Network engineer here. Phones will "normally" show their current connection status. At idle this should be 3G and on data use should escalate to HSDPA. Some phones though had the odd side effect where they leave the "H"/"3.5g"/3G+" symbol up for longer than the connection lasted. They shouldn't, this isn't cricket but some do. I'm 99% sure the SF shows current status of connection, I'm playing with one here and it's flicking up and down correctly - maybe you had a lot of background sync going on?ok thanks, so i do not have to turn anything on or anything
Are you sure about that? On my OSF and the wife's Sensation the icon shows what you can use.
Gmail sync sometimes needs a handset reset after first time credential setup RobNut - a slightly odd bug I've seen a few times on Android testers.