XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.mobile.android   
   From: Ancient-of-Days@Heaven.Net   
      
   Jeff Liebermann  asked   
   >>It says the widget allows   
   >>a. You to monitor your data usage on the homescreen at a glance   
   >>b. The widget is what allows you to set up the billing cycle   
   >   
   > Thanks.  I missed that.  I have the billing cycle setup, but I don't   
   > really need it.  I'll delete the widget and see what breaks.   
   > Monitoring my traffic would be nice, but there are other programs   
   > available that will do a better job and produce more than a single   
   > number for traffic.   
      
   The only thing I lost by deleting the "Data counter widget" widget was   
   a. The widget itself (it contained updated summary data averages)   
   b. The billing cycle (which now defaults to a calendar month instead)   
   c. The weird rainbow arcs (I still don't know what they were telling me)   
      
   Once I solve this for Android, then I attempt to solve it for iOS.   
      
   >>I found that the phone tells me, instantaneously, whether or not I'm   
   >>roaming, but it was too many clicks into the settings to be useful.   
      
   >Sure, but does it tell you when you are being charged for roaming?   
   >Probably not.   
      
   1. T-Mobile USA doesn't charge for roaming, so, for me, that's moot.   
   2. But, for others, I agree that they might be charged for roaming.   
   3. And, you are correct, it doesn't tell you if you are being charged.   
      
   Since I'm all about efficiency on a phone, I found what to put in the TARGET   
   field of the shortcut to make it a single click to see when I'm roaming.   
    TARGET = com.android.settings.Settings$SimStatusActivity   
      
   A shortcut with that TARGET will, in a single tap, go here in Android 11:   
    Settings > About phone > Status information > SIM card status   
      
   In that page of other bits of SIM-card information is this one line:   
    Roaming = {Roaming or Not roaming}   
   So I've solved the problem of knowing in a single tap whether I'm roaming.   
      
   What would be nice is a custom _sound_ (and resizeable icon) that tells me   
   exactly when I begin & end roaming just like the charge direction app does.   
      
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