I'm wondering if anyone can help me out here. I'm looking for am easy setting or app or way that I can use my phone without a connection to a network but with wifi capability.
Basically, I don't want to receive roaming charges while I travel. I know I could remove the sim card, but I would like a much simpler option. is there any way? Ideally, I'd want to use it the same way I turn on "airplane mode" but I've searched through the settings, and their doesn't seem to be a way to add or change the profiles.
Go to Settings = Wireless & networks = Mobile networks = take tick out of Data Enabled.
Why not just go into airplane mode then switch on your wi-fi? That's what I do, just use the icons on your status switch/power controls.
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This is not about HOW TO DISABLE the data connection: I know there are plenty of ways and apps to do that, even automatically.
As regards me I have two manual options to do that on my phone:
1. In the Comm manager, under Wireless Controls, I have 3G on/off option, which I can use to switch between 3G and 2G network
2. ModaCo NoData, which I can use to ENABLE/DISABLE my "H3G Internet" data connection
My questions are:
a] do I have to use both?
b] if either one is enough, which one is the best (or: what is the difference between the two)?
Thanks
I believe if you are on the 2G network, you can still connect to the internet via GPRS?
thegios said:
1. In the Comm manager, under Wireless Controls, I have 3G on/off option, which I can use to switch between 3G and 2G network
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This does what it says, switches your phone from 3G/2G networks to 2G only. But in both cases your phone can place a data connection, only it will be slower when on 2G (GPRS/EDGE).
To disable the connection, you need to use nodata. The other option does nothing in this regard.
So in the end your question still actually was about how to disable
Fine understood
New question then: considering that I have automatic wetaher/location/facebook.pushmail active, if I disable data connection at night and in the office, would this save battery life?
Most likely a little,yes. But data connection barely uses anything when idle, so you save the little amount of traffic that takes place from the updates. And the phone will still wake up at the update intervals to try and connect, which drains pretty much the same as the connection itself.
how can i diable the auto switch to 3G when i am in a Usb connection? i know there is a way to disable it which is untick ''allow wireless connection on device when connected to desktop'' what i wanted is. is there any manual way to enableor disable 3G by ourself rather then it switch automatically and we had to manual get it disabled.
thanks for the time you spend on reading.
ive found some where on this forum on how to turn off the data connection
here our to steps
Try this:
1. Type *#*#4636#*#* on your dial pad
2. Select "Phone Information"
3. Press "Menu" soft key
4. Select "More"
5. Select "Disable Data on Boot"/ or just disable data
6. Reboot
Now data should be disabled (you won't see E/3G icons in the notification bar) and you can use WiFi whenever you want.
Credit doesn't go to me some one eles on the forum just wanted to repost as i cant find and some people might find this useful
i do it that way to, but it only works until you do Reboot
it doesn't save the changes
after the phone reboots, you have to go back into the menu to manually turn data off.
So much work. Use APNdroid and a widget on your homescreen to endable/disable. And yes, it does save even after reboots.
Still worthwhile
Here's a good reason why an automated way of using this service menu option would be a good idea:
APNDroid (and similar programs) 'disable' data connection by adding additional characters to the APN information of your phone. They, therefore, don't disable data connection, they merely invalidate the APN information.
What happens though is that the phone still tries to connect to the GPRS/3G network, using the invalidated information. On my network, Vodafone UK, enabling the APN later again (i.e., putting the valid information back) does not lead to switching the GPRS/3G connection back!! Only switching on/off the airplane mode switches back on the cellular data connection!
My guess why: invalidating the APN information (and the phone using this information to attempt connecting) leads to a sequence of GPRS attachment requests being sent to the (cellular) network. Some operators might react to these requests by disabling any future attempt of attaching to the network - a denial-of-service prevention, if you will. When you switch APNdroid (or similar) back on, the cellular attachment has been disabled on the operator side (since you've been sending invalid attachment requests). Switching airplane mode on/off re-attaches you from scratch to the cellular network - GPRS/3G will work again!
I observe this behaviour on my and my wife's phone consistently IF the cellular connectivity has been disabled for more than 60 minutes (possibly a timeout set by Vodafone UK). We tried several APN switching programmes.
When using the service menu switch, you can use your connectivity at any time - no airplane mode switching required. Problem though is that the menu selection is far more complicated than the airplane mode switching ;-)
So what's required is a programmer's work to create an automated (widget-based) switch, using this menu!!!!
BTW: my friend's Hero has an HTC-provided widget, doing exactly that. He's never observed any issues with it, as described above.
Has anyone tried DCswitch+ it supposedly doest exactly that - disabling the dta connection via service menu.
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Has anyone tried DCswitch+ it supposedly doest exactly that - disabling the dta connection via service menu.
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Yes, tested it work like advertised.
thanks man.
That's very handy. Thanks for the tip.
Hi,
I don't know if it uses the service menu but Smoda widget doesn't change the apn string and does switch off the data connection, saving me great amount of battery time. I'll have a look at DCswitch+ and try to compare.
there is an even easier method just install the app APN on-off Widget
link here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=765081
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there is an even easier method just install the app APN on-off Widget
link here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=765081
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But this also only renames the apn, right? It is mentioned in the comments... If so, it will not help to save battery, like the method of the first post.
you can use SP if the goal is to save battery
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=807989
I'm on froyo and you just long press the power button and one of the options is disable data connection !
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I recently connect my xperia x8 to internet via wifi and when I turned off the wifi, in the upper status bar pop up an ``E`` letter with arrow up and down - I think the providers internet notification! If it is what I think - auto swap from wifi to providers internet pls tell me how to disable it because i searched every single option and did not found the solution! ty
-_- your joking me right?
its just internet/data connection. It wont kill your phone
If you want it disabled, then go to settings and go to your - wait, make it simpler for you
Setting's-->wireless and networks-->mobile network settings, and turn data enabled off
well, ty for the advice but i try this option and it works but there is another notification on the top left corner of the display which notificate me that data transfer is disabled .... for to be more clear : first time after my long usage of wifi this problem occured - with the edge notification. I simply don't like to use my int provider internet because its expensive and now i must find a way to make it like it was - when i disconect wireless i dont like auto edge swap!
Hey guys I know there's a way to automatically connect and disconnect Wi-Fi I thought it was called Smart Switch but apparently it's not does anyone have any idea what it's called?
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Smart Switch is for moving content between devices.
Smart Network Switch is for automatically moving from WiFi to Mobile Data, in theory without losing ongoing connections.
The Edge Panel "My Places" can be configured to automatically enable/disable WiFi (and other things) based upon your location (location being configured a small number of ways).
There's probably an App to do it another way (like Wi-Fi Matic - which I've never tried - linky).
It took me a minute to find it but if you go into Wi-Fi settings & tap "more" you'll find the smart network switch option.. It used to be under advanced & somehow I was just missing it when I went to the advanced settings