Is there a way to turn off the GSM radio?
 

Hi,
anyone know of a way to turn off the GSM radio?

This would be handy if for example one wanted to turn off the phone functionality of the N900 and still be able to use the internet at home for example through wifi.

Re: Is there a way to turn off the GSM radio?
 

Same question here. I want to be able to turn off the phone radio when in my car (since it has a SIM card of it's own, you can only use one at a time), but still want to be able to listen to music by using the FM transmitter.

Re: Is there a way to turn off the GSM radio?
 

I think the only way to achieve this would be pulling out the SIM card.
There is offline mode for switching off the GSM, but this will also disable WiFi.

Re: Is there a way to turn off the GSM radio?
 

when booting the phone you can skip entering the ping, then the gsm radio will be off but wifi on iirc.

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after i dropped some water on it, the gsm was disabled, but the wifi kept working.
though i am guessing that is not 'handy'

Re: Is there a way to turn off the GSM radio?
 

A temporary solution is If your carrier does not have 3G change the following setting:

Menu > Setting > Phone > Network Mode > 3G

I hope that helps.

Re: Is there a way to turn off the GSM radio?
 

Actually i used my tablet for a day on WiFi before I got my SIM card so this is not a problem. As has been mentoned before just skip the PIN entry when starting the phone to disable the GSM radio.

BTW: the prototype firmware had the option to turn off the GSM radio temporarilly. The production units seem to just have an offline mode which turn off all radios.

I hope this helps.

Re: Is there a way to turn off the GSM radio?
 

thanks for all the replies. I was hoping for a more handy way to to simply turn it off temporarily by changing a setting or entering a command.
I don't know what the pin on my sim is. is there a way to find out?

Re: Is there a way to turn off the GSM radio?
 

But won't this just mean that the radio will still be on trying to search for 3G forever?

Re: Is there a way to turn off the GSM radio?
 

It could be that there is such a hack, but I do not know enough about Maemo yet to answer this.

It could be that your SIM does not have a PIN. Some prepaid cards are like this. If this is not the case for you then you should ask your provider. They will need to check that you are you and someone has not stolen your SIM card.

Re: Is there a way to turn off the GSM radio?
 

The radio will be on for sure, but it will not be polling on the 3G frequencies. This means that you will use less power, but you may still be transmitting data.

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Isn't it working like on Symbian where I can set "Offline Mode" (which quits every connection) and then when I want to use WiFi it asks me if I want to use WiFi even if I am in Offline Mode?

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Not quite true. Your phone will die pretty quick if you don't disable the cellular radios. I'm constantly indoors at school where I get no signal. I found that my phone's battery will die very quick if I leave my phone polling for a 2G/2.5G (I disabled 3g mode). I found that switching it to offline mode helped alot! Whenever I walk out of my classroom I simply switch back to normal mode.

I think there should be a new feature that would allow you to make connections during offline mode (Like in Symbian S60) only if you request it to. This way your GSM radio will be disabled and there will not be any rogue apps turning on your wifi.

Re: Is there a way to turn off the GSM radio?
 

what about
http://bugs.maemo.org

?

Re: Is there a way to turn off the GSM radio?
 

So there goes my idea for a clock radio application! :)
I always have my phone switched off at night. Oh well.

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3g2g-mode-selection-applet - Switch between the three network modes (3G, 2G and Dual) from the status menu

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This is such a Basic function that I don’t know how nokia miss it. That and the handwrite recognition…