How to save on your Android mobile traffic

Now mobile Internet is relatively inexpensive, but it is not a reason to throw them left and right. Full Unlimited still comes at a price, and many operators, by the way, already refuse such a luxury.

Most of the available tariffs are conditional unlimited, that is, give a certain and very limited amounts of traffic for a day or a month. If you exceed the limit, the speed will drop to the level of dial-up-modem and use the Internet becomes impossible.

Perhaps you do not fit in at the rate provided by the volume or dangerously close to the limit. Perhaps you want to keep a supply of traffic to use it when absolutely necessary. In any case, be able to take care of megabytes useful, and now we'll show you how to do it.

Get rid of pests applications

Increased traffic flow is not always related to your appetite. Often blame undue voracity of individual applications. These scoundrels sit in the background and that is constantly transmit-forward. You can find them using the standard tool that is built into every version of Android to date.

1. Go to Android Settings.
2. Select the "Data transfer".
3. Select "mobile data".

Here you can see the overall schedule of mobile data traffic flow, and under it - a rating of the most voracious residents Systems.

To reduce the temperature of a separate application, tapnite on it and turn off the background. After this cunning will not be able to send and receive data in the background.

The problem is that in order to identify the villains need to understand how a normal internet usage for a particular application. Obviously, the browser, streaming services and music videos, as well as the card can have hundreds of megabytes, but the offline-oriented and work with a small amount of data in this list has nothing to do.

Configure warning and traffic limit

1. Go to Android Settings.
2. Select the "Data transfer".
3. Select "Payments cycle."

Paying cycle - this is the date when the debited monthly fee. Usually on the same day it is given a new package of Internet. Specify the system to know the date of the traffic counter reset.

1. Turn on the "Configure Alerts".
2. Select "Warning".
3. Specify the amount of traffic at which the system will inform you about it.

If desired, hard to limit traffic flow switch "Set traffic limit" and enter the value at which the system will disconnect the mobile Internet.

Turn off updating applications via the mobile network

1. Go to the Google Play Store app settings.
2. Select "Auto-update apps."
3. Select "Over Wi-Fi».

Turn on the traffic savings of Android

1. Go to Android Settings.
2. Select the "Data transfer".
3. Select "save traffic."

When you activate the economy of the traffic system will not allow background data exchange for most applications, which significantly reduce the overall bandwidth consumption. To allow the exchange of data in the background for individual apps for saving mode, tapnite per item.

Save traffic using Opera Max

In fact, Opera Max application does the same as the built-in Android traffic saving mode, ie, baseline data blocks, but looks at it a bit more pleasant and clearer.

Turn on the traffic savings of individual applications

Any normal developer, if the application is running with potentially large amounts of data, to optimize the traffic flow by means of adjustments. For example, almost all of the tools from Google are able to preserve precious megabytes of mobile internet.

google Chrome

1. Go to your Google Chrome settings.
2. Select "save traffic."
3. Switch to "Save the traffic."

In addition to Google Chrome, save traffic mode is provided in the Opera browser.

YouTube

1. Go to YouTube settings.
2. Select "General".
3. Switch to "Save the traffic."

Google Maps

1. «Google Maps» go to the settings.
2. Enable "Only on Wi-Fi» and click on the link "Your offline map".

Offline maps allow you to save hundreds of megabytes of traffic. Be sure to download the area of ​​residence and do not forget to add the area that you plan to visit in the near future.

1. Click "Another area."
2. With the help of gestures move and zoom to select the area to download and click "Download."
3. Click on the icon-GEAR in the top right corner of the menu "Downloaded the field."
4. Select "Download Settings" and select «Wi-Fi only."

Google Press

1. Go to Settings «Google Presses."
2. Select "mode to save traffic" and select "On".
3. In the "Download" switch mode "Over Wi-Fi».

Google Photos

1. «Google Photos" Go into the settings.
2. Select "Back up & sync."
3. Look for the section "Using mobile Internet" and disable the option for photo and video.

Google Music

1. «Google Music" Go into the settings.
2. In the "Play" lower the quality of the transmission over the mobile network.
3. In the "Download" Allow viewers to download music only on Wi-Fi.

If necessary, let the music play only on Wi-Fi.

«Google Music" can save albums to listen to offline. You can download music to your device in the presence of Wi-Fi and play it without an internet connection.

1. Go to the list of albums.
2. Click on the icon vertical ellipsis in the right bottom corner of the album and the pop-up menu, select "Download".

Google Movies

1. Go to Settings «Google Movies".
2. Under "Streaming on mobile networks" enable "Show warning" and "limited quality".
3. In the "Downloads", select "Network" and select "Only through a Wi-Fi».

Keep track of tariffs and options your service provider

Often people overpay for communication simply because sitting on older rate. Ask, what's new came with your operator. It's possible you'll be able to get more internet for less money.