Disable Telfort Roaming Icon.

[Chris1974]

To all the Dutch Telfort / Diamond users: I have a roaming Icon on my screen permanently. I would like to get rid of it but so far I could not find out how. I have one last idea what might cause the roaming icon to apprear but for that to be confirmed I need your input.

So please be kind and let me know the following:

1: Do you have a SIM card that is from before the Telfort-KPN migration? Or after?

2: Do you see a little triangle in the top bar on your screen? (this is the Roaming Icon)

I appreciate your help. I will let you know if my idea was correct if enough data on sims and triangles gets in.

Thanks,

Chris

[Rones]

1: I have a SIM card long time before the Telfort-KPN migration?

2: And also have the Roaming Icon all the time!

[Chris1974]

Thanks!!!

Any Telfort users from the Post KPN migration era???

Chris

[Chris1974]

Come on, there must be more Dutch Telfort people here???

:D

[mennosmit]

I have a Telfort SIM card from Oct '09 (after the KPN-Telfort migration I believe). Unfortunately I'm also stuck with the roaming triangle icon on my kaiser... would love to get rid of it! Any solutions?

[GardAlb]

I have a sim from sept 2006.
Always have the roaming symbol.
Did notice that i am roaming since i have the Touch diamond.

I am not able to auto sync my mail because of this! Very anoying!

[Söderström]

If you hate the icon so much you can hide it by edit/create

HKLM\Drivers\BuiltIn\RIL "DisableRoamingIndicator" to 1

[Nirak]

If you hate the icon so much you can hide it by edit/create

HKLM\Drivers\BuiltIn\RIL "DisableRoamingIndicator" to 1

Thanks for your kind answer, had no such value in registry, created it, but no luck.

[jay1man]

Same problem here....:confused:

1: I have a SIM card long, long time before the Telfort-KPN migration

2: And also have the Roaming Icon all the time!

[Chris1974]

I have done some extensive research on this topic. It turns out that CDMA phones can get rid of their Roaming Icon by tweaking the registry. That is because the phone contains a list of "freindly networks" and roaming is controled in the phone itself.

GSM phones do not have this database. Their roaming is controled by the provider. Therefore the registry tweak does not work. It is for the CDMA phone.

I have also contacted an unoficial "telfort forum" where a Telfort developer told me that Telfort can not fix this problem on their side. Old SIM or new SIM does not make any difference unfortunately.

The only chance that is left is if someone can find in the registry or somewhere in the phone software the exact place where the phone decides if it is roaming or not and change that in some way to make it think it is not roaming.

Too bad, I hate the stupid Roaming triangle.

[jay1man]

Chris thanks 4 the effort! indeed very annoying the Roaming all the time..keep us posted if you find some solutions!

[Nirak]

Thanks for this clear explanation Chris, i just started to hate this yellow thingy when i stumbled across this taskbar which makes the icon much nicer and less 'present'

BTW i'm using the Gen.Y D2 R2-Rev.Z NLD ROM on my Diamond which is based on WM 6.1

Credits for the taskbar go of course to Tsowen :)

[jay1man]

To Nirak...
I don't think it solves the issue with the roaming icon. It only makes the icon looks nicer and less present..but I don't like it for example that when i want to send/receive mail i'm given a notification that i'm roaming and if i wish to continue..

[Smilex]

For those of you having problems with email:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Inbox\Settings
ShowRoamWarning REG_DWORD 0

And within the ActiveSync Settings:
ActiveSync -> Menu -> Schedule -> Enable "Use above settings when roaming"

Works perfectly on my Benq e72, TP1 and now Omnia Qwerty. (Direct push mail send throu a MS Exchange 2003 SP2 box.)

[jay1man]

Thanks a lot SMILEX!..
this string didn't exist, but I created it and it works perfect!!

[joda77]

All those solutions help, but the real solution is still not found I guess. Hope the "list" which triggers the icon will be found one day.... Because it's still quite annoying.

[UncleBeer]

Hey all:

I just switched from Ben to Telfort. I don't get the roaming icon, but I do get an annoying warning every time I start a data-intensive app on my HD2. Telfort says there's nothing that can be done, but Ben is able to use T-Mobile's network without all the roaming warnings. Why can't Telfort use KPN's network without these warnings? It's obviously possible.

[Miracle Maker]

I have the same problem with Telfort but on HTC Touch HD :(
I don't want to get rid only from icon, but also from that my phone think that it is roaming, but it is national roaming, which should be handled the same as home network.