KDEConnect using background mobile data

[Albert Vaca]

That is probably a bug then, I will have a look. Maybe the app also
broadcasts to looks for devices on the mobile network as well as wifi under
some circumstances (even though the access point in this case won't
propagate the message to any device).

On Oct 14, 2016 18:33, "Anton Vinny" <antonvinny at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Albert. But the usage is that of mobile data and not wifi. I didn't
> understand what you meant by "Android OS has no way to know it." You mean
> to say Android miscalculated the wifi data for mobile data?
>
> Regards,
> Anton
>
> On 14-Oct-2016 9:19 PM, "Albert Vaca" <albertvaka at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> It uses wifi to talk to your computer or other kdeconnects on the
>> network. It *never* reaches the Internet, but the Android OS has no way to
>> know it.
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 8:58 AM, Anton Vinny <antonvinny at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Guys,
>>>  I recently noticed the the KDE connect app was using mobile data in the
>>> background. But I couldn't find out any reason as to why ? Afaik, it uses
>>> wifi only. Can someone explain as to why it used mobile data?
>>>
>>>
>>> I am using the latest version of KDEConnect app and the desktop version
>>> should be the latest one available in fedora repo. (i don't know the exact
>>> versions at the moment.)
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Anton
>>>
>>
>>
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