Make your device work for YOU! Part III: GPRS/EDGE and IE
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Welcome back to Part III of 8 week series on various registry tweaks that can be done on your WM5/6 device. This week we will be taking a look modifying GPRS/EDGE Notification and modifying few different things in Pocket IE.
Just remember, you will need a registry editor like Total Commander or PHM Registry Editor in order to implement these modifications.
Note: Some users have commented that the exact location of registry keys differ. What’s documented here will give you an approximate location of where they should be located, but you may need to explore around to find what needs to be changed.
GPRS/EDGE
- GPRS Notification Options
- To add a ‘Disconnect’ button to the GPRS notification area at the top of your screen:
- [HKLM\ControlPanel\Phone]
- Set the value of Flags2 to 8
- To add a ‘Disconnect’ button and a connection timer to the GPRS notification area:
- [HKLM\ControlPanel\Phone]
- Set the value of Flags2 to 16
- To remove the ‘Disconnect’ button and the connection timer from the GPRS notification area:
- [HKLM\ControlPanel\Phone]
- Set the value of Flags2 to 0
- To add a ‘Disconnect’ button to the GPRS notification area at the top of your screen:
Internet Explorer
- Enable Cleartype in Internet Explorer
- [HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings]
- “ClearTypeText” = 1 to Enable, 0 to Disable
- Make Pocket IE a full IE 6.0
- This will let your Pocket IE look like a normal desktop IE 6.0
- [HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent\]
- Change the default value to “Mozilla/4.0″
- Change the “Version” value to “MSIE 6.0″
- Change the “Platform” value to “Windows NT 5.0″
- This will let your Pocket IE look like a normal desktop IE 6.0
- Move IE Temporary Files to Storage Card (thanks to GBot for sharing this with us)
- [HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders]
- Change “Cache”=”\Storage\Temporary Internet Files” to “\Storage Card\Temporary Internet Files”
- Set the value of Flags2 to 8
- [HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders]
- Remove Default Bookmarks
- [HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FavoritesEntries]
- Each sub key contains a URL and icon information
- To remove a bookmark, delete the corresponding key
- [HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FavoritesEntries]
For those of you who have been following these tweaks post, there is a software out that you may be interested in. It’s called SmartReg. This software allows you to track registry modification and let you undo and/or redo them. I think it’s a very useful tool for when you are trying to change registry to values that are not mentioned on the post to see what their effects are.
Next week, I will be introducing some fun registry tweaks that will modify Phone Operation. Make sure to check back for them.
Disclaimer:Use these registry tweaks at your own risk. We are not responsible for any system instabilities which maybe caused by tweaks shown here. Do backup registry before implementing these tweaks.
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A tip: if you change your browser to act like regular Internet Explorer, MAKE SURE to write down the registry values you’re changing, otherwise you won’t be able to return to the default behaviour!
Hi Guys, I recently bought a Glofiish x600 and is going me crazy because is trying to connect all the time to internet thru GPRS. Can you please help me to disable this option? I think I should manually choose when to connect the aplications to internet, and not automatically as now is trying to make my phone. THANKS!
As far as what I am aware of is that there is a program called nodata. I don’t have any experience with it and have heard some reports of incompatibility depending on what device you use.
Hope this helps.
I always copy and paste the changed in MS word on the PC so that I can go back to them as sometimes I get lost making all the changed and can’t remember what I did then a Hard Reset is in order, lol
Well said. Tweaking registry is no simple task. Changing values here and there, than forgetting where you did what…
Has happened to me one too many times
Hello DongHoon,
I want to delete the bookmars that came with the phone. I want to know the exact code or where i should delete the sub key. I am using “Microsoft Visual Studio” and i’m fabricating a .CAB to upload on the phone so when i install it, it does everything without me having to manually edit stuff. And yeah i get the bookmarks code but do not know what code to put so i could delete. Hope you understand my problem. Thanks!!
To be honest with you, I have not had any experience in deleting a registry key using a .cab file. I have done a quick research and perhaps this post will give you some insight into what you are trying to accomplish: http://support.ocpsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?t=133
I have not yet had a chance to read through and test, but hopefully I will get a chance to do that soon (perhaps this weekend).
Hope this helps!