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Forcing GPRS rather than 3G?

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.

Use GPRS but not UMTS?

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

Connections Question

Hi All,
New to my fantastic HD Touch so apologise if this is an obvious question..
If I have wifi enabled and data connection enabled, if i go onto the internet or, say, Youtube for aguments sake, will it use the Wifi connection as a priority over the data connection?
I ask because i want to keep my bills down without having to manually keep turning the data connection off (it connects every 5 mins to check for email)
Thanks
Loving this forum by the way!!

Depends on how the connection is set up. You can check your config by going to settings->connections->connections->advanced->select networks
There is then a drop down under the heading "Programs that automatically connect to the internet should connect using:". When I bought mine this was set to "Contract Internet" which basically means my vodafone data connection. I managed to run up a bill of over £50 before I spotted this (this was before I moved to a decent data package).
I changed this setting to "My Work Network" and it then used the wifi in preference to the cell connection. However, I think (although haven't scientifically tested) that if a program gets a cell connection before the wifi is activated then it may not automatically switch over if wifi is subsequently enabled.
BTW I tested all this using a $10 app called GPRS Traffic Monitor (which can monitor HSDPA as well as GPRS) to see if the traffic figures rose while browsing the net with wifi on and off. After changing my settings the data usage figures only went up if wifi was off.

Default network keeps changing

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

How do I disable auto-connect to 3G data connection?

It gets really annoying when I was using WIFI, and suddenly the signal is too weak and it automatically connects to 3G/HSDPA data connection. I am currently not on a plan with internet usage and it charges me 20cents per KB!!
Another question - when I'm using WIFI to login MSN, why does it connects to 3G data connection whenever I press the power button and go to sleep mode
e.g. when I turn it back on 3G data connection is on...
so does it use 3G to maintain my MSN connection???

delete the internet settings

when the wifi is weak it will auto connect to 3G.
install NoData to disable 3G.
http://www.4shared.com/file/66053417/ae669268/MoDaCo_NoData.html

Settings> Connections
Under "Advance Tab" go to "Select Networks"
Under Network Management
The first option "Programs that automatically connect to the Internet should connect using: "My ISP" <-- set as this
Take note this will disabled incoming/out going 3G calls. Just alter the settings around when need.

NoData ftw as posted earlier

chriswing said:
Settings> Connections
Under "Advance Tab" go to "Select Networks"
Under Network Management
The first option "Programs that automatically connect to the Internet should connect using: "My ISP" <-- set as this
Take note this will disabled incoming/out going 3G calls. Just alter the settings around when need.
Click to expand...
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It doesn't work now if you've upgraded your rom. I think nodata is the only choice left.

Phone - Settings - "Band" (not sure of this word as I have it in french) - select GSM instead of Auto and it will only connect to Edge, not to 3G.