{"id":1715,"date":"2018-04-16T16:23:16","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/network-radios.com\/?p=1715"},"modified":"2018-04-16T16:37:39","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:37:39","slug":"using-4g-only-sim-cards-on-3g-only-network-radios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/network-radios.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/16\/using-4g-only-sim-cards-on-3g-only-network-radios\/","title":{"rendered":"Using 4G-only SIM cards on 3G-only Network Radios"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some 4G SIM cards will not support 3G-only radios. If that&#8217;s the case, using a small trick, you can make the Android radio think it is 4G and still allow it to run 3G, using a 4G-only SIM.<\/p>\n<p>Here, is the 4-step procedure:<\/p>\n<p>1 &#8211; Dial *#*#3646633#*#* (This will enter the engineer menu)<br \/>\n2 &#8211; Now, select <strong>Preferred Network Option<\/strong><br \/>\n3 &#8211; In the drop down list, you need to select <strong>4G LTE\/WCDMA\/GSM<\/strong>. Then, save and reboot the radio.<br \/>\n4 &#8211; Once done, just insert a 4G SIM in the first SIM slot and you may keep the second SIM slot empty.<\/p>\n<p>Your device will now run on 3G speed, connected to the 3G network but using a 4G-only SIM card.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some 4G SIM cards will not support 3G-only radios. If that&#8217;s the case, using a small trick, you can make the Android radio think it is 4G and still allow it to run 3G, using a 4G-only SIM. Here, is the 4-step procedure: 1 &#8211; Dial *#*#3646633#*#* (This will enter the engineer menu) 2 &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amateur-radio","category-zello-operation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/network-radios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/network-radios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/network-radios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/network-radios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/network-radios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1715"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/network-radios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1722,"href":"https:\/\/network-radios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715\/revisions\/1722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/network-radios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/network-radios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/network-radios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/network-radios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}