Network speed monitor in status bar.

Duck0

Trying out GrapheneOS for the first time and the only feature I'm missing is a download/upload monitor in the status bar.

I appreciate the minimal and sandboxed philosophy and understand features require maintainers.

I live rural and hop around from different networks and areas and the network indicator is a quick and simple way for me to diagnose whether I have full, some, none, or throttled speed (sometimes even being stuck in roaming.)

Are there any solutions compatible with GrapheneOS? Any possibilities of this being baked in?

I'd be willing to learn how to compile it in myself for this one feature but this would likely interfere with automatic updates I'm assuming.

matchboxbananasynergy

Duck0 This is something that's unlikely to be included in GrapheneOS if it's not part of AOSP.

I was able to find this app which you can configure to show your current network speed as a notification, maybe it helps:

https://github.com/itsdrnoob/DataMonitor

Duck0

matchboxbananasynergy

Bummer. Understandable. Thanks for the reply and suggestion.

Your suggested application does not have an option to display in the status bar and an issue in the repository the owner commented on suggests this is not a feature that will be implemented.

I found this app: "Net Monitor". https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dede.nativetools

Which, while not exactly as configurable as I want, gives me the ability to see data transfer at a glance.

Any other recommendations are welcome.

matchboxbananasynergy

Duck0 From my brief testing, the Data Monitor application I recommended gives you a notification, but yes, it doesn't seem to be in the status bar. The app you found seems much closer to what you'd like to achieve. :)

zirg072

It would have been a really nice feature. It would help in identifying any inconsistencies with data usage in case an app misbehaves and prevent excessive data usage beforehand. An advantage of displaying network speed on the status bar: Unless you know some app is abusing data usage, you won't go looking for it.