Force Roaming on Sprint TP2 W/andriod

wizardknight · #1 (**permalink**) 09-22-2011, 04:20 PM

I just picked up a used Touch Pro 2 the other day, and so far I am liking the Android experience. I have one issue that I need to solve regarding roaming. I live in an apartment where I only get a half bar of signal from sprint if I am lucky or 2-3 bars roaming. It is just enough Sprint signal to bounce me back and forth between roaming and not. This kills the battery, and I miss calls because of it.

In WM I can force roaming roaming with an app or reg edit. I can't find anything that will let me force roaming.

I did try roam control 1.6, and while it didn't give me any errors it didn't seem to work either.

I am running FRX07.1 off my sd card.

Thanks for any ideas.

**arrrghhh** · #2 (**permalink**) 09-22-2011, 04:43 PM

Dunno if this'll work but..

Roam Control | AppBrain Android Market

**gullzway** · #3 (**permalink**) 09-22-2011, 05:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by arrrghhh

Dunno if this'll work but..

Roam Control | AppBrain Android Market

Op said he/she tried roam control and it didn't seem to work?
When you selected roam it should go into roam and give the triangle symbol by the signal meter, did that not happen?

Sent from an Epic 3G using ppcgeeks.

**arrrghhh** · #4 (**permalink**) 09-22-2011, 05:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gullzway

Op said he/she tried roam control and it didn't seem to work?
When you selected roam it should go into roam and give the triangle symbol by the signal meter, did that not happen?

Crap... I feel dumb. I read that quickly as if the OP tried a 1.6 build of Android... I should focus on one task at a time, my fault!

From all my googlings on this topic, that seems to be the only solution. There seems to be no 'built-in' way to control roaming in Android.

wizardknight · #5 (**permalink**) 09-22-2011, 05:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gullzway

Op said he/she tried roam control and it didn't seem to work?
When you selected roam it should go into roam and give the triangle symbol by the signal meter, did that not happen?

Sent from an Epic 3G using ppcgeeks.

I did get a triangle, but it also still showed that I was in 3G.
My signal strength still showed 0 bars, and under Settings>about>status> Roaming shows Not roaming.

I should get at least 1-2bars roaming or a change in signal strength.

When the phone switches to roaming on it's own I see -95dBm, and Settings>about>status> Roaming shows Roaming.

Otherwise I am seeing -125ish. 95 gets the job done, but 125 will miss calls and is useless for talking.

As a random related FYI. I did notice is that if I force roaming on the WM side, and then boot into android it seems to stick. The down side is that I don't seem to get TXT messages in that configuration. Also if I go settings>wireless> mobile network settings>cdma options>system select> and then select any option it forces it out of the roaming mode.

*update* upon further testing it looks like I am geting txts when using this config. Still you have to reboot the phone anytime you want to change the roaming mode if you use this method. Better than nothing, but painful.

If I am missing something please point it out. If Roam control requires mulit-reboots, and a special dance to work I am glad to break out my voodoo skirt.

wizardknight · #6 (**permalink**) 09-22-2011, 05:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by arrrghhh

Crap... I feel dumb. I read that quickly as if the OP tried a 1.6 build of Android... I should focus on one task at a time, my fault!

From all my googlings on this topic, that seems to be the only solution. There seems to be no 'built-in' way to control roaming in Android.

Google is my friend, that is why when I couldn't find the answer there I gave these forums a try

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