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Switch between 3G and Edge on Blackjack
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Posted by: pavvento

For everyone saying 3G drains your battery, it is possible to switch manualy

http://supportcingular.atgnow.com/c...lackjack#Goto73

this link shows you how to select which network, or preferred networks you use, allowing you to pick GSM instead of 3G to conserve battery life. Hope this helps some of you!

Posted by: mobilehavoc

Interesting that they enabled Network Selection - they disable it on all other phones. The 3125 doesn't have the ability to select Manual Network selection on that screen.

Posted by: thinlyveiled

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Originally Posted by mobilehavoc

Interesting that they enabled Network Selection - they disable it on all other phones. The 3125 doesn't have the ability to select Manual Network selection on that screen.

The instructions don't seem to work on my Blackjack. There is no network selection field on that screen.

Posted by: jetfxr

I beleive I will order one and try these settings.

Posted by: minhaferzz

My Blackjack doesn't have that option either. Not sure how to accomplish this.

Posted by: spartanrob

Looks like they disabled the feature, the dropdown isn't there

Posted by: xbox360gamer

the morons at Cingular shouldve enabled this option for people like myself that work in a 3G area which currently's been down for the past three days.

nothing like having to wait until you get out of that certain area before you can use the damn phone.

Posted by: jgomez

I do not have the option either. Might we get to it somewhere else?

Posted by: fowen

This would be a life saver for me. After playing with my device for a hour today I have already recieved "the battery is low" notification.

Posted by: kernel843

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Originally Posted by xbox360gamer

the morons at Cingular shouldve enabled this option for people like myself that work in a 3G area which currently's been down for the past three days.

nothing like having to wait until you get out of that certain area before you can use the damn phone.

Does the phone not automatically use EDGE (if available) when you are not in a 3G area (or in your case, the 3G network is down)?

Posted by: xbox360gamer

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Originally Posted by kernel843

Does the phone not automatically use EDGE (if available) when you are not in a 3G area (or in your case, the 3G network is down)?

my building is in a 3G area which is all fine and dandy when the 3G actually works. but the other day, our local 3G cell site took a dump which made my phone litterally useless because it would not fall back on EDGE.

at least now I can manually change the network settings which is obviously a God's send.

Posted by: DubDub

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Originally Posted by pavvento

For everyone saying 3G drains your battery, it is possible to switch manualy

http://supportcingular.atgnow.com/c...lackjack#Goto73

this link shows you how to select which network, or preferred networks you use, allowing you to pick GSM instead of 3G to conserve battery life. Hope this helps some of you!

Very interesting. But I don't have a selection. All I have is "Cingular". And when I try to find a new network, I get an error message saying "The settings could not be saved". Any idea what is happening?

Posted by: spartanrob

Here it is:
http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1047728

Posted by: thinlyveiled

Moderators, can we close this thread? The question has been answered; see the link in the previous message.