AndroidI’ve been the proud owner of a Motorola Droid since monday. Not finding it necessary to read the manual is the way most men where created. I’m no exception.
I knew it wasn’t vital that the phone grabbed data from the internet all the time without me having any data plan on my phone contract.
Vodafone’s QuickCheck hit me like a cold shower:

Foresighted as Google is they didn’t build in a function to deactivate all that 3G, EDGE and GPRS-stuff so the time had come to investigate that matter.

I found the following (working) alternatives:

1. Apn Droid from the Market

This app simple attaches a suffix to the properties to the access points of the data-connections and therefore renders them useless.
It even includes a home-screen widget which can enable or disable the data connections. Although this app is proved and tested I didn’t like the idea that other apps will still go wild trying to connect to the internet and therefore stress the battery.

There was need for a more puristic method

2. delete or change access points

Without settings there won’t be a connection. That’s why I deleted all access points besides the MMS-one.
To achivere this do this (names of the options may be wrong as I have a German device)

Choose Settings > wireless and networks > mobile networks > access points

The list will look like this:

If you delete all access points you won’t be able to send or receive MMS (do Americans even use that?). That’s why you should leave one access point and click on it.
Scroll the bottom of the list and choose APN Type! It has to be changed to mms.

Wenn ihr alle Zugangspunkte löscht werdet ihr nicht mehr in der Lage sein MMS zu senden oder zu empfangen, deswegen lasst einen Zugangspunkt übrig und wählt diesen an.
Scrollt dann nach ganz unten zu APN Type! Dieser muss auf mms geändert werden.

That’s it for now. I’ll keep writing about Android in the future. Maybe I’ll even come up with a cool app