Nokia releases data Counter app in beta for Lumia Windows Phone
Keep track of your data, calls and messages with Nokia
Another day, another Nokia app is released you know the drill.
Today’s release is the much-anticipated ‘Counters’, which allows you to track your usage for calls, messaging and data. You simply add in your monthly billing data and restrictions and the app will do the rest for you.
What’s cool about this release is this is a Windows Phone 8 feature made for ‘7’ by Nokia—so don’t ever say they don’t do anything for you. In Windows Phone 8, the app is called DataSense and can do a bit more e.g. push browser data through a proxy server for compression. While you don’t get that here you do get the rest, which is quite a useful feature for many of us.
That’s the good news. The bad news is for AT&T users. Much like the Contact Share app released over the weekend this app will not run without the latest firmware from Nokia. That firmware is tied to the “Tango” (8773) update but it is not the OS that’s doing it, it’s Nokia’s firmware (we manually updated to Tango on our AT&T phone and still can't run it). So be warned. AT&T users should be getting their OS/firmware updated later this summer.
For now, you can jump in on the beta, assuming you’re logged in to Nokia’s server and get the program. In fact, you can probably just try this link for the Marketplace to see if you can download directly. The QR will also scan for you. Being in beta there are known limitations which are the following:
- there are no notifications when set limit is achieved (will come later)
- conference calls are not counted properly
- not possible to set data limit counter with a fractional part (i.e. not possible to set 1.5GB limit)
Source: Nokia Beta; Thanks, Sithick and J_v for the tips
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Jf.Vigor says:
I have a titan and love the hardware. Love the phone dearly. But I am getting increasingly more jealous of Nokia users!
vikrant6 says:
Me too :-(
Get Used To This says:
Just use pageonce
omagic82 says:
I have a 900 on at&t and the device is great, but I wish I still had my Titan.
jfa1 says:
So I guess this means the new firmware/os for ATT Lumia 900 will be coming between now and the end of August. I have tried very hard o remain as im;passive as possible about the lack of urgency displayed by our premier partner my carrier ATT. But it seems that ATT while carrying the most WP's is less inclined than most carriers to get out the updates in particular for their self proclaimed "hero " device.
inteller says:
ATT's lack of updates is almost criminal.
missionsparta says:
HEY! ANOTHER APP I CANT GET BECAUSE I WONT SWITCH TO AT&T!!!
dalydose says:
Ha! If you were on AT&T, you'd be the last to get this because AT&T holds up updates. The "premiere" partner tends to push them out last...if ever at all.
awesumjon says:
Or Tmo. Lumia 710 is also a Lumia phone. Just smaller.
missionsparta says:
Lumia 710 is a FisherPrice phone disguised as a Nokia.
jfa1 says:
And they're really helping the image of Nokia in the process!
wheelerk says:
Yeah need the update to run this app
gorebashd says:
This sucks. Wanted to try it out. Hurry up update!!
restlessdan says:
Cool I have been waiting for this. One thing I feel is missing is you should be able to pin the individual counters. As I would have my data on the start screen as everything else is unlimited.
Or just add live tile in general.
Crushing Destroyer says:
Someone suggested this on the Beta Labs site. The staff reply was:
Thanks for the feedback! We will try it. It will be quite difficult to have live tile updated in real time. What if it will update every 30 minutes?
I would be ok with 1/2 hour updates!
irlju#WP says:
Live Tiles can't update faster than every half hour if you use the standard periodic background agent. Still way better than checking usage on a carrier site, which is often 24 hours behind.
Verkunder says:
I manually updated to Tango as well and it isn't working for me. What gives?
Daniel Rubino says:
I assume you didn't read the full article where I specifically mention that it is the FIRMWARE not the OS that enables this?
I swear, I'm going to enable a popup before people can publish a comment asking if they read the full post in its entirety and undertood it :-P
Verkunder says:
Thanks for taking me for a plebian.
Quote: (we manually updated to Tango on our AT&T phone and still can run it).
Okay, so did I. Where did you get the firmware?
Daniel Rubino says:
lol, okay I fess up that's my fault. It should read "can't run it"
First day on a Mac as AA/Delta can't find my luggage with my Lenovo :-/
Shane says:
Lol. Blame it on the Mac, must be their award winning keyboard.;-) Anyway, any ETA or educated guess to when NOK will roll out the firmware and/or Tango?
lerimer says:
Hahahahaha. Even then people would just clock the pop up in order to comment. Hahahahaha
lerimer says:
Click^
holmesr says:
Hehe.. Do you really think that popup is gonna make difference? I didn't think so. :)
Ton77 says:
Needs update (firmware or OS) To work.
CyclingNut says:
For everyone on AT&T: the myAT&t app works well to give you data and voice usage. It doesn't have live tiles but at least it works for all devices.
VikArmo says:
Finally! Works great on my Lumia 900.
AndreHBuss says:
Nokia Lumia 900 by AT&T ... No tango... :|
dKp1977 says:
Works great on my Lumia 900. Even though no official WP8 will be making its way onto this device, Nokia shows a great commitment and support.
ImmortalWarrior says:
On Rogers here. I forced the "Tango" update weeks ago with the Zune trick and the app won't work. Says I need the update. OS version is 8773.98 and firmware (last two segments) is 8107.12084.
Did anyone on Rogers get this to work?
hossiam says:
Not working on my Rogers 900 and I updated when Zune prompted me, did not force the update.
ImmortalWarrior says:
Dang. I really like the idea of this app. I'm excited to use it.
rutvik19 says:
Is it fair to assume that this app is really targeted towards non-att users? I ask this because Att users already have access to a basic counter app call "my att".
trickym81 says:
I'm using a Rogers Lumia 710 on Fido and I can get the app by scanning the QR code listed.
I used the "trick" to get Tango a while ago.
Crushing Destroyer says:
Works on my Telus Lumia 800.
hungtt7 says:
I am a user of MobiFone in Vietnam. I tried this app and it worked with my Lumia 710.
Thanks!
dkp23 says:
Thanks ATT, you suck...luckily, verizon sucks worse :o
britishboy86 says:
I can't run this app because it saying I need to update my phone but I got 7.5 so idk y
CJ Thunder says:
Does Nokia doing this mean 7.8 won't be getting this?
oldgaius says:
Pretty much. Don't expect anything other than homescreen and possibly aesthetic changes like updated tiles. Functionality? We've been given no reason to expect it, so don't bank on it.
scottaii says:
What a great company, cheers Nokia!
oldgaius says:
Very useful, thanks Nokia!
ImmortalWarrior says:
Can someone confirm the firmware version required to run this?
newneo says:
Ending in 12220
dalydose says:
Surprise!! AT&T is holding out on an update. My other WinPhone, the Samsung Focus, is STILL waiting for the "vanishing keyboard" bug fix that Microsoft made available go them in January.
They are beyond sucking. At this point it's negligence.
alanjafid says:
Cheers for Nokia. Working on México, under Movistar on Lumia 710
Crazydude38 says:
Works fine on lumia 710
newneo says:
Yep working on my Lumia 800. UK country variant on o2 fully updated with tango and firmware. Like these little apps that Nokia are releasing.
TheMofaDe says:
This app awesome
edrichcyster says:
Thank you Nokia! Just installed Counters on my Lumia 900 in South Africa on MTN. Going to be very useful. I've been waiting for this for a while. So happy I decided to go with Nokia even after knowing I wouldn't get WP8 :-D Nokia is the best
techygeek82 says:
I may get blasted for 'defending' AT&T here, but I just want to note that there are NO Tango Updates even available for the AT&T branded Lumia 900 when I look in the NaviFirm tool. To me, this says that Nokia doesn't even have the update ready to hand off to AT&T. AT&T has done good so far with the Lumia 900 with pushing out the updates that Nokia HAS released so far, so I suspect they are just waiting for the final bits to test and release.
dkp23 says:
Just to refreshen my memory, what update did ATT push out for the 900?
Other than the update to fix the data bug when the phone released, was ATT heavily invovled with that? Nokia announced the release of that, not ATT if i recall correctly.
So essentially, ATT doesnt have an update track record for the 900 yet or i just dont remember.
ExcaliburII says:
On Rogers in canada here. I can download the app. But then it comes back as:
Sorry but this app won't work with this version of Windows Phone. The good new is you can downlaod an update from Zune.
I have Tango, but missing the firmware...:(
Working on a 900
smasithick says:
I love Nokia :)
stevethenerd says:
Thank you Nokia for releasing another app that requires me to update my phone... I already have 8773.98, which to my knowledge is the highest possible update available. :)
rohitsingh says:
Works perfectly fine on my 800 in India. Though one small desired feature would be separate counters for 2g n 3g data.
Barezi-v says:
Just install on my wife Lumia 710. Lets see how its work. I would allso like that kinde app for my Omnia 7 :'(
Shantek says:
Downloaded the app, and tried to enter my data limit of 1.5 gig. The Mb limit only takes 3 numbers and the GB limit doesn't take a decimal. So kind of looks like a bit of an oversight with the app
Daniel Rubino says:
It's beta and that issue was already mention by Nokia in our post...
J_v says:
http://betalabs.nokia.com/trials/counters/suggestion
responses:
"Thanks for trying and feedback! Will will have more detailed information for data counter in next version, so that one can see not only 0/2 GB, but a more detailed report like you said."
"Yep. We will do it in update. We have mentioned it in limitations of the current version."
Shantek says:
Nice one.. Kudos to Nokia for all this exclusive software.. Hands down my wp8 device will be a Nokia :)
Bushybro says:
Anyone want to start a twitter campaign against AT&T. I'm serious. U can't claim to be the premier partner and then pull ish like this. @bushybro, lets do this
FacilisDK says:
Thank you nokia, and thank you WPCentral for the link.
Works great on my Danish L900 on "three" (3).
EyoSama says:
Doesn't work on the 900 on Rogers in Canada either.
holzlondon says:
Does anyone know if this app will somehow be able to identify different kinds of calls? In Germany, we typically have contracts that have separated minutes for:
- landlines
- mobile numbers within our network
- mobile numbers outside of our network
The same applies for text messages.
Just as an example: I have a contract with
- unlimited landline calls
- unlimited t-mobile calls
- 120 mins into other mobile networks
- unlimited t-mobiel texts
- 40 free texts to other networks
- 1GB 3G data, throttled to GPRS speed after that
I don't know if this app can understand different kinds of call & text allowances from what I can see.
I would probably have to identify which peoples' mobile numbers are on which network, because that can't be 100% identified by the number.
maxnaughty says:
It doesn't work for me.
I have a Nokia 800 on Telecom NZ...
OS Version: 7.10.8773.98
Firmware Revision: 1600.2487.8107.12070
Sounds like a need a Firmware bump!
vizagdude says:
I've downloaded the Counters App on my NL900 ATT Black. For some reason it is not working. Every time I launch the app, it gives me a message that this app does not work with my version of WP. It asks me to connect to Zune and upate the OS version.
I've updated my NL 900 to Tango 8773.98 via the XDA guide. Yet, this app does not work on my NL900. Any ideas as to whats the issue?
jfa1 says:
You might also need the firmware which was the last update of the three in the update released today for it to work.
jfa1 says:
Just got the Tango update went back and found this post and did the QR thing Nice app. Thanks Nokia!!!!
TallPaul86 says:
Really looking forward to seeing this being updated with Live Tile support...
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dandunk says:
Windows 8 app made for 7? Am I missing a setting? Saw this talked about in the WP8 video release. Loved it on my 900, but wont install on my 920 and can't find it in the native software. Am I just overlooking something simple?
