gs3 LTE switch

[m.vasquez009]

im pretty excited for this phone to come out as my s2 recently was stolen on a trip to florida, still mourning over the loss ...but i was wondering if there was an option to turn off the lte because i live in a spotty coverage area and i know that's a huge battery drain when your phones looking for a good signal all day long...would this be a huge deal breaker for any of you guys?

 

[Slimerang]

I'm in a similar boat except that I don't have any LTE coverage.

 

[sniffs]

I saw a post on XDA about this. You can't disable LTE, but what you can do, is add an APN specifically for HSPA+ and select it.

Let me see if I can find the post.

Go to Settings, More Settings, scroll down to Mobile Networks, click Access Point Names, press Menu and click New APN and then add this,

Name: AT&T WAP
APN: wap.cingular
Proxy: <not set>
Port: <not set>
Username: WAP@CINGULARGPRS.COM
Password:<not set>
Server:<not set>
MMSC: http://mmsc.cingular.com
MMS proxy: wireless.cingular.com
MMS port: 80
MCC:310
MNC:410
Authentication type: <not set>
APN type: default
APN protocol IPv4

then go back in and make sure this is the selected APN and it should drop you from LTE and only connect to HSPA+