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Question

Verizon s7 edge connected to WiFi but using data

May 14, 2017 1:59AM PDT

This happens all the time. I'm at home and in my wifi and the 4g icon on the phone starts flickering. It happens to my. Wife's phone too also an s7

A few times in the middle of the night we ended up. Getting emails from Verizon notifying us about just reaching 75% data for The month.... How the hell could we do that while we're sleeping....

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who knows
May 14, 2017 3:40AM PDT

most likely you will need to contact verizon for specifics. sometimes your internet service goes down at night. maybe contact them to see if it were during the specific nights you had issues. just because you got the email at night don't mean that is when the data was being used.

check and make sure you have the google play store setting for wifi only. go into your data settings and see what app is using a lot of data and when the data is being used.

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Actually yes it does
May 14, 2017 7:27AM PDT

The emails from verizon when you ahve used 75% of your data and then %90 come exactly after you pass the threshold because you get a text at the same time as well.

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you missed the point
May 14, 2017 2:04PM PDT

as I said, just because you got the email at night does not mean you used all that data that night. unless you are checking your data usage before going to bed and after getting up, the majority of the data usage could be from days before. In addition, data usage figures are not real time. It may take a day or more for the data you used to be counted towards your account.

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It's a mess and I see no tutorial on this.
May 14, 2017 8:50AM PDT

But on my Android phones I have to go in to Settings and not only turn off the Data over mobile networks off. PAUSE HERE. The name of what a thing is may change from phone to phone, so while I wrote mobile network here, your phone might call it cellular data or something else. You have to roll with that and figure out what it is called. UNPAUSE HERE.

So after that no apps work outside of my WiFi and I can't send a picture with text messages (that takes data.)

To fine tune this I have to disallow/allow each app's data setting. Here's a tutorial on that then I call turn mobile data back on.

https://www.cnet.com/pictures/11-ways-to-reduce-android-data-usage-pictures/

Notice that IN APP DATA USE?
Notice the setting to restrict app updates to only WiFi?

These and more are what I do.