Disable 3G and select bands

Hey peeps.

If 3G doesn't seem too important or you feel like nailing a specific band, do this:

Dial : 3845#*820#
Modem setting> Band Setting> Select which you want

Personally, I have noticed a slight increase in battery life since switching to GSM only.

Kick ass. AT&T is having a 3g only outage right now so this helps a lot. Thanks

There is no need to restart your phone after bandswitching. Just give it a few seconds when you select GSM only to switch over. Other wise you will definitely keep running into that issue of it auto switching back to 3G.

3845#*820# didn't work with Telus

do you have some sort of handy list of engineering codes for phones? How would i get my hands on something like that. lol

So, what did you find in there?


WR

 In hindsight, I found you can set which Generation of network you want to run on through the phone settings itself.

Just open the dialer, goto settings, then Network, select manual, I can choose from My native carrier Telus 3G, and or Rogers GSM or 3G networks, of which are in siganl range of my home.

I do set mine like this, so that i do not get false signal readings from Rogers towers at all, its either Telus nuts to the wall 3G, or nothing.

Now this is of course for Telus, It should be identical on the Expo.

Should be lol



WR

Mine's locked to Telus, though it doesn't mean I can't switch bands.

Too bad for Expo's i Guess.

WR