Bluetooth flashing triangle
01-18-2006 | 03:33 PM
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The past two weeks I have noticed that a triangle flashes over the cell phone symbol showing my cell phone bluetooth connection when I am driving on certain sections of the NY Thruway. The phone works fine when this is occuring. Does anyone know what this indicates?
01-18-2006 | 03:54 PM
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flashing triangle = roaming
I have no idea what makes it do this though
However, when I went to NY - the entire time I was in the state I had the roaming triangle - but when my bill came there were no roaming charges
I have Verizon
Anyway - the point is roaming = triangle -
but what makes it go on and decide when you are roaming is still a mystery
I have no idea what makes it do this though
However, when I went to NY - the entire time I was in the state I had the roaming triangle - but when my bill came there were no roaming charges
I have Verizon
Anyway - the point is roaming = triangle -
but what makes it go on and decide when you are roaming is still a mystery
01-18-2006 | 08:29 PM
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On the manual the trangle symbol means roaming, but I am just driving around my house.
I just ignore it now. I have national plan with T-Mobile.
I just ignore it now. I have national plan with T-Mobile.
01-18-2006 | 09:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Freewilly' post='226262' date='Jan 18 2006, 09:29 PM
On the manual the trangle symbol means roaming, but I am just driving around my house.
I just ignore it now. I have national plan with T-Mobile.
I just ignore it now. I have national plan with T-Mobile.
01-19-2006 | 09:55 AM
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Originally Posted by Mr 5er' post='226204' date='Jan 18 2006, 09:28 PM
Same here....I have cingular also 
I'm used to it now. 
I'm used to it now. The confusing part is that oftentimes it shows Roaming for my wife's phone and local for mine and vice versa in the same area at the same time (OK, a few seconds apart). Both of us have Cingular.
01-19-2006 | 10:38 AM
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Some of it has to do with mergers and acquisitions and sharing agreements. NOt everybody can have their own tower so there are some sharing agreements between providers. Also recent mergers and acquisitions have expanded "local" coverage, but the system does not always reflect that it is your specific provider, hence the seemingly strange behavior indicating roaming when you are not actually roaming.