Unexplained Early A.M. Data Transfers

[ghostface147]

Apple updates the phishing database when a phone is charging:

?Safari?s anti-phishing database is downloaded while the user charges their phone in order to protect battery life and ensure there aren?t any additional data fees,? Apple spokesman, Bill Evans, told The Loop. ?After updating to iPhone OS 3.1 the user should launch Safari, connect to a Wi-Fi network and charge their iPhone with the screen off. For most users this process should happen automatically when they charge their phone.?

That could be the issue. Here's the full link:

Apple responds to iPhone anti-phishing confusion | The Loop

 

[toomanyphones]

Is the phone data usage meter the same as your bill? Are you jailbroken and thetering? If you charge by using your computer USB, some program could be checking for updates.

 

[rgar3388]

OS 4 has an option to turn data off and only use the phone for calls. This could be forshadowing of tiered pricing coming and could solve your problem if it hasn't been solved already.

 

[RR4406PAK]

I'm having the same problem of 2am iPhone unexplained data transfers. I'll be watching this thread for the answers... hopefully someone will solve the riddle.

 

[patrickjl]

Huge nocturnal data transfers

Also having these issues. I wanted to check my usage since I may upgrade to iPhone4 in November and wanted to see where I fell in data usage. My bill said last month I used 3.3 GB! But ever month before that was around 1GB. I had some HUGE data transfers in the middle of the night, here's an example:

07/11/2010 2:13AM Data Transfer Data 360 KB
07/11/2010 3:45PM Data Transfer Data 61 KB
07/11/2010 5:56PM Data Transfer Data 254 KB
07/12/2010 12:56AM Data Transfer Data 683,041 KB
07/13/2010 1:48AM Data Transfer Data 586,168 KB
07/13/2010 3:08PM Data Transfer Data 7,159 KB
07/14/2010 1:06AM Data Transfer Data 562,532 KB
07/15/2010 6:56AM Data Transfer Data 24,868 KB

What could be the deal?! I have Wi-Fi turned on, shouldn't that alleviate my data transfers most of the time?

 

[patrickjl]

Is it true that if you are an existing customer with AT&T, you can retain the true unlimited data plan, even if you upgrade to the iPhone 4?

 

[theringer]

push email during the night with load remote images on?

size wise looks like it besides the 200 and 300k ones, but thats what makes me think it was a mail with images

 

[bluebomberx]

Is it true that if you are an existing customer with AT&T, you can retain the true unlimited data plan, even if you upgrade to the iPhone 4?

That is correct.

 

[robsorrell]

I am quite glad I've seen this thread. I have been receiving the same problems recently. Although I am on an unlimited plan so the cost doesn't really affect me, it will be nice to find out why there is any data transfer at all! Keep the minds going! Thanks.

 

[matth]

Aggregated daily data usage

I just got off the phone with an iPhone tech support agent, and he said (after consulting his superior) that AT&T had probably posted my data usage for the day as a single total, which is why I had a 288 MB data usage entry around midnight recently.

I have Push notifications for email enabled, but it's set to Fetch manually (so it doesn't automatically download more than about 2 lines of the email... no huge data usage there).

My apps have to be manually updated (requiring me to type in my Apple password), so it wasn't any app downloading an update in the middle of the night.

The only video I had watched on my iPhone around that time (the 288 MB usage was supposedly on 12/26 at 11:43 p.m.) wasn't until the next day (about 11 hours later), and AT&T specifically told me that, once a data usage is added to the log, it should be at the right day/time. It might take up to 72 hours to be added to the log, but once it's added it should show the correct day/time of the usage.

Assuming the 288 MB was simply a total of 12/26's data usage, I still haven't figured out what it might have been.

Just wanted to share my experience in case it helps anyone.

 

[ghostface147]

Don't bump threads more than 30 days old.

 

[matth]

Sorry

Sorry, I wasn't trying to bump a thread (I didn't notice the last posting date, nor am I excessively familiar with using forums). I was just trying to share related information in case it helped anyone.