Hold the phone with the keyboard out.. if your pointer finger or any part of your hand covers the top of the device (or rather, left in the case of landscape).. does your wifi signal drop..
Often times it will drop signal completely and then come back up. I also noticed that the wifi is extremely sensitive to line of sight.. If the back of the phone is turned away from the access point.. signal drops.. turn around 180.. signal back up again. Its aggrivating.. this is when holding the phone in portrait mode..
Also..the device does not really roam all that well.. I have my wifi aps setup with all the same SSID.. so as you move through the house using lets say, my trusty HD2 running android, it will switch from ap to ap with no drop.. this also depends on roaming tendency (with computers) - but all in all.. it works perfectly. The G2 just drops the connection, and then connects to the next AP..
So.. do you have issues with your wifi?
btw.. The speeds are pretty good.. especially with PM (iwconfig eth0 power off) turned off. Its the link quality that is erratic..
I thought connectbot would be 10x more enjoyable with a keyboard.. didn't know there was a catch
Ive got lots of issues but I'm torn between if it's my phone or my router... My Vibrant does the same kinda crap but not as often as the G2 does. The PC's will be on, but not the phones.
How can I manually set my IP?? I do the Press menu in the WiFi menu and set static IP and specify what I want, but when I click on the network I'm connected to, it shows the IP that the phone chose by itself
There's a thread open here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=926132
Yeah, the wireless sucks unfortunately. I've setup a ton of new routers in my home (I have lots of media equipment and stream things constantly) and it's definitely the equipment. Sucks sooooooo much because the mobile radio sucks just as bad!!!
Pretty much every smartphone has this issue. I've noticed that my G2 drops its cellular signal if I hold it on the bottom-left corner.
Signal is fine, problem with wifi on this hardware is much worse than losing signal. When connected to some APs, screen off = wifi off, even when set to always stay on.
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Pretty much every smartphone has this issue. I've noticed that my G2 drops its cellular signal if I hold it on the bottom-left corner.
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I've come across the same issue. Everytime I hold the phone using my lft hand,my coverage drops from H to edge. As soon as switch to my rt hand I get back on H. Also noticed whenever I hold the phone using just my finger tips to top to bottom I always stay on H.
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As some TP2 or other WM device owners I've noticed that WM often seems to forget WPA passwords when using WiFi. It doesn't really matter wether you use AES or TKIP and how long your preshared key is.
In my case the symptoms look like this: After I create a WiFi connection (WPA2, AES, hidden) so that my Rhodium can use my home WiFi network, everything goes just fine. But then, after having established a connection for two or three times the troubles begin. Usually it takes about 3 or 4 seconds to establish a connection. But suddenly it takes about 10 seconds after which I get a warning that the connection could not be established. If I then go to my connection settings, I allways find them completely messed up, so that I have to select WPA2 and AES and reenter my password an so on. Well, after it happends to you for three or four times, this becomes extremely annoying.
Recently, however, I've found a kind of workaround for this problem. And here it comes: After I turn on the WiFi, I simpy wait for about four seconds. If WinMo behaves nicely, 4 seconds are pretty enough to establish a connection. If, however, I don't get connected after these 4 seconds, I IMMEDIATELY turn WiFi off, wait 2 seconds, and turn it on again. With 99% probability this second try gives me a working connection. If it doesn't, I simpy repeat the same procedure once again. So, the scheme is quite simpe:
Turn WiFi on and wait 4-5 seconds (it depends). Got connected?
Yes: O.K
No: Turn WiFi off, wait a second and turn it on again.
The main thing about this trick is not to let WinMo try to establish a connection for more than 5 or 6 seconds, otherwise it will delete your connection settings.
In my case, this workaround works perfectly. For more than two weeks I've been using my home WiFi with Touch Pro 2, establishing at least 4 or 5 connections a day and not a single time my connection settings were lost. Well, surely this thing with turning WiFi on and waiting and turning it off if you don't get connected fast enough is also a little bit annoying, but nevertheless it is much less annoying then having your connection settings all messed up every single day.
I'm not sure, whether this workaround will work with other devices or WinMo versions or even firmware versions, but may be it will help at least some of you affected by this odd problem. So you may just give it a try.
I'm using Touch Pro 2 with stock O2 Germany ROM (1.19.207.0)
Thanks for reading this long post and sorry for my bad English.
Excellent! Thank you for sharing your workaround!
I do something similar, except I turn wifi off by pressing the power button if the wifi hasn't connected in a few seconds. (By default wifi turns off when it goes into standby.)
On the odd occasions where the key does need to be entered again, I keep a copy of the wifi key "somewhere" on the device. It's a copy and paste operation after that, so it doesn't take long to re-enter the key. Luckily you can use the keyboard Ctrl-V method to paste the wifi key into the TouchFLO interface.
The other observation I've made, is that if I switch on the device by sliding out the keyboard, my Touch Pro 2 has a higher chance on getting a 'lock' onto a weak wifi signal. I'm not really sure why!
I'm glad that this workaround works not only for me
Actually, I don't use Connection Manager any more, for I've recently installed Rhodium Keyboard Controller GSM 1.3.2. Using this handy tool I remapped my Home button, so that double clicking it, turns WiFi on and and double clicking it with working WiFi turns wireless off.
I guess that Rhodium Keyboard Controller uses some advanced routine to activate WiFi, because since I use it for establishing WiFi connections, I rarely have to use my workaround, for normally I get connected on the first attempt.
see similar (but not the same) problem here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=562893
I'm having difficulties when using a WiFi connection on my Desire. It has no trouble connecting to different access points and the reception is decent, but the connection is really flaky. When I try to ping the Desire from within the same network, packet loss peaks at 85%. Applications start shouting about connection errors and whatnot. That happens with any WiFi network I connect to, even when I'm just a couple of feet away from the access point.
Is there anyone else having troubles like this? I will have my device replaced soon because of this, but I'm still wondering whether anyonce noticed this behaviour.
I have huge ping and packet loss problems since the second week on having this phone. I mean, even 5ft away from the router. Initially, the ping was around 60-80ms and 6.8Mbps dl, 1Mbps upload (speedtest) but ever since it fluctuates at 200-350ms and 1-3Mbps max at very good access points, let alone weak configs and signals.
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What's your packet loss then? I don't recall having any problem with the round-trip times when pinging my Desire.
50-80% using this phone, never lower.
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I got my Desire replaced by Vodafone. The new unit does not suffer from this problem. \o/
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I got my Desire replaced by Vodafone. The new unit does not suffer from this problem. \o/
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How were you calculating packet loss?
And what's the deal with the power button? I thought it was just doing the display, but if I keep my laptop pinging my desire and I press the power button, the ping drops from 3ms to almost a second. Also, it seems to have an effect on how fast webpages load (ie kick off a page, press power, wait a few seconds, then press power again and look at the page. I've assumed I can press the power button when I want to leave my phone doing stuff when its in my pocket (so buttons don't get pressed by accident) but perhaps this isn't the case?
I'm about to throw this stupid thing against the wall. Since I bought this thing a couple months ago I've noticed that sometimes when I am watching youtube a box will pop up telling me that I've connected to T1 (the name of my wifi network). It seemed odd because I was already connected but whatever. Then lately I've been using the HBOgo app to watch shows, and at some point during every episode the app will freeze and I will have to back out and then resume the episode. I assumed it was the HBO app, but I've started to realize that it is the tablet itself freezing and disabling wifi. I realized this today when I was trying to download some files. Nothing too large, 60-100mb, but the downloads were always failing before they could complete so I would have to start over. I start to download a file, the download should only take a couple minutes at the most, but before it completes, somewhere between 30% to 95% downloaded, the whole tablet freezes up and becomes completely unresponsive. Then the wifi icon disappears from the top right, and the wifi button next to location, bluetooth, etc, goes from green to gray, then after a few seconds it goes back to green and a box pops up telling me that I am connected to my wifi network again. I start the download again and the exact same thing happens. I've also noticed that the tablet gets quite hot around the camera.
It does the same thing when connected to my TP Link Archer C7 (just using N, not AC) and a netgear router I had lying around. I doubt it's the network as the router has no way to forcibly disable wifi on my tablet. When I said that the wifi button goes from green to gray, it's as if I had tapped it to manually disable wifi, even though I did no such thing.
Also, it does seem like if I turn the screen off and let it sit for a while to cool down, it will work until it heats up again. Once it starts to feel hot though the wifi will start disabling itself and downloads start failing again.
I'm only about 10 feet away from the router with direct line of site.
So is it just overheating? Defective and time to send it in under warranty?
Everything is stock.
SM-T520
Adroid 4.4.2
Kernel 3.4.39-4777054
Build KOT49H.T520UEUAOD1
Having the same issue...on the exact same device.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-tab-pro-12-10-8/help/ota-weirdness-tab-pro-10-1-t3116220
looks like the most recent OTA update breaks wifi, read that thread.... i got lucky as i usually just blindly accept OTA's when prompted... but i checked here and found that it was causing problems
Hi,
So I had the razer phone for a week now and wondering if anyone has experienced or fixed two things:
1) Is quick charging always on?
I can't find any setting for it and I charge at night so I don't need quick charge unless it's an emergency.
2) When using headphones, Google music and YouTube will pause and start playing randomly. I would of thought maybe a unstable internet connection might be the case but even my downloaded music does it as well.
If anyone has solutions or can confirm they have the same issues, would be greatly appreciated.
I have had a similar issue as well. I use slingbox heavily, and when using my Verizon 4g sim for Data only, and Wi-Fi enabled I would see a random Grey (looks like a blank message prompt) blurp appear at the bottom, center of my screen. It would cause my Slingbox app to lose connection and close the video. Once i removed the Sim card from the phone, and use it in Wi-Fi only mode, I do not get the problem. I thought I would share my similar story.
Cheers.
Well, if anyone else is getting the random pausing and playing, I have narrowed down the issue to the USB audio dongle having some wiggle room when plugged in (IE standing or sitting still = no problems but if you're moving, you have a good chance of the dongle wiggling around and causing disconnects and reconnects which is why it pauses and plays).
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I have had a similar issue as well. I use slingbox heavily, and when using my Verizon 4g sim for Data only, and Wi-Fi enabled I would see a random Grey (looks like a blank message prompt) blurp appear at the bottom, center of my screen. It would cause my Slingbox app to lose connection and close the video. Once i removed the Sim card from the phone, and use it in Wi-Fi only mode, I do not get the problem. I thought I would share my similar story.
Cheers.
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Are you trolling me?
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Well, if anyone else is getting the random pausing and playing, I have narrowed down the issue to the USB audio dongle having some wiggle room when plugged in (IE standing or sitting still = no problems but if you're moving, you have a good chance of the dongle wiggling around and causing disconnects and reconnects which is why it pauses and plays).
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Are you trolling me?
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No I am not. I did not have the phone connected to a charger when i encountered this problem. I came across it when i was doing battery test. I crank the brightness up, and stream my slingbox to see how long they can go. When my slingbox kept dropping connection, but not displaying a network error I started to take more notice of the issue. Once I was able to catch the problem in the act, I saw this random grey window appear at the bottom center of my screen. Slingbox drops the video, and goes back to the main login screen. The amount of time between disconnecting was also random. Sometimes it would disconnect almost right away, other times it would stay connected upto 15 minutes before dropping.
Once I remove the Sim and use Wi-Fi only, there is no issue.
Cheers.
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No I am not. I did not have the phone connected to a charger when i encountered this problem. I came across it when i was doing battery test. I crank the brightness up, and stream my slingbox to see how long they can go. When my slingbox kept dropping connection, but not displaying a network error I started to take more notice of the issue. Once I was able to catch the problem in the act, I saw this random grey window appear at the bottom center of my screen. Slingbox drops the video, and goes back to the main login screen. The amount of time between disconnecting was also random. Sometimes it would disconnect almost right away, other times it would stay connected upto 15 minutes before dropping.
Once I remove the Sim and use Wi-Fi only, there is no issue.
Cheers.
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I am in the same situation. With my CDMA/UMTS/LTE sim card I do get a data connection but I have frequent data drop offs. I'd see LTE, one minute then half signal with 3G then no signal at all. Even with cellular data off and only on wifi i would also experience drop offs of from the wifi also. It would even drop my magic jack calls only on home wifi as soon as the other person answered. Took the sim card out and I have no issues.
I think he was asking if you were trolling because we are off topic in that we do not have GSM carriers.
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This issue has been annoying me for quite some time, and after a lot of searching (and trying stuff) I've decided to make my own thread because nothing seems to help.
Let's say I'm at work and I turn on my phone's WiFi radio, this makes it connect to the work WiFi without problems. Now once I go back home, the network becomes out of range so it switches back to 3G/4G (so far so good). But when I actually get home, it takes 10-15 minutes before my phone finally decides it can connect to the WiFi there. I have certain appliances that rely on my phone making a timely WiFi connection so you can imagine this will trip a few of them because I'm long home before it finally connects. I already tried toggling various battery/power/app optimisations found across this forum, but as mentioned nothing works. Pretty sure it's because Android scans for nearby networks only once every X minutes.
Now, I can "force" it to connect by just knocking on the screen to turn it on, but I either forget this or have my hands full and am unable to knock (and shouldn't be necessary anyways). So in short: is there any way to force Android to check for networks every X seconds/minutes instead? I am rooted, if that helps in any way.