I seem to be having a problem when I'm at the edge of a 3G coverage area. When I only have 1 or 2 bars of 3G coverage, the internet connection is pratically unuable. However, if I move to a place where I have WORSE reception, the phone swaps to GPRS and the connection becomes much better.
Is there any way of forcing the phone to use GPRS rather than 3G in these situations, or altering the 'tipping point' where is gives up on 3G and uses GPRS instead?
Hi NJ,
Unfortunately your only real solution here is to switch the phone to 2G mode only by going to Start > Settings > Phone > Band > 'Select your network type' here put GSM. I know this is not ideal.
I suppose you could also look at getting an external antenna which plugs into the socket next to the camera.
Gav.
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I seem to be right at the edge of UMTS coverage where I live. When connected to a UMTS network I get one or no lines showing signal strength.
As a consequence, the connection gets broken off frequently and then reconnected to GPRS (which is strong). Then transferred back to UMTS and so on.
Especially the transfer from weak to no UMTS and then switching to GPRS is a pain. lost connection, having to dial in again, sometimes even getting an errormessage.
Is there a way to configure my device to not use UMTS?
I have a Universal.
Hello
To do this you need to go to start/settings/phone
click on the 'Band' tab at the bottom and then use the 'select your network type' drop menu to chose 'GSM'. This will disable the UMTS band and save you ALOT of battery as well.
Please let me know if this helped
This infomation can easily be found in the universal forum.
Maca
I recently installed GPRS Traffic monitor which shows me how much traffic is passing over my HSDPA connection and I noticed something strange.
Sometimes when I have a solid wifi connection my HSDPA traffic figures shoot up while I'm browsing. I discover that the reason for this is that in settings->connections->connections advanced->networks the default connection for applications has been set to be "Contract WAP" even though I had previously specifically set it to "My Work Network".
OK, so I change this setting back to be "My work network" and Opera starts using the wifi in preference to HSDPA and only switches to HSDPA when the wifi is no longer available. Perfect.
Except that a few hours later I notice that the HSDPA traffic is shooting up again even though I have a strong wifi connection. I go back and check the settings and the default connection has reverted to "Contract WAP". I didn't do this - it happened automatically.
This has been happening for a while now and I think the cause may be the crappy cell reception where i live. Occasionally the phone loses the signal from Vodafone but a few seconds later gets it again and re-registers with the network automatically (I know this happens because if I turn off auto-network-selection I keep getting asked to select my network). My suspicion is that this re-registering is resetting my default network connection.
This may also be why occasionally I seem to lose my 3G connection settings and have to run the connection setup wizard again.
This is really annoying me because I have to keep checking the settings before any major browsing session to ensure I don't blow my monthly 3G bandwith.
Does anyone have any experience of this problem or advice on how to fix it.
Cheers,
David
Hi,
I have a short Question. Is it possibly to turn off the data connection, when the phone switches the GSM/GPRS network? I live here very close to Switzerland. But when it switches to a Swiss GSM I should be available, but the data connection should close.
I know that there is the programm "No GPRS" but AFAIK it doesn't turn off the data connection automatic. (The I-Phone has such a function integrated as example)
dmc5 said:
Hi,
I have a short Question. Is it possibly to turn off the data connection, when the phone switches the GSM/GPRS network? I live here very close to Switzerland. But when it switches to a Swiss GSM I should be available, but the data connection should close.
I know that there is the programm "No GPRS" but AFAIK it doesn't turn off the data connection automatic. (The I-Phone has such a function integrated as example)
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take a look here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=3619565
this will disable data under roaming automatically and re-enable it under home network
I live in a very marginal coverage area and have an issue everytime the wind blows right and my HD2 picks up an Edge signal, it will immediately stop using Wi-Fi and try using edge.
Happens if the phone picks up a roaming edge connection as well (but then I get all the "You may be charged" messages)
I want it to stay on Wi-Fi until I have 0 Wi-fi signal before using Edge or H.
is it possible?
Here this should do http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=478519
Its an excellent software.
settings menu all settings connections connections advanced tab select networks change the top drop down to "my work network"
I've got my new phone today and it's awesome!!
For some reason, it's only connecting on GPRS (a "G" in the bar at the top) and I can't find the setting to tell it to seach for 3G/HSDPA networks!
On my old phone, I manually set it to only use GPRS, so this maybe why as the setting is remembered on the simcard (?).
There is an option to switch on and off 3g data access under Settings > Wireless and Network > Mobile Networks > Use only 2g Networks