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[Q] 4G Starts at Boot, any fix?

Hey all, this isn't a major issue, but whenever I reboot my EVO, the 4G radio turns on. Since I'm, running SwtchPro, I see it and never leave it on too long, but it is a bit irksome. I originally thought it was the ROM when I was running Fresh 3.1, but last night I switched to Baked Snack 1.3 and I still have the same problem. I never use 4G normally so it's off at shutdown, but it turns on at every boot. Anyone have a similar problem or know a fix? I have the latest Radios as of 2.2's release...

PSULightingGuy said:
Hey all, this isn't a major issue, but whenever I reboot my EVO, the 4G radio turns on. Since I'm, running SwtchPro, I see it and never leave it on too long, but it is a bit irksome. I originally thought it was the ROM when I was running Fresh 3.1, but last night I switched to Baked Snack 1.3 and I still have the same problem. I never use 4G normally so it's off at shutdown, but it turns on at every boot. Anyone have a similar problem or know a fix? I have the latest Radios as of 2.2's release...
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I have the same issue if I use launcher pro or adw, the 4g toggle seems the culprit for me. I made a shortcut to the wireless and network tab and turn it on from there, it is an extra step but it works.

Bump... Still having this problem. Currently on Baked Snack 1.3 (1.4 later today) running Netarchy Kernel, ADW Launcher, SwitchPro widget. Every reboot, I see the 4G toggle come on...

myn rls5 problem

I recently updated to rls 5 - i previously had 4 with no issues. however, now the phone tends to give me the screen that says something like htc incredibly brilliant with warm twopointwo (i think this is similar to when you first load up the phone with it) -- sorry if I'm not describing this correctly.
anyway this is happening semi-frequently and never occurred before and just annoying me now
recently updated PRI to 1.90 and kernel is king's #11. tried a few different kernel's and had the issue on all of them.

samrat123 said:
I recently updated to rls 5 - i previously had 4 with no issues. however, now the phone tends to give me the screen that says something like htc incredibly brilliant with warm twopointwo (i think this is similar to when you first load up the phone with it) -- sorry if I'm not describing this correctly.
anyway this is happening semi-frequently and never occurred before and just annoying me now
recently updated PRI to 1.90 and kernel is king's #11. tried a few different kernel's and had the issue on all of them.
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Sounds like the you are running something that is interfering with your home app and causing it to frequently close... you will see this screen right before it loads back up, correct??
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Craig is right. When the home app fails, it has to relaunch, causing the warm twopointtwo load screen. It's happened to me once or twice. Before my little troubleshooting thing down there, keep in mind that #15 kernels DEFINITELY work with updated sense roms like myn rls5 and mikfroyo 4.3. #15 is Sprint's most updated kernel and you can find ones that have been modded and customized right there in the forums in the development section.
Anyways, if the #15 kernel installation doesn't work:
here's what I'd do.
Do you have a custom home app installed (such as launcher pro or adw launcher)? If so, uninstall and re-install them. If that doesn't help, go back to the stock home and see if the problem occurs there. If not, then you know it's a problem with launcher pro or adw. If it continues or you don't have a custom home app, proceed to step 2.
Step 2 is to backup your apps and data using my backup or titanium backup and do a factory reset (not reflashing the rom, just a factory reset to erase everything). Yes, it's a pain in the ass, but this is how the troubleshooting process is. If it continues after that, go to step 3.
Step 3, reflash the rom as it could've been caused by a corrupted file on a bad flash attempt. Since you already backed everything up in step 2, you won't have to do it again. If the reflash should not work, move onto step 4.
Step 4, the rom download itself is corrupted. Go download it again and reflash it.
If that doesn't work, then I don't know. RLS5 is made to work with PRI 1.90 and all the other updated stuff from Sprint, so if you're completely up to date then I couldn't tell you what the problem was.
Hope that helps.

thanks for the tips, i'll give them a try today. hopefully it clears up

i do notice a lil problem with rls5. Whenever i go to sleep at night (mind you i leave my wifi on, and have my sleep policy set to never turn off my wifi), my phone says its connected to my network, but there is no data being transferred. Exchange sync problems is in the notification bar, and even going through the web browser i know i have no connection.
This wasnt a problem with rls4.

charlie hustle said:
i do notice a lil problem with rls5. Whenever i go to sleep at night (mind you i leave my wifi on, and have my sleep policy set to never turn off my wifi), my phone says its connected to my network, but there is no data being transferred. Exchange sync problems is in the notification bar, and even going through the web browser i know i have no connection.
This wasnt a problem with rls4.
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Have you updated profile?
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charlie hustle said:
i do notice a lil problem with rls5. Whenever i go to sleep at night (mind you i leave my wifi on, and have my sleep policy set to never turn off my wifi), my phone says its connected to my network, but there is no data being transferred. Exchange sync problems is in the notification bar, and even going through the web browser i know i have no connection.
This wasnt a problem with rls4.
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Something similar happens to me, I go to sleep with WiFi on, and when I wake up, I see the 3G icon on top. If I look at the power control widgets, it shows WiFi being on, and when I click it, it says that I'm not diabling WiFi. This has happened to me twice now, I haven't tested to see if it was actually on or not though. Clicking the power control widget again enables WiFi and the correct icon shows up.

craigbailey1986 said:
Have you updated profile?
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ill do it, but i didnt know that my wifi connection had anything to do with my profile..
jut did it and it replied "no profile updates available"

i found a quick solution, i just enabled the wifi sleep policy to like 15 miniutes. So if my phone is going to sleep or on standby, after 15 minutes, it will go to 3g. I know the problem is when its connecting to a network for a long time the wifi freezes. So i just stopped allowing it to do so.

[Q] Laggin, Freezing, and Making me mad!

Ok, I'm finally reporting this Uber annoying problem.
My phone will just lock up for anywhere between 2 and 15 seconds. I thought this was maybe a bad backup from titanium, so I stopped using it. I cleared my SD card, I've tried multiple roms, I'm formatted everything including SYSTEM during each different ROM install.
It seems the issue happens after I use SMSBACKUP+ to restore my txt messages. *EDIT But I've had it happen without installing SMSBACKUP+ EDIT* Handcent has been force closing on me for weeks as well. I just removed Handcent, and installed ChompSMS. The problem is still happening.
It happens very randomly, and without any cause that I can tell. I'll hit the power button, and unlock the screen, and then the touchscreen is completely unresponsive for seconds at a time. The touch buttons (home,back,etc) are also unresponsive. Then all the sudden, the phone will try to catch up to every one of my touchs.
Also, whatever it is is killing my battery. Yesterday I installed MikFroyo, and the phone was good for over 12-15 hours. Then I charged it, and something in the past 2 hours caused the issue and completely drained my battery in those 2 hours.
I've had this problem with
FreshEVO (multiple versions)
SprintLovers
Burnt Droid (multiple versions)
Ava-Froyo
OMJ's EVO
BakedSnack
I've also tried ASOP mods like MIUI and Cyanongen Mod, and as far as I can remember, the problem didn't happen with them, but I really would like to have my 4g work.
I just want my phone back!!!!

Well I don't know what your problem is exactly, smsbackup seems to be a culprit. You can check spare parts for wake lock issues. Are you using an SBC kernel?
I reccomend CM7, and you can use CM7 w/ WiMax [based on build 24] <- can be found in the development section.

First backup your apps and data. Then flash calkulins format all, then flash your rom and start from there it should work
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I've been using calkulins format all for the past 2 weeks (7 flashs)

teh roxxorz said:
Well I don't know what your problem is exactly, smsbackup seems to be a culprit. You can check spare parts for wake lock issues. Are you using an SBC kernel?
I reccomend CM7, and you can use CM7 w/ WiMax [based on build 24] <- can be found in the development section.
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I've used every kernel I could get my hands on, thinking it was the problem. I've been using stock kernels for the past 2 months now with the same problems.
I just haven't heard anything else bad about SMSBACKUP+, but I have read some issues with locking up, freezing etc regarding SMS in general.

Actually I'm one of the devs for handcent SMS and delete handcent and then install from market. See what happeneds
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davidc23 said:
Actually I'm one of the devs for handcent SMS and delete handcent and then install from market. See what happeneds
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Been there, done that about 50 times too. I'm just gonna go without HandCent for a few days and a new ROM install and see what happens.
Have you had any other complaints about this?

None, what's your hardware version
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davidc23 said:
None, what's your hardware version
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Current
HW: 0003
MikFroYo 4.5
2.6.32-17-gee557fd [email protected] #15
3.70.651.1

Are u using setcpu
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Do you use 4g a lot? Do you reboot the phone after turning 4g off? The reason I ask, is because there is a bug with 4g, on any ROM, rooted or not. After you turn the 4g radio off, it will continuously scan, and it errors out. Download the app "aLogcat" from the market. Turn 4g on. Turn on the logcat, so it starts reading. Shut your 4g off, and go back to the logcat app. Watch all the red Wimax errors pop up. Endlessly. This causes a wake lock on the phone, so it doesn't sleep. Up time and awake time will remain the same, after turning 4g off. The only way to stop the wake lock is to reboot the phone.
Also, I have never really had that cause lock ups or freezes, it just drains the battery three times as fast when those wimax errors are occuring. Just something to check, wish I had more to suggest/offer for ya.
Here is a link with some info and other links on the issue.
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=11008
Some people say that it doesn't drain your battery, but I found that to be inaccurate. It certainly does for me, and the phone never sleeps when it happens. So even if that isn't what your main issue is, it's good to know about anyways, if you didn't already.
EDIT: Also, what PRI version and Radio/baseband version do you currently have? The latest? 1.90 PRI and 2.15.00.11.19? If you are on the 1.90 PRI, try downgrading it to the 1.77. The 1.90 PRI is definitely known to cause issues that you speak of on some phones. Just anothing thing to double check. Here is an attatchment of the 1.77 PRI. It sounds like you don't have anything to lose by trying. Everyone's phone acts differently with different software and what not.

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Are u using setcpu
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Nope... Complete stock roms, with little to no apps. I can only think to point at bad hardware, the base sms operation, smsbackup+, handcent, or titanium backup. All of which I'd had issues without one or the other installed.

k2buckley said:
Do you use 4g a lot? Do you reboot the phone after turning 4g off? The reason I ask, is because there is a bug with 4g, on any ROM, rooted or not. After you turn the 4g radio off, it will continuously scan, and it errors out. Download the app "aLogcat" from the market. Turn 4g on. Turn on the logcat, so it starts reading. Shut your 4g off, and go back to the logcat app. Watch all the red Wimax errors pop up. Endlessly. This causes a wake lock on the phone, so it doesn't sleep. Up time and awake time will remain the same, after turning 4g off. The only way to stop the wake lock is to reboot the phone.
Also, I have never really had that cause lock ups or freezes, it just drains the battery three times as fast when those wimax errors are occuring. Just something to check, wish I had more to suggest/offer for ya.
Here is a link with some info and other links on the issue.
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=11008
Some people say that it doesn't drain your battery, but I found that to be inaccurate. It certainly does for me, and the phone never sleeps when it happens. So even if that isn't what your main issue is, it's good to know about anyways, if you didn't already.
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You know what... I think you're on to something. Because an hour before this started happening today, I turned 4G on to see if I had service where I was, (I did not), but I did not reboot the phone. I'm going to play around with that idea before installing any other apps on my freshly installed mikfroyo.

4g still scans
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mintee said:
You know what... I think you're on to something. Because an hour before this started happening today, I turned 4G on to see if I had service where I was, (I did not), but I did not reboot the phone. I'm going to play around with that idea before installing any other apps on my freshly installed mikfroyo.
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Check the Edit in my previous post as well

k2buckley said:
Check the Edit in my previous post as well
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I've tried every different radio combination. Just recently (last week) I've downgraded to Radio 1.36.00.04.02 and PRI 1.34_003.
It's currently looping the Wimax errors... I'm thinking that might build up in an hour or two and cease the phone. We'll see.

mintee said:
I've tried every different radio combination. Just recently (last week) I've downgraded to Radio 1.36.00.04.02 and PRI 1.34_003.
It's currently looping the Wimax errors... I'm thinking that might build up in an hour or two and cease the phone. We'll see.
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Dang!! That's an old radio / pri combo! I've never rolled back that far, so can't say much about it, but are you sure that's not contributing to the issue? Maybe it doesn't like the 3.70 build.
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problem with 3g radio

So I've had this issue for a long time now where my 3g radio will reset randomly (i think). What happens is that i lose 3g and the icon will disappear from the top bar. The phone makes a small sound (sounds like when you first power up the phone and it connects to the cell tower / 3g). Then about one second later it makes the same noise and then 3g turns back on. It takes it a few seconds to regain signal and then its usually fine. I know its the 3g because the problem stop when data is turned off, and also when wifi is on.
I've tried reflashing roms, reflashing my modem via odin, and even a factory reset. I can't seem to get this issue to go away. The only thing i can think of how i may have caused this issue was when upgrading to EC05 i forgot to include the pit file one time when flashing the modem with odin.
Any input or ideas would be greatly appreciated. I'm still learning when it comes to android so if I haven't tried it yet its because I either don't know about it or don't know how.
Running Syndicate rom frozen EC05

xm1337 said:
So I've had this issue for a long time now where my 3g radio will reset randomly (i think). What happens is that i lose 3g and the icon will disappear from the top bar. The phone makes a small sound (sounds like when you first power up the phone and it connects to the cell tower / 3g). Then about one second later it makes the same noise and then 3g turns back on. It takes it a few seconds to regain signal and then its usually fine. I know its the 3g because the problem stop when data is turned off, and also when wifi is on.
I've tried reflashing roms, reflashing my modem via odin, and even a factory reset. I can't seem to get this issue to go away. The only thing i can think of how i may have caused this issue was when upgrading to EC05 i forgot to include the pit file one time when flashing the modem.
Any input or ideas would be greatly appreciated. I'm still learning when it comes to android so if I haven't tried it yet its because I either don't know about it or don't know how.
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It may be a Sprint issue...happened to me last week then cleared up.

kennyglass123 said:
It may be a Sprint issue...happened to me last week then cleared up.
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Its been happening to my phone for easily over a month now. And a friend of mine also has an epic that runs the exact same rom. Its also very annoying when playing music and videos cause it cuts out the sound to play the tone when it losses/gains 3g.

xm1337 said:
Its been happening to my phone for easily over a month now. And a friend of mine also has an epic that runs the exact same rom. Its also very annoying when playing music and videos cause it cuts out the sound to play the tone when it losses/gains 3g.
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Try updating PRL and Profile.

Just tried updating the prl and profile and i still have the issue : /
after i updated both i restarted the phone and let it sit. After about 10 mins the 3g reset.

xm1337 said:
Just tried updating the prl and profile and i still have the issue : /
after i updated both i restarted the phone and let it sit. After about 10 mins the 3g reset.
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Does your friend's epic with the same ROM also.do this?
Do you BONSAI?

Actually I used to use bonsai. This problem started when I upgraded to i want to say 3.0. When the problem first started it also had a terrible battery glitch (when i restarted the phone i lost 50% battery. but a restore fixed this but left the 3g problem). I upgraded to 4.0 and the problem still hadn't been fixed. So thinking maybe it had something to do with the rom, I switched to Syndicate Rom Frozen and thats what I'm using now. My friend still has a DK28 Bonsai on his phone because I'd rather not somehow give him this annoying issue. But as of now his phone does not have this issue, so think it has to be my phone and not sprint.
Could flashing the modem .tar in odin without selecting the .pit file do this? I feel like it might have changed something it shouldn't. From what i recall it completed successfully without the .pit.
Edit: also thanks a lot for your help so far kenny
Very happy i got a quick response and that my thread wasnt just ignored.

Have you ever Odin'd back to stock DI18? Do that and let it update OTA to EC05 and see if that fixes it. Then flash your ROM and see if your issue returns.
Do you BONSAI?

When I switched from Bonsai to SRF I odin'd back to DI18/stock and it still didnt fix the issue. However I didn't let it update OTA and just odin'd from DI18 to EC05 then installed SRF. When i get the time to do all that ill give it a try doing the OTA and get back to you.

xm1337 said:
When I switched from Bonsai to SRF I odin'd back to DI18/stock and it still didnt fix the issue. However I didn't let it update OTA and just odin'd from DI18 to EC05 then installed SRF. When i get the time to do all that ill give it a try doing the OTA and get back to you.
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If you got the same issue with stock DI18 then you may have a flaky 3G radio in that phone. When you OTA maybe you should let Sprint look at it. You may get a new phone.

Epic woes

Ok to make a long story short, after I themed a whole bunch of themes I did not like the end result so i wanted to go back to where I was before. I loaded my backup and everything backed up but its like the backup was not clean or something because my phone has just been to unstable and acting stupid. It force closes some things and I have to pull the batt about once a day because I can't answere the phone. Also something about google services framework keeps popping up when I call someone. I am fed up. I am on srf 1.2 with the genocide 2.0 kernal.
Any thoughts on what I should do? Odin back and start over? Or is there anything better out there with gingerbread? I have not looked into anything current. Seems like there is a lot of stuff I have not seen before. Looks rather cofusing. Cwm5, selfkang cm7, acs rom manager. I am at. A loss for words. Can anyone help me.

Led4lyf said:
Ok to make a long story short, after I themed a whole bunch of themes I did not like the end result so i wanted to go back to where I was before. I loaded my backup and everything backed up but its like the backup was not clean or something because my phone has just been to unstable and acting stupid. It force closes some things and I have to pull the batt about once a day because I can't answere the phone. Also something about google services framework keeps popping up when I call someone. I am fed up. I am on srf 1.2 with the genocide 2.0 kernal.
Any thoughts on what I should do? Odin back and start over? Or is there anything better out there with gingerbread? I have not looked into anything current. Seems like there is a lot of stuff I have not seen before. Looks rather cofusing. Cwm5, selfkang cm7, acs rom manager. I am at. A loss for words. Can anyone help me.
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Do you know if you have journaling on? If no or not sure restore again from your nan and flash journaling on from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1071723

Go to settings>applications>manage applications>all scroll down to Google Framework Services, click it and hit clear data.

tazfanatic said:
Do you know if you have journaling on? If no or not sure restore again from your nan and flash journaling on from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1071723
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this. No really!

if youre looking to start over i can tell you i went from stock to acs ics v5.5 right before marcusant stopped dev and did his red revival rom. it was smooth, just a little buggy, but was eating my battery alive. I then switched to legendary 2.1 which was ok but in the end i opted for cleangb. its just simpler and i dont really need all that much. good luck

Ok so I cleared data and that solved the google.framework issues. But my gps button on the pulldown bar does not turn gps on. I also still can not send audio messages with the stock messanger.
Any thoughts? Should I be looking at gingerbread at this point or should I wait for a while?

Led4lyf said:
Ok so I cleared data and that solved the google.framework issues. But my gps button on the pulldown bar does not turn gps on. I also still can not send audio messages with the stock messanger.
Any thoughts? Should I be looking at gingerbread at this point or should I wait for a while?
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Toggle GPS a couple of times within Settings menu and then reboot and try the button.
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Toggled and reboooted, still did not help gps still does not work.

Led4lyf said:
Toggled and reboooted, still did not help gps still does not work.
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Does it work if you turn it on in settings? If not then Odin back to EC05, check GPS, if it works root and flash your ROM. Check it. If it works THEN do an advanced data restore from your nandroid and see if it still works. If it is broken then, try a factory data reset. If it is working again then reinstall apps from the market and set everything up again without restoring the bad data, or restore from an older nandroid where it was working.

The gps symbol does not show up when I turn it on in settings, but I have noticed that if I use an app that requires gps to be on it will take me to the settings menue where I can turn it on. Depending on the app the symbol sometimes shows up. Gps always seems to work when a gps app needs it. It just really bothers me that the button does not work in the pull down bar.

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The gps symbol does not show up when I turn it on in settings, but I have noticed that if I use an app that requires gps to be on it will take me to the settings menue where I can turn it on. Depending on the app the symbol sometimes shows up. Gps always seems to work when a gps app needs it. It just really bothers me that the button does not work in the pull down bar.
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You will probably have to Odin to EC05, check your button, if working root and flash ROM and check it. Should still work. Do not restore all your data. You will need to do a Titanium backup and pick and choose apps and data you must have.
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Led4lyf said:
The gps symbol does not show up when I turn it on in settings, but I have noticed that if I use an app that requires gps to be on it will take me to the settings menue where I can turn it on. Depending on the app the symbol sometimes shows up. Gps always seems to work when a gps app needs it. It just really bothers me that the button does not work in the pull down bar.
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You do realize that the GPS icon will only appear on the status bar when GPS is being used, right? Just because you have it turned on, whether with the pull-down menu or not, does not mean it will appear on the status bar. It may be on, but in standby waiting for an app that uses it. GPS kills battery, thus standby mode when not in use.
That said, while I don't know which ROM you've been using, most--if not all--generally "light up" the toggle buttons when something is turned on, even if it's in standby mode. Does the toggle button change state, i.e., light up, change color, or switch between "ON" and "OFF" when you toggle it?

I am on srf 1.2 and genocide 2 kernal. That makes sense, yes the button changes color and says on and off. I just thought that the icon used to appear when I pushed it. Maybe not.

Led4lyf said:
I am on srf 1.2 and genocide 2 kernal. That makes sense, yes the button changes color and says on and off. I just thought that the icon used to appear when I pushed it. Maybe not.
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I don't remember SRF 1.2 doing that, but it's been a few months since I was on SRF or Android 2.2. What's important to know is that as long as the icon switches state and GPS works when you need it, everything is functioning properly. IIRC, for the past few ROMs I've used the icon is only present when GPS is actively functioning, not when in standby mode. This is a good thing, it lets you know when it's burning up battery.
BTW, SRF 1.2 with Genocide 2 was my ROM of choice for Android 2.2! I recommend you upgrade to a 2.3 ROM these days though. To be honest, I've only used EpicMTD CM7, but it's awesome. The devs are knocking out issues very quickly, and we should be an officially supported CyanogenMod device soon.

Thanks for all your help. I guess I will not worry about it then. So I am kind of new to all the gingerbread roms and stuff. Is there or can you post some links that would be helpful for me to read? I have heard about acs rom manager and selfkang cm7 and cwm 5. I know nothing about any of this stuff. Ever since I rooted and romed with srf and genocide I never kept up to date with all this new stuff. Thanks