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2G/3G Toggle?

Any idea how to enable/unhide this feature under wireless networks? Switching to 2G only nearly doubles my battery life on my Nexus

I've just been accessing the band selection menu and selecting gsm bands only. The menu is *#*#2263#*#*. This little "fix" doesn't hold after a reboot, fyi.
I also use the SMODA widget to shut off the data connection whenever I don't need it.
It sucks that mobile data is always on by default, with no stock option to shut it off, and that you can't select to only use 2g right out of the box.

I've seen some widgets that will turn 3G off/on... I wonder if those work on the captivate. I'll give it a try today.

mesasone said:
I've seen some widgets that will turn 3G off/on... I wonder if those work on the captivate. I'll give it a try today.
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I think you should be able to force it by going to *#*#4636*#*# and selecting GSM only, but that's such a hassle

http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.google.code.apndroid
See if this helps do what you want.

Try quick settings from the market and toggle the APN control on and off. Appears to work....
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MendedEagle said:
Try quick settings from the market and toggle the APN control on and off. Appears to work....
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I'm not looking to completely disable data - I just want to be able to disable 3G when I don't need it (and revert to EDGE data)

mesasone said:
I've seen some widgets that will turn 3G off/on... I wonder if those work on the captivate. I'll give it a try today.
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The widget I have - which comes with Weather and Toggle Widget - does not work. It just brings up the wireless connections menu, but of course you can't turn it off from there.

I'm using smart bar, and it has a 3g-2g switch, but it isn't working. Since this functionality isn't working on my captivate, but worked on my other phones, I'd say it's been intentionally pushed out. If a hack can fix this, I'd love to learn about it.
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I am also interested in this. I work in.a area that switches from edge to 3g a lot and when i had a iphone i increased my battery a lot by setting it strictly to edge at work.
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After all the digging and searching around, I found two apps that work perfectly on Samsung Captivate for toggling mobile data (3G)
- Juicedefender (it has a widget you can use to toggle 3G quickly)
- SMODA Widget (It doesnt have too many 5 star ratings but works fine on my samsung captivate).
My phone is rooted but I believe it is not a requirement of either of the above apps. Hope this info is useful for other captivate owners.
Most of the other APN / 3G toggle apps on the market try to put a suffix on the APN names in settings. On the samsung captivate this works only with a restart/reboot. Meaning if you disable 3G using the app it would put a suffix like 'disabled' or something to the APN name. But your phone still has the 3G connection using the original APN settings. Only after you restart the phone does it see the 'disabled' APN name and is not able to use and hence no 3G. Vice versa when you want to enable 3G back - needs restart.
I dont know what process the above 2 apps use but they work instantly on my samsung captivate. No need to restart or click a bunch of other settings. They work perfectly and as simple as it should be.

bravisha said:
After all the digging and searching around, I found two apps that work perfectly on Samsung Captivate for toggling mobile data (3G)
- Juicedefender (it has a widget you can use to toggle 3G quickly)
- SMODA Widget (It doesnt have too many 5 star ratings but works fine on my samsung captivate).
My phone is rooted but I believe it is not a requirement of either of the above apps. Hope this info is useful for other captivate owners.
Most of the other APN / 3G toggle apps on the market try to put a suffix on the APN names in settings. On the samsung captivate this works only with a restart/reboot. Meaning if you disable 3G using the app it would put a suffix like 'disabled' or something to the APN name. But your phone still has the 3G connection using the original APN settings. Only after you restart the phone does it see the 'disabled' APN name and is not able to use and hence no 3G. Vice versa when you want to enable 3G back - needs restart.
I dont know what process the above 2 apps use but they work instantly on my samsung captivate. No need to restart or click a bunch of other settings. They work perfectly and as simple as it should be.
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i heard juice defender works well

Where are you seeing the option to switch from 3G to EDGE? I just installed Juice defender but can't find the option. The mobile data connection widget just shuts off my data entirely.

Sorta on topic but when I try to install juice defender it is never able to install the aosp helper. Does it work for you guys?
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idkmybffzeeshan said:
I'm using smart bar, and it has a 3g-2g switch, but it isn't working. Since this functionality isn't working on my captivate, but worked on my other phones, I'd say it's been intentionally pushed out. If a hack can fix this, I'd love to learn about it.
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Yea, I was hoping someone maybe knew which file you had to edit to reenable that option in the network settings page
bravisha said:
After all the digging and searching around, I found two apps that work perfectly on Samsung Captivate for toggling mobile data (3G)
- Juicedefender (it has a widget you can use to toggle 3G quickly)
- SMODA Widget (It doesnt have too many 5 star ratings but works fine on my samsung captivate).
My phone is rooted but I believe it is not a requirement of either of the above apps. Hope this info is useful for other captivate owners.
Most of the other APN / 3G toggle apps on the market try to put a suffix on the APN names in settings. On the samsung captivate this works only with a restart/reboot. Meaning if you disable 3G using the app it would put a suffix like 'disabled' or something to the APN name. But your phone still has the 3G connection using the original APN settings. Only after you restart the phone does it see the 'disabled' APN name and is not able to use and hence no 3G. Vice versa when you want to enable 3G back - needs restart.
I dont know what process the above 2 apps use but they work instantly on my samsung captivate. No need to restart or click a bunch of other settings. They work perfectly and as simple as it should be.
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I already have Juice Defender I know I can disable data completely, but I'm looking for something that can disable 3G while keeping EDGE alive
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Sorta on topic but when I try to install juice defender it is never able to install the aosp helper. Does it work for you guys?
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It says install completed, but in the logs, it says there was an error

It would be nice to disable 3g while at home or something , where the reception is a bit sketchy, but i could at least still use it for voice and texting , and use wifi for the internet and app stuff. Could help conserve battery life as well

I tried smoda and can confirm that it doesn't work for me. It disabled data completely as I cannot access the web.when I activated the widget. It would be nice if we could set this phone to 2g and if data speeds were above a certain threshold for a certain amount of time then we could have it switch to 3g.
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Yeah, I'd really just like to force the phone into EDGE mode when I'm not using it - updating weather and fetching e-mails are really not that data intensive and don't need the speed from the 3G connection. I'd like to have a widget that will turn the 3G back on when I'm on breaks or whatever and want to surf the web, watch a video on YouTube, whatever. I believe you can do this in the service menus, so you would think there would be a way to accomplish it with a widget - even if it were Galaxy S specific.
I'd pitch in 5 bucks towards a bounty towards such a widget if somebody could create one.
Juice defender does have the option to run the 3G radio on 15/1 cycles (off for 15 minutes, on for one) but I'm not sure how/if my apps that would use background data would sync up with that.

i9000 vs 1897 band settings?
Now that I've moved to the JH2 firmware I'm back to some of the AT&T crap, like hiding the band selection setting.
I'm thinking that the differences are in the Settings.apk.
Others have said that since it's a system app and signed, you can't just install it. So I'm wondering if it would be possible to pull the Settings.apk from the i9000 rom and stuff it using the update.zip method.
May have to do a backup and give it a shot.
Once that setting is available, you can use 2G 3G switcher from Market to bring up the UI and toggle between EDGE and HSDPA.
By keeping it on EDGE, my battery lasts alot longer...

If we could manage to enable it juice defender would switch back and forth automatically based on download speed and/or the screen being on/off, which be ideal.
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What is my preferred network type?

So I've been trying to tweak my signal, go into dialer *#*#4636#*#*. Go all the way down, under preferred network type says unknown. Click on box and options are, wcdma preferred, GSM only, wcdma only, GSM auto prl, wcdma auto prl, GSM/wcdma auto prl , evdo only and i think 2 more. One of wich is unknown. Phone is rooted, stock rom. Any ideas? Live in Colorado
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yea i was wondering the same thing. my evo is/was always on CDMA auto PRL, my ns4g is either on WCDMA or unknown. i cant help but think this has a lot to do with reception issues

Edit: Also switched cdma roaming to home only not automatic, not sure if auto made it keep switching to unknown type. Waited a cuple minutes after turning 4G off and speed went back up, might have needed a minute to fully switch back to 3G. Been messing with preferred type, but to make it stay have to push home cause back button keeps resetting to unknown type. Check speedtest.net app, shows better speed, but when i use the 4G and then turn off speeds are worse again. But then again you'd think cause i get a low 4G that my 3G would be faster, not so.
hellcatt said:
yea i was wondering the same thing. my evo is/was always on CDMA auto PRL, my ns4g is either on WCDMA or unknown. i cant help but think this has a lot to do with reception issues
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hellcatt said:
yea i was wondering the same thing. my evo is/was always on CDMA auto PRL, my ns4g is either on WCDMA or unknown. i cant help but think this has a lot to do with reception issues
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The same here, the evo always is cdma auto but nexus keeps jumping to unknown
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pierre1321 said:
Edit: Also switched cdma roaming to home only not automatic, not sure if auto made it keep switching to unknown type. Waited a cuple minutes after turning 4G off and speed went back up, might have needed a minute to fully switch back to 3G. Been messing with preferred type, but to make it stay have to push home cause back button keeps resetting to unknown type. Check speedtest.net app, shows better speed, but when i use the 4G and then turn off speeds are worse again. But then again you'd think cause i get a low 4G that my 3G would be faster, not so.
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yea ive done all that and it always goes back to wcdma or unknown

Yeah, phone finally went back to unknown. There's that PRL update in this section, steps are for windows 7 , didn't work on my W/XP. Laptops in the shop so my options are limited.
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Yes, Evdo, interesting read. Will have to reread some stuff on ro.build
Came from an Evo 4g, so the methods for a better signal are different. Thanks for the info
bencozzy said:
ok new build.prop hack confirmed working on i9020t
how to set preferred network type (looking for this portion easy to find like right in the middle sticks out)
# Do not try to parse ro.build.description or .fingerprint
ro.build.description=soju-user 2.3.4 GRJ22 121341 release-keys
ro.build.fingerprint=google/soju/crespo:2.3.4/GRJ22/121341:user/release-keys
ro.product.rat=XXXXXXXX
# end build properties
add the italic underlined code, without being in italic and underlined. and replace the x's with whatever you want to use:
GSM/CDMA auto (PRL)
EvDo only
CDMA only
CDMA auto (PRL)
GSM auto (PRL)
WCDMA only
GSM only
WCDMA preferred
here for copy and paste (just put your network in there!!!)
# Do not try to parse ro.build.description or .fingerprint
ro.build.description=soju-user 2.3.4 GRJ22 121341 release-keys
ro.build.fingerprint=google/soju/crespo:2.3.4/GRJ22/121341:user/release-keys
ro.product.rat=
# end build properties
have fun and post some results. If something breaks blame the person that invented the internet cause it's not my fault and i cant be held responsible for you beleiving everything you read!!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1116884 some decent info in here the radios are for gsm only not the 4g though but you might find some useful stuff to play with. sprint is evdo right??
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Ns4g, atlest mine doesn't allow me to enter the wimaxx menue. I do *#*#DATA#*#*, enter msl and lets me modify other stuff. Just not wimaxx, i click on it and it shows the msl box. Like i never entered it in the first place. I enter it again and it sends me back to the menue.is there another code or something?
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ok read up on wimax sounds more like its very closely related to wifi maybe a wifi hack is needed??? dont have 4g other wise id probably find a work around for it??
look into build.prop fixes or hacks for other wimax devices might find something usable for the ns4g.
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Cool, ill ask in Q&A first. See if i can get some info on not being able to access wimaxx menue.
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Performed this edit in build.prop. Thanks for this. Changed my Nexus S 4G to CDMA auto (PRL)...

tailsthecat3 said:
Performed this edit in build.prop. Thanks for this. Changed my Nexus S 4G to CDMA auto (PRL)...
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Did you do it through adb or through a root explorer?
My type still switches to unknown, even though it show in build.prop
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Well then it probably doesnt work to make the network type stick. I altered the file through root explorer. Reallllly wanna make my network type stick to cdma auto

Gothis from Build.prop thread-use *#*#4636#*#* to access network type, wait for signal to turn green, select network type then quickly go down to refresh and then update. These are next to the smsc box. So far it seems to be sticking, not sure about after reboot.
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Well then it probably doesnt work to make the network type stick. I altered the file through root explorer. Reallllly wanna make my network type stick to cdma auto
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tailsthecat3 said:
Performed this edit in build.prop. Thanks for this. Changed my Nexus S 4G to CDMA auto (PRL)...
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notice any difference?

pierre1321 said:
Gothis from Build.prop thread-use *#*#4636#*#* to access network type, wait for signal to turn green, select network type then quickly go down to refresh and then update. These are next to the smsc box. So far it seems to be sticking, not sure about after reboot.
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This didnt seem to work for me.
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notice any difference?
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None.

These were my steps
1. Go t system and make a few copies of build.prop.
2.went into copies of build.prop, ( main build .prop runs in background so it would let me alter).then added witch ever type i wanted , (like me i did ro.product.rat=WCDMA preferred) .
3. Made sure i saved my new copy.
4. Then i copied and pasted my new building.prop over to system. (Says there is already one there, i overwrite original.
5. Get out of whichever explorer used. And restart phone.
6. Then went to *#*#4636#*#* to get to preferred network type, then i select the option i chose to put in build.prop. ( that way they are the same.
6. After selecting type quickly got to refresh and update ( near the smsc box near the bottom.
You should notice the update tab stay dark.
Before i messed with build.prop and added what i wanted it would still change back. Now it atleast stays till next reboot.
Don't know if that helps.....
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This didnt seem to work for me.
None.
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pierre1321 said:
These were my steps
1. Go t system and make a few copies of build.prop.
2.went into copies of build.prop, ( main build .prop runs in background so it would let me alter).then added witch ever type i wanted , (like me i did ro.product.rat=WCDMA preferred) .
3. Made sure i saved my new copy.
4. Then i copied and pasted my new building.prop over to system. (Says there is already one there, i overwrite original.
5. Get out of whichever explorer used. And restart phone.
6. Then went to *#*#4636#*#* to get to preferred network type, then i select the option i chose to put in build.prop. ( that way they are the same.
6. After selecting type quickly got to refresh and update ( near the smsc box near the bottom.
You should notice the update tab stay dark.
Before i messed with build.prop and added what i wanted it would still change back. Now it atleast stays till next reboot.
Don't know if that helps.....
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Didnt work. Switches back to WCDMA upon leaving the menu. Then shifts to unknown.
This phones radios need some serious updating...as well as some other problems.

Is yer rom odexed or deodexed, is it stock rom or different. I read somewhere that a deodexed rom allows a little more play as far as changing things, not sure though. It stays as long as you don't reboot after refresh and update, before it would reset regardless of reboot or not. Did you check build.prop in system folder to make sure it kept the add in? Mine wouldn't stay untill i copy and pasted over the original in system file, cause build.prop runs in the background. But there are so many things that work and won't work depending on yer rom and how it runs.
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Didnt work. Switches back to WCDMA upon leaving the menu. Then shifts to unknown.
This phones radios need some serious updating...as well as some other problems.
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pierre1321 said:
Is yer rom odexed or deodexed, is it stock rom or different. I read somewhere that a deodexed rom allows a little more play as far as changing things, not sure though. It stays as long as you don't reboot after refresh and update, before it would reset regardless of reboot or not. Did you check build.prop in system folder to make sure it kept the add in? Mine wouldn't stay untill i copy and pasted over the original in system file, cause build.prop runs in the background. But there are so many things that work and won't work depending on yer rom and how it runs.
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stock rom. performed multiple variations of the steps that are assumed to work. nothing works as it always switches back to wcdma then unknown.

I have found that I make the wcdma change with *#*#4636#*#* the change shows. If i make shortcut in home screen for phone info the line still shoes gsm/cdma. I still have to change it there.

No internet

I can't get internet is just showing an H+ and I can't connect.
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Kratz17 said:
I can't get internet is just showing an H+ and I can't connect.
Thanks in Advance
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Are you on Verizon? I'm surprised you're even getting voice...
If you're using a GSM carrier other than ATT, you'll need to input the correct APN settings. Google ("your carrier" apn settings) and I'm sure you'll find what you're looking for. Then go to Settings - Wireless and Networks - Mobile Networks - Access Point Names and create a new APN with your carrier's settings

homeslice976 said:
Are you on Verizon? I'm surprised you're even getting voice...
If you're using a GSM carrier other than ATT, you'll need to input the correct APN settings. Google ("your carrier" apn settings) and I'm sure you'll find what you're looking for. Then go to Settings - Wireless and Networks - Mobile Networks - Access Point Names and create a new APN with your carrier's settings
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Is my wife phone she's in att
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Kratz17 said:
Is my wife phone she's in att
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Is it stock? Has it been rooted? If it was rooted/s-off'd what ROM are you running? Have you pulled the battery, cycled airplane mode, etc?

homeslice976 said:
Is it stock? Has it been rooted? If it was rooted/s-off'd what ROM are you running? Have you pulled the battery, cycled airplane mode, etc?
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Stock no root my wife don't like to mess with the phone
And yes pull battery, restart, airplane on and off, mobile network on and off,
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Kratz17 said:
Stock no root my wife don't like to mess with the phone
And yes pull battery, restart, airplane on and off, mobile network on and off,
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I missed a couple questions - is it just the browser that's not able to be used? Are you still able to use apps that require data? Does data work when connected to wifi?

homeslice976 said:
I missed a couple questions - is it just the browser that's not able to be used? Are you still able to use apps that require data? Does data work when connected to wifi?
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The only thing I can use is the market and download apps from the market but then I can't use any browser or any app that need internet like Facebook twitter dolphin browser skyfire etc.
The wifi work fine I can use everything as usual
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Kratz17 said:
The only thing I can use is the market and download apps from the market but then I can't use any browser or any app that need internet like Facebook twitter dolphin browser skyfire etc.
The wifi work fine I can use everything as usual
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This is strange. I'd probably suggest running the RUU to see if you get data back. This will obviously wipe the device, but will flash the exact same stock, unrooted ROM. I don't have any other good suggestions.
Gingerbread RUU
Froyo RUU

LTE OnOFF

Was wondering if anyone has experience using this to control their LTE. I assume by doing this there should be no long term issues switching between the settings?

I too would like to be able to toggle my LTE when I don't need it but remain on a TW stock ROM.

I've never tried this app but I doubt it works. "Phone info" app does work but it's annoying to use as there are a lot of steps. Works on ics tw and jb tw.
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foocankill said:
I've never tried this app but I doubt it works. "Phone info" app does work but it's annoying to use as there are a lot of steps. Works on ics tw and jb tw.
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Unless Samsung changed Android's stock advanced radio info, then it should work fine. All it does is invoke what a dialer code does (*#*#4636#*#*). It doesn't work for all phones (manufacturers like to disable dialer code access).

foocankill said:
I've never tried this app but I doubt it works. "Phone info" app does work but it's annoying to use as there are a lot of steps. Works on ics tw and jb tw.
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That and the constant dialogue box popping up asking if you want to switch to global.

3 g is s more battery on my phone. You will laugh but it seems so. I would stay away from phone info unless you like Odin when you want to use 4g again. In my case the only time turning off 4g made a difference was in a fringe area. It is not a bionic or nexus. It has integrated 4g soc.
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If on a ics rom you can use phone info that will take u to the menu someone already mentioned. Then click device info and check "cdma (auto prl)" to put the phone in 3g. To put it back into 4g goto "lte/cdma/evdo" from the same drop down menu.
If you are on a jellybean leak you use phone info to put the phone in 3g the same way. If you try and switch back to 4g with phone info nothing will happen. To get back into 4g you goto system settings-more settings-mobile networks-network mode and select cdma/lte/evdo.
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Best Rom for Global Mode

Hey guys i was wondering if someone could help me for getting a rom that works right outta the box with global mode. I tried liquid smooth and Slim Beans, but i cant switch to GSM mode or Add apn's...i am using Synergy right now, but i dont even get a whole day on one charge.. so i was wondering if anyone know of any Rom that can automatically find the APN, or at least we can add them. and also allows to use GSM Mode
Thanks

I am in cairo egypt right now. When I got here I was running pacman rom. I did not get a signal. I was able to eventually get a signal by going into the phone hidden menu thru the app pimp my rom (same menu the app phone info used to go to) and switch my radio to gsm auto (prl). But this seemed a little spotty at times. While here I wanted to try MOAR rom, which is touchwiz based. I figured if I cannot activate that I can just restore my nandroid backup in twrp and be fine. However after installing MOAR and waiting about 90 seconds, my Verizon S3 activated fine. So in my recent experience I guess the easiest wayI can say to get Global mode working is any rom based off stock, or stock rom itself.
Edit - Forgot to mention that I did not change the sim card and I am connected to Vodafone. However this means any calls texts or data I use while here incur very expensive charges with verizon, so I am using wifi and my Google voice number with talkatone to not have to worry about this.
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sfetaz said:
I am in cairo egypt right now. When I got here I was running pacman rom. I did not get a signal. I was able to eventually get a signal by going into the phone hidden menu thru the app pimp my rom (same menu the app phone info used to go to) and switch my radio to gsm auto (prl). But this seemed a little spotty at times. While here I wanted to try MOAR rom, which is touchwiz based. I figured if I cannot activate that I can just restore my nandroid backup in twrp and be fine. However after installing MOAR and waiting about 90 seconds, my Verizon S3 activated fine. So in my recent experience I guess the easiest wayI can say to get Global mode working is any rom based off stock, or stock rom itself.
Edit - Forgot to mention that I did not change the sim card and I am connected to Vodafone. However this means any calls texts or data I use while here incur very expensive charges with verizon, so I am using wifi and my Google voice number with talkatone to not have to worry about this.
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Awesome, will Give Moar a try. Did you install APN manager pro btw or did it let you add an APN.?
Thanks for the answer btw

djteotancolis said:
Awesome, will Give Moar a try. Did you install APN manager pro btw or did it let you add an APN.?
Thanks for the answer btw
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I did not use any apn software to get it to work on either rom. Also I do not believe it needs to be MOAR rom, any touchwiz based verizon rom should work, including synergy, beans or cleanrom. With the 4.1 jellybean update for verizon S3 i think the global mode was added by default, as it is a choice under settings->wireless and networks-> more settings, mobile networks, network mode