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jweinraub
03-09-2009, 01:33 PM
I thought I had posted this question already but it seems to have gone missing.

What is this icon exactly? Not too sure when it first came on, but I never seen this before and I can't figure it out!

http://www.weinraub.net/screenshot1.png

Any help is greatly appreciated.
akosnitzky
03-09-2009, 01:34 PM
It looks like messenger??????
JSanders
03-09-2009, 01:35 PM
Looks like MSN or Live messenger. Yep.

Give that man a prize.
ndub33
03-09-2009, 01:36 PM
Do you have BlackBerry Messenger onboard? Looks like you may have messages in BBM.
jweinraub
03-09-2009, 01:41 PM
I thought it was Messenger, but I only have 3 contacts on BB Messenger and no new messages.

In MSN messenger, i am not even logged in.
Yahoo messenger, i have one contact and she never logged in recently.
I rourtinely use AIM and Google Talk but I dont have any unread messages there either... That is why I am so befuddled.
ndub33
03-09-2009, 01:44 PM
If you haven't already, check in your Saved Messages folder.
jweinraub
03-09-2009, 01:49 PM
View saved messages just shows one email I saved, but no sms/messenger messages. Hmm.
ndub33
03-09-2009, 01:50 PM
Any other third party apps onboard?
siliconvalley785
03-09-2009, 01:55 PM
Looks like MySpace messages.

Pritesh
jsconyers
03-09-2009, 01:59 PM
Yep, looks like MySpace to me as well.
JSanders
03-09-2009, 02:03 PM
Sure does look like MySpace. :)

Give that man a cookie.
ndub33
03-09-2009, 02:06 PM
Didn't immediately recognize this , as I am one of those geezers who doesn't do much social networking...
jweinraub
03-09-2009, 02:06 PM
Looks like MySpace messages.

Oh ho! That is why it looked so familiar! Yes, I do have MySpace on there, I actually didn't think 3rd parties could put icons there, but now I know they can.

Thank you! This was driving me bonkers!
PapiPabs
03-09-2009, 02:11 PM
Facebook throws a notification icon up there too apparently. A friend of mine had the app on his phone and forgot that he did. We had a hell of a time figuring out what the icon was until I looked in his download folder and saw the new message asterisk on the Facebook app icon in there.
JSanders
03-09-2009, 02:23 PM
lol, yea the blue sqare FaceBook icon with an 'F' in it was no clue?
jweinraub
03-09-2009, 02:46 PM
Yeah MySpace and MSN Messenger do look a lot alike, but there was no asterisk next to it for some reason. I also hardly ever use it, one of my friends has a blog on it and only way for me to read it was to become her friend.

She was very active during the election but now, not so much and totally forgot about MySpace even being there.
pshift
03-09-2009, 02:55 PM
Looks like Myspace from my end as well. The Facebook icons will have a blue "F" with a number on it in your unread messages display area as well.
mckinneycm
03-09-2009, 04:11 PM
Oh ho! That is why it looked so familiar! Yes, I do have MySpace on there, I actually didn't think 3rd parties could put icons there, but now I know they can.

Thank you! This was driving me bonkers!

So, how do you get rid of this icon? I've gone into MySpace and I can't figure out where the notification is coming from.
dankarlinski
03-09-2009, 04:21 PM
that usually means there is a message. check in your inbox

if that doesnt work, do a battery pull
mckinneycm
03-09-2009, 04:22 PM
My MySpace inbox?
rambo47
03-09-2009, 04:24 PM
Didn't immediately recognize this , as I am one of those geezers who doesn't do much social networking...

There are 2 geezers who don't so the social networking thing. I'm the other one. :smile:
mckinneycm
03-09-2009, 04:27 PM
that usually means there is a message. check in your inbox

if that doesnt work, do a battery pull

I found it, thanks. I thought I had checked all of my MySpace messages, but I had one from a month ago that was unread.
PapiPabs
03-09-2009, 05:04 PM
lol, yea the blue sqare FaceBook icon with an 'F' in it was no clue?

Really, Mr. "Looks like MSN or Live messenger."? LOL j/k

He's got the 8350i, and the notification on the home screen looked like a blue dot with a big red asterisk in it. True, I still should have known, but it was the day of our annual "bros before hoes" Super Bowl trip to Mohegan, and we'd been drinking steadily since 11AM and it was about 5PM. I'm guessing that added to the mystery. ;-)