Possible fix for grey (gray) signal bars

S

stephen44

Senior Member

Dec 4, 2010

296

41

• Mar 11, 2012

• #1

I have an LTE Verizon Gnex - and have rooted and installed the 4.0.4 rom.

Since then I have been plagued with gray signal bars - both WiFi and data and have not seen any fix.

What is the symptoms of grey bars - well in my case all apps (Google) worked - but i was not getting push gmail etc - just new emails when i synced etc.

I noticed that although my Google accounts all said synced - my Google Currents App - when i synced it manually never finished and the icons were white squares and not images.

So i don't know if the following was a 'currents' issue - but it could be any Google app is not syncing fully so check them all.

steps to return blue bars - I don't know which step actually worked - but this is everything I did

1. wipe currents data
2. uninstall currents
3. clear data in Google Services Framework
4. uninstall updates to google market
5. clear cache & data for Google Market
6. reboot - now i had blue bars at this point and gmail pushes worked again
7. update apps
8. install currents
9. set up sync
10. all good

this worked for me - so please report back - hope this helps someone

EDIT - just tried this on my Transformer Prime with Virtuous Rom - and got blue bars back as well !!!!!

 

Last edited: Mar 11, 2012

• 

Reactions: adampeers, bartolinio, -LBT- and 9 others

bradley26

Senior Member

Apr 17, 2010

202

29

Fort Worth, Texas

• Mar 11, 2012

• #2

I had Google services background disabled and had greyed out bars. Once I enabled background data i had the blue bars again. Hope that helps.

 

• 

Reactions: 9233

quantumalpha

Senior Member

Jan 4, 2012

58

16

• Mar 11, 2012

• #3

Not sure if what you're experiencing is a bug/other problem, but just to prevent more confusing posts about what the color of the signal bars means... There's a lot of misinformation about this on the net.

Blue (or Green on Honeycomb) - Active connection to Google servers, Idle.
Gray - No Internet Access, OR, no connection to Google yet.


This is explained in the Android Users Manual PDF. I can dig up the exact quote if you really need it.

 

• 

Reactions: fifarunnerr

adrynalyne

Inactive Recognized Developer

Dec 13, 2008

10,950

6,471

• Mar 11, 2012

• #4

The confusion sets in when you receive an email with a Gmail account, and have grey bars.

What then, is a reasonable explanation (honest question)? I have seen it reported more than once.

 

• 

Reactions: Ditamae and madquack

S

stephen44

Senior Member

Dec 4, 2010

296

41

• Mar 11, 2012

• #5

adrynalyne said:

The confusion sets in when you receive an email with a Gmail account, and have grey bars.

What then, is a reasonable explanation (honest question)? I have seen it reported more than once.

Click to expand...

Click to collapse

grey bars - can get gmails arrive when you force a sync
blue bars - as a mail arrives at gmail - it pushes a notification real time to your device

that to me was the difference

 

adrynalyne

Inactive Recognized Developer

Dec 13, 2008

10,950

6,471

• Mar 11, 2012

• #6

The reports I saw were not people forcing syncs...

 

Robi-K

Senior Member

Mar 8, 2009

114

29

38

Saint George

• Mar 11, 2012

• #7

Well for me it worked for the time being. Clearing android framework and market + a reboot. Many thanks to OP.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium

 

S

stephen44

Senior Member

Dec 4, 2010

296

41

• Mar 11, 2012

• #8

Robi-K said:

Well for me it worked for the time being. Clearing android framework and market + a reboot. Many thanks to OP.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium

Click to expand...

Click to collapse

yup - I didn't really intend a discussion as everyone's problem maybe different - more a "this is what worked for me" - glad it did for you too.

I've seen loads of people complaining about this - and no fixes - so here's one that might work for you.

 

S

Smokeey

Senior Member

Oct 8, 2010

1,714

324

College Station, TX

• Mar 12, 2012

• #9

I usually toggle airplane mode and reboot.

1. Turn on Airplane Mode.
2. Reboot
3. Turn off Airplane Mode
4. !??!?!?!?!
5. PROFIT!?!?!

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA

 

• 

Reactions: kmb_jr, suckerjones and kennyry

S

stephen44

Senior Member

Dec 4, 2010

296

41

• Mar 12, 2012

• #10

yup - but this did not work for me

 

Q

QQeyes

Member

Aug 12, 2010

17

6

• Mar 15, 2012

• #11

I've been having this issue since I updated to the 4.04 radios. Loading the 4.02 radios back does not fix it. Google services does eventually connect, but it takes 5-10 minutes.

When I switch to wifi or 3g, the bars blue out immediately.

The problem only exists on 4g.

I've tried all the tips on this page, nothing helps. Any further suggestions?

 

M

mdroid60

Member

Jun 9, 2010

17

2

• Mar 18, 2012

• #12

Thanks

Clearing the framework and market worked for me as well. Many thanks!

 

B

Benji1983

Senior Member

Dec 5, 2011

755

166

Austria

• Apr 16, 2012

• #13

+2

is definitly the best solution


greetz benji

 

Last edited: Apr 16, 2012

G

Gambit727

Senior Member

Jul 15, 2007

58

2

• May 30, 2012

• #14

stephen44 said:

I have an LTE Verizon Gnex - and have rooted and installed the 4.0.4 rom.

Since then I have been plagued with gray signal bars - both WiFi and data and have not seen any fix.

What is the symptoms of grey bars - well in my case all apps (Google) worked - but i was not getting push gmail etc - just new emails when i synced etc.

I noticed that although my Google accounts all said synced - my Google Currents App - when i synced it manually never finished and the icons were white squares and not images.

So i don't know if the following was a 'currents' issue - but it could be any Google app is not syncing fully so check them all.

steps to return blue bars - I don't know which step actually worked - but this is everything I did

1. wipe currents data
2. uninstall currents
3. clear data in Google Services Framework
4. uninstall updates to google market
5. clear cache & data for Google Market
6. reboot - now i had blue bars at this point and gmail pushes worked again
7. update apps
8. install currents
9. set up sync
10. all good

this worked for me - so please report back - hope this helps someone

EDIT - just tried this on my Transformer Prime with Virtuous Rom - and got blue bars back as well !!!!!

Click to expand...

Click to collapse

Thanks, this worked for me and this was the only Google search result I found that had this information. I did not have Currents installed, so I skiped those steps; so the magic bullet to get the blue bars back may be one (or all) of the other steps.

 

joshnichols189

Senior Member

Jun 5, 2010

7,015

1,046

Chicago

• May 30, 2012

• #15

Grey bars means you aren't connected to google servers.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium

 

S

stephen44

Senior Member

Dec 4, 2010

296

41

• May 30, 2012

• #16

joshnichols189 said:

Grey bars means you aren't connected to google servers.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium

Click to expand...

Click to collapse

we know this - but getting connected to the google servers is the issue and helps resolve this.

 

G

gerberman

Senior Member

Apr 27, 2010

116

9

• Jun 25, 2012

• #17

awsome!!!

thanks alot! this worked great for me!
you saved my phone from being repeatedly thrown aggressively on variant objects which lay around my house!

 

S

stephen44

Senior Member

Dec 4, 2010

296

41

• Jun 25, 2012

• #18

gerberman said:

thanks alot! this worked great for me!
you saved my phone from being repeatedly thrown aggressively on variant objects which lay around my house!

Click to expand...

Click to collapse

yw

 

J

jtam11

New member

Jul 12, 2012

1

0

• Jul 12, 2012

• #19

Thank you!!!

I've been running around for almost a week now with greyed out signals and just blamed my from build. Fix worked for me. Now I can be bugged by groupons without having to sync manually!

 

jackfrost3821

Senior Member

Oct 5, 2010

356

104

Sacramento, CA

• Aug 6, 2012

• #20

Please ignore this post.

 

Last edited: Aug 7, 2012