White circle where the 3G is

[mbaverizon]

Ok took a road trip across Ohio and west Virginia , majority of the trip it had a white circle in place of the 3G what does that mean?? Also went to the Ohio state spring game a had that circle and couldn't send pics or anything also note that everybody else that I was with had androids phones and they had 3G signal while mine was gone and mine had the circle on the iPhone 4s

[kneedragger32]

Ok took a road trip across Ohio and west Virginia , majority of the trip it had a white circle in place of the 3G what does that mean?? Also went to the Ohio state spring game a had that circle and couldn't send pics or anything also note that everybody else that I was with had androids phones and they had 3G signal while mine was gone and mine had the circle on the iPhone 4s

That circle on a gsm iPhone is the icon for GPRS, on CDMA it's 1x

[mbaverizon]

I have the sprint iPhone

[efparri]

There are several icons which indicate the data speed:
3G: EV-DO
°: 1xRTT
Were all the members of your party using the same network?

[mbaverizon]

So the white circle means data

[efparri]

It means data at the slower speed of CDMA. A GSM phone has an intermediate data speed between the slowest speed and 3G called EDGE or Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution.

[mbaverizon]

So what I don't understand is why my wife's has a 3G signal on her android and mine has the circle , is that a iphone thing

[XFF]

So what I don't understand is why my wife's has a 3G signal on her android and mine has the circle , is that a iphone thing

Is she on the same network/carrier?

Maybe Android considers 1xRTT a "3G" technology?

Those "xG" labels are all very ill-defined and it's almost always better to speak of a particular technology rather than xG.

[mbaverizon]

Yes both on sprint at the same locations

[scaredpoet]

What model of Android phone was it?

I'm leaning towards it being just a generic/false display on the Android phone.

[mbaverizon]

She has the Samsung galaxy s 2 slide with the keyboard but wish I knew for sure

[Kies]

The Android phone was on 1X too, Sprint replaces the 1X icon to hide their 1X coverage on their higher end Android devices. Sneaky, ****** Sprint.

[mbaverizon]

So the 3G was really a 1x and my white circle was just data

[Kies]

So the 3G was really a 1x and my white circle was just data

Yes, your white circle was just 1X. On the Samsung phone, it wasn't really 3G EV-DO, it was 1X service.

[mbaverizon]

Tricky tricky it's sad I couldn't send a pic on 1X with the iPhone