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Stats - No More Unpleasant Suprises
Tested version: 1.5.5
Latest version: 1.6.4
Requires Android: from 1.5
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Summary
A quick chat with your girlfriend, the obligatory weekly conversation with your mother who’s worried sick about you and all those text messages inviting you to parties on the weekend…
It’s hard to keep track or even estimate how many minutes and text messages you use monthly. Have you gone over your plan’s limit? Have you sent one too many texts? It’s always a gamble when you open last month’s phone bill.
Stats is meant to add a bit more clarity and order to your cell phone use. Find out if you can finally stop worrying about your monthly bills in our test.
Features & Use
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If you don’t want any sudden surprises to come up on next month’s cell phone bill, you’ve come to the right place. Stats keep track of the following data:
- Incoming calls
- Outgoing calls
- Incoming text messages
- Outgoing text messages
- 2G/3G/4G Data Use
- Wi-Fi Data Use
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. With a simple tap on one of these categories, you can access more detailed information and make the necessary adjustments. For every category you can set a limit, reset the counters or schedule an automatic reset. In addition to the number of minutes/text messages/data used, you can also view the total number of calls as well as receiving and sent data.
When you set-up a limit, you can see what percentage of your limit you’ve already used up. Press the menu button to access Preferences, where you have the following options:
- Update Interval (1min, 5 min, 15 min, 30 min, …)
- Medium Threshold (Set the threshold for medium usage notifications)
- High Threshold (Set the threshold for high usage notifications)
- Critical Threshold (Threshold for disabling 2G/3G/4G)
- Rounding up incoming/outgoing calls (30/30, 60/1, 60/10, 60/30, 60/60, 240/240, 300/300)
- Import/Export (Save all your limits and counters to the SD card in order to restore them if needed)
So far, so good, right? Well, before you get all excited there are a couple of important things you should know! According to the developer, don’t select a frequent Update Interval or you’ll drain your battery in the blink of an eye. Keep in mind that any text messages that are deleted between update intervals won’t be included in the statistic. Thankfully, the app automatically updates every time you start it up. Although setting a Critical Threshold disables your 2G/3G/4G networks, it doesn’t prevent you from receiving MMS. WARNING: Restarting your phone will erase any of these settings and turn mobile internet data back on.
Bottom Line:
The app is great for keeping track of your monthly cell phone statements. Some nice additions would be: a history of your previous monthly, the possibility of setting a price for every text message/minute and getting rid of the restart bug. Stats is still not entirely compatible with the latest devices like, for example, the HTC Wildfire. A list of supported devices can be seen on the last screenshot.
Screen & Controls
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“Less is more” seems to have been the motto behind this app. The design is definitely not Oscar-worthy, but is simple and easy to navigate. All the functions are well explained and are easy to use.
A widget (like in DroidStats) would’ve added a nice touch to this functional app.
Speed & Stability
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Stats ran just fine on my Desire with Android 2.2 (Froyo) without any crashes or lags.
Price/Performance Ratio
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Stats can be downloaded for free and doesn’t include any ads.
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Market Comments
Gary0007, Sep 26, 2012
Flash phone.. Counts calls, but not data on my pageplus htc thunderbolt (simcard upgrade). Loved the app on my other phone. Simple, clear... Wish this worked. Ideas?
Anonymous, Sep 7, 2012
Rubbish Had it installed less than an hour, it said i had made 20 hours of calls, sent 835 texts and used 100mb data when i didn't use the phone at all.
Connie, Aug 29, 2012
Great app I've used this app for two years, and it's always been exact. However, I just upgraded to a 4g LTE phone, and the data doesn't register, even though wifi does. Why is that?
deep, Jul 29, 2012
nt so good doesnt show data usage on wifi link..reinstalld bt problm persists..deserves only 3
Chris, Jun 20, 2012
Needs updating Counter for mobile internet doesn't seem to work with icecream sandwich update
Georgia, Jun 20, 2012
Does what is promised... ...but could do with a few more functions. My suggestions: add an option to receive a monthly report on your usage for that month (for those of us who reset every month, but don't remember to check before the automatic reset) OR a usage history archive. The alerts are v. good for people who have difficulty keeping to your caps, but sadly not v. useful for my voice caps because it doesn't differentiate between calls within the network (which are free) and calls to other mobile networks, but that would be a bit difficult to develop. Therefore I only use it for texts and data. Mine reset on the wrong day this month, though. Don't know what happened...
bc, Jun 15, 2012
Good app This is good in simple and just nice app. Hope to see adding some few month history data. I found a bug with my Galaxy S that when import data from latest backup data was not accurate.thks.
Jamal, May 27, 2012
Not working properly Suddenly the app would not track any outgoing calls made and shows 0mins all the time. Using on HTC one x.
Jen, May 3, 2012
Can't add number & time exclusions. Going back to Traffic Counter. HTC Incredible S
Will, Apr 19, 2012
Works great! Would be good to see previous months usage, and to the guy who thinks it mis-counts texts, you realise long texts count as two or three sometimes?
I guess being open source would grant it an additional point, in my mind at least: it certainly improves availability.