[Vania1975]

Just recently I have this white dot that is in the top left hand corner of my notification bar. When I pull down to see what it is, there is nothing. Tried rebooting the phone, looking at recent apps that I've installed to see if that's the culprit, and now I give up and come to this forum looking for help. Anyone have any idea what it is?

[Aquila]

It typically represents minimized notifications - if there are no notifications, then sounds like either a bug or they're using that minimized notification functionality for something else - but not sure what that would be.

[Vania1975]

ugg...maybe something buggy. I may do a factory reset

[Mike Dee]

ugg...maybe something buggy. I may do a factory reset

If its something normal and repetitive it will just come back.

[GSDer]

You could try booting into Safe mode - if it's being caused by a 3rd party application that won't show up in Safe mode. Then you can start uninstalling the most recent applications you've used.

This is easier than doing a Factory Reset (although if nothing obvious turns up that may be another step to try).

[Mooncatt]

Can you post a pic of this?

[Vania1975]

It went away after I powered off my phone completely, then waited a minute and powered it back up and the white dot is gone. Who knows what it was...

[shadavis08]

I have an app called music player remix that does the same thing just a white dot in the left hand corner

[Vania1975]

Anyways..this is what it looked like.

[GSDer]

It's usually the result of an application that's keeping itself from being kicked out of memory by the OS; the app keeps a 'notification' running (although it may not actually be providing any kind of useful notification) as a means to stay running.