Have of these devices as it drops the wifi connection shortly after it connects thus it is basically unusable as I have no means of putting content on it.
This is my first 'genuine' android device as opposed to b&n front end , can any one tell me how to fix this issue overwise the device is a brick.
thanks
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I gotta know if anyone else is having the same problems connecting to wifi as I am. Whenever I try to connect to my wireless network with any of my devices, it's sporadic. Sometimes it'll connect right away. Most of the time, it takes two or three minutes (!) and sometimes it'll puke on itself and say it doesn't see the network.
In the latter two cases, I can delete the profile for the network and power-cycle the device and it'll connect to the network almost immediately. As you might guess, this is an annoying process to go through.
It never really bothered me until my wife got an iPhone and it connected immediately to the network and does so EVERY TIME SHE USES IT!
Can anyone help me out? Why do these devices take so darn long to connect?
This is the second router I've used (first was a Linksys, currently I'm using a Trendnet), the Raphael (Fuze) and Tornado (SDA) are running their stock ROMs. The Wizard (MDA), I've gone a little flash-happy on, but I've encountered the same problem with all ROMs I've tried.
I'll admit I haven't checked what channels neighboring wifi networks are using (I'm pretty sure I'm the only one on my channel), but when I first got my Tornado and Wizard, mine was the only network (visible) and I was still having problems. And regardless, is the wifi radio in the iPhone that much better than my HTC devices?
(Just a side note, I have three wireless laptops that are all able to connect to the router without a hitch, adding to my belief that my network is on its own channel.)
Just wanted to update everyone that, last night, I checked the wireless networks I could see from my house and none share the same channel as mine, however I didn't take overlap into consideration. The lack of response to this thread would suggest to me I'm the only one encountering this type of problem, so I'll do some experimenting in an area with no other wireless activity and see if connecting is still slow.
O.K. I tested the Wizard and Raphael with a router in an area with no other wireless activity and discovered the following:
If the devices are set for DHCP, it takes a long time to connect. However, they did connect and remain connected without any problems.
If the devices have static IP addresses, they connect immediately and remain connected without any problems.
Conclusion:
The DHCP discovery on these devices takes too darn long to acquire addresses. That, and the slightest bit of EM noise can cause them to crap out. Since I don't have problems with other wireless devices (laptops, iPhone), I'm left with the assumption that either the radio is poor quality (unlikely) or the driver needs some serious fixing (most likely).
When and if the noble developers of this board get linux up and running on the Raphael, I'll be more than happy to test it out.
Since this thread was self-answering and would seem to be of little value, please feel free to delete it, moderators.
All wireless are bad.
I often lose my wifi connection in my home. And often I even need to restart wifi.
The Bluetooth connection is bad with my car. I need to find the good position to have correct sound on the speakers.
My gprs data connection is often bad. And even if I have good phone connection.
I compare with my old HTC hd
I am really hesitating to send it back to my operator.
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I dont have any of these problems, its batter to get it back and take another one since its still under warranty.
Does anyone else have issues with low wireless signal and constant dropping wireless connections?
I have a friend here are work in the same area, he has an Iphone 4 and has no issues.
LT15a arc
To be honest I never had such issues.
no problem here either - only issue I've got is Green Power free doesn't always open up the wireless connections properly when I unlock the phone and I have to stop GPF to make it work.. but the phone itself is as good as my x10 was and better then my wifes HTC legend..
Yeah my wifi is rubbish. Disconnects each time i try to download something that is a little "big" from the marked or read web pages. It's annoying as hell but it seems like the next update from SE will have a new baseband. Hoping that will fix it else it's going back!
Yeah, hopefully the next update does fix this issue. It is more stable on my home network, but still drops out occasionally.
Yes, I just this Rogers phone today. I have the same problem or even worse. as soon as I open something that's a little big from any online apps or webpage, it disconnects wifi. but it still shows wifi connection on the top. Worse thing is, it seems to crash my router as well then disconnect my whole home network. I have been using my router for more than two years and it never had any problems. (I game and p2p a lot on my ps3 and pc). I have iphone4 wireless hooked up with my router as well and it works flawelessly when open up the same webpage which causes wifi disconnect on my arc.
I am thinking about returning this phone and get nexus s if they can't get it fixed soon....
I used to have problems with the WIFI untill I unlocked the bootloader and rooted it, now its perfect. But it depends if you decide to take the risk or not.
i had no problem with home wi-fi but come to broardband data simcard its terrible slow, assume telco matter but put that sim to OS6 device its run ok
The speed and connection of my arc is quite well.
The only problem of my arc is the time it takes until connection is established.
When i release the screenlock it sometimes takes up to 30 seconds until the WiFi symbol appears and the connection is established
download from market app wi-fi keep alive, it will solve your problems for sure, i had this issue too
wifi weaker than x1 (and to think that x1 wifi were pathetic), data on gprs/3g a lot better but it's Android thingy. most errors come from carrier in my experience.
Hi every one
My ideos was working fine but for some time i am getting wifi issue
Before i was getting good wifi reception and no signal bar up or down
But now its very bad wifi signal
In landscape mode i always drop a bar in signal bar even i sit next to my router.
Or when ever i cover the phone from top or insert handsfree i also loose a signal in signal bar
Anyone having this issue
Please give me advice to solve this problem
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I have the Ideos X5 too. The wifi drops out or at least the signal becomes worse when i cover the top side of my phone (for example when i'm typing and i want bigger letters) It is also not very good at finding wifi connections. My laptop always finds internet upstairs (3rd floor) but the phone does not... it drops out from time to time and does not recover. When i open the door and walk to the stairs (not even going down) it finds it again an the problem is solved, but still it's irritating, especially because searching for wifi eats my battery...
don't know how to solve it though... Doubt you can solve it.
What rom are you guys running?
B135 for me
I have to say though, if i'm on the second floor (modem is on the first floor) i don't have any problems. Although of cours the signal becomes less when i cover the top side, but i'll still have a connection. So it's more of a distance problem for me.
I m running oxygen r3 with franco latest
But it happens with every rom i tested
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Possible Solution to WiFi Issues
Erratic wifi reliability, frequent drop outs and wifi spontaneously disabling itself (usually in the middle of app downloads) has been a "feature" of my X5 ever since I've owned it, about six months now. Rooted or unrooted makes no difference. I always use my home wifi and no other device I own has any issues with it - Dell and Apple laptops (running a mix of Mac OS X, Win 7, Ubuntu Linux and Win XP) and an iMac desktop, plus an iPad and iPod touch, they're all rock solid with my router.
Then the other day I was at my sister's place and attempted to connect to her wifi router. I got a message that I'd not seen before when connecting my X5 at home - it complained that the SSID was hidden and that "Android is unreliable" (or words to that effect) with hidden SSIDs, it recommended using an exposed SSID for the router instead with a "secure" password. I'm not sure if this was an Android message or from WFi Manager which I use, but it sure came as a surprise to me. Of course my SSID at home is hidden too.
I've changed my SSID at home to exposed and so far things seem better, a couple of app downloads and no wifi dropouts so far. I can't be sure yet but this may be the solution to my months of wifi frustration!
Of course why Android can't reliably handle a basic security feature of a long-established tech like wifi is another matter...
Hidden ssid isnt a security fearure... the ssid is still broadcasted with every data package, so one only have to wait for one of your devices to connect (also there more ways but not that easy)
Have a bit the same problem. Most of the time all is working fine.
Sometimes when the phone is locked and unlocked Wifi is not working.
Policiy for Wifi Sleep is allways on.
Sometime Wifi icon disapears wil working with it.
When is stop WiFi and start it all is fine.
My HTC Desire is working fine so it's a problem with the phone.
use with Android Stock not yet flash a mod.
My Nexus 7 had no problem with wifi connections since I bought in right after they were first released. Last week, I bought a Virgin Broadband Mobile Hotspot to use while doing some traveling. (In some areas, it works a lot better than I expected.) The problem is that fairly frequently, the connection drops and I can't reconnect. When reselecting the device (or any other network) in the list of available wifi networks, I get an error message that reads "failed to connect to network." My only recourse is to reboot. A fast reboot is good enough, but I've done plenty of those and complete reboots.
Then, I can reconnect. That new connection may last ten minutes or many hours. But at some point, the connection will drop and I'll have to reboot to get another one.
I figured this must be related to the Virgin hardware, but when I got home yesterday, I discovered that this happened again with my router. In the 5 months I've had the Nexus 7, I've never had a problem connecting to my home router. So I "forgot" my remembered wifi networks and reestablished them. There are only two, my home router and the Virgin device. Didn't help. Right now, I don't have the Virgin device turned on, so maybe this will temporarily solve the problem. I'm not sure, yet.
One thing that seemed to help was that when driving and using the Google Navigation app, this seemed to be less of an issue. It's even possible that we never dropped a connection while navigation was active. When nav is active, the device doesn't sleep. So there may be some relation there. But plenty of connections were dropped while nav was off and the device was awake. In fact, most drops occur when I'm stationary, i.e., not in a moving car or walking around.
Another piece of info — our other Nexus 7, which also came along on the trip, doesn't seem to have this problem, but it didn't get used that much, so it may be that it would be there, we just didn't have the opportunity to see it happen.
Anyone seen anything like this and/or have any ideas about what to do about it? Why would I need to reboot to renew a connection?
I had a similar issue,it would see connections not connect automaticly and when trying to manually connect it would disappear.I shut off the autoscan for networks off and it works much better.
Hope this helps
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Thanks. I'll play with that and see what happens.
The nexus 7 that I purchased for my wife last week is experiencing the similar issue. I can see many network in range but any connect I try to connect will return a message "failed to connect to network".
I found some submitted issues on the Android project thread, but none of them offered any solution.
http://code.google.com/p/android/is...c=ID Type Status Owner Summary Stars&id=40437
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=40065
I'll try this at some other places to make sure the problem persists and will probably return it.
Have done some searching and have not found this exact issue. Sorry if its a repeat. Also please excuse typos. N7 keyboard and me don't always see eye to eye.
I own 2 32 GB N7s (well one is my gf's) . Both purchased refurbished at the same time on woot. Both upgraded to 4.4. Mine was very quickly unlocked and rooted. Mine has a custom recovery (forget which right now) and multirom. Only other ROM is ubuntu touch.
Mine will randomly disconnect from WiFi. The interval varies from less than a minute to more than 10 between disconnects. The stronger the signal the less it occurs, but it will occur right next to a router. It also seems to occurs (or is more noticeable) when doing things that require more bandwidth, such as streaming or loading heavy pages.
Most often it will reconnect on its own, but I can normally speed the reconnect by turning WiFi off and on or forcing the reconnect in settings. I have tried multiple routers, and other devices on the network (android phones, laptops,and the other N7) do not exhibit this behavior.
I did have to reeplace my USB jack. And I was inside the n7 one other time, it got dropped and would not boot. The battery had shifted and come partially unplugged. The issues started well before the port replacement, but the drop was to early in my ownership to tell if it was the cause. If it is I can only assume that it would be weak signal. Probably from removing the case and there being a poor connection to the antennas, but signal strength shows about the same as the other n7 when side by side.
There is a precourser to the drop as well. Data will stop before the WiFi indicator greys out. If you catch it and look at the notification area you can often see the send I dictator but no receive before the disconnect.
Anyone have any ideas? Are there any logs that may hold clues? It is annoying when streaming in house to have to reconnect multiple times during a show, and then often restart the stream and fi d your place only to have it happen again. Gaming suffers to. For email and browsing it is not a major issue,but I would still love to try to fix it.
Thanks!
Hi brad we are on the same boat . Wifi unstable but the other phone working good. Ive tried update to 4.4.3, and wifi connected very fast but the problem still there. But now i change my router to docsis 2.0 by cisco (rented from tv cable) and now its working great event sometime youtube still buffering. Before that i used tplink 941nd router.
I hope this wil help.
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