Roam Only

[speck]

Originally Posted by tygger

For the past couple days, my signal at work has been weak. Could this be the explanation why my battery drained from 90% to 20% in a matter of 1-2 hours?

Wow - this may explain why my battery life is SO inconsistent. Sometimes it lasts 1.5 days, but sometimes it'll drain down in 3 or 4 hours - with no real difference in my usage patterns. However, the signal in my office building fluctuates wildly depending on the room I am in.

Originally Posted by gorillaguzzler

Also if you are in a low signal area switch to 1x mode and it will save tons of battery. I find when my phone is changing From 1x to EV it drains the battery worse than anything.

How do I do this? (switch to 1x mode and back)

[yotoad]

ran the cab and it works just fine, but when it roams it only shows up 1x, granted full bars, but i KNOW that Verizon has EVDO full coverage where i am -- any way i can choose?

[bairice]

Nope, verizon doesn't offer EVDO to roaming users.

[texasez]

Originally Posted by 1999TL

I'm in Lubbock. I think I'm actually in Heaven now. I can't believe alltell has EVDO coverage. I just hope I dont rack up too much roaming where my account gets flagged!

Thanks OP! Worked fine for me. I had to soft reset for the option to show.

I am in Lubbock also and have been using the Roam only for a Mogul and now the TP for over a year. Remember that when you go to roam only, you also go to voice roaming on the Alltel network also. You will have to dial full number for all calls in lubbock even if they are local. I do not use roam only except when I need the extra speed. I have found that the TP and the current PRL work very poorly in areas between lubbock and ruidoso and in the areas north when not on the interstate. I was north of Amarillo last week and could not get a data connection most of the time.
One caveat, on the mogul roam only worked great with one PRL but when it was updated you could no longer roam on the alltel network. I had to manually go back to the old PRL in order to roam on Alltel.
It is a shame Lubbock is located in the technological wilderness.
Larry

[yotoad]

Originally Posted by mikebai1990

Nope, verizon doesn't offer EVDO to roaming users.

ok then, back to sprint!

[WarChild]

Maybe some of yall can check this thread and help us out???!!!

http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=54280

[imkk]

Mine shows: Home Only, Automatic A, Automatic B, Standard, and Roaming only. What are the two automatic settings and standard for?

[HBOOT]

u must be on Vzon, automatic lets the TP GO into roaming automatically if you carrier signal is out. dunno bout a and b,just in general

[WarChild]

Mine shows
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but the "Roam Only" option doesn't work. My phone will Roam just not when forced. shes a very picky b1tch

[logojesus]

Originally Posted by CountryDevil

You can make a simple an quick registry change to get the Roam Only option.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\OEM\InitProv\PhoneSett ing

1) Change ItemCount to 3

2) Change ItemName3 = Roam Only. (Default = Automatic-B )

Soft reset. Go back to the settings you should now see roaming option.

You will nedd a registry editor to do this though. PHM Registry Editor works great and it is free. You can get it here..

http://www.phm.lu/Products/PocketPC/RegEdit/


And that's all yout got to do.... Enjoy!!!!

Ok...so I'm having difficulty loading the DL'd file. Does it need to run on my laptop first or do I need to get it on the phone and then run it? The first file I DL'd gives me an error message when I run it stating something about the Windows Installer being wrong. Pelase help. I have Vista Biz 64 running on this laptop.