[Fender Doc]

Does anybody know what the flashing * in the top Left corner on the wallpaper screen is for? It is right over the "Spr" in Sprint on the screen.

Thanks,
Russell

[Christopher#WN]

Is that the voicemail indicator?

-christopher

[Fender Doc]

Good answer, but I do not think that is it. If I have a voice mail, an envelope appears in the top Right corner.

Thanks,
Russell

[wilme2]

It is an alert reminder...
Use the stylus to click on it, and it will show you the active alerts...

[bubba9]

I have a blinking asterisk on the top left of my screen. It is driving me crazy. I have no SMS messages no VM messages. No nothing. Does anyone know what the blinking asterisk means and how do I turn it off?

Thanks,

[Mol]

I've only seen the blinking asterisk when I had hit Snooze on an incoming SMS.

Does anything happen when you tap the asterisk?

[MikeK2]

Originally posted by bubba9
I have a blinking asterisk on the top left of my screen. It is driving me crazy. I have no SMS messages no VM messages. No nothing. Does anyone know what the blinking asterisk means and how do I turn it off?

Thanks,

It means you have an appointment reminder, or some other kind of reminder, like a todo list reminder. If you click it, it should bring up the reason, and let you get rid of it.

Mike

[bubba9]

Now I feel dumb... I clicked on the asterisk and it popped up a 'snoozed' message. Thanks for your help.

[MikeK2]

Glad I could help.

Mike

[elee@ulgm.org]

When viewing the phone screen of my SprintPCS Treo 600, I see a flashing asterisk in the upper left corner.

Any idea what this means?

Thanks,
Ed Lee

[Baby]

Hi Ed,

That's funny you ask that--I just encountered the flashing asterick yesterday for the first time. I couldn 't find anything in the manual about it, but I believe it has something to do with appointments that have the alarm enabled. I used the alarm reminder for an appointment for the first time and this happened to be when the asterick started flashing. I guess it does this until the appointment passes.

[Bujin#IM]

That's to tell you that you have a reminder / appointment. If you tap the upper corner(where the asterisk appears) you'll see the details.

[elee@ulgm.org]

Thanks for the quick and helpful responses.

Ed Lee

[tomrob]

This is funny, I had the same experience yesterday. I had tried to send an SMS message (directly from the SMS key). The Asterisk started flashing afterward and I couldn't figure out what it was. I had receved a message back that the messaging service wasn't available yet. Once I deleted the message the asterisk went away. I sent another message to make sure this is what is was.. and voila... there it was again until I deleted it.
Hope this helps!
Regards,
Tom

[tjd414]

This is the Treo 600's way of letting you know that an alert went off.

Now, I don't know what the lert went off of ... a cliff, his rocker, whatever ... but he just went off. Chuckle

Just check each one and it will stop. Hope this helps and you had a little smile.

[elee@ulgm.org]

[Jfscars48]

I now have a flashing snowflake in the top left portion of my screen-right on top of the SP in sprint. Any ideas? BTW the red T I had indicated that somehow I had turned the TTY/TDD mode (hearing impaired).

[Treo_Ken]

Click the snowflake. It will take you to the SMS you haven't yet read.

[derek985]

I don't use SMS so I can't vouch for Ken's explanation but I do know that if I have calendar events that I ignore for long periods of time, then I get the asterisk in the top left corner and if I click it then I'm taken to a list of event reminders that I need to acknowledge before the asterisk will go away.

[snerdy]

Oh, c'mon guys -- you both know that it's the self destruct indicator.

Run, jfscars48. Run for your life. (Note: put the phone down first.)