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I'm using netcounter on my android phone to track the amount of data I'm consuming but I need something to tell me exactly what app/website is using the data as something is consuming prodigious amounts of data at the moment. Possibly even Briskoda although I'm not sure why.

Using droid v1.6 and stuck with a quirky screen res so not all apps are available to me and in actual fact quite a few I've previously had seem to have been removed

Could it be auto updating apps that are using the bandwidth.

Social network apps are very data hungry.

How much data are we talking? Could it be a stuck email?

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At a guess, 30-40MB in a couple of hours and much less than usual browsing. For some reason, the briskoda mobile them stoped working for me a few days ago and a refresh with the full skin is almost a meg (according to netcounter). Also possibly the sportguru site but been running light on browsing otherwise.

I'm running very few apps at the moment. Limited use of facebook but its never been a problem, not routinely running anything else till i downloaded netcounter to track. Apps not on auto update anyway. Recently redownloaded something caled route tracker but don't think that is the culprit.

Could do with something that identifies usage just to be sure.

Blimey! I've only used 60Mb since June 1st! Have got FB, Hotmail, Gmail and company e-mail running on it, as well as the mapping for the navigation and a few pictures been sent too.

In ICS there is an option to only update apps themselves when connected to WiFi. Have no idea how far back that goes, as I only came to Droid with Gingerbread (3)

(ICS also shows usage by app)

However, a quick Google Play search came up with this:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.network&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsIm9yZy5uZXR3b3JrIl0.

.....which does claim to monitor usage by app.

https://play.google.com/store/search?q=bandwidth+monitor&c=apps

....gives a whole list.

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