I accidentally dropped my phone a few days ago, and since then wifi is working very poorly or not at all. The phone sometimes takes about a minute to even detect a network, not even talking about connecting. When and if it does connect, the connection drops after a few seconds.
Could this be fixed in the same way as poor GPS coverage, with tightening the screws on the assembly, or will it require warranty repair ?
Are there any other issues with the phone, besides wifi? When you dropped it, did the battery fall out and the phone forcefully turned off?
Most of the phone wifi antennas are integrated into the motherboard, so I doubt you broke something there.
You can try the following:
1. Turn on wifi, and forget all of the networks you have logged into.
2. Turn off wifi, and delete wpa_supplicant.conf in /data/misc/wifi/ folder.
3. Do a hard reboot ( power off fully and turn back on after 30 seconds ).
That fixed wifi issues with a couple of Android boxes I had the displeasure of using. Maybe it will help here.
Thanks, but that didn't solve my problem. And yes, I should have clarified, the phone did, in fact, turn off after being dropped because the battery fell out.
Hmmm... when that happens, there is a good chance system corrupted itself somehow. Just like when you unplug a USB drive while copying something on it, or improperly shutting down Windows while they perform system updates.
I would, if that happened to me, do a factory reset, and reflash the phone just to see if that fixes it. If not, I would send it on warranty repair and keep quiet about dropping it.
Be sure to perform a backup of the stuff you need backed up.
I will try that out when I can, don't want to get stuck without my tools.
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I migrated to WM6 awhile back and found two oddities:
1. after a few days, the phone would lose connection with Cingular...going into and out of Airplane mode would not get it to reconnect, only a reset would get it back
2. The network stack works unpredictably. Turn on WiFi, use it for a bit of surfing, turn it off to save battery, then when turning it on later, the phone errors out saying it cannot connect to anything (like web or email), again, a reset of the phone fixes the problem. The same thing would happen if you put the phone in standby (hit the power button). In short, Wifi would only _dependably_ work on the first connection to a base station after a reboot.
I've back flashed to the T-mobile image, but will need to find a Cingular ROM to send this thing back in for a warrantee repair.
my phone does not connect to att or the internet. it looks and looks for signal but it will never work unless i plug my phone onto my computer and sync it through activesync. after leaving it plugged in my phone will find signal and i can unplug the phone and work it regularly. this is a problem cause if i turn my phone off its done.. i wont be able to get it working after i turn it back on unless i stop at home and fix it which is a pain when I travel and have to turn my phone off before a flight.
when i turn on the phone it will say i am missing the file " and i will not work properly.. etc..etc i dunno if that has anything to do with my problem
Try a Soft reset or Hard Reset,hope it'll work.
Cheers!
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hmmmm,
You'll perhaps have to reflash it again,download official stock rom of your provider from its website and flash.ok
cheers!
anything??
well i have the nbd touchflo or whatever installed on mine and i have hard reset it a couple times.. reinstalled the software as well. usually when there are no programs it turns on and finds the signal. even when i do install programs it will work maybe the next 2 or 3 times i turn it off or soft reset it. then after that.. it never finds signal after turning on it needs a computer. this is really a hassle for traveling or if the battery drops out. sometimes it might even just lose signal for no reason. maybe im not doing something right.. is there a setting that needs to be changed once the phone screws up and doesnt find signal?
is it possible that if too many things are runnning it will not be able to find signal. right after turning it on i used the taskmanager to shut off ilock and s2u2 and then it shortly finds signal afterwards. sometimes it does att and sometimes it finds cingular. if it finds cingular the phone does not work and it says that the phone is off even though in the comm manager it is on. i just reset it and try again..
and whats the diff between the G (gprs) and E (medianet edge)? the phone never really works when it is doing G and when it tries to find signal when turning on the phone, sometimes (couple seconds) it will show some signal (calls still cant be made) with the G logo then eventually lose it.
I have a stock unrooted Verizon Galaxy S5. For several months my phone has been plagued by several issues at startup. Whether I reboot the phone or start it up after the battery has died, it always enters an odd state immediately after loading and seems to get stuck in this state for an undetermined and variable amount of time (anywhere from a few seconds or minutes to hours or even overnight).
While in this state, this is what happens:
1. Screen stays on. Once I unlock the phone, the screen stays on. The side button doesn't do anything to lock the phone or turn off the screen. Holding down the button, however, still triggers the power menu. The screen timeout never triggers, even though it should turn off the screen after 2 minutes of inactivity.
2. WiFi and Bluetooth turned off. Even if they were turned on before I powered down the phone, they are not enabled when the phone first boots up. I can manually turn them on but the WiFi will not connect to a network, even if one is available. It may show it is connecting to the network, but it gets stuck at "Checking the quality of your internet connection" and continues to use the 4G network for data connectivity. This happens no matter what WiFi network I am within range of, so it's not an issue with the network or router itself. If I am not near a network at all I will still experience the other problems of not being able to lock the phone, etc.
3. Startup applications don't load. I have Tasker on my phone, but it doesn't load and show it's notification bar icon.
Otherwise, I can use the phone normally and open applications, surf the web, etc. It seems that loading some applications and using the phone eventually causes the phone to exit this mode, but I haven't been able to find a single particular application or series of steps to fix the problem. If I power on the phone and don't use it that just seems to make it take even longer to fix itself.
Once it gets out of it's weird state, the WiFi connection will become active (it will turn on WiFi if I haven't done so manually already) and it will connect to a known network if one is available, the phone will lock itself or I can do so from the side button, and things like Tasker and Power Save mode will turn on.
I am stumped as to what could be causing this problem or how to fix it. It seems the phone may be doing some kind of check, maybe related to Knox, that hangs during startup and prevents certain things from working until it straightens itself out.
Any clues into what this problem is, what is causing it or how I could further analyze this problem and determine its cause would be greatly appreciated.
Never heard of or experienced these issues. May want to contact Samsung.
Have you installed any official updates from Verizon at any point? I've heard of phones having phantom problems like this after receiving a bad update. I would definitely contact Verizon if you did update at any point. If not then like BigBot96 said, contact Samsung about the problem.
My wife's Note 2 did something similar when the battery died. I had to factory reset. Her phone was rooted/unlocked & running a custom TW ROM, though. May I suggest doing a complete factory reset and Odin. Backup data to computer or external sdcard since this will clear the entire device.
Edit: After rereading OP's post it actually sounds like an app is hanging at startup which could cause this behavior. A logcat should tell you what's going on.
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So I have the SM-G928T galaxy s6 edge+. It has a few issues, one being the wireless charging constantly pauses and then comes back and sometimes just stops all together. I fixed this with turning the daydream feature on. My BIGGEST issue is the Wireless! The wireless adapter CONSTANTLY turns itself off at random, then turns back on a few seconds later. This causes any downloads, updates, etc to fail.. I've read that I am not the only one with this issue, but so far no fix has been really found... I've gone into recovery and cleared the cache partition, made sure that smart network switch is turned off, keep wifi on during sleep is set to always (even though it shuts off while ACTIVELY using the phone). I've done a factory reset more than once, each time clearing cache partition. I've been told in several other places that it's my wireless router... This is NOT the case.... For one, I'm a network admin. If it was router issue, I would know it. Secondly, it happens no matter what network I am connected to. Public wifi, home wifi, corporate wifi, etc. All have the same result. The only thing I have not noticed is if it does it even when there is no network traffic on the device, mostly because I don't just sit and stare at my phone when I'm not using it.... Only notice it WHILE I am using it. My assumption though is that it's only happening when the device is USING the wireless connection. It is also important to mention that this is the 2nd device to have this issue. I thought it might be hardware issue so I exchanged it for a new one, and it also has this problem... Maybe I just have terrible luck....
Does ANYONE have any ideas on this?
So, here's my issue: I started to notice that bluetooth audio, which was usually good, started to suddenly cut in and out. At the same time, my battery life went to pot, and the top battery sucker was the Bluetooth share. I also noticed that the phone got really hot and very slow when charging when all of this was happening (usually I don't have to worry about the phone getting super hot when charging and using bluetooth).
I installed BBS and GSAM, and they both basically told me that the phone was not going to sleep because the bluetooth share was keeping it away. I even tried installing Naptime, and the phone still refuses to go into deep sleep, and the bluetooth share keeps sucking battery.
So here's what I've done so far...
- Uninstalled recent apps, no change
- Clear Bluetooth share, restart phone, no change
- Unpair all bluetooth devices, no change
- Restart phone (several times), no change
- Start the phone in safe mode, phone behaves normally....
In the course of trying to figure out what's going on, I basically uninstalled every app and the bluetooth share was still keeping my phone awake.
The only way I've found that fixes this issue is to completely format the phone and reinstall stock firmware. And I don't mean just to fastboot flash system system.img, I mean I have to fastboot erase system and then flash the system in order for bluetooth to behave. After I do this, and reinstall all my usual apps (I allow Google to download them, then I use titanium backup to restore the data on apps that don't sync their own data), the phone works brilliantly for about a week and a half, then the ordeal starts all over again.
The only thing I haven't tried is going bone stock... when I reinstall my phone I root and put Frankenclar on it. I used to use Xposed, but I tried going without to see if that made a difference... and, nope. Even without Xposed the bluetooth share keeps the phone awake.
I've started going through the steps to contact Moto, but they may balk because I've unlocked my phone (even though the warranty says valid).
Any ideas??
Oh, I'm on Verizon, so my choice of roms are limited... and I really like the wake on approach, twist for camera, chop for flashlight, and being able to call to my phone when the screen is off and it's not charging.
Thanks for your time!
Okay, so for anyone else who may be having an issue like this... here was my problem:
After doing a lot of searching online, I discovered that the CVS app was causing the issue. Apparently CVS uses bluetooth beacons to discover your location and push "deals" to your phone. Only, this causes the phone to never go to sleep and causes the bluetooth to stay active and scanning.
So I uninstalled the CVS app, restarted the phone, and have been happy ever since. The app was handy, and some people have said that disabling the location ability in the app permissions may fix it, so I might try that later.
In addition, the Gasbuddy app has also caused similar issues, so if you have random battery drain and have either Gasbuddy or CVS installed, try uninstalling those and see if it helps.