racingdriod
Lurker
Ok I kinda lost on all of this and i was reading all these replys and tried the settings but now i have no 3G...what did i do to turn that off?
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Do you have have Wi-Fi and Mobile Network checked at the same time? If you are connected to a Wi-Fi source at the same time Mobile Network is also checked, your phone will automatically connect to Wi-Fi and 3G goes away. When you travel outside your WiFi source's area then 3G kicks in.
Settings>Wireless & Networks
Unchecking the Wi-Fi box will disconnect you from your Wi-Fi and 3G will reappear. Hope this helps!
Settings>Wireless & Networks
Unchecking the Wi-Fi box will disconnect you from your Wi-Fi and 3G will reappear. Hope this helps!
k9professor
Lurker
Also check to see if your phone is running on global mode, you don't want that.
Menu>Settings> Call> Preferred Network set it to cdma.
What is the difference between global and CDMA? Thanks in advance.
Menu>Settings> Call> Preferred Network set it to cdma.
What is the difference between global and CDMA? Thanks in advance.
blackepoxy
Android Expert
Cdma is the type of signal verizon's network runs on & they phones don't use sim cards like gsm (global system for mobile) carriers. The htc droid incredible 2 is a global roaming capable phone, so it has a sim card slot behind the battery, so when you go to foreign countries you can switch to global mode and still use the phone.
When you leave the store with your new dinc2 our get it in the mail it is set to global as preferred network, the phone is probably struggling to find a gsm network to connect to wasting battery power because it never finds one. Setting it to cdma stops this and allows the phone to operate normally on the signal it was primarily made to use. Pretty much all verizon sales reps don't know about this and will let you leave the store with a global cdma phone that is set to run on a gsm signal, (improperly set-up) and leave you to wonder why the battery life is so horrible.
When you leave the store with your new dinc2 our get it in the mail it is set to global as preferred network, the phone is probably struggling to find a gsm network to connect to wasting battery power because it never finds one. Setting it to cdma stops this and allows the phone to operate normally on the signal it was primarily made to use. Pretty much all verizon sales reps don't know about this and will let you leave the store with a global cdma phone that is set to run on a gsm signal, (improperly set-up) and leave you to wonder why the battery life is so horrible.