SIMPLE PROGRAM NEEDED! Toggle roaming only settings...
 

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

anyone willing to take a stab at this?

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.

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

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

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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.

:protest::drunken::evil4::mrgreen:

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And I nominate...

NO2CHEM

He could most definitely write a nice app like this.

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No2Chem is a great choice for this. I know it'd be a lot for the program to be able to set if you want to roam on Alltel, US Cellular, Verizon, or Other, but that would be a cool feature too.

Anyone got the most recent PRL lists available?

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Here is a mortscript i made that appears to work.

In order for the settings to take place it will automatically turn on the flightmode and then turn off the flightmode. then it should be in your roaming selections.

default = original registry settings.

lemme know.

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i tried it a few more times and it had some problems.. i'll try again tomorrow. sorry

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yea, i thought about cab'ing some regs, but I'm sure something needs to control the driver, or soft reset.

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ok.. i tried again. I think it is working.. but i really never roam. when i select roam with the application it won't let me call out (when i'm not roaming) so it may or may not work.. a few try it and let me know.

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I ran your script and now my phone is stuck roaming (on 1X) and I can't get it to go back to Sprint and EVDO... sucks. When I go into the roaming menu all 3 choices are selected and it acts really weird. I tried changing from sprint only, roaming, and auto... same deal... I gotta fix it now.

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choose default in the script and then reboot phone.. let me know

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In the meantime.. here is a short cut to phone settings which you can place anywhere on your phone. it will pop up the window for phone settings on the services tab. you can then select roaming get settings and go from there. (Saves 4 clicks)

if ne1 is interested i can finish this up with a mortscript which will auto do the rest as well.


DISCLAIMER:
USE AT YOUR OWN RISK : )

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ok... Choosing default seemed to fix everything. I will give your shortcut a whirl and see how that works out.

Thanks for taking the time to work on this Andason.

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Downloaded the shortcut but it says the zip is corrupted. Tried it a few times.

I'll check back later.

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I've been having that problem for about all my .zip files i download. Are you, by any chance, using Bit Defender antivirus?

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hmm.. dunno.. i made a new zip.. same post.

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The shortcut to roaming menu ROCKS...

Simple and QUICK. I just went to the appbuttons menu under windows and renamed the roaming shortcut to "messaging" (then copy it over the old messaging shortcut) and now I can hit my message button and bam I'm at the roaming menu.

I swear with all the lag between button presses to get to the roaming menu before this... I could do my taxes


Thanks Andason, Good Job.

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if someone can give me the registry entry that needs to be changed i'll try and write a quick program that u can link to a button...

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that would be fantastic.. i too do this switch on a daily basis and i too have asked before for some sort of program to make this switch easier.

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You must have mortscript installed on your ppc in order for the script to work.

There will be two files in this zip.

1. Roaming Shortcut.lnk

2. Roaming Selection.mscr


Place the roaming shortcut.lnk in your \windows directory of pocket pc.

Place the roaming selection.mscr anywhere on your phone. You can tie it to a button if you place it under \Windows\start menu\programs


Run the roaming selection.mscr. It will ask you which of the 4 you would prefer Roaming, Sprint Only, Automatic or Toggle

It will default to Toggle if the time runs out.

Once you make your choice it will open the phone settings by use of the roaming shortcut.lnk.

It will then choose roaming and then it will pick the correct roaming selection and then exit out of both of the phone settings windows.

Before Toggle can be used you must first either select Roaming or Automatic.. from that point on the Toggle selection will go from either
Roaming or Automatic by itself .




Thanks

andason

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No Takers? Don't be skeerd!

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i'm going to download and check it out!

can you s'plain the toggle feature though?

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toggle will go between automatic and roaming only (1 button click). to get back to sprint only u just select it in the choices given.

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for me, it doesn't open the services window, just the phone tab. and then tries to execute the clicks on the phone tab...which obviously wont work. :(

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that is interesting... what phone are you using?
It sounds like we need to modify the shortcut for your phone.

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I have an Alltel PPC-6800, under my phone settings I do not have a home or roaming selection. I guess Alltel left that out. Will this script work for me to be able to select? Is there any modification that needs to be done to the script to make the sprint default and alltel default?

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check in your registry and let me know what you find at

hklm\software\oem\InitProv\Phonesetting
or
hklm\software\oem\phonesetting\networkservice

but if the shortcut i provided in the zip doesn't bring up the page for the settings to select roaming and then the roaming selection.. then this may be sprint specific. does alltel have the option on any other type of phones to select roaming, automatic or "alltel' only?

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under hklm\software\oem\InitProv\Phonesetting

I find Home Only as ItemName1
and Standard as ItemName2

The ItemCount is 2

Let me know what you think. Also, I cannot check any other Alltel Phones because this is my first. I used to have a Treo 700wx with sprint but its a company issued phone and the company I work for is switching their 4000+ phone contract from sprint to Alltel.

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Well i assume Home Only is the same as sprint only and Standard is the same as automatic. if i'm not mistaken my apache was like that.
so since this script just goes through the motions of picking a roaming selection, it certainly can't pick what isn't there.
you might want to look in the registry under hklm\software\oem\phonesetting to see if there are any pages you can unhide which will show anything similar to sprints.

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Yeah there is nothing else hidden, so I am assuming it is custom for alltel in the rom. There is a program under my remove programs, called alltel hidden. I am thinking about removing that and seeing what kind of options pop up.

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Anyone want to try to update the C++ program in this thread?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...81#post2182381

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bump!:protest: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...=320548&page=3

I circled back around to this, and apparently I forgot about it because everyone else did too.. anyway, I can't get either method to work.

the problem with the mortscript is that the roaming services has changed position in the phone settings menu... anyluck on a app?

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Make sure the data connection (and voice connection) is disconnected before the seting is changed...

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Any particular reason why?