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what's up guys david here from phone Volcom in this video I'm giving you my top five tips to saving or conserving data on your Android phone so tip number one is to turn off your background data on your settings so go over to your settings go to accounts and sync and you can either turn off all background data by tapping the OP button and so this is an Ice Cream Sandwich on gingerbread or below what you're going to do is same thing and go to settings and then you're going to scroll down to accounting sync but you could actually just uncheck background data hit OK and I can see these will automatically turn off so let me hit OK and there you go it turns off so anyway I'll go back to this phone and as you can see I already turned off all background data but say you don't want to do that you know I want my Gmail council sync I can just go into for example my Twitter uncheck it and then go over to like this email account and uncheck it if I wanted to as well so this is one way of you know reducing the amount of things that are synced in the background which of course take up data so that's tip number one tip number two is to either delete the widgets you're not using so a whole bunch of widgets on my home screen I'm now using the widget just delete it right off because every time those things sync up with the server for whatever widget it is for example this ESPN which is syncs with ESPN servers CNN with CNN servers etc so if I'm not using them just delete them but otherwise let's say for example this weather widget I I still want to keep it on my phone but I don't want to use as much data as it is right now I could tap on it go over to the settings now obviously the settings going to be a little bit different for each widget but I'll just use this is example so you go to the settings in this case to be under weather services and you can see the refresh interval I'm just going to push it to let's say two hours you know sometimes I see people with their phones set at 15 minutes and obviously if you set it 15 minutes every single you know hour you're gonna check it four times where if you have one hour two hours you're checking a lot less and obviously you don't really need it to check all that often so anyway that's step number two tip number three is to go over to your settings if you're an Ice Cream Sandwich or above and go to data usage and say yourself a data warning and data limits or examiner's going to set my data limit right now I have 5 gigabytes and what you can actually do is go over to your app so for example go to Facebook and if you wanted to restrict the app to only use data when you're actually opening the app itself on the screen you can do that so you can just check this restrict background data button hit OK and now Facebook won't I use the data unless I actually open the app myself so obviously if I won notifications so I can uncheck it but you get the idea you can do this with just about any app that shows up in this list and there's definitely good ways to save yourself up you know if you make bites here and there up data so now step number four or tip number four is to when you're going your browser use the mobile web sites whenever you cancel I know it's nice to look at full web sites on your Android phone because hey they can load them up but honestly mobile web sites are not only faster but they also take up a lot less data and another thing you want to do is go over to your settings and say you're just like scrolling our browsing through the New York Times you can go over to bandwidth management within the browser settings and uncheck load images so that way when you go to New York are the New York Times or whatever website you go to you can just load up just the text and that way you're not loading images because for example you know an article for example a poem of calm the text will be only like 10 kilobytes where the picture will be like 50 or 60 kilobytes so obviously if you don't really need the picture and it doesn't really even matter there's no point to load it so that's step number four or tip number four and the last tip and probably the most important is to use Wi-Fi as you can see my Wi-Fi is on any time you can and you know you don't obviously you're not always going to have access to Wi-Fi but what you can do is like for example on your Play Store you can go over to the settings and what you could do is set it to where apps only update on Wi-Fi so if you have this guy checked right here they'll only update when you're on Wi-Fi connection because you don't want to just be updating apps you know when you're on 3G or 4G because that's going to be using up your data plan so that's one thing you want to do if you're downloading apps in general try to do it when you're on a Wi-Fi connection if you're downloading email attachments if you're sending pictures to a friend or whatever it is do it over Wi-Fi because those things take up a lot of bandwidth and you know it's just really something that you could wait for most of the time so anyway those are my top five tips hopefully they help you if they do please hit the like button and subscribe and don't forget to visit bumble calm more cellphone news reviews and how to's thank you