February 22, 2008 12:00 AM PST

What a blue square instead of the EDGE icon means

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This question appears often enough in the iPhone Atlas inboxes that it's worth addressing: What does a solid blue square in the iPhone's status bar (instead of the capital "E") mean?

The "E" means that the iPhone is connected to AT&T's EDGE network. The solid blue square indicates that the iPhone can't find a nearby EDGE network, and is instead connecting via standard GPRS. In most cases, connection to a GPRS network will mean slower data transfer rates relative to an EDGE connection, and you might not be able to access Visual Voicemail services in this mode.

For a full list of iPhone status icons and their meaning, see Apple Knowledge Base article #305975.

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by scifiguy February 22, 2008 5:41 PM PST: Thanks for pointing that out. I thought it was just a bug from using Caption Crunch or something. Didn't realize it actually meant something. =); Like this Reply to this comment


by cknorn February 24, 2008 8:28 AM PST: If I try to enter any web service while the blue square is on (I am living in germany having an "open" iPhone on 1.1.3 using Ziphone, bought the phone in the U.S.) it says that I would not be able to use edge since that service is not available for me.
That fits perfect to the description above (thanks!) but than I can?t enter the web at all.
Does anybody have an idea why it is like this and what I can do to get into the (slow) gprs?; Like this Reply to this comment


by aabj05 March 11, 2008 9:31 PM PDT: We have hacked iphone the latest versin.Wr have the installer but is says erro cant find host.And we cant go in the internet and we live in australia. ps. please help us please.; Like this Reply to this comment

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