Right now, my brand-spankin' new S4 has about twelve icons on the status bar.
I can guess to the meaning of about six of them.
Is there a reference somewhere that explains what each of these icons means?
A screen shot would help cool guy.
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Jooosty said:
A screen shot would help cool guy.
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Here we go. (I think I attached it...)
A left pointing arrow with a '+' sign on it, an open box, a mail icon, a big M, a down arrow pointing to a horizontal line, a greyed out eye, a Bluetooth icon (that one I understand), a... well, I don't know what that is, a wi-fi signal strength indicator (I think), a 4G LTE indicator, a cell network signal strength indicator (I think), and a battery charge indicator (I think).
Is there some kind of master Secret Decoder Ring for these icons?
NogginBoink said:
Right now, my brand-spankin' new S4 has about twelve icons on the status bar.
I can guess to the meaning of about six of them.
Is there a reference somewhere that explains what each of these icons means?
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Go to Samsung web site and download the user manual for the phone most of the icons and meanings are in there
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Here we go. (I think I attached it...)
A left pointing arrow with a '+' sign on it, an open box, a mail icon, a big M, a down arrow pointing to a horizontal line, a greyed out eye, a Bluetooth icon (that one I understand), a... well, I don't know what that is, a wi-fi signal strength indicator (I think), a 4G LTE indicator, a cell network signal strength indicator (I think), and a battery charge indicator (I think).
Is there some kind of master Secret Decoder Ring for these icons?
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The fist one means there more
Next looks like the drop box icon
Then stock email
Gmail
Don't know
Smart stay
Bluetooth
Nfc
Wifi
Cell connection and single
Battery
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There's a manual!?
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Go to Samsung web site and download the user manual for the phone most of the icons and meanings are in there
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There was no manual in the box; I figured that meant there was no manual. How silly of me to expect a manual to be packaged with the product I purchased.
Would you be so kind as to post a link to the manual? I found Samsung's Galaxy S4 page at I-can't-pase-a-URL-because-of-my-postcount samsung.com/global/microsite/galaxys4 but I'll be a monkey's uncle if I can find a link to the user manual from there.
Seriously: thank you. I was honestly unaware that there was a manual for this device. (I was rather surprised at the lack of a manual, but saw no evidence to the contrary until I started this thread.)
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http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/c...1/ATT_SGH-i337_English_User_Manual_MDB_F3.pdf
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Down arrow pointing to a line is either a download or an app that has been updated.
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Dropbox, email, Gmail,downloads, smartview, nfc, bluetooth, ,wifi, 4glte
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Somehow Im retarded and my comp failed to load the whole thread. sorry. ignore
Just pull down your notification bar & it will tell you what & why you are getting these notifications
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hxxp://downloadcenter.samsung.com/content/UM/201304/20130425041202171/ATT_SGH-i337_English_User_Manual_MDB_F3.pdf
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Like StolenVW posted, the user manual contains a list of all of the icons that the device can display. I know it was very useful when my phone was switching into EDGE and I didn't recognize the ICON from my normal LTE one. Check it out if you haven't by now and you will see that they are all listed within its pages.
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Has anyone noticed that when you have the phone in landscape mode and you have the keyboard out and you are typing you loose wifi signal? Then remove left hand and signal comes back? I will have to make a video when I get home and have a camera to do so. Anyone else?
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Just tried it and nope...My signal doesnt even change 1 bar.
Your holding it wrong lol
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I tried this and I did lose one bar of wifi. I also tried with the keyboard closed by covering the top of the phone with my hand, and also lost a bar of wifi. But it was not a deathgrip issue where signal was instantly lost. Guess this just means the wifi antenna is on the top of the G2, and obstructing it has an effect.
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Defiantly not holding it wrong...and not apply hardly any pressure. I didn't notice it at all at home...but at my in laws. Possibly not a very strong wifi signal but makes 100% difference when I have my hand over the top of the phone. I've had an email waiting to send and as soon as I removed my hand the email sent. Will post video hopefully tonight showing how little pressure is applied and how strongly the signal is affected.
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Your holding it wrong lol
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Thanks Steve lol
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I don't lose any bars from my wifi. That's odd though.
I lose a bar from my phone signal.
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What is this small circle thing at the bottom of navigation lock ring. Is it suppose to be there. It seems weird. How to disable that
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What is this small circle thing at the bottom of navigation lock ring. Is it suppose to be there. It seems weird. How to disable that
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It's Google now
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it's only there when you're on your lockscreen.
It's there to activate Google Now
Can you imagine that this guy posted the latest CM nightly in the og dev subforum? Thread got moved to general pretty quickly since he isn't a CM Team member and the stickied rules state you can't post material you didn't make or for which you don't provide source. lol, "what is this circle thing"
Sorry that the above isn't helpful. I just don't think I'm going to forget the user name "theghazi" for a while.
Anyway, can you comment on what the other posters have said? Is it on your lock screen or in typical usage? You are probably referring to the Google Now shortcut. If you swipe up from a nav button, you can activate Google Now. I don't known what it could be on a lock screen. Could be the unlock threshold. I do to use a lock screen myself so I'm not sure what one even looks like.
Is it possible to make some app notifications show on the right side near battery, Wi-Fi, ect? Like an IM app that is always in the notification tray.
Thanks!
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Is it possible to make some app notifications show on the right side near battery, Wi-Fi, ect? Like an IM app that is always in the notification tray.
Thanks!
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It's possible. But unfortunately I don't think there are any roms on there that is able to do that. Personally, I think it would look kinda weird if it was on the right side.
When im connected via wifi., it shows up on my pulldown. .any way to remove that? Thanks
I too find this to be idiotic and annoying. It's the icon in the status bar seriously not enough? AT&T/Samsung really bloated this thing up like never before.
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phositadc said:
I too find this to be idiotic and annoying. It's the icon in the status bar seriously not enough? AT&T/Samsung really bloated this thing up like never before.
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Yeah seriously annoying !
That's an at&t thing... It's been present on past phones. e.g. The sgs3... The at&t variant had that annoying notification that all other variants didn't.
Oh, no Verizon did it on the GS3 and I hated that crap. Every time I dropped down the menu I would hit WiFi and suck the battery down. PITA.
Hopefully when some developers get hold of this thing, they will find a workaround. Just takes up space.
Att skyrocket does that to when it got the jb update
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StolenVW said:
Att skyrocket does that to when it got the jb update
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Strange cause my i717 og note doesn't show this on ICS. What a waste of space!
Things that need to disappear - FAST
- Wifi Connected persistant notification on the Ongoing Notification pull down
- Smart Stay / Pause / etc icon on the notification bar (at least the SIII would only show this icon when in use, not all the damn time!)
- NFC icon on the notification bar (why, God, why)
Other than that, I love this thing! Definitely a huge improvement over the SIII, IMO
I actually find this useful because I have att dsl for the most common use cases and cable for low latency lag free gaming (farcry 3).
It's really quick to switch between them with this notification.
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I actually find this useful because I have att dsl for the most common use cases and cable for low latency lag free gaming (farcry 3).
It's really quick to switch between them with this notification.
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No one here is talking about the toggle switch.
And btw if you long press on the wifi toggle it goes to the wifi setting
I wasn't referring to the toggle. If I touch the notification wifi connected. Which is in the drop down notifications. It takes me to wifi settings where I select the ap I want to switch or connect to.
I am running holo launcher hd.
Not sure if that makes any difference.
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That's the point long press on the toggle gets you there it just takes out notification space annoying ...
I'm having some issues with this, and thought maybe I'm not the only one.
Whenever my phone untouched or I'm reading something or whatever the screen fades because I'm not touching it. Then the little eye icon appears in the status bar.
Does this icon mean it's looking for my eyes or that it's currently tracking them?
Because regardless if I'm looking at the screen or not it turns the screen off shortly after that.
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Feature is useless. I just disable it
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Brava27 said:
Feature is useless. I just disable it
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I tried it once and never bothered again.
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SweStag said:
I'm having some issues with this, and thought maybe I'm not the only one.
Whenever my phone untouched or I'm reading something or whatever the screen fades because I'm not touching it. Then the little eye icon appears in the status bar.
Does this icon mean it's looking for my eyes or that it's currently tracking them?
Because regardless if I'm looking at the screen or not it turns the screen off shortly after that.
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yes it is useless feature for me. turn it off for 5 extra minute of battery juice
SweStag said:
I'm having some issues with this, and thought maybe I'm not the only one.
Whenever my phone untouched or I'm reading something or whatever the screen fades because I'm not touching it. Then the little eye icon appears in the status bar.
Does this icon mean it's looking for my eyes or that it's currently tracking them?
Because regardless if I'm looking at the screen or not it turns the screen off shortly after that.
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I am seeing the same behavior, but I would like for it to work. Will check around for possible solutions/ideas.