how to disable cell radio?

[woolster22]

Hey everyone, I'm heading to barbados this weekend and was hoping be able to use my phone for pics, music, wifi etc. Anyone know of a way to disable the cell radio to avoid the roaming fees and charges for any calls/texts that would come through? Airplane mode would work, but if I wanted to jump on wifi Id be SOL. Any suggestions?

 

[adrynalyne]

Deactivate the phone

 

[Mean Sixteen]

Cant you turn off roaming in the settings?

Sent from my otb ocuv1.3ghz bh3.0 vd5 fascinate through xda app.

 

[woolster22]

Deactivate the phone

Hadn't thought of that for some reason, that would be my safest bet too, no easy way to goof up and end up with a bunch of texts and data charges for the phone hopping on a signal somewhere (not even sure it would work in the first place but thats another issue). Guess its time to lay off the herb...I should have been able to figure that one out lol (as i crack a dutch).

 

[ruthlessbeatle]

Hadn't thought of that for some reason, that would be my safest bet too, no easy way to goof up and end up with a bunch of texts and data charges for the phone hopping on a signal somewhere (not even sure it would work in the first place but thats another issue). Guess its time to lay off the herb...I should have been able to figure that one out lol (as i crack a dutch).

i hear that!!! pass it on over! (as i pass a bowl) anyway why can t you use your wifi while on airplane more? i do it all the time. airplane on and wifi on no prob....or am i just to lifted to understand whats going on

 

[KitsuneKnight]

i hear that!!! pass it on over! (as i pass a bowl) anyway why can t you use your wifi while on airplane more? i do it all the time. airplane on and wifi on no prob....or am i just to lifted to understand whats going on

As said here, Airplane mode should be what you're looking for. It _does_ turn off wifi when you turn it on, but you can just turn Wifi right back on. That should leave your phone as basically an Android version of an iPod Touch.


I'm not sure about the specific country you're headed to, but in a large portion of the world your phone wouldn't work anyways (assuming it's the Verizon Fascinate, and not the Telus Fascinate), since most areas adopted GSM over CDMA. Although, if it is a GSM based phone, you could always pick up a local-sim card (say, from a pre-paid phone?) and be able to just use that, to keep your voice (and maybe also data) connection in case you really need it.