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[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] MattMJB0188:
I love my new Galaxy S III, but once again I have no way to force HSPA+ only. I need this option while my phone sits in my desk all day. If I can turn LTE off then I can save battery life and still get calls/texts/emails.

STOP IT AT&T, JUST STOP IT!!! Your really starting to really aggravate your customers by not allowing them to select their preferred network.

I want the network mode option in mobile networks:

GSM/HSPA/LTE (Auto)

GSM/HSPA (Auto)

HSPA (only)

GSM (only)

STOP taking this off all your phones. Every other GSM carrier in the world allows this except you!!!

I hope ALL developers add this toggle in all the upcoming roms.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] mastarifla:
Your best bet until this is added/fixed, is to turn on wi-fi mode and turn off the mobile data connection.

That way you still can make calls, and have the wifi as your data, and if its off it wont use as much power as HSPA/LTE.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] MattMJB0188:
I think you kind of missed the point...

Let's say your at work all day and you don't use your phone much? Let's say your phone gets 1 bar of LTE and 4 of HSPA+. The signal constantly fluctuates ultimately leading to a dead battery much faster.

Wouldn't it be great to just turn LTE off? That way my phone gets a better signal and uses less battery life. Not to mention, I can still receive calls, texts, and e-mails, whereas airplane mode disables everything.

Wi-Fi isn't available everywhere.

PS: AT&T ain't adding ****, they released their first LTE device in November of 2011 and it also lacked this option.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] mastarifla:
I think you missed the point as well

The reason for turning on wi-fi is to direct the data connection to something other than the chip used for HSPA/LTE. I'm not looking to use the wi-fi connection as an alternative data source. I'm using it to prevent as much battery drain as possible whenever I am not using the phone.

It essentially IS turning off LTE, but it also is turning off your data, and if you don't have wi-fi then you wont have a data connection, but if you do then you will.

Airplane mode is just taking it a step further and blocking calls as well.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Gadgetz:
So there's no way to turn off LTE? Even via a 4g/3g toggle from the app store?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] SlimJ87D:
Nope, that's not how it worked on the HTC One X... even dialer codes would just reset on exiting. LTE stays on for some stupid reason with ATT.

A bet a toggle with root requirements will come out later./
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] MattMJB0188:
Ok? What if you don't have Wifi and your in a very spotty LTE area with fluctuating signal?

Nevertheless, we need the toggle!!!
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Gadgetz:
What about an APN switcher, would that work?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] MattMJB0188:
Nope, many have tried this but it doesn't stick. We need AT&T to add the option under mobile networks.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] mastarifla:
Then it would be best to turn off the Wi-fi and the Mobile Data connection, the only reason I have the Wi-fi on is if I'm in an area that has it (home, work, at&t hotspot) otherwise it is automatically turned off (I think?).

And I agree completely, I would love that feature, but until that time we have to make due with what we have, this is my solution, it isn't perfect but it works for me.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] MattMJB0188:
Yes, but like I said turning off mobile data completely turns off the data connection, whereas with this toggle we can change it to EDGE or HSPA+ only, still having a data connection.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] brorex:
I agree I like turning on edge only when I'm at work and home
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] MattMJB0188:
I'm just hoping developers starting adding the GSM toggle via Mobile networks in their custom roms.

AT&T NEVER WILL!!!
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] cproaudio:
It could be the sim card. I have a SIM card from 2007. The network toggle still works on my Thrill. Someone put a newer SIM card in their Thrill and the network toggle is gone. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1326760 post 27
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] naturefreak85:
And you hit the nail on the head. It's actually a mix of SIM Card and Radio. What we need is the canadian version of our radio and we will have it back.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] benefit14snake:
Erm would juice defender not fix this? I still get texts and calls but it turns off my data.. plus its free! ( i bought the ultimate though)

Sent from my Axiom MAXX!!
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] doctorTJ:
i guess technically it could since it turns off everything (Except calls) and turns it all back on every 15 minutes to check if anything was received on Att servers.

But if hes waiting for an important text or something, it would come delayed until juice defender decided to retrieve it.

not a bad idea though.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] bloodrain954:
Here's an idea, since your at a desk all day, invest $1.32 on monoprice into a USB cable and charge your phone...
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] benefit14snake:
I believe it just turns off 3g and 4g on verizon. My calls and texts are instant. Also, if you buy the app you can change frequency. Mine syncs every hour or two. It may be different with att since verizon handles their 4g in kind of a silly way.

Sent from my Axiom MAXX!!
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Gadgetz:
You mean cycle it twice as much as necessary since AT&T has removed the functionality that's needed? :good:
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] stan.s:
This has been missing since GSM. I had a SE flip phone with a Java OS, and the ATT firmware had this missing, but the generic SE did to allow you to select Edge or whatever.

Theye will never do this since it adds a layer of 'confusion' to the customer. They get enough calls about 'where my lte' or 4G without having to worry about which apn or setting is in the moble call network.

BTW, you can create a new APN, with any name you want, and APN of wap.cingular (cick done and save, then select it) and it should turn off looking for LTE if you (like me) are in a non-LTE area.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] lensgrabber:
Sounds like a job for tasker and nfc :)

We need the option to toggle LTE but until then a NFC tag sitting on the desk at work should do the trick if programmed correctly.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] c5satellite2:
ATT HOX here and we have the same issue. Would love to turn off edge, don't need it. I had my Inspire 4g set to Wcdma only and it stopped hunting for edge where I live which definitely improved battery life. My HOX tries to switch to edge less, but really don't need it here. If I go somewhere and have no 3g service, I can enable edge as needed.

Wake up ATT!
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Crossrocker:
I'm pretty sure its only gonna take a tiny bit more juice then 3g or hspa+. lte is built onto the snapdragon board. That's why they put snapdragons on us gs3s. exyonus is compatible with lte but it would require more space for seperate lte chip.

Having trouble with AOSP? http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1295702
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] qwer777:
I assume this requires root? How would I do this since I want up to HSPA+, but not LTE?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] stan.s:
Root not required.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Aridon:
Root is not required but the savings to battery are pretty minimal on the AT&T version at least. These chips and the firmware running them are certainly improving. The wap.cingular apn did save a little but it wasn't night and day.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Randomacts:
One problem with turning off mobile data.. I found that I could not load text pictures or sent text pictures with it turned off.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] dls5375:
When I'm at work my data was constantly jumping from 4g to edge so I downloaded an app from the play store called "network" it takes you to the secret device info screen where you can choose all the different data options. GSM wcdma preferred/only and some more. I actually noticed when I put it on wcdma only it actually holds the 4g signal the entire time, meaning the times when it used to switch to edge I would think I would lose signal altogether when locked on 4g but I don't. So I came to the conclusion that it was always switching to the stronger signal but without the choice it holds on to 4g. It does reset to default after reboot but to me that's no big deal.

t-mobile stock rom/rooted
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] qwer777:
On android forums, I was told that in non LTE ares, it doesnt consume any more battery. I thought it was constantly searching, and wasting battery. Is this wrong?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] tuffluck:
I have juice defender and on balanced i dont think it helps. I played golf yesterday and in 2 hours of standby without ever turning on the screen the battery dropped 20%. I think what happened is that every 30 minutes juice defender checked for messages it would have to toggle LTE and 3G. This is just unnecessary.

Honestly i dont need LTE most of the time. Even web browsing is fine on just regular 4G.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] siirus09:
I have JuiceDefender turn on data every 2 hours for data related inquiries such as Facebook and email. Cell reception stays on and I have no problem receiving calls or texts.

What DOES happen though is that at work I have ONE if ANY bars inside the warehouse, so thats whats causing my battery to deplete faster than it should......because the phone is struggling to stay connected and constantly searching for something.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] lgkahn:
Get this from market it allows toggle on sgs III

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.mangelow.network
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] tuffluck:
I tried it and dont understand it. Selected gsm/cdma auto and thrn it prompted me to enter an sdmc and i had no idea what to do. I hit update and it said update failed so i exited. Is this a program that can screw up your phone? Maybe i shoukd have asked that before trying...
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] dls5375:
I'm on T-Mobile but I just select the one I want and back out of the app. Maybe cdma requires something more.

t-mobile stock rom/rooted
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] tuffluck:
Rooted probably helps...
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] dls5375:
The app doesn't say anything about root access, and its really only a shortcut to avoid typing in the pound star number code on the dialer.

t-mobile stock rom/rooted
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] bigb252:
I must say that this thread always catches my attention. Reminds me of someone scolding their pet
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Idan73:
OK so flash Canadian Telus firmware on att phone (cause it has no bloatware whereas Rogers and Bell have about 5 apps each) including modem and problem solved.

Bonus. You get your tethering as well.

Sent from my SGH-I747M
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] qwer777:
Can anyone confirm that that gives you tethering and easy LTE turn off? And of course that it doesn't break anything.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] clubtech:
You can't simply flash the Telus (or any Canadian firmware) with Odin as it will fail on the boot and modem parts (because of the different model).

We need someone to create a CWM flashable zip the flashes all the Telus partitions and then you will be able to toggle different network modes.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Idan73:
You know that for sure or just guessing? Canadian model is 100 percent identical to att one, and yes Odin flashes all the proper partitions. It is cwm that does not as it flashes selectively.

Even att lte is on the same frequency to the Canadian counterpart. It is sprint and Verizon that should stay away from flashing with odin for hardware differences.

You will lose Spanish as a language as Canadian firmware has English and French Canadian only.

M only denotes that it's Canadian model.

Unless something has changed in odin itself or bootloader to prevent this?

Sent from my SGH-I747M
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] TeeRoPrice:
Can somebody please confirm that this will work. This could save my life.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Idan73:
I just flashed att kernel and modem with odin on my Canadian Rogers model and back without any adverse affects for couple of hours. Couldn't be bothered to flash the whole rom, but it would confirm my suspicion that att and 3 Canadian providers models are identical and interchangeable. .

So yes @clubtech was just making assumptions. So was I but they were bit more informed imo and I tested it.

Sent from my SGH-I747M
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] aboroman:
I was told by a tier 2 technical support person that playing with your radio like this is really bad for the network, I cant recall the details but I asked about this and they didn't recommend it.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Idan73:
Sure, that will probably be reason they curb your data again and raise prices and you wait 3 months more for firmware update due to networks internal testing procedures. The whole rest of the world can play with their respective modems, don't cry like it's end of the world, cept north American carriers.

Cause were special and providers care about us and by the way deserve to pay more for less year after year.

Sent from my SGH-I747M
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] njd15:
All you gotta do is dial *#*#4636#*#* and it takes you to that hidden menu and go to phone info...I have only used it on gsm devices to switch it to edge only which is gsm only or wcdma only which is 3G,4G,HSPA+ only...it works awesome
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] id10terrordfw:
Not on the i747, this is what was taken away. It is called RAT restriction.

Sent from my AT&T Galaxy S III
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] tublah:
Verified?

I'd love to know if anyone was able to get a Telus image on an AT&T i747 without any issues. If this is possible, then I'm for sure in. Good bye bloatware! :)
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] id10terrordfw:
I will probably try tomorrow.

Sent from my AT&T Galaxy S III
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Idan73:
Wait for mobile Odin probably due today, so you can selectively flash firmware parts thereby not needing to repack stock to remove sbl, bootloader (not kernel) and recovery files and keep root. I would flash only kernel, modem, firmware, csc and hidden parts. Just for safety.

Sent from my SGH-I747M
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] mic_crispy:
Subscribed for any good news...
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] clubtech:
No I was not making an assumption. I actually tried this on the at&t model and Odin will not let you flash the modem.bin file from the Rogers firmware.

Mobile Odin released today should solve this issue .
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] zmore:
So, one of the big reasons that I waited for the S3 instead of upgrading to the Galaxy Note, was because of widespread reports of "crushed blacks" on the Note's display (see this thread).

Crushed blacks is where instead of seeing an even progression in brightness from absolute inky black to the next darkest series of grays, you'll see black and then a stark jump in brightness to the next darkest gray. This defect makes watching movies and other media with lots of dark scenes a problem because it's hard to ignore the high contrasty / blotchy areas.

I'd appreciate it if someone could verify that this is a non-issue on the S3 by using the test image I've attached below. Download it, and view it fullscreen in a dark room. An actual photo of your screen would be nice too. TIA.

EDIT: Thanks all! Glad this isn't a problem on the S3 (and hopefully it won't be on the Galaxy Note 2 either).

720p test image:
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] dante2512:
I'm coming from a note and that pic looks perfect on this S3. On my note it jumped at like 2 bars from the bottom on the left side.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] zmore:
Awesome! *sighOfRelief*
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] junglizste:
I can see all boxes on full brightness.

At 50% I can't see the first two.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] stevieraveon:
I come from a Galaxy Note, too. The problem doesn't exist on the S3.

First thing I did when I got my S3 was that I did the test like on the Note (opened the image in QuickPic with the setting "Force true color decoding on") and went into a pitch dark room. Breathed a sigh of relief.

Here is a good example of what the problem with the Note looked like

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a8aIGeLERg
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Death&co:
I'm happy to report that I had no issue on my screen. Looked great and no crushing at all. I also went ahead and did a dead pixel check and turned out to be 100% :good:
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] hayabusa1300cc:
wow that's terrible, here in bed, auto brightness. I didn't even know there was number row to the left lol but on my s2 I'm using, until I watched that video
[Kindle Fire General] putney1477:
I have tried this on 2 laptops...no dice. I pulg it into the computer, install KFU, extract it. Run the driver install.....run, to see if its connected, and it keeps saying its offline. I have tried this since jan when I got my KF. I have tried installing and uninstalling the drivers multiple times. It doesnt ever show that they are there. frustrated to the poing I went out and bought an asus tablet, so that I could have the playstore and sync my calendars and whatnot (these are the only 2 things I want to do with my KF.....I like the size of it....the 10 in tablet is a bit much..... Id love to just be able to keep my KF and return the tablet.

I am using a samsung droid charge usb cable to do this.

Any suggestions would be graetly helpful.
[Kindle Fire General] Dasanko:
Should have posted this in Q&A, and why didn't you post this before buying a new tablet?

Well, whatever.

It's most likely a driver problem, although I guess there's a chance your usb port is damaged, if you're entirely sure it's not showing up in any way at all. Are you on the stock ROM? Have you never been able to turn on mass storage to transfer files? Does "adb devices" not list anything?
[Kindle Fire General] putney1477:
I am finally up and running...I think it was a driver issue. It wont work at all on my computer, but I used my husbands and it took about 20 tries of installing and uninstalling.

I have 30 days to return the other tablet.... I really do like my KF, I have had it since Jan and have hacked and rooted all of my phones and even my KF before.

I used the latest KFU and installed superuser, root and the gapps....however the gapps didnt show up. I now have gmail that I DL from the store. But I cant get it to sync with my calendar or gmail automatically. sigh LOL

I believe I need to get the google framework services apk and change permissions....vaguley remember
[Galaxy S II Accessories] saviren0921:
hiii my samsung galaxy s2 is wont turn on when plug into charge it shows image with battery and a trangle with yellow dot and there after my phone never turn on and not accepting charger i go to service center and they say it is water damage and we cant help but the fact is this its not water damage i brought new charged battery and put it in phone but my phone wont turn on. i go to other phone repair shopes and they says the same problem arise in most of the samsung galaxy s2 mobile phone.. if any body helps me to find the solution then plz tell me becoz im not using my phn more then 6 months.
[Galaxy S II Accessories] nagelo:
Hi, may you please provide a photo of your screen when turned the phone on?

Does your phone work with any other battery?
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] heavy666:
Hello PPL,

I've upgraded my defy to cyanogem 7.1.0.11 but I have no backup of my original rom, now my earpiece is cracked and I need to downgrade my defy so I can send it to RMA.

Everywhere I looked says that I should use my backup to recover my phone, but I have no backup.

Would you guys please help me.

I guess I should flash a new SBF into the phone, is there any repository I should look for?

I think I need a retail 2.2, where can I find it? Is there anyway to make sure that this file will be compatible with my defy?
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bharaththeunique:
The sbf list is a sticky in d Dec section....download ur sbf and flash it with Rsd lite....the usual works.....

Stock recovery>wipe data

Bootloader>flash sbf

Stock recovery>wipe data and reboot...

Even if u had a backup and restored it(I assume using Cwm).....u would still be rooted...and u would have to unroot it .....flashing sbf is easier but riskier..

!!!!
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] popcorn1122:
http://sbf.droid-developers.org/umts_jordan/list.php

Use the sbf of your country/operator
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] ChadBFlores:
I bricked my device pretty bad. The only part of my phone I can get working is download mode with a usb jig. Heimdall (I am using the one-click) is the only program that will recognize my device and it will only flash kernel and recovery and up to 9% of the FACTORYFS. Odin will not recognize my phone. Any Ideas would be much appreciated! Is there cwm that re-partitions our phone?
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Fluidification:
i may,,, have a solution:)

I assume you are using a recently printed pit file, or, you are using command line stuff.

If you have an old ODIN package sitting around, use that pit, and start life over again with some heimdall, "DON"T USE A ONE CLICK", manually drag files.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Beastmode:
I had that issue before...try using GB starter pack from fb and reinstall sammy drivers and Odin should recognize ur phone. :)

sent from my batcave :)
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] ChadBFlores:
Ya, I actually just tried that and it didn't work so I think I will try that again and double check through device manager that only my laptop drivers are installed and nothing got left behind when uninstalling and deleting. Thank You! :)
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] ChadBFlores:
I'll try that, Thanks :)
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] ChadBFlores:
disregard this reply please
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] ChadBFlores:
I tried both your's and airfluip1's methods and still same results, I always run into trouble when flashing the FACTORYFS
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Beastmode:
did Odin recognize your phone? if so are u first flashign kc1 with pit from gb starter pack? does it stop with that one?
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] ChadBFlores:
odin is not but couldnt I just heimdall the .pit? If so where would I flash pda file under (pda.tar.md5) in terms of sbl, kernel, PARAM, etc...
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Beastmode:
not sure on pda but i know last time I partitioned bricked I used Odin if it gets to download mode Odin should recognize if the drivers for that port are setup right
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] ChadBFlores:
Ok, I got things flashing now (on hiemdall) , I just need a full package to flash and then work my way up from
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] ChadBFlores:
FINALY!!!! I was so scared I would b w/o good phone for month while Samsung was fixing it lol :)

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] kazutoaoi:
that rom liked more? and why?

I personally stick with PARANOIDANDROID v0.3 [TABLET/HYBRID]

I like: Hybrid mode, I like to change the density of separate apps, customization is quite broad, the sight of youtube ... in order.

Though I miss some things, like SNote Premium Suite App, power take screenshots with the pencil and edit the photo immediately.

I think this rom the best.

And for you which is best?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] zekurosu:
asylum ... lightest rom available for Note ...because it was based on insanity rom for Galaxy S2 which was my previous phone..

match it with the not to be named kernel and u have a superb combo for Note

:D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] sam20e:
Im using Alliance Rom for couple of weeks. best performance...

Sam