EDGE Icon Tweak
If you have one of the newer* ROMs for your HTC Wizard (aka Qtek 9100 / i-mate K-JAM) and your network supports EDGE, one tweak you can make is to change your network icon to indicate when you have an EDGE connection and when you have a GPRS connection. In other words, the “G” icon will show when you have GPRS and a “E” icon will show when you have EDGE. This should also work on the HTC Tornado (i-mate SP5 / Qtek 8310).
How? Edit a registry key, specifically HKLM\Drivers\BuiltIn\RIL Change EnableDifferGprsEdgeIcon to have a value of 1.
Don’t have a registry editor, or you don’t want to futz with the registry? No problem! Download this .cab file and run it on your device (or better yet, point Internet Explorer Mobile to the URL and pull it down directly on the device). If you're wondering, I created the .cab file myself. I plan on putting together additional tweaks in the weeks to come.
Now, there’s a slight catch (of course, eh?) – it won’t take effect immediately if you soft-reset due to the way the registry flushing works in Windows Mobile 5.0. So, what you can do is either 1) turn off your PPC (hold the power button until you receive the “Device will be off… “ prompt – tap yes to the prompt), then turn it back on again – or – 2) Wait a few minutes, then soft-reset your device.
When the device reboots, check your icon and, if you have EDGE, you can do the standard, “ooh, look .. shiny!” :)
-Nino
*ROM 1.6.7.1 or higher on the Qtek 9100.