How to toggle to wi-fi only?

[fenrisswolf]

Here's my situation:

I'll be leaving the US for at least a few weeks due to a death in the family. I really want to take my phone with me but don't want to have accidental roaming charges, as I am fairly broke at the moment. For that same reason, I do not want to pay Verizon for international calling either.

I know I'll have fairly widespread access to wi-fi, so I'd like to know if it's possible for me to toggle my phone's cell radio off and use wi-fi only while I'm gone. I'm a little worried that merely toggling "roaming" off may not work right, but anyone that can tell me that's all I need to do, feel free to pipe in and take that issue of my mind.

 

[Backnblack]

Place it in airplane mode and turn wifi on......Done.

 

[codustyle]

Here's my situation:

I'll be leaving the US for at least a few weeks due to a death in the family. I really want to take my phone with me but don't want to have accidental roaming charges, as I am fairly broke at the moment. For that same reason, I do not want to pay Verizon for international calling either.

I know I'll have fairly widespread access to wi-fi, so I'd like to know if it's possible for me to toggle my phone's cell radio off and use wi-fi only while I'm gone. I'm a little worried that merely toggling "roaming" off may not work right, but anyone that can tell me that's all I need to do, feel free to pipe in and take that issue of my mind.

plus the dx doesnt have a sim card and wont make phone calls over foreign cellular networks overseas anyways... only droid pro

 

[fenrisswolf]

The sim card thing is generally true enough, I suppose.

I didn't know airplane mode only killed the cell phone band radio, I was under the impression that it was a complete radio kill switch. So I also learned something new from this. dancedroid

 

[Drummynator]

Wifi will be turned off if its on when you activate airplane mode, but then you can turn it back on while still in airplane mode. I wouldn't recommend leaving wifi on when you're not connected to a network because it will keep trying to scan for networks and this well effect your battery life some.

Sent from my Focused DROID X