Help What is this strange icon in the notification bar?

Renthorin · Mar 23, 2013

It's in the far upper left. Looks like a small circle or dot??? It only appears a few times a day and for no particular reason that I can tell. It goes away as soon as I swipe down on the notification bar.

I have GPS off so it's not that, though it does look like the inner part of the GPS icon.

Any thoughts? Not a problem, more of a curiosity.

Will

evohicks · Mar 23, 2013

Renthorin said:
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Hmmm thats an odd one, maybe its to do with one of your apps updating, got to say I looked in the manual and couldn't find that one.

Renthorin · Mar 23, 2013

I agree. Just wish I knew which one. They are basically the same as what I had on my droid x but I never saw that symbol.

sleedeane · Mar 23, 2013

Gorgeous dog.

Renthorin · Mar 23, 2013

thanks : - )

andrewx77 · Mar 23, 2013

It's "THEM"... They've hacked into our systems.... Ruuuuuuunnnn! :eek:

nlitenme · Mar 23, 2013

I've seen this from time to time. It seems to be some sort on a placeholder, but I haven't been able to figure out for what yet.

Do you normally have any persistent apps running?

Renthorin · Mar 23, 2013

I always have apps running in the background...??

nlitenme · Mar 23, 2013

Renthorin said:
I always have apps running in the background...??

I'm talking about apps that show an icon in the notification tray all the time. Some anti virus apps so this.

Renthorin · Mar 23, 2013

OHhhh..... um..not that I know of besides what you see in my bar in the picture. I think next time it pops up I'm going to quit all running apps and see if it goes away.

nlitenme · Mar 23, 2013

Ya, let us know if you figure it out.

sleedeane · Mar 23, 2013

I even googled "android notification bar symbols", looked at about 500 icons, and didn't see it.
The closest ones are, "a song is playing", "an app or service is using your location", and "multiple tethering". But none of those look exactly like yours.
Good luck with that one for sure. :what:

Frisco · Mar 23, 2013

I keep my notification bar hidden.. never have seen that icon, but if I did, and found it removed when dragging the bar down, I'd go to my recovery area and do a cache wipe. It could be a remnant of an app/widget removed or modified/updated.

Turn off Note 2. Hold three buttons at once: volume up + home + power. Release all three quickly when the white letters "..Galaxy Note 2.." appear, wait for little Android guy to go away then the menu will appear.

Use volume down to navigate to and highlight "wipe cache partition." Let hit power. Let it happen.

The default, "reboot now" will be highlighted. Hit power and let it boot up.

If the icon is gone. There you go. If not, power down and carefully remove the sim and sd cards. Wait a minute and put them back in. Power up.

If the remnant lives on your external sd card, it may be time to have a look at its contents via file manager.

Harry2 · Mar 23, 2013

Same icon as in this thread ... it's not your Note ... maybe the same carrier

http://androidforums.com/showthread.php?p=5612799

Harry

Renthorin · Mar 23, 2013

cool that I'm not the only one with this. I think he's Sprint and I'm big V so it may not be the provider.

Frisco - what will a cache wipe do? Will I lose any settings or whatever?

Harry2 · Mar 24, 2013

You'd try to find the app which caused this strange notification with the app 'Notification History', free in Play Store.
Set up the app and when the strange notification appears again, Notification History will show all apps that have had notifications in the meantime.

But note, the app will show any notification that apps generate in the time span of monitoring, not only these on the notification bar

Harry

Renthorin · Mar 24, 2013

Thanks Harry, I'll give that a try and report back.

andrewx77 · Mar 24, 2013

soon we will all have the mark of the circle within a circle. We must assimilate. Assimilate or suffer.

[chant]circle is life, circle is freedom... circle is life, circle is freedom..[/chant]

Barats · Mar 25, 2013

Didn't want to make a new topic so figured I would drop this here. What is the icon right to the left of the Wifi icon? When I first had this phone, I'd see it flash it for a few seconds every so often. Now it's there at all times. What is it for? I did the T-Mobile update as well as updated to 4.1.2 this morning and that is when it started to stay put.

Wiley_11 · Mar 25, 2013

Barats said:
Didn't want to make a new topic so figured I would drop this here. What is the icon right to the left of the Wifi icon? When I first had this phone, I'd see it flash it for a few seconds every so often. Now it's there at all times. What is it for? I did the T-Mobile update as well as updated to 4.1.2 this morning and that is when it started to stay put.

That's the Smart Stay/ Smart Rotation icon. To turn it off go to Settings > Display > Features. You have to uncheck both if you want to get rid of the icon.

Renthorin · Mar 25, 2013

Ok I figured it out, at least in my case.

fyi- 'notification history' did not show anything but it was a great suggestion anyway

In my case, I have an application for playing cards called "Card Shark". Every time I quit the app, that little ball is there until I swipe down on the notification bar. Still not sure what the icon means but I know what's causing it.

Barats · Mar 25, 2013

Wiley_11 said:
That's the Smart Stay/ Smart Rotation icon. To turn it off go to Settings > Display > Features. You have to uncheck both if you want to get rid of the icon.

Thanks man!

thomasanderson · Apr 2, 2013

It must be an app updating. Do you have any news/rss feeds running in the background? Looks similar to the "pulse" app icon.

Renthorin · Apr 2, 2013

It's because of my 'Card Shark' solitaire game.

womb raider · Aug 20, 2013

I've just noticed this icon on my Note 2 last night as well. I'm pretty sure it's an app called Dualingo that's causing it, as it first appeared while I was using the app but since quitting out of it I haven't seen it again.

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