Using The Registry File - Symbol PDT 8000 Series Product Reference Manual

6. Tap OK when all options are selected.
7. You will be asked to confirm the change. Tap Yes.
8. You will be asked if you want to overwrite the default GPRS settings permanently
a. Tap No to apply the new settings to the active parameters settings only. In this
case the new parameters are used for all subsequent PDP contexts until a cold
boot occurs.
b. Tap Yes to overwrite the default settings permanently. In this case a cold boot
will retain the new settings.
9. Tap OK on the Option Select dialog box.
Before you set up a GPRS connection, you must exit from GSM Demo. To exit, tap File -
Exit from the main GSM Demo screen. This closes the internal serial port and allows it to
be available for your GPRS connection.

Using the Registry File

The registry file contains the GPRS parameters for a particular network provider. The
entries in this file are read during cold boot and placed with the active registry settings. A
default registry file, GPRS.reg, is included on the terminal in the platform directory. You can
either create a brand new registry file with your GPRS parameters or edit the existing file.
Before working with registry files, it is very important to understand how
they are merged. All registry files in the Platform directory are are merged
before the registry files in the Application directory. In addition to this, when
you have two or more registry files in the same directory on your terminal,
they are merged in alphabetical order (by file name) after a hard reset. If a
customized registry file is executed before the original registry file, the cus-
tomized changes are overwritten. To ensure that customized registry files
are not overwritten at merge time, name them appropriately so that they
fall alphabetically after the original registry file an99d are executed after
the original file.
For example, if you make changes to the original registry file GPRS.reg
and save it as AGPRS.reg, the original GPRS.reg merges after AG-
PRS.reg and overwrites your customized registry file.
To configure parameters using the registry file, you can:
• create a new registry file
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