New icon on first screen after restart

[Android Central Question]

A new icon appeared today after I restarted my S20 FE, before I signed in for the first time. It's an S with two dots in the top section plus two little horns. It looks like a combination of an S (e.g., Samsung) and an Android symbol (with a head with eyes and antennas). What is this? Maybe it's a new Samsung Android brand icon? But my Google searches haven't found anything like it. I tried searching using words, then reverse image search. Neither found anything like it.

The icon appears on the lock screen, where the row of status icons normally appear.

As soon as I touched a hard button or swiped the screen, things work as usual. That is, a message appears telling me to unlock to restart the phone. After I swipe again, the phone asks me for my lock pattern (as expected), and thereafter everything appears to be normal. Once I lock the phone, the lock screen is normal, without this new icon.

I rebooted again to confirm the new icon reappeared and to try other first actions. It did, and it again disappears as soon as I do anything.

My phone is on Verizon, System Update 17, released 1/26/2022, with Nova Launcher.

I'd upload a photo I took of this new icon with another phone, but don't see a way to attach an image to this question. I'm submitting this question in Chrome on my Win10 laptop.

 

[hallux]

That icon may be an Android process completing the boot process.

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[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! I agree with hallux -- Android 12's codename would start with an S. Remember when Android versions had sweet treat names? The last one was Pie (Android 9), then they switched to just numbers because they couldn't come up with a treat for Q (Android 10) -- however, Google still uses the letter (and I believe a sweet treat codename) internally. Android 11 is R, and Android 12 is S.

 

[Edox]

As @hallux said ...

 

[LookingThruTrees]

I'm the OP. Edox got it right. I'm amused that it's a symbol a user can see but it doesn't seem to be identified in documentation (or I haven't found it).

Re: B. Diddy's comment, Wikipedia says the code name is Snow Cone.

Re: hallux's suggestions, a puzzlement is that Android Central displays posts and reply fields in (at least) two formats. I saved the link to my post when AC first showed it to me. That page doesn't have an Advanced option for replies. It was only when I searched for my post that I found a page with a Reply form with toolbars and with an "Advanced" button.

 

[B. Diddy]

Like many people, I hope Google goes back to officially naming their Android versions after sweet treats. I still think they should've made a deal with Nestle to call Android 10 "Quik", after the old Quik chocolate milk mix from the 1970s-1980s.



The link that you shared above is for the "Q&A" format for posts in the forums. I'm not sure what causes that to happen, but you can get to the regular post by deleting all of the characters at the end of the URL up to "html". In other words, if you delete the "?mn_qa=1#post7041107" at the end of the URL for that link, it will show you the normal post.

 

[Laura Knotek]

Like many people, I hope Google goes back to officially naming their Android versions after sweet treats. I still think they should've made a deal with Nestle to call Android 10 "Quik", after the old Quik chocolate milk mix from the 1970s-1980s.

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The link that you shared above is for the "Q&A" format for posts in the forums. I'm not sure what causes that to happen, but you can get to the regular post by deleting all of the characters at the end of the URL up to "html". In other words, if you delete the "?mn_qa=1#post7041107" at the end of the URL for that link, it will show you the normal post.

I'd also love to see Google return to the naming of the Android versions as sweet treats. The little green Android mascots with the treats were adorable, especially the Lollipop and Marshmallow ones.

 

[mustang7757]

Like many people, I hope Google goes back to officially naming their Android versions after sweet treats. I still think they should've made a deal with Nestle to call Android 10 "Quik", after the old Quik chocolate milk mix from the 1970s-1980s.

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The link that you shared above is for the "Q&A" format for posts in the forums. I'm not sure what causes that to happen, but you can get to the regular post by deleting all of the characters at the end of the URL up to "html". In other words, if you delete the "?mn_qa=1#post7041107" at the end of the URL for that link, it will show you the normal post.

I'd also love to see Google return to the naming of the Android versions as sweet treats. The little green Android mascots with the treats were adorable, especially the Lollipop and Marshmallow ones.

I love to see Android 100 written on my screen sounds Firm
If we get to that point

 

[B. Diddy]

I love to see Android 100 written on my screen sounds Firm
If we get to that point

What if they get up to Android Googol (i.e., 1 with 100 zeroes after it)?

 

[mustang7757]

What if they get up to Android Googol (i.e., 1 with 100 zeroes after it)?