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Re: Still trying to use mobile data when turned off?

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In article <3be20ea2-8f77-4acc-bd12-938e5c8a71c8@googlegroups.com>,
R. Mark Clayton <notyalckram@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday, 15 July 2016 10:52:59 UTC+1, Tony Mountifield  wrote:
> > I recently went on holiday from the UK to mainland Europe, and took
> > my Samsung Galaxy S4 running Android 5.0.1 on the EE network.
> > 
> > Before I went, I turned off Roaming Data, and also turned off Mobile Data
> > completely.
> > 
> > As I entered each country (France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany),
> > I still received texts from EE saying "From EE: Your device is trying to
> > connect to the internet. To get online abroad, choose a data add-on."
> > 
> > So my question is, if roaming data and mobile data are both turned off
> > (I checked again each time), why were these messages getting triggered?
> 
> I don't know about your phone, but on mine if you turn off 3G or enter battery saving mode, it still trickles data in over GPRS / EDGE.

If I left Mobile Data on, and just turned off 3G, that's what I would expect
too. But I would have expected turning off Mobile Data should stop it trying
to do anything except Voice and SMS, whether it has a 2G, 3G or 4G signal.

If I'm in a poor signal location I often turn off Mobile Data in order to
save on battery life.

> Not sure of the financial consequences if abroad.

For me, none, I hope, since I needed to register before it would establish
a data connection, and I didn't.

Cheers
Tony
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Still trying to use mobile data when turned off? tony@mountifield.org (Tony Mountifield) - 2016-07-15 09:52 +0000
  Re: Still trying to use mobile data when turned off? Someone Somewhere <nntpac@gmail.com> - 2016-07-15 11:02 +0100
    Re: Still trying to use mobile data when turned off? The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2016-07-15 08:06 -0700
      Re: Still trying to use mobile data when turned off? tony@mountifield.org (Tony Mountifield) - 2016-07-16 08:10 +0000
        Re: Still trying to use mobile data when turned off? Someone Somewhere <nntpac@gmail.com> - 2016-07-16 10:20 +0100
          Re: Still trying to use mobile data when turned off? Graham. <graham-usenet@mail.com> - 2016-07-16 12:26 +0100
            Re: Still trying to use mobile data when turned off? Someone Somewhere <nntpac@gmail.com> - 2016-07-16 13:34 +0100
  Re: Still trying to use mobile data when turned off? David Taylor <david-taylor@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid> - 2016-07-15 11:04 +0100
    Re: Still trying to use mobile data when turned off? Roland Perry <roland@perry.co.uk> - 2016-07-15 13:26 +0100
      Re: Still trying to use mobile data when turned off? David Taylor <david-taylor@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid> - 2016-07-15 14:24 +0100
        Re: Still trying to use mobile data when turned off? Roland Perry <roland@perry.co.uk> - 2016-07-16 08:17 +0100
          Re: Still trying to use mobile data when turned off? David Taylor <david-taylor@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid> - 2016-07-16 10:09 +0100
            Re: Still trying to use mobile data when turned off? Roland Perry <roland@perry.co.uk> - 2016-07-16 10:38 +0100
              Re: Still trying to use mobile data when turned off? Hergen Lehmann <hlehmann.expires.5-11@snafu.de> - 2016-07-16 13:10 +0200
                Re: Still trying to use mobile data when turned off? Optimist <v.meldrew@i.do.not.believe.it> - 2016-07-16 14:30 +0100
                Re: Still trying to use mobile data when turned off? Bob Martin <bob.martin@excite.com> - 2016-07-17 08:14 +0100
                Re: Still trying to use mobile data when turned off? Roland Perry <roland@perry.co.uk> - 2016-07-17 10:53 +0100
  Re: Still trying to use mobile data when turned off? "Woody" <harrogate3@ntlworld.com> - 2016-07-15 11:31 +0100
  Re: Still trying to use mobile data when turned off? "R. Mark Clayton" <notyalckram@gmail.com> - 2016-07-15 04:49 -0700
    Re: Still trying to use mobile data when turned off? tony@mountifield.org (Tony Mountifield) - 2016-07-15 13:42 +0000
      Re: Still trying to use mobile data when turned off? "R. Mark Clayton" <notyalckram@gmail.com> - 2016-07-16 05:10 -0700
      Re: Still trying to use mobile data when turned off? Mark Carver <invalid.invalid@gmx.net> - 2016-07-17 13:08 +0100

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