NETGEAR is aware of a growing number of phone and online scams. To learn how to stay safe click here.
Forum Discussion
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 ...
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?
