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I have this strange "R" on my WiFi signal.
It's not on my cell signal and it's not a glitch. It seems to be set when I am on WiFi, but I don't know why. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it goes away.
The only way I am able to fix the issue is by restarting the phone, but does anyone know why this happens?
When I look online, everyone seems to not know what the main problem is and most threads give up and stop trying to figure out what is going on.
For as far as I can tell so far it seems to be a bug, specifically with Motorola Android devices (Motorola themselves do not list WiFi-with-R in their glossary of terms and WiFi troubleshooting section either).
I've seen one mention that a factory reset might resolve this, so if it's particularly annoying it's worth a try.
If you want to help squash said bug I would first contact them before performing that reset though, maybe they can finally track it down and fix it for everyone.
It means that your WiFi has a repeater (like a range extender). Or your AP was in repeater mode.
