Edge sign on Trinity

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Hi,

I live in Ottawa, Canada and work in NYC. I just got my Trinity from Superiorgadgets.com and I am in love with it. It is the black colored one and it is fantastic. One thing I noticed in the book is when I am in an Edge area the E sign will be on and when I am in GPRS area, the G sign will be and same with 3G when in NY but the question is, since I am using my Cingular sim card and roaming in Canada, there is only a G sign on my screen to indicate it is not Edge but I know Rogers and Fido use Edge unless they lie and this is not weird up in Freezing land. Can anyone shed any light on whether the E sign is activated on the Trinity and 3G not U is the indicator for 3G. I will know soon when I return to NYC for the 3G sign.

Best regards,

Gilbert

Come on guys, no comments

Originally Posted by Gilbert

Hi,

I live in Ottawa, Canada and work in NYC. I just got my Trinity from Superiorgadgets.com and I am in love with it. It is the black colored one and it is fantastic. One thing I noticed in the book is when I am in an Edge area the E sign will be on and when I am in GPRS area, the G sign will be and same with 3G when in NY but the question is, since I am using my Cingular sim card and roaming in Canada, there is only a G sign on my screen to indicate it is not Edge but I know Rogers and Fido use Edge unless they lie and this is not weird up in Freezing land. Can anyone shed any light on whether the E sign is activated on the Trinity and 3G not U is the indicator for 3G. I will know soon when I return to NYC for the 3G sign.

Best regards,

Gilbert

according to the manual the E sign is active...to be honest maybe the roaming rights does not allow use of the EDGE network....cause i am in Ottawa, and although i have a prophet i get an E sign...

Hi,

I live in a Edge area, and i've no E icon.
i thought i have to tweak the registry to enable it, but it is already activated.

At home, with "G" icon, the Trinity download speed: ~110kb/s (is it really a GPRS connection?)
at the same place, my Magician in GPRS: ~56kb/s.

The UMTS "3G" icon works, and download speed ~300kb/s.
I'm waiting for HSDPA ;]

download speed tested with:
http://www.dslreports.com/mspeed?jisok=1

Originally Posted by hofo_mofo

according to the manual the E sign is active...to be honest maybe the roaming rights does not allow use of the EDGE network....cause i am in Ottawa, and although i have a prophet i get an E sign...

Hi, thanks for this. Just wondering if you are using a local sim card for the prophet or a sim card from the US? I am using a Cingular sim card.

Best regards,

Gilbert

Originally Posted by Gilbert

Hi, thanks for this. Just wondering if you are using a local sim card for the prophet or a sim card from the US? I am using a Cingular sim card.

Best regards,

Gilbert

my bad i thought it was implied that i was using a local sim card...yeah my provider is Rogers, and i am using a rogers SIM card...im in the 613 area code, but go home frequently which is in the 514 area code. Never have a problem with losing the E symbol...and sometimes based on speed tests i get up to around 200kbps..its pretty sweet..but of course its not as sweet as using my wifi connection (around 1500kbps)...when HSDPA comes in (completely...just in Torontoish right now) i will be as happy as a clam

Originally Posted by hofo_mofo

according to the manual the E sign is active...to be honest maybe the roaming rights does not allow use of the EDGE network....cause i am in Ottawa, and although i have a prophet i get an E sign...

I would find it really strange if two operators allowed standard GPRS roaming and not EDGE roaming. Using my limited knowledge of GSM I'd say that even from a pure technical point of view it would only be additional headache (if at all possible).