MiniMoni is a small BlackBerry traffic monitor that logs all incoming and outgoing traffic on your BlackBerry device. I have this software installed on my BlackBerry and I don’t want to miss it to keep track of my current data usage.

Main features:

• Counts the IP traffic on GSM/GPRS/EDGE network in byte.
• Scrolling graph to visualize the traffic of the last minutes.
• Builds sums on a daily and a time period basis.
• The day the period ends in the month is configurable.
• A lot of functions can be configured in the preferences in particular to show in bytes or kbytes.
• Maintains a daily and a period’s logbook. Logbook entries can have user remarks.
• You may switch on an alarm once a particular amount of traffic volume is reached in the period.
• For devices with SD card the program can write the content of the logbook to SD.
• Separate “Traffic watch” to observe the traffic for a limited period of time separately (Testing of an application etc.)
• Supported languages are English, German and Italian.
• Auto starts on device reboot and installation of new versions.
• Tested and proofed to work on different BlackBerry devices.

New in version 1.01.01:

• The period’s alert is now a system alert in the alertprofiles of your BlackBerry.
• There is a version for 4.1 devices now. See the links on the left hand side.
• Spanish language version.

Home Screen

The two top lines contain the daily and monthly cumulated traffic. Updated every minute.
The daily will be reset at midnight and a record is added to the logbook.
The monthly will be reset at midnight at the last day of the month.

The graph in the middle shows the traffic over the last minutes. Please take into account that the amount is logarithmic by base 10. The figures are representing bytes. Updated every second.

Cycle elapsed time is an internal measurement to show how many milliseconds it takes to calculate all values during the last second. Updated every second.

In and Out show the cumulated traffic on the device since the last reboot. Updated every second. Accordingly max/s show the maximum number of bytes per second since the last restart of the program. Updated every second.

Net does show the string of the current provider name.

Volt shows the status of the voltage of the battery as well as the gauge below shows the percentage of battery load left. Updated every minute.

Logbook Screen

This screen shows the collected logbook records.

On the top the summaries are shown with the last date and time this data was written to the permanent record store.

The bottom of the screen shows the collected records. Navigation can be done with the trackball or page wise by 3 (up) and 9 (down)

Preference Screen

Show scale lines
Controls if the scale lines are shown.

Nice graphics
Controls if the header background is shaded.

Gray background
If the header is shaded this option defines if a gray or an orange color is used.

Show in kB
This switches the display to show the figures in kB instead of bytes.

Move automatically to background
If this option is checked, the application is moved to background after 60 seconds of not being used.

Never terminate
This option ensures that the application is never terminated, even if you use “Close” from the main menu.

Stop graphic in holster
Checking this, the application stops the graphical output as described above, every time the device is put into holster. Taking it out from holster restarts the graphic (if it was not stopped manually before putting the device in holster)

Reset period’s counter at period’s end
Use this to control if the period’s counter is reset automatically add the end of the period. Uncheck this here in order to use the manual reset counter function.

Billing day
This is the day in month when the period’s cut should happen. The following rules apply:

• The cut is done at 00:00:00 this day every month.
• If the application was not running at this time, it is done on the next start.
• If the actual month has less days then “Billing day”, the cut occurs at the last day of the month.
• In the logbook screen line 4 you can see the start and end of the actual period.

Enable period’s limit alert
If this option is checked the device gives a vibration and optical alert once the limit (in bytes) is reached. Please take into account, that the traffic measured this way, does not necessarily fits to the one you find on your bill. In dependency of your cost model there might different ways of rounding.

Period’s limit (in bytes)
Enter the number of bytes after the alert should be raised.

Disable alert in holster
Decide if the alert should be given in holster as well.

Please note as well that this will work on GSM/GPRS/EDGE networks only.

Go to http://www.ehnert.net/MiniMoni/ for downloading.