I read in the wiki for WM5_Tweaks_Other that it is possible to tweak the registry to enable "E" icon when in EDGE networks. It goes something like this:
If your network provider supports the Edge network (and your device does as well), you can use the following to show a little 'E' icon instead of 'G' icon when connected to an Edge network:
HKLM\Drivers\BuiltIn\RIL\EnableDifferGprsEdgeIcon = 1 (DWORD decimal)
I tried this on the Treo 750. EnableDifferGprsEdgeIcon did not exist under RIL, so I added it and set the value and it did not work.
Wondering if anyone figured out how to enable the "E" icon?
Doesn't work on my HTC TyTN too. Registry entry wasn't there so probably we are missing something else too, not just that single reg key.
Hmmm
Hi,
I thing that it is relatred with the phone subsystem and each one is different. Palm has one version TyTN has another version.
It is just a guess.
Regards,
Taguapire.
I have I-Mate SP5 Smartphone and HTC TyTN PPC Phone - both are Windows Mobile 5 and registry looks very alike, both have this entry: "dll=ril.dll" or something like that in the same place where is the mentioned "Edge" registry entry, but one device has a lot more reg entries there then the other, so it's probably down to radio version/implementation.
Today I was switching band in UMTS/EDGE area. Each time I was switching band phone was logging out the network then logging in again. When I was going from UMTS to GSM I noticed [E] icon appearing for about 0,2 second (it was when I was logged to UMTS network) and then turning to [G]. I'm sure I was in EDGE area (I was in the ceter of Krakow, one of the biggest cities in Poland).
Conclusion is that Treo DOES HAVE Edge icon, but we need to find the way to use it... Any ideas?
I also looked in registry like schriss said. There is entry about dll file. I have set rilgsm.dll. But in the \Windows directory there's also ril.dll. Maybe something is with those files?
Does the Treo allow you to lock it in EDGE/GSM mode?
juiceppc said:
Does the Treo allow you to lock it in EDGE/GSM mode?
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You say not UMTS or automatic?
If is it, you may found this in phone settings, 2nd tab, band selection.
bleony said:
You say not UMTS or automatic?
If is it, you may found this in phone settings, 2nd tab, band selection.
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Thanks. Just got my Treo today! Keeping it at Edge. Seems faster than all my other Edge phones.
I just upgraded to WM6. The icon now shows H when I'm in HSDPA. I've also seen it switch to 3G from time to time. (I'm assuming that's either Edge or UMTS) I'll have to see if it goes to E when I travel far enough away from the city where HDSPA isnt available yet
s4czech said:
I just upgraded to WM6. The icon now shows H when I'm in HSDPA. I've also seen it switch to 3G from time to time. (I'm assuming that's either Edge or UMTS) I'll have to see if it goes to E when I travel far enough away from the city where HDSPA isnt available yet
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I know that E icon is in WM6, but I'd like to activate it somehow in WM5 (I'm not upgrading now...)
Is there a way to disable 3G? I don't use it and I know it used a lot of battery.
yes use advancedconfig
go to more settings to to comm manager and add the toggle to that
Alternatively, if you have the band tab enable in start>settings>phone>band, you can just choose "GSM" instead of "Auto" on the first drop-down list.
kareem9nba said:
Alternatively, if you have the band tab enable in start>settings>phone>band, you can just choose "GSM" instead of "Auto" on the first drop-down list.
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This is what I did last week and yet, my battery is much better... Thanks... will see how it goes with NAFT's v2.3 now
kareem9nba said:
Alternatively, if you have the band tab enable in start>settings>phone>band, you can just choose "GSM" instead of "Auto" on the first drop-down list.
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This works fine on my Fuze, but I would like to have the toggle in Comm Manager.
HOWEVER, when I use AdvancedConfig, the toggle shows up, but it (along with Data connection) is greyed out. Could anyone help? Thanks.
People should also note that setting it to 3G only ALSO saves a lot of battery. Not as much as 2G only, but it is definitely better than 2G+3G because only 1 radio is running instead of 2.
If your area is well covered with 3G and you use data a decent amount, I would recommend trying 3G only.
Disable all T-Mobile Dataplan radio activity?
I use my GSM phone with wifi only - I have no data plan.
Still, my phone looks for 2g and 3g connections when network activity happens and there is no Wifi connection.
Can I disable this behavior? Is there a way to disable both 2G and 3G, all cellular data activity - but still allow cellular phone activity so I can get calls in and out?
I have a 1.5 Cupcake-rooted-rom from haykuro (good stuff, BTW) ...
thanks,
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I use my GSM phone with wifi only - I have no data plan.
Still, my phone looks for 2g and 3g connections when network activity happens and there is no Wifi connection.
Can I disable this behavior? Is there a way to disable both 2G and 3G, all cellular data activity - but still allow cellular phone activity so I can get calls in and out?
I have a 1.5 Cupcake-rooted-rom from haykuro (good stuff, BTW) ...
thanks,
[email protected]
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yep, just use diamond tweak to disable the data connection altogether . just disable media net and at&t isp gprs or whatever options are there (if you're not att)
WM 6.5 disable 3G
Sorry for opening old theme but i cant find solution nowhere.
How can I disable 3G in WM 6.5 ?
There is no "band" and in Advanced Configuration Tools is nothing to disable it. I want use only GSM.
Thanks
skurakai said:
Sorry for opening old theme but i cant find solution nowhere.
How can I disable 3G in WM 6.5 ?
There is no "band" and in Advanced Configuration Tools is nothing to disable it. I want use only GSM.
Thanks
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Most chefs cook the option into the Com Manager. Check in there.
Thanks for the help
Disabled 3G by pressing the green phone button>Menu>Alternative...>Band (scroll down) and then select GSM rather than automatic!
Thanks for the help!
Just delete the connection settings from Start>Settings>Connections>Connections>Manage Existing Connections
No way for it to connect without settings
I've been trying to find a way to disable 3G on my new HP iPAQ 910c I got through Rogers Wireless a few weeks ago. I find the battery drains pretty quickly on the phone, and from what I've read forcing it down to GSM when I don't need the 3G speed will help that alot.
My problem is that when I go to the Phone Settings, there's no "Band" tab in which to designate that I want to limit to GSM. From everything I've read the tab *should* be there, but it's not. What tabs are there are the following:
Phone
Security
Services
Network
TTY
PIN2
AOC
More
Doing some searching, I came across this post from last year that addressed a similar issue with an HTC Diamond on the Rogers network.
raidendb wrote:
Just want to share this. But I'm pretty sure this has been tackled in the forums already.
Rogers branded HTC Diamond doesn't have the option to turn of 3G through band selection. I found this registry hack to enable band selection and now I can turn 3G off.
Rogers default registry - OFF
[\HKLM\Software\OEM\PhoneSetting\]
"ShowUMTSBandPage"=dword:0
Registry tweak to enable band changes
[\HKLM\Software\OEM\PhoneSetting\]
"ShowUMTSBandPage"=dword:1
Now you can go to >start>settings>phone>band tab and change band settings to your choice. I switched mine to just use GSM instead of auto which always connects on 3G.
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The issue with that suggested fix is that I don't have a "PhoneSetting" key under \HKLM\Software\OEM (or anywhere for that matter) on my iPAQ. I tried adding it, and then adding the "ShowUMTSBandPage" dword, but that didn't seem to have any effect (even after a soft-reset).
If anyone has any ideas on how I can enable the Band phone settings tab, or otherwise turn off 3G on occasion on my phone, it'd be greatly appreciated.
This one time, at band tab...
try DHR Bandswitch
Thanks. I installed it and it seems to kindof work. I've posted my questions about it in the Bandswitch thread.
Congrats.
hi guys i recently upgraded from the at&t tilt to the fuze. on the tilt i had the hsdpa network unlocked via the app "kaiser tweaks", i tried it on my fuze with no luck. without using a cooked rom is there any app i can get to unlock hsdpa?
hsdpa isnt locked out, its just hidden under the umts (3g) icon. theres a registry tweak to disable this to get the h icon back. theres 1 registy entry that disables hsdpa (already enabled) and 1 registry entry that disables the icon. im not sure what they are, ill look around for it. hsupa is disabled by default how ever on some roms. setting HKLM\Software\HTC\AdvancedNetwork\SupportHSUPA to 1 should enable it. dunno which roms have it enabled and which dont.
Does anyone know why the registry hack for enabling the Mode of Operations in Sprint's 1st generation Touch Pro (wm6.1 stock ROM) does not work for Sprint's Touch Pro2 (wm6.5 stock ROM)?
For Sprint's 1st generation Touch Pro, Mode of Operations menu can be enabled by going to registry\HKLM\SOFTWARE\OEM\PhoneSetting and changing the value of 'HiddenModeOperationPage' from 1 to 0. Then, in Comm Manager, you could click Menu, Phone Settings, Services Tab, and scroll down for "Mode of Operations". And you will see "Hybrid", "EVDO only", and "1X Only" as options that you can select. Others even made a mortscript-based toggle switch to toggle quickly between Hybrid and 1X Only modes.
I find the same registry key in Touch pro2 (wm6.5 stock ROM), but changing the value of 'HiddenModeOperationPage' from 1 to 0 still does not bring the mode of operations menu in the Phone settings/CDMA services tab. I checked the registery key to make sure the value was still 0, and it was. But I still cannot get mode of operations menu.
This is needed to save substantial amount of battery if you live or work in an area where EVDO signal is weak and your phone is constantly jumping between weak EVDO and better-signal 1X.
Also use of Sprint's Airave, which only provides 1X, can be enhanced by forcing 1X only mode because you don't want your phone to try to switch to a far away EVDO tower momentarily because of the weak EVDO signal in your place. That would result in dropped calls all the time because sometimes calls come through when you are momentarily connected to the far-away tower.
There are mortscript-based toggle switches that people have made for custom ROMs with wm6.5 (see post#2 here), but I need to get the mode of operations menu to show up in Touch Pro2 first.
I really need this, so if anyone knows how to get it working for Sprint's Touch Pro2, please let me know.
Yeah, i wanna know how to force 1x over EVDO. The battery when in EVDO mode is very quickly drained. I see my touch pro 2 have this "force" function in GSM mode, but not CDMA. TIA
bmw2320 said:
Yeah, i wanna know how to force 1x over EVDO. The battery when in EVDO mode is very quickly drained. I see my touch pro 2 have this "force" function in GSM mode, but not CDMA. TIA
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yo want 1x over evdo put a non-evdo prl.
But the phone like to switch back & forth 1x and EVDO. In my country, Indonesia, the EVDO signal is not as good as 1x so I just wanna stick to 1x (for battery reason) unless i wanna use unlimited internet with EVDO. It could be done with GSM (GPRS/EDGE vs 3G/HSDPA) so why couldn't with CDMA? TIA
explisiv said:
yo want 1x over evdo put a non-evdo prl.
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i have evdo working.......hmmm.....do you all have the 10.key in the dmu folder on there?
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yo want 1x over evdo put a non-evdo prl.
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I need an easy, convenient way to turn off EVDO just like you can turn off 3G in iPhone 3Gs phones with just a button in its settings menu. Read my original post, a convenient menu, for turning off EVDO in Sprint's Touch Pro exists and can be easily turned on by a simple edit of the registry. The menu is called Mode of Operations in Touch Pro.
But that menu has been replaced in new Sprint's Touch Pro2 (wm6.5 stock ROM) by a different Mode of Operations menu that lets you choose between CDMA or GSM networks for when you want to use the phone outside U.S. So I want to know how to get a menu in Sprint's Touch Pro2 to TURN OFF EVDO MANUALLY AND CONVENIENTLY just like it was possible to do in Touch Pro 1 and is possible to do on iPhone 3Gs. The purpose is to save battery for operating your phone in areas with low EVDO signal.
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i have evdo working.......hmmm.....do you all have the 10.key in the dmu folder on there?
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You are missing the point. I have EVDO working fine too, but I want a way to TURN IT OFF. The purpose of wanting to turn off EVDO manually is to save battery for operating your phone in areas with low EVDO signal. It also prevents your phone from switching to an EVDO tower when you are using Airave, so you don't get dropped calls.
shahriar5252 said:
Does anyone know why the registry hack for enabling the Mode of Operations in Sprint's 1st generation Touch Pro (wm6.1 stock ROM) does not work for Sprint's Touch Pro2 (wm6.5 stock ROM)?
For Sprint's 1st generation Touch Pro, Mode of Operations menu can be enabled by going to registry\HKLM\SOFTWARE\OEM\PhoneSetting and changing the value of 'HiddenModeOperationPage' from 1 to 0. Then, in Comm Manager, you could click Menu, Phone Settings, Services Tab, and scroll down for "Mode of Operations". And you will see "Hybrid", "EVDO only", and "1X Only" as options that you can select. Others even made a mortscript-based toggle switch to toggle quickly between Hybrid and 1X Only modes.
I find the same registry key in Touch pro2 (wm6.5 stock ROM), but changing the value of 'HiddenModeOperationPage' from 1 to 0 still does not bring the mode of operations menu in the Phone settings/CDMA services tab. I checked the registery key to make sure the value was still 0, and it was. But I still cannot get mode of operations menu.
This is needed to save substantial amount of battery if you live or work in an area where EVDO signal is weak and your phone is constantly jumping between weak EVDO and better-signal 1X.
Also use of Sprint's Airave, which only provides 1X, can be enhanced by forcing 1X only mode because you don't want your phone to try to switch to a far away EVDO tower momentarily because of the weak EVDO signal in your place. That would result in dropped calls all the time because sometimes calls come through when you are momentarily connected to the far-away tower.
There are mortscript-based toggle switches that people have made for custom ROMs with wm6.5 (see post#2 here), but I need to get the mode of operations menu to show up in Touch Pro2 first.
I really need this, so if anyone knows how to get it working for Sprint's Touch Pro2, please let me know.
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Same problem here but on a Verizon HTC Touch Pro2. Using the stock Verizon WM6.5.
In my case EVDO has excellent coverage but my university has old buildings (all brick, concrete, and steel) so as soon as I walk in the signal drops from 4-5 bars to 0-1 bars. This can kill 10% of my battery during a 1 hour class!
options
okay the idea i proposed doesnt need anything but a non evdo prl but since you wanna switch back and forth of a prl which uses epst and you have to reset the phone everytime you switch a prl file it is not the way to go for on the fly functions. but if you wanna try and keep the two different prls in a folder on the sd card goto corolada.com/prl and download a evdo prl and a non-evdo prl and give it a shot it wont damage any settings.
I remember on my touch pro we used to force evdo by hitting ##evdo# or something like that, and it would disable or renable.
explisiv said:
okay the idea i proposed doesnt need anything but a non evdo prl but since you wanna switch back and forth of a prl which uses epst and you have to reset the phone everytime you switch a prl file it is not the way to go for on the fly functions. but if you wanna try and keep the two different prls in a folder on the sd card goto corolada.com/prl and download a evdo prl and a non-evdo prl and give it a shot it wont damage any settings.
I remember on my touch pro we used to force evdo by hitting ##evdo# or something like that, and it would disable or renable.
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So u r saying if I wanna stick to 1x, I just EPST my phone and load 1x prl (without changing other settings)? And vice versa with EVDO prl (without changing other settings)?
I have tested a beta program called WMLongLife made by chainfire on my CDMA Touch Pro2 (wm6.5 stock ROM for Sprint). It does have the capability of switching between EVDO and 1X for programs that you want to use EVDO. This app also has a menu for switch between EVDO and 1X manually and it does work, but not toggle switch that you can assign to a physical key.
However, the maker of the program has intends to make it a commercial product so after sometime this summer the program will disable itself. The program does take some RAM, and does have bugs on some devices although I found none so far on my device.
The point is that it is possible to use the registry or some dll file to switch between EVDO and 1X in Touch Pro2. Can anyone look at WMLongLife and find out how it is managing to switch between EVDO and 1X?
My work around for forcing EVDO will work for forcing any mode. It may not be a one button toggle but at least its not rebooting.
With value 4 being automatic and 10 being HDR only all options and numbers in between are easily applied. just plug in the value you need.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=6661529#post6661529
Try this. Have done it on my phone and it works. I got it from XDA or PPCGeeks. Who knows anymore.
tested it, and works great. Use a registry editor, and go to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\OEM\InitProv\PhoneSett ing
Change the ItemCount to 3
Add a String Value called "ItemName3" with the string being "Roaming Only"
Add a DWORD called "ItemValue3" with the DWORD Data being "5" (in Decimal)
Do not enter the quotation marks in the directions above. After exiting the program, wait a minute or 2 and then shut the phone off, wait a few seconds for good measure, and turn it on again. Or soft-reset by taking the back cover off (big hassle), or use the soft-reset program floating around.
You can get a free registry editor here:
sysmai said:
My work around for forcing EVDO will work for forcing any mode. It may not be a one button toggle but at least its not rebooting.
With value 4 being automatic and 10 being HDR only all options and numbers in between are easily applied. just plug in the value you need.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=6661529#post6661529
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This is a great work around, but I am waiting for a kind savvy programmer to make an app that can toggle these registry values on my CDMA TP2. Thanks.
rush.perry said:
Try this. Have done it on my phone and it works. I got it from XDA or PPCGeeks. Who knows anymore.
tested it, and works great. Use a registry editor, and go to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\OEM\InitProv\PhoneSett ing
Change the ItemCount to 3
Add a String Value called "ItemName3" with the string being "Roaming Only"
Add a DWORD called "ItemValue3" with the DWORD Data being "5" (in Decimal)
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This will enable the roam-only mode option in the phone settings menu. There are CAB that can do this for you or even apps that can give you easy menu to do it. Although roam only mode is over 1x only, it does not give you 1x only mode over your own carrier's network. And if you roam too much, your carrier can drop you. I need an easy way to toggle between 1X only and Hybrid modes.
shahriar5252 said:
I have tested a beta program called WMLongLife made by chainfire on my CDMA Touch Pro2 (wm6.5 stock ROM for Sprint). It does have the capability of switching between EVDO and 1X for programs that you want to use EVDO. This app also has a menu for switch between EVDO and 1X manually and it does work, but not toggle switch that you can assign to a physical key.
However, the maker of the program has intends to make it a commercial product so after sometime this summer the program will disable itself. The program does take some RAM, and does have bugs on some devices although I found none so far on my device.
The point is that it is possible to use the registry or some dll file to switch between EVDO and 1X in Touch Pro2. Can anyone look at WMLongLife and find out how it is managing to switch between EVDO and 1X?
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shahriar5252 said:
This is a great work around, but I am waiting for a kind savvy programmer to make an app that can toggle these registry values on my CDMA TP2. Thanks
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I posted a couple simple scripts more like batch files that toggle great once u get it in place
Good news everyone!
sysmai has created mortscript-based toggle switches that can do for TP2 what the mode of operations menu does in the original TP. Install his two CAB files to enable mortscript capability in your phone and to create a toggle switch for toggling on/off the airline mode.
Put all the toggle switches in your Start menu folder for conveniece, and if you want to give them distinct icons, use JWMDIconChanger_V2.7c program to do it. This program only works for wm6.5, and I am providing you with some .png icons I found online to use with this program. For some reason, my TP2 is not able to open these .png files but the JWMDIconChanger_v2.7c can open them and successfully make them icons in your start menu.
Instructions to change the mode of operation using sysmai's mortscripts:
1) First use the airline mode toggle switch to turn on airline mode.
2) Next, use the toggle switches to switch to your desired mode of operation (EVDO only, EVDO hybrid, and 1X only).
3) And finally, use the airline toggle switch to turn off the airline mode.
Note 1:
The Airline toggle that sysmai has created is not the same as your phone's own airline mode feature. sysmai's airline toggle just turns your phone on and off. It does not turn off other things like bluetooth, so if you go for airline trips, please use your own phone's airline mode feature.
Note 2:
sysmai has named the EVDO hybrid mode as "Automatic" and the 1X only mode as "CDMA only" because these are the terms used in the EPST menu for which you need your MSL code to access. For those that don't know what EPST menu is, ignore it. Just use sysmai's mortscripts on your CDMA TP2's and you should be fine.
Note 3:
As usual, use at your own risk. I used my icons, sysmai's apps, and JWMDIconChanger app on my Sprint TP2 running on the latest stock ROM (wm6.5 with HTC Sense 2.5.2012) without any problems, and all his programs were fully removable on my TP2.
What's the automatic do ?
is that the same as phone set originally ?
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is that the same as phone set originally ?
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No, the Automatic option in phone setting/CDMA Sevices tab/Roaming is to make the phone automatically switch between 1X/EVDO of a home network and 1X of a roaming partner. The automatic toggle switch in sysmai's zip automatically switches between the home network's 1X and EVDO signals, but it is has nothing to do with any roaming signal.
shahriar5252 said:
No, the Automatic option in phone setting/CDMA Sevices tab/Roaming is to make the phone automatically switch between 1X/EVDO of a home network and 1X of a roaming partner. The automatic toggle switch in sysmai's zip automatically switches between the home network's 1X and EVDO signals, but it is has nothing to do with any roaming signal.
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I see, thanks a lot!
BTW, if I want to go back to phone's orignal setting, what should I do ?
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BTW, if I want to go back to phone's orignal setting, what should I do ?
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Just select Automatic (Hybrid mode) as described above.