"Status circle" turning all the time?

[IgnatiusTheKing]

Just curious because I didn't notice it before 2.1; the loading/status circle (for lack of a better term) is always visible and turning when I'm in phone mode now. Not just when a call is active, but anytime I'm in the phone area (keypad, recents, etc.)

Two questions:

1. Was that always the case?
2. Why does it do that?

 

[daneoni]

Just curious because I didn't notice it before 2.1; the loading/status circle (for lack of a better term) is always visible and turning when I'm in phone mode now. Not just when a call is active, but anytime I'm in the phone area (keypad, recents, etc.)

Two questions:

1. Was that always the case?
2. Why does it do that?

updating your contacts via push just in case you hit the contacts button?

 

[MadGoat]

something might be trying to run in the background, email etc... I would try and restart the phone.

I reaslly wish the phone had an activity monitor sometimes.

 

[ehaugk]

you're not alone - I've noticed this too. I'm using MobileMe push for my contacts. How about you?

 

[Excellerator]

I have actually noticed that the status circle works a lot less in 2.1 than it did with 2.0.2. Whenever something accessed the internet it would move, not it doesn't show up on everything.

 

[mavis]

Wirelessly posted (iPhone 3G (16GB, 2.1): Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Mobile/5F136 Safari/525.20)

you're not alone - I've noticed this too. I'm using MobileMe push for my contacts. How about you?

I'm using MMe push for contacts too, but no activity indicator here ...

 

[IgnatiusTheKing]

you're not alone - I've noticed this too. I'm using MobileMe push for my contacts. How about you?

Yeah I've got MobileMe pushing mail, contacts and calendars. Maybe that is it.