Samsung Galaxy S3 - Notifications Icon

KBarnes · June 14th, 2012, 09:43 AM

I've had my lovely new S3 for 24 hours now and love the look and feel of it.

One problem though is the annoying new message icon in the top right hand corner of the weather widget on the home screen.

I've tried all of the fixes that have been suggested on this forum (v. helpful by the way).
- deleting the widget and then reinstalling
- factory reset
- deleting the widget and then doing a factory reset
- checking that there are no messages out there unread.

Any other suggestions please!

Thanks

psybab · June 14th, 2012, 10:51 AM

Are you talking about the little number 1 in the sun on the weather widget? Supposedly it's just an accident, but other threads say that it indicates Daylight Savings Time. Apparently nothing you can do about it right now.

KBarnes · June 14th, 2012, 11:20 AM

Indicating daylight savings would make sense as it's a sun symbol!
Thanks - v helpful.

Now I just need to play around with phone and get used to the amazing features.

davidm_uk · June 16th, 2012, 05:01 PM

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Originally Posted by psybab

Are you talking about the little number 1 in the sun on the weather widget? Supposedly it's just an accident, but other threads say that it indicates Daylight Savings Time. Apparently nothing you can do about it right now.

So that's what it is! It had been irritating me too. Happy to know why it's there.

liteon163 · June 16th, 2012, 06:50 PM

Sure, there's something you can do about it: use a different weather widget! I didn't like the stock weather widget on my LG Spectrum so I purchased Beautiful Widgets when it was on sale for ten cents. One of the best deals ever for me.

That's the beauty of Android; if you don't like an aspect of it, change it.

SUroot · June 16th, 2012, 07:05 PM

+1 for beautiful widgets. Ive used it for over a year. Very pleased.

Timefiller · July 31st, 2012, 05:00 AM

Samsung Galaxy S3

Can anyone tell me what the icon (eye shaped with 3 dashes above the icon is)? it flashes and i don't know why??

dawnierae · July 31st, 2012, 05:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Timefiller

Samsung Galaxy S3

Can anyone tell me what the icon (eye shaped with 3 dashes above the icon is)? it flashes and i don't know why??

That indicates the feature that senses if you're looking at the screen or not - can't remember what it's called.

Timefiller · July 31st, 2012, 05:22 AM

Thanks i'll have a fiddle

breezex · July 31st, 2012, 10:36 AM

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Originally Posted by dawnierae

That indicates the feature that senses if you're looking at the screen or not - can't remember what it's called.

It's Big Brother watching you!

Actually it's the icon for "Smart Stay".

Adejoh · October 7th, 2012, 06:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KBarnes

I've had my lovely new S3 for 24 hours now and love the look and feel of it.

One problem though is the annoying new message icon in the top right hand corner of the weather widget on the home screen.

I've tried all of the fixes that have been suggested on this forum (v. helpful by the way).
- deleting the widget and then reinstalling
- factory reset
- deleting the widget and then doing a factory reset
- checking that there are no messages out there unread.

Any other suggestions please!

Thanks

Tap and drag down (right to the bottom of the screen) the notification bar. It will indicate what the problem is, and what you need to do