Best kernel for WiFi reception? - EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I'm I'm currently running destroyer v2 based on cm7 and wifi reception is terrible. Always dropping out on me. Been tempted to try the latest titanium kernel to see if that would help. But before I do that I thought I would get other peoples opinions on what to do..
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Try out the new Tiamat Kernel. I've noticed a slight improvement in WIFI range, and a stellar improvement in battery life.

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Tiamat 4.0.2 sbc+ all day
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What's the latest version of Tiamat? Can someone possibly send me the link for the latest tiamat?
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Also is it possible to just switch out just the kernel without losing the rom I have installed right now? Only way I know how is by starting all over and installing everything at once. Please help, thanks
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I can say that godmode is not as good as tiamat its noticeably better
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stroll over to the the development section and check them all out for yourself and yes you can switch out kernels. Also there is an app called kernel manager to check out kernels. One more thing its obvious you are not a chronic flasher like a lot of us so please remember nandroid and read up- As the saying goes here "Google is your Friend". Especially all the OP's of kernels and roms... hate to see you brick your device... Happy flashing

Sense will always have better wifi than aosp on the evo. FACT

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Sense will always have better wifi than aosp on the evo. FACT
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hmmm, can you prove this fact. i have aosp rom now and use my wifi while at home since it uses less battery than mobile data, but the wifi stays connected, full bars at all times im actually able to walk out to my truck and stay connected to my wifi where as before i rooted and was connected to wifi, i would lose wifi connection once i stepped out the door.

life_420 said:
hmmm, can you prove this fact. i have aosp rom now and use my wifi while at home since it uses less battery than mobile data, but the wifi stays connected, full bars at all times im actually able to walk out to my truck and stay connected to my wifi where as before i rooted and was connected to wifi, i would lose wifi connection once i stepped out the door.
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What rom are you using?

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Gingerbread

With the latest gingerbread evo deck 1.2y, does GPS and WIRELESS TETHER work??? What are the known issues??
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eazzy28 said:
With the latest gingerbread evo deck 1.2y, does GPS and WIRELESS TETHER work??? What are the known issues??
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I've been on Y for a few hours now, and GPS works fine for me. A few people have reported that GPS isn't working for them, but AOSP GPS always seems a bit flaky on some Evos. My own experience with it is that GPS works perfect though. Wireles Tether works fine on this ROM. I haven't been using the Wireless Tether app lately though, as the built in tethering feature works perfectly on 3g and 4g. find the native tethering under menu>settings>wireless & networks>tethering and portable hotspot. From there you can use wifi tether or USB tether, both work.
As far as known issues, I have 0 (so far, it's only been a few hours). The only bug that had been annoying was the phone going to the lock screen after hanging up a call, but that issue has been fixed in Y. Flash it and give it a shot.
Which would be the better deck rom to use? And what kernal? Im not sure how to do any of the gps fixes ive been hearing either, lol
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eazzy28 said:
Which would be the better deck rom to use? And what kernal? Im not sure how to do any of the gps fixes ive been hearing either, lol
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I would use the latest build, which is 1.2y. Keep in mind that these are betas (although 99.9% stable and could be called stable, IMO) 1.2x and 1.2y both have the GPS fix incorporated into the build, so in theory GPS should work out of the box (it does for me). You *should'nt* need to do anything special to get GPS to work. As far as the kernel goes, every phone reacts a bit different with kernels, so it's kind of trial and error. I would suggest giving the CM kernel that comes with the ROM a try for a few days. It works extremely well on my phone. I also run Savaged Zen 2.2.1 CFS, and that performs well too. GodmodeV9 is a great 'no frills' kernel. It doesn't have sbc or havs, and is meant to be stable and have good performance, which it is and it does. Just give each kernel you try a few days to settle in before passing judgement on it. It takes a little bit of time to be able to tell how it's ultimately going to perform. Sometimes it makes a big difference by adjusting the governor settings too. Good luck
Hey keep this post in mind because ill come back here and post more questions... Thanks... Ive been flashing so many and im just tired. I know its basically a trial and error but that gets tiring. Thanks man...
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eazzy28 said:
Hey keep this post in mind because ill come back here and post more questions... Thanks... Ive been flashing so many and im just tired. I know its basically a trial and error but that gets tiring. Thanks man...
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Not a problem. Sounds good.
I couldn't get anything to work except the 4g.... hmmm.... I running a different Tom called ultimate Droid... ever heard of it???
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Whats the best gingerbread rom fir evo..
Not as much worried aabout 4g.. but I do need the full resolution camera on front and back both working..
I liked miui but the camera wasn't full 720
Also I like sense rims cause theblinking to facebook
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mrnv45 said:
Whats the best gingerbread rom fir evo..
Not as much worried aabout 4g.. but I do need the full resolution camera on front and back both working..
I liked miui but the camera wasn't full 720
Also I like sense rims cause theblinking to facebook
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Its a matter of opinion but I'm currently on decks rom with sz sbc kernel
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Just out of curiosity, why don't people post ROM specific questions in the thread for that particular ROM?
thought you could not do that every-time i tried i get please post on Q&A
oH and im running y version no problem with tether or gps works fine

Q: using cm7 any suggestions for a better rom

So ive been reading up on this for awhile and i cant find a solid answer or opinion but i want basically a fast rom and better battery life than what im getting off my cm7 rom my sav-zen kernal uv 50mv any suggestions oh and more bars wouldnt be to much to ask for right lol
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wileout said:
So ive been reading up on this for awhile and i cant find a solid answer or opinion but i want basically a fast rom and better battery life than what im getting off my cm7 rom my sav-zen kernal uv 50mv any suggestions oh and more bars wouldnt be to much to ask for right lol
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How do you have yours set up? I have CM7 with Savaged Zen and it runs faster than any other ROM/kernel combo I've tried.
Im not running setcpu so its not overclocked or underclocked
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Im not saying its slow im more looking for better signal and a sense like feel from an aosp
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Im not saying its slow im more looking for better signal and a sense like feel from an aosp
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Good luck with that kind of find...
If you're looking for a sense-like feel, why not just go with a sense ROM? I personally use Synergy ROM and everything works super fast, no issues, and service seems to be better than when I had CM7 on it. That and sense ROMs also make full use of the phone's hardware, such as the camera...
The support and extras are a pretty sweet deal, as well.
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Link! http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1144447
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Signal strength is not universal. You can have the same signal strength on your phone but it will display as a different number of bars based purely on your ROM. CM seems to be one of those ROMs where I have a really good signal yet I'm only showing about 2 or 3 bars. Its just the way the ROM displays it. Flashing another ROM and getting more bars doesnt mean your signal strength is any stronger or weaker at all.
Also, if you're looking for a sense feel then just get a sense ROM. There are a lot out there to choose from. I'm actually thinking of running Boot Manager on my phone and flashing a sense ROM alongside CM7 so that I can make use of the abilities of the sense ROMs when I need to.
I switch between Fresh 4.22 and CM7 pretty regularly and love battery life/performance of both. I use Tiamats 4.1 SBC on CM7 and the stock kernel on Fresh, although it would be choice if there were a Sense SBC kernel.
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Any chance u got the link for that frsh 4.22?
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I keep coming back to Mik's roms. On MikG now and love it. Battery life is great too but then I use all the app tricks I can find. App2SD / DroidWall / SetCPU / StartUp Auditor. If your signal strength is bad just call Sprint and ask for an Airvanna. Once it's hooked up you should be up to 4/5 bars constantly. That's been my experience.
Have you tried team nocturnals merge Rom its sense based with an soap feel its pretty nice if you are trying to have your cake and eat it too
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check out evohacks.com they will give u ideas.
Do u have the link for the merge rom or can u point me in the direction of where to find it?
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Do u have the link for the merge rom or can u point me in the direction of where to find it?
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http://tinyurl.com/3b6btf4
Fresh Rom 4.22
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1046622

[Q] WIFI signal VS New Radio Update

Hi Everyone,
I flashed my evo4g with evo-deck-1.3. My WIFI signal seems low. Does it help if I flash the new radio to improve my wifi signal? Does the wifi relate to the rom instead of radio?
Thanks
inw
inw55555 said:
Hi Everyone,
I flashed my evo4g with evo-deck-1.3. My WIFI signal seems low. Does it help if I flash the new radio to improve my wifi signal? Does the wifi relate to the rom instead of radio?
Thanks
inw
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I've notice this as well on either cm7 stable or deck final 1.3. search Google and came across this thread. really love those two roms, hoping someone know a fix or hack to improve wifi.
Radios don't affect WiFi strength in any way..........
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Also your probably coming from a sense rom on aosp it shows true data bars. For example 1bar on WiFi might be 3 on a sense rom
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Radios don't affect WiFi strength in any way..........
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One of the files controls wifi just can't remember if its radio NV or pri but there is a hardware radio for wifi which needs firmware to run
Same here
Know that you mention it, happen the same when I flash the new radios, dont know what happen.
Evo deck stable 1.3
I use deck 1.3 (2.3.7) and I get wireless N signal at farther ranges then I ever did with stock...sense or even cm7... dunno about G tho

Kernels for sense roms

Recently started using sense again and wondering what some good sense kernels are I have the anthrax kernel downloaded ot before it was taken down but when I flash it my phone freezes at the splash screen any suggestions are greatly appreciated
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bigjack216 said:
Recently started using sense again and wondering what some good sense kernels are I have the anthrax kernel downloaded ot before it was taken down but when I flash it my phone freezes at the splash screen any suggestions are greatly appreciated
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Reason it freezes is because you need a hboot higher then eng .076
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Well just checked my phone and after a fresh install it says its running anthrax already
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I just started using Anthrax so I can't really speak for it. My go to kernel is the Evo 4g Freedom-v0.9. I would link it... but XDA doesn't trust me yet . You can search the EVO forum or find it in the stickied Detailed ROM Wiki.
I second Freedom.
Freedom v9 is an amazing kernel, i am using the Energy rom, which comes with chopsuey baked in. I recently switched to the anthrax v004 kernel, and my rom is much snappier, and the my battery life almost doubled! my vote is for anthrax!
Im running anthrax with SET CPU set to 245/1036 and screen off profile 245/245 and interactiveX. Been off the charger since 8AM and am at 70% left. considering 10% is wasted when you take it off the charger right away, this isnt too bad...
Anthrax totally!
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I have anthrax on my SD card but when I flash it my phone freezes after I reboot
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MikRom thread - Anthrax kernel
This thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1038967&page=1613)
will NOT let me reply due to lack of number of posts (very frustrating, but a bit understandable) but I was inquiring about the Anthrax kernel. I'm currently running More Freedom v0.9, and it's slowed down or become sluggish lately. I'm running MikG v2.5.
My two questions are:
will this Anthrax kernel help?
If so, does it also have Bluetooth HID capability? I have a new keyboard and finding a driver for Android is about impossible.
AND, I guess a third. Assuming it helps, how can I get it or where I can download?
Please apprise me if possible!
Thanks!
I think this may have something to do with your h boot. Scope out caulkins thread on radios, wimax, etc. Hope this helps
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I think this may have something to do with your h boot. Scope out caulkins thread on radios, wimax, etc. Hope this helps
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Thanks. However, I should have noted that this ran pretty well for a while. I've ordered new batteries that are on the way, thinking that the battery might be the culprit. It seems to wane quickly nowadays.
I did not want to leave my phone with the Sprint tech for 1.5 hours to pore through my phone while he did a diagnostics test. I just didn't feel comfortable doing that. He'd assuredly come back and tell me the phone was rooted, blah blah blah, warranty voided, nothing he could do and that's the reason it was sluggish.
After I moved to this it worked really well for about 3-4 months. The last two months it runs out of memory and the battery fades quickly. The only thing I can really point to perhaps is Tweetcaster. Seems to be a big drain on everything and there's no clean exit command for it, unlike other apps, so it runs all the friggin' time if you instantiate it.
As for Anthrax kernels, I've heard some people recommend "test 9".
Do most of you here recommend that as well?
I really need someone to pm me the anthrax kernel.
The test 9 version works amazing on my phone. I'm running mikg*3. 0
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Recently started using sense again and wondering what some good sense kernels are I have the anthrax kernel downloaded ot before it was taken down but when I flash it my phone freezes at the splash screen any suggestions are greatly appreciated
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What rom are you on?
bigjack216 said:
Recently started using sense again and wondering what some good sense kernels are I have the anthrax kernel downloaded ot before it was taken down but when I flash it my phone freezes at the splash screen any suggestions are greatly appreciated
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Before flashing the anthrax kernel you should wipe dalvik-cache, flash kernel, wipe dalvik-cache again, reboot, let phone sit 10 minutes, and then reboot again. Search xda for the kernel install information to make sure that you are installing it correctly. It's the best for my evo thus far and I have had no problems. It's baked into the shooter E3D rom. Try it, you won't be disappointed.

[Q] Any solution to the ICS random WIFI disconnect?

I've read quite a few posts mentioning this but haven't seen any solutions. I'm running Phantom Blazer's ICS ROM with AGAT's newest kernel. Are all ICS ROMs facing this problem or this is specific to Phantom's ROM? If there isn't a solution to this I'll need to go back to GB, I've missed some important emails from work due to this problem.
how did you flash to blazers rom? Did you do a full wipe or no data, I've been seeing a lot of posts about ics bugs where the poster tried to do a nodata flash, this is known to cause lots of wide ranging issues... personally I'm currently on mijjazs goodness but run aokp and cm9 regularly as well, I've not had any issues with wifi disconnecting, and believe me I would notice, I use wifi for most everything as sprint data is mostly unuseable in my area
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Well, one possible solution for now may be to try another wireless router if you have one. I don't know the root cause of this problem, but I do know I had horrible disconnect issues at my girlfriends house after updating (to stock rooted FF18), but no issues at mine. She has a Netgear router, I have an Airport Extreme. they both relatively new. I brought my previous Airport Extreme to her house and set it up. Now I no longer have disconnects at her place either. This doesn't fix whatever is wrong with the phone, but it works...
I have tried all the roms every 1 of them! with a fresh install and wipe everything and wifi disconnects on every 1 of them
I.also did a fresh install using caulkalin's format all zip. My router is an older linksys. Never had any Wi-Fi issues with it on my galaxy s1(fascinate). Anyone know of any developers here have taken a look at what might be causing this?
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it definitely has something to do with the rom, when I am on e l 29 my phone never disconnects, when I flash any I c s rom, I get random disconnects.
Its ff18 TW....I used aokp and now cm9 but didn't have this issue. I did flash quite a few roms besides these and it always happened on tw based roms only.
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Thanks, Dante. I'm running AOKP and wifi disconnect seems to be fixed now. Unfortunately battery life isn't nearly as good but I'll do some reading and hopefully find a way to improve it.
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Yeah happens to me too. But only when I have a weak wifi signal. Doesn't happen at home. Maybe due to the crappy routers in free wifi.
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Thanks, Dante. I'm running AOKP and wifi disconnect seems to be fixed now. Unfortunately battery life isn't nearly as good but I'll do some reading and hopefully find a way to improve it.
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You can also try cm9...chris41g built a kernel for it where you can now control the governor and processor. Battery life has been awesome, plus no wifi issues. Too bad the kernel doesn't work on aokp yet.
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I've read quite a few posts mentioning this but haven't seen any solutions. I'm running Phantom Blazer's ICS ROM with AGAT's newest kernel. Are all ICS ROMs facing this problem or this is specific to Phantom's ROM? If there isn't a solution to this I'll need to go back to GB, I've missed some important emails from work due to this problem.
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Nobody really answered your question as to whether this was a 'known' ics issue. And I'm not going to suggest that you 'buy a new router just in case'. What I will tell you is that I have the same problem, but unfortunatley I'm on the same ROM as you, so I can't rule that out. But there's definitely an issue and it is definitely associated with ICS; would be interested in what non-Blazer folks are seeing.
I've been on AOKP for a full day now. Still no problems with Wi-Fi and I may have spoken too soon about the battery. I'm at 12 hours at 56% with 3 hours screen time which is a lot better than I got on my s1. I love all the options on this rom too. Loving having my 4 way lock screen back.
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iztel said:
I've read quite a few posts mentioning this but haven't seen any solutions. I'm running Phantom Blazer's ICS ROM with AGAT's newest kernel. Are all ICS ROMs facing this problem or this is specific to Phantom's ROM? If there isn't a solution to this I'll need to go back to GB, I've missed some important emails from work due to this problem.
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In case you're still seeing this problem - I switched to Blend ICS FF18 / Goodness 16.6 and the wi-fi problem would seem to have disappeared. I suspect the issue is/was somewhere in the Blazer ROM. I'd ask if the dev was working on it, but probably get flamed; that ROM hasn't been updated in a while anyway, so you might want to try Blend anyway.
I am having the same issues. My Wifi goes up and down every 5 seconds which kills my battery. Mine started on stock phone on GB 2 weeks ago on EL29 (phone was not modified or rooted). I was hoping rooting and flashing to CM9 would fix it. It has not, I have tried multiple modems as well. Any suggestions?
I have a 4 month old NetGear router. All other Wifi devices in the house are working fine.
Its probably just kernel related or router issue, been running blu kuban ics which is touchwiz based and never had a wifi issue. The kernel is sourced build by rujeluss22 with it's own modified recovery based on agat's recovery. Try it out, you guys might like it.
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So I am still having a random disconnect wifi issues on Phantom Blazer rom just like the stock FF18 from sprint
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Its probably just kernel related or router issue, been running blu kuban ics which is touchwiz based and never had a wifi issue. The kernel is sourced build by rujeluss22 with it's own modified recovery based on agat's recovery. Try it out, you guys might like it.
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This is not a router issue, unless it effects every router I've connected to since changing to ICS. (dozens)
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Anybody found a possible solution yet? I've never had this issue on sprint's stock GB. Currently running Blazer AGAT 0.4.0
Haven't had any problems with this setup. overall ff18 sucks for many of us.
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Haven't had any problems with this setup. overall ff18 sucks for many of us.
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So you think it's the modem? Is the modem even responsible for WiFi? I though it was responsible for cell connection only

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