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[Q] GREY vs BLUE 3G 4G strength bars

I have searched and can't really find anything that answers my questions, hopefully someone here on XDA knows....
When my phone was new it had blue in the 4G and for the bars, now it is grey.
What does this mean???? and why does it change???
I found a couple other threads on various sites, but no one seems to know.....
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/ga...difference-between-blue-4g-icon-gray-one.html
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=22e56edff9fcce02&hl=en
Any one here know?
rooted 4.0.2 stock rom with 4.0.3 radio.
I am going to flash back to the 4.0.2 radio to see if that is it.

I believe it has to do with the radio switching between 3G and 4G. Sometimes, for me it gets stuck, can't figure out what to do. I hate picking my phone up and it's grey.
Really pisses me off when I don't have data cause it's grey.

Blue bars indicate that you have a data connection and are connected to Google services.

snowblind64 said:
Blue bars indicate that you have a data connection and are connected to Google services.
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snowblind64 said:
Blue bars indicate that you have a data connection and are connected to Google services.
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Then what do my grey bars mean? Because i have data and are connected to Google services.......

pic for the non believers........

4rs fed said:
Then what do my grey bars mean? Because i have data and are connected to Google services.......
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Grey bars mean the opposite... you're not connected to google services or you're not fully synced. Somethings not up to date.

martonikaj said:
Grey bars mean the opposite... you're not connected to google services or you're not fully synced.
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Did you look at the screen shot I posted??????
To me it shows Grey bars, my Gmail account, and that it is fully synced, unless I am missing something.............

4rs fed said:
Did you look at the screen shot I posted??????
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Yes, I did. And my statement still stands lol.

4rs fed said:
Then what do my grey bars mean? Because i have data and are connected to Google services.......
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Are you signed-in to Google Talk as well?
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efrant said:
Are you signed-in to Google Talk as well?
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Yes, with the same account in my screen shot......

Does'nt matter if you added your account or not and/or enabled sync.. if your device momentarly loose connection to the google sync server the bars will show as grey. It has nothing to do with good or bad reception. Merry X-mas!
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Just signed in to every Google app i have on the phone and all are running in my multi task window and still blue........

This was a huge issue for me on early builds of Cyanogenmod for the thunderbolt.
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Grey indicators mean that your data connection is not usable at the moment. I see this every day on my way to work in the subway: I have a usable signal, but can't access anything on the internet. Same goes for the WiFi icon.

fuego3048 said:
This was a huge issue for me on early builds of Cyanogenmod for the thunderbolt.
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Why is it a "huge" issue. If data works, it works.
Does it really matter that much what color the bars are?
Infestor said:
Grey indicators mean that your data connection is not usable at the moment. I see this every day on my way to work in the subway: I have a usable signal, but can't access anything on the internet. Same goes for the WiFi icon.
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People here are not talking about the dark gray that shows up when you have no signal. They are talking about the light gray when apparently you have a data connection, but are not connected to Google's servers/services.
This color change was in effect since the Nexus One, and it is even indicated in the Nexus One's user manual:
Dark gray - no connection
Light gray - connection, but no connection to Google's servers/services
Green (or blue in ICS) - connection, and connection to Google's servers/services.
I haven't seen the user manual for the Galaxy Nexus, but I would have to assume that it would be indicated in there as well.
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4rs fed said:
Just signed in to every Google app i have on the phone and all are running in my multi task window and still blue........
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blue means you are connected to google.. to answer a later post.. i can still use data when bars are grey, just means i'm not speaking to google server atm.
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When i was using radio 4503 i would not get blue icons on cellular data but would on wifi.
This also stopped my from using my Google Voice when not on wifi. Soi flashed back to radio 4.02 and everything is working as it should

So what does this mean then? In the first shot, my 4G connection is live and quite usable (10-12 megs down). Is that full strength or no strength? Does the second screenshot mean I'm connected to google "just a little bit"?

First shot has no signal and the second shot has one bar
Just bc you have no bars doesnt always mean you have zero service

FB17/FB21 Bug List

List of bugs present in FB17 build. (updated as more are found.)
- No GPS
- Gallery FCs during picture selection (such as setting wallpapers.)
- Phone gets abnormally hot when using Sprint ID Launcher.
- Exchange Activesync does not sync contacts or calendar, only email.
- USB Mass Storage isn't working for everyone.
- The browser doesnt resize correctly all the time after zooming.
- The wallpaper selection doesnt allow landscape sized cropping.
- Icon selection also has limited sizing when cropping.
- 2d hardware acceleration breaks certain apps (XDA, Taptatalk, ESPN, Etc.)
- If you go to "peer to peer connection" in Settings and try and change the device's name your phone basically says "go F yourself".
- Vlingo is broken with bluetooth car kit.
List of Bugs present in FB21
- Browser zoom still a bit funky. Doesn't zoom in correctly 100% of time. (Same with FB17)
- Still no GPS (FB17 bug, too.)
- Gmail refuses to send sometimes. A workaround is to clear data.
- 3g signal comes and goes, data drops here and there. Not LOS really just goes out for few seconds and returns. (possibly modem issue)
- no option to turn off roaming notifications (Roam Guard)
- runs hot as many others have noticed
- face unlock is gimmicky... covers most of lock screen wallpaper
- cannot set wallpaper from gallery

Overstew said:
List of bugs present in FB17 build. (updated as more are found.)
- no GPS
- Gallery FCs during picture selection (such as setting wallpapers.)
- Phone gets abnormally hot when using Sprint ID Launcher.
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Did you flash the zip or tar?

most likely tar. I would like to know too. although the other zip booted shabbys didnt

-home soft button bring u to the last home screen instead center..
-sometimes home screen switcher is gettin lag
-samsung apps application shows error no uim card

USB Mass Storage doesn't seem to work

the only thing i dont seem to have working yet is USB Mass Storage but that seem like are some driver on my pc ...
the rest is all good, i didnt even know there was a zip also, did you guys did the one qbking shows how to?
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oleh211 said:
USB Mass Storage doesn't seem to work
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found a way to do it
went to settings/more/usb utilities/ pressed connect storage to pc, pop up asked me to connect cable and last clicked on the turn on usb storage , voila

usb work for me

The browser doesnt resize correctly all the time after zooming
The wallpaper selection doesnt allow landscape sized cropping
Icon selection also has limited sizing when cropping
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Exchange Activesync does not sync contacts or calendar, only email.

I flashed the stock .tar, non rooted.

Having a Voice mail problem
FCs everytime I try to open in from the app drawer

Anyone having problems when they click contacts or phone application? When i click on mine they keep freezing up. It was running good after i flashed it but 3 hours later they keep on freezing.

Over heating and cannot send multiple text messages at once. It just fails instantly
Also GPS works for some people, like me

I can't resize the weather app. And Google Chrome is buggy as hell.
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ilostmypistons said:
Having a Voice mail problem
FCs everytime I try to open in from the app drawer
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I can say this isn't happening to me

Korey_Nicholson said:
I can say this isn't happening to me
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I got it fixed by clearing data
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When u enable 2d hardware acceleration , tapatalk,watch espn and sprint tv app didnt work. As soon i disable it started working again.
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anybody experienced LOS on this rom???
im about to flash now, that would be the only thing keeping me from flashing this

krazy_smokezalot said:
anybody experienced LOS on this rom???
im about to flash now, that would be the only thing keeping me from flashing this
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No LOS here
Data,GPS and WiFi seem really good for me

swype beta
Anyone tried swype beta with this?

Grey data bars?????

On and off for the past 2 weeks I have had a grey data bars? What do they mean? How can I keep them blue? I am running stock rooted leaked 4.0.4 update.
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It means that your phone doesn't have a connection to the Google servers, and most likely you don't have data at all. I would return to stock and see if it still happens.

miketoasty said:
It means that your phone doesn't have a connection to the Google servers, and most likely you don't have data at all. I would return to stock and see if it still happens.
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Is that my only option? I like 4.0.4 update and radios.
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under999 said:
Is that my only option? I like 4.0.4 update and radios.
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Maybe try reflashing the 4.0.4 radios first.

Waste
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Dxtra said:
When is grey your not sign in to Google talk. Nothing to worry about , it happen when switch network or connecting to wifi .
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Sometimes it's good to stay away of keyboard. Especially when you have no clue on what you are talking about.
Grey data bars means that you're not signed in to Google servers at all, not just to Google Talk service.
What if in past two weeks he have saved 50 new contacts and created 100 calendar events? It's ok now, but if he will flash new ROM all these contacts/calendar events will go missing as they never reached Google backup servers...
So, there's nothing to worry about, right?

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So how can you make it stay connected? More importantly, how can a ROM change cause it to drop connection to google servers, and how could it be repaired?

Dxtra said:
What Google server are you talking about? Idiot! Since you want to call out people. The only thing you always connected to is Google talk , and C2DM (Push service) Contacts, and calendar are sync in a time interval or when you make changes and if sync fails it will retry when you get data back and has nothing to do why the bars are grey because they could still sync. Again the grey bars has nothing to do with Google sync service. Gmail use push there's no need to be connect to anything but C2DM which every phone connects to since froyo.
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You don't know what you are talking about. So let me start off by saying that I don't have Google Talk installed yet my bars are still blue. The bars will only blue if you are signed into a Google account and are connected to the Google servers. If you'r phone ever tries to ping the Google servers and cannot the bars will turn grey meaning you still have data but you cannot access Google services.

Dxtra said:
What Google server are you talking about? Idiot! Since you want to call out people. The only thing you always connected to is Google talk , and C2DM (Push service) Contacts, and calendar are sync in a time interval or when you make changes and if sync fails it will retry when you get data back and has nothing to do why the bars are grey because they could still sync. Again the grey bars has nothing to do with Google sync service. Gmail use push there's no need to be connect to anything but C2DM which every phone connects to since froyo.
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I can tell you that when I have grey bars, everything related to Google stops working, and resumes working when blue data bars return. The Market, Reader, Gmail, YouTube, Listen, Maps, Talk, etc all stop working while browser and other web accessing apps are just fine. So to me, it appears Google routes there traffic differently because of authentication than other apps on the phone. So I would say it is safe to say, grey bars means no Google services.
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StuartTheFish said:
So how can you make it stay connected? More importantly, how can a ROM change cause it to drop connection to google servers, and how could it be repaired?
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This is all a service thing. What you are probably experiencing is your phones service cutting out and therefor you are losing connection to the internet (Including the Google services) then when you get internet back your bars are gray until your phone can confirm it is connected to Google services then once it gets confirmation your bars turn blue.
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akanatrix said:
I can tell you that when I have grey bars, everything related to Google stops working, and resumes working when blue data bars return. The Market, Reader, Gmail, YouTube, Listen, Maps, Talk, etc all stop working while browser and other web accessing apps are just fine. So to me, it appears Google routes there traffic differently than other apps on the phone. So I would say it is safe to say, grey bars means no Google services.
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Well all Google services go over your network then go straight to Google's servers so if you cannot access Google servers you cannot access the apps that require access to Google servers. Just like if Facebook was down I would not be able to access it on my phone but everything else would still work fine.

miketoasty said:
This is all a service thing. What you are probably experiencing is your phones service cutting out and therefor you are losing connection to the internet (Including the Google services) then when you get internet back your bars are gray until your phone can confirm it is connected to Google services then once it gets confirmation your bars turn blue.
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It's not my phone signal in my case, it's actually my wifi icon that keeps going grey even though it's full signal strength and there's nothing wrong with the router or broadband service. It's the ROM change that caused the issue since restoring a previous backup restores service. It's intermittent, sometimes it'll work and other times the icon goes grey. Just wondering how it could happen and how it can be fixed.

miketoasty said:
You don't know what you are talking about. So let me start off by saying that I don't have Google Talk installed yet my bars are still blue. The bars will only blue if you are signed into a Google account and are connected to the Google servers. If you'r phone ever tries to ping the Google servers and cannot the bars will turn grey meaning you still have data but you cannot access Google services.
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akanatrix said:
I can tell you that when I have grey bars, everything related to Google stops working, and resumes working when blue data bars return. The Market, Reader, Gmail, YouTube, Listen, Maps, Talk, etc all stop working while browser and other web accessing apps are just fine. So to me, it appears Google routes there traffic differently because of authentication than other apps on the phone. So I would say it is safe to say, grey bars means no Google services.
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Dxtra said:
I'm able to use any those apps on grey bars. Not sure why u can't . Maybe you don't have data at all . If you see the grey bars open Google talk it will reconnect and it will switch to the blue bars .
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*SMH*. You win. I will now bow down to your all knowing wisdom.
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StuartTheFish said:
It's not my phone signal in my case, it's actually my wifi icon that keeps going grey even though it's full signal strength and there's nothing wrong with the router or broadband service. It's the ROM change that caused the issue since restoring a previous backup restores service. It's intermittent, sometimes it'll work and other times the icon goes grey. Just wondering how it could happen and how it can be fixed.
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What ROM are you having issues on? This may be a stupid question but if you have a CDMA GNexus is it possible that you are using a GSM ROM or vice versa?

I'm actually using a HTC sensation but saw this thread on tapatalk so thought I'd ask since the issue isn't device specific, it could happen on anything.
Basically I'm using an ics ROM on it which worked fine, but the most recent version is causing me to have intermittent grey wifi icon and loss of internet connection as a result. Just wondering what could be done to repair it instead of just reverting to the previous version, so thought I'd ask.

Delete
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Dxtra said:
Blue = your connection to Google is established, present.
Grey = You lost connection to Google
They will turn blue/grey depending on your connection to them there's nothing you could do .
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/some-cool-android-tips-and-tricks.html?m=1
Google tips ^
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I.e. What I have been saying for my last couple of posts.

miketoasty said:
I.e. What I have been saying for my last couple of posts.
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i heard reading comprehension is hard...

Dxtra said:
When is grey your not sign in to Google talk. Nothing to worry about , it happen when switch network or connecting to wifi .
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I remain signed out of Google Talk most of the time, and the bars are still blue, so the color of them has nothing to do with GTalk, as others have said, and it only deals with being connected to Google itself for the other services your phone uses.

Wifi grayed out

This has been going on for some time now. I cannot actually pinpoint when it happened. But whenever I am at work, I can connect to the network and it's grayed out. I can still browse and use some app but I don't get notifications from my apps and cannot use Google Talk, for example. That entire app is grayed out.
It's an 802.1x EAP - PEAP - MSCHAPV2.
Anyone got any ideas or tricks to fix this? It used to work before and it doesn't. I do not believe anything changed on our end. And I also cannot just restart the router at work. Thanks in advance.

ddpacino said:
This has been going on for some time now. I cannot actually pinpoint when it happened. But whenever I am at work, I can connect to the network and it's grayed out. I can still browse and use some app but I don't get notifications from my apps and cannot use Google Talk, for example. That entire app is grayed out.
It's an 802.1x EAP - PEAP - MSCHAPV2.
Anyone got any ideas or tricks to fix this? It used to work before and it doesn't. I do not believe anything changed on our end. And I also cannot just restart the router at work. Thanks in advance.
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Go to settings>app>all locate google services framework clear data,cache end reboot your phone...it should work... at least work for me...

vichimp said:
Go to settings>app>all locate google services framework clear data,cache end reboot your phone...it should work... at least work for me...
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Didn't work

my work wifi is the exact same so i think they are just locking down ports.

I ve same problem..
But when I turn on the display the WiFi becomes blue...and when I turn off the display the icon becomes gray...
I don't know why.but I can't receive mail and gtalk..
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ddpacino said:
This has been going on for some time now. I cannot actually pinpoint when it happened. But whenever I am at work, I can connect to the network and it's grayed out. I can still browse and use some app but I don't get notifications from my apps and cannot use Google Talk, for example. That entire app is grayed out.
It's an 802.1x EAP - PEAP - MSCHAPV2.
Anyone got any ideas or tricks to fix this? It used to work before and it doesn't. I do not believe anything changed on our end. And I also cannot just restart the router at work. Thanks in advance.
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Can you access gmail directly? Sounds like google services may be blocked by your network admin? Just a guess...

Im trying to understand what exactly is happening with you.
Are you getting a wifi signal and no notifications?
or are you not getting any wifi signal at all?
If you are getting a connection but notifications and google apps dont work, it could be that your work router those ports blocked or has a firewall infront of it.
If you are not getting any wifi signal at all, I would try and backup everything, and do a factory rest - update. basically a stock, unrooted wipe and reflash.

Don't know why our how to fix it. But I know that if your wifi is gray you still have data connection. And if it's blue your connected to Google services as well
Jellin' like a felon

Okay, thanks guys. The ports may be blocked. I get WiFi connection, but the indicator is grayed out. When that is so, I can still go into an app and use it with manual refreshes but I never get notifications automatically like I'm supposed to. They only start to pop in one I leave with and get back in the cellular network. And for an app like gtalk, I cannot use whatsoever as I'm signed out.
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ddpacino said:
Okay, thanks guys. The ports may be blocked. I get WiFi connection, but the indicator is grayed out. When that is so, I can still go into an app and use it with manual refreshes but I never get notifications automatically like I'm supposed to. They only start to pop in one I leave with and get back in the cellular network. And for an app like gtalk, I cannot use whatsoever as I'm signed out.
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This happened to me before and basically it was how my IT guy setup our WiFi network in our office. I couldn't use any Google push services on my phone (gmail, gtalk, calender, etc...). Every thing would work fine when I was on data connection, but would stop on WiFi. I just stopped using my work WiFi when I was in the office. It definitely had something to do with the firewall/privileges of the WiFi network.

ddpacino said:
This has been going on for some time now. I cannot actually pinpoint when it happened. But whenever I am at work, I can connect to the network and it's grayed out. I can still browse and use some app but I don't get notifications from my apps and cannot use Google Talk, for example. That entire app is grayed out.
It's an 802.1x EAP - PEAP - MSCHAPV2.
Anyone got any ideas or tricks to fix this? It used to work before and it doesn't. I do not believe anything changed on our end. And I also cannot just restart the router at work. Thanks in advance.
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port blocked..
google push notification and so gtalk need ports like 5222,5223,5228
usually in a work wifi only port 80 (http traffic) and 443 (httpS traffic) are open

VTENGR said:
This happened to me before and basically it was how my IT guy setup our WiFi network in our office. I couldn't use any Google push services on my phone (gmail, gtalk, calender, etc...). Every thing would work fine when I was on data connection, but would stop on WiFi. I just stopped using my work WiFi when I was in the office. It definitely had something to do with the firewall/privileges of the WiFi network.
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Yea... but I'm on one of these tiered data plans from Verizon where I hit at or near the cap every month. I'm trying to use free WiFi as much as possible lol
Thanks again to all.

coloxim said:
I ve same problem..
But when I turn on the display the WiFi becomes blue...and when I turn off the display the icon becomes gray...
I don't know why.but I can't receive mail and gtalk..
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Do you have wifi set to turn off when the display turns off?

I came across this thread because I'm having the same problem with my GS3, the only thing that solved it was installing a WiFi manager app from the market.

Factory reset plus downgrading from 4.2.2 to 4.2.0 was the only thing that worked for me.

FIX FOR GREY WIFI/MOBILE DATA, and google account sync
HI THERE, sorry im new to e forum, anyways im using a SGS 3LTE with custom rom CM 10.2 android 4.3, CWM touch recovery. So many people are not able to connect to the play store and services over wifi, but only over mobile data. Another issue is that the cellular data and wifi tend to remain grey, unlike that of android 4.0 and back which remains blue. So to solve this heres what i did.
DID EVERY F**KING CRAP OUT THERE. DIDNT WORK.
What i did: use a file manager with root access, look for 'hosts' file in systempath 'system/etc/' and deleted it. So far so good, its permanently blue for both wifi and cellular data, and also i am able to access google apps and store without a hitch.
DO SHARE WITH ME UR FINDINGS/RESULTS AND SPREAD THE LOVE PEOPLE
On a side note: i used to flash and modify small roms for my old htc hd2, but the above fix was heard from a website from god knows where LOL, im singaporean, i speak singlish, and im proud of it so im not gonna apologise for the broken english

In case this helps anyone, the way I solved it at home with my Galaxy Nexus is by changing the setting of the router to Wireless G or N only. I have two routers, so I set one on 802.11g and the other on 802.11n only. By default my DLinks came with mixed wireless protocols. The problem with this is that it seems to confuse devices. That's why they also used to take long to connect to Wifi in general. Since I've made them only one standard now, they connect very quickly. Also, because I had mixed B, G and N on my best router, I never got to really use N. Turns out I had my authentication on WEP, and the only way you're getting N is by using WEP2 with AES.

Fix is here
Hello There, I tried to reset phone,clearing chache,Data but it wont work but now
I have a quick solution on this issue and grey wifi becomes blue in some minutes.
All you need is "Rooted Phone"
1.Install : Root Explorer
2. Grant SuperSU permission to Root Explorer
3. Mount Root Explorer into Read/Write (R/W).
4. Go To System > etc > locate "HOSTS" file in etc folder.
5. Edit Hosts file using root explorer
6. Insert the symbol # before the second set of IP address numbers then save the changes and exit.
7. Reboot your phone...
8. wifi icon will be blue as you start your phone back and some apps like Google play store,keep,etc will be start as normal.
Thanks.

vichimp said:
Go to settings>app>all locate google services framework clear data,cache end reboot your phone...it should work... at least work for me...
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it works on me too.

Solution for all
Use Market Unlocker App for solution of this blue and grey wi fi problem
google it or search on black market

Problems with Google Navigation after 4.1.2 update? Read this!

Took me quite some time to figure this one out, thought I should post it here in case anyone else has a similar problem.
When I updated to Android 4.1.2, I noticed that my Google Navigation stopped working. It would simply sit there endlessly "Waiting for location..." Fortunately, there's a simple fix:
1. Go to "Settings > Accounts > Google > Location Settings".
2. Flip the switch to "On" (I found this was off in my case).
3. Try Google Navigation again, it should work fine.
I'm not sure why Google decided to break up the location settings into two different places like this, but it's a bit silly IMO as it's definitely going to catch some people out.

You probably cleared the Google Services Framework at some point. When you do that, it disables location services.

Makes sense. It's still a good thing to let people know about it.

It's good to know that I wasn't the only one with this issue factory reset did the thing for me.

I have a different issue
hi
My issue is different.
After the update I am not able to download updates from Google play.
It tells me that the connection to the server has been timed out.
|I cleared the Cache of Google play, but did not helped.
Any ideas?

The issue with GPS was present on update from ics to jb as well and also on 4.0 to 4.0.x and fix was the same as you described it switch on and off location service
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MattSkeet said:
The issue with GPS was present on update from ics to jb as well and also on 4.0 to 4.0.x and fix was the same as you described it switch on and off location service
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In my case it was actually that the location service for Google apps was switched off by default after the update. I didn't need to cycle it or anything, just simply switch it on.

Vilcek said:
hi
My issue is different.
After the update I am not able to download updates from Google play.
It tells me that the connection to the server has been timed out.
|I cleared the Cache of Google play, but did not helped.
Any ideas?
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Not sure how to fix that. Are you sure you have an internet connection on your phone? You might need to use the "Clear Data" option, rather than just "Clear Cache".

Hey, man, thanks a lot, I've been banging my head for 6 hours until I found your post. I was minutes away from resetting my phone to factory defaults. You saved me a lot of trouble. Kudos to you!

Thanks for the heads up on this!

Thanks
I too had emptied the google apps framework for the update to 4.2.1 on the galaxy nexus, this helped me out. Thanks!

Awesome
It worked for me in a Galaxy S3 i9300. Thank you so much!