We live in a world where savings are must, whether it pertains to saving from the wages or saving mobile data. lots of users don’t know that saving mobile data is actually possible. All the network carriers from various countries are looting common man with stringy and sticky data plans. Today on DroidViews we present you the utmost data saving guide. This guide isn’t circled off to limited data plans but it also applies to users who select unrestricted plans.
It’s an open secret that no plan is unrestricted we are just limited in such plans with the data caps, which are too low in speed that we forget loading a Google page on such capped speeds. before knowing how to save our data let’s just know where our precious data is vanishing? Are we using every byte of our data plan?
The Stolen bytes
Not literally, no one stole it from you but it was consumed without your notice. We use modern OSes and software which are byte-hungry. They post ads, redirect pages and load some alien stuff (cache) on our devices. after all these, there is a hunger king too, the operating system. The OS also consume lots of data in terms of updates, location services, and auto-update apps. here is our hit list of byte burglars;
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The data hungry browsers
Updates and location services
On Android, data management does its job to ‘okay’ level considering that the Jellybean update. We can do a lot a lot more savings here. There are lots of apps on the Google Play store which actually monitor your data usage. now here monitoring is very different from saving and minimizing data usage. As far as my experience goes data monitoring apps consume a lot of juice from your battery and at some point you get irritated and just uninstall them.
Data monitoring apps are not in any way recommended because when you do the ideal saving you get the results in your bill and once you get habituated data monitoring apps sounds useless. If you still concerned, we have that feature available on Android. Although some bytes are lost in the background and they can be neglected if you have a big data plan.
The Blindspot bytes
Blind spot bytes are those which are used at your will but you are not aware of weight and amount of data they carry when you allow this usage, for this reason they are termed Blind spot in my view. For example, you are playing a game and for coins, you enjoy a video which seeks with ads. In here you are blind identified with coins and your data is consumed under your nose.
Although pro users can figure this out beginners are fooled. few games on Android start loading the stuff without notice and few of them tempt users with their size and later run online which again scores position in blind spot bytes. It doesn’t just end here, few apps keep on running background and at an interval, they come up with an ad on the notification panel and this happens because it was you who launched this app a few hours ago.
Now it’s time to reveal – data saving mantra.
Ad block
Wise browsing
Limiting the updates
Location services
Firewall
Ad-block
If you wish to save the mobile data the first thing you have to do is manage ads on your device. lots of complimentary apps on Play store are earning on advertisement. Let’s block the ads and complimentary ourselves.
Procedure
You need to have a rooted device to block Ads.
Download Adaway apk from here and install on your device.
Launch the app and give it root permission. (This app modifies the host file in your root directory)
Tap on “Download files and apply ad Blocking”.
It will ask to reboot for the first time. tap “Yes”.
Now you will nearly forget ads on your device, especially from complimentary apps. There are some apps which overcame this type of ad blocking but always make sure your update AdAway host file every month.
Wise browsing
There are browsers on Android and sadly they consume heavy data including Google Chrome. Still, you can save data when your stick to Google chrome by enabling data saver on Chrome. For me, it didn’t work well as I wanted high savings when I was limited with a small data plan. My choice for saving mobile data and for blazing speed is UC browser tiny which has tiny size and does a better job than any other browsers I have ever used. browsing with speed mode turned on is just an amazing experience when you’re on low data.
It does do a lot better in downloading too with its speed improve algorithm. In my test Chrome took 30 minutes and UC tiny did this job in 17 minutes. another advantage we have with UC tiny is that we can download substantial file size of 1GB to external SDcard which is a big deal breaker for me. So go ahead and try UC tiny and make sure you download the apk and keep it safely for now. UC tiny fluctuated on Play store for some time and it was unavailable for the past few days.
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Speed mode on UC mini
Limiting the updates
By default, auto-updanull