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Orbi RBK 13, signal strength indicator in App Question?
In device manager in the app I sometimes get a signal strength indicator on 1 or 2 devices that is a ghosted light gray color where as a regular signal would be 3 green bars or possibly 1 or 2 green ...
Is this Orbi app on an iPhone or Android?
A screen shot of this might be helpful. My Android phone app (v2.22.0.226) shows Green arcs and what I would call "dark gray".
Now that this topic has come up, I noticed that the app also shows every 2.4 device having a "Link Rate" of 400Mbps. Even the ones with a single "bar". What a hoot!
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Here's a screen shot of the signal indicator problem in question. The one named Garage Echo Dot is what I consider normal, but the one named JaLeen's 1st Kindle is a different color gray or silver from the other and not sure why it's that color. Like I said, the device works fine while indicator is that color.
I am running app on my Samsung android version 11 phone and the Orbi app is ver. 2.22.0.2662
Hope this helps. Any additional input will be appreciated, but if we don't figure it out I guess it works like this but I am always curious as I did building and equipment repair in a hospital for 41 years and I've seen alot of goofy things in my days but I always wanted an answer.
Thanks for any help you can give. Doug
All of my devices with fewer than full bars have the darker color on a Sony Xperia and Samsung Galaxy Tab.
I checked the web Attached Devices, which has only one icon for 2.4G connection and one icon for 5G connection. (not separate icons for each signal level.) This leads me to think that the 'app' has logic which decides which icon to display for each device. Really wish I knew how to 'deconstruct' the Orbi app to find out how it works, but..... (oh, well)
As it turns out, there IS a Windows app that can deconstruct an Android app, APKTool at:
https://ibotpeaches.github.io/Apktool/
Downloaded the most recent Orbi Android app from APK Mirror and "voila", took it apart.
There are many versions of WiFi signal strength pictures, probably to account for the app being installed on devices with different screen size and resolution. There are plenty with three green and gray bars, such as these:
And there are also pictures which are "all gray" (no green at all), but have four bars (counting the one at the bottom).
But I did not find even one that had three bars of all gray (no green).
This is upsetting because the screen shot provided clearly shows that JaLeen's 1st Kindle has three gray bars (no green. not four).
What I can see is that one of the all-gray images is labeled "very_low_signal". And none of the images with green is "very_low".
Would it be possible to make another screen capture of this Kindle when it has a stronger signal?
Here is screenshot of JaLeen's 1st Kindle with 3 bars of signal on it. I have 2 more pics I want to send but looks like I'll have to do them in separate posts because it says only 1 attachment aloud per posts.
