Remove T-Mobile branding on Samsung Omnia 7 (partially)

Dear reader,

if you are part of the handful of users that use Internet Explorer on their Samsung Omnia 7 devices and are unsatisfied with the branded T-Mobile search, here is your solution. You can change between Bing and T-Mobile as search provider.

Technically the application changes the default search scope of Internet Explorer from TMO to BING or vice versa. This is possible with the help of a native Samsung DLL, therefore sideloading abilities (Chevron WP7) are required.

Download here: Click.

Interesting code snippet:

public string SearchScope
{
  get
  {
    string searchScope;
    this.SecRILControlInterface.RegGetString(
      HKEY_CURRENT_USER,
      @"Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes",
      "DefaultScope",
      out searchScope);
    return searchScope;
  }
set
  {
    this.SecRILControlInterface.RegSetString(
     HKEY_CURRENT_USER,
     @"Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes",
     "DefaultScope",
     value);
  }
}

As always, feel free to contact.

Best regards,
-tobias