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Originally Posted by pg2k3
Why would you want to force 1X? From what I understand, The phones are programmed to show the signal quality/Strength of EVDO only. EVDO is sent over a separate 1.5Mhz band and therefore there is a chance that the strength may be lower. Forcing 1X wont do anything more than cause you to miss a few calls it wont really improve signal.
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That's not always true in a couple of examples that I can think of (from my understanding of reading other posts):
1) If someone lives in a fringe EVDO area the phone will try to hold onto the EVDO signal as long as possible instead of picking up the possibly stronger 1X signal.
2) It is my understanding that some of the new synergy sites are first setup with 1X only and later EVDO is turned on. If this is the case the phone will still hold onto the EVDO site even though the new synergy site might offer a better signal.
If you are right and the phone constantly uses both EVDO and 1X, then it wouldn't matter for voice since voice would use 1X anyway.
I wanted to try it on my Touch as a test, but if it works, then the phones I would do it to don't use data anyway, so that wouldn't really matter.