Tips with which your data volume lasts longer

Tips with which your data volume lasts longer

Smartphone owners lack constantly one of two resources: either goes the charge level of the batteries running low or the high speed volume is consumed and we surf with snail's pace. Here we want to show you tips, how her throttling prevents, by saving your data volume.

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At the conclusion of a contract, the dealer tells one that 500 megabytes for a bit of surfing and WhatsApp is enough. But hardly you have used you to your Smartphone, your mobile media consumption will increase rapidly. And then the completed plan is quickly becoming the bottleneck. Unfortunately contract bindings allow only rarely, to change something on the ceiling. So, one must learn to conserve. Here are a few basic facts to typical online activities:

ACTIVITY DATA USAGE
60 minutes of music streaming (96 Kbps) 42.2 MByte
60 minutes of music streaming (224 kbit / s) 98.4 MB
One hour of Netflix (720 p) 300 MB
Ten minutes of YouTube (720 p) 136 MB
A Web site (average) > 2 MB
Animated GIF (1 second) ~ 1 MB
Jumps to the section
Less consumption of data streaming with Opera Max
Reduce data consumption with Android settings
Identify data-intensive apps
Read data usage at the provider
Offline navigation
Save data when surfing with chrome
Avoid streams
Does not automatically download images in WhatsApp
Compressed media with Opera Max
A compression app that helps you to save on the Internet browsing data volume is Max. The app sends all the data about your own VPN server and compressed so videos and photos apps and Web pages. Unfortunately, a visible loss of quality goes with it. In the app you appears, what apps is the largest savings potential.

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Opera Max helps you, data volume to save. / © ANDROIDPIT
With the current version, you can save properly when streaming of music and videos. Thanks to an integrated rocket optimizer are MP3s and MP4s in the AAC +-format. A similar sound quality can be achieved at a lower bit rate. Http videos, compressed around also from Netflix or YouTube, Opera Max on request. Buffer times are reduced in this way, but the quality visible reduced. The test could be saved at a 10-minute YouTube video about half the volume of data, so that instead of 31.2 MByte only 14.7 MByte were consumed.

Opera MAX - data control
Install on Google play
Limited data usage with Android onboard resources
This is done primarily through the settings menu of your Smartphone. Here, you can well see your data usage and manage. A first of all a cycle of consumption, which is adapted to your contract and the monthly renewal of the volume. You can set here also a limit at which the mobile data are automatically disabled.

set data cap
Only with a hard limit stops the data usage. / © ANDROIDPIT
Identifies Apps with much data usage, and forces her to save
In addition, you have a collection through the consumption of the individual apps. Tap one, and can see in the following screen, how much from the respective app usage in the foreground or in the background took place. There are apps that consume your data volume secretly in the background - if all else fails, you can stop it by here limiting the background data. But be careful! This can cause that some apps won't work fully - in particular the Google - and system apps.

restrict background data
Reduces the background activity of individual apps. / © ANDROIDPIT
Measure your data usage with provider-apps
There's still another way to obtain your remaining data volume, and this can be sometimes more specific. You can check directly with the provider. Practical: Many providers, you can drop the current status as a widget on the home screen.

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Navigate offline
Many apps offer in addition to the limitation of the background data (see above) also the possibility to be used partially offline. This includes among other things Google maps. Instead of downloading the maps on the go, you can make available offline the relevant map already in the local Wi-Fi network - or quickly at Starbucks -. How this works in detail, we will tell you at this point:

Google maps offline: so you use the map service without Internet connection
Alternatively, you simply used here maps. Because Microsoft's maps service has included the offline functionality as a main function in the portfolio and mastering navigation similar like Google maps.

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Saves volume when

Many of the popular music streaming providers offer an offline feature for a fee. So, you can cache in your favorite songs stored on the Smartphone Wi-Fi and play on the go offline. There is also a free alternative:

You have a huge MP3 collection on your computer, you can upload your up to 50,000 titles from this free Google play music. Then you can access on the road and anywhere on the same tracks from your Smartphone. Logically you should be in a Wi-Fi network to perform the download, otherwise this trick for your volume brings no benefit.

Prevents pictures downloads in WhatsApp
As the default value is set for the popular Messenger WhatsApp that he downloads all pictures that they send you. Anyway, even if you have no fast volume already. If a zealous friend sends you pictures from the last party, this can be a quite a waste of your precious volumes. Take over the control and changes in the chat settings the media auto-downloading so that all hooks in mobile data connection is removed.

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WhatsApp will always immediately download images. / © ANDROIDPIT
Because WhatsApp provides no good tools for image collections, you should Dodge anyway for this purpose on an alternative. Several cloud storage provide practical ways to create image collections with friends and share. Take a look to our separate article:

Free online storage for your Smartphone

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