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Is there a cell-disabler app?

I know it seems strange. I'm deployed to Afghanistan right now and brought my phone with me because it's my alarm clock. I since purchased the DishPointerAR app. (I'll be doing a review shortly) I now constantly have my phone with me. I don't like having it in normal mode because my T-Mobile Germany SIM is still in it and I don't want to rack up crazy charges over here. I DO however want to have the ability to use WIFI because we have a connection here that I use. I remember a while back I used a rom that had this built in, but don't remember what it was. Besides, I really enjoy cyanogen. If anyone can help I'd really appreciate it.

Not sure if this is what you want but try droid wall in the market. Blocks data use

for data you can try the app above or just go into your wireless settings and remove your current APN settings. also disable mobile networks and data roaming.
for voice calls, if you want to disable that, you can set all of your contacts to be sent straight to voicemail when they try to call you. i think you can even contact tmo and tell them to disable service temporary until you come back. or you can remove your simcard all together. if you lose the simcard you can always get a replacement without ill effects.
hope those are some alternatives you can try.

@Jamison904
That would be part of it. I also want to disable even the remote possibility of phone calls or anything like that. I keep getting messages that I have voice mails if I disable airplane mode. I've even had the phone actually ring. I don't want the ridiculous international roaming charges I'm sure to incur here.
@NguyenHuu
The SIM card thing would be a reasonable Idea. Although I don't know how my phone would do without a SIM in it. All contacts to VM sort of works, but sometimes people call from #s not in my contacts. I have no idea how T-Mobile Germany would be about putting my account on hold due to me deploying with US Military. (I went straight to the company, I didn't go through the re-seller on base that could maybe work those kinds of things.)

ghrayfahx said:
I know it seems strange. I'm deployed to Afghanistan right now and brought my phone with me because it's my alarm clock. I since purchased the DishPointerAR app. (I'll be doing a review shortly) I now constantly have my phone with me. I don't like having it in normal mode because my T-Mobile Germany SIM is still in it and I don't want to rack up crazy charges over here. I DO however want to have the ability to use WIFI because we have a connection here that I use. I remember a while back I used a rom that had this built in, but don't remember what it was. Besides, I really enjoy cyanogen. If anyone can help I'd really appreciate it.
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Apndroid is also an app you could use and it includes a widget to put on your home screen to turn off 3g/edge/gprs. It's in Wesgarner's rom which is based off of Cyan's rom or you probably can get it in the market.

download anycut, new shortcut, activity, phone info. From there disable the radio

Airplane mode?

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Airplane mode?
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airplane mode disables wifi. the OP wants to have a functional wifi device.

I forgot my phone in my B-Hut but later I'll pick it up and try Apndroid and Anycut. We'll see how that does.

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I forgot my phone in my B-Hut but later I'll pick it up and try Apndroid and Anycut. We'll see how that does.
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man, there is actually an app that does exactly what you want. but i have no access to market now and i dont remember the name.
I will have a look for you in some way.
I remember the author posting on these forums.

Be careful, I'd rather deactivate voicemail in the web-control on T-Mobiles homepage. I don't know if things have changed but my old knowledge tells me that sending somebody to voicemail while roaming is more expensive than accepting a call (since the call is directed to you, then forwarded back to voice-mail, which would result in paying active+passive roaming fee)
If you deactivate voice-mail via t-mobile (can't do that via the phone's settings menus), you can just push the "hang up" button when the phone rings. Alternatively remove the SIM-card.

Remove SIM Card?
You don't mention you are using your phone for actual phone calls either (you say it's originally just for alarm), if this is the case, why not remove your SIM card? If you do this, no worries about calls or using mobile data. But, you will still have access to wifi.

Pull out the sim, flip it upside down, shove it back in while still upside down.

Well, I tried APNDroid but that was JUST for Data. The Anycut trick worked prefectly and does exactly what I was looking for. I tried the "turn the SIM around" trick, but I couldn't get the battery back in because the little nub on the batt that goes in the notch of the SIM. It DID work without a SIM at all, but I don't want to lose mine and rist TM Germany charging some stupid amount of money for a new one. Everything's working great now.

ghrayfahx said:
I tried the "turn the SIM around" trick, but I couldn't get the battery back in because the little nub on the batt
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Not much imagination there, huh? You can actually TRIM the sim card or the battery to make it fit. The chip is ENTIRELY under the gold contact pads, so any plastic beyond the gold pads can be safely trimmed.

There is actually a free, dedicated app for this, it was also mentioned on the previous page (as an edit note though).
The app is called "Airplane Mode Wi-Fi Tool". It lets you connect to Wi-fi whilst having airplane mode activated.
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Try this: Airplane Mode WiFi Tool (http://www.androlib.com/android.application.net-geekherd-airplanemode-qqiq.aspx)
I'm using this and it allows the use of WiFi while in Airplane mode.
It's also free which is always a bonus!
Hope this helps,

Airplane Mode Wi-Fi Tool
The app you are looking for is called "Airplane Mode Wi-Fi Tool" Its in the Market. Not a very catchy name but it does EXACTLY like you want. Turn OFF the phone and turn ON the wi-fi. Hope this helps.

What I did was use anycut to get access to the phone info. I turned off radio and it worked perfectly.

ghrayfahx said:
What I did was use anycut to get access to the phone info. I turned off radio and it worked perfectly.
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You can also just type in to your dialer *#*#4636#*#* to get there.

European FW to GB failed. Back to Euro.......Now EPIC FAIL. pics pics pics

Ok. I still wanted the calling capability of the tab, so I installed the EURO firmware.
Shortly after, I had got the GrooveIP app installed and used it alot. Well, I realized I can go back to Gingerbread now, right? NOPE, it failed each and every time. Photo shows the fail I receive from v1.7 odin, after just the first step.
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So I do the complete load and restart of the EURO firmware and everything loads just fine through Odin, but the phone will not stop shutting off within 3-5 mintues, every time.....So I attempted to do a recovery reboot and data wipe, that way to get it started fresh and I get the notification that's in the 2nd picture. I can only ask, PLEASE HELP, PLEASE HELP, I'm already scared to think it's done for, but at least a little bit of encouragement might get me to save this precious tool of mine!
THANK YOU THANK YOU, I pray for a solution.

Can you take out the SIM card put it back in any other working phone say the Galaxy S and make sure its working? I can only suspect your sim card got fried since the tablet was working as a phone for 2 days. If there is any error in the modem or firmware it shouldn't work at all to begin with. Also if your line got blacklisted by your operator for one reason or the other (it happens) the sim will not work anywhere.

Your carrier probably removed your voice plan. A tablet is not a phone. The US carriers are greedy and want you to have 2 seperate devices.

If you want to use your tab as a phone, you may want to try downloading the google voice app and the groove ip app. I know this works for me with the Sprint Galaxy Tab and it uses voip so you don't have to have minutes or a calling plan. Been using it for a week now and the only issue is the groove ip app sometimes needs to be restarted so I get "registered" again. Works well on both 3G and wifi.

DarkPal said:
Can you take out the SIM card put it back in any other working phone say the Galaxy S and make sure its working? I can only suspect your sim card got fried since the tablet was working as a phone for 2 days. If there is any error in the modem or firmware it shouldn't work at all to begin with. Also if your line got blacklisted by your operator for one reason or the other (it happens) the sim will not work anywhere.
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I swap them both, both working fine. Even right now the GS4g sim is in the tab.
Data connection, on both, with swapped sim cards is very iffy. wifi, is awesome!
@GldRush98 - I still have calling availability through the GS4g phone when I return both sims to the proper device. CAnnot make calls with the TAB sim in the TAB, looking into SIP calling. I wish it was easy to set up.......I've been searching alot and almost have found a completely free way, but we'll see.
@cmcollins001 - I'll look into your suggestion, I've tried to use the GV app with the tablet number, but the calling ability with the tab sim doesn't allow incoming or outgoing calls. I've got free incoming calls with skype, using a ring2skype phone number that uses voip to skype.
Personal note, for everyone. I'm cancelling the use of T-mobile, for what it's worth. The customer service is the worst I have ever received. I'm not even 30 days past due and they suspend my service??? Yeah, I was 17 days past the due date, they suspended service. This happened two months in a row. My order for a tab dashmount kit, came to me INCOMPLETE. Samsung box, that was put into the box tmobile sent me, was damaged, and the cradle for the kit was no where to be found. The box was sealed and no apparent damage at all. Looked for tape that ight have been re-applied, NOPE. So tmobile shipping, genius he/she IS NOT, put the samsung box as it was, into the box from tmobile for shipping and sent it out. You'd think that the monkey, I mean employee, would have noticed the box was damaged, as it was obvious! NOPE< just put it in there and taped it up. Its been 1 month 5 days. I still haven't recieved the replacement order, and I've spoke with them 4 times, finally this past friday, I confirmed my account status of "Not a Valuable Customer AT ALL" when they said, "Sir, your order is on back order".........as well as they expect me to pay for the incomplete order, as part of my past due bill........Yeah, tmobile, you can take my account and stick it in the "I'm never going to pay my bill if you're not going to fulfill my order". It's obvious, JD Powers is calling Tmobile employees and that's how they are getting the 4 years of customer service awards, cause my satisfaction has felt like, "sir, it's your money we want, not your acceptance". Good thing is my voice and personal opinion doesn't go unnoticed, when someone asks me about phone and service, I let them know NOT [email protected]

cmcollins001 said:
If you want to use your tab as a phone, you may want to try downloading the google voice app and the groove ip app. I know this works for me with the Sprint Galaxy Tab and it uses voip so you don't have to have minutes or a calling plan. Been using it for a week now and the only issue is the groove ip app sometimes needs to be restarted so I get "registered" again. Works well on both 3G and wifi.
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I can't find the thank you link, but THANK YOU! It's working great.

Bump: Followup.....Pictures!!! Boot Looping now.
Ok. I still wanted the calling capability of the tab, so I installed the EURO firmware.
Shortly after, I had got the GrooveIP app installed and used it alot. Well, I realized I can go back to Gingerbread now, right? NOPE, it failed each and every time. Photo shows the fail I receive from v1.7 odin, after just the first step.
So I do the complete load and restart of the EURO firmware and everything loads just fine through Odin, but the phone will not stop shutting off within 3-5 mintues, every time.....So I attempted to do a recovery reboot and data wipe, that way to get it started fresh and I get the notification that's in the 2nd picture. I can only ask, PLEASE HELP, PLEASE HELP, I'm already scared to think it's done for, but at least a little bit of encouragement might get me to save this precious tool of mine!
THANK YOU THANK YOU, I pray for a solution.

Bump. Please help.

Personal edit and great help from sserpentine

Ill help. Pm me.

Bam-Bamm said:
I guess I'll take into consideration that no one has any assistance to help me out??????
Thanks for at least taking a moment to read.
Anyway, I guess I've learned my lesson, I wont come back here, I'll just leave my next tablet alone and use it as it was meant to be used. Sorry no one gave any help here, I feel I gave alot of good information toward someone/anyone giving me a solution
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Sir, you got lots of help from here, quick too. If something is broken, no amount of advice from us will repair it. Good luck with the next tab.

I have done a large amount of reading and learning.
I am all better now and I owe it all to you. THANK YOU To sserpentine.
My tablet is running great with Overcome!
Thanks again, and also, if you know of a better ROM for my tablet, I'm all ears.
Jamie

Can't get VoLTE working. Euphoria ROM. VZW

Ok, this is frustrating. I can't seem to get VoLTE working. Clean flashed, and in the hidden menu there's this View attachment 3217747. I didn't ever set it to ON, so I don't know why the OFF option is there. Whenever I make a call, the LTE icon goes away, and no internet.

Not sure if this will help as I don't know what steps you have already taken, but have you gone through these steps first?
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Anastayja said:
Not sure if this will help as I don't know what steps you have already taken, but have you gone through these steps first?
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Yep. added it to my plan. Is there an advanced calling app for us yet?

jova33 said:
Yep. added it to my plan. Is there an advanced calling app for us yet?
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No, no app. Maybe you should try enabling on stock and then flashing back to Euphoria. Maybe that will help.

The rom is likely missing necessary components
Sent from my Nexus 6 using XDA Free mobile app

akellar said:
The rom is likely missing necessary components
Sent from my Nexus 6 using XDA Free mobile app
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No, it's not.

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No, it's not.
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Does it have ims.apk in system apps?
Sent from my Nexus 6 using XDA Free mobile app

Before I would get the setting and it would be enabled but I coudn't do simultaneous voice/data. I flashed stock but now i get server error try again later each time. weird.

I'm completely stock verizon nexus 6 (recevied mine yesterday in the mail), but I was having same frustration you describe. Could not use hotspot and browse internet while in a voice call. And it was always in 3g.
I don't know if this will help but here is what I did.
first I did the hidden menu... *#*#4636#*#*
tapped the volte provision option and then I forced a power down.
After powering up I confirmed that the Enhanced 4G LTE was enabled in settings.
I went back into the hidden menu and confirmed that volte provision was turned on. It was because it now showed the "Turn OFF volte" option instead of "Turn On".
I retried using internet/data while in a voice call and the phone still would not allow data while in the call. I could only get 3g in hotspot and voice calls would still interrupt data.
I then learned that I had to enable HD or whatever the new service is called on my Verizon account. They said in the webpage instructions that I may have to reboot and check for system updates. And to wait about 15 minutes for it to take affect.
I rebooted, forced a check for new system updates (there were none), and then I tried retesting by turning on hotspot (still was just 3g) and trying to place a call while using hotspot and browsing from my laptop. As soon as the voice call was made I could no longer browse the internet using hotspot... basically same as it always had been. I was frustrated to the point of seriously considering returning the phone to verizon.
Then I went back into the hidden menu and changed the radio option to "USA" (the option in upper right corner of that hidden menu.) I don't know what it was set to previously but I never leave the country so USA is good enough for me.
I rebooted again and to my pleasant surprise, it showed nearly full bars in LTE and hotspot/internet worked great all while in a voice call.
*Solution? I'm not sure if it was just my repeated reboots that did it, or if it was that last radio USA option I selected, or if it just took 15 minutes or so for Verizon to update my account to enable the HD (or whatever it is called).
Again, I'm completely stock vanilla on Verizon. But my frustration sounded very much like yours so maybe this will help you situation. Good luck

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Before I would get the setting and it would be enabled but I coudn't do simultaneous voice/data. I flashed stock but now i get server error try again later each time. weird.
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No one else?

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No one else?
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try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6/general/verizon-nexus-6-verizon-users-volte-t3058117
This worked for a few people and it was confirmed having the same issue ur having.
People keep bring up these steps are useless but like i said i have people confirmed this works over the other method.
Hope it helps

I followed all of the steps in the tutorials with no success. I have MultiRom installed along with ElementalX as my kernel as it supports MultiRom. I installed Scott's 5.1 stock rooted rom as a secondary rom and made sure the settings were correct for VoLTE. HD Voice was working as well as voice/data over 4G. When I booted back into Euphoria, everything worked great. This is what worked for me, but your mileage may vary. It's crazy that people are having to do so many steps and workarounds to get the features active on the same hardware and essentially the same core software.

Asus ROG II (Tencent) NO 4G/LTE connection - Please Help!

Hi All,
First off all a thank you in advance for any assistance given.
I purchased my beloved phone from DX.com, it came down from Singapore so i knew a gamble was being taken. I received my phone a couple of weeks later, and i couldnt get 4G. Everything else worked fine.
What i've done so far:
I have checked every setting under the sun to see if could enable 4G, every setting ive come across seem to be ok.
I have contacted my network provider and everything is fine on their end, (the sim was working fine on my previous phone)
I have check my fingerprint and phone details to check if everything is compatible, and i also updated my WW version to the latest. - see details here
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TugainUk said:
Hi All,
First off all a thank you in advance for any assistance given.
I purchased my beloved phone from DX.com, it came down from Singapore so i knew a gamble was being taken. I received my phone a couple of weeks later, and i couldnt get 4G. Everything else worked fine.
What i've done so far:
I have checked every setting under the sun to see if could enable 4G, every setting ive come across seem to be ok.
I have contacted my network provider and everything is fine on their end, (the sim was working fine on my previous phone)
I have check my fingerprint and phone details to check if everything is compatible, and i also updated my WW version to the latest. - see details here
I cannot get 4g to work at all and im thining of sending the phone back and purchase from asus them selves and just brunt the cost in the chin. Any help would be apreciated.
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Going from your user name, you live in UK? Depends what network you're on, this phone has no band 20. Which is fine if you're on ee, but other networks use band 20 for 4g... Google which network bands your provider use

TugainUk said:
Hi All,
First off all a thank you in advance for any assistance given.
I purchased my beloved phone from DX.com, it came down from Singapore so i knew a gamble was being taken. I received my phone a couple of weeks later, and i couldnt get 4G. Everything else worked fine.
What i've done so far:
I have checked every setting under the sun to see if could enable 4G, every setting ive come across seem to be ok.
I have contacted my network provider and everything is fine on their end, (the sim was working fine on my previous phone)
I have check my fingerprint and phone details to check if everything is compatible, and i also updated my WW version to the latest. - see details here
I cannot get 4g to work at all and im thining of sending the phone back and purchase from asus them selves and just brunt the cost in the chin. Any help would be apreciated.
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My tuppenceworth, I'm on 3uk, and have no issues with 4g. I bought my rog2 direct from ASUS.
I have noticed some slight oddities between the sim slots though. Ie, my pin protected sim doesn't prompt me for the pin in tray 1. It just doesn't work. When I put it in tray 2, all works as it should. Have you tried swapping to tray 2? Failing that, you might just need a new sim?
EDIT. Just noticed you have tencent hardware, so all this advice may well be irrelevant.

I bought my from Asus, sure it had 4g to start with. Did an update and now it doesn't work.
I'm on vodafone in the UK

Update - 4g works at home. Weird as 4g was always ok on other phones at work. Must be a weaker pick up on this phone?

Odd at work, if I have phone set to 2g/3g/4g it sits on EDGE. If I put it on 2g/3g I get H+
You'd think the first would sit on H+
Annoying having to change the setting

i feel this phone 4g very week compare to my old pocophone....

Too many WiFi antennas and not enough 4g antenna? Guess it won't ever be a software fix?
Phones great, just super annoying at work I can't get 4g inside.
Go out the door and it's 4g no problem.
Everyone's iPhones, Samsung's etc.... All get 4g, just not me

Question Service provider section in android still displays old provider after switching provider

Hi everyone,
I came across a very perculiar problem for which I am hoping you all might have a solution other than try a factory reset (this is time very consuming) or rooting (I don't want to root).
I recently changed provider. I live in The Netherlands and moved from Vodafone to Simyo (a KPN company). I used the option to retain my mobile number but I got a brand new (nano) sim card from Simyo.
Now first of all, the service of my new provider is working fine, I can call, have 4G internet and the app recogizes my usage so no complaints there.
I have an unlocked phone, purchased straight from the Samsung website, my Vodafone subscription was prepaid, my current Simyo subscription is sim only.
So what I found is that when I go in to connection settings, there is an entry in the menu displaying service provider. This entry still lists my old provider and when I click on it, it recommends me to install the app of my old provider.
What I've tried so far: turning off phone, taking out sim card, waiting 10 minutes, turn on phone, then the service provider section is gone, then turn off phone, put back the Simyo sim card, wait 10 minutes, turn on phone. ---> After a short while the section service provider apears in the menu again and displays Vodafone. I also tried manually selecting my new provider from the scanned list but this did not change anything either.
Now the above makes me think that this service provider might be linked to the phone number itself, however I can't rule out it somehow stored this somewhere and just reads it from backup.
Anyway, I don't want to go do a factory reset. Setting all my authenticators, bank apps, government apps, etc is such a chore .
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Could it be that Simyo roams on Vodafone? If not (mine shows "Partner" when roaming) then try putting the phone in airplane mode for a while, see if that helps.
You won't be able to force a provider from the list, in my experience at least where I live that has never worked in the last 10 years. Leave it auto.
Everything else failing, call Simyo to check the subscriber provisioning.

Just a wild thought: Would clearing cache and storage from "Carrier Services" help?
It's a benign experiment so you could try it and see if it makes a difference... Put phone in Airplane mode first, then find Carrier Services under Settings>Apps and then Force Stop, then under Storage, clear Cache and then clear Data.
I don't have any solid scientific basis for recommending this, but since Google recommends the same to fix broken RCS due to carrier issues, I thought you just might have a little luck trying it out. Nothing to lose.

Ipse_Tase said:
Could it be that Simyo roams on Vodafone? If not (mine shows "Partner" when roaming) then try putting the phone in airplane mode for a while, see if that helps.
You won't be able to force a provider from the list, in my experience at least where I live that has never worked in the last 10 years. Leave it auto.
Everything else failing, call Simyo to check the subscriber provisioning.
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Just a wild thought: Would clearing cache and storage from "Carrier Services" help?
It's a benign experiment so you could try it and see if it makes a difference... Put phone in Airplane mode first, then find Carrier Services under Settings>Apps and then Force Stop, then under Storage, clear Cache and then clear Data.
I don't have any solid scientific basis for recommending this, but since Google recommends the same to fix broken RCS due to carrier issues, I thought you just might have a little luck trying it out. Nothing to lose.
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Hi Ipse and Enigmaamit,
Thank you for your suggestions.
First regarding the roaming, I am fairly certain this is not the case. The network it selects is the KPN one and is shows Simyo as provider. I also disabled roaming to try it out. KPN used to be the Dutch state network and inherited that infrastructure. If anything Vodafone probably uses some of the KPN network structure. I also live in one of the bigger cities in a low building area so I expect the coverage is not an issue.
As for the cache clearing, I forgot to mention that I went in to recovery mode and cleared my android cache. I also tried clearing the carrier services but that cache is already 0 and it also indicated its not my default program. I did clear all data but to no effect.
I fear what happened is that as soon as I inserted the vodafone prepaid sim it somehow aquired some piece of software from the network and installed this on my phone. I am wondering still if it is possible that this software is number bound and if android has some option to look up what provider uses that number and then suggests the software of that number.
The helpdesk of Simyo is also not able to provide an explanation.
Its OK for me, I don't mind it showing Vodafone in some obsucre part of the menu structure but I am curious if there is a solution and what is causing this

If you suspect a Vodafone app that triggers this, you can try to "guess" it in adb and uninstall it. That's however a very long shot in a very dark night
You might get lucky and it has Vodafone in the app name.