Rooting and Band Selection

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I have exhausted every option known to me trying to get access to manual network band selection on the Captivate. The usual codes take me to the correct place, but I get an error message saying it's restricted. My question is will rooting the phone give me access to those menu options? I want the ability to lock the phone to GSM/EDGE or WCDMA at will. If anyone knows a solution to this, please let me know. To clarify: I am not looking to just turn off data and the *#*#info#*#* route doesn't work. Thanks.

Can anyone with a rooted Captivate confirm that you can or cannot access the menu to lock to GSM?

Originally Posted by iJITSU

Can anyone with a rooted Captivate confirm that you can or cannot access the menu to lock to GSM?

No I tried the same thing...rooting did not help.

Originally Posted by iJITSU

Can anyone with a rooted Captivate confirm that you can or cannot access the menu to lock to GSM?

Hi,

No need to Root the phone at all. Just dial *#*#4636#*#* then click on "phone Information" scroll down to the drop down menu & click on it, click on "WCDMA" only & go back. done

Originally Posted by Muhamadabdelaall

Hi,

No need to Root the phone at all. Just dial *#*#4636#*#* then click on "phone Information" scroll down to the drop down menu & click on it, click on "WCDMA" only & go back. done

This does not affect our phone. It does nothing.



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Originally Posted by clubtech

This does not affect our phone. It does nothing.



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What do you mean by "it does nothign"? I did it & working.

Setting 3G only or 2G only

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I found out that if you go into the dialer and type in *#*#197328640#*#* that it will take you into a menu that will allow you to change it. From the main menu of the ServiceMode screen, select DEBUG SCREEN, then PHONE CONTROL at the bottom, then UE STATE CONTROL. From there select CHANGE RAT TO WCDMA to enable 3G only, and select CHANGE RAT TO GSM for 2G only.

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Doesn't survive a reboot but it's a start.

Originally Posted by BecomingxInsane

I found out that if you go into the dialer and type in *#*#197328640#*#* that it will take you into a menu that will allow you to change it. From the main menu of the ServiceMode screen, select DEBUG SCREEN, then PHONE CONTROL at the bottom, then UE STATE CONTROL. From there select CHANGE RAT TO WCDMA to enable 3G only, and select CHANGE RAT TO GSM for 2G only.

thanks for this.

but to take this a bit further, is there any way to automate this via a widget?