NIGERIANS WASTE EXPENSIVE ANDROID DATA

This article explains how idle mobile Apps run in the background and consume subscription mobile data. We shall look at how mobile phone users waste expensive android data using Nigerians as case study. Do you know that the android OS utilizes most number of Apps simultaneously? As a result, the android consumes most data as against other Operating Systems such as Windows, blackberry, iOS etc. Therefore, we shall discuss how Nigerian android phone users waste expensive android data due to underutilization of android capabilities. If you own a smartphone, how many applications did you install in it? Furthermore, how many of these Apps do you utilize? In Nigeria and according to an independent source, over 95% of smartphone users use less than 20% of apps installed in their devices. The popular ones being the social media apps such as WhatsApp, Instagram, Skype and Facebook mobile apps. Most surprisingly, hundreds of other smartphone apps remain idle or inactive. However, these idle Apps continue to run in the background and consume expensive android internet data.

Internet-based Apps that Contribute in Wasting Expensive Android Data

What most Nigerians do not know is that every app in a mobile smartphone has a utility purpose. Manufacturers of these smartphones expect that buyers would use these apps or software to solve their mobile operational needs. This could be for business, social, academic, economic needs and so on. Unfortunately, nearly all smart apps present features, which require internet data you and I pay for to run efficiently. The moment your smartphone switches on, these apps become automatically active in the background. Whether it is active on the screen or not, they run on their own accord. Consequently, they contribute to deplete your expensive android data.
Nigerians can begin to optimize the use of their subscription internet data access through the use of those idle background smart apps. Most of them are business apps, messaging apps, entertainment or social networking apps, news apps among many others. Using these apps could make life easier by making all sorts of information available to you at any time. The truth is that whether you use them or not, your internet data access will keep depleting. Nevertheless, let us look at the many ways to save expensive android data by controlling how idle Apps run in the background.

1. Deactivate Idle Apps to Save Expensive Android Data

What if you are not interested in these idle Apps tat run helplessly in the background? To save subscription data, android has a way to deactivate these unwanted Apps and prevent them from running in the background. However, you may not be able to delete some outright. This is because some Apps are default Apps and firmly integrated in the Phone’s Operating System software. As a result, any harm to these Apps causes the phone to malfunction. Therefore, I advice that you take care to consider the Apps to delete.
On a safer note, you may choose to deactivate these Apps instead of outright deletion. On Android, you can do a “force stop” on these Apps to shut them down. Force Stop ensures that you optimally conserve expensive android data by making the Apps inactive.
Stop Expensive Android Data Loss

How to Deactivate, Disable (Force Stop) Apps on Android

To stop Apps from running in the background and consume data, let us deactivate it now. Follow these steps to force stop an App on android mobile phone.
  1. Go to your android phone SETTINGS.
  2. Scroll down to APPS. in some android versions, it could be APPS AND NOTIFICATIONS or APP MANAGEMENT.
  3. Open your list of Apps here and scroll down to the particular App you wish to deactivate. Click on it to open.
  4. Click on FORCE STOP or DISABLE, depending on the kind of App it is. The DISABLE action usually appears for Apps that came as default with the phone’s operating system.
  5. The Apps status will change accordingly to reflect the command you just took. Henceforth, the Apps becomes inactive and would never run in the background to consume expensive android data anymore.

There is also another way to prevent lose of expensive subscription android data on android mobile phones.

 

2. WiFi Metering on Android to Control Expensive Android Data

Metering a WiFi connection is one sure way to limit data loss on android smartphones. This works either when you are tapping from another phone’s WiFi hotspot, or another WiFi source. However, the end purpose is to prevent uncontrolled loss of expensive android subscription data. When you understand why your data runs out quickly, it becomes important to meter your WiFi data connections. To learn the simple steps to meter WiFi, read up this brief instructions on how to Manage Device Data through WiFi Metering.

 

3. App Permission (App Background Settings) that Saves Android Data

Here is another way to manage and conserve android subscription data. All Apps on your android have specific settings, which makes them either consume data in the background or not. However, the default App settings will make all Apps consume data from the background. Therefore, your android data is most exposed to predator Apps when you buy a new phone. however, you can modify these specific App background data settings to stop unnecessary loss of expensive android data. Let me show you how to stop background data loss through App permission settings.

 

How to Change App Background Settings to save Data

Follow these simple steps to stop background App data consumption.

  1. On your android phone, go to SETTINGS.
  2. Scroll down to APPS, in some phones, APP MANAGEMENT, etc.
  3. Scroll down to APP SETTINGS and click to open.
  4. Click on any App you want to prevent from sucking up data in the background. It pens to reveal some setting options.
  5. Go to MOBILE DATA & WIFI and click to open it.
  6. Then you will BACKGROUND DATA, check the button beside it to shift it to the left.
  7. Switching the tab to the left deactivates the Background Data option, which stops that particular App from consuming data when the App is not in use.

4. Data Saver Settings to Prevent Loss of Expensive Android Data

Lastly, here is also another way to prevent loss of android subscription data. The Data Saver settings is a feature on all modern android OS phones that activate features that limit loss of internet subscription data. When you switch On the Data Saver, it affects the entire phone’s functionality including Apps and Hotspot. When it is on, the phone’s hotspot cannot turn on. Until you switch data Saver off, then a phone’s hotspot can go on and share data with other devices. Now, let me show you how to switch on the Data saver feature to stop loss of expensive android data.

 

How to Switch On and OFF Data Saver Settings on Android

  1. Go to SETTINGS on your android mobile phone.
  2. Scroll to SIM CARD AND MOBILE NETWORK. In some other android versions, go to the location where you will see internet network settings and networks.
  3. You will see DATA SETTINGS AND DATA USAGE. Some other versions may have a slightly different definition, but you must see Data Usage. Click to open.
  4. You will see the DATA SAVER tab, tap on it to turn it OFF or ON. When on, the tab turns blue and shifts to the right. Turning it on activates the many surface and background features inherent in the phone, which stops data loss.

 

Use More Utility Apps to Optimize Data Use

In developed countries, many successful people today have their schedules, worksheets, instruments and many more vital data centered on their smartphones. This makes it possible for them to use a larger percentage of the software installed in their smartphones thereby maximizing the use of whatever internet data access they may have subscribed to. I think Nigerians should learn from these developed world and begin to add more value to their own lives.

However, manufacturers of smartphones can also engineer a smart technology which could allow a smartphone user select some installed apps to activate while others remain inactive in the background at any point in time. This move will ensure better control over internet data usage and even a better information security against wireless internet hackers.
Considering the fact that Nigeria is still within the zone of an emerging economy, millions of smartphone users are blissfully unaware of this source of internet data loss which culminates to economic wastage. A lot could be achieved if enlightenment campaigns will be geared towards reversing the trend. The cashless policy of the Federal Government of Nigeria through its apex bank the Central Bank of Nigeria CBN could be well embraced by the larger society if smartphone users would begin to use these underlying apps which also include financial e-transact applications.
How can we propagate this awareness? How can we make Nigerians realize what they have been missing from misuse of the smartphone super-divers technology? I gladly welcome your thoughts and comments and also remember to share this post with friends and family on the social networks.

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