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Root [International] WiFi exclamation

I would leave it to be honest Syd as that "fix" doesn't fix the connection itself, but merely stops the exclamation mark being displayed, so at least when you do have the exclamation mark you know your device is not connected to Google Services. Its better to have information that is bad news than to not!

If on the other hand you want to totally ignore my advice as per usual, then for this adb prompt mumbo jumbo, there are 2 ways of doing this
1. Install a terminal emulator from the play store, and run this to open a terminal session (sometimes referred to as a console). For example I use Script Manager
2. Download adb onto your PC. Extract the zip into a folder (eg. call it adb). Open a DOS prompt and go into that directory. One of the files in there is called adb.exe, so just type adb shell. This will get you into a terminal session into your S4 in your PC DOS window.

Using either of the above methods will present you with a $ prompt. This is a standard user terminal session. Some tasks you might need to perform may require you to log in as a superuser, so type su at the $ prompt for this. If this is the first time you have done this you will be presented with the usual SuperSU permission confirmation prompt on your device while this command is taking place. Giving this SuperSU permissions on your S4 will return you to a # prompt in the adb shell session.

As I'm always at my PC with my S4 connected via USB I always do any terminal related tasks on my pc via option (2.) above
 
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Cheers buddy, as helpful as ever.....

Id already downloaded a terminal emulator and attempted your method 1, but it didn't recognise the commands. So thought I was doing something wrong.

Am tempted to try your method 2 just so I know how to do it!!!!

But your warning confirms my suspicions, this is just a visual fix, so a pretty pointless exercise to go through really.....

But thanks buddy, and your tips for executing terminal commands are very useful!
 
I disagree. AFAIK the exclamation mark indicates that your phone can't connect to Google's servers using whatever software subsystem it uses on the phone. I can use my firewall to stop this subsystem accessing the internet, thus the exclamation mark appears, BUT I still have unfettered access to the interweb. In my case the 'mark' was more than cosmetic, it was indicating a problem I didn't have.

So then I saw the link above and, lo and behold, everything is back to having no exclamation mark. Wonderful!

Dave
 
Hawker said:
Not being able to access google services is not the same as not being able to access the internet.
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I know that but that seems to be the way Android decides i.e. Google connectivity == interweb connectivity. As I don't care about being able to connect to Google (except the Play Store), I stop it checking then zap the exclamation mark which, in my case, is telling me porkie pies. Oh, the other reason for me zapping the exclamation mark is that where I live (Cornwall UK) the 3G signal is extremely variable (like non-existant normally. Don't even mention 4G ...) so that mark would be there almost all the time. Looks fairly ugly to me - so it's gone ...
 
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