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Help GB 3G on/off

I had power widget and it said the following:

"unfortunately, Android does not allow other applications to change 2g/3g preference directly. It does not show its state either.

Therefore this button will operate as a link to the data roaming section where you can enable/disable 3g network. however it still saves you a few clicks, though."

so i figured it was just some with 2.2.1, maybe it changed with gingerbread, idk. i kinda gave up and didnt care too much after that. it would be cool to be able to turn it off with a click though via widget of some sort.

i dont get good signal at mi casa so turning it off will most definitely save me some battery it some occasions.
 
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yeah quick settings definitely doesn't work. one of my most used apps on froyo because of this ability. the best way that i've found is the shortcut method. if you use launcher pro, tap menu, add, shortcut, activities, Battery & Data Manager, select any of the options that say Battery & data manager. Name the shortcut. now when you want to turn off 3g, just click that shortcut, go to data delivery, and uncheck data enabled. same thing that F150Fan said but this gives you a shortcut to that menu.
 
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Im trying it and it wont turn off the 3G. What are you doing to get it to work?
When you create the widget and then you tocuh 'apply', a pop up window shows up and says 'Do you want to edit global preferences ?'. Touch yes and then the first option on the next menu says Data toggle mode. It is a drop down menu. Choose Root toggle and then back out of it and the widget should work. Thats how I got mine to work!
 
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When you create the widget and then you tocuh 'apply', a pop up window shows up and says 'Do you want to edit global preferences ?'. Touch yes and then the first option on the next menu says Data toggle mode. It is a drop down menu. Choose Root toggle and then back out of it and the widget should work. Thats how I got mine to work!

Thanks, it works
 
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