The "green up arrow" you reference is the labelStakingIcon. This is unusual behavior. Please do the following:
In your wallet go to "Help>>Debug window" and click on the console tab. In the input box, type "getstakinginfo" without the quotes and copy/paste the results to an email to me: [email protected]
labelStakingIcon is invoked when "-staking" is true, which then passes control to QTimer, which should start after 30 seconds and update. Please also indicate what platform (Windows/Linux) your running and indicate if your running Linux if you downloaded the binary or compiled from source.
Thank you.
Thanks again TeamBean