Avoiding accidental GPRS usage

[Guest Webreaper]

I use GPRS Monitor (comes free with the XDA Mini S) and noticed yesterday that despite having only had the XDA for 7 days, I seem to have clocked up 6.5Mb of data usage already. Now, I'm not too worried about this, as my O2 contract includes 5Mb free in the first month - but I can't continue like that!! :shock:

The annoying thing is that I haven't knowingly used the GPRS connection very much at all - I send an email (via my own text-based webmail service) and have done a bit of IM chatting, but certainly nothing that would even clock up to 1Mb, let alone 6!! :?:

I have, however, done a fair bit of surfing, emailing, downloading of stuff and so on across the wifi network at home, so I can only assume that what's happened is that I've unwittingly done this via GPRS sometimes, without realising I wasn't using the wifi connection. :|

So, question is, is there any setting or software which will allow me to stop GPRS connecting unless I explicitly choose to connect? Occasionally the 'GPRS Connecting' dialog appears but it seems that a lot of the time the phone just auto-connects without letting me know it's doing so...

[Guest Webreaper]

Found the answer in another thread (which I now can't find). I've set up a dummy connection called 'not connected' and set that as my default GPRS connection. That way if Wifi isn't available, I get an error, rather than clocking up a GPRS bill. What would be nice would be a shortcut to switch connections with a quick menu option or icon, but it's not the end of the world.

As an aside (slightly related) what is the O2 Active connection, how does it differ from Mobile Web, and do I need it?

[Guest Zim]

Hey there, well what i do is change the url of the gprs and add .old on it.. so when the thing tried to connect, it says invalid name or something.. and when i want to use gprs just remove the ".old" and bingo ya connected.. just gotta remember to change it back once ya done using it..

ZIm