On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Tanuva <tanuva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Am 11.11.2010 22:24, schrieb Paul Hartman: >> >> 2010/11/11 João Olavo Baião de Vasconcelos<joaoolavo@xxxxxxxxx>: >>> >>> Hi there! >>> >>> Every time I connect my n900 to 3g, I notice through Personal Dataplan >>> Monitor that it downloads almost 10 MB, even if I don't open browser or >>> login into any messenger. >>> >>> I'm guessing that the it runs like a "apt-get update" to check new >>> software >>> updates. >>> >>> Does it happen with everyone? How to disable this repository check >>> (without >>> disabling the repositories)? Or is there any other issue? >>> >>> Thanks any advice! >> >> You can change the auto-update interval: >> >> http://wiki.maemo.org/Customizing_Maemo#Disabling_Auto_Updates_Check > Moin, > > This behaviour is really annoying to me since I have 30 MB/month free data. > If about 20 MB of that get eaten by some apt-worker process updating the db > from time to time its fairly useless to me. > > Practically disabling auto update checking isn't _the_ fix since I have WLAN > available most of the time but don't want to waste 3G traffic just because > something decides that it's time for updates now. Isn't there a > network-aware solution possible? > > Marcel Practically disabling it for 1000 years should be enough... I guess if you delete(/rename) apt-worker it won't ever update again. Application Manager probably won't work either but you can use FAPMAN or just commandline apt-get tools. Official Nokia answer about this kind of stuff seems to be that N900 is made for flat-rate data plan. I think it even says so on the box. _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
