Monitoring Your Phone's Status; Status Icons - Google Android 2.3 User Manual

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Monitoring your phone's status

The Status bar appears at the top of every screen. It displays icons indicating that
you've received notifications (on the left) and icons indicating the phone's status (on
the right), along with the current time.
Notification icons
If you have more notifications than can fit in the status bar, a plus icon
you to open the Notifications panel to view them all. See "Managing notifications" on
page 29.

Status icons

The following icons indicate the status of your phone. To learn more about the
different kinds of mobile networks, see "Connecting to networks and devices" on
page 57.
Network status icons turn green if you have a Google Account added to your phone
and the phone is connected to Google services, for syncing your Gmail, Calendar
events, contacts, for backing up your settings, and so on. If you don't have a Google
Account or if, for example, you're connected to a Wi-Fi network that is not connected
to the Internet, the network icons are white.
Connected to GPRS mobile network
GPRS in use
Connected to EDGE mobile network
EDGE in use
Connected to 3G mobile network
3G in use
Mobile network signal strength
Connected to a Wi-Fi network
Bluetooth is on
Connected to a Bluetooth device
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Status icons
Roaming
No signal
No SIM card installed
Vibrate mode
Ringer is silenced
Phone microphone is mute
Battery is very low
Battery is low
Battery is partially drained
Battery is full
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