ROAMING while not ROAMING

[mix]

Hi to everyone,

it happened something strange to me since I first switched on my SmartFlip:

while being in my country and using a local operator SIM, as soon as I switched on my phone, the ROAMING icon appeared and I was not able to let it go (it is present even while using GPRS connection as a G and a filled triangle).

Yesterday I had to move to another city (our Capital City, ROME) and when I switched it on again after the flight, the roaming icon was gone, even during GPRS connection.

I thought I somehow solved my problem, but after switching it on again after the flight back, it appeared again and is still present.

I've contacted my operator, but they say it has to be something within the phone (and I believe them as I've used that SIM with many other HTC phones with no problem at all).

A friend of mine which has the SmartFlip too but a different operator (TIM), has no problem at all.

Does anyone reports the same problem, or ever faced such a behaviour ?

Thank you for your help.

Ciao

[mix]

Hi to everyone,

I don't know yet WHY this happens to me (and not to other people, for instance...), but...

Well, I reported my phone always getting to "ROAMING" while it was not.

I've found that IF I place in the phone one of my two SIMs (I have two with the same phone number, provided by my phone operator VODAFONE ITALY, which gives this as a service) and the SIM is PIN LOCKED, then, after unlocking it, the phone reports being in ROAMING.

If I just remove the PIN LOCK from the SIM, then the ROAMING ICON is not appearing anymore.

I have to switch the phone off and on again to see the results, but till now (more than 10 tries), I haven't failed one.

I've asked some friends of mine with other operator's SIMs to try the same, but they do not report the same behaviour.

Is there anyone else reporting this ? And with which operator ?

Thank you for your help.

Best regards.

[Survivant]

I found this nice little registry tweak to remove the roaming icon (triangle) on HowardForums.

HKLM\Drivers\BuiltIn\RIL\DisableRoamingIndicator

Set 1 to disable the triangle
Set 0 to enable the triangle

I now have a square E or G icon instead :)

[bostik]

hi mix,
i have the same problem. this behaviour happens only with sims of vodafone (128), with old ones (64) no.
this happen also with qtek 8310 with the same sim vodafone 128

[mix]

Hi Bostik,

I've finally found (some time ago anyway...) that this is due to the fact there is the PIN code activated on phone startup...

If you remove PIN code lock on phone startup, then the ROMAING triangle disappears...

I believe this is a O.S. fault, not within the phone itself...

Should be checked with other machines with WM5 PHONE on (but may differ due to OS different builds...).

I decided to risk removing my PIN code... (I can recognise my phone being lost within minutes usually and I can then block SIM and phone very quickly).

It's annoying, but this is our life... ;-)

Happy new year.

[jsp_m]

This occurs when swithing from 900 to 1800 networks of the same operateor, its a bug

[Tweakecho]

Hi to everyone,

I don't know yet WHY this happens to me (and not to other people, for instance...), but...

Well, I reported my phone always getting to "ROAMING" while it was not.

I've found that IF I place in the phone one of my two SIMs (I have two with the same phone number, provided by my phone operator VODAFONE ITALY, which gives this as a service) and the SIM is PIN LOCKED, then, after unlocking it, the phone reports being in ROAMING.

If I just remove the PIN LOCK from the SIM, then the ROAMING ICON is not appearing anymore.

I have to switch the phone off and on again to see the results, but till now (more than 10 tries), I haven't failed one.

I've asked some friends of mine with other operator's SIMs to try the same, but they do not report the same behaviour.

Is there anyone else reporting this ? And with which operator ?

Thank you for your help.

Best regards.

I have an O2 Wizard G4 not CID unlocked I cannot get my roaming Icon to dissapear due to its looking for a tower from the UK. That is from the O2 guys and the Registry Tweak has no effect for me either it automatically changes back to Dword 0 after Soft reset.

[markanthonypr]

I found this nice little registry tweak to remove the roaming icon (triangle) on HowardForums.

HKLM\Drivers\BuiltIn\RIL\DisableRoamingIndicator

Set 1 to disable the triangle
Set 0 to enable the triangle

I now have a square E or G icon instead :)
Thanks Mate!!!!
Been driving T-Mobile crazy about this Roaming Icon and its gone. Worked for my T-Mobile SDAII aka HTC Tornado and following this simple instruction( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1717878&postcount=3 ) now I don't get the Roaming Warning and Outlook works fine. :o)

[husbender]

hey guy's :) i stay usa with a european sim & phone and never see the roaming triangle... what about that ? :p:D

[mennosmit]

I found this nice little registry tweak to remove the roaming icon (triangle) on HowardForums.

HKLM\Drivers\BuiltIn\RIL\DisableRoamingIndicator

Set 1 to disable the triangle
Set 0 to enable the triangle

I now have a square E or G icon instead :)

I tried applying this trick to my Kaiser. My provider (Telfort) got bought by another (KPN) so now all Telfort users "roam" on the KPN network. Anybody know any other tricks I could try to get rid of the roaming triangle icon? Thanks so much!!