"R" Roaming indicator disappears when on wifi. [36949173]

Obsolete

Bug

[AOSP] duplicate

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Description

gr...@gmail.com

created issue #1

Jun 5, 2012 07:46PM

Nexus S, Android 4.0.4

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Make sure your phone is roaming
2. Connect to a wifi access point.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
It is expected that the wifi connects and the "R" next to the bars stays present to indicate you are still roaming.
Instead, the R disappears and it looks like you are connected to your local provider. The only way I can tell I am roaming is by looking at the network name from the lock screen.

This is issue is similar to one reported to a modded version of android.

http://code.google.com/p/epiccm/issues/detail?id=175 I borrowed some of his wording as our issues are similar. Note: I am using an unmoded version on my phone pushed to me by google.

Comments

za...@gmail.com <za...@gmail.com> #2Aug 18, 2012 09:51PM

Same issue with Android 4.1.1 on Galaxy Nexus. This is really annoying and I just figured it out now after having to pay a major overcharge due to roaming as I thought I was on the home network.

co...@gmail.com <co...@gmail.com> #3Apr 9, 2013 11:57PM

I'm on 4.2.2 stock on a Nexus 4 and I have this issue too

rg...@google.com <rg...@google.com> #5Aug 30, 2013 03:59PM

Assigned to rg...@google.com.

Are you seeing data use on mobile in this case or is it just that you can't tell you're roaming and so you make voice calls when you otherwise wouldn't have?

I think the missing R is simply a graphic issue, but I need you to verify your experience matches my theory.

za...@gmail.com <za...@gmail.com> #6Aug 31, 2013 09:05AM

For me, I can't tell I'm roaming hence sending/receiving voice calls includes a major overcharge without me noticing before the end of the month.

ni...@gmail.com <ni...@gmail.com> #7Aug 31, 2013 04:35PM

Actually the phone detects that I'm roaming, because a message appears notifying that data connectivity is lost because of roaming.

The problem is that the user has no way to know if the signal is roaming or not because of the wifi icon overlapping the signal icon.

gr...@gmail.com <gr...@gmail.com> #8Dec 4, 2013 02:10PM

I have had 20€ charge for roaming data (I'm in Brazil now, and my home network is TIM Italy). Naturally the "Data on roaming" is disabled. Searching I found this topic and actually when I am on wifi the "R" disappears to me too. Disconnecting from wifi it reappears.
Could be that in the few seconds switching off wifi, it connects rapidly to data network, thus exchanging that 1 kB of data that's enough to bill me for Roaming???

Nexus 4 with Android 4.4 here. In the past have used Galaxy Nexus with Android 4.0.4 ---> 4.3 and never had such problem.

rg...@google.com <rg...@google.com> #9Dec 4, 2013 07:11PM

Reassigned to ds...@android.com.

The data leak when switching from wifi to mobile or back is covered by
2379<

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2379>
.

I'm leaving this issue to handle showing R when roaming even on wifi.

ra...@gmail.com <ra...@gmail.com> #10Mar 25, 2014 06:01PM

I am facing an issue with nexus 5 that it do not show roaming indicator 'R' at all. I tried a lot while staying for 3-4 days in roaming area.This is the only problem i have with this device...rest is awesome.Please help me to get out of this problem.
Thanks

[Deleted User] <[Deleted User]> #11Apr 14, 2014 09:10AM

I'm on Android 4.2.2 on a Samsung S4 Mini and got burned by this bug which left me with close to £50 additional charges.

Shall I bill Google? :D

ku...@gmail.com <ku...@gmail.com> #12Feb 4, 2015 06:58PM

ConnectivityManager::getActiveNetworkInfo().isRoaming() actually returns false when connected to Wifi and true when not connected to wifi - in a roaming scenario.

ku...@gmail.com <ku...@gmail.com> #13Jun 10, 2019 09:18AM

My phone was set to roaming and data off. But my company charged for extra international data (just 0,06MB). I guess it is the the same problem.
Note 8, Android 9

sa...@google.com <sa...@google.com> #14Aug 18, 2020 04:05PM

Status: Won't Fix (Obsolete)

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