Total GPRS Control On Your Windows Mobile 5 Device

[Ed Hansberry]

<a href="http://www.gb-soft.cz/XDAII/product_gprs_tweak_wm5pe_en.htm">http://www.gb-soft.cz/XDAII/product_gprs_tweak_wm5pe_en.htm</a><br /><br />Here is an application for your Windows Mobile 5 device that gives you more control over your GPRS connections. It seems the OEM or ODM has more control over when GPRS is and is not active. For example, my iMate JasJar disconnects GPRS 100% of the time after syncing a POP3 account. Nasty. My iMate K-Jam does not though, so is this iMate being inconsistent, HTC or does it go beyond that to Windows Mobile 5? I don't know. Related to that, my K-Jam does not disconnect GPRS as my PDA2K did when T-Mobile times my connection out, which seems to be 60 minutes. So that leaves my K-Jam in a non-connected state where nothing really works, which is double nasty.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/hansberry/2005/20051223-gprstweak.png" /><br /><br />This app though gives you more control and adds the "Disconnect" button back to the connection bubble, something MS removed in WM5. It appears to be free and the developer is selling the source code for someone to take it and improve upon it.

[Arne Hess]

Neat but in WM5 you don't need the disconnect button anymore. Press and hold the hang-up button and the device disconnects.
Regarding the auto-disconnect, this can be changed with a Reg-hack and it's up to the ODM to set it up. Some carriers requests an immediate auto-disconnect, others not. Nothing Microsoft can control and therefore it can be changed with the Reg-hack.

But the program looks handy to do all this without firing up a registry editor! :D

[Ed Hansberry]

Neat but in WM5 you don't need the disconnect button anymore. Press and hold the hang-up button and the device disconnects.
Regarding the auto-disconnect, this can be changed with a Reg-hack and it's up to the ODM to set it up. Some carriers requests an immediate auto-disconnect, others not. Nothing Microsoft can control and therefore it can be changed with the Reg-hack.
Actually, the registry edit can be troublesome. For example, on my JasJar, if I tell it to never hang up, then I get that same connected-but-disconnected state that the K-Jam gets into on T-Mobile US. I haven't tried this app but rather than setting registry keys, it looks like it does some "keep alive" activity, which I've been simulating on my device by setting a POP3 account to check every 45 minutes.

[Silver5]

I've been using this program for many months, maybe for about a year now. It works great on my 128mb Jam as well as on my Qtek 9100 now.

[heliod]

Strange, but for some reason both my Jasjar and my K-Jam have the disconnect button (without this software installed), which appears only when I am connected to GPRS or 3G.

What I am missing is the Connect link which I had in WM2003 and I don't have in WM5, what forces me to go to Connections in case I want to manually connect before I do something in the internet.

Anyway, the Audio tweak was very important on my PDA2K for streaming and Navigation systems, and I believe that also in the WM5 devices it will help a lot.

[belfast-biker]

This prog was great on my Jam, but doesn,t appear to work on my exec... after checking my emails, it still disconnects... I,m on O2 if that's relevant...

[pocketpcadmirer]

This prog was great on my Jam, but doesn,t appear to work on my exec... after checking my emails, it still disconnects... I,m on O2 if that's relevant...

Same problem here

Sunny