Verizon Motorola Droid 4 ... Too many apps running, burning up bandwidth..

[Fumesucker]

A neighbor and friend of mine just got the above smartphone and in a week they've nearly used up their 1 GB bandwidth for the month. Evidently there's about a dozen apps that they just can't shut off and have them stay that way, even the "app-killer" app won't do it according to them..

They know almost nothing about this phone and I'm not a smart phone owner so I don't know much either. Neighbor needs the phone for work but can't afford to run over on their data plan, any advice or tips on how to deal with this would be welcome.

[Old and In the Way]

1. If they are using WiFi, it shouldn't be a problem

You can shut off the cell network data usage by going to Settings/Wireless&Networks/Mobile Networks. Click off "Data Enabled" and "Global Data Roaming". This will then only allow the Android device applications to use the WiFi or Bluetooth (if turned on) to access data. Typically, I use under a Gig of data per month, and most of that (80%) is downloaded via WiFi.

I would suggest that they download a Data Counter widget from the Google Store. I use one: Datacounter (http://android.roysolberg.com/datacounter). It's free and lets you look at the data usage by day, week, or month.

[Fumesucker]

2. Data Enabled-Off worked to get the bandwidth use under control..

Turns out they had put Norton antivirus on the thing which was burning up a lot of bandwidth constantly updating and some other thing a "friend" had put on there that was doing some very strange stuff.

Thanks for the help.