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Help Strange ICON in the Incredible notification area.

pvberg

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Feb 13, 2011
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Hello:

I have a new (at least to me) ICON in the notification area. See the attached photo, it is between the email ICON and the GPS ICON. It looks a little like an ear to me.

Anyone tell me what it means and how to address the issue it raises?

Thank you.
 

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The crosshair thing? It shows the one of the location services (either Verizon, Google, or GPS) is enabled. If it didn't have the 2 curved lines on the right, it'd mean that the E911 is enabled (it always is).

Personally I think this is a pointless icon, that's just wasting valuable notification space. But you can't turn it off, short of flashing a ROM (or possibly using a different launcher, eg Launcher Pro, Zeam, ADW, etc).
 
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