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Re: Mobile data switch on Network Indicator

 

Our competition has a clear way to do this via the attached screen.

Cheers,
Randall.

On 01/20/2016 11:29 AM, Marcus Tomlinson wrote:
> The currently accepted method to doing this is to switch on flight
> mode, then turn WiFi back on. Do you feel that this is too convoluted?
> As far as I know, this is the same for Android devices.
>
>> On 20 Jan 2016, at 12:43 PM, Heroldich Robin <robinhero@xxxxxxxxxx
>> <mailto:robinhero@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>> Hey all!
>>
>> I have been using a Bq Aquaris E4.5 phone as my daily driver for more
>> than 10 months and I really love it. Last month my mother's phone was
>> broken, so we needed to look for a new one. And we've bought a Bq
>> Aquaris E5 to her. She really likes it. The only problem is that she
>> has a SIM card with a very low amount of mobile data (50MB) and she
>> easily runs out of this limit if she doesn't turned mobile data off
>> when she doesn't use it. But on the Network Indicator there are
>> switches only for Airplane mode, WiFi and Hotspot, there isn't any
>> for Mobile data. So she needs to open System Settings everytime when
>> she wants to enable or disable it. Is there a reason behind the
>> decision to there's no switch for this purpose? If no, could you
>> provide a switch for mobile data on this indicator too? She and I
>> would really pleased. Thanks.
>>
>> p.s.: Thanks everyone for you hard work.
>>
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