Samsung Galaxy 5 Burning through Data while on WiFi Help!

[vivkirk]

My new Samsung Galaxy 5 is burning through Data while on WiFi.  I turn off the WiFi when I leave my house, yet when I open my phone WiFi things must be going on because it's burning data.  I only use Data when I have WiFi available.  What is Verizon Doing?  What haven't they told us?  I turned off the "automatic" Facebook video that would be moving when I turned on Facebook, but it seemed to be able to connect to Facebook and my email and everything when I have WiFi OFF.  I wanted to look up an old email and saw it loading new email when I was not connected to WiFi.  How can I turn this off?  What is the deal?

[tikibar1 · Accepted solution]

I'm assuming you have mobile data turned off or have the phone in airplane mode (with wi-fi on) to ensure that you're not using data when not connected to wi-fi?  This article may be of interest:

9 ways to stay below your data cap on Android and iOS | TechHive