Data functions not working

Hardware Librem 5
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Last night I was able to get onto telegram that I downloaded using Flathub/flatpaks, but in the morning I couldn’t do anything that requires data, which sometimes happens I just have to toggle the cellular kill switch on and off. I can connect to my wifi and then it all works. Is there a way to know if I have just ran out of data?

I was reading about vnstat, not sure how good that is, but I saw a sudo apt command for sudo apt-get install vnstat, but I am uncomfortable making the attempt without someone who knows more about Linux chiming in, as I am still green to all this stuff.
Also does anyone know if there are commands that would be useful for this?

Thanks

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Log in to your account at your mobile service provider and check the data balance, or call their customer support.

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I did of course. I don’t see it on the site.

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Just out of curiosity, are you using Purism’s AweSIM service or a different provider?

As for vnstat, I unfortunately don’t think it works retroactively. I just installed it on my laptop as a test, and while it can see when I actively use bandwidth, it doesn’t have any history to show.

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The vnstat can be found from vnStat - a network traffic monitor for Linux and BSD which has a lot of info, manuals and screenshots - seems just what you need.

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It is through Purism

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Let me ask you this then, if you don’t mind, is the data only on my device or does the program report my data to some third party? If I can keep it on my phone I’m all for it. Thanks for the quick response btw, I’m surprised by how quick many of the responses are.

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It’s a scrip terminal program that runs in your terminal. It’s local database that you can config (see).

Btw. It can do alerts too (not sure how those are seen in L5). The data is usually easy to see from terminal (and you can make those into scripts that launch from icons). But for advanced use it also offers image generation of data (see)

(edit to add: I knew this sounded familiar - similar conversation: Mobile Data Usage … probably why the answer happened to be at hand)

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Is it possible that this is just an interface binding / changing problem?

Or it may be a modem-host software problem? (Modem requires periodic “kick”?)

Do you mean: anything that requires data at all (so not even a vanilla web surf or a ping of a host on the internet) or anything within Telegram that requires data?

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Correct, anything that requires data at all. Before that however it was requiring a flicking on and off of the modem, so my phone may have both of your alluded to pathology simultaneously.

Although I suspect I am out of data and before that just the first one. All of the above conditions seem possible, but either way that app seems beneficial for future diagnosis.

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Thank you. I think that is enough information for me to download the program and I suppose I can learn more quickly from using it. I will have to download it over my wifi though.

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