Is there a regedit that allows you to turn off EDGE support, leaving only the standard GPRS?
why would you want to do that?
because my operator's EDGE fails - every time i connect to the network, i can use it for about 30-60 seconds; thereafter, the device shows the connection to be active but no traffic passes (many have made similar complaints).
as the EDGE service was recently introduced, and the operator's GPRS service otherwise works flawlessly, I want to "downgrade" until the kinks are worked out...
any ideas?
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For some reasons, I am having problems connecting to their GPRS server when the connection bars are full(4 bars on the phone). I am using the MDA with cingular service, but I am sure the settings are correct. I've even installed a 8125 rom and used it's settings..
I live in houston, and work a few miles from basicly it's business center, and a few more miles from downtown. Cingular has excelent coverage in my area, all Edge, and G3 is also availiable.
The problem is that I am having no problems with the phone side, but the internet keeps disconnecting or not reading at all? How can this be? Aren't they on the same band? I have to "search for network" in the phone settings to get GPRS to connect, but then the internet will only work for a few minutes and stop working again. The E symbol with the transfer animation is still there, through the animation is not active, meaning the phone is connected right? So why isn't my internet working? I am really at a lost of what to do.,
Is this a problem with mobile internet or is it my phone?
The bars only tell you something about the carrier.
So the carrier is good, it doesn't mean the GPRS/UMTS in working properly.
You still can face problems like no IP-adres, Gateway, DNS etc.
Occasionally I have the same probs in Holland, but then I disconnect/reconnect is sufficient to resolve the problem.
(disconnect by holding the "end call" button for a couple of seconds.
Maybe you have some interference in the neighbourhood?
Try another part of town, if that doesn't help, visit a service center and see if they have a device that can connect normally.
Or maybe you know somebody with a working Universal to test at your place?
If there was an interferencem would it only affect certain carriers or all GSM carriers?
Also, the holding the end call button doesn't seem to work in disconnecting and reconnecting?
My phone is fine on Edge but as soon as I connect it to Active Sync, it looses its Edge and uses WiFi. Once I remove the active sync, it never connects back to Edge unless I reboot the phone. It keeps saying it cannot dial wap.cingular. I thought the phone was supposed to auto connect on its own to the best connection and switch back. I checked with Cingular and all my settings are what they should be and the Cingular tech had no idea.
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My phone is fine on Edge but as soon as I connect it to Active Sync, it looses its Edge and uses WiFi. Once I remove the active sync, it never connects back to Edge unless I reboot the phone. It keeps saying it cannot dial wap.cingular. I thought the phone was supposed to auto connect on its own to the best connection and switch back. I checked with Cingular and all my settings are what they should be and the Cingular tech had no idea.
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Mine does the same - it finds itself without the reset though. It just takes it a little bit.
I currently have the Cingular 8525 and recently went down to Baja for a week. I had the phone function on to let me know when a call came in and then would go to the local internet cafe, switch the phone function off using "flight mode", confirmed phone function was off in "Comm Manager" and looking at "Settings/WLAN Settings" for the WiFi establishment.
I would then use Skype on the WiFi network to make calls back to my cell phone carrier to retrive messages.
Upon returning to the U.S. and reviewing my usage on the Cingular Web page I find that I have "Roaming Data Charges" to the tune of about $120. I have talked to Cingular and they were perplexed as to how the data charges were incurred if the phone funciton is turned off. HTC technical services were equally perplexed. HTC came up with the solution of pulling the sim card out to totally disable the phone function while still allowing WiFi access. In the states I have unlimited data access so this is not an issue, but since I travel abroad frequently, this could get costly without a simple solution (pulling the sim card out each time is not a simple solution).
Is there anychance that one of the following apps are allowing my phone to indicate that the phone is in flight mode (phone disabled) while still broadcasting in GSM/UMTS.
All thoughts on the subject are appreciated
Phone: Cingular 8525
Apps: PTTfix.cab
BandSwitch.Arm4.cab
Not sure if this helps, but after a couple of rediculously high months of data usage on my Orange UK contract, for two months I did not use any data features on the phone unless it was docked with my laptop, using it's broadband connection to browse on the phone. The opposing arrows signal was showing, signifying that my tytn was using the laptop's connection. My bills still show high usage, I had NoData running, blocking all Gprs usage.
Is it possible for the sim card to be still recording the data transfer and wrongly charging me for the usage? I have tried speaking to Orange about this but each time they have not understood what I'm talking about.
I'd sugggest you to try Spb GPRS Monitor.You need to play with it to tune it right way. It allows to monitor up to 5 different connections, and have a Today plug-in and an indicator in the top bar to show the activity. It helped me a lot by signalling that my phone uses GPRS instead of WiFi (no, I never even heard of GPRS/UMPT in flight mode!).
I have it set up to monitor GPRS for two SIM cards I have, connection via USB and BlueTooth. For any other type of connection (incl. WiFi) it does not indicate anything. Quite enough for troubleshooting, and also to understand your bills.
Probably there are similar apps, I never tried them.
Thanks for the suggestion on SPB GPRS Monitor.
I put the SPB GPRS Monitor on the phone and low and behold apparently any time the system kicks into the GPRS data mode, and it seems to do this on its own every once in awhile you get charged for the link whether you use it or not. SPB GPRS Monitor does a good job of letting you know if your not paying attention to the Martini Glass icon up top.
Recently, I upgraded my 8525 to WM6. Now every time I open either PIE or Opera, the network changes from 3G (which has a strong signal) to the Edge network. I can't get google maps to open anymore either. Any suggestions?
hey guys...
yesterday i came back home after my vacations..and re-inserted my local SIM card ..and whenever i opened the Sony ericsson Xperia panel 1..it automatically connects to the GPRS for RSS & weather updates.
I went to Comm Manager and switched off data connection.. but again whenever a net service is reached..it starts connecting to my operators GPRS...and its expensive for me here as its based on data usage.
i tried deleting the GPRS settings but still GPRS has become an auto default connection on my X1.
this didnt happen before i went for vacations 2 weeks back.
any help on disabling GPRS permanently?
i like to use WiFi only.
worried about my heavy bill this month!
See this thread it seems there are several possible answers:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=463097
There's an application called "NoData" that you can use to switch the GPRS off and prevent it from being used.
Alternatively, CommMgrPro has the same ability and can be configured to automatically disable GPRS whenever the phone is rebooted.