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Samsung Mini S3 - no option to force 2G only connection

Colm R · 2014-09-29 13:20:39

Where I live I have fairly good 2G coverage, but absolutely minimal 3G coverage. Up to now, every phone I had, I just kept it on a 2G (GSM) connection only, as I mostly used wifi for data. I would manually switch it to 3G if I was out and about and needed the speed. However, this phone only has the following options: -…

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29-09-2014 2:20pm

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Colm R

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Where I live I have fairly good 2G coverage, but absolutely minimal 3G coverage. Up to now, every phone I had, I just kept it on a 2G (GSM) connection only, as I mostly used wifi for data.
I would manually switch it to 3G if I was out and about and needed the speed.

However, this phone only has the following options:

- WCDMA/GSM (auto connect)
- WCDMA only

The phone is clearly trying to connect to the 3G all the time, which is very in and out - which means easily dropping calls and text messages being received long after they were sent.

Anyone any idea how if there is an easy-ish way to get this to use 2G only?

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