A bug that costs me $150 (at least) so far

[arkanoid]

I've noticed (quite a long time ago) that Dataplan Monitor shows excessive traffic usage. I was wondering what application is responsible for that.. as nethogs app is available now, i tracked it down. Turned out to be a nasty bug:

RSS reader DOES NOT honor "update via WiFi" choice in the settings

Actually it performs full background automatic update even while connected via GPRS. Unlimited data plan is not available for my contract, so it costs me - ~10Mb per $.32 = $3 a time. Do that 3 times a day when no wifi is nearby and $10 is gone. Let that happen four times a month - and there is $40. Totalling ~$150 for 3.5 months i own n900. Sounds no good? No one will compensate me that.

[craftyguy]

Originally Posted by arkanoid

I've noticed (quite a long time ago) that Dataplan Monitor shows excessive traffic usage. I was wondering what application is responsible for that.. as nethogs app is available now, i tracked it down. Turned out to be a nasty bug:

RSS reader DOES NOT honor "update via WiFi" choice in the settings

Actually it performs full background automatic update even while connected via GPRS. Unlimited data plan is not available for my contract, so it costs me - ~10Mb per $.32 = $3 a time. Do that 3 times a day when no wifi is nearby and $10 is gone. Let that happen four times a month - and there is $40. Totalling ~$150 for 3.5 months i own n900. Sounds no good? No one will compensate me that.

I could understand 1 month, but why on earth did you let it happen 3.5months in a row? Common sense would tell me "if this app caused me to go over my 1st month, I'm going to uninstall this application (or disable it) so it doesnt happen again, and then report this bug"

[arkanoid]

As i use network features much, i did not realize something is wrong until recent. I was thinking i downloaded something big (e.g. maps update) by accident and it is my own fault. And tracking it down with tcpdump or wireshark until nethogs was out is difficult -- now i could prove my suspictions quite easy.

[joppu]

https://bugs.maemo.org/

Report, please.

[arkanoid]

https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9432

[shadowjk]

I wonder if there's any option do disable application manager stuff from updating on !wifi.

[arkanoid]

App manager does not consume much traffic until you actually install updates.