SIMPLE PROGRAM NEEDED! Toggle roaming only settings...

[dishe]

Those of us with Sprint who occasionally visit fringe reception areas should already be very aware of the "roam only" option on our phones.
In my office, which has no native sprint coverage, I need to put my phone into roam only, otherwise my battery will die 2x as quickly and I'll miss plenty of calls. Then, when I leave, I can safely resume my automatic network selection.

The problem is that this process is very tedious, requiring many clicks:
Start, settings, phone, services, roaming, get settings, roaming only, OK.
And some of these windows take a few seconds to populate, making this process take a few moments of just sitting at my desk when I come in every day. Then, the same thing when I leave.

So, what I'm proposing here is a very simple application that could toggle those settings automatically. This app could sit on the start menu, or be mapped to a hardware button for those of us that need to do this an awful lot.

What do you guys think? I know I'm not alone in wanting to do this, but I need the help of someone more familiar with the internal workings of the OS (I don't know what happens internally when the roaming settings are changed). Basically, I wouldn't even know where to start.

Anyone think they can help me out?

[blueandwhiteg3]

I agree, I would love something like this. On a regular phone, it's a lot fewer clicks than with WM...

No ideas if such a thing exists, however.

[Bad Sector]

I can try to make something, unless someone gets to it before me. I think a little mort script program should be able to make this happen fairly easy.

I think there is a setting in the reg. that you can change to set your service area. I'll take a look at it and get back to you.

[blueandwhiteg3]

How about integrating it into the comm manager? Default to automatic, tap to toggle between automatic / roam only / sprint only? Color coding would be helpful to make this easier to recognize at a glance.

[stearic]

I only wish i knew how to write programs for the ppc platform. If anyone can point me in a direction to start with, i'll take a stab at trying to get something setup for this. I would love to have something like this as there are times where i also am in area where a sprint signal is extremely weak and it's just better to jump to roaming only and get on an alltel tower, both to conserve battery and then i also get evdo then.

[tj78492]

anyone willing to take a stab at this?

[Matt]

I think there has to be an easy to way to make a program to switch between two registry entries...im no genius with that but I will look into it.

[dotori]

I can't help but I would be one more voice of appreciation.

[antoniouslj]

I've been needing something like this for a while.... I add my support also!

[moovius]

Yeah... I wish we had a macro maker or something for wm6.

I don't know squat about programming ... scripting a little.

If someone could give us a hand with this, it would be really appreciated.