What is this icon on the Status Bar? - Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers

I was messing around with the massive amounts of option on the Galaxy S7. I noticed later on that an lighting icon appeared on my status bar but I have no idea what it means and its kinda driving me crazy lol.
Anyone have an idea what is it? Thanks!

Hey, to me it looks like a setting called Download Booster, it combines your Wi-Fi + Cellular data to increase your download speed.

Fermbiz said:
I was messing around with the massive amounts of option on the Galaxy S7. I noticed later on that an lighting icon appeared on my status bar but I have no idea what it means and its kinda driving me crazy lol.
Anyone have an idea what is it? Thanks!
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That's the download booster. It's in Settings under More connection settings.

Fermbiz said:
I was messing around with the massive amounts of option on the Galaxy S7. I noticed later on that an lighting icon appeared on my status bar but I have no idea what it means and its kinda driving me crazy lol.
Anyone have an idea what is it? Thanks!
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I believe this is the Download Booster

Thanks! Thats exactly what it is.

Please help me also. Same stupid behaviour. Playing around, actuvated icon - can not find ehat it is and how to turn off. The first one in status bar like spanish fan in corner of square table.
Thanks
P. S. After restart it disappeared . But if someone knows what it was please share info.

zift said:
Please help me also. Same stupid behaviour. Playing around, actuvated icon - can not find ehat it is and how to turn off. The first one in status bar like spanish fan in corner of square table.
Thanks
P. S. After restart it disappeared . But if someone knows what it was please share info.
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Settings -> More Connection Settings -> Download Booster

zift said:
Please help me also. Same stupid behaviour. Playing around, actuvated icon - can not find ehat it is and how to turn off. The first one in status bar like spanish fan in corner of square table.
Thanks
P. S. After restart it disappeared . But if someone knows what it was please share info.
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Yours is the Chromecast icon
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A registry setting would be preferable to installing an app.
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Does anyone know if there is a way to get rid of the volume icon in the task bar?
A registry setting would be preferable to installing an app.
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Agree - annoying waste of space, In fact would be good if there was some kind of menu to select between all the icons you want to have displayed / hidden
I have the same question regarding...battery icon
I'm using WKTASK so battery indicator is shown as small line just above the taskmenu - it's perfect for me. I can exchange battery for clock via QuickMenu but have no idea how to get rid of them both.
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B.
kc1 said:
Agree - annoying waste of space, In fact would be good if there was some kind of menu to select between all the icons you want to have displayed / hidden
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I second this. I think an app or anything else that works should contain options for all icons. I would think they would all be treated the same for flagging on and off.
anyone shed any light on this?

[Q] Strange Notification Icon

Hi all.
Just got a quickie...can anyone tell me what this notification icon is? Both it and the blank progress bar won't go with rebooting the phone.
It's a sensation with ICS and not rooted...
Cheers,
Smiffy.
http://db.tt/OhyvtLO5 (link to image in my Dropbox)
Some sort of download. Open up the "downloads" application and see if you can clear anything from there, or try to clear data from that app...
Looks like incomplete download. Try to clear cache for internet if won't work then clear data as well.
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Aargh - just realised you can't see the stupid notification icon that goes with it.
It's a bit like a signal strength indicator or a wifi icon - it has 3 bars increasing in size from left to right.
Sorry - it was covered up by the tray - next time it happens, I will grab a screenshot
If it anyone knows what it is though in the meantime, please let me know as I'm pretty sure it goes with the progress bar
Cheers, Smiffy.
Also suffering from exactly this problem.
Reboot a few times, with and without fast boot.
Wondering if there was any progress on this.
Thanks
Lordsmiff said:
It's a bit like a signal strength indicator or a wifi icon - it has 3 bars increasing in size from left to right.
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I believe it's an upload to Facebook. Whatever you're uploading completes but the notification and progress bar don't disappear. I think I got rid of it by disabling all internet connections and reconnecting.
goatee84 said:
I believe it's an upload to Facebook. Whatever you're uploading completes but the notification and progress bar don't disappear. I think I got rid of it by disabling all internet connections and reconnecting.
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Yup its Facebook. I got rid of it by restarting my phone though.
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[Q] Unknown notification icon

Hi,
A strange and unknown icon occasionally appears in my notification bar. It lasts few seconds and then disappears. No notification seems to be associated to the icon nor specific process at first sight. I usually notice it when I use YouTube, sometimes Maps, but its appearance is rather random; so I can't be more precise.
See the small gray dot at the top left corner of the joined screenshot.
Have you ever noticed this icon ? Do you known what it is ?
I'm interested to know more by curiosity than real inconvenience.
Thank you.
Kleiny said:
Hi,
A strange and unknown icon occasionally appears in my notification bar. It lasts few seconds and then disappears. No notification seems to be associated to the icon nor specific process at first sight. I usually notice it when I use YouTube, sometimes Maps, but its appearance is rather random; so I can't be more precise.
See the small gray dot at the top left corner of the joined screenshot.
Have you ever noticed this icon ? Do you known what it is ?
I'm interested to know more by curiosity than real inconvenience.
Thank you.
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I've never seen that specific icon, but I have seen other icons that were weird. I ran an app that you can get from the playstore called AirPush Detector and it told me about a rogue app that was putting notifications in my status bar. Maybe try that out.
I often have that icon when I have a notification and I start an app. Its usually just showing you that there is a notification. It could just be that there is a notification for certain apps that pops up and then disappears
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It still seems very strange to me.
Thank you for your answers.
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Kleiny said:
Hi,
A strange and unknown icon occasionally appears in my notification bar. It lasts few seconds and then disappears. No notification seems to be associated to the icon nor specific process at first sight. I usually notice it when I use YouTube, sometimes Maps, but its appearance is rather random; so I can't be more precise.
See the small gray dot at the top left corner of the joined screenshot.
Have you ever noticed this icon ? Do you known what it is ?
I'm interested to know more by curiosity than real inconvenience.
Thank you.
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its not system related its on the left
i think its somekind of a add
try running airpush detector(playstore)
Its a weather icon for Google now
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pippilangkous said:
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its not system related its on the left
i think its somekind of a add
try running airpush detector(playstore)
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I will take a look. Thank you.
brandontamas said:
Its a weather icon for Google now
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I haven't activated Google Now yet. So I don't think it comes from it.

Unstacking notification and Quick Settings

It's a mystery to me how moto could decide that putting Notifications on top of Quick Settings was a good idea but is there a way to fix that brain dead behavior and make it behave more like the Nexus 7 does with two pull downs (I am rooted and xposed is working, so creative solutions are ok, too)?
Just pull down the status bar with 2 fingers. Working fine here.
helinhof said:
Just pull down the status bar with 2 fingers. Working fine here.
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Ahh that's such a cool feature! I can't believe I've just found this out... It's been annoying me (well, only a little bit...it's not the biggest deal..) since I got the phone!
helinhof said:
Just pull down the status bar with 2 fingers. Working fine here.
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Thanks, definitely a step in the right direction
Further options, in Gravity Box -> Quick Settings (last two settings). The first one will make Quick Settings show automatically when there are no notifications, the second one will allow quick settings to be drawn down either on the left or on the right edge of the screen.
Those two basically resolve the issue for me.

Is it possible to turn off the percentage icon, when you pull down the notifications?

Guys how do I hide the battery percent inside the notifications shed?. I can find a setting to turn off the percentage from the
Notifications, status bar and not inside the notifications shed?. It's driving my wife nuts ?, seeing the battery percent everytime she pulls down the notifications shed...
Why would you want to? No you can't. That's silly.
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marvi0 said:
Guys how do I hide the battery percent inside the notifications shed?. I can find a setting to turn off the percentage from the
Notifications, status bar and not inside the notifications shed?. It's driving my wife nuts , seeing the battery percent everytime she pulls down the notifications shed...
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It's on my phone. Settings >Notifications > Status bar. On the bottom is the option Show battery percentage.
marvi0 said:
Guys how do I hide the battery percent inside the notifications shed?. I can find a setting to turn off the percentage from the
Notifications, status bar and not inside the notifications shed?. It's driving my wife nuts [emoji23], seeing the battery percent everytime she pulls down the notifications shed...
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you can do the opposite though...turning off the Battery icon instead [emoji13]
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Eagle 3 said:
It's on my phone. Settings >Notifications > Status bar. On the bottom is the option Show battery percentage.
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he want it OFF everywhere...if I'm not mistaken
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Brava27 said:
Why would you want to? No you can't. That's silly.
Sent from my BlackBerry Bold 9900
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Yeah I have solid black across the top of my home page but use the pull down as a convenient way to see battery level when I want.
If there's an easy way to hide it I'm not aware of it...
"Yes honey, I promise I'll get around to rooting the phone today..."
Off-topic. Did you design the notification panel with good lock?
i9apps said:
Off-topic. Did you design the notification panel with good lock?
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You can remove stutus bar icons, carrier branding and clock. Sweet... can't remove page indicator though.
Goodlock may allow it.
Thanks guys, it's really annoying. Surely there should be some option, to get rid of that battery percent icon! Good lock doesn't seem to have anything to help.
marvi0 said:
Thanks guys, it's really annoying. Surely there should be some option, to get rid of that battery percent icon! Good lock doesn't seem to have anything to help.
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This is what you're talking about?
You can get rid of everything except this with Quickstar...
blackhawk said:
This is what you're talking about?
You can get rid of everything except this with Quickstar...
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Yes and its super annoying!
marvi0 said:
Yes and its super annoying!
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I'm somewhat mystified why you find it so annoying as it's normally out of sight. I use it a lot.
That said unless you root the phone I don't think there's any way to get rid of it.
Perhaps editing with ADB.
You can try poking around in notification settings, many pesky things can be killed like that.
A Google search might yield something on older platforms* you can use.
*don't limit your search to the only that OS/model as they share many of the same features across the years. For the 10+ I found answers to the most difficult questions looking solutions for the note 9 and even further back.

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