I am using the the latest sky pics, is there anyway to turn on/off the lte/3g
Thanks
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Not aware of anyway to switch to 3G only, but I know gingerbread has an option for hspa/GSM and GSM only mode. I just use a different apn to access atts hspa+ only network, gets me around throttling. Running sky ics ucle2
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Yeah thanks, just came from captivate with slim ics, and it had that option to turn off 3g. Just hope there is way to turn it off to save some battery
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Yeah thanks, just came from captivate with slim ics, and it had that option to turn off 3g. Just hope there is way to turn it off to save some battery
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Use seans sky ics rom, incredible battery life. TIP: Some dont know this, but if you go into wifi where it shows what access points are in reach, hit menu and an advanced menu will pop up. Tell wifi to only stay on while charging.
If i am on wifi and pocket the phone, wifi will turn off while sleeping, it will still use cell data though, but saves battery big time while sleeping. I have had the skyrocket for a few months now and I am pretty normal to heavy user and I can easily get a whole day. 16 hours+ with data on at all times.
The sky ICS rom does allow you to tuen data off completley within the 15 toggle mod that is baked into the rom.
Yeah that's the rom I'm using, but I was just wondering if I can have data on but lte and 3g off, thanks for trying to help anyways
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Tests have shown that the LTE radio is on even if using a different APN or 3G Only mode (Rogers GB)
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So I had just gotten done posting a smartass remark about how I had gotten two days on one charge with my phone, only to pull it off the charger go to work, and have the sucker die in 4 hours.
I figured out what I did, and you should try it too, it may help you out. I am running the leaked radio btw.
So earlier today I decided to go into ##778# and type the password 000000 and then modem settings and rev A and change it from Enable to eHRPD because I figured with the 4G network back I could use the dual radio 3G network. Well That is when my battery life went to ****. I pulled my phone out of my pocket to it burning hot and at 9%. I quickly changed it back to Enabled, and it survived the 9% all the way to 5% over a period of another 6 hours.
So unless you need to talk and use data at the same time, use the regular 3G network like I am, and see if your battery life doesn't improve. I still am on 4G all day, but this was literally the only feature I changed on my phone between amazing battery life and crappy battery life.
You can still do talk/data at the same time on Rev A with 3G.
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You can still do talk/data at the same time on Rev A with 3G.
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Right and at the moment, no thunderbolt should have eHRPD. No matter what verizon says. So we're all running on rev a right now, and you must have done something else. EHRPD will not waste your battery any more than normal.
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Right and at the moment, no thunderbolt should have eHRPD. No matter what verizon says. So we're all running on rev a right now, and you must have done something else. EHRPD will not waste your battery any more than normal.
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Actually mine is set to eHRPD. Just bought it from Vzw a few days ago, rooted and flashed DBamf 161 along with the new radio and Im still set to it.
Making me think I should switch it hmmm.... hmmmmm
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Right and at the moment, no thunderbolt should have eHRPD. No matter what verizon says. So we're all running on rev a right now, and you must have done something else. EHRPD will not waste your battery any more than normal.
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I just checked mine and it was set to eHRPD by default. Does this mean I should change it to enabled or leave it alone?
It doesn't really matter what it's set to. It seems as though Verizon has made all Thunderbolts default to Rev A in 3G areas after the outage rather than eHRPD regardless of what the modem setting is. You can check under About Phone-Network-Mobile Network Type
I use the LTE on/off app and Juice Defender Beta to increase battery life.
Set my phone to eHRPD then rebooted it and it went back to enabled I think Verizon is doing a tower by tower fix.
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Mine is rooted and I get almost 2 days of moderate use out of it. Its the only way to make this phone truly great.
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I use the LTE on/off app and Juice Defender Beta to increase battery life.
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Same here, I can go a good day and a half before I need to charge again.
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Mine is rooted and I get almost 2 days of moderate use out of it. Its the only way to make this phone truly great.
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what kernel/governer do you use?
I'm running das bamf 1.6 remix with the stock radio and the kernel it came with. I know that it isn't really necessary to wipe but I did. I used a battery calibration app and auto brightness.
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worked great for me thanks
I'm also using the smartass setting as well.
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What are you guys using?
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I'm currently using Tesla Coil 1.7.1 with imoseyon's batt saver kernel, setCPU using the smartass governor.
Today my battery life was absolutely horrible: 6 hours from 100% to 19% with 1 hour of screen on time at ~25% brightness, 8 mins of call time and maybe 2 hours of music off of my SD card.
I just can't figure this phone out...
I have noticed that as well. Some days my battery rocks, and some days it sinks like a rock. Not sure why. It's as unpredictable as my wife! LOL
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The other thing I do is if I know I am not going to use my 3G or 4G connection I turn it off until I need it. This Rom I use has a widget for switching it on or off.
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The battery sipper kernel is the only kernel for me. Using the same Rom I went from about 6 hours of constant 4g to over a day of 4g. I do have the extended battery. I leave 4g on ALL day and get more battery life than I did on any other phone. I love that Damn kernel.
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So does changing the modem do anything or not? I just checked and my Rev A setting is eHRPD and under about phone, it says CDMA-eHRPD. I have not changed anything other than turn LTE off when not needed, and when I turn it off I select CDMA auto (PRL). I am using the new radio and BAMF 1.6. I get decent battery life so I am not too concerned, but I am curious.
Hope this hasn't been asked yet but is there any widget or system setting to force the phone to use 2g? I'd like to keep my connection at work but avoid the drain of maintaining HSPA in a brick building.
Thanks.
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Yup...turn it off or use WIFI
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You're saying that the only options are on and off?
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HSPA is just like running 3g. But if you call *#*#6767*#*# then after that reboot your phone you should be good
Search market for "curvefish", grab their 2g/3g - on/off widget and download it.....add it as a widget to your home screen and you can easily toggle between 2g/3g...
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Power Options is also a good one. I have it and it acts as a double for the power control widget that comes stock with android. you can customize it as you like.
I use power widget so I can use the 2g/3g toggle and stay awake toggle and always on as well.
So has anyone actually tried these on their Infuse. The widgets just take you to the Network settings where AT&T has disabled the ability to turn off 3G. Any way to turn on this option with a rooted Infuse?
I didn't bother to reply but I have the same questions you do. The toggle is not 2G/3G but data on or off.
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I didn't bother to reply but I have the same questions you do. The toggle is not 2G/3G but data on or off.
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curvefish has a widget toggle for 2g/3g on/off and data on/off
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@SSJ_Gomike,
Your signature shows you sent this reply from your Infuse. Have you tried that curvefish toggle? I have it installed and all it does it take you to the network settings where the 2g-3g setting has been disabled by AT&T. I have the setting on my Nexus One, so I know exactly where and what to look for. So far none of the suggestions work.
My battery life is suffering since the 3g signal is week at my office and it switches back and forth between Edge and 3G/faux G.
There are several posts for this I have web, going into an emulator and disabling hpsa, but why you want to. I can't see it would save much battery life. I've come to understand battery life on my phone is meant to go quickly.
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I don't want to disable this permanently, just while I'm at work. Its not so much that edge would save battery, its the constant switching between edge and hsdpa that kills the battery. Even sitting on the same place on my desk, it will sit there and switch without me touching it. I have fairly strong 3G at home and in town. I was hoping to avoid going into debug menus to disable this functionality that's normally in a vanilla android ROM.
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I don't want to disable this permanently, just while I'm at work. Its not so much that edge would save battery, its the constant switching between edge and hsdpa that kills the battery. Even sitting on the same place on my desk, it will sit there and switch without me touching it. I have fairly strong 3G at home and in town. I was hoping to avoid going into debug menus to disable this functionality that's normally in a vanilla android ROM.
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Exactly! I used to have the same issue with my iPhone 4 but even it had a 3G toggle. If this all boils down to AT&T again...
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Exactly! I used to have the same issue with my iPhone 4 but even it had a 3G toggle. If this all boils down to AT&T again...
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Does other Samsung Galaxy phones have the option to turn 3G on and off?
If they do not, how can ATT be at fault.
They allow it, on the iphone. I will go and say is a samsung thing.
Either AT&T being themselves or Samsung with their hands in the android settings. Because vanilla Android has the capability.
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use *#*#4636#*#* Phone INfo
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Then scroll down to the drop box and choose "GSM only"
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AT&T is known for disabling this capability on all their phones. When I used to use Nokias a lot, the ATT specific firmware did not allow you to change that setting either.
I just tried the *#*#4636#*#*, but for some reason it won't save the setting. Do I have to reboot for it to take effect? I didn't seen any way to confirm the change.
Anyone come up with a solution?
Have my stock rooted 2.3.6 a2 that loses its 4G connection every ten-fifteen minutes. It will be blue, then white and seem as if its searching for signal. It does this often...any way to fix it? I live in the salt lake city area of Utah so there's no problem with the towers...any help would be greatly appreciated
Might check your battery manager and make sure you don't have a profile set up to kill your data connection after a set length of time.
Got the same problem,i'm on victory rom.
I guess it's the issue with 2.3.6 base rom (cmiiw).
I choose performance battery mode.
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Got the same problem,i'm on victory rom.
I guess it's the issue with 2.3.6 base rom (cmiiw).
I choose performance battery mode.
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Im thinking that very same thing.. gotta be in the rom base.. etc.
Is anyone else having problems with att data services?? I just disconnected from my wifi, and it seems that att data is not working, can't browse the web
No. But I'm in Texas. Depends on the tower you are on.
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Mine does the same thing. Usually if I wait just a little bit, it will come on. Never had this problem on GB. Thinking about going back until the new JB ROM gets up and running a little longer. Almost there!
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Mine does the same thing. Usually if I wait just a little bit, it will come on. Never had this problem on GB. Thinking about going back until the new JB ROM gets up and running a little longer. Almost there!
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Mines stock and rooted and will drop the data every once in a while even in the middle of downtown dallas. I just toggle data off then back on and it works.. I get the same issue with GPS... on 2.3.6
So does anybody use their Skyrocket full-time in a non-LTE area?? I'm back home now for the holidays and don't have LTE here, and my battery literally went from 97% to 37% in 2.5 hrs with 49 mins of screen on and 59 mins of awake time. Meaning no significant wakelocks. Just the radio trying to find LTE. Is the battery always that terrible for you guys in non-LTE? I get a consistent ~18 hrs with 3 hrs screen on time while on LTE 24/7.
What do you guys do?? I tried flashing the Rogers radio and switching the Network Mode, but it does the same thing as on an AT&T radio - switches right back to LTE. I tried selecting the Network Operator but I never get any choices to even select AT&T like others report. *#2263# doesn't work on CM. I tried switching the mode in *#*#4636#*#* but it switched right back to LTE. What gives? (I'm on CM10.)
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For a while I was in a non lte area. I had better battery life then than I do now in an lte area. I don't do anything different. I use uclf6 radio, which gets the best signal for me.
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Man that's interesting. Every time I come home to PA from Atlanta, my battery just tanks. I can't even make it through half a day. And the only difference is going from constant LTE to no LTE at all. No change in my daily routine. And I've been using UCLF6 since it came out. Now I'm on the Rogers RUXLF3 because I wanted to try switching network modes, which didn't work. I don't know why it works for everyone else.
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Man that's interesting. Every time I come home to PA from Atlanta, my battery just tanks. I can't even make it through half a day. And the only difference is going from constant LTE to no LTE at all. No change in my daily routine. And I've been using UCLF6 since it came out. Now I'm on the Rogers RUXLF3 because I wanted to try switching network modes, which didn't work. I don't know why it works for everyone else.
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Sometimes when you move far distances they might have to reset something with the network. When I moved from pa to Florida they did some kind of network reset or something to my old iPhone. Not sure if they still do that or not. Now I travel from Texas to Louisiana and Mississippi a lot and I don't experience any battery tank. And I don't have lte in Louisiana or Mississippi. I get better battery life there then in Houston on lte.
Are you carrier unlocked? Even if you are I don't think cm10 based roms are able to switch network mode. That's if I remember correctly, which I could be wrong since I don't use that feature.
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Ohhhh I didn't realize that about CM and the network mode - thanks! I think I'm gonna try out the leak or Jedi and see how things go with that. I'm not carrier unlocked - just straight up AT&T.
That's interesting about the reset for location. I never heard of that. But I bought the phone here in PA, with a PA number. I've just been down in Atlanta for grad school. We're really close with our AT&T sales rep though so I could probably ask her.
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Ohhhh I didn't realize that about CM and the network mode - thanks! I think I'm gonna try out the leak or Jedi and see how things go with that. I'm not carrier unlocked - just straight up AT&T.
That's interesting about the reset for location. I never heard of that. But I bought the phone here in PA, with a PA number. I've just been down in Atlanta for grad school. We're really close with our AT&T sales rep though so I could probably ask her.
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Yeah ask the rep, he probably knows more about how the network works. What's weird is, I've not had a battery drain when going to non lte areas and spending weeks there. It actually saves my battery. Here in Houston I hit 40mbps/s and it probably burns through battery 15% faster than non lte areas. I have strong signal in both areas. Usually -75 to -85dBm. So it's not a signal fluctuation issue. Do you have weak hspa signal in pa?
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Yeah ask the rep, he probably knows more about how the network works. What's weird is, I've not had a battery drain when going to non lte areas and spending weeks there. It actually saves my battery. Here in Houston I hit 40mbps/s and it probably burns through battery 15% faster than non lte areas. I have strong signal in both areas. Usually -75 to -85dBm. So it's not a signal fluctuation issue. Do you have weak hspa signal in pa?
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Looks like I'm going from about -90 to -105 dBm. So I guess that's not too great. Unfortunately, I can't tell you what I get in Atlanta.
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Looks like I'm going from about -90 to -105 dBm. So I guess that's not too great. Unfortunately, I can't tell you what I get in Atlanta.
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Yeah that's not good. That could be eating some battery.
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Yeah that's not good. That could be eating some battery.
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Yea that could definitely be it. Didn't think about that. But man that just seems like a huge hit in battery life - from 18 hrs down to 4 hrs. And I never had that problem with my Captivate, or my dad's Infuse. That's why the only major variable I could think of was the LTE.
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Yea that could definitely be it. Didn't think about that. But man that just seems like a huge hit in battery life - from 18 hrs down to 4 hrs. And I never had that problem with my Captivate, or my dad's Infuse. That's why the only major variable I could think of was the LTE.
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It's always looking for lte, and now it has a crappy hspa signal. I'm guessing that's it, but it could be something else.
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So does anybody use their Skyrocket full-time in a non-LTE area?? I'm back home now for the holidays and don't have LTE here, and my battery literally went from 97% to 37% in 2.5 hrs with 49 mins of screen on and 59 mins of awake time. Meaning no significant wakelocks. Just the radio trying to find LTE. Is the battery always that terrible for you guys in non-LTE? I get a consistent ~18 hrs with 3 hrs screen on time while on LTE 24/7.
What do you guys do?? I tried flashing the Rogers radio and switching the Network Mode, but it does the same thing as on an AT&T radio - switches right back to LTE. I tried selecting the Network Operator but I never get any choices to even select AT&T like others report. *#2263# doesn't work on CM. I tried switching the mode in *#*#4636#*#* but it switched right back to LTE. What gives? (I'm on CM10.)
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i live in non-lte area.. this is how my stock batt looks on everyday use... don't even ask me what happens when I use gps.
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i live in non-lte area.. this is how my stock batt looks on everyday use... don't even ask me what happens when I use gps.
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Yikes that's brutal. Sorry about that.
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I'm on aokp and what I have to do is search for networks manually and select AT&T. Once you do that, you can force the 2g only option. Or *#*#4636#*#* and select the network mode you want. I'm on Rogers radio on AT&T and my phone isn't unlocked.
It can take like 2 minutes to search when you first do it manually.
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I'm on aokp and what I have to do is search for networks manually and select AT&T. Once you do that, you can force the 2g only option. Or *#*#4636#*#* and select the network mode you want. I'm on Rogers radio on AT&T and my phone isn't unlocked.
It can take like 2 minutes to search when you first do it manually.
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As I stated in the OP I tried both of those things and neither worked. I'm on Rogers radio on AT&T and not unlocked. I tried searching for Network Operator but all it does is flash a popup saying Searching and immediately disappears. I've clicked it a million times. Sometimes it takes slightly longer, but still never gives any results.
And then *#*#4636#*#* just switches the mode back immediately after I change it.
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That's strange, I've only used my phone on at&t. Never unlocked it. It works fine for me.
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