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[Maggie Szydlowski]

Heres a weird little problem what I encountered. As you probably (don't) recall, I have a Moto G4 phone in me arsenal of smart thingies.Everything was cushty for a long while, without any issues or whatnot. One merry afternoon, thischanged.

I noticed the status bar icons - the top of the home screen - had suddenly turned black. Thisrendered them almost invisible, and indeed, by default, they are white. I also noticed the problem onlyaffected the home screen, as the correct color transition from white to black and vice versa washappening across the rest of the system. All right. Weird problems require weird solutions.

Without advanced debugging, this is only a hypothesis - an update to one of the system apps caused aglitch. This might be related to an incorrectly designed theme, so the expected change of color basedon the app background isn't happening. I guess this is a tiny, transient problem, and you will mostlikely never encounter it. But if you do, then there are ways around it.

You can undo the problem by removing any customization to the home screen - this will "force" thehome screen to use the defaults. This makes senses - you basically "reset" the home screen app. Thisalso means losing any custom changes. Now, the really weird part is that I wasn't really using anythingspecial - the original widgets were there, and the only change was slight rearrangement of applicationicons. But anyway.

To access the home screen settings, long press on an empty section. If there isn't an empty section,drag one of the existing icons or widgets to create a second home screen (temporarily). Then, longpress until you see a screen that reads "Wallpapers Widgets Settings" in the bottom half of the screen.Click on Settings, and then turn off Personalized updates. As the option says: you will not see anyweather, traffic and calendar information.

I made the change - and the icons were back to their normal styling. Now, the really really weird part is that I didn't actually lose any personalizedcontent. Perhaps the stuff I have there doesn't fall into this category, or perhaps I'm missingsomething obvious. But we had a problem, and we fixed it.

I'm not an avid smartphone user, by any means. But even my OCD demons can't let something like thisrest. Theming problems do occasionally happen, of course, but they can really be jarring. Worse, theycan often be really hard to diagnose - 'tis just a bit of color off. If you've been bitten by thisglitch, you know what to do. Alternatively, just wait it out, and the issue ought to be resolved in oneof the upcoming updates.

If you receive multiple notifications from an app, they're bundled together. Swipe down to view more details. Conversation notifications are bundled together at the top of your other notifications so you can easily return to them any time.

Some important notifications pop up briefly over your current app so that you can take action. For example, a notification for an incoming call might appear while you're watching a video, so that you can answer or dismiss the call.

If an app icon has a notification dot, you can touch & hold it to see the most recent notification:

Restart the phone to apply the new settings.

You won't see the icon in the status bar for any silent notifications. When you swipe the status bar down, the icon appears in the pull-down along with the notification.

Tip: In phone Settings, you can only hide status bar icons for all apps. If you want to hide status bar icons for a single app, open the app and look in its settings. Only some apps let you do this.

Hide silent notifications

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Most of the Moto G notification icons are straightforward for experienced Android users. But for new users, especially those who just switch to smartphones, occasionally, it is a bit difficult to under stand the meaning of these Moto G notification icons.

Emergency mode. This Moto G notification icon appears only when your Moto G is in emergency mode. Your Moto G cannot connect to the designated mobile network. If your Moto G enters this mode for no reasons, you can try to reboot your phone.

Bluetooth is in use. When your Moto G is paired with any Bluetooth devices, Moto G will display this notification icon. Please check this guide on how to use Bluetooth to transfer files between Moto g and other devices.

Driving mode is activated in Motorola Assist. Moto G will measures your speed to detect if you are driving and help you stay focused by going hands-free and automatically playing your favorite music while driving.

I have a MotoG 5G. I have an icon in the top right next to Wifi that comes on that looks life a telephone handset at a 45deg angle and a triangle above it. WTF is it ? Tried MotoG 5G manual, Google, nothing. Help!

The displayed name of a caller is always set by your contacts app (if the number is saved in your contacts). For example, if you name someone a Prince in the Contacts app, then the phone will notify you the Prince is calling you. The same is for the other end. Someone may name you King, so, when you call him, his phone will notify King is calling him.

If yes, it means the app is in the full-screen mode. You can tap anywhere on the screen to call out the status bar. You can also swipe down from the top of the screen to call out quick settings (and status bar).

I have a Moto G2 4 yrs old , i am just wondering how to lock the Moto G status bar when you scroll it form top which has display , wifi , sim etc.., the thing is if kids takes the phone and put it airplane mode then i wont get any calls , i have seen this function in Redmi latest phone , it asks for pin before you change the task bar icons. Do we have any setting in the phone or in Android version 6.0.

If you give the phone to kids temporally, you may have at least two solutions:

1. lock the phone to a specific app by screen pinning as explained in this guide. Kids can only use the app until you unpin it (with lock screen password)

2). set up a new user for kids on the phone as explained in this guide.

Inverted i in the cellular icon top right screen. Moto g4 I get a busy signal when I try and make a call on cellular network. Can call on wifi just fine. Wondering if that up side down i means anything

Hey! I am using moto g3 turbo. From the last few days I am not getting missed call alerts in the notification bar nor on the lock screen. I have to check my call logs to know whether I have any missed calls. How do I fix it? All the other notifications are working fine.

Hi , all I need to know is that ..how I can get notified about calls while I am busy with some other call , because there is no notification about calls so there is a large problem.

Plz help me to solve this one.

hello,am using moto g2. Ive an issue of incoming calls n showing notifications on status bar ; updated to marshmallow 2 weeks before may be since today morning am facing this problem tell me how to resolve this??

Hi.. Suddenly all the notifications like Whatsapp, FB, etc has stopped showing on my screen. I tried to check the problem in Settings, but i am helpless. Kindly help me with the steps to resolve the same. Awaiting your reply.

For 1, you can use some apps to instantly turn off screen without using power button. For example, you can try this one.

2. H means HSPA, which is faster than 3G. Some carriers may refer it as 3.5G. This page has a bit more info on 3G, H, H+, 4G and LTE.

Thanks Simon, a response within few hours was just terrific. My queries were answered. Also in Lenovo, I had a default call recorder, nothing of this sort in moto-g3, would you be able to suggest something?

1. You need third party apps to light up screen when you have a notification. Are you sure you need this?

2. Notification tone and vibrate settings are independent once notification is on. You can turn both on.

3. For calls, Vibrate when ringing is under settings- sound and notification.

Hi, I have bought MotoG3 recently. I am not finding method to set pulse notification(which was visible for selection in MotoG2) so that I get white/Red light only when any message comes (WhatsApp or SMS). Please help how to set. I am not interested to get sound notification in these cases.

Hello, i have the same problem, maybe since a month. on my home screen the shortcut icons are shown, overlapped by the current notifications. I already tried everything, no change. only when i am using any app, the right notifications are shown. What can I do to delete the shortcut icons in the background? Thanks!

We have two Moto G Ext phones. We are seeing an exclamation point next to both the signal strength and wifi status icons. I see above this is indicating a problem with the phone, but is that different if it is associated with these icons? We can turn the phone off and then on to clear the exclamation points, but then they just come back again. What do you suggest? Thank you.

In my moto g 2nd gen, whole message contents appear in screen.. Plz help me with this.. When someone uses my mobile they can see the entire content of message.. I want to see the notification of message but not the entire content of message..

All my text has decide to move to the right so it is all alligned to the right. How do I get this back to the left? When I view it it is on the left when I send it moves to the right.

ALSO all my messages are grey in my inbox so there is no differentiation between my messages and those coming in. On all my other phones there are two different colours. It is the same on my husbands phone also. Feeling a bit disappointed.

If from phone to PC, you can connect the phone to the PC with a USB cable, then copy them directly between PC and the phone. -g-how-to-guide/how-to-connect-moto-g-with-pc-through-usb-cable-for-moto-e-and-moto-x-as-well/

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