I get bad service at my office, 1 or no bars but my phone doesn't seem to roam there even though I have it enabled. I know my MSL , is there a way I can force it into another network in that special menu accessed through ##3282#?
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Does anyone have a quick shortcut to force a phone to Roaming Only instead of having to dig through the menus.
I get crappy signal at home but Alltel has a tower across the highway from our neighborhood. I don't talk on the phone much at home but the rare times I do, it would be awesome if I didn't have to run outside.
I'm looking for something where I can just mash a shortcut on my screen using one of the various launcher apps out there that will toggle the phone from roaming only to automatic and back and forth.
Thanks.
Roaming only
Sorry, but I have to laugh. Most of the roaming problems here are phones that show roaming when they are not roaming, we want to get rid of the problem that you want!!!!! Maybe we should swap phones. When I put the new ROM onto my Hermes I got the full time roaming a couple days thereafter. you can alwasy try that.
There is one thing you can do to improve your signal, but it means that you will have to sacrifice your data connection if you have one.
This means that you will do a slightly modification to your phone where instead of looking for a EVDO/Rev. A connection it is only pointing to the CDMA towers such as for calls / text.
To do this you will have to enter your phones advanced menu.
I have Verizon and dial ##778 and a menu pops up on the dialer. I am not sure what number you dial for your respective carriers, but you can try searching and asking fellow experts.
You simply just make a quick switch that can be reverted back if needed.
I've done this and get more bars then before.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=320548&highlight=roaming+app
Not sure if this is the correct forum but I want to be able to turn of roaming completely. I have a US G1 on the three UK network with the US RC33 installed and root. I have disabled data roaming. Here in the UK we're too small a country to want to roam! Coverage is usually good enough from a single network. However, I occasionally get the little 'R' symbol on the single strength icon and an annoying prompt saying I need to turn data roaming on because I lost connectivity. I have to go into the settings and manually select the "3" network again.
What I want is to either be connected to three UK or not connected to anything at all. Is there a config file I can edit to allow this? Would the UK RC8 firmware do this for me?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Doesn't a 3-UK SIM try to roam onto O2 though?
You could set the phone WCDMA only and NOT roam onto a GSM network.
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From there under preferred Network Type; set to "WCDMA Only"
HELP!! Roaming signal won't go away
I have an unlocked G1, JF1.41 v 1.1 and i just updated to the RC33...but this also happened when i had RC30 , v 1.0...
I put in my canadian Fido sim card and everything works fine but i have that little "R" on top of my signal strength bar...
I think this means its data roaming? if this is the case...it should be okay (even though its going to bother me) because my service provider says my EDGE/Data is disabled (i do not have a data plan, NOR do i wish to incur any data charges.. i'm fine with my free WIFI ) .
However, if this means im roaming on another network, i dont want to be incuring any long distance charges on my phone EVEN when im using my own FIDO network..
I went to settings - about phone - status, and here are my specs (some of them):
Network: Fido
Network Type: EDGE
Service state: In service
Roaming: Roaming
Data Access: Disconnected
i'm pretty much just concerned about the ROAMING part of it... my other friends with G1's are with rogers, don't have that little R..
how do i get rid of that?? please and thanks!
Try manually changing the network in Settings>Wireless controls>Mobile networks>Operator selection
G1, like all GSM phones, will roam onto networks specified on the SIM if it can get a better signal. As long as the relevant operator has a roaming agreement in place, there's nothing to be concerned about, other than the R symbol in the status bar.
Mod: move this over to General discussion please.
I did change it and selected my Fido network (it's the only network available).
Thanks. I've set it to WCDMA only so I'll see how it goes.
Please help??? i still have that little R on top!
After I got home I found my phone had lost its connection. It didn't seem to be searching for the network. I had to go into settings, search for networks and then select three again. Is there any way to control if the phone does a search for networks automatically?
Looks like it reconnects to three on its own after a while. I still get the annoying popup about turning on data roaming though
footboydog said:
Looks like it reconnects to three on its own after a while. I still get the annoying popup about turning on data roaming though
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As has been previously mentioned, Three will "roam" onto another network if it goes out of Three's own 3G network coverage because Three does not run its own 2G network.
However, it isn't O2 anymore, it is Orange as of late 2006/2007. I *believe* that you won't be charged any more if you use data whilst "roaming" on Orange, so whilst you are in the UK it is quite safe to allow data roaming, but I would be inclined to check this with Three.
Regards,
Dave
I have a rooted mt3g, is there a way to switch the network tower you are using.
I remember with my old basic bar phone i could go into settings > network and scan for available networks, and i was alwasy able to jump on att/cingulars towers and it of course would not charge anything it would just use their network. It happens a lot when i travel a lot it will automatically pick up the strongest/nearest GSM tower but i could also do it manually.
Is there a way to do this on this phone?
I use a lot of data for content streaming. At work I have low signal (1 bar) and sometimes the networks changes to 1x Data. (Yes, I know the epic doesn’t indicate it, but I can tell by the reduced bandwidth and about 3 second drop of all data when the switch is made.
I’ve noticed that if someone calls while on 1x data, the calls go straight to voicemail, it does not ring at all.
Is there a way to set the phone to 3G data only? And if there is no 3G available, drop the data connection?
Short recap: I Want 3G Data only. If not available, no data connection at all. Wi-Fi is not an option at my office nor is 4G.
Thanks!
You're going to need your 6 digit MSL (master subsidy lock) code.
Go to phone, ##DEBUG# (##33284#), enter MSL, scroll down to Others, HDR/1X Selection, EVDO Only Mode, Ok.
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You're going to need your 6 digit MSL (master subsidy lock) code.
Go to phone, ##DEBUG# (##33284#), enter MSL, scroll down to Others, HDR/1X Selection, EVDO Only Mode, Ok.
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is this setting like the old school days 6700/6800, where as if you set/force your phone to "EVDO Only Mode", you will lose Text/Voice since those only work on 1x.
Can't really tell, never left my Epic on EVDO only mode (don't need/want to). The Mogul (6800) is one phone i really don't want to remember.
Doesn't hurt to be a guinea pig though in this particular case..
lol...yea those setting were nice if the phone would bonce back and forth 1x/EVDO and you needed EV to stick and did not care about phone calls or also if you were downloading a big file and did not want to be disconnected by a call 8)
After the latest update, everything worked well until I noticed that I can't force phone to use certain network via testing menu (it can, however, from the setting itself).
Usually, by typing *#*#4636#*#* on dial pad, the system brought up the testing menu which allows me to see phone information, mobile and Wi-Fi usage information. By tapping phone information, the phone shows up the information of SIM1 (and even SIM2, depends on phone's system/ROM), along with the IMEI and other nerdy stuffs.
There is a dropdown selection called "Preferred network" (or something similar), which basically 'forces' the phone to use only the network selected (you can force phone to use LTE even on bad signal, which usually auto-switches to HSPA).
However, hours after the update, the dropdown menu seems useless and can't change the preferred network. Tried soft restart and hard restart and it still doesn't work.
What should I do, then? This doesn't really bugs me but it annoys me whenever I want to use only LTE network since it eventually switches to HSPA on bad signal.
i got the problem to.. cant lock lte after update. help please