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Originally Posted by izuzu
to answer one of your questions, 1X take more battery consumption than EVDO does. This is mainly because when the phone goes to 1X mode it continuously searches for a EVDO connection to get back to. (basically looking for the towers)
what i would do is if your in a control system room and if you have a phone there which you can use for personal calls as well, you should call forward all calls to that number while your there.
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This isn't usually the case; the phone is not searching for towers, it is teetering between which mode it has determined it can reliably stay in. It would only be "hunting" if you were exactly in between two or more towers with almost identical signal strength.
It would do this however if you were switching between a preferred carrier and a roaming carrier. Both would drain battery life, though.