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#8274 Shane on December 4th, 2008 at 8:42 am

I get that exact globe icon on my Bold when the weather is pushed to my device via my in-box. Viewing the message makes the icon disappear.

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#8286 rick tait on December 4th, 2008 at 9:17 pm

Guys — this icon is for a “Browser push message”. Thats the correct term.

#8599 Mark on December 19th, 2008 at 9:04 am

This same icon was driving me mad..
scroll through all your messages… one will have an icon of the globe bside it..
click on the message,follow the link and the notification will be gone !

#8667 danni on December 23rd, 2008 at 1:57 am

Thank you very much for this. It helped!

#8680 Retiredf5 on December 23rd, 2008 at 2:41 pm

Have had this Storm(9530) for about a week and one problem continues. When using the 9530 to place a call, a number of folks have commented that my voice is muffled no matter in which position I hold the phone. A call to both the 1-800 help line and taking it into my local VERIZON sales/service store confirm the same thing. The voice is understandable but it muffled. The VERIZON store tells me that BB is aware of the proble but the 1-800 help line says my voice in muffled but understandable but they are not aware of any such problem at BB.

Any help to correc the situation???

#8822 Joe on December 30th, 2008 at 3:39 pm

I’ve got nothing, Retired. Have you installed the latest OS update? I’m not sure that would help, but it’s worth a try.

Otherwise, is anyone else experiencing this problem?

#9276 bertybassett on February 2nd, 2009 at 9:19 am

yeah thanks for the help. Hidden deep inside one of the folders was a WAP message, found it and deleted the fuc£e$ and the globe disappered.

#9527 Curtis on February 11th, 2009 at 3:59 pm

On the Bold, you’ll need to go into your main email account, hit menu and then select ‘View Folders’. The offending Browser Push Message can be found in the folder called ‘Browser Messages’.

Hope that helps.

#9839 Mel on March 3rd, 2009 at 3:21 pm

Curtis, that did it. Thank you sooo much!

#10372 Rebecca on April 12th, 2009 at 1:22 pm

Finally got rid of that stupid icon!! It had been driving me mad for weeks. I found it the way Curtis suggests, it worked on my Storm as well as the Bold. Thank you :)

#10678 Dennis on April 27th, 2009 at 5:40 pm

Spent hours trying to remove this until O found this site. Absolutely delighted and will recomend it. It worked a treat. cheers.

#11411 blueenigma on June 2nd, 2009 at 7:00 pm

You cannot “highlight it and delete it”. It is an icon that sits above the main screen icons, and is not acessible by cursor. However, the initial method (locating the saved browser page in the message folder) DOES work. Thanks!!!!

#12399 Morgan on July 10th, 2009 at 11:12 am

Hi, my blackberry bold, is just displaying a white screen and is functioning like a normal phone but i cant see the screen because its constantly plain white, so i cant check my emails, ring anyone, or send messages, please reply asap because the blackberry help line is absolutly rubbish, that ive been told to ring and i just had to listen to a tone.

thanks.

#12448 NIMA on July 13th, 2009 at 2:55 pm

It helped! thanks so much for helping me get rid of the annoying globe icon :)

#13966 Cookie on September 13th, 2009 at 8:39 pm

I have the blackberry curve 8330 and every now and then I cant scroll down the thumb wheel works in all directions except down some times it locks up for a short time and sometimes for several hours. makes it almost usless.

#13982 Cooper on September 14th, 2009 at 1:13 pm

To fix this just do a battery pull while the device is on.

Wait 30 second and then replace the battery – should be all fixed.

#14367 Dune on September 30th, 2009 at 4:06 pm

Thanks for the great information in this string. I have had the annoying globe icon for awhile with a 7 beside it. I have gone to messages/view folder/WAP Push Messages (do not have Browser Messages) and it’s empty. Nothing I do gets rid of the darn globe icon. Anything else I can try or am I missing something? Thanks!

#14368 Dune on September 30th, 2009 at 4:10 pm

I am an idiot, sorry to bother you. I didn’t think to “scroll up” to find the Browser Message folder. Problem solved and thank you all again.

#15553 finfin on November 14th, 2009 at 6:21 am

Hi guys,
need you help. Have a storm and i have a “wap push icon” that I cannot get rid of. I have tried all of the advice above and it’s still there. I also have a “new email” icon that says I have 3 unread messengers but I’ve gone through the accounts and marked all as open but the illusive three are still at large..please help! I’ve also had replacement handsets and setup the accounts again but still to no avail! argh!

#15602 Joe on November 16th, 2009 at 9:18 am

finfin, try re-sending your Host Rounting Tables

http://www.bbgeeks.com/quick-tips/what-to-do-if-you-dont-have-blackberry-internet-browser-881146/

#18170 JV on January 31st, 2010 at 7:27 pm

Curtis, thanks! You the man!

#18256 azakins on February 3rd, 2010 at 7:19 am

I have an annoying Icon above the Menu on the home screen, it has the number 2 next to the Facebook “F”

I have scoured folders etc but can’t seem to budge it, any ideas?

Cheers

#18302 Cooper on February 4th, 2010 at 10:30 am

@azakins – that indicates you have two new facebook messages / notifications.

If you have already been through your facebook updates etc then it may be a custom theme causing the problem. If you are using a custom theme I suggest swapping back to a default theme and doing a battery pull. When the device comes back on the notification should be back to normal. You can then go back to using a custom theme again.

#18322 stel on February 5th, 2010 at 4:28 am

THANK YOU SO MUCH. Your help got rid of that irritating icon!!!

#18367 Prasannah Ganeshan on February 8th, 2010 at 7:09 am

http://forums.crackberry.com/f79/cant-get-rid-globe-icon-260412/

This link helped me with this problem.

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