You surely know that after the arrival of 3G, then 4G, it is now 5G that is starting to land on our territory. The more recent developments in the internet, the more things you can achieve with your HUAWEI P20 Lite. It's really practical! And for those who had the chance to test the first versions of the web, you had to switch off your landline mobile phone to be able to use the internet and display an image in several minutes, and up to several tens of hours for a film ... Now it only takes a few minutes for a film in 4K for those who are equipped with fiber. This will also be the case for you with 5G which will turn everything upside down. However, our internet plans are not really unlimited plans, and we are generally limited to 50, 100 or 200 GB per month for the most important plans. It is therefore essential, depending on your consumption, to manage it well so as not to find yourself short of mobile data.
This is precisely what we are going to present to you today, we will find out how to determine a mobile data limit on your HUAWEI P20 Lite. In this context, first, we will briefly explain to you in a little more detail the reason why it is essential to manage your internet package. Then, the different ways of limit the consumption of your internet data on your HUAWEI P20 Lite.
Why set a mobile data limit on your HUAWEI P20 Lite?
We therefore begin this guide by briefly explaining to you the reason why it is advisable to control the mobile data consumption of your HUAWEI P20 Lite. You probably do not know if you ever use very little mobile internet data until today or if you ever have WiFi at home, however, most current 4G plans are limited in terms of data volume and the bandwidth (download speed) is significantly reduced once you exceed this volume.
It's when we go for a weekend or the internet at home is not working and we use our HUAWEI P20 Lite in tethering that we realize that data is consumed particularly quickly ... Watching a few videos or getting lost on social media are really greedy activities and your internet plan may not last long if you ever plan to do this for a whole month.
It is mainly for this type of situation that it may be advisable to use a limitation of the data of your HUAWEI P20 Lite so as not to be surprised and end up with a particularly slow connection, something to which we are concerned. elsewhere no longer at all accustomed and that we live particularly badly most of the time because we are so used to broadband. Downloading a photo can take a few tens of seconds, a few minutes for a loaded web page, and you should not even expect to be able to watch a video, even in poor quality ...
The method to limit the consumption of mobile data on its HUAWEI P20 Lite?
We now move on to the practical part of this guide, we will tell you how to limit the data consumption of your HUAWEI P20 Lite. Fortunately this manipulation is very simple and you will not need to be an expert in new technology to control your consumption on the internet.
You will be able to define a data consumption alert threshold to warn you when you exceed a certain consumption. And one limit which when exceeded will block mobile data connections to avoid over consumption. If you want you can furthermore discover how to save battery on your HUAWEI P20 Lite.
How to determine a mobile data consumption alert threshold on a HUAWEI P20 Lite?
First of the possibilities that we want to show you, it is simply a prevention technique, it will be used to alert you when you exceed a first level of data consumption, but without blocking your package. A good solution to leave you a margin while being informed that you will have to start paying attention to keep the package for the rest of the month. Find out below the procedure to follow to settle it:
- Go to the “Settings” of your HUAWEI P20 Lite
- Then in the “Connections” menu, press “Use of mobile data”
- In the parameters of this tab, you will be able to set a threshold "Data warning" , just click on it to configure the data volume from which you want to be alerted by notification
How to set a data consumption block limit on a HUAWEI P20 Lite?
If you want to be more radical and you want, after setting a warning, find a solution to completely block your data consumption so as not to use everything, for example, by having started the download of a non-essential update, the best of the alternatives going to be to set a blocking limit for your internet package. In this way, there is no more risk of consuming everything without realizing it. We advise you to set this limit at 80 or even 90% of your plan to make sure you keep enough for the mandatory things:
- Go to the “Connections” menu of your HUAWEI P20 Lite, you will find it in the latter's settings
- In the "Use of mobile data" tab, you can access the settings by clicking on the small cogwheel at the top right of your screen
- From now on, you will just have to activate first if you have not already done so. "Data limit definition" and then define the data volume to which you want to set the block
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