Just a quick post to toss up a few hacks I’ve found and use for the XV6700. A comment on one of my previous posts asked how to do the wifi + phone hack, so for those of you that don’t know how, here’s how you do it.
Download PHM Regedit
Go to the key HKEY LOCAL MACHINE\SERVICES\WirelessMGR and change “MutexFlag” from 1 to 0.
soft reset. Poof, you’ll now be able to have wifi on while the phone is on without any issues.
Speed up switching between Portrait & Landscape Modes
Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\GDI\GLYPHCACHE\
Change limit from 8192 to 16384 or 32768 (experiment to see which works best for you)
soft reset
Enable BT & USB DUN
Go to the phone application and dial ##3328873 (FEATURE) and hit dial
it will ask for your unlock code, so enter 000000 (six zeroes)
EPST will popup and you’ll see two entries: Enable Wmodem and Enable BT DUN. Highlight each in turn and click edit on the bottom right, change both to enabled. Push ok and it will prompt you to soft reset. After soft resetting, you can then dialup via Bluetooth or USB cable. In order to use the USB cable, you’ll need the CDMA USB modem drivers which are on the 6700 product CD under \OEM\APPS\Drivers\CDMA USB Modem. Or download them here: CDMA USB modem drivers. It comes with a dialer program that you don’t necessarily need to use. However, if you’re using the USB cable, you have to start the wmodem program on your pocketPC to keep it from trying to activesync. It’s located in \windows\wmodem.exe. Run this before you connect the handheld to your PC via USB. Then you can just setup a DUN connection in windows to dial #777, use your 10-digit number @vzw3g.com as your username and vzw as the password. Once the connection is setup (assuming you’re using a manual connection in windows)
click on the “setup” button in the connection under USB CDMA modem and change the COM port speed to whatever the highest setting you have is. After that, you should be able to dial up just fine. Worked great for me.
Change softkeys on “Today” screen
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Today\keys\112 — left
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Today\keys\113 — right
You may not have a 113, but you can just make the 113 identical to 112 and change the “open” command. The value for “Default” controls what is displayed on the screen. For those curious, messaging is “tmail.exe”.
Get rid of SMS Delivery acknowledgements (popup and text msg)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\OEM\SMS
change “delivery ack” from 1 to 0. Now no more stupid delivery confirmation text msgs clogging up your inbox. Note that this sms is only received when you send an sms to another VZW user.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Inbox
click on “Inbox” then Edit, new key. Name the new key “Settings”
Click on “Settings” and then edit, new string value. Value Name should be “SMSNoSentMsg”, Value Data should be “1″.
That’s most of the hacks I’ve done to my particular phone, though I do have a few more I could post if anyone actually wants them. 
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Hey, thanks for the hacks - what else do you have, and has Verizon messed with you about the DUN? I’ve seen a couple of posts here and there saying they will terminate your service…
I haven’t used the DUN enough to have Verizon mess with me too much… Thing is, I use 1GB per month alone just on the phone so tethering might be difficult for them to notice. I’ll post some more of the hacks I’ve accumulated in a bit.
Can the cell carrier (e.g. VZW, Sprint) tell if you are using the phone teathered to your pc?
does that six zero unlock code allow me to use the phone with another provider? specifically, if i unlock a verizon wireless phone using hte “000000″ code, will i then be able to use it with alltel (they also support the xv6700).
thanks,
sam
The six zero unlock code SHOULD allow you to unlock the phone for use on any CDMA network provided the provider in question will allow you to use phones that are not branded by them. I have no idea if Alltel will activate non-Alltel phones but unlocking all the programming functions on a VZW phone should in fact let you use it on Alltel’s network.
Does anyone have a hack for the 6700 that will make the wi-fi work for internet access instead of it trying to dial everytime I.E. is open?