Force 1X Only

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I'm thinking of getting a Verizon Touch Pro when it's available.

Right now, my battery life on my Motorola Q is terrible. I live in an area where the signal is pretty poor and I think that's the main reason for the bad battery life.

If I go into the "secret" settings on the Q, I can change it to CDMA Only and that disables EvDO and probably gives me at least a 50% increase in battery life.

Unfortunately, it's pretty much of a PITA to go back and forth.

So, if I get a Touch Pro, I guess I have to hope that it's better at picking up a signal (probably not, right?) or that there's some way to put it into CDMA Only mode.

Does anyone know, for sure, that'll be possible?

Now, if that's possible, does a program already exists or could someone easily just write a program that would give me a program icon that if I click it, it toggles the phone between CDMA Only and Automatic? I'm thinking something like the nodata program that I've used before, but even better would be just click on the icon to toggle and no submenus to go through.

I know on the Q when I change back and forth, the change is immediate (Ev icon turns to 1x and vice versa as soon as I make the change), so if I had an icon to just make the change for me without digging through 4 menus to make a change, I might be able to live with just activating EvDO when I'm going to use it.

Any help is appreciated.

Thoughts?

Originally Posted by lexluthor

I'm thinking of getting a Verizon Touch Pro when it's available.

Right now, my battery life on my Motorola Q is terrible. I live in an area where the signal is pretty poor and I think that's the main reason for the bad battery life.

If I go into the "secret" settings on the Q, I can change it to CDMA Only and that disables EvDO and probably gives me at least a 50% increase in battery life.

Unfortunately, it's pretty much of a PITA to go back and forth.

So, if I get a Touch Pro, I guess I have to hope that it's better at picking up a signal (probably not, right?) or that there's some way to put it into CDMA Only mode.

Does anyone know, for sure, that'll be possible?

Now, if that's possible, does a program already exists or could someone easily just write a program that would give me a program icon that if I click it, it toggles the phone between CDMA Only and Automatic? I'm thinking something like the nodata program that I've used before, but even better would be just click on the icon to toggle and no submenus to go through.

I know on the Q when I change back and forth, the change is immediate (Ev icon turns to 1x and vice versa as soon as I make the change), so if I had an icon to just make the change for me without digging through 4 menus to make a change, I might be able to live with just activating EvDO when I'm going to use it.

Any help is appreciated.

Thoughts?

I just upgraded from a q, i havent recieved my htc yet so ill try and help with your q problem.

First and foremost never ever let the battery run down. My q worked fine for a year and a half until tuesday the battery ran down and i got this



Anyway, make sure its not going out and checking your email every 1,5,10,15 minutes etc. That really kills the battery fast. Bluetooth too. When I disabled those i saw my battery life skyrocket, but it still went down pretty fast when i used the internet and camera. maybe those two things will help you in the interim though.

you think your moto q battery is bad wait til you get to the your touch pro. i forced my touch pro (data speeds sucked big ones) to 1x by going to settings phone and roaming i set it to roaming only? but that is a sprint version i dont know if verzion allows you to pick roaming only

benitojuarez, I appreciate it, but it's none of that. The reason for the bad battery life on the Q is that the signal is low and it's fluctuating between 1x and EvDO. When I set it to 1x only, the battery life is fine.

cjmedina, yes, I'm worried about that.

That's why I'm here. I'm still hoping someone could come up (either it exists already or someone could make it) with a little utility that when clicked would toggle between 1x (CDMA Only) and Automatic modes. I think I could live with that.

I can't imagine that'd be too difficult. You can force 1x on your Sprint, I can force 1x on my Q. The change takes effect immediately. There's got to be an easy way to program it to happen.

It sounds like you might benefit from this type of program as well. I know on my Q, I rarely switch back from 1x only, just because it's about a multi step process that's a slight PITA to make the change. If I had a one step process, I could leave it as 1x while it's just sitting around and quickly change it to EvDO when I want to use the net. At least that's how I envision it.

Lastly, I'm not certain that my Q hasn't just been defective for 2 years now. I even have the 2100mah Seidio battery and if i leave it as Automatic, I pretty much can't get a full day out of it. If I set it to 1x, I can make it though the day unless I use it real heavily.

I'm worried that unless the TP has a better radio, I might not even make it though the day on 1x only mode. I guess we'll see what happens.

Is there anyone who can assist here?

I can't imagine this is something too difficult. Everyone phone I've had so far allows it to be put into a 1x only mode.

With the work all of you guys do customizing, someone must have a good handle on what needs to be changed to put the phone into 1x mode.

Am I in the right place or should I have posted this in a different forum?

Well, hopefully, someone can come up with something...or point me to something that already exists.

Thanks!

Originally Posted by lexluthor

Is there anyone who can assist here?

I can't imagine this is something too difficult. Everyone phone I've had so far allows it to be put into a 1x only mode.

With the work all of you guys do customizing, someone must have a good handle on what needs to be changed to put the phone into 1x mode.

Am I in the right place or should I have posted this in a different forum?

Well, hopefully, someone can come up with something...or point me to something that already exists.

Thanks!

I didn't come up with it but I have tested and it works like a charm.

To do this, you will need your MSL number, which only Sprint (or your provider) can provide you.

1) Open up the phone app and dial ##778# (PST).

2) You will be asked to enter your MSL. Enter it, and you will be brought into the provisioning of your phone.

3) From the top left, select Modem Settings

4) Preferred Mode: The Default is Automatic, which is the best available mode (EV that will roll back to 1X when EV is unavailable). There are times when you might be in a fringe area and your mode may cycle frequently and this can seriously drain your battery. Setting this to HDR will force EV-DO only if you demand an EV-DO connection. Changing this setting to CDMA Only will force the phone to ignore an EV-DO tower and maintain only a 1xRTT connection.

*Change your "Slot Cycle" while you are on this page to one so your phone polls towers every 2 sec instead of 5 sec. I did know about this trick but did not know the force 1xRTT was one of the setting on the same page.

here is the cab for roaming only un zip and install

mrrogers1, I appreciate the response, but, first of all I'm on Verizon.

On my Q, I can do ##*, go into the "secret" menu, to to the option to change it to CDMA only, save it and back out.

It's just too long a process to really do it frequently, so I just wind up leaving my phone in 1x mode and that stinks.

So, what I was looking for is just a program to install that would activate/deactivate that option by just clicking the program icon.

cjmedina, before I install that, can you tell me exactly what that is? Is it for Verizon? What do you mean by roaming only? I want 1x/CDMA only. Will it just disable roaming or is it a toggle thing? I don't want to risk installing something that's not easily reversible.

Roam only wouldn't really address this because if you (at least for me) roam in EVDO coverage the phone stays in that mode. Forcing 1x is something different all together.

Changing in the modem settings is it for now and works well.

I went from a 9c to a Diamond. Maybe the TP is much different but my Diamond signal strength is a little lower than my 9c.

Combine that with the Diamond/TP already bad heat issues, battery life I don't think you'll be happy with it.