'You are about to go online' message

[Guest nuttyphilt]

Any way to get rid of this bloody annoying message when opening Internet Explorer?

Other than that, great phone :)

[Guest PayableOnDeath]

yeh, click on Ok or Cancel :D ;)

lol

other than that am not sure, prob something in the registery :)

[Guest lekus]

It's caused by one of the cab files that gets installed from the extended ROM if you don't bypass it on your first start up. I think it's specific to T-Mobile i.e. the Vario although I forget the name of the cab.

I was initially annoyed by it but it can become a bit of a life saver if you weren't meaning to use GPRS to visit a website. There have been a few occasions where unless being prompted by the annoying dialog that pops up then I probably would've been paying for GPRS charges without realising.

If popped up when there was no WiFi, BlueTooth or USB connection and a GPRS connection was going to be made, then it would be much better I think.

[Guest spacemonkey]

Mine's a qtek and it has the hover message "Connecting to O2 GPRS" it only stays on screen for a couple of seconds so it's not a big hassle.

I also find it good, I think I've hooked up to wi-fi but it actually hasn't found the network or whatever and this immediately tells me that I'm not wi-fi'd up and that it's going gprs so I can cancel the request and sort out the settings...

[Guest mr_mlk]

Mine's a qtek and it has the hover message "Connecting to O2 GPRS" it only stays on screen for a couple of seconds so it's not a big hassle.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Different message. That connection message you also get, but you have a popup window (not bubble, popup) on MDA Vario. OK takes you to www.t-mobile-fav.co.uk (NOT home), while cancel opens your bookmarks.

It is a pain, and stops spb Pocket Plus multiwindow-PocketIE from working.

I really really want it gone.

[Guest indiekiduk]

I would like it gone too. anyone know how?

[Guest lekus]

You can change the website it sends you to by changing it in the registry. I forget which key and can't check right now. I've set mine to about:blank.

You could probably hack it's references out of the registry (GUID's and related keys, etc) to stop it from loading on next reset I think.

[Guest jfran]

If you back up your data, do a hard reset and avoid the customisation setup. Selectively install the cabs of choice and avoid the ones with reference to t-mobile browser

hope that helps

jim

[Guest freeloader]

If you back up your data, do a hard reset and avoid the customisation setup. Selectively install the cabs of choice and avoid the ones with reference to t-mobile browser

hope that helps

jim

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How do you avoid the customization setup? ... I've been trying to stop the phone installing anything "T-Mobile"...

If anyone can do it, please show us how.

So far, I need to:

- Get rid of their branded IE

- Remove all T-Mobile buttons & links

- Change the dialer skin back to original Microsoft one

- Change the T-Mobile boot logo to original Microsoft Windows Mobile logo

Thanks

[Guest lekus]

How do you avoid the customization setup? ... I've been trying to stop the phone installing anything "T-Mobile"...

If anyone can do it, please show us how.

So far, I need to:

- Get rid of their branded IE

- Remove all T-Mobile buttons & links

- Change the dialer skin back to original Microsoft one

- Change the T-Mobile boot logo to original Microsoft Windows Mobile logo

Thanks

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

You'll have to do a hard reset to get rid of all that. MitchellO's guide covers everything you need to know about stopping the customization of your phone after a hard reset. Bear in mind you'll lose any settings, messages, contacts, etc.

http://www.modaco.com/index.php?act=Attach...e=post&id=16540

Specifically, you might want to NOT install the following CAB's, as I believe they will customize and setup the things that you don't want:

TMO_UK_Browser_Signed.cab

- I think this adds the "You are about to go online" popup dialog to IE.

TMO_UK_pIEDefaultPage_Signed.CAB

- Set's IE default homepage to tMobile one.

Signed_TMUK_Cust_Wiz03000100.sa.CAB

and/or

CAB-Customization-TMUK-Wizard-01-04-03Oct05.CAB

- I think one of these customizes the look of the phone, i.e. the Today screen theme, phone pad, etc.

Signed_DiscoButton8.sa.CAB

- Controls the fuction of the Vario's tMobile logo'd button? Not sure.

I'm not sure if one of the customization CAB's above also affects the boot screen. You might also need to run one of the customization CAB's to get MMS working, I don't know which one if so.

Don't run cusTSK.exe as this will start the customization process that you previously stopped by soft reseting.

Edited January 15, 2006 by lekus

[Guest lekus]

Also, to change the tMobile 'forced' default webpage, edit the following registry key:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\PIEPlug]

"home"="about:blank"

"WebStub"=dword:00000000

Change the value of "home" to whatever website you want. Above I've changed it to about:blank, IE's blank white empty page. Don't put quotes around it with whatever PPC registry editing app you use.

I've just noticed a 2nd registry entry that looks similar, and I can't remember which one it is that you need to change. Change both to be sure.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\BrandedBrowser]

"local_page"="about:blank"

"home"="http://www.t-mobile-favourites.co.uk"

You can change the values of both "local_page" and "home" to other sites.

Edited January 16, 2006 by lekus

[Guest freeloader]

Thanks for the all the info dude.

[Guest mr_mlk]

Thanks all. I decided to do a clean install this morning, then installed all but

TMO_UK_Browser_Signed.cab in the extended_rom. However it then did not have MMS in Outlook. Grr.

I installed TMO_UK_Browser_Signed.cab, and had the hated message, but still no MMS.

I considered making a backup of the "clean" IE, and copy the exe over a branded install. Alas you can not copy exes in the ROM, so that was out.

So I decided to do something stupid. Err, brave. I edited the config.txt file in the extended_rom, and remove the line "CAB:

TMO_UK_Browser_Signed.cab", and rebooted.

Hey presto. I now have Branded IE (\windows\BrandedBrowser.exe, which the (T) on the today page opens, I'll have to work on that), and unbanded IE.

Woot!

[Guest marcwic]

Also, to change the tMobile 'forced' default webpage, edit the following registry key:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\PIEPlug]

"home"="about:blank"

"WebStub"=dword:00000000

Change the value of "home" to whatever website you want. Above I've changed it to about:blank, IE's blank white empty page. Don't put quotes around it with whatever PPC registry editing app you use.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Also discovered if you edit the WebStub decimal value to 1 it gets rid of the "are you sure you wont to go online" message

[Guest marcwic]

Also discovered if you edit the WebStub decimal value to 1 it gets rid of the "are you sure you wont to go online" message

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But there is there is some process that keeps changing it back!

Weird!

[Guest treblechance]

I installed flash player 7 for windows mobile 5 and for some reason the message no longer pops up. I also unistalled flash player 6 and may have done some other things but it no longer loads the favourites page by default and doesn't ask that dreaded 'going online' question.

[Guest KixAss]

I've got a solution, but you'll need to go into the registry:

• Go to the registry
  
• Find: HKEY_ROOT\CLSID\{93AFDD66-D450-42F5-9997-1E58C5582292}\InProcServer32
  
• Change the value of the (Default) field to a invalid/unknown filename, like PIEPlug.dll1 (with the one at the back)
  
• Start IE. You won't get the message ;)
  

Edited April 19, 2006 by KixAss

[Guest JonTheNiceGuy]

I've opened Total Commander and pulled out all the cab files in there.

I'm making my way through them all, but so far, what I've found is that if you open them in WinZip, there's a file called custom~1.004, which has filenames in. These filenames need to be converted into DOS' 8.3 format to find out what it's applying.

I'm quite interested in what it's doing with all the files, but I'm not 100% certain what everything does.

If anyone can come up with some other results, it'll be quite interesting ;)