what does it mean when i just have a large white box with a G in it? am i conected to anything?
then what is the small white box with thw G in it when i have two smallish arrows across the bottom of it?
fil said:
what does it mean when i just have a large white box with a G in it? am i conected to anything?
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Reading the manual does help.
To answer your question, large white box with G = not connected to your cellular data plan.
then what is the small white box with thw G in it when i have two smallish arrows across the bottom of it?
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Connected to data plan.
wdid read the intructions, but not in there?
tho thats sort of cleared up my question, as it changes from a large G to the smaller with arrows when web brousing and email checking,
but when i check my shares via tiny stocks stock manager, it conects to the net but the G symbol stays large??? any ideas on what im conecting to, and how???
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i got a new hd2 today..and whenever i try going on the internet something shows up that im not in my roaming area or something like that lol
i'm in my country so i don't get it..& i have a data plan so does any1 know about this? or is this some windows glitch?
is there a symbol that looks like /\ next to the reception indicator? in the upper left corner of the today screen is your operator text. does it show your operator's name?
could you be more specific on the icon that appears? could try calling your neywork provider..or check your setting>connections and check if everything is configured correctly hope that helps
Taken from the official Google Blog:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/some-cool-android-tips-and-tricks.html
Notification bar icons (Wi-Fi, network coverage bars, etc.): Turn green when you have an uninhibited connection to Google, white when you don't. Hint: if you're in a hotel or airport using Wi-Fi, the bars won't turn green until you launch the browser and get past the captive portal.
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But why Google do that?
Why it is waiting the browser to launch?
Or is it just the tips to make it turn to green faster?
hospitals, and airports usually have you agree to some terms before you can full access the net with their connection. That's why. I was on a bus last weekend which blocked many websites, including Googles. So I had an internet connection but YouTube, and other websites were block, and my phone couldn't access the Google servers.
That is a neat feature. Often times my school wifi will do this until I login with my password and username
I was driving and had full bars w/ 3G but could not get any data... no email refresh, no maps update, no web... I turned on and off airplane mode to reset the connection and then the bars turned full w/ 3G but Green and emails and data started flowing...
I think when it is greyed out you have no data connection but there is a connection available... you just arent on it...
Slapinfunk said:
I think when it is greyed out you have no data connection but there is a connection available... you just arent on it...
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That is not correct.
When you have any bars, white or green, you have a data connection. When you have green bars, you have a data connection that's working with Google's sync servers.
I can get websites with white bars, but email and google voice don't sync unless they're green.
This is the only phone I have that behaves like this...I do not like it.
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That is not correct.
When you have any bars, white or green, you have a data connection. When you have green bars, you have a data connection that's working with Google's sync servers.
I can get websites with white bars, but email and google voice don't sync unless they're green.
This is the only phone I have that behaves like this...I do not like it.
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Well, the one time I did not have Green Bars I was not able to get any data while displaying full bars and 3G. I am describing my one situation, if it comes up again, ill let you know...
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Well, the one time I did not have Green Bars I was not able to get any data while displaying full bars and 3G. I am describing my one situation, if it comes up again, ill let you know...
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Fair enough! I wasn't trying to put you down. I'll also monitor and correct myself if I'm wrong.
Peace.
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Well, the one time I did not have Green Bars I was not able to get any data while displaying full bars and 3G. I am describing my one situation, if it comes up again, ill let you know...
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Same with me...when i had white bars I wasn't able to connect to data at all and I think, I wasn't able to make a call either, but I'm not sure
plmiller0905 said:
Same with me...when i had white bars I wasn't able to connect to data at all and I think, I wasn't able to make a call either, but I'm not sure
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Do you make your calls through Google Voice? I wonder if you have to have a data connection to do that. I don't think it works that way, but might be the issue.
Okay guys, I had an opportunity to test the data-works-with-white-bars situation I mentioned earlier today.
I've uploaded an unedited youtube video showing the phone has white bars and I am able to browse to a website still.
Data definitely works for non-Google-SYNCed services on my phone, even Google sites.
My S seems to display grey/white indicators at times and will not return green unless I reboot. Does anyone else have this issue?
It seems to happen on mine once or twice a day.
Thanks!
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My S seems to display grey/white indicators at times and will not return green unless I reboot. Does anyone else have this issue?
It seems to happen on mine once or twice a day.
Thanks!
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It might have happened to me once. I think I rebooted like you did, but in hindsight, I think just going to Settings, Wireless, and turning on/off airplane mode would be just as effective and a little quicker.
This is a very annoying new "feature" of Android and the Nexus S.
This is an awesome feature. Showing that you are "connected" to Wifi or a Cell network is of little value unless you know that the connection is able to get to the internet. Saves you if the internet connection goes down or if the connection needs a login to work, etc.
DebauchedSloth said:
This is an awesome feature. Showing that you are "connected" to Wifi or a Cell network is of little value unless you know that the connection is able to get to the internet. Saves you if the internet connection goes down or if the connection needs a login to work, etc.
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The phone is able to get to the internet with grey bars. Go back a couple of posts and you'll see a link to a video I made showing that grey bars didn't keep me from opening a web page in the browser. The green/gray doesn't tell you that your connection is down, it tells you that you're not logged in with Google services.
I like the green/white in terms of it telling you your status, what I meant was that the logging out of google services is annoying. I've not seen this kind of behavior (having to wait for green bars or reboot the phone to get to Google) on any of my four prior Android phones.
I wonder if this has anything to do with the tzone/web2go blocking going on.
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This is an awesome feature. Showing that you are "connected" to Wifi or a Cell network is of little value unless you know that the connection is able to get to the internet. Saves you if the internet connection goes down or if the connection needs a login to work, etc.
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Agreed, for the last two years my G1 would show a connection and I would try and use a wifi signal to no avail. In the end I knew it was because I needed to agree to some terms but couldn't with my phone's browser or all the things I wanted to use were blocked.
It is also good for troubleshooting. Like if there is something wrong with it connecting to GTalk.
It's funny that it has become such a big item of discussion when it should be there to make life better for us.
I think the discussion is because a lot of people who on prior devices never had issues connecting to GTalk or the Market, or Gmail, or [insert Google app here] all of a sudden are finding that they can't get to them until the bars turn green.
I've certainly never noticed issues on my four prior Androids with this. Power up the screen, open a Google service and it's live.
With the Nexus S (or Gingerbread), power up the screen and wait some random amount of time before the bars turn green. No Google services until the bars turn green.
There's also a lot of confusion over what the green means. Many, many posts out there with people saying that they can't get any data services from any source (ie., browse the web) when the bars are grey. My own test (demonstrated in a video on an early post in this thread) shows that I am able to surf the web to a site with grey bars. At least on my phone, grey does not mean connected but no data...it means connected to working data, but not logged in with Google.
plmiller0905 said:
Same with me...when i had white bars I wasn't able to connect to data at all and I think, I wasn't able to make a call either, but I'm not sure
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Well that still makes sense, because say your network data connection went down in your area for whatever reason. Your icons would turn white cause obviously you can't ping the Google servers, but at the same time its just a larger issue of totally no data in that particular instance.
But white icons does mean no contact to Google servers only, but regular data should still work.
been searching for a bit and i cant seem to find an answer. i just got my nexus 7, unlocked it and loaded CWM. booted back up and connected to wifi and loaded my gmal account. on the pull down notification bar where the carrier text normally is, it shows my routers SSID....
wtf? bug? intentional? can i change it?
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been searching for a bit and i cant seem to find an answer. i just got my nexus 7, unlocked it and loaded CWM. booted back up and connected to wifi and loaded my gmal account. on the pull down notification bar where the carrier text normally is, it shows my routers SSID....
wtf? bug? intentional? can i change it?
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I would assume it's intentional. On a Phone it shows Carrier name because thats is the primary connection method. On the N7, we only have Wi-Fi so SSID makes sense.
Hi, there i updated my n910p to stock 6.0.1 PE1 and noticed that my phone is having exclamation mark on top on network signals when my phone is not connected to mobile internet or wifi , as soon as i connect , the mark is gone... is there a way to remove this mark?? it looks ugly...! my phone is rooted as well..
A screenshot? Not that I know the answer to your problem but it doesn't hurt to actually see that sign.
ithehappy said:
A screenshot? Not that I know the answer to your problem but it doesn't hurt to actually see that sign.
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take a look... anyone plz post a solution?
Try cleaning your SIM card to see if that helps. If it doesn't do a hard factory reset but clear the cache in the hard factory reset before doing it.
DarkGuyver said:
Try cleaning your SIM card to see if that helps. If it doesn't do a hard factory reset but clear the cache in the hard factory reset before doing it.
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thanks for replying but nothing helped
Are you using an unlocked phone on a different carrier?
usju said:
Are you using an unlocked phone on a different carrier?
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yes i m using sprint unlocked phone in pakistan
n70shan said:
yes i m using sprint unlocked phone in pakistan
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Now we are getting somewhere. There is a high probability that your device doesn't support your cell carriers LTE/4G bands. As US Sprint devices are designed to operate on their own LTE/4G bands.
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Now we are getting somewhere. There is a high probability that your device doesn't support your cell carriers LTE/4G bands. As US Sprint devices are designed to operate on their own LTE/4G bands.
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i know it man, my device can not be connected to 4g here in pak already and i m using 3G only but i am talking about exclamation mark even on gsm network when the internet is off...
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Now we are getting somewhere. There is a high probability that your device doesn't support your cell carriers LTE/4G bands. As US Sprint devices are designed to operate on their own LTE/4G bands.
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Exactly. I had the same problem. 4G didn't work for me. I simply sold the phone and bought an N910c.
The exclamation mark will be there if there is no data or wi-fi connection available. I am afraid there is little you can do to remove it. But rest assured this is not a problem with the phone or the software. And Sprint unlocked phones are perfectly usable in 3G mode in the Indian Sub-continent. I have used a Sprint Galaxy Note 3 for more than a year without any problems. So there is nothing wrong with the phone or the update you received. If you still feel the need to remove it you can try a factory reset or try and switch the Network mode to 'Global' (Sprint phones being both CDMA/GSM compatible, should have a 'Global' mode) and see if the signal changes. Also try and keep Data on at all times and see. And from your comments it seems your phone is working fine both over wi-fi and Data Connection. So, don't get unnecessarily worried. Everything's fine.
I have a note 4 from sprint here in jamaica it shows the same exclamation sign but I can't make a call nor text
I have similar issue.
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take a look... anyone plz post a solution?
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When I connect to wifi with no internet, I get the same "sign in to network" message. It can be recreated over and over. I like using my android device to control other devices over wifi, but this message drives me nuts. Also, my device will not automatically reconnect to wifi with no internet. This is a stupid setup. Can anyone help?
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When I connect to wifi with no internet, I get the same "sign in to network" message. It can be recreated over and over. I like using my android device to control other devices over wifi, but this message drives me nuts. Also, my device will not automatically reconnect to wifi with no internet. This is a stupid setup. Can anyone help?
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Welcome to XDA @mpot
I'm not sure if this will help but it's worth a try. Open "Developer option" in your phone settings and look for "Networking" and you'll notice additional WiFi settings are available.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.re...to_those_having_wifi_issues_on_60_use_legacy/
Oh, as long as your in there, I recommend setting Windows animation scale, Transition animation scale and Animation duration scale to "0" or "Off". You'll notice a faster response when using your device.
I have a Verizon HTC 10.
Yesterday, on an out-of-town work assignment, I connected to a Wi-Fi network there.
While on that network, I downloaded an app that I needed for that work assignment.
I was using a bluetooth keyboard with an Android tablet in the vicinity of the phone, didn't try to connect to the phone but did connect to the tablet.
I mention those things first because they were the only out-of-the ordinary things I did with the phone yesterday.
The reason I'm posting this call-out for help is that I noticed before I headed home yesterday that a padlock icon had appeared next to my Wi-Fi indicator in the phone's status bar.
My phone appears to be working just fine. But this padlock icon is driving me crazy because I don't know what it is, and I guess I'm OCD because I want to know what caused it and what I can do to get rid of it.
Can anyone provide any input here?
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I have a Verizon HTC 10.
Yesterday, on an out-of-town work assignment, I connected to a Wi-Fi network there.
While on that network, I downloaded an app that I needed for that work assignment.
I was using a bluetooth keyboard with an Android tablet in the vicinity of the phone, didn't try to connect to the phone but did connect to the tablet.
I mention those things first because they were the only out-of-the ordinary things I did with the phone yesterday.
The reason I'm posting this call-out for help is that I noticed before I headed home yesterday that a padlock icon had appeared next to my Wi-Fi indicator in the phone's status bar.
My phone appears to be working just fine. But this padlock icon is driving me crazy because I don't know what it is, and I guess I'm OCD because I want to know what caused it and what I can do to get rid of it.
Can anyone provide any input here?
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I'm pretty sure that padlock icon appeared when you connected to the new wifi/bluetooth connection and your phone asked you if you wanted to add the connecting device to your list of trusted devices. That would make your phone unlock whenever it was connected to that device.
You can see a list of trusted devices in settings/security/smart lock. Also next time you see the lock icon just swipe down on your notification bar and see what it is.
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I'm pretty sure that padlock icon appeared when you connected to the new wifi/bluetooth connection and your phone asked you if you wanted to add the connecting device to your list of trusted devices. That would make your phone unlock whenever it was connected to that device.
You can see a list of trusted devices in settings/security/smart lock. Also next time you see the lock icon just swipe down on your notification bar and see what it is.
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That's just it, I'm showing no trusted devices, and there's no indication in the notification bar of what this lock icon is. I did enough research to try those things, but am getting nada.
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That's just it, I'm showing no trusted devices, and there's no indication in the notification bar of what this lock icon is. I did enough research to try those things, but am getting nada.
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They don't appear in your trusted list because you didn't add them. They were suggested to you as trusted devices only when you first connected to them, but without accepting you won't see them in the trusted list.
I think it's VPN
prw94 said:
I have a Verizon HTC 10.
Yesterday, on an out-of-town work assignment, I connected to a Wi-Fi network there.
While on that network, I downloaded an app that I needed for that work assignment.
The reason I'm posting this call-out for help is that I noticed before I headed home yesterday that a padlock icon had appeared next to my Wi-Fi indicator in the phone's status bar.
Can anyone provide any input here?
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It means you are on a VPN.