Re: I got the "Roaming Only" thing working
 

Verizon or Sprint?

It's been confirmed to NOT work for Verizon.

If you have Sprint it should work.


Wish there was a fix for VZW tho.... at work I have crap for VZ service.

--Chris

Re: I got the "Roaming Only" thing working
 

Maybe Verizon is dead where you are trying from, or perhaps no roaming agreement with Sprint in that area

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I've tried this on Verizon in many different areas and it always just starts searching for service and never finds another carrier to roam on.

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Thanks so much for posting the fix for this! Now does anyone know of a quick (one-touch?) way to get to these settings, rather than going to settings-->communications-->phone-->CDMA services-->roaming

???

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I haven't learned how to use it, but I think there is something called MortScript that might allow for making that happen

Re: I got the "Roaming Only" thing working
 

if anybody wanted the cab that lets u choose the mode of operation and force roam here you go.

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Sure you're getting 3G on Verizon? Last time I checked Sprint's roaming agreements with Verizon included only 1X data, not 3G.

Re: I got the "Roaming Only" thing working
 

I'm bumping this most useful tweak for those of you that have updated your ROMs but are still missing this feature.

I tested it with Mighty Mike's ROM and it works great.

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Did you use the cab or edit? It's 4am and not sure which one to pick from lol.

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I used a phm to edit the registry per the first posts directions.

It's much easier than it looks if you've never done it before.

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I just went w/ the cab file since I can uninstall it.

So what this tweak does is that it gives you more option in Settings/Phone/CDMA services?

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If you're in a poor signal area, your phone will switch over to a different network to allow you to make the call. This is great, but the problem is that as soon as it senses even a faint Sprint signal, your phone will jump back on to the weaker spring signal resulting in more dropped calls and poor call quality.

What forced roaming allows you to do is to stay on the stronger signal network. Your phone will disregard trying to get back on the Sprint while you're on the call. Very useful. Unfortunately it only works on Sprint as far as I know!

Re: I got the "Roaming Only" thing working
 

well i installed this cab but i cant figure out what it did...

Re: I got the "Roaming Only" thing working
 

I don't see the roam only option in my settings with the cab you provided.

Thanks

Re: I got the "Roaming Only" thing working
 

someone figure out how to get Data Roaming Allow in a custom rom that removed that option

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I'm told this only works on Stock rom.

Thanks again guys.

Re: I got the "Roaming Only" thing working
 

I can say for a fact this doesn't work on Verizon. I have tried in multiple areas and it can never find a roaming network. This is why I have a cheap prepaid SIM card to go onto the AT&T network if I ever need to Roam.

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Argh! ](*,) Installed this one, now I get error 67 and can't use my data. No uninstall option. On Sprint TP2

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If his cab just did what my registry edit did, just go in and remove the added lines by hand, exit, wait a minute, then soft-reset. Or try to install the cab again, it will ask to remove the previous installation, allow that, then when it asks where to install it, exit out/cancel

Re: I got the "Roaming Only" thing working
 

It added two additional entries something "phone" and that was after the 3 entries, I removed those and soft-reset. Working again. But, when I goto roam only, it never connects to anything. I know we have roaming here, must be something else. I verified that I have the three entries, as referenced in OP.

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Hey Bundo,

I thought that when you added the forced roam lines in the reg and left it in 'automatic' mode, the addition of the forced roam would prevent hopping back to the sprint network after it had switched to a stronger signal.

Does something else need to be done to make this work on modded ROMs? I thought automtic + reg edits = automatic forced roam. Am I wrong?

Re: I got the "Roaming Only" thing working
 

I can confirm that this does not work on Mighty ROM. I used the registry entry's as stated in post #1 on my stock Sprint ROM and they work perfect. But now that I am using Mighty ROM, nothing that I know of makes a 'Roaming Only' option appear. The cab that was provided a few posts back does not work either.

Anyone have any luck being able to Force Roaming on a modded ROM?

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It is really useful if you want to get out of your contract. If you use more than 50% of your minutes on roaming network, sprint will kick you out :D

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do u have to pay more or something if that happens?

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No, from what i read on the sprint contract. You arent breaking the contract by using roaming. Let sprint break it on their side.

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Correct, Sprint will not charge you a ETF if they cancel your contract because of roaming abuse. They just send you a letter stating why they are canceling your service.

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I was thinking, maybe it's not a modded ROM that is preventing a 'Roaming Only' option using the registry edits in the OP's first post. Maybe its Windows Mobile 6.5.

The registry edits worked perfect on my stock ROM, but when I tried them on my MightyROM they don't work. Could it be because MightyROM uses Windows Mobile 6.5, and in 6.5 the registry entry to force roaming is different. Just wondering.

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While true, why would you want to go to a higher priced carrier? Unless of course you have a bad signal on Sprint, then it would be understandable.

Re: I got the "Roaming Only" thing working
 

It's cancel and then restart again to get new phone :P

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bump:

I am a mightyrom user and I would LOVE to get this going. I did the fix via registry, installed the cab, and then did the forceroam cab given by jsphczz

Re: I got the "Roaming Only" thing working
 

you might have installed too many things and messed up your registry.. uninstall all other reg tweaks and run this cab again. works for me on mightyrom.

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You are the man. Roaming works perfect for me on Mighty with that cab. Now if I can get a good Mode of Operation I'll be set. Reppppppped.

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:lol:

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guys when u say with tis cab and this can WHICH ONE R U REFERRING TO.

I have MM Rom too on sprint so im excited; plz let me know

thanks in advance

Re: I got the "Roaming Only" thing working
 

How do you undo this on a stock Verizon rom?

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good thinking!

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I installed the ForceRoamPlusPhoneSettings.cab and got 5 options
Home Only
Automatic A
Automatic B
Standard
Roaming ONly

What are the automatic A and B?

Re: I got the "Roaming Only" thing working
 

Hi, for those of you having the issue where you install the force roaming cab and it just searches for a signal (I'm on a Sprint TP2), I fixed it with one more registry edit:

HKLM/Software/OEM/PhoneSettings --> AllowRoaming change from 0 to 1

for some reason, my phone was set to not allow roaming, when I changed this, I can now force roam.

Re: I got the "Roaming Only" thing working
 

I have a Sprint HTC Touch Pro 2 phone and applied the registry values for forced roaming. But, alas, they don't work. The phone still locks onto the Sprint network even though the signal from that network drops out. I'm guessing that Sprint has done something to prevent roaming to occur.