unidentified icon in notifications...

[ashaaa]

Hi all,

Have had this weird icon show up in the top left corner of the notifications bar (see pic). Phone is Huawei ascend g300, Android 2.3.6. Searched loads to try find what it might mean but to no avail...

It kinda looks like a sim card? with a # in front of it...?
I've tried taking card out and in a few times, no change. It disappears briefly after powering off or restarting but comes back sooner or later...

Any idea what it might be?

It's there when I view the notifications but with no text next to it, just the icon (see pic to the right). When i touch it, it just takes me to home screen but always stays put...

Huawei wasn't able to help so far...all hope in you now...

cheers!

 

[chanchan05]

Is it a dual SIM phone?

 

[ashaaa]

No, it holds only one sim. There is no visible second sim slot and i've never heard it was supposed to be dual sim, so no...

 

[Caro332]

Is this a Vodafone sim card? I found this post from some guy at the Vodafone forum (Nor sure if it's the same thing but it is about a sim card icon):

What sort of phone have you got? Some allow a default setting for new contacts...and this can provoke the SIM notification endlessly. Other phones don't offer this feature.

If you go into Contacts.....and then do Menu -> More -> Settings......Under "Save new contacts to.." it probably has a default setting of "ask". So the Notification is always "asking".....only not in a way that any living human will ever understand as a request.

If you set this to any of the other options (I always set new contacts to go to my Google account) then this notification will stop appearing. A colleague at work had *exactly* this issue yesterday...and this was his problem. I'd never seen it because I had changed the default for new contacts to something other than "ask". We both have Galaxy S phones. The menus on your phone may not be laid out exactly the same, but you will very likely find this is the problem.....however you get to the setting for where to put new Contacts within the Contacts app.

[Update: I've checked my Vodafone 845 and my Nexus One. Neither one of them has the setting I'm describing as they do not allow for a default setting for a new Contact. Instead, they require you to set where each new Contact is to be stored. But the Galaxy S does allow for a default setting to be set...and this was the phone showing a SIM notification that wouldn't go away...though it could be killed with a Task Manager....but it would always re-appear later. Neither of these other phones ever shows me a persistent SIM notification when I switch SIMs...and I do that frequently.]

Source: Sim card notification icon in android phone - Vodafone Forum

 

[ashaaa]

ooh thanks for that! Looks as if it's only a vodafone NZ issue (yes im with them). And good to know it's benign. Slightly annoying but i suppose i can learn to live with it

A fair bit of info in the vodafone thread so will follow the leads and maybe sth is going to fix it.

Thanks so much! i always thought it would've been the phone that's the problem as the sim never caused trouble so far. Good to know tho!