rate – over 40MB a day and was costing me an extra £10 a month in data. The first step was to find out what was using all the data.
I downloaded TrafficStats Lite from the Android Marketplace which was able to display the usage on a per-app basis, but this didn’t help much.It was unable to separate out all the SenseUI apps, which was a huge selection, including:
- Flickr
- Calendar Storage
- Friend Stream
- com.htc.provider.
- HTC Location Service
- Calendar
This list continued for about another 20 items, so not much help but it gave me an idea of where to look. I next decided to look at the account synchronisation settings and turned them off one-by-one, clearing the stats in TrafficStats and seeing how much data was being used.
This led me to the culprit – Facebook for HTC Sense. This downloads profile photos and status updates for all your contacts, as well as adding your Facebook contacts to your phone contacts.
Stopping it from syncing the live feed and syncing contacts immediately stopped the data usage. The phone now uses around 2.5MB a day which is slightly cheaper!
Apr 07 2011Categories: Uncategorized