How to Disable bluetooth and Wifi?

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Hi, anyone here know how to disable bluetooth and WIFI on the Orange M2000 device? I want to rollout some of these to our staff, but due to a lot of 'politics' I have been requested to disable these abilities on the device.

I've asked this question about bluetooth for the M1000 on another forum, and got helpful answers, but the solutions there don't work properly for the blue Angel.

I don't want a discussion as to whether i should enable it or not, but if anyone knows how to disable these abilities, could you let me know? thanks a lot.

Not to be rude, but what is the point of the phone without Wifi and bluetooth. You may as well just buy really cheap pda's or some normal phone, but even then most have bluetooth.

Re: How to Disable bluetooth and Wifi?

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Originally Posted by Steee

Hi, anyone here know how to disable bluetooth and WIFI on the Orange M2000 device? I want to rollout some of these to our staff, but due to a lot of 'politics' I have been requested to disable these abilities on the device.

I've asked this question about bluetooth for the M1000 on another forum, and got helpful answers, but the solutions there don't work properly for the blue Angel.

I don't want a discussion as to whether i should enable it or not, but if anyone knows how to disable these abilities, could you let me know? thanks a lot.

To disable them from a software perspective, I believe you need to remove the files and registry for MS BT and Wifi, but you already know that.

I can't help you further because I don't have the blue Angel device. Perhaps you can export the registry using one of the registry tools?

Then you can investigate the registry and post some specific questions here for the gurus.

Sorry.

OK.. for anyone who is interested, I've found a way of doing this...on an M2000

You'll have to use a registry editor, and perhaps export the keys somewhere safe before you delete them.

WIFI:

1. Delete Key:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ControlPanel\MyCPL\6]
Removes WLan Icon from Settings -> Connections

2. Delete Key:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Services\WLan]
Stops the WIFI Service


BLUETOOTH:

1. Modify
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ControlPanel\Bluetooth]
Edit Value ‘Group’ from 2 to 3

2. Find the \windows\start menu\programs folder, and delete the Bluetooth Manager Icon

3. Find the \windows\startup folder. Delete the ‘Run_BTTrayCE_10’ file.

BOTH:
Optional last step, Find the \windows\start menu\programs folder and delete the Wireless Manager Icon.

Now both the bluetooth and WIFI are disabled & hidden from general view.

I'm not saying this is totally irreversable, but will stop casual users using these services.

Cheers

Originally Posted by Steee

OK.. for anyone who is interested, I've found a way of doing this...on an M2000

You'll have to use a registry editor, and perhaps export the keys somewhere safe before you delete them.

WIFI:

1. Delete Key:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ControlPanel\MyCPL\6]
Removes WLan Icon from Settings -> Connections

2. Delete Key:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Services\WLan]
Stops the WIFI Service


BLUETOOTH:

1. Modify
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ControlPanel\Bluetooth]
Edit Value ‘Group’ from 2 to 3

2. Find the \windows\start menu\programs folder, and delete the Bluetooth Manager Icon

3. Find the \windows\startup folder. Delete the ‘Run_BTTrayCE_10’ file.

BOTH:
Optional last step, Find the \windows\start menu\programs folder and delete the Wireless Manager Icon.

Now both the bluetooth and WIFI are disabled & hidden from general view.

I'm not saying this is totally irreversable, but will stop casual users using these services.

Cheers

You should also delete dll files (I think some applications link themselves to the DLL and can use the service) and create a cab files that do this job. Then put this CAB file in the Extended rom (if possible). Otherwise, at next hard reset the user gets all the features back. I don't want to be pessimistic, but it won't be very difficult to reactivate the disabled functions.

Originally Posted by Steee

OK.. for anyone who is interested, I've found a way of doing this...on an M2000

You'll have to use a registry editor, and perhaps export the keys somewhere safe before you delete them.

WIFI:

1. Delete Key:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ControlPanel\MyCPL\6]
Removes WLan Icon from Settings -> Connections

2. Delete Key:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Services\WLan]
Stops the WIFI Service


BLUETOOTH:

1. Modify
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ControlPanel\Bluetooth]
Edit Value ‘Group’ from 2 to 3

2. Find the \windows\start menu\programs folder, and delete the Bluetooth Manager Icon

3. Find the \windows\startup folder. Delete the ‘Run_BTTrayCE_10’ file.

BOTH:
Optional last step, Find the \windows\start menu\programs folder and delete the Wireless Manager Icon.

Now both the bluetooth and WIFI are disabled & hidden from general view.

I'm not saying this is totally irreversable, but will stop casual users using these services.

Cheers

Had to say this......NOT GOOD ENOUGH...

There, I said it.


You can't stop them from hard reset to get back all the registries and DLL from the ROM, but you already know, don't ya?

Perhaps you can use the mkrom tools here to create your own ROM with customised registry and ROM files. Then upgrade each of the devices with this ROM. I think there are many vendors out there customising PPC solutions for government agencies based on this method.

If you are continuing your way, it's fine the way you do it . I believe you've gauge the 'techie' quotient of your users.

Removing more files/registry just make it harder for the user to recover the functionality, but it is still not hard enough for the persistent type to compare the system on a similar PPC device and copy the changes across.

Q: What do I need to do?
A: Pay someone $50 to do it.

thanks for your input guys!

Granted the user can do a hard reset and get the features back. doing that, however would remove all the specific settings and applications we have put on (VPN software, for one), thereby forcing the users to come back to the tech section (me) and get them reloaded (so I can disable BT and WIFI again).

As I said, this is not irreversable, neither is it intended to be. The solution is 'good enough' for my situation and for the users i have to deal with.

I don't have time to learn how to change extended roms etc, and would probably affect the support from Orange if I did start changing things.

If anyone else wants to take up the baton and do more work, feel free

me above btw. forgot to login! doh ops: