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disable 3g on the Pantech Duo
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Posted by: mtwilford

Good Morning,
I would like too disable the 3g and force it too edge only. Any reccomendations

Posted by: vulcan10

I asked this question a little while ago and would love to hear an answer.

Posted by: gdelro

Anybody figure this out yet?

Posted by: jordan319

No, there is no way to disable 3G. I have a Motorola V3XX and I tryed to do the same thing I called AT&T and they said that there is no way for any 3G phone to disable 3G.

Posted by: probingzon

Im not to sure about the wm6. but wouldn't there be a network setting or something like that that would let you switch from there

Posted by: noodles5666

Quote:

Originally Posted by jordan319

No, there is no way to disable 3G. I have a Motorola V3XX and I tryed to do the same thing I called AT&T and they said that there is no way for any 3G phone to disable 3G.

I know for a fact there is a way to turn off 3g on Samsungs and LGs and Nokia so there has to be a way to turn off on the others

Posted by: iJITSU

Quote:

Originally Posted by jordan319

No, there is no way to disable 3G. I have a Motorola V3XX and I tryed to do the same thing I called AT&T and they said that there is no way for any 3G phone to disable 3G.

Don't believe everything you are told.
By selecting BandSelect.exe or AdminSettings in a Samsung Windows Mobile phone you can lock to GSM only, lock to WCDMA only, and even lock to a particular band of GSM like 850. The issue is that those executables don't appear to exist on the Duo.

Posted by: gdelro

bump......

Posted by: Whiterabbitt

up because I have an a727 and would like to disable 3G. any tips?

Thanks guys,

Steve

Posted by: RE2

Anyone come up with how to force the Duo to Edge only?

Posted by: mvalpreda

Out of my own morbid curiosity....why would someone want to do that?

Posted by: noodles5666

Battery life???

Posted by: RE2

Battery Life is a consideration, but the bigger benefit is the almost total elimination of Dropped Calls. The AT&T 3G network really stinks and calls are repeatedly dropped. I use a Blackjack and once I forced it to used the EDGE network only, dropped calls pretty much became a thing of the past.

Posted by: TheGSRGuy

Try to get a copy of bandsel.exe from a WM5 device and add it to your Duo.

IIRC there are registry modifications you can make to disable 3G though. Saw this on modaco though:

Since the phone backlight comes on when the phone switches band...stop the phone from switching bands.

I've used the following to set my phone to use the EDGE network exclusively unless i switch it back over to 3G (EDGE provides longer battery life anyway).

Step 1: Creat a shortcut on your BJ wherever you want to \Windows\AdminSettings.exe (the program is already there).
Step 2: Press the Power button once and choose Wireless Manager.
Step 3: Press Menu and select Disconnect cellular data (this may not be necessary if you don't see "MediaNet" under Phone)
Step 4: Launch AdminSettings
Step 5: Choose Option 3
Step 6: Choose Optioin 5 and change from Auto to GSM
Step 7: Perform a soft reset.

If it worked your phone will display an "E" where previously you saw "G3"
AND since it will no longer switch between bands no more battery loss on Backlight!

Posted by: nyce1

Why would you want to do something of the sort??

Posted by: RE2

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