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how's it going guys is David here from bumble calm and in this video I'm gonna show you how to take control over your phone's data usage if your on versions 4.0 or higher of Android so the reason why that's important is because a lot of times carriers nowadays are charging you extra if you go over your data limit say 2 gigabytes for example so obviously you want to be able to do this and the way you do it is go over to your settings like I just did and you're going to tap on this data usage option right over here so you tap on it it brings you to this screen so I haven't set any limits just yet but let's say for example I have 2 gigabytes available this yellow line or orange line is a warning so let's say I want my phone to warn me when I reach 1 point 5 gigabytes to let me know hey you're getting close to your limit this red line is the absolute limit now right now I can't do anything because it's not enabled to enable it you have to check this little box right here and then hit OK and now you can see I could actually move this guy around so I'm just going to move it down to 2 gigabytes and what this will do is completely shut off my internet once I reach the 2 gigabyte mark so it's definitely a great way to avoid getting charged another great thing about this feature is you have a or a list of apps right over here that determines how much data each app is using so let's say for example I want to limit my CNN app from using data so it's going to use 3 megabytes in this cycle so far but I could I could actually click on it and see how much of the data or how the data is being used so for right now for example most of the data is in the foreground meaning when the apps actually open and I'm actually using it but there is some background usage about 43 kilobytes I could actually restrict that background usage and some apps will be higher than this one especially we have a widget or why not and you hit this little restrict background usage and hit OK and what it does is completely blocks out the apps data usage unless you actually physically open the app yourself so definitely another cool feature and another great way to make sure that your phone isn't wasting data when it doesn't need to be alright that's pretty much it for this video this is David for calm thanks for watching it and don't forget to visit Bombo kampf more cell phone news reviews and how to's thank you