Hack to differentiate icon between GPRS and EDGE

[anonimo]

Hi all.
I hacked the registry as suggested to get two different icons when under Edge coverage opposed to standard GPRS but my S200 always shows the G icon, never the E icon. Since at the moment I am sitting at about 2 miles from the Vodafone UK headquarters in Newbury I really doubt they haven't got Edge in their hometown, so something must be wrong with my phone or this hack is not working.
Is there anyone who has used this registry edit successfully? If so can you please specify if you are using Vodafone in the UK?
Thanks.

Anonimo

 

[TheBrit]

Do Vodafone support Edge?

Orange do but it only tends to be where they don't have 3G.

And yes I get G and E where appropriate.

 

[anonimo]

Well since the Vodafone phone catalogue mentions when a phone supports Edge I assume that their GSM network has Edge capabilities.... It could be that they have not deployed it where there is 3G coverage but it seems strange that I have never been in a Edge area while driving around south England....

 

[Black-Rose]

Here in the Netherlands is it Telfort that support EDGE and is the only one.
Vodafone support GPRS and UMTS here.

I've do the registry hack this morning and it works! I get the E at the place there was before a G.

I've tested my device it works on EDGE or GPRS:
My girlfriend has an Ipaq and a Samsun D500 with T-Mobile GPRS (supports only GPRS); mine is many quicker! A knowledge has a T-Mobile MDA Vario (with GPRS) and last week we have tested mine Qtek S200 and his MDA VARIO and mine was quicker!

 

[kta]

I don't think Vodafone support EDGE anywhere in the continent. They support 3G (UMTS) only as far as I know.

 

[Moses580]

I edited my registry to show an EDGE Icon, too...

And I almost forgot about it, because in germany no operator seems to support EDGE anywhere..

But I was in France just a week ago and there it showed that EDGE Icon instead of the G...
But I didn't test Edge, because I had a feeling that it would be to expensive..

I wouln'd worry... EDGE seems to be a technology that won't come up very far... 3G will overrun it, I think.

 

[gibster]

i thought only orange support EDGE? Anyway, the ONLY time i have ever had the "e" icon appear is on about a 2 mile length of track on the train back and forth to work in london. i live in west kent? i did a speed test and got about 60kbit/sec as apposed to the usual 38(ish)kbit/sec