Money Stealing Setting

[MZurf]

I have a Galaxy S III with a prepaid card from AIS. In settings there is an option called "Mobile data" that I seemingly need to enable when using Skype.

However, if I forget to de-select it after using Skype the money just evaporates from the card.

Any idea where it goes?

[jbrain]

Keeping Skype only in standby will cost you more than 1 Gb in data a month, so you will have to exit the application not just minimize it.

Having mobile data enabled will not cost many data, unless you have some applications installed that are constantly calling home.

[lomatopo]

Can you share any details re: your mobile data plan? Did you subscribe to one? If so, which one?

If you have not subscribed to a data plan then you are paying 1 baht/min, so you are really giving your money away rather than being a victim of theft.

In general it might be advisable to subscribe to one of the "unlimited internet usage" plans, for which you pay a fixed rate each month, and may be subject to fair-use thresholds and associated speed caps.

[Shurup]

Your money will evaporate if you don't have a data plan. You will be charged by every minute it's on, even if you're not using any data. If you don't have a plan, it costs a lot per minute.

[jbrain]

I have to agree with above member. I misread evaporate money for evaporate data.If you no data plan, you're indeed charged for every minute the data setting is enabled, regardless of you're using data or not.

[aussiebebe]

Your money isn't being stolen, AIS is charging you for any time you spent on their network ie mobile data. A great app you could use to avoid this is Onavo Count - it has many excellent features for tracking your data usage but specifically for your situation you can restrict apps like Skype to Wi-Fi only.

[Digitalbanana]

>Any idea where it goes?

To AIS of course.

[MZurf]

Your money isn't being stolen, AIS is charging you for any time you spent on their network ie mobile data. A great app you could use to avoid this is Onavo Count - it has many excellent features for tracking your data usage but specifically for your situation you can restrict apps like Skype to Wi-Fi only.

How do I restrict Skype and other apps to wifi only - by using the Onavo application ?

[Shurup]

Your money isn't being stolen, AIS is charging you for any time you spent on their network ie mobile data. A great app you could use to avoid this is Onavo Count - it has many excellent features for tracking your data usage but specifically for your situation you can restrict apps like Skype to Wi-Fi only.

How do I restrict Skype and other apps to wifi only - by using the Onavo application ?

To me it sounds like you don't need it. This app will help if you're on a low data plan so you could restrict certain apps from using your limited data.

If you have no data plan, you don't need to restrict anything as you're being charged by every minute you're connected to them. Have to remember to turn it off.

Edited December 14, 2012 by Shurup

[lomatopo]

I am pretty sure that with AIS/One-2-Call mobile data:

1.) on an volume-based plan which is NOT unlimited (75 MB - 2 GB), you pay 5 baht/MB over your cap.

2.) on any time-based plan you pay 1 baht/min when you go over your monthly allotment of hours - speed is capped at 384 Kbps.

3.) without any plan you pay 1 baht/min, not sure about the speed cap.

So unless you have some sort of unlimited package ( Smartphone, 3/5/7/ GB, other ) you will have to carefully monitor your usage, or be prepared to pay.

There are many Android applications which help you to understand and monitor your usage, and alert you when you reach pre-determined thresholds. Android 4.1.x (although maybe this feature was also in earlier versions) also allows a built-in mobile usage monitoring, warning and threshold setting, shutting down mobile data (optionally) when the threshold is met.

Edited December 15, 2012 by lomatopo