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ALMOST a CDMA/LTE toggle switch ...

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darkuni

Android Enthusiast
  • Grab a free app called ANY CUT.
  • Install, run.
  • Select NEW SHORTCUT.
  • Choose ACTIVITY.
  • Choose NETWORK SETTINGS.
  • Name it whatever you like.

POOF. You have a new shortcut on the desktop that takes you RIGHT to Network Settings. You still have to do the toggling - but this is as close to a toggle as I could get. No different than the Thunderbolt LTE ON/OFF, etc.

Hope this helps someone!
 
Works, but no different than LTE Switch, or any of the other 4g toggles found in the market. Except you need to make it yourself. Cool app though for the potential of other uses.
 
CAMAN said:
Works, but no different than LTE Switch, or any of the other 4g toggles found in the market. Except you need to make it yourself. Cool app though for the potential of other uses.
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Yeah but are there apps that work to toggle 4G for the Galaxy Nexus yet?
 
ckelly33 said:
Yeah but are there apps that work to toggle 4G for the Galaxy Nexus yet?
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From what I have read in one of these threads, it wasn't possible, as Google and/or Verizon don't want a 3rd party app to be able to take control of any functions of the phone.
 
ckelly33 said:
Yeah but are there apps that work to toggle 4G for the Galaxy Nexus yet?
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pulling this quote from a different thread, but the information is very useful. clearly explains why there are, and may never be, any direct 4g toggles available for the GNex without rooting.

Jon Nale said:
I don't believe it is going to be possible to create a simple toggle widget unless you root.

I am an Android developer, and I researched this quickly this morning. The reason I don't believe it is possible:

from Future-Proofing Your Apps | Android Developers:

Technique to Avoid, #2: Directly Manipulating Settings

Strictly speaking this one isn't evil, since this is a change in behavior that we made to Android itself. But we made it because some developers were doing naughty things: a number of apps were changing system settings silently without even notifying the user. For instance, some apps turn on GPS without asking the user, and others might turn on data roaming.

As a result, applications can no longer directly manipulate the values of certain system Settings, even if they previously had permission to do so. For instance, apps can no longer directly turn on or off GPS. These apps won't crash, but the APIs in question now have no effect, and do nothing. Instead, apps will need to issue an Intent to launch the appropriate Settings configuration screen, so that the user can change these settings manually. For details, see the android.provider.Settings.Secure class, which you can find in the 1.5_pre SDK documentation (and later). Note that only Settings that were moved to the Settings.Secure class are affected. Other, less sensitive, settings will continue to have the same behavior as in Android 1.1.


WARNING: Technical mumbo-jumbo
If you look at the Android SDK, your network settings appear to be stored in the Settings.Secure class. In order to change your network mode, you need to be able to write to Settings.Secure, which requires the system key. Developers do not have the system key that Google used to sign the version of Android that is currently on our phones. If you root your phone and download a custom ROM, the developer that created that ROM will have they key he used, and may possibly share it.

Here is the link to the Settings.Secure class in the Android SDK:
Settings.Secure | Android Developers
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original thread here: http://androidforums.com/verizon-galaxy-nexus/466193-anyone-found-4g-off-widget.html

edited to add: moving this to the Verizon section since it does not apply to the GSM GNex. :cool:
 
Sorry, I wasn't aware any Nexus compatible pseudo toggles were out there yet ... My bad ...

Thanks for moving :)
 
The ICS power control widget can switch GPS on and off. I'm sure it's been decompiled and studied already.
 
yawdapaah said:
The ICS power control widget can switch GPS on and off. I'm sure it's been decompiled and studied already.
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Because it was included with the stock rom , it has the key needed to access those settings directly. A stock 4G toggle would work, but a 3rd party one will not. Just as 3rd party toggle widgets such as Extended Controls cannot directly toggle GPS.

Liquid included a 4g toggle on his thunderbolt roms, I hope this feature makes it to his GNex roms as well.
 
Yeah I miss the LTE toggle from my CM7 Thunderbolt . What I'd like more then anything is a way to shut LTE off when the screen is off and automatically switch it to 3g . That would be a HUGE battery saver , cause why do you need 4G when the phone isn't in use. And I know there is jucie defender but that just turns data off and occasionally turns it on to poll it helps but not much since there is an extra app always running . Plus with Juice Defender when you take your phone out of your pocket you usually have to wait a few seconds for Data to reconnect with it just on 3g you'd still have data while you're waiting for a faster data connection to connect
 
Ok. Did no one look at the link I posted. Obviously cyanogen mod has it working. Watch the video vefore continuing to post that you know for a fact its impossible.
 
WormDoes said:
Here you go. SkyRaider just released it this morning. I've tested it and it's working on RootzBoat

[LTE WIDGET] BAMF LTE Widget v0.1 [01/02/2012]
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Right on I'm gonna give this a go on Gummy

Didn't work for me , flashed it and it showed up as a widget but when I pressed it all it did was turn off my mobile network not switch to 3g . What's weird is if I had the widget set to 3g and I went in to setting it would show CDMA only but I had no data connection same when it was set to 4G it showed LTE/CDMA in settings selected but still no data I had to just remove the widget a re boot to get data back
 
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