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Grey edge icon

Hi, ocassionaly I can see that the Edge icon on my Diamond turns grey (it's shadowed) - never seen this state before, anyone know what it means?

I also have been getting that. I dont think it matters if it's EDGE, GPRS, 3G, or HSDA as I have been getting it with 3G after a soft rest

when I put a 3 SIM card in.. in place of the H icon I get an icon that looks like a mountain... triangle.. what's that mean? any ideas?

happyguy82 said:
when I put a 3 SIM card in.. in place of the H icon I get an icon that looks like a mountain... triangle.. what's that mean? any ideas?
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Triangle means roaming - so beware the costs!

When it's grey, means that it's not "Attached"...
Bye

I kept getting a "Grey" H icon and I actually found that I couldnt connect to the Internet. Also some of my texts wouldnt send and I couldnt make calls either (not sure if its related or not)
The only way I found to solve it was to switch HSDPA off, now I get the 3G symbol but its not "Grey" anymore and everythings working fine.

this is issue is also reffered as "black icons issue". have a search over this forum and you will find many reports of the same.

No, that's not true. This is completely different issue.
Also it's not true that the gray icon denotes unattached GPRS. For unattached GPRS, there is no extra icon, you just see the aerial icon instead of small letter inside the "signal strength" icon.
The grey state is weird, never experienced before on any device, and it's not explained anywhere so far.

I couldn't find it right now (though I'll still search it), but I've changed a setting yesterday and after this, the "grey" icons appeared. Untill then I had the "filled"/normal ones. That setting is for telling if the data connection is ALWAYS available or only BY REQUEST/ON DEMAND (from an application that needs it).
As soon as I'll find it again, I'll post it here.

i disabled the GPRS auto attach and the grey 3g icon started to appear...no longer the filled one...

I have the same problem since yesterday with edge on my workplace: big grey "E" icon, and it's impossible to connect to the net. But I have 2 or 3 network bars and a little "E" in the top left of them. At home I have HSDPA and no problem

i have a grey 3g icon... only came on after i disabled the GPRS auto attach function in advanced config...

I had disabled that function too. I've just re-enabled it and soft reset but I see no difference, it can't connect in edge

Peio64 said:
I had disabled that function too. I've just re-enabled it and soft reset but I see no difference, it can't connect in edge
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I had an isue a long time ago.
When I disabled/detached my GPRS, it was detached from my provider, ie it was detached on the mobile central.
Only way I could get it working again was to call my mobile provider to have them enable it again.

Yeah but it works on 3G and HSDPA, it's not the same parameters?

Rapier said:
I couldn't find it right now (though I'll still search it), but I've changed a setting yesterday and after this, the "grey" icons appeared. Untill then I had the "filled"/normal ones. That setting is for telling if the data connection is ALWAYS available or only BY REQUEST/ON DEMAND (from an application that needs it).
As soon as I'll find it again, I'll post it here.
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This is correct. Grey means Gprs/Edge/3G/Hspda is available, but not necessarily attached. When you connect (fire up a browser/mail/any other internet proggie) it will go black (and a lot bigger and uglier I might add). It's a bit confusing cos when you disconnect, it STAYS black, which is probably a bug.

Gray bars and Green bars? What in the world?

My friend and I both have N1's there are times that his radio bars are green and sometimes gray. I have not seen this with mine yet (just got it today). I only have seen gray. What would these color differences indicate?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=970098

yeah green = connected to google servers.
grey = disconnected from google servers.

Thanks Guys

Wanted to bump this. I am having this same issue, and my bars go from green to white especially after unlocking from standby. When they are white, I can't connect to anything even though I am connected to wifi at home? This issue is REALLY annoying. Anyone else dealing with this or know of a fix? Sometimes it randomly changes while I am using it. The only way to get it to go back to green is signing into google talk, which sometimes takes 3-4 tries with server connection errors in between. When I am at home I have little to no internet connection via cell, and gprs is all I can connect to, which is why I use the wifi at home. I just don't understand why I can't use the internet if the google server is not connected, and why it drops the google server connection constantly. I should be able to use wifi for browsing apps even if its not connected to google???? Or am I wrong. Please help.
Thanks
(I am running stock, and the phone is not rooted btw..thanks)

treebreland said:
Wanted to bump this. I am having this same issue, and my bars go from green to white especially after unlocking from standby. When they are white, I can't connect to anything even though I am connected to wifi at home? This issue is REALLY annoying. Anyone else dealing with this or know of a fix? Sometimes it randomly changes while I am using it. The only way to get it to go back to green is signing into google talk, which sometimes takes 3-4 tries with server connection errors in between. When I am at home I have little to no internet connection via cell, and gprs is all I can connect to, which is why I use the wifi at home. I just don't understand why I can't use the internet if the google server is not connected, and why it drops the google server connection constantly. I should be able to use wifi for browsing apps even if its not connected to google???? Or am I wrong. Please help.
Thanks
(I am running stock, and the phone is not rooted btw..thanks)
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try changing your wifi sleep policy to never...
settings--> wifi or whatever--> press menu --> sleep policy --> never
that SHOULD fix it when you're at home... outside i don't know since i dont use data.
cheers!

You're mixing cause and outcome. Your WiFi doesn't work at home, or your phone doesn't want to work with your home WiFi - that's the reason you can't connect to internet, and that's also the reason why you're seeing grey bars.

I have started having this problem this week too. My WiFi is fine. The browser connects and loads pages fine. My connections are now always grey/white instead of green regardless if I'm on WiFi or 3G/2G. All Google services do not work. I am not receiving push emails nor can I force sync in the Gmail app. I've tried to connect by opening up Google Talk but it closes right away. My WiFi sleep policy is already set to never.
My phone is running stock 2.3.4, unrooted.

3G and signal bar color

Hi there
I'm ndw for android and have the first question.
What does mean the differents color that 3G and signal bar shown?
It change from white to blue in my Droid 3, only rooted, verizon usa unlocked.
Thanks
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I'm not 100% sure, but i always assumed that blue means solid signal and white means acquiring signal. When I turn my phone on, the 3g is white then turns blue after a few seconds. This is also true for my wifi.
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I'm not 100% sure, but i always assumed that blue means solid signal and white means acquiring signal. When I turn my phone on, the 3g is white then turns blue after a few seconds. This is also true for my wifi.
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^ This. White when it's establishing a signal with 3G/WiFi, blue when it's established..
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Not quite - blue means that the phone is logged in to Google services (for sync, market, Gmail, etc.) using that particular network interface. You can have a connection to a valid 3G or WiFi network that will work fine with browsing, email, apps, etc., though if Google's services are down, the color will be white rather than blue, and it will turn blue again when Google services are reestablished.

white and green WIFI icon

What does it mean on GDX x device?
Most of the times I see green signal strength in the wifi icon but this morning I noticed that after trying to establish connection it went white. At that moment I could not surf anywhere.
This afternoon I wiped my device and on setting up I saw that white signal once again but I had no trouble connection this time. After a while it went green again.
What's the colour code telling us?

As far as I know the icon becomes green when your google account is being synced with google servers.

Why do services only work when they're blue?

I'm a sprint user bu my fiancé has the bionic and had the lg revolution before that. Both phones wouldn't work is the signal bars and data indicators were white. They had to be blue to function. There have been many times they would stay white on both phones and had to switch to airplane mode today fixes the issue. With sprint, this isn't an issue. It just works. Both networks, sprint and Verizon, are cdma, so what's the problem?
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It depends on what you're trying to do with the phone at the moment. You should still be able to get to websites. However, things like email, Play Store, and other Google things may not work. From what I've come to understand, when the signal indicator turning a color (blue, green, red, etc depending on OEM customizations) is an indicator that the phone is connected to Google services. When it's grey it's merely indicating the presence of a data network and you may or may not be able to connect to the internet.
This behavior can also be observed if you activate an Android device without entering an email address. The signal indicator will never be anything other than grey because it doesn't have any reason or ability to connect to Google services.

Thanks, then what's keeping it from connecting? It happens way too often and keeps her frustrated. She can't do anything at this point when it's like this.
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Settings?
gk1984 said:
Thanks, then what's keeping it from connecting? It happens way too often and keeps her frustrated. She can't do anything at this point when it's like this.
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If the phone is totally stock then it might just be a settings issue. My bionic takes a minuet to connect to the internet even though it's connected to the network. Check to see if are any settings that turn off or restrict that data usage

When it turns white, the data connection went dead. When its blue, its active. It happens to me occasionally, similar to a hiccup. It could be due to a mathematical glitch in the radio.
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