How can you tell if the phone is roaming at any one moment in time?

Am 05.10.21 um 08:23 schrieb Gronk:
> How can you tell if the phone is roaming at any one moment in time?
>
If another network operator is shown in the status bar of your phone.
Roaming permission can be turned off in the settings to test.

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On 05/10/2021 07:23, Gronk wrote:
> How can you tell if the phone is roaming at any one moment in time?

Depends on the phone, but the last few I've had (currently a Pixel 3a)
have shown an "R" beside the signal strength bars.

Am 07.10.21 um 00:14 schrieb Calum:
> On 05/10/2021 07:23, Gronk wrote:
>> How can you tell if the phone is roaming at any one moment in time?
>
> Depends on the phone, but the last few I've had (currently a Pixel 3a)
> have shown an "R" beside the signal strength bars.

Interesting. I have never seen that on my Pixel 4.
In the heart of Europe roaming is happening quite often the case.

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On 07/10/2021 06:58, Joerg Lorenz wrote:

> Interesting. I have never seen that on my Pixel 4.
> In the heart of Europe roaming is happening quite often the case.

Not sure if the operators also have any control over it, but this is the
sort of thing I see (without the "Preferred System" text, which was part
of the bug they were discussing here):

<https://piunikaweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Verizon-Pixel-Android-10-bug.png>

Calum <com.gmail@nospam.scottishwildcat> asked
>> How can you tell if the phone is roaming at any one moment in time?
>
> Depends on the phone, but the last few I've had (currently a Pixel 3a)
> have shown an "R" beside the signal strength bars.

My carrier, T-Mobile, allows for free roaming in the USA & in Europe so I
don't see any downside in turning roaming on all the time.

I'm not sure about calls, but my settings say it's for "data roaming" only?
Android 11 Settings > Connections > Data roaming = on or off

(Do regular calls make use of roaming or is it just data that uses roaming?)

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.

Android 11 Settings > About phone > Status information > SIM card status
(The instantaneous roaming line will either say "Roaming" or "Not roaming.)

This app also apparently tells us which network we're on at any given time.
<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=make.more.r2d2.cellular_z>

Here is a screenshot showing the "Net Operator" is in this case "T-Mobile."
<https://i.postimg.cc/xCbVQ2pj/signal02.jpg>

What I'm seeking is an app that outputs a custom _sound_ upon roaming.

Joerg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.ch> wrote:
> Am 07.10.21 um 00:14 schrieb Calum:
> > On 05/10/2021 07:23, Gronk wrote:
> >> How can you tell if the phone is roaming at any one moment in time?
> >
> > Depends on the phone, but the last few I've had (currently a Pixel 3a)
> > have shown an "R" beside the signal strength bars.
>
> Interesting. I have never seen that on my Pixel 4.

I think - but don't know for sure - it's quite common.

My previous Huawei phones had it. Don't know if my current Samsung has
it. I didn't pay attention on our recent holiday to/in Germany/Austria.

> In the heart of Europe roaming is happening quite often the case.

Am 07.10.21 um 21:27 schrieb Frank Slootweg:
> Joerg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.ch> wrote:
>> Am 07.10.21 um 00:14 schrieb Calum:
>>> On 05/10/2021 07:23, Gronk wrote:
>>>> How can you tell if the phone is roaming at any one moment in time?
>>>
>>> Depends on the phone, but the last few I've had (currently a Pixel 3a)
>>> have shown an "R" beside the signal strength bars.
>>
>> Interesting. I have never seen that on my Pixel 4.
>
> I think - but don't know for sure - it's quite common.
>
> My previous Huawei phones had it. Don't know if my current Samsung has
> it. I didn't pay attention on our recent holiday to/in Germany/Austria.

Perhaps I just didn't recognise.
Abroad I take usually my iPhone along anyway.

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> Android 11 Settings > About phone > Status information > SIM card status
> (The instantaneous roaming line will either say "Roaming" or "Not roaming.)

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 we are 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.