AT&T may be into the act of marketing one thing and providing another (read: Bait & Switch), but lucky for you we here at Gadgetsteria care about you, your sanity, and the enjoyment you get from your gadgets. With that said, AT&T’s latest knife in consumers’ backs is boasting of “real 4G” while simultaneously capping said devices to at times slower-than-3G speeds. Awesome tactic, huh?
Constant and obvious nitpicking aside, for those who want to unlock HSUPA functionality on their Samsung Focus devices need only do the following:
- Get to the number/dialer screen: Enter ##634# (Opens the Diagnostics screen)
- Enter test mode: press *#32489#
- Press back at the bottom of the screen (not the phone’s back button)
- Press 5 for RRC (HSPA) control
- Press 1 to view what yours is set at
- Press 2 to change it
- Press 3 to change to Release 6 HSDPA/HSUPA
- Press “end” to confirm.
It may seem involved at first to those not familiar with “hacking” such things. In all reality, however, it’s border line a walk in the park. Even if you’re a bit leery of doing such things, think about how much happier (and how much more time you’ll save) when uploading anything over the much faster HSUPA.
Anyone going to try it?
Update
AT&T claims they didn’t break anything and that the Samsung Focus never had HSUPA to begin with…
Via: WPCentral
