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3g off edge/gprs on

is this possible for android phones???
i want to turn off 3g since im having poor 3g reception and i believe this drains the battery faster...
i was able to swithch from 3g to edge/gprs(only) in my previous blackberry for push emails and turn the 3g on again when im at a good 3g coverage area
and do some heavy browsing
all i can find in my phone is "disable mobile data" well that means no data connection at all right???
any help guys??? thanks...

Menu/Settings/Wireless & Networks/Mobile Networks/Network Mode/GSM Only
I think will do it

It would be awesome if a one click widget for this toggle could be developed. Every day I find myself switching between 2G and 3G manually, repeatedly.
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There is an App in the market called 2G-3G OnOff by Curvefish
Not direct switching but does reduce the number of selections.

Thanks for your suggestion... I've been using that for a while, so one click is what I was after like my other widgets.
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thanks i found it

3G or Wifi for longer battery?

Clear question, What will take up less power? Say no actual usage apart auto sync
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no usage (almost)? then the answer is obvious to me: 3G.
your CDMA radio will already be running, so turning on WiFi will be adding a 2nd radio to draw from the battery.

I was thinking that myself, But just thought I'd ask for other peoples thoughts on it
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Im going with 3G as well

Um, i'm not sure that is correct, if you switch your mobile data connection to off and wifi to sleep and you dont have lots of things polling likw weather widget but literally just autosync then wifi could be less use, it does depend a bit on whether or not you are using gmail push or mail app and how often it is set to check as obviosuly it could end up keeping the wifi on the whole time.

Phone will only get 2G in 3G areas?

Hello. Does anyone else have this problem? Once I rooted my evolution it only picks up 2g when it used to get 3g in these same areas. Is this normal? Thank you all for your help!
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Did you change your Rom? How are you certain your only getting 2g?

If you chanced the rom, you might only be seeing the "1x" when you really used to have it displayed 3g. Is it sense or AOSP?
I've flashed the stock back on when I was wondering about a certain area, still 1x speeds, but showing 3g.
Hope that helps.

Sorry about the lack of info. Im running cm7 with firstblood theme and it displays 2g. Before this I had miui and it showed the 1x like you said earlier. The speeds are still pretty good though. Just wondering if this is normal. Thanks for the help!
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As long as your speeds are the same as hey were before, or close, then I wouldnt worry about it. It could just be a glitch in the rom that is recognizing 3g as 2g.

No 4g on g2

Hello all! I installed unity on my g2 and since then I haven't seen 4g at all. Any ideas? Also, I asked this a few days back but I still can't run WiFi without mobile network shutting down. Any help on either subject would be greatly appreciated!
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*You should read the first few posts in the unity thread. It mentions that tmo lies about 4G and your phone will only show 4G when you really are in the area.
As for the actual 4G icon, it's been replaced with the H icon. Search the unity thread for the 4g icon mod. *
scratch that. it's gone since the last time the op was taken down. but yeah, it only shows 4g when you're actually in a 4G area. The mention of that is not in the thread anymore unfortuantely...
Final Edit: here's the official statement on that: http://www.virtuousrom.com/p/faq.html (it's the 2nd to last question on the bottom)
Your mobile netwok is disabled when you have wifi. It is normal. It prevents excessive battery drain. You'll be reconnected to your network as soon as you leave the wifi zone.
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Thank you for your fast reply! I know that about the H icon, but in places i used to get it, i dont anymore. Maybe something is screwy because i just ran a speed test and it pulled 3.7 meg wit 2 bars 3g. I also understand about the wifi but for some reason i cant get calls or texts and i have to reboot to get the mobile network tgo come back on.
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coachmoore said:
Hello all! I installed unity on my g2 and since then I haven't seen 4g at all. Any ideas? Also, I asked this a few days back but I still can't run WiFi without mobile network shutting down. Any help on either subject would be greatly appreciated!
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the "H" icon is "4G". If you want the "4G" icon, you can put it in the ROM yourself. You'll only see "H"/"4G" in the areas where the towers have been upgraded to HSPA (which is most major places by now, actually).
When you're connected to wifi, the phone automatically disables your 3G in order to save battery. It switches to "2G only" because your WiFi data is faster.

coachmoore said:
Thank you for your fast reply! I know that about the H icon, but in places i used to get it, i dont anymore. Maybe something is screwy because i just ran a speed test and it pulled 3.7 meg wit 2 bars 3g. I also understand about the wifi but for some reason i cant get calls or texts and i have to reboot to get the mobile network tgo come back on.
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check the link in my signature of virtuous unity mods for the 4g icon.zip

coachmoore said:
Thank you for your fast reply! I know that about the H icon, but in places i used to get it, i dont anymore. Maybe something is screwy because i just ran a speed test and it pulled 3.7 meg wit 2 bars 3g. I also understand about the wifi but for some reason i cant get calls or texts and i have to reboot to get the mobile network tgo come back on.
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i'm going to assume that this is the first time you installed unity on it. so yeah, what you thought you had 4g, actually was 3G. the unity rom actually denotes a difference in that and tells you that it's actually 3G not 4G.

Ok man, thank you again for all of your helpful replies. However the "H" icon i used to get all over the place, now i never see it. So what youre saying is that i was never really getting 4g, it just had the H up there. What i understood was gthe H was HSPA or 4g. As i said, i live close to atlanta, so i should have it, i thought i did anyway...lol
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coachmoore said:
Ok man, thank you again for all of your helpful replies. However the "H" icon i used to get all over the place, now i never see it. So what youre saying is that i was never really getting 4g, it just had the H up there. What i understood was gthe H was HSPA or 4g. As i said, i live close to atlanta, so i should have it, i thought i did anyway...lol
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Don't worry too much about whether or not you see the "H" icon or the "3G" icon. A lot of times the "H" hangs up there much longer than it should. I noticed on some ROMs that it will just show "H" for a long time even though you've actually moved down to UMTS connection (3G).
As long as you're getting good speeds and not noticing a difference I wouldn't stress about it too much.

Ok, thanks for all of your help as always guys... You ate the best in the biz!
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lol np. just a quick search will usually solve you problems though
and to note, isn't ATL AT&T's hq? if so, then I dont think Tmo has much radio space there.

It is at&t, in fact, I'm a lineman for at&t. Tmobile is just cheaper and the service is a lot better.
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well, that's probably why. I'm on att, but i do hate their new "decisions" they've been making..but yeah, tmo probably has a little less power in that area thanks to it being AT&T's hq.

[Q] 3G/4G with Tasker

I'm on Cm 10 4.1.2 and my main goal is to have 3G on until I launch apps like youtube play music etc to have 4G going.
Well so far I'm not having any luck setting my phone to just be on 3g.
Am I just stupid here? or do I need an app or some Tasker plug in to do this?
Thank you for any help you can provide ~

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CarlosBattousai said:
I'm on Cm 10 4.1.2 and my main goal is to have 3G on until I launch apps like youtube play music etc to have 4G going.
Well so far I'm not having any luck setting my phone to just be on 3g.
Am I just stupid here? or do I need an app or some Tasker plug in to do this?
Thank you for any help you can provide ~
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I have no clue you could do that... I am the biggest noob ever.

I think you're confused on how Tmobile's "4g" works. It's not actually 4G, and runs on the same base as their 3G HSPA network. You can select between 'Edge' which is 2g, and 'high speed' which T-Mo calls 4G but is really just an improved 3G.
Hope that helps!

Kalm_Traveler said:
I think you're confused on how Tmobile's "4g" works. It's not actually 4G, and runs on the same base as their 3G HSPA network. You can select between 'Edge' which is 2g, and 'high speed' which T-Mo calls 4G but is really just an improved 3G.
Hope that helps!
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Hmm that's confusing because of the data icon. I see it go from E to 3G to H to H+ I figged the H's where HSPA which is what T-mobile was calling "4G"
Well if I can only chose between "2G" and "3G" I think I saw that in Tasker. I'll go play with that.
Thank you.

Yeah only way to force 4g/3g is by modding the modem. Which I have had no (successful) luck doing.
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Ahhh ok. I did it on my friends Thunderbolt shocked you can't do it on the SIII.
Well I just have it so 5 mins after my screen go's off it switches to 2g and 3G once it's on. That should help the over all battery life some.