hi,

as the subject suggests, i am wondering if there is any way in which
my palm treo 750 windows mobile 5 pocket pc phone can be configured
(registry or any other way) to enable it to connect at edge speeds.
problem is networks in India do not provide 3g connectivity still and
thus edge is the highest speed available on the mobile networks.

please let me know if there is some 'hack' or something that can be
done to enable edge speeds on the phone.

thanks a lot,

Kunal

At 01 Sep 2007 08:04:14 +0000 kunal wrote:
> if there is any way in which
> my palm treo 750 windows mobile 5 pocket pc phone can be configured
> (registry or any other way) to enable it to connect at edge speeds.

It's already capable. Most, if not all, 3G phones have Enhanced GPRS
(EDGE.)


However, many EDGE-capable phones give no visible indicator whether
they're connected at GPRS or EDGE speed- they simply use the fastest
connection available. The Treo falls in this category- even when
it's connected at EDGE, it displays GPRS.



--

"I don't need my cell phone to play video games or take pictures
or double as a Walkie-Talkie; I just need it to work. Thanks for
all the bells and whistles, but I could communicate better with
ACTUAL bells and whistles." -Bill Maher 9/25/2003

On Sep 1, 6:09 pm, Todd Allcock <eleccon...@AmericaOnLine.com> wrote:
> At 01 Sep 2007 08:04:14 +0000 kunal wrote:
>
> > if there is any way in which
> > my palm treo 750 windows mobile 5 pocket pc phone can be configured
> > (registry or any other way) to enable it to connect at edge speeds.
>
> It's already capable. Most, if not all, 3G phones have Enhanced GPRS
> (EDGE.)
>
> However, many EDGE-capable phones give no visible indicator whether
> they're connected at GPRS or EDGE speed- they simply use the fastest
> connection available. The Treo falls in this category- even when
> it's connected at EDGE, it displays GPRS.


hey thanks a lot.... that helps a lot..... !

one more question. though it doesnt fall in this post catagory.... if
you can help.... i have direct push enabled on the phone, so gprs is
on all the time. sometimes during phone calls, either direct push
doesnt synch (through active synch i.e.) or the gprs gets disconnected
after i disconnect the phone with the 'end' button. can you please
tell me why this happens and ofcourse how or what to do so that it
doesnt disconnect? because after everytime that it disconnects, i have
to go to active synch and press the 'synch' button so that gprs gets
reactivated and i remain up-to-date with the server...

thanks,

Kunal

"kunal" <nanavati1******.com> wrote in message
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> i have direct push enabled on the phone, so gprs is
> on all the time. sometimes during phone calls, either direct push
> doesnt synch (through active synch i.e.) or the gprs gets disconnected

It's normal to lose Push during a phone call on GPRS/EDGE, because the phone
can't do voice and data simultaneously. (3G can run simultaneous with
voice, but not GPRS/EDGE.)

> after i disconnect the phone with the 'end' button. can you please
> tell me why this happens and ofcourse how or what to do so that it
> doesnt disconnect? because after everytime that it disconnects, i have
> to go to active synch and press the 'synch' button so that gprs gets
> reactivated and i remain up-to-date with the server...

How long do you wait? My phone usually reconnects in two or three minutes
after hanging up the phone. Even stranger, sometimes my phone doesn't show
the connected icon, but if I check Activesync, it does say "connected" under
"Microsoft Exchange."

Good luck!

> It's normal to lose Push during a phone call on GPRS/EDGE, because the phone
> can't do voice and data simultaneously. (3G can run simultaneous with
> voice, but not GPRS/EDGE.)
>
> How long do you wait? My phone usually reconnects in two or three minutes


thanks a lot. that's infomative. one more thing, if the gprs/edge
phones disconnect ten how come blackberry doesn't disconnect that way?
or doe it... I don't really know.

ya it doesn't tak longer than that.

At 02 Sep 2007 05:50:56 -0700 kunal wrote:

> thanks a lot. that's infomative. one more thing, if the gprs/edge
> phones disconnect ten how come blackberry doesn't disconnect that
way?
> or doe it... I don't really know.


Again, it depends on the technology used- the GPRS Blackberries
suspend e-mail during calls as well.


--

"I don't need my cell phone to play video games or take pictures
or double as a Walkie-Talkie; I just need it to work. Thanks for
all the bells and whistles, but I could communicate better with
ACTUAL bells and whistles." -Bill Maher 9/25/2003

i cross checked how fast my phone reconnects... it seems to take a
longer time. actually when i read the posts again it was already
disconnected due a phone call received earlier, and checked after a
considerable amount of time (almost 10 minutes) and found out its
still not connected. so it seems there might be something wrong with
my ppc or some setting needs to be tweeked... any ideas????

kunal...

At 03 Sep 2007 07:35:51 +0000 kunal wrote:
> i cross checked how fast my phone reconnects... it seems to take a
> longer time. actually when i read the posts again it was already
> disconnected due a phone call received earlier, and checked after a
> considerable amount of time (almost 10 minutes) and found out its
> still not connected.

Still not connected according to the status icons, or not connected
according to Activesync itself? I don't pretend to know by what
method AS stays connected for Push e-mail to work, but my GPRS/EDGE
indicator can be off (no connection indicated) yet AS still says
Exchange is connected.

> so it seems there might be something wrong with
> my ppc or some setting needs to be tweeked... any ideas????

You might search the xda-developers site for registry tweaks to keep
GPRS connected, but I don't know any off the top of my head, sorry.


--

"I don't need my cell phone to play video games or take pictures
or double as a Walkie-Talkie; I just need it to work. Thanks for
all the bells and whistles, but I could communicate better with
ACTUAL bells and whistles." -Bill Maher 9/25/2003

> You might search the xda-developers site for registry tweaks to keep
> GPRS connected, but I don't know any off the top of my head, sorry.
>
> --
well my AS shows a "status" link stating that synch.. could not be
completed..
anyway will go thru the developers site for tweaks as you suggested...


thanks a lot.. :)

Kunal