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Re: What does the room icon mean?

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micky wrote:
> What does the  room  icon in the status window mean. 
> It looks like a black inverted teardrop with a clearly pointed end,
> and a little white circle in the middle.

Location. If you lookup an address in Google Maps, the same symbol
is used in Google Maps to mark the address (=location).

> On the chart of icons it's labeled as "room" and one of the posters
> in the thread above says that it means the GPS is on and the phone
> is in a room.

That's nonsense.

> But why is it called  room?

Looks to me like a mistranslation of "location" or "place".

> And is it there because the GPS is running, or for some other reason.

On my phone the symbol shows only when the location service
is switched on AND some app is using it.

> Surely there is an icon called GPS?

"location" can be more than just GPS: the location service
can use GPS *and* [the locations of] wi-fi access points
for improved accuracy.

> Aha, I did find a GPS icon on  this page, right column, one from the
> bottom:   http://www.beginandroid.com/notifications.shtml

On my phone, if that symbol is used in an app and I tap on
it, the app shifts the focus to and marks the current GPS
location.

-p

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What does the   room  icon mean? micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2016-12-24 15:10 -0500
  Re: What does the   room  icon mean? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2016-12-24 15:55 -0600
  Re: What does the room icon mean? Piet <www.godfatherof.nl/@opt-in.invalid> - 2016-12-24 23:24 +0100
    Re: What does the room icon mean? micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2016-12-27 19:53 -0500
  Re: What does the   room  icon mean? tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2016-12-25 00:43 -0500

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