Comments on: Verizon Kills the Data Usage Widget Days Before Family Share Kicks in, We Hope They Have a New Solution

By: Aron

Aron — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 19:36:00 +0000

There’s a new 3rd party set of widgets on the Play Store now called Verizon Usage Widgets.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hoeksoft.minute.widget.verizon

By: mel

mel — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 15:20:00 +0000

Ummm thats because the data widget monitors YOUR phones data usage and with share everything, the data is shared. You can still check usage on my verizon mobile or set up data alerts online so you dont even have to worry about it.

By: marballe

marballe — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 02:39:00 +0000

Unknown reasons? What about: killing the data usage
widget so that people can’t easily track their usage, which lead to
extra revenue on overage charges.

By: DW

DW — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:22:00 +0000

Didn’t Verizon know they were changing their data plans? You would have thought they would have updated the software to correspond with it. Oh wait…that would actually take some thought to do something for the Verizon customer. SMH.

By: michael arazan

michael arazan — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 07:24:00 +0000

Well a lot of people are P.O.’ed about the new tiers with the minimal amount of data, plans should have started out at like 6, 8, 10, 12, 16, 20 gb data for family plans. Verizon designed it to make people go over limits. And they don’t have a great track record with keeping their apps running well either after changing them around.

By: michael arazan

michael arazan — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 07:17:00 +0000

What about everyone else who isn’t on data sharing ?> F them? For those w/o ICS 4.0 and aren’t on data share are going to have to go to website and log in every time to track usage?

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 01:45:00 +0000

can we ban this person?

By: Charles Partain

Charles Partain — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:09:00 +0000

I am currently running ICS from the soak — the Data Widget functions fine. What the heck are all of you whinning about?

By: bigden75

bigden75 — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 23:32:00 +0000

The data widget only tracks the phone number its on not the whole account.

By: Jack Coleman

Jack Coleman — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 21:25:00 +0000

So? droid razr + ics = data tracking in settings > fugly widget.

By: capecodcarl

capecodcarl — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 21:23:00 +0000

Doesn’t work on my HTC Rezound’s Mobile Hotspot. Just pops up a window saying “Warning: If you would like to subscribe to Mobile Hotspot/Mobile Broadband Connect, call: Consumer: (800) 256-4646, Business: (800) 899-4249.”

By: capecodcarl

capecodcarl — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 21:18:00 +0000

Maybe the data they’re using for billing purposes and the data they want you to see are two different numbers.

By: MoneyTalks

MoneyTalks — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 21:02:00 +0000

Don’t blame Verizon! We, the customers, are allowing this to happen. Does anyone believe that if ALL the folks who can upgrade now, decided to use a flip phone instead of a smart phone that it wouldn’t force Verizon to re-do their plan? Money talks, people. It will not get any better until enough folks don’t upgrade, go to a non-data plan phone ore leave Verizon (if there is a better alternative). As long as the customer base pays whatever Verizon demands then we haven’t seen the end of this! Think about what happened with NetFlix. They demanded more for less and the people left them in droves. Even though they agreed not to do all their plans, they still have not regained their full market share they had before!

By: Ricky

Ricky — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 20:29:00 +0000

Probally because they know people will see how fast their data is being used up with that new Family Share plan.

By: Mike Duren

Mike Duren — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 20:17:00 +0000

Verizon: “Whent over your limit bro? *trollface* “.