Hello everybody,
I'd like to share this trick to easily switch between 2g only & 3g only network modes.
basically, all you need is dial ##3282# then, from the bottom line, go to parameters and then switch to the mode you want.
For faster access, you can also create a contact with phone number ##3282#, call it 3g (f.e.) and pin it to the homescreen !
Bye
It works! Thank you, great share
Thank you, learn, try this trick look!
Oh, that's useful.
Thanks!
Awesome find...!!!
Hi
Why I would like to do such thing ?
I guess 2G is "E" icon and 3G is ... "3G" icon. You don't want to switch to "H" or "G" icons ?
DomZ said:
Hi
Why I would like to do such thing ?
I guess 2G is "E" icon and 3G is ... "3G" icon. You don't want to switch to "H" or "G" icons ?
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"Such thing" can help when 3G coverage is weak and the system keeps on switching to 2G WHILE YOU PREFER to stay on 3G !!!!!
Obvious "things" are sometimes hard to see .... (n'est-il pas ?)
I see, thanks.
moving to general section
That's helpful!
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Hi everyone,
It's my first post here - most likely not to be my last. Oh, and i know i spelt HSDPA wrong in the title!
I very very recently (yesterday in fact) managed to get hold of my T-Mobile Hermes (one of the .37 batch) and am having no problems whatsoever with the phone, the only problem i am having is getting any web download speeds faster than around 40kbps?
I phoned T-Mobile yesterday and after being on hold twice and explaining myself many times i think i got HSDPA enabled as the lady (who was very nice) said she promises it has been enabled for me. I tried half hour later and sure enough, i used www.dslreports.com/mspeed and could now download at around 800kbps - perfect! Unfortunately i tried again this morning and it says 40kbps again
Is there any way to tell whether HSDPA has been enabled on my phone before i call T-Mobile again? Does HSDPA just run over 3G? I haven't got a brilliant signal where i am - usually 1 or 2 bars, could this be what is affecting my download speed? I need some help!
Just realised i have spelt HSDPA wrong in the thread title - never mind! Can anyone help?
Have you read this dude?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=276154&page=5
Theres a couple of files you can check you have i believe, also the Fit4cat program is worth downloading.
40kbps is GPRS data speed. Even without HSDPA you should get 300kbps on UMTS.
Your phone will show a U or a G depending on which network you are on.
It shows a "G" all the time in a little white block next to the signal bar, and sometimes the signal bar shows an antenna and sometimes a "G" also - does that mean when im on the "G" ill be on HSDPA and when im on the antenna (if i cant get 3G) ill be on GPRS 40kbps?
If so that makes a lot of sense as the signal is not brilliant round here, i went shopping in a much bigger town this afternoon and tested again -> full signal and downloading at around 1200kbps! Obviously it is enabled, think its just down to my signal....
Does that sound about right?
RTFM, the G is for GSM ie data will be GPRS.
You will either have a 3G or U depending on what ROM you're running for 3G/UMTS/HSDPA .
I'll be honest i only got half way through the quick start guide before i started playing with it. So, if my phone is always on "G" i'll assume i need to try and unlock it using the fit4cat thing? As T-Mobile have said they have enabled HSDPA on my account?
How did i get 1200kbps on GPRS by the way? It definately said "G" when i was connected and did the speed test...?!
I just ran the fit4cat Hermes tweaker and still no luck, it only connects to "G" rather than "3G", 3G is apparently available in this area so why does it only connect to G? Im confused and would really appreciate some advice...
Well if you probably didn't notice the U (or whatever) when you got 1mbps once it. This means that HSDPA is enabled on your phone and SIM.
The fit4cat tweaker only (dis)enables HSDPA but that isn't an issue because even without HSDPA you would be getting UMTS speeds.
One thing you could try is. Go to Start->Settings->Phone->Band set GSM/UTMS to GSM900+1800 + UMTS2100
You could also try a manual search for networks from Start->Settings->Phone->Networks->Find Network
Finally you can also disable GSM totaly using network type in the band selection and see if you get a steady 3G signal.
Thanks for your suggestions, here are my findings:
kevino said:
Well if you probably didn't notice the U (or whatever) when you got 1mbps once it. This means that HSDPA is enabled on your phone and SIM.
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Good point, i have a long drive home tonight so will check when going through built up areas to see if it connects to 3G or U then.
kevino said:
One thing you could try is. Go to Start->Settings->Phone->Band set GSM/UTMS to GSM900+1800 + UMTS2100
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Tried this, and phone disconnected then reconnected but still said "G" when connecting to Internet. Set back to "Auto".
kevino said:
You could also try a manual search for networks from Start->Settings->Phone->Networks->Find Network
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Did this also, it pops up with the message "Registering on the network" and disappears and thats it, nothing happens.
kevino said:
Finally you can also disable GSM totaly using network type in the band selection and see if you get a steady 3G signal.
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I cannot find an option to disable GSM in the Band tab, i have the following:
Select your network type.
__Auto
__GSM
Select your GSM/UMTS band.
__GSM(900+1800)+UMTS(2100)
__GSM(1900+850)+UMTS(1900+850)
and thats about it. Cannot find anything that would let me not use GSM whatsoever? I appreciate your help so far
It may be the case that your reception for 3G just isnt adequate enough to work where you live, O2 states there is reception in the area where i live but i only tend to get UMTS upstairs....just one of those things....here at uni i get FULL UMTS reception anywhere.
richieboy said:
I cannot find an option to disable GSM in the Band tab, i have the following:
Select your network type.
__Auto
__GSM
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In the dopod ROM it has a WCDMA option too. No big deal !
Seting the band was just so that the phone doesn't bother looking for bands that are not available in this country. To try and encourage it to check the correct UMTS band more quickly.
My suggestion to use find network (you need to select manual search) in Networks wasn't too helpful anyway as it doesn't list the band. So no use unless you can disable GSM.
Of course you may have got a spurious speed test result. How old is your SIM? It needs to be a USIM
Yes firstly is your SIM card a USIM....or is it a SIM card from an old handset?? I think youve already said you have had the 'U' appear on your TyTN at some point.....so again im going with the assumption you just dont have adequate UMTS reception for it to work....hence why you are only seeing 'G'.
So, funny story...
It seems where i was over the weekend (girlfriends) is borderline, so as mentioned aboved i can get 3G upstairs but not downstairs - i decided to drive around and got 3G all over the place...the best news is i get 2/3 bars of 3G at home too!
Problem solved, im an idiot - but hey, it doesn't hurt to ask right?
680kbps! Woo
richieboy said:
So, funny story...
It seems where i was over the weekend (girlfriends) is borderline, so as mentioned aboved i can get 3G upstairs but not downstairs - i decided to drive around and got 3G all over the place...the best news is i get 2/3 bars of 3G at home too!
Problem solved, im an idiot - but hey, it doesn't hurt to ask right?
680kbps! Woo
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girlfrends! Woo
I generally have excellent 3G signal around my home but find that within the house it seems to flit between 2 bars of "H" to full-bars "G" to no reception [all in the same room/part of the room!]
At home I would generally have wifi on anyway so want to have better/consistent phone reception esp when on-call.
Someone suggested I could disable 3G/HSDPA at home and use GSM only and this will give me better reception.
I don't understand why this would be?
Is this feasible and is it simple to keep switching back and forth between 2G and 3G or will it require softboots etc?
Thanks
You could call Vodafone and let them talk you into giving them £50 for them to use your internet connection for their traffic?
oh.....kay......[backs slowly out of the room]....
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oh.....kay......[backs slowly out of the room]....
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I take it you've not heard about Vodafone's Sure Signal?
http://www.vodafone.co.uk/suresignal
Anyway, with regards to your question about why using GSM gives a better signal.
If you have it set to auto, and your in a low 3G signal area, the phone will be on GSM, see 3G & switch to it. Then it will lose signal, go back to GSM, and the whole thing repeats over and over.
Setting it to GSM will stop this from happening, and as a result you get a better signal.
hollinshead said:
I take it you've not heard about Vodafone's Sure Signal?
http://www.vodafone.co.uk/suresignal
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I have one sat next to me. Really good piece of kit. Without it, I have no signal at all
I went to an Voda store today and he [also] recommended the 2G method. I live in the centre of Manchester so not a mobile blackspot so Voda guy said SurSignal was not really intended for me [but thanks - I didn't know how it works or the cost]
hollinshead said:
Anyway, with regards to your question about why using GSM gives a better signal.
If you have it set to auto, and your in a low 3G signal area, the phone will be on GSM, see 3G & switch to it. Then it will lose signal, go back to GSM, and the whole thing repeats over and over.
Setting it to GSM will stop this from happening, and as a result you get a better signal.
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Thanks.
Is band swithcin straight forward [esp if I want to do it lots - probably mainly for nights I am on call]?
Do I have to restart or softreset everytime or is it just a cae of switching back and forth from within setup?
wigwam12 said:
Thanks.
Is band swithcin straight forward [esp if I want to do it lots - probably mainly for nights I am on call]?
Do I have to restart or softreset everytime or is it just a cae of switching back and forth from within setup?
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You don't need to reset the device, quickest way to do it is:
Press network icon on top bar so the menu comes up
Press mobile network icon on right of list (will be either a 3G or G icon with a signal bar)
This brings up Wireless controls menu, press Phone (not the on off on the right, but the actual name)
Scroll right down to the bottom it says Band, press that.
Network Type, change it from Auto to GSM.
Or look for that cab to add band switching to the communications manager.
hollinshead said:
You don't need to reset the device, quickest way to do it is:
Press network icon on top bar so the menu comes up
Press mobile network icon on right of list (will be either a 3G or G icon with a signal bar)
This brings up Wireless controls menu, press Phone (not the on off on the right, but the actual name)
Scroll right down to the bottom it says Band, press that.
Network Type, change it from Auto to GSM.
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kilrah said:
Or look for that cab to add band switching to the communications manager.
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Thanks guys.
Will try it out and see the effects.
No need for a cab if it as straightforward as hollinshead is describing
Another way to speed this up is to add a start-menu shortcut to a programme in your Windows folder called CMBandswitching.exe.
I noticed my phone has the H icon but I believe it is only because the 3G icon was replaced with that, so in order to make positively sure I would like to just change my 3G icon to one which definately displays "3G"... any help ? thanks in advance!
Hello guys,So im with three.uk they dont do LTE yet but they r about to roll it out very soon however they do DC-HSDPA and im in area where i should be getting it sadly im not getting it for some reason top of the screen shows only H+(mostly) sometimes H and 3G. If i go to connections->More Networks-> Mobile Networks -> Network mode i only get WCDMA/GSM(auto connect) or WCDMA only so this is what i get. I was reading that there is some problem with s4's shipped from korea and people advice to flash to unbranded stock well one was australian so i even flashed to australian firmware even to getman firmware so far no luck no lte in options not detecting DC-HSDPA just after flashing to getman/australian firmware i got an extra option in network mode and it is gsm only plus the other two i said before. So my question is how i could get this DC-HSDPA working and what indicator top of the screen will show instead of h+ will it show DC ? i was trying to find answers but no luck so far please help me outKind rengards Martin
hotelarzm said:
Hello guys,So im with three.uk they dont do LTE yet but they r about to roll it out very soon however they do DC-HSDPA and im in area where i should be getting it sadly im not getting it for some reason top of the screen shows only H+(mostly) sometimes H and 3G. If i go to connections->More Networks-> Mobile Networks -> Network mode i only get WCDMA/GSM(auto connect) or WCDMA only so this is what i get. I was reading that there is some problem with s4's shipped from korea and people advice to flash to unbranded stock well one was australian so i even flashed to australian firmware even to getman firmware so far no luck no lte in options not detecting DC-HSDPA just after flashing to getman/australian firmware i got an extra option in network mode and it is gsm only plus the other two i said before. So my question is how i could get this DC-HSDPA working and what indicator top of the screen will show instead of h+ will it show DC ? i was trying to find answers but no luck so far please help me outKind rengards Martin
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Hi,
H+ will still display on your signal strength indicator, as DC-HSDPA is just a variant of the HSPA network system. to force the internet to always connect to a higher speed network set it to WCDMA Only.
There is no DC-HSDPA or HSDPA in the network selection, it is tied to the WCDMA system.
vertcam9 said:
Hi,
H+ will still display on your signal strength indicator, as DC-HSDPA is just a variant of the HSPA network system. to force the internet to always connect to a higher speed network set it to WCDMA Only.
There is no DC-HSDPA or HSDPA in the network selection, it is tied to the WCDMA system.
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Thank you very much mate I was looking everywhere to find de answer. Anyways please id like to ask you if ther is any way to check if im actually connected to DC-HSDPA well im getting speeds up to 29mb/s average is rather 10-15 depends. And once my network gonna realise lte will dat option apear in setting to use it ?
hotelarzm said:
Thank you very much mate I was looking everywhere to find de answer. Anyways please id like to ask you if ther is any way to check if im actually connected to DC-HSDPA well im getting speeds up to 29mb/s average is rather 10-15 depends. And once my network gonna realise lte will dat option apear in setting to use it ?
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I've tried many apps to find out if im on threes dc-hspa network to no avail. But I now know how by typing *#0011# into keypad and it displays the network mode including dc-hspa
chrizhaynes said:
I've tried many apps to find out if im on threes dc-hspa network to no avail. But I now know how by typing *#0011# into keypad and it displays the network mode including dc-hspa
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Root Explorer (or another), and go to data/property.
select persist.radio.lteon , edit it with a text editor and change the value from false to true.
Save changes, reboot and enjoy
bye to all.
ilpres said:
Root Explorer (or another), and go to data/property.
select persist.radio.lteon , edit it with a text editor and change the value from false to true.
Save changes, reboot and enjoy
bye to all.
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Sorry to bump this up, but how does persist.radio.lteon show you DC-HSDPA status in the notificar bar?
nellisere said:
Sorry to bump this up, but how does persist.radio.lteon show you DC-HSDPA status in the notificar bar?
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I can't answer your question because there's no 4G signal where i live , sorry ....
it was only the solution for who has this problem:
If i go to connections->More Networks-> Mobile Networks -> Network mode i only get WCDMA/GSM(auto connect) or WCDMA only so this is what i get.
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This isn't about 4G? It's about DC-HSDPA.
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have problem after open line
Hi is anybody here in Philippines who have the same issue with me.
i have samsung galaxy s4 i9505 which is smart network lock.
i brought my phone to technician to let it open line,
it was then opened to my globe line but my problem is i barely get an H or H+ data connection,
when i went back to the technician and asked the problem i got after they open it, he said its normal..
am i getting the right answer it is normal to have it for opening other network line? thx.
Hi everyone, i've a little bug .. When i'm on my 3g data, everything fine, but when i'm moving place then it switch itself to 2g because of lower signal my mobile data network just stop working, it shows that i'm on Edge (the little E next to the signal bars) but i've no internet on my mobile, i have to switch off completly my mobile network then switch it on again to make it work .. still on 2g because of low signal..
The things is that when i'm traveling in train, i'm on 3g then it switch itself to 2g, and that's very anoying because i've to switch off the data then re-enable it to continue surfing ..
Thanks in advance for your help !
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Please can you try and say if it make the same ?
3G spends on the area in which you are. If that place doesn't have 3G then you will get 2G.
edge is slow as ´1990s modem´s internet, thats why is no internet
rishabl1d said:
3G spends on the area in which you are. If that place doesn't have 3G then you will get 2G.
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Yeah i know but you didn't understand what i wanted to tell..
Just try, when you have 3g (H) go to settings and enable 2g only, this will change your mobile network from H to E (which is normal) but when you're in E, you won't be able to have the mobile network internet, to have it again, you will have to disable mobile data, and re-enable it .. until then you won't be able to have internet ! So not even push notification ! the signal bar in quick settings will remain "orange"..
But if you disable mobile data and re-enable it , you will still be on 2g, but you will have internet ! even if it slow (because of 2g, which is normal too)
Bump..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXF478CDSNg
Look i recorded a video !
please help me !
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXF478CDSNg
Look i recorded a video !
please help me !
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yes i face such problem also & the only way to solve is to switch the Mobile OFF & then turning it ON again
does any one have a reason or solution to this problem ?