A guide of how to turn OFF evdo on your 815

**Vyruz Reaper** · 07-26-2005, 04:47 PM

i live in the bay area as well, work in fremont, live in san ramon

my battery yused to die in 1 day too

i then turned off evdo, and kept it only on 1X and my battery lasts me 2 days now!!!!

HOW TO TURN OFF EVDO:

PRESS menu 0 73887 *

code is 000000

scroll down to test mode

select "enable" for test mode

go back to the idle screen (press end button couple times)

now press menu then the left soft key

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now you will see a wjitre screen with blue characters...

scroll to the 3-4 page and you will see sopmething saying HDR

the HDR is set to auto

change HDR to cdma

exit out of here.

then go back to test mode( menu 073887 *)

disable test mode.

CAUTION- YOU CAN F UP YOUR PHONE BADLY WHILE IN TEST MODE... BE CAREFUL!!!

if your phone switches between 1x and ev, i highly recommend this to save you battery life... i get twice the battery life i was getting before. now when ev-do is launchged in my area, i will switch itback to auto

cyrus

**hausman** · 07-26-2005, 05:24 PM

The only potential issue I have here is that sometimes my E815 displays "Roaming" or "Extended Network" after I reboot. Hopefully that's not an issue, but we're all trained to freak out a bit when we see "Roaming" on the display.

**The Roc** · 07-26-2005, 05:30 PM

**Vyruz Reaper** · 07-26-2005, 05:38 PM

Originally Posted by hausman

The only potential issue I have here is that sometimes my E815 displays "Roaming" or "Extended Network" after I reboot. Hopefully that's not an issue, but we're all trained to freak out a bit when we see "Roaming" on the display.

same thing happened to me, untill i power cycled the phone....

the screen should be the same that roc jsut posted

**jrmstr33** · 07-26-2005, 05:58 PM

My phone is STUCK in test mode. Could someone PLEASE let me know how to exit out of this? Thanks in advance!

Jrmstr33

**rhino369** · 07-26-2005, 06:02 PM

What reason is their to disable EVDO in a non EVDO area. Will it save power there?

**The Roc** · 07-26-2005, 06:06 PM

Originally Posted by jrmstr33

My phone is STUCK in test mode. Could someone PLEASE let me know how to exit out of this? Thanks in advance!

Jrmstr33

first menu left softkey

then menu, 073887 *

scroll to test mode and choose disable

**jrmstr33** · 07-26-2005, 06:22 PM

Originally Posted by roc a fella

first menu left softkey

then menu, 073887 *

scroll to test mode and choose disable

Thanks so much! I actually found it in another thread, but I appreciate your help nonetheless!

**shundiman** · 07-26-2005, 11:47 PM

I'm stuck in this test mode and can't get out. I turned the phone off and back on and it goes right to the test mode screen. How do I get out?

**FUA** · 07-27-2005, 12:00 AM

Originally Posted by shundiman

I'm stuck in this test mode and can't get out. I turned the phone off and back on and it goes right to the test mode screen. How do I get out?

Try Menu, then Left softkey when it is in the test mode.
I had some problems with test mode when reception was bad, maybe that has something to do with it.

**El Chino** · 07-27-2005, 12:50 AM

Your welcome Vyruz

**hausman** · 07-27-2005, 01:35 AM

Originally Posted by Vyruz Reaper

same thing happened to me, untill i power cycled the phone....

the screen should be the same that roc jsut posted

Um, the screen Roc posted is the default, "auto" and "on". It should read "cdma" and "off", right?

And mine still says "Roaming" or "Extended Network" probably every other time I reboot.

**ilvla2** · 07-27-2005, 02:27 AM

Originally Posted by rhino369

What reason is their to disable EVDO in a non EVDO area. Will it save power there?

I second the question. They're not even testing in this area that I can detect, so it's on 1X all the time here.

**ken830** · 07-27-2005, 05:21 AM

In San Francisco and San Jose, it's EV like 20% of the time.. and keeps switching back and forth between EV and 1X...

I'll give this a try and see the results tomorrow..