New FREE Utility, Disable GPRS connections for when you're abroad |
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 Sep 20 2006, 10:55
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 The Main Man  Group: Admin Team Posts: 19,929 Joined: 6th November 2002 From: Norwich, UK Member No.: 1 Device(s): HTC Advantage  |
Quick, handy little application i've rustled up as i'm off abroad for a few days soon, and don't want to run up a huge GPRS bill.
It lists your GPRS connections, and allows you to disable them so that they won't be used. Disable your connections before you leave, re-enable them when you return - piece of cake with MoDaCo NoData  Note that if you get bizarre registry errors on toggling, you need to app unlock your device (e.g. with SDA Application Unlocker). P [Edit 15/01/08: Now added Smartphone support (finally)!] [Edit 29/03/08: Minor update] 
nodata.cab ( 25.23K )
Number of downloads: 9124-------------------- Paul O'Brien - Microsoft MVP, Mobile Devices, MoDaCo.network Founder. Check out my Blog! £10 off a £20 spend at eXpansys - click for details |
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Sep 20 2006, 10:59
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 The artist formerly known as Peekie Group: Posters Posts: 1,858 Joined: 26th October 2003 Member No.: 19,316 Device(s): HTC Diamond / Iphone 3g |
cool utility paul, have a good holiday
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Sep 20 2006, 11:03
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The Main Man Group: Admin Team Posts: 19,929 Joined: 6th November 2002 From: Norwich, UK Member No.: 1 Device(s): HTC Advantage |
A few days in Boston for Mobius.
That makes it 'work' P -------------------- Paul O'Brien - Microsoft MVP, Mobile Devices, MoDaCo.network Founder. Check out my Blog! £10 off a £20 spend at eXpansys - click for details |
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Sep 20 2006, 11:22
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 Addict  Group: Posters Posts: 681 Joined: 30th August 2006 From: Kent - Garden of England Member No.: 204,153 Device(s): MDA Vario II, MDA Compact IV |
QUOTE(Paul (MVP) @ Sep 20 2006, 12:03)  A few days in Boston for Mobius. That makes it 'work' ;) P Neat little solution - thanks. Does this mean we can run riot on here for a few days ;) Richard -------------------- Richard
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Sep 20 2006, 11:26
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The Main Man Group: Admin Team Posts: 19,929 Joined: 6th November 2002 From: Norwich, UK Member No.: 1 Device(s): HTC Advantage |
I'll still have access
P -------------------- Paul O'Brien - Microsoft MVP, Mobile Devices, MoDaCo.network Founder. Check out my Blog! £10 off a £20 spend at eXpansys - click for details |
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Sep 20 2006, 12:12
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 Enthusiast  Group: Posters Posts: 191 Joined: 31st December 2003 From: Bristol, UK Member No.: 26,640 Device(s): Orange HTC P4550 (aka TyTN II) |
QUOTE(Paul (MVP) @ Sep 20 2006, 12:26) I'll still have access ;) P Nice little utility Paul - installed it in ExtROM, went to UPX it and....oh, Paul's already done that for us ;) Enjoy Boston! -------------------- A wise man speaks when he has something to say; A fool speaks when he has to say something
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Sep 25 2006, 08:48
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 Enthusiast Group: Posters Posts: 267 Joined: 27th August 2006 From: Portsmouth, UK Member No.: 203,741 Device(s): T-Mobile Touch Plus |
Man that is EXACTLY what i was looking for
Out of interest How does it actually do this. does it change the connect settings so it the connection eg t-mobile internet dials a non existant connection and then when toggled back changes it back to the original?? either way brilliant thanks very much for this. Out of interest if no data is enabled and im on holiday abroad. but have the phone on to recieve calls and texts. will pocket outlook which i have 3 email accounts set up on come up with error messages every 15 mins (the refresh time of my email accounts) i hope not JEREMY -------------------- Current Phone: T-Mobile Touch Plus (HTC Touch Dual) on Flext 30 with WNW and 2Gb MicroSD Sandisk
Previous Pocket PCs T-Mobile Vario II Psion Series 3c Recent Previous Phones Sony J9 Casio T?? (OMG yes i had a casio phone!! worst one ive ever had) Nokia 6230 (with 256 mb card) Sony Erricson K750i (damn good phone with opera and msn on it also had a really good camera and top knotch music capabilities) (1gb High Speed MSProDuo card) |
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Sep 25 2006, 08:52
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The Main Man Group: Admin Team Posts: 19,929 Joined: 6th November 2002 From: Norwich, UK Member No.: 1 Device(s): HTC Advantage |
The application interrogates the registry to list the connections, then toggles the 'enabled' value on the connection between 1 and 0.
If it is set to 0, the device does not try to connect it. With regards to the timed sync, I think it will just 'not happen' (that seems to be the case with DirectPush too). Only one way to find out tho eh? P -------------------- Paul O'Brien - Microsoft MVP, Mobile Devices, MoDaCo.network Founder. Check out my Blog! £10 off a £20 spend at eXpansys - click for details |
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Sep 25 2006, 10:34
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Enthusiast Group: Posters Posts: 267 Joined: 27th August 2006 From: Portsmouth, UK Member No.: 203,741 Device(s): T-Mobile Touch Plus |
Cheers for the answer Paul
Great little utility JEREMY -------------------- Current Phone: T-Mobile Touch Plus (HTC Touch Dual) on Flext 30 with WNW and 2Gb MicroSD Sandisk
Previous Pocket PCs T-Mobile Vario II Psion Series 3c Recent Previous Phones Sony J9 Casio T?? (OMG yes i had a casio phone!! worst one ive ever had) Nokia 6230 (with 256 mb card) Sony Erricson K750i (damn good phone with opera and msn on it also had a really good camera and top knotch music capabilities) (1gb High Speed MSProDuo card) |
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Sep 25 2006, 12:27
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 Peanut Brain Group: MoDaCo Plus Posts: 6,168 Joined: 10th September 2004 From: Surrey, England Member No.: 56,072 Device(s): Athena, Qtek 8500 |
Why is this in the Herpes section? Won't it work on my Universal?
Cheers -------------------- He who asks a question looks foolish for 5 minutes. He who doesn't ask a question remains foolish forever.
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Sep 25 2006, 12:37
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The Main Man Group: Admin Team Posts: 19,929 Joined: 6th November 2002 From: Norwich, UK Member No.: 1 Device(s): HTC Advantage |
Yeah, it probably will
P -------------------- Paul O'Brien - Microsoft MVP, Mobile Devices, MoDaCo.network Founder. Check out my Blog! £10 off a £20 spend at eXpansys - click for details |
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Sep 25 2006, 22:31
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 Newbie  Group: Posters Posts: 6 Joined: 18th September 2006 Member No.: 206,762 Device(s): Orange SPV M3100 |
Just been installing a few of the freebies for my new SPV M3100 and have to say thanks for a great site
Not sure if I'm doing something wrong with the no data utility but I get 3 options (Orange GPRS WAP, Orange Internet and Orange MMS). When I try to disable GPRS it actually disables MMS and I can't seem to get any other combination working. Is this just a M3100 thing do you think? |
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Sep 26 2006, 18:31
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Regular  Group: Posters Posts: 63 Joined: 17th August 2006 Member No.: 202,325 Device(s): null |
Word of notice when roaming. I just got back from the states - I had the GPRS monitor running to make sure nothing was downloading, and every now and then it'd register a few hundred K - quite often when I tried to connect to the hotel WiFi and it missed - it's start to dial and I'd cancel. However looking at my t-mobile bill it hasn't (thus far) actually logged any activity. So either it didn't actually download anything (and the GPRS monitor is confused) or it takes a while for roaming data charges to be transferred (even though the voice calls already have).
Just a point of note. |
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Sep 26 2006, 18:57
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The Main Man Group: Admin Team Posts: 19,929 Joined: 6th November 2002 From: Norwich, UK Member No.: 1 Device(s): HTC Advantage |
QUOTE(intgom @ Sep 25 2006, 23:31) Just been installing a few of the freebies for my new SPV M3100 and have to say thanks for a great site Not sure if I'm doing something wrong with the no data utility but I get 3 options (Orange GPRS WAP, Orange Internet and Orange MMS). When I try to disable GPRS it actually disables MMS and I can't seem to get any other combination working. Is this just a M3100 thing do you think? The one you need to disable is 'Orange Internet'  P -------------------- Paul O'Brien - Microsoft MVP, Mobile Devices, MoDaCo.network Founder. Check out my Blog! £10 off a £20 spend at eXpansys - click for details |
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Sep 26 2006, 20:44
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Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 6 Joined: 18th September 2006 Member No.: 206,762 Device(s): Orange SPV M3100 |
QUOTE(Paul (MVP) @ Sep 26 2006, 19:57) The one you need to disable is 'Orange Internet' P Thanks for the reply. When I try to toggle 'Orange Internet' it actually disables 'Orange MMS'. In fact, no matter what I toggle it only ever seems to disable the MMS function - weird! Any ideas? TIA |
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Sep 27 2006, 10:57
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The Main Man Group: Admin Team Posts: 19,929 Joined: 6th November 2002 From: Norwich, UK Member No.: 1 Device(s): HTC Advantage |
That's not good!
There's a bug in the application methinks! I'm on it... P -------------------- Paul O'Brien - Microsoft MVP, Mobile Devices, MoDaCo.network Founder. Check out my Blog! £10 off a £20 spend at eXpansys - click for details |
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Sep 27 2006, 11:09
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The Main Man Group: Admin Team Posts: 19,929 Joined: 6th November 2002 From: Norwich, UK Member No.: 1 Device(s): HTC Advantage |
I've updated the CAB in the first post, please retry!
That's what happen's when you test on a device with only 1 connection P -------------------- Paul O'Brien - Microsoft MVP, Mobile Devices, MoDaCo.network Founder. Check out my Blog! £10 off a £20 spend at eXpansys - click for details |
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Sep 27 2006, 11:51
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Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 6 Joined: 18th September 2006 Member No.: 206,762 Device(s): Orange SPV M3100 |
QUOTE(Paul (MVP) @ Sep 27 2006, 12:09) I've updated the CAB in the first post, please retry! That's what happen's when you test on a device with only 1 connection P Thanks Paul - works a treat 
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Sep 28 2006, 07:46
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 Regular Group: Posters Posts: 52 Joined: 4th January 2005 From: Cardiff Member No.: 104,366 Device(s): Touch Dual |
thanks paul, this looks perfect as am just checking in to fly out to boston! one problem, when I try and download it using IE on my M3100 the resulting file is index.php and I cannot rename it in file explorer as the file extension is hidden?
cheers..... ed -------------------- Get unlimited online backups from Carbonite - perfect when 2.5 gb just isnt enough and less than $5 per month! Current Device: HTC Touch Dual with all the Orange junk removed Previous Devices: Palm Treo 750v, SPV M3100 - Black Majik WM6 Rom, SPV C500 |
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Sep 28 2006, 11:12
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The Main Man Group: Admin Team Posts: 19,929 Joined: 6th November 2002 From: Norwich, UK Member No.: 1 Device(s): HTC Advantage |
Weirdness, your browser is doing something weird then
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