So I updated to 4.3 and I get really sucky signal where I live and I like using 3g. I've tried using all the different apps to toggle the 4g into 3g but no help. Usually Phone info would do the trick, but even that's not cutting it.
I had to pay for 4G Switch but it's wonky. Sometimes takes 5 minutes to switch to 3G
4G Switch
Thanks! That did the trick.
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I recently upgraded from the Incredible to the Rezound and find that when 4G not available, the signal drops down to 1X. Not only that, it seems to stay in 1X even when 4G is available. How can I get the phone to drop to 3G when 4G not available? The Incredible ran in 3G in the same areas that the Rezound drops to 1X. What do I have to set to get it into 3G?
Thanks for help.
both my GF and I have been having trouble with this on both our phones... We both live and work in 4G coverage, pretty strong coverage too. Yet we both see 4g drop out to 3g or 1x. Its very random, and I've had it happen right in the middle of browsing the web. (All of a sudden a page takes forever to load or doesnt and the phone acts like it has no data connection, I go to the home screen and see that I am all of a sudden on 1x..)
I recently read an article that talked about how VZW actually has a pretty major issue they need to resolve pertaining to authentication on the LTE network. I don't know the exact mechanics of it, but basically the authentication fails and you get booted off the LTE network until the phone tries to hop on it again. Right now, the two phones I have personal experiance with do not try very often to get back on and it often takes going into the wireless settings page and selecting mobile networks and going in and out of that screen a couple times, or if it is being stubborn, airplane mode, site for a minute, and then back on. Occasionally I have to reboot the phone.
It really irritated me good last night when I really needed the data connection for GPS navigation because I took a wrong turn in an unfamiliar area..
Sometimes going in and out of airplane mode helps or restart.
I'm not going to say look on the forums. Here is a quote from another thread and linked another thread.
had the same issue and fixed by this.
racingtiger03 said:
Dial ##778#, call
edit mode
password is 000000
modem settings
Rev. A
select "enable"
menu > commit
phone will reboot and you should get 3G back
This changes your network from eHRPD back to EVDO Rev.A. For LTE phone owners, eHRPD causes 3G to die (most of the time anyway) when the LTE network has problems. Get back on normal EVDO and you're good to go.
^ from Jntdroid on another forum (not sure if we're allowed to post to other forums here) I'm not positive on where he got it from, but this is a capability of all HTC 4G phones
I've had occasional issues with being down to 1X, but even that was only during nationwide 4G network issues, definitely get in touch with VZW about that... not that they have enough sense to fix anything *sigh*
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Good luck. It's what fixed mine.
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I have the same problem sometimes. Well most of the time actually. =(
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I have the same issue periodically ..tho I live in a non lte area..so your suggested solution prob wouldnt be a good idea ey
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Same issue here. Only happens when I go from a 4G area to a 3G area. I end up getting stuck in 1x. The phone switches fine from 3G to 4G. But when going back to a 3G only area, it by-passes 3G and I get 1x.
No toggling helps. I have to reboot to get 3G back. I also tried that fix posted above. It does not help. Called verizon again tonight.
The strange part is before we had that 4G outage a few months ago, the phone would switch just fine. Now it's a pain in the ass.
Sorry it isn't helping. It worked in mine and done exactly the way it told me. Go from 3-4g now without an issue. No 1x like before
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My town just got 4g and I've noticed that my phone will choose more bars of 3g over less bars of 4g. But id rather have 2 bars of 4g than 4 bars of 3g if you know what I mean. Is there any way to help this? Any apps I can download?
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It doesn't really work that way. 3g and 4g are independent connections that are maintained simultaneously. You're still connected to 3g even when 4g is connected. If you aren't getting 4g, then it simply isn't connecting to it and there really isn't much you can do about it.
gabezermeno said:
My town just got 4g and I've noticed that my phone will choose more bars of 3g over less bars of 4g. But id rather have 2 bars of 4g than 4 bars of 3g if you know what I mean. Is there any way to help this? Any apps I can download?
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Since I am on the latest ICS global firmware and a custom ROM, I not sure if if this location is still accurate, but go to settings-call-preferred network. When you get to this you should see a number of options. One is LTE only (4G setting) if that is what you want to do. However, if you do this, then you may not get a data connection if 4G is not available. Also, if you have a weak 4G signal, if will eat up your battery time.
You might try downloading a 4G Toggle program from Play Store. It will take you directly to phone settings. Even though I live in a 4G area, I actually leave my phone in 3G CDMA only mode unless I really need the 4G speed to download something. I get much better battery life.
You could try getting into the hidden phone settings and changing your prefered connection to CDMA, LTE which should disable 3g if i understand it right. That option should also save you a bit of battery life as well if it works.
You should be able to choose lte only from the hidden menu
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Has anyone else experienced decreased data speeds when switching back and forth between 3G and 4G? Occasionally I'll travel through areas that don't have 4G coverage, and when my phone switches back to 4G from 3G my data speeds will plumit or the phone won't switch back to 4G unless I turn off data then turn it back on again.
Yesterday evening my phone's data speeds were crawling. I took the usual steps of turning off data, turning on airplane mode, restarting the phone, and pulling the battery. It wasn't until I pulled the sim card that my data speeds were back to normal. (Check the speed test results.) Is this in any way normal or is this a bug of some type?
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dbrits said:
Has anyone else experienced decreased data speeds when switching back and forth between 3G and 4G? Occasionally I'll travel through areas that don't have 4G coverage, and when my phone switches back to 4G from 3G my data speeds will plumit or the phone won't switch back to 4G unless I turn off data then turn it back on again.
Yesterday evening my phone's data speeds were crawling. I took the usual steps of turning off data, turning on airplane mode, restarting the phone, and pulling the battery. It wasn't until I pulled the sim card that my data speeds were back to normal. (Check the speed test results.) Is this in any way normal or is this a bug of some type?
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I have not seen this specifically. I have noticed that sometimes the 4G speed seems slow, but have only seen it at work where service is generally spotty anyway. For me, when the 4G is super slow, it usually drops to 3G or even 1X (sometimes zero signal). I've been using the "LTE OnOFF - HTC Thunderbolt" utility by Cunning Logic with good success. Whenever my phone drops into 3G and doesn't come back (or no signal), I can force it back to 4G with the utility. I cannot say for sure, but the tool appears to turn off the radio, set the desired mode, then turn the radio back on. This usually resolves my issue, unless I am truly in a dead zone.
Just going into airplane mode will bring it back to 4G unless your on elm st. or something. I notice if you downloading our using data pretty heavily and it drops to 3G it won't always come back on It's own.
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Never had this issue.
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I have not seen this specifically. I have noticed that sometimes the 4G speed seems slow, but have only seen it at work where service is generally spotty anyway. For me, when the 4G is super slow, it usually drops to 3G or even 1X (sometimes zero signal).
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That's what I found odd. Everything indicated that I was still on 4G; I wasn't on 3G or 1X, but I definitely had speeds that belonged on 1X. I'm baffled - is this a hardware, software, or network issue?
prairiedogn said:
Just going into airplane mode will bring it back to 4G unless your on elm st. or something. I notice if you downloading our using data pretty heavily and it drops to 3G it won't always come back on It's own.
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Airplane mode doesn't do the trick for me. (And no, I don't live on Elm Street. ) My speeds dropped again this morning and I went straight for the SIM card; I didn't even bother trying airplane mode.
Like you, I've also noticed that after streaming a large amount of data that I'll drop to 3G and it won't switch back to 4G unless I toggle the mobile network off-and-on. I'm always streaming music on Spotify and I've seen this happen more times than I'd like.
Anyone have any luck finding a toggle or switch to disable 4g? Running eclipse tw based. My office is on the borderline between three and four G. Kills my battery.
toby1064 said:
Anyone have any luck finding a toggle or switch to disable 4g? Running eclipse tw based. My office is on the borderline between three and four G. Kills my battery.
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I have an app I got from here called Phone info. Don't think it's on the Play store though. It's similar to what LTE switch was on my Rezound. It gives you the abillty to select the radio. However, I've noticed this phone is not "happy" when LTE is switched off. Many times when I know there is a 3g signal, and I force into EVDO it doesn't always take. And other times when it's stuck on 3g and I KNOW there is LTE and I force it into LTE only mode, it says not signal until I put it back into LTE/CDMA and then it picks up LTE. What I miss was the option the Rezound had where it was LTE/1x so it was LTE only but still had voice and texts.
see that:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=44962652&postcount=37
This app works fine for me. Its a couple of more keytaps but does the job like lte toggle app.
Of course until VZW gets their act together and launch band 4 across the country to fill in the gaps, this is the best to get around the constant switching/searching for baseband.
I'm looking for a way to only have 4g on on my note 2. In my current location I have 1-2 bars of 4g but my phone continues to switch back to 3g every few minutes. I can easily get 4g back by toggling airplane mode on and off but it is a huge annoyance to have to do this. I have tried the 4g lte on/off thunderbolt app but receive a force close with beans 21. I'm also running nova launcher and don't see any widgets for toggling 2g/3g and 4g. Thanks for the help
Bump still looking for a solution
bladerealm124 said:
Bump still looking for a solution
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You don't want 4G only. You wouldn't be able to send/receive calls or texts.
akellar said:
You don't want 4G only. You wouldn't be able to send/receive calls or texts.
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I realize that but that's why if I was able to toggle it on/off easily when needed it would be very useful. I was able to do this on my thunderbolt with lte on/off app(had toggles for 2g/3g/4g) so I'm wondering why it seems so difficult to perform on my note 2 or if it's simply a beans compatibility issue.
The problem is when I have a low/moderate 4g signal(1-2 bars) my phone seems to prefer 3g and switches to it every few minutes. The only way I can get it to switch back is to enable then disabled airplane mode and it will hold for another few minutes.
Still looking for any input/apps/ideas, thanks
Bump still looking for a solution to this. Currently in a situation(new location from before) with 1-2 bars of 4g but my phone continues to switch between 3g and 4g. There must be a way to "lock" 4g or toggle 3g off. This was super easy to do on my Thunderbolt
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Bump still looking for a solution to this. Currently in a situation(new location from before) with 1-2 bars of 4g but my phone continues to switch between 3g and 4g. There must be a way to "lock" 4g or toggle 3g off. This was super easy to do on my Thunderbolt
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Install an AOSP rom. They almost all have a 4g toggle.
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Install an AOSP rom. They almost all have a 4g toggle.
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But do they also have a 2g/3g toggle? I need to be able to leave 4g on while not allowing it to switch to 3g. I guess I could try this but I really love beans rom and have actually been very satisfied with touchwiz in general with the note 2. But I guess I try that as a last resort. Thanks
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I'm pretty sure there isn't an option for this that actually works. If our phone doesn't have 4g I think it just goes to 3g and there is no option to toggle it to 2g/3g. There was a thread that suggests switching it to 2g to save battery life, but all of the apps that are used to accomplish this don't have that option. I think it might've been something just in the international ROMS but i'm not sure.
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I'm pretty sure there isn't an option for this that actually works. If our phone doesn't have 4g I think it just goes to 3g and there is no option to toggle it to 2g/3g. There was a thread that suggests switching it to 2g to save battery life, but all of the apps that are used to accomplish this don't have that option. I think it might've been something just in the international ROMS but i'm not sure.
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That's upsetting to hear, it used to be so easy on my thunderbolt. The problem is when I have a decent 4g connection(by decent I mean 1-2 bars, not great) my phone seems to still prefer 3g which I typically have 3+ bars of. The problem is that 1-2 bars of 4g is substantially faster than 3+ bars of 3g. I can usually flip airplane mode on and off and lock a 4g signal for a minute or two but then it seems to jump right back to 3g. Incredibly frustrating, especially since there is one location where I spend a lot of time that this is an issue.
If anyone else has any info please let me know. Another user posted his custom application for me that was similar to the LTE on/off app(which force closes running beans 21) but his custom app force closes as well even though he stated it worked for him
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That's upsetting to hear, it used to be so easy on my thunderbolt. The problem is when I have a decent 4g connection(by decent I mean 1-2 bars, not great) my phone seems to still prefer 3g which I typically have 3+ bars of. The problem is that 1-2 bars of 4g is substantially faster than 3+ bars of 3g. I can usually flip airplane mode on and off and lock a 4g signal for a minute or two but then it seems to jump right back to 3g. Incredibly frustrating, especially since there is one location where I spend a lot of time that this is an issue.
If anyone else has any info please let me know. Another user posted his custom application for me that was similar to the LTE on/off app(which force closes running beans 21) but his custom app force closes as well even though he stated it worked for him
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I have the same issue where I live. My concern wasn't the fact the speed, though. My battery drops a lot when i'm at certain places at work because it is constantly searching, dropping, and using 3g/4g.
I looked for this awhile back, but I'm pretty sure this was a function only available on the international variants in their ROMS. That is why when you look at certain guides to improve battery life, it says to make it exactly like you are speaking of.