I just switched from a rooted One XL that was running Scott's CleanRom 4.5DE to a new One X+ that I've unlocked and rooted.
One of the features I miss the most is the ability to force the phone into 3G for most of my use with the ability to turn on 4G when I am watching video or something that requires more data.
Is there an app that works well at switching back and forth easily? I did a search in the play store and there are a couple in there but they seemed to be geared for phones that are CDMA/LTE rather than H+/LTE.
Thanks!!!
moregadget said:
I just switched from a rooted One XL that was running Scott's CleanRom 4.5DE to a new One X+ that I've unlocked and rooted.
One of the features I miss the most is the ability to force the phone into 3G for most of my use with the ability to turn on 4G when I am watching video or something that requires more data.
Is there an app that works well at switching back and forth easily? I did a search in the play store and there are a couple in there but they seemed to be geared for phones that are CDMA/LTE rather than H+/LTE.
Thanks!!!
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I'm using Widgetsoid...add a widget to the screen and choose the "4G" plugin. That will bring you to the radio menu where you can select GSM/WCDMA only instead of GSM/WCDMA/LTE.
I use Phone Info by [email protected]
but the setting has to be changed every time you reboot
mickliq said:
I'm using Widgetsoid...add a widget to the screen and choose the "4G" plugin. That will bring you to the radio menu where you can select GSM/WCDMA only instead of GSM/WCDMA/LTE.
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I had tried this one but the radio doesn't change when you select it.
MG
moregadget said:
I had tried this one but the radio doesn't change when you select it.
MG
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You may need to toggle the radio off/on after you change between 3G/4G to force it after you make a change.
mickliq said:
You may need to toggle the radio off/on after you change between 3G/4G to force it after you make a change.
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Made the change, toggled radio off then radio back on to no avail.
Turned radio off, made the change, turned radio back on and same result.
Thanks for the help!!!
MG
moregadget said:
Made the change, toggled radio off then radio back on to no avail.
Turned radio off, made the change, turned radio back on and same result.
Thanks for the help!!!
MG
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Are you choosing "GSM/WCDMA, CDMA, and EVDO (PRL)"?
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Are you choosing "GSM/WCDMA, CDMA, and EVDO (PRL)"?
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I have chose that one as well as tried WCDMA Preferred, GSM Only, WCDMA only, GSM auto. Always defaults back to gsm/wcdma/lte auto.
Thx!
MG
^ Are you rooted/unlocked bootloader?
You just have to make a apn for 4g network then you just go into apn and select the 4g apn or the lte apn
As far as 3g I donno I can just change mine from lte o hspa hspda or lte but I'm sure there's a 3 g only apn I just don't know it
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Phone info apk
rashad1 said:
Phone info apk
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I used to do this using the code *#*#4636#*#*
It is easier now.. thanks rashad1
Seems no matter which I pick it just resets to the standard option.
If I turn the radio off first I can set whatever I want, but, upon turning back one I still get 'LTE' even if it isn't the selected network type.
EDIT: I see I have the same problem as 'moregadget' in that no matter what I do it just seems to go back to its default settings. It must be some BS AT&T did to prevent us from opting out of the battery sucking LTE connection.
I am on an unlocked bootloader & rooted on the Elegancia 3.1.0 AT&T rom.
DornoDiosMio said:
Seems no matter which I pick it just resets to the standard option.
If I turn the radio off first I can set whatever I want, but, upon turning back one I still get 'LTE' even if it isn't the selected network type.
EDIT: I see I have the same problem as 'moregadget' in that no matter what I do it just seems to go back to its default settings. It must be some BS AT&T did to prevent us from opting out of the battery sucking LTE connection.
I am on an unlocked bootloader & rooted on the Elegancia 3.1.0 AT&T rom.
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Yep identical problem...
I went back to my original One X for a couple weeks and put the X+ away. I'll come back to it but right now its not fully functional for me.
I have eternal faith in the XDA community and that with more time the genius' here who are much smarter than I will figure it all out...
MG
So I was loading the Team Venom ViperXL+ 1.2.0 ROM yesterday and had a moment where I felt like an idiot. As I was selecting the items on the ROM that I wanted to load I ran across the area where I select what 3G/4G icons I want and I suddenly realized something I haven't seen on the One X+ forum but was prevalent on the original One X.
When you have the AT&T 4G icons in use you can't manually select the network however when you load a ROM that allows you to use the typical H+/3G icons that I believe are on the international version you can.
MG
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I'm new to this phone coming from the (facetiously said) jailbroken "God Phone" 3g. I had the option in that phone to switch from 3g to EDGE with a softswitch via SBSettings. I used this quite frequently as 3g coverage in my house is 1 bar and dropped calls. Is there a way to manually switch the Atrix to the EDGE network. I can't figure out the way to do that on this phone. I'm running 1.8.3 jail...errr...rooted with Gingerblur (if any of that makes a difference). I've done searched but I'm not doing it properly I guess so I'm finally asking. Thanx much
smohk said:
I'm new to this phone coming from the (facetiously said) jailbroken "God Phone" 3g. I had the option in that phone to switch from 3g to EDGE with a softswitch via SBSettings. I used this quite frequently as 3g coverage in my house is 1 bar and dropped calls. Is there a way to manually switch the Atrix to the EDGE network. I can't figure out the way to do that on this phone. I'm running 1.8.3 jail...errr...rooted with Gingerblur (if any of that makes a difference). I've done searched but I'm not doing it properly I guess so I'm finally asking. Thanx much
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Seems ATT and Motorola don't want us doing that because it's disabled. Every other android I've had has had this ability. And it really annoys me because 3g sucks at my home and office.
I spent an hour on the phone with ATT over this. All I accomplished was wasting my time.
you can unlock that option, go to system\etc\motorola\com.android.phone
open the defaults.xml and change the
<boolean value="false" name="network_select_menu"/> from false to true.
reboot device
you should be able to manually change 2/3g than. I have it working on my att atrix with gingerblur 3.1, however im not on an att network, it still should work for you tho
crnkoj said:
you can unlock that option, go to system\etc\motorola\com.android.phone
open the defaults.xml and change the
<boolean value="false" name="network_select_menu"/> from false to true.
reboot device
you should be able to manually change 2/3g than. I have it working on my att atrix with gingerblur 3.1, however im not on an att network, it still should work for you tho
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Interesting. I made the change and rebooted but that menu is still greyed out. So I looked at defaults.xml again thinking it changed it back, but its still set to true. Hrmm..
Try clearing dalvik cache and rebooting.
crnkoj said:
Try clearing dalvik cache and rebooting.
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Oddly still no luck after wiping dalvik.
Has anyone else tried this on att software?
Widgetsoid 2x has a 2g/3g switch, don't actually know if this is what you're looking for.
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jimbush3 said:
Widgetsoid 2x has a 2g/3g switch, don't actually know if this is what you're looking for.
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It doesn't work on ATT phones, at least not with the menu options disabled like mine are...
scoob8000 said:
It doesn't work on ATT phones, at least not with the menu options disabled like mine are...
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Sorry, I had posted this as an option without actually testing it. Having tried it now I see that it doesn't work.
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crnkoj said:
you can unlock that option, go to system\etc\motorola\com.android.phone
open the defaults.xml and change the
<boolean value="false" name="network_select_menu"/> from false to true.
reboot device
you should be able to manually change 2/3g than. I have it working on my att atrix with gingerblur 3.1, however im not on an att network, it still should work for you tho
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THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!
Had to change in a few other places as well. the data/data/phone.xxx.whatever it was also. Changed all three files in there to say tru to the value but they kept changing back. Fianlly changed all three files in there to say true and DELETED THE BACKUP FILES created and it worked. Thanx again for finding this.
smohk said:
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!
Had to change in a few other places as well. the data/data/phone.xxx.whatever it was also. Changed all three files in there to say tru to the value but they kept changing back. Fianlly changed all three files in there to say true and DELETED THE BACKUP FILES created and it worked. Thanx again for finding this.
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/data/data/com.android.phone/shared_prefs/_has_set_default_values.xml
/system/etc/motorola/com.android.phone/defaults.xml
Besides those two, which was the third? I've done those two, wiped dalvik and no luck.
I'm understanding that the defaults.xml in /system/etc only applies to a reset perhaps..
yeah what's the 3rd one??
sorry for the late reply
in my data/data/com.android.phone/shared_prefs folder I have 3 files
_has_set_default_values.xml
com.android.phone_preferencex.xml and
settings.xml
changed network select menu to "true" on all of them.
also did it under /system/etc/motorola/com.android.phone
defaults.xml
this didn't work for me until I deleted the backup files created by root explorer though. For some reason it was defaulting back to the original files. After I deleted the .bak files (in the data folder) it worked.
It doesn't seem to make a difference I've noticed. (Keep in mind I'm new at this) but I'm pretty sure my icon should change from H to E when I switch to the 2g network (options in network select are 2g, 3g and auto) Am I thinking correctly here? Or does Gingerblur override the icon?
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I'm new to this phone coming from the (facetiously said) jailbroken "God Phone" 3g. I had the option in that phone to switch from 3g to EDGE with a softswitch via SBSettings. I used this quite frequently as 3g coverage in my house is 1 bar and dropped calls. Is there a way to manually switch the Atrix to the EDGE network. I can't figure out the way to do that on this phone. I'm running 1.8.3 jail...errr...rooted with Gingerblur (if any of that makes a difference). I've done searched but I'm not doing it properly I guess so I'm finally asking. Thanx much
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I'm doing this, don't know if it helps.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1106584
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smohk said:
in my data/data/com.android.phone/shared_prefs folder I have 3 files
_has_set_default_values.xml
com.android.phone_preferencex.xml and
settings.xml
changed network select menu to "true" on all of them.
also did it under /system/etc/motorola/com.android.phone
defaults.xml
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I can confirm this is what it too to unlock the network menu for me as well. Thanks!
FWIW, I believe /system/etc/motorola/com.android.phone/defaults.xml only takes effect with a factory reset. So changing this might not necessarily be needed..
smohk said:
It doesn't seem to make a difference I've noticed. (Keep in mind I'm new at this) but I'm pretty sure my icon should change from H to E when I switch to the 2g network (options in network select are 2g, 3g and auto) Am I thinking correctly here? Or does Gingerblur override the icon?
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I'm noticing this too without Gingerblur. Setting it to 2G only doesnt seem to change anything. I still show H, and I'm still getting H speeds. :/ I wonder if that setting doesn't make any difference so thats why it was disabled?
Vangelis13 said:
I'm doing this, don't know if it helps.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1106584
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I didn't have any luck with this method either, no matter what I set it to, it kept changing back..
Hi, I have a Verizon Droid Razr Maxx and I have been rooted for a while with the stock ICS rom but I wanted to try one of the custom roms out there. First I tried MIUI and I had no service then I did black widow and It had service but only 3G/1X. I restored back to stock with DroidRazrUtility 1.8 and I am still only getting 3G/1x.
I have another 4G phone that is getting 4G service so it's not an outage. Also, I tried swapping the sims in the phone and the Razr still won't connect to 4G.
Does anybody know what's wrong?
Pinesal said:
Hi, I have a Verizon Droid Razr Maxx and I have been rooted for a while with the stock ICS rom but I wanted to try one of the custom roms out there. First I tried MIUI and I had no service then I did black widow and It had service but only 3G/1X. I restored back to stock with DroidRazrUtility 1.8 and I am still only getting 3G/1x.
I have another 4G phone that is getting 4G service so it's not an outage. Also, I tried swapping the sims in the phone and the Razr still won't connect to 4G.
Does anybody know what's wrong?
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have you checked and made sure its not on cdma only.
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Ok I think i can fix your problem. Try this. First off, in ICS there is no way to check for settings as "CDMA ONLY" like Gingerbread. They removed the option in all their infinite wisdom. Download this program "Phone Info" from the market place. GO to the first option of "Phone Information". Scroll to the bottom, you should see a bunch of fields and one states the frequency of the antenna. It will be above the "Turn off Radio" button. It allows you to change it to literally anything available whether the phone can find the signal or not. It may be on "CDMA only (auto PRL)" This is only 3g as you probably guessed. Make sure it is on this "LTE/CDMA/EVDO/GSM/WCDMA". This is the normal frequency and will do 4g/3g/1x. Hope this helps
in99flames said:
Ok I think i can fix your problem. Try this. First off, in ICS there is no way to check for settings as "CDMA ONLY" like Gingerbread. They removed the option in all their infinite wisdom. Download this program "Phone Info" from the market place. GO to the first option of "Phone Information". Scroll to the bottom, you should see a bunch of fields and one states the frequency of the antenna. It will be above the "Turn off Radio" button. It allows you to change it to literally anything available whether the phone can find the signal or not. It may be on "CDMA only (auto PRL)" This is only 3g as you probably guessed. Make sure it is on this "LTE/CDMA/EVDO/GSM/WCDMA". This is the normal frequency and will do 4g/3g/1x. Hope this helps
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Sorry, don't think I said to check under mobile networks. Guess I should have specified, dial *#*#4636#*#* you can now pick cdma only or make sure its not chosen
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Thanks for the suggestions. I went to the phone info page and tried the suggested settings and even tried a few other's but nothing seems to get a 4G connection.
Again I checked my other 4G phone and it is connected to 4G so I know it's not an outage.
I changed to to LTE ONLY just to see what would happend and it indicated that the radio is off but with no way to turn it on. You know the button that says "Turn on radio" won't toggle like it will on the other settings. I am not sure if that means anything.
Ah well ibforgot about dialing the service number. Phone info takes you to that menu anyways
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Still works!
kintwofan said:
Sorry, don't think I said to check under mobile networks. Guess I should have specified, dial *#*#4636#*#* you can now pick cdma only or make sure its not chosen
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Having trouble with my VZW Galaxy Note 2, These instructions worked for me! 2013/11/04
Now I have 4g now in my neighborhood and now my battery is draining faster. I shut it down lte in settings, but is there a widget I can use so I don't that to go through a bunch of menu steps to turn it on and off?
You can use "Power Toggles" from the Play Store. :good:
The power toggle that's built into every ROM for the EVO LTE. Its in the widgets section and just press the data icon.
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lreyes said:
The power toggle that's built into every ROM for the EVO LTE. Its in the widgets section and just press the data icon.
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That one shuts down all data and not just 4g but 3g also. It's not a big deal I can shut down lte and just use 4g when I need to stream or download a big file. I just need to shut down 4g, but thank you.
jeffrimerman said:
That one shuts down all data and not just 4g but 3g also. It's not a big deal I can shut down lte and just use 4g when I need to stream or download a big file. I just need to shut down 4g, but thank you.
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I think the best way is to simply go to settings > mobile data > and change the network mode from LTE/CDMA to CDMA only...or turn on ur WiFi and that will help battery life too, cuz I think it like puts the data antenna in like a standy mode to conserve battery.
I haven't noticed any more significant battery drain while on 4g, I believe our phone uses the same antenna for both 3g and 4g. But I could see it possibly draining battery if it is constantly acquiring an LTE signal then losing it shortly there after, repeatidly over and over...
Someone correct if I'm wrong about anything...
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drumwizard said:
I think the best way is to simply go to settings > mobile data > and change the network mode from LTE/CDMA to CDMA only...or turn on ur WiFi and that will help battery life too, cuz I think it like puts the data antenna in like a standy mode to conserve battery.
I haven't noticed any more significant battery drain while on 4g, I believe our phone uses the same antenna for both 3g and 4g. But I could see it possibly draining battery if it is constantly acquiring an LTE signal then losing it shortly there after, repeatidly over and over...
Someone correct if I'm wrong about anything...
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I think you're right. I don't need 4g 99% of the time. I think even when on 4g it uses more than 3g, but maybe it's like you're saying. I did fully charge my phone then went to sleep. The next day phone lost 40% charge only difference was 4g on. I'm going to try 3g tonight, then wifi, then 4g again and see and let everyone know.
Edit: so far most posts accept 4g uses more power. Maybe needed to run lte versus just cdma uses more power so it's not the 4g of it, but more needing to run an extra system. 3g works fine with just cdma on so that's probably why.
jeffrimerman said:
I think you're right. I don't need 4g 99% of the time. I think even when on 4g it uses more than 3g, but maybe it's like you're saying. I did fully charge my phone then went to sleep. The next day phone lost 40% charge only difference was 4g on. I'm going to try 3g tonight, then wifi, then 4g again and see and let everyone know.
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Sounds like a good experiment, also when testing WiFi remember some roms allow the phone to disable WiFi after a time of inactivity, should disable that when you test it...try to even the playing field. Even though Ive read WiFi uses less battery that using data...
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jeffrimerman said:
Now I have 4g now in my neighborhood and now my battery is draining faster. I shut it down lte in settings, but is there a widget I can use so I don't that to go through a bunch of menu steps to turn it on and off?
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If a better solution doesn't show up in this thread, you could definitely pull this off with Tasker.
louched1 said:
If a better solution doesn't show up in this thread, you could definitely pull this off with Tasker.
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Do you mean the task manager. I didn't any apps running that I can stop that would affect anything but I guess apps use data too. I want to do what was mentioned earlier and keep it as level and the same as possible. I'm not so much concerned with the wifi as comparing 3g and 4g.
jeffrimerman said:
Do you mean the task manager. I didn't any apps running that I can stop that would affect anything but I guess apps use data too. I want to do what was mentioned earlier and keep it as level and the same as possible. I'm not so much concerned with the wifi as comparing 3g and 4g.
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Tasker. It's an app available in the Play store.
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FinZ28 said:
Tasker. It's an app available in the Play store.
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I don't think Tasker can do this with 4g LTE.
fachadick said:
I don't think Tasker can do this with 4g LTE.
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It most certainly can. It's not the perfect solution, but it can definitely do it.
louched1 said:
It most certainly can. It's not the perfect solution, but it can definitely do it.
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How would you set up that task? You can set up tasks that affect 2g/3g and wimax, but I haven't seen anything for LTE. In fact, I'm almost positive he addressed this on his site, saying it wasn't possible (yet). Did I miss an update?
fachadick said:
How would you set up that task? You can set up tasks that affect 2g/3g and wimax, but I haven't seen anything for LTE. In fact, I'm almost positive he addressed this on his site, saying it wasn't possible (yet). Did I miss an update?
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For Sense ROMs, set up a widget on your homescreen and point it to a task like below (the steps may need a tweak or two to work correctly as I'm not reading the steps directly from a task)
Also create a variable named Data4g (or whatever you want) and set it to ON
If %Data4g is ON
Mobile Data Settings
DPad down (4 times)
DPad press
Dpad down
Dpad press
Variable set %Data4g OFF
Button back
else
Mobile Data Settings
DPad down (4 times)
DPad press
Dpad up
Dpad press
Variable set %Data4g ON
Button back
For AOSP/CM ROMS I think there's an option in the Secure Settings add-on that can toggle 4G, but I've never used an AOSP or CM ROM yet.
louched1 said:
For Sense ROMs, set up a widget on your homescreen and point it to a task like below (the steps may need a tweak or two to work correctly as I'm not reading the steps directly from a task)
Also create a variable named Data4g (or whatever you want) and set it to ON
If %Data4g is ON
Mobile Data Settings
DPad down (4 times)
DPad press
Dpad down
Dpad press
Variable set %Data4g OFF
Button back
else
Mobile Data Settings
DPad down (4 times)
DPad press
Dpad up
Dpad press
Variable set %Data4g ON
Button back
For AOSP/CM ROMS I think there's an option in the Secure Settings add-on that can toggle 4G, but I've never used an AOSP or CM ROM yet.
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Dpad settings - mind blown. Never saw those before. I was looking for a much simpler setting, like the one that's there for wimax. That does seem like a roundabout way of doing it but it'll work all right.
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fachadick said:
Dpad settings - mind blown. Never saw those before. I was looking for a much simpler setting, like the one that's there for wimax. That does seem like a roundabout way of doing it but it'll work all right.
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Edit - you can access that setting easily through quick settings on the notification bar in Viper rom, btw.
Yeah, the dpad stuff is pretty cool. There's an LTE toggle in Secure Settings too (separate from wimax) so you could trigger it with a Tasker action through the plugin. Can't test it though because I don't have LTE at my house.
EDIT: sorry just noticed louched already posted this.
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I know you can make a settings widget directly through sense and probably any aosp rom. Just direct it to the settings page you want it to open, I used to have one that opened the bluetooth settings to quickly change my audio devices. I just wish there was a better way to force entry into 4G. I'm tired of restarting my damn phone cause the airplane mode bs almost never works for me.
just an idea
jeffrimerman said:
Now I have 4g now in my neighborhood and now my battery is draining faster. I shut it down lte in settings, but is there a widget I can use so I don't that to go through a bunch of menu steps to turn it on and off?
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Idea. Buy my phone. Lte all around here now but our two evoltes? never pick it up. they should have named this phone the evo lol not evo lte.
trsix said:
Idea. Buy my phone. Lte all around here now but our two evoltes? never pick it up. they should have named this phone the evo lol not evo lte.
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Same here. My girls s3 picks it up everywhere. Mine only does in certain areas. My girl gets it at our house and has full signal and i can barely make a phone call let alone get any data. Thats the only reason im considering the note 3 is its radios.
I am new to root and ROMs so perhaps I overlooked a setting.
I just rooted my phone and flashed CM 10.2 a few days ago and I cannot get 4G anymore. I can only get 3G. I have tried a few fixes like dialing *#*#4636#*#* and adjusting the APN settings but nothing worked. I have the LTE button ON and I am wondering if I am still getting 4G because I have LTE on and it's just showing 3G. But I don't think that's the case.
Any help or tips would be greatly appreciated!
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xcharliemikex said:
I am new to root and ROMs so perhaps I overlooked a setting.
I just rooted my phone and flashed CM 10.2 a few days ago and I cannot get 4G anymore. I can only get 3G. I have tried a few fixes like dialing *#*#4636#*#* and adjusting the APN settings but nothing worked. I have the LTE button ON and I am wondering if I am still getting 4G because I have LTE on and it's just showing 3G. But I don't think that's the case.
Any help or tips would be greatly appreciated!
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reflash stock rom. make sure you have 4g. flash the vram3c radio then flash cm10.2 rom. you should have no problems with 4g after that.
I will try that. Thanks!
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I tried flashing the radio and CM again and sometimes 4G comes up for a few minutes and goes back to 1X. This happens where I have gotten 4G before. Maybe the radio isn't as strong?
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xcharliemikex said:
I tried flashing the radio and CM again and sometimes 4G comes up for a few minutes and goes back to 1X. This happens where I have gotten 4G before. Maybe the radio isn't as strong?
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My personal experience, living in a fringe signal area, is that AOSP roms just don't have as strong a signal as TW roms (it presumably has to do with how the RIL had to be hacked/reverse-engineered to work for AOSP). I would prefer running AOSP, but unfortunately in my experience on my S3 and Note2, where I am located on the fringe of full 4G coverage areas, I have the same issues as you: on TW, full, fast, 4G; on AOSP, very obviously slow 3G or 1X.
Edit to say I've only tried 4.2.2 ROMs, haven't tried the 4.3 ones yet, so if I'm handing out wrong/outdated info, I'd love to be corrected.
I am now running a stock 4.1.2 ROM and still cannot get 4G. I now for some reason can't even dial *#*#4636#*#*. When I try it just says "Welcome to Verizon Wireless, this call cannot be completed as dialed." Anyway to get that number to work so I can check my networks again?
xcharliemikex said:
I am now running a stock 4.1.2 ROM and still cannot get 4G. I now for some reason can't even dial *#*#4636#*#*. When I try it just says "Welcome to Verizon Wireless, this call cannot be completed as dialed." Anyway to get that number to work so I can check my networks again?
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Try going into settings and factory reset phone now. If that doesnt work, reboot into stock recovery and factory reset from there and reboot. That seems to restore signal for those of us that got stuck in roaming mode from the Carbon thread. Might help your problem too
So I decided to re-flash CyanogenMod 10.1, adjusted the APN settings again, and I have 2 bars of 4G right now. Usually 4G will flash a couple times and change to 3G, but it is staying 4G, so hopefully it stays that way!
Well it stayed 4G for a bit until I turned WiFi on. The moment I turned it on, my 4G went to 3G. I turned WiFi off and I still have 3G. Anyone know what would cause this?
EDIT: My network type shows eHRPD with 3G, where as when I had 4G (before I turned my WiFi on) it showed LTE. If this helps any.
xcharliemikex said:
Well it stayed 4G for a bit until I turned WiFi on. The moment I turned it on, my 4G went to 3G. I turned WiFi off and I still have 3G. Anyone know what would cause this?
EDIT: My network type shows eHRPD with 3G, where as when I had 4G (before I turned my WiFi on) it showed LTE. If this helps any.
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Where do you live, i know the mid Circle drive all the way over across platted to the airport are just dead zones. I lived on Verde drive and rarely had good signal, then when i moved up circle behind the bowling alley i never had a good signal. Just something about the antennae in that area. T-mo is a complete bust in that area. But i'm sure you probably all the way over on the Nevada side completely making what i said irrelevant.
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Where do you live, i know the mid Circle drive all the way over across platted to the airport are just dead zones. I lived on Verde drive and rarely had good signal, then when i moved up circle behind the bowling alley i never had a good signal. Just something about the antennae in that area. T-mo is a complete bust in that area. But i'm sure you probably all the way over on the Nevada side completely making what i said irrelevant.
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I live right by Peterson AFB.
xcharliemikex said:
I live right by Peterson AFB.
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Do a search on towers in your areas. If I remember correctly the closest tower to you in right by the interstate by the new (now not so new) MCD's in Security. That tower had alot of problems in the area past the Olympics complex all the way back to Peterson because of the radio towers for the Jets. I have been gone for almost 3 yrs so don't take what i say as truth tho. Just how it was when i was there.
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Do a search on towers in your areas. If I remember correctly the closest tower to you in right by the interstate by the new (now not so new) MCD's in Security. That tower had alot of problems in the area past the Olympics complex all the way back to Peterson because of the radio towers for the Jets. I have been gone for almost 3 yrs so don't take what i say as truth tho. Just how it was when i was there.
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I will check that.
One LAST thing...after I edit my APN, my APN list is blank. I did a search but did not find anything.
xcharliemikex said:
I will check that.
One LAST thing...after I edit my APN, my APN list is blank. I did a search but did not find anything.
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I've had that problem before. .I used a mod like this.
This mod is from DroidXcon, Try this and hopefully it will work. (make a backup of your buld.prop first)
Instructions:
1)Go to market install BuildProp Editor
2)Once installed find and open Build Prop Editor
3)Hit the menu button and select Edit
4)Scroll to the bottom of screen and add the following lines
Code:
ril.sales_code=LOL
ro.csc.sales_code=LOL
5)Hit the save button at the top right hand corner of the screen(looks like a disk)
6)Once this is done saving restart the phone
7)After restarting go to Settings>More Settings>Mobile Networks>Access Point Names>Menu Button>+ New APN
8)Add desired carriers APN info, when finished hit menu button and save
9)Power down and change to your desired SIM card if you hadn't already done so
10)Power back on and go to Settings>More Settings>Mobile Networks> Access Point Names (if done properly you should see the APN data you entered for your respective carrier).
11)Select the respective APN listing and then you should have working data
dragonstalker said:
I've had that problem before. .I used a mod like this.
This mod is from DroidXcon, Try this and hopefully it will work. (make a backup of your buld.prop first)
Instructions:
1)Go to market install BuildProp Editor
2)Once installed find and open Build Prop Editor
3)Hit the menu button and select Edit
4)Scroll to the bottom of screen and add the following lines
Code:
ril.sales_code=LOL
ro.csc.sales_code=LOL
5)Hit the save button at the top right hand corner of the screen(looks like a disk)
6)Once this is done saving restart the phone
7)After restarting go to Settings>More Settings>Mobile Networks>Access Point Names>Menu Button>+ New APN
8)Add desired carriers APN info, when finished hit menu button and save
9)Power down and change to your desired SIM card if you hadn't already done so
10)Power back on and go to Settings>More Settings>Mobile Networks> Access Point Names (if done properly you should see the APN data you entered for your respective carrier).
11)Select the respective APN listing and then you should have working data
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I tried this but having the same problem, so I decided to save the APN each time I edited an item, and every time I would change the MNC and save, it would not be on my APN list, and it would be blank again.
Bump... also having this issue. Trying CM 10.2 for the first time since August. It had Bluetooth issues back then, so I've been running Bean's ROM until yesterday. Can't get 4G serivce in what is absolutely a saturated 4G area...
Was able to fix the issue by wiping the phone completely (including internal storage!), installing Bean's ROM, doing a factory reset, then coming back.
FWIW I always wipe internal storage when going back and forth between 4.1 and 4.2+ roms, seems to alleviate any SD card issues that can arise from the changes to filesystem in 4.2.
I really need some assistance ASAP on this one, folks. My phone/text is not working at all ever since I did the following stupidly today.
I tried to see if there was an option to get 2G/3G/4G working on the VS985 on 7.0. Guess I shouldn't have been so curious.
The only real steps I took to see was going to: Settings>Fulmics Tweaks>Advanced>Hidden Menu>Modem Protocol>Changed to Automatic..........now I have NO talk/text. Only 4G LTE data. Does anyone know what I'm referring to here? How do I get back to the original settings which worked fine!?
There must be a way out of this mess.
EDIT: there is! seemingly random combo led me to a solution.
Under the phone settings for mobile network - network mode: select CDMA+LTE/EVDO, and under the access point names: use VZWINTERNET. Make sure both of those are also the same in the hidden menu as well as selecting AUTO under Modem Protocol. That seemed to fix it for me.
Mods can close this one up.
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I really need some assistance ASAP on this one, folks. My phone/text is not working at all ever since I did the following stupidly today.
I tried to see if there was an option to get 2G/3G/4G working on the VS985 on 7.0. Guess I shouldn't have been so curious.
The only real steps I took to see was going to: Settings>Fulmics Tweaks>Advanced>Hidden Menu>Modem Protocol>Changed to Automatic..........now I have NO talk/text. Only 4G LTE data. Does anyone know what I'm referring to here? How do I get back to the original settings which worked fine!?
There must be a way out of this mess.
EDIT: there is! seemingly random combo led me to a solution.
Under the phone settings for mobile network - network mode: select CDMA+LTE/EVDO, and under the access point names: use VZWINTERNET. Make sure both of those are also the same in the hidden menu as well as selecting AUTO under Modem Protocol. That seemed to fix it for me.
Mods can close this one up.
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Glad you got it figured out, do you have consistent 4g Data with Fulmics?
mopartonyg said:
Glad you got it figured out, do you have consistent 4g Data with Fulmics?
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So far, so good. I haven't been to any areas with 3G coverage, but I hope to have that working as well now. I'm traveling halfway around the US this week, so it should make for a good test. Also installed Greenify - does voodoo magic for the battery life.
SOCOM-HERO said:
So far, so good. I haven't been to any areas with 3G coverage, but I hope to have that working as well now. I'm traveling halfway around the US this week, so it should make for a good test. Also installed Greenify - does voodoo magic for the battery life.
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Thanks for the response, will give it a go later. Have a safe trip.
mopartonyg said:
Thanks for the response, will give it a go later. Have a safe trip.
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Thanks! If the combo above doesn't work, you can also try auto under the hidden menu frequency, and auto (or global) in the phone APN settings if LTE/CDMA don't give you a good signal or only give you data but not voice. For some reason the phone APN settings may look different depending on what you have previously selected or when you reboot. The access point should always be VZWINTERNET and you should not change any of those values in either the hidden menu or the phone network menu.
Once you get it figured out, you should not have any further issues or need to tweak these values unless traveling internationally. If that is the case, check the LTE bands carefully 1st and adjust frequency 2nd.
I'd be extremely cautious about changing any of these values. If you make any mistakes, recovering can be a slow process as these are system level changes that will impact the phone - no matter what version of android, rom or nandroid backups you had previously - cannot override these changes. Also, screenshots won't help because the changes in the hidden menu aren't reflected in the UI.
SOCOM-HERO said:
Thanks! If the combo above doesn't work, you can also try auto under the hidden menu frequency, and auto (or global) in the phone APN settings if LTE/CDMA don't give you a good signal or only give you data but not voice. For some reason the phone APN settings may look different depending on what you have previously selected or when you reboot. The access point should always be VZWINTERNET and you should not change any of those values in either the hidden menu or the phone network menu.
Once you get it figured out, you should not have any further issues or need to tweak these values unless traveling internationally. If that is the case, check the LTE bands carefully 1st and adjust frequency 2nd.
I'd be extremely cautious about changing any of these values. If you make any mistakes, recovering can be a slow process as these are system level changes that will impact the phone - no matter what version of android, rom or nandroid backups you had previously - cannot override these changes. Also, screenshots won't help because the changes in the hidden menu aren't reflected in the UI.
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Thank you again kind sir. Safe travels.
this working only werizon area?