I have looked, and looked, and looked, and I cannot find among ANY of the myriad Android "What is this icon??" threads spread around the world a description of this round, volume-knob looking thing.
There's nothing in the status or notification panels which seem to be connected to it, and I have no idea what it's trying to tell me.
Anyone?
Thanks,
R
PS See attached screenshot of the top of my screen...
Are you running some sort of sound booster/amplifier? It looks familiar but I can't remember what app it may have been.
Have you tried to uninstall apps to see if it goes away?
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I've never downloaded any apps from the play store that put an icon there. Most icons that get put there are from system apps.
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disconnecktie said:
I've never downloaded any apps from the play store that put an icon there. Most icons that get put there are from system apps.
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I have a couple - JuiceDefender and My Data Manager will put icons there, but they're configurable.
FirePsych said:
Have you tried to uninstall apps to see if it goes away?
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A couple, but mostly I've looked through the 'running apps' and there's really not anything in there I don't recognize (or want to uninstall). I might, if it really gets to bother me.
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Are you running some sort of sound booster/amplifier? It looks familiar but I can't remember what app it may have been.
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I don't think so... although now I wonder.
It's just the Debloated stock ICS. I don't think he stuck anything weird in there - only took it out.
Thanks for all the input!
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I've never downloaded any apps from the play store that put an icon there. Most icons that get put there are from system apps.
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Really, I've downloaded and tried all sorts of apps and have seen icons placed on the task bar.... Juice defender as mentioned... Battery guru... Etc. It seems like I tried a volume+ app that placed a similar icon. However I haven't confirmed that since I no longer have it installed. Usually you can opt out of having an icon placed on the bar.
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I'm saying I've never seen a downloaded app put an icon on that side of the bar and I'm not saying they can't put one there.
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There is a blank app icon between that icon and the other. It's not connected to the system icons. If you look closely at the spacing you can tell.
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I cannot seem to get it back. Anyone have this problem?
Yes do the next update and it will be back.
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EVOme said:
I cannot seem to get it back. Anyone have this problem?
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Have you read ANY of the other threads in this forum? At all? Its been discussed many many times..
There was another ota to fix it. Install it, reboot, and your good to go.
aimbdd said:
Have you read ANY of the other threads in this forum? At all? Its been discussed many many times..
There was another ota to fix it. Install it, reboot, and your good to go.
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I thought it was create your own thread day. LOL
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Well, I just did that..thing is, while it was blank I changed it to a diff app thinking it would switch back when I changed the screen. After the last update, I still have the other app I selected. My phone is still gone!
For me, i can still select phone for my lockscreen shortcuts, but its not in my app drawer. Should it be this way?
Seems like a PICNIC error to me.
I have the same issue. I did ALL the updates and my phone app is still missing,and yes I have been reading all the forums/blogs.
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Go into lock screen and go into settings add the icon back then apply the lock screen then restart your e3d
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kingakuma said:
Go into lock screen and go into settings add the icon back then apply the lock screen then restart your e3d
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I have it on the lock screen but not in the app drawer. Is this what everyone else has?
Didn't realize that it was missing their, its on my EVO but not my e3d
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kingakuma said:
Didn't realize that it was missing their, its on my EVO but not my e3d
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So for clarity, you have the phone shortcut available for lockscreen, but not in app drawer?
Go in to the settings where you can change which apps show. Select a different one then chose the phone again and it will show.
jxr94 said:
So for clarity, you have the phone shortcut available for lockscreen, but not in app drawer?
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Yes the phone icon is still missing from the app drawer.
zone23 said:
Yes the phone icon is still missing from the app drawer.
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Cool thanks for that. It doesn't matter since the main sense button is phone anyway. I downloaded adw ex to see if the phone icon would show up in that app drawer and it did, so i imagine its just not supposed to be in the sense app drawer to avoid redundancy.
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Cool thanks for that. It doesn't matter since the main sense button is phone anyway. I downloaded adw ex to see if the phone icon would show up in that app drawer and it did, so i imagine its just not supposed to be in the sense app drawer to avoid redundancy.
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I think it's this...
I haven't done a single update and the phone isn't in my app drawer. I removed it from my lockscreen in favor of the flashlight (which, among other important things..htc didn't include).
I am having a few issues and since it looks like root is out of the question unless HTC miraculously keeps their promise .. I may just do all the OTAs.
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I think it's this...
I haven't done a single update and the phone isn't in my app drawer. I removed it from my lockscreen in favor of the flashlight (which, among other important things..htc didn't include).
I am having a few issues and since it looks like root is out of the question unless HTC miraculously keeps their promise .. I may just do all the OTAs.
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You might as well, when root is found, or when HTC unlocks it, there will have been several more OTA's to worry about. Just enjoy the fixes for now. Just my input.
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You might as well, when root is found, or when HTC unlocks it, there will have been several more OTA's to worry about. Just enjoy the fixes for now. Just my input.
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Yea you're right. If we ever do get root, it isn't gonna be anytime soon. I may as well get this thing as functional as possible.
I fixed the app missing by doing a reset. I was all up to date but the update didn't go into effext until I did a reset.
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So I have done all the updates and today I did a hard reset on my phone. The phone icon was on my lockscreen until I changed some of the other icons. It is no longer there and I cannot select it either.
I am wondering if the small updates stick after a hard reset? I went to check for any updates and it says none available. Is there anyway to install the small updates manually from somewhere?
Edit....Just an FYI after I kept checking for updates, eventually the small app updates was available and now I got my phone icon back. So anyone who hard resets their device after the updates, make sure you keep checking for the small app update because it does not stick after a hard reset and it did not auto prompt me to do so either.
Ok one thing I find very lame about the Photon is that it ships with some stupid advertisements that pop up in the notifications. Anyone know what app it is so I can get rid of them?
Really advertisements? I've never seen any advertisements yous gots spam lol. Maybe there's an app putting ads in your notification bar (I've seen it before).
If you've rooted your phone try adfree but again I've never seen this on my photon.
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Really advertisements? I've never seen any advertisements yous gots spam lol. Maybe there's an app putting ads in your notification bar (I've seen it before).
If you've rooted your phone try adfree but again I've never seen this on my photon.
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Im rooted with Ad Free and that works for the apps with ads but these appear in the notification bar and there is a blue star that also appears. It started from the moment we powered the phone on at the store so it's definitely not Span from anything like an app
**Update** http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/0...-them-once-and-for-all-with-airpush-detector/
This is what it was. Some AirPush bullsh*t. Funny that one of the things it's detecting though is a MW3 Go Launcher Theme, which coincidentally is now nowhere to be found in the Market.
Go under all the application you have on your phone. There is a setting turned on for ads or do what i did... delete everything. Factory reset and install ONLY WHAT YOU NEED. I have seen this in the groupon app. It would do that.
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MikeyLee said:
Im rooted with Ad Free and that works for the apps with ads but these appear in the notification bar and there is a blue star that also appears. It started from the moment we powered the phone on at the store so it's definitely not Span from anything like an app
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Ohhh check some of the sprint apps then. You can actually remove them. There's honestly NO need to factory reset your phone like the guy above me said lol. Why go through all that hassle for something so trivial.
Click the ad and tell me what it is..
I have the same pop ups
Pretty lame I can't tell what app is causing it
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I have the same pop ups
Pretty lame I can't tell what app is causing it
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Try this https://market.android.com/details?id=com.brosmike.airpushdetector
Im rooted with Ad Free and that works for the apps with ads but these appear in the notification bar and there is a blue star that also appears. It started from the moment we powered the phone on at the store so it's definitely not Span from anything like an app
**Update** http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/06...push-detector/
This is what it was. Some AirPush bullsh*t. Funny that one of the things it's detecting though is a MW3 Go Launcher Theme, which coincidentally is now nowhere to be found in the Market.
**Update 2** After clearing app data and uninstalling the theme the AirPush detector app no longer finds it. No ads popping up so far.
Sneaky bastards lol.
Mp3 downloaader spanned the crap out of my notification Bar. But on stock you should only see the occasional sprint pop ups.
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Thanks op for the app. Culprit:Mp3 downloader..
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Hey guys, I'm just posting some links from the nook color forum. The first will give you honeycomb buttons, and the other helps you setup your screen. These forums were helpfull when setting up my tablet, and if they help you, thank the develper in the forum!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1311339
For honeycomb buttons
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1039586
for screen setup!
I use both for my nook tablet, and love it!
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Hey guys, I'm just posting some links from the nook color forum. The first will give you honeycomb buttons, and the other helps you setup your screen. These forums were helpfull when setting up my tablet, and if they help you, thank the develper in the forum!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1311339
For honeycomb buttons
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1039586
for screen setup!
I use both for my nook tablet, and love it!
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How do you install and use this theme? I installed it, but it does not show in my app drawer. What am I doing wrong?
Look in your app drawer..Then look for Theme Chooser and select. That should do it for you.
You can find it in Theme choser. It's greyed out. It will say its the wrong size, do it anyways.
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You can find it in Theme choser. It's greyed out. It will say its the wrong size, do it anyways.
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I did, and it worked, but I still have the "bar" at the bottom of my screen. How can I get rid of that bar so that it really looks like ICS?
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I did, and it worked, but I still have the "bar" at the bottom of my screen. How can I get rid of that bar so that it really looks like ICS?
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That's an issue that goes above themeing. If anyone knows different let me know but as far as I've read this is about as close as you can get.
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That's an issue that goes above themeing. If anyone knows different let me know but as far as I've read this is about as close as you can get.
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By "bar", I mean the bar that's in portrait mode. The one you have in phones and not tablets. The bar that has the phone icon on it.
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By "bar", I mean the bar that's in portrait mode. The one you have in phones and not tablets. The bar that has the phone icon on it.
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Post a pic of what you're talking about.
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Ate you talking about the dock? I don't know if you can turn that off in ADW, but I use ADW EX and you can turn it off with that. Other launchers may allow turning it off as well, but I can't name any.
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I think he's talking about the bar that the buttons themselves are in. That you're stuck with as far as I know. We can get our tablets close to looking like CM9, but CM7 still has limits.
But some more fun things...
I'm using SPB shell 3d with a live wallpaper and I'm still getting good use out of the battery.
Normally SPB as cool as it looks is a resource hog, but I still have lots of free ram with the tablet.
I am including a screenshot showing what I am talking about.
It is the bar that has the app drawer and the phone icon
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I am including a screenshot showing what I am talking about.
It is the bar that has the app drawer and the phone icon
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Look for an option in your launcher settings to hide the dock. I know ADW EX has that option. Not sure what you're using there.
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In adw XL go to settings then themes and select no theme for dock bar.
To change the apps in the bar hold down on them, drag them out and add what you want.
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For the dock bar go to Settings -> Adw launcher -> UI settings -> main dock style. Just select "none"
Yeah, that dock is kinda out of place on a tablet. Just so you can still access your app drawer, just long click on the screen, select launcher action, and pick open/close app drawer. I put one on every screen so that the app drawer is always accessible.
thx,ICS theme is pretty cooooolllllllll
I had to switch back to ADW, and now I got rid of the dock completely.
I have a couple of requests still: How do I add the apps drawer as the guy had on the top right of his NT?
Another thing I would love to do: make the soft home button actually display the apps, as of now, it only pulls the home screen.
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I had to switch back to ADW, and now I got rid of the dock completely.
I have a couple of requests still: How do I add the apps drawer as the guy had on the top right of his NT?
Another thing I would love to do: make the soft home button actually display the apps, as of now, it only pulls the home screen.
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Long press on the home screen and select launcher actions. You can control what the home button does though ADW settings.
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I just rooted, so I haven't had a chance to play with this new launcher. Totally different look, extremely customizable...
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.ss.launcher&hl=en
Here's an XDA thread about it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1452225
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same problem with me
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same problem with me
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What's the issue?
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Just curious, how many you have installed?
Mine is 68 in Google play market and the total is 215 with Titanium Backup Display (include system apps.). Not sure that many of apps are slowing my Note down.
26 user apps, 169 total including system apps. I'm running TPC v2, Da_G's PC kernel @ 1.83 GHz, and all bloat removed. No lag whatsoever, my phone is fast as hell.
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According to Appbrain..
Apps: 211 total, 176 free (83%), 35 paid (16%)
TiBu says "384 elements" whatever that means.
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...No lag whatsoever, my phone is fast as hell.
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not what i want to hear since I'm trying to stick w/stock setup.
186 phone is effin fast!
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not what i want to hear since I'm trying to stick w/stock setup.
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Mine is stock rooted, I have no lag... I switched to Launcher Pro though, although I was kind of liking CheeseWhiz's launcher, it's not really that bad but the fact that folders in the apptray and folders in the launcher desktop were completely separate pissed me off.. In hindsight if I really wanted to use CheeseWhiz I could have just put all of the apps I want to hide in one folder and not otherwise had folders in the apptray, but I spent 30 minutes or so organizing apps in folders in my apptray only to find out you couldn't put those folder on the desktop then. WTF?
40 apps not more!
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not what i want to hear since I'm trying to stick w/stock setup.
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Oh yeah, forgot to mention that I'm using ADW EX for my launcher as well, which can do a lot for reducing lag if you have any. My phone didn't have lag anyways before I went away from stock, I just like being able to flash stuff and mess with my phone. Also, more importantly than the national increase in performance, rooting allows me to mod my phone's theme much more with custom status bar icons and such using UOT kitchen. Any reason you're staying stock?
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260 to date and counting...
No lag on mine.
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Oh yeah, forgot to mention that I'm using ADW EX for my launcher as well, which can do a lot for reducing lag if you have any. My phone didn't have lag anyways before I went away from stock, I just like being able to flash stuff and mess with my phone. Also, more importantly than the national increase in performance, rooting allows me to mod my phone's theme much more with custom status bar icons and such using UOT kitchen. Any reason you're staying stock?
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No lag in ADW EX? You must have very few icons, folders, and Widgets on your device. I found ADW EX really jittery, especially with the fancy folders on. Even disabling that, it was jittery. I eventually just went back to Launcher Pro.
300+...been keeping since my Evo days
have try thousands but most are junk so i uninstall
just need one more app to make perfect.....that app that makes your camera flash when you receive a text or call....does anyone know of any that works for the note?
two thumps up to app brain
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No lag in ADW EX? You must have very few icons, folders, and Widgets on your device. I found ADW EX really jittery, especially with the fancy folders on. Even disabling that, it was jittery. I eventually just went back to Launcher Pro.
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I only ever use one home screen with 5 apps and one minimalistic text widget. That being said, adding more screens and populating them did not show any lag still, and my app drawer is totally smooth and opens instantly as well. Who knows, maybe your device doesn't like ADW EX?
I don't like having more than one home screen, because I don't use a ton of widgets, and I only have a handful of apps I use often. everything else can go in my app drawer.
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Everything goes in my app drawer I dont have a single icon not on my launcher or app drawer. Only 3 widgets too. Facebook, time/weather, and google voice widget.
Eric-1987 said:
Everything goes in my app drawer I dont have a single icon not on my launcher or app drawer. Only 3 widgets too. Facebook, time/weather, and google voice widget.
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I don't have any icons on my home page either. I use swipe pad for favorite apps.
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I did this on my S2 but i forgot. How you lock the one home screen steady? (not move back and forth?)
losplatanos said:
300+...been keeping since my Evo days
have try thousands but most are junk so i uninstall
just need one more app to make perfect.....that app that makes your camera flash when you receive a text or call....does anyone know of any that works for the note?
two thumps up to app brain
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Did u find the app yet?
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not what i want to hear since I'm trying to stick w/stock setup.
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Im totally stock, non rooted and see no lag, have all the bloatware still in and have install about 6 more.
I have loads of apps installed. It doesn't seem to be slower bit both quadrant and antutu get slower results each time I add an app AND I definitely notice battery performance degrades as I add more apps.
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I have loads of apps installed. It doesn't seem to be slower bit both quadrant and antutu get slower results each time I add an app AND I definitely notice battery performance degrades as I add more apps.
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I starting uninstall apps that i never used hope to boost the battery life
I have abut 120. OT: ADW EX is super laggy for me.
If I have 2 notifications from the same app, the first one disappears and the second one takes its place in the status bar. Is there a way to change this?
Do you have a ROM installed. Or any tweaking apps?
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Do you have a ROM installed. Or any tweaking apps?
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No, completely stock. All my apps are pretty standard stuff, I think the one that does it the most is the bank of America app. As I'm typing this I'm realizing that most other apps give me all notifications. So it's not all apps doing this, just some. Is that part of how that particular app was written or is it a phone setting somewhere?