How to Extend the Battery Life of Your Verizon Wireless RAZR

If you live in an area where your phone constantly switches back and forth between EVDO and 1X then its possible that it is draining the battery of your V3C faster than normal. Disabling EVDO on your Razr in this scenario has been reported to indeed improve battery life. However, disabling EVDO on your phone renders you temporarily unable to view vCast. Temporarily because you can (with learning the routine) easily disable and enable EVDO at any time. The following is a guide on how to do, just that.

1.Open your phone. Press #0SETUP* or #073887* -- QUICKLY -- If you pause while typing #0SETUP* in, it may not work. Also note that that's a ZERO [0] not an OH [O]

2."Enter Security Code:" should be on the screen - type 000000 which is SIX [6] ZEROs [000000] and then press the right soft-key which is the top-right button, closest to the screen.

3.Press the up on the keypad TWICE to scroll to Test Mode, otherwise just find test mode and then press select.

4.Press down to highlight Enabled and then press the right soft-key that says Select. It will go back to the main "Programming Menu" which means that it that did indeed enable Test Mode.

5.Press End/Hang up once or twice to get back to the main screen. You should now see your wallpaper. Press the CLR button and then press the left soft-key -- QUICKLY -- You need to press CLR then LEFT SOFT-KEY quickly or it may not activate test mode. You should now see a white background with blue letters that say FTS.

6.Press the right soft-key key *3 TIMES* or until you see at the top "ServOpt:NoChg" - "AudioOpt: Auto"

7.Press the down key *8 TIMES* or until your see a > next to "HDR Pref: Auto" -- >HDR Pref: Auto

8.Press the right soft-key TWICE labeled CHANGE or until it says CDMA -- >HDR Pref: cdma

9.Press the left soft-key ONCE labeled EXIT and it will flash white real quick, then appear to be frozen...

10.Your phone is resetting. You will not be able to press for NEXT or PREV. You have to wait about 5-10 seconds until you CAN press the right or left soft-key for NEXT or PREV. The screens may cycle a couple different screens indicating that its ready.

11.Press the CLR button and then press the left soft-key -- QUICKLY -- You need to press CLR then LEFT SOFT-KEY quickly or it may not De-activate test mode.

12.EVDO is officially disabled and capable of being re-enabled. However, test mode is still running in the background and we need to turn it off. We will go back to the programming menu.

13.Press #0SETUP* or #073887* -- QUICKLY -- If you pause while typing #0SETUP* in, it may not work.

14."Enter Security Code:" should be on the screen - type 000000

15.Press the up on the keypad TWICE to scroll to Test Mode, otherwise just find test mode and then press select

16.Make sure Disabled is highlighted and then press the right soft-key that says Select. It will go back to the main "Programming Menu" which means that it that did indeed disable Test Mode.

17.Press End or Left soft-key for exit and you're back to your regular 'ol phone without regular 'ol EVDO. Now the fun part is remembering this whole process should you want to switch back at any time, or should this simply not work for you. You can always print this page for reference. Enjoy!