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okay, I’ve mistaken, KDDI do have eCSFB to CDMA since the get go...my brain was stuck in pre-LTE launch era. Sorry.

I’m not sure how “LTE Only” options work on every phones, moving across countries to just make a phone behave certain way is beyond absurd but verifying how it’s working might be a bit of challenge?

regarding roaming, you mean a fake GSM tower with backend going over a VPN to a GSM tower somewhere the phone could roam to? That I didn’t realize. That could happen indeed.



LTE Only is an option (albeit hidden) on every Android phone I've ever used, at least. Just enter ##4636## in the dialer.

I usually have it set, and in areas that only have 3G coverage, I get no signal unless I change the setting.


Hrm, just noticed that hn ate my asterisks. Backslashes don't work, either. Unicode to the rescue: ⁕#⁕#4636#⁕#⁕




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