Hello,
I have started to have a problem in the last couple of weeks. I have to use my internet with tether because the internet at my accommodation is very slow. The problem is that when i am using tether, be it wireless or usb, the internet connection seems to drop after 10 minutes or so. It does not always happen, sometime it can stay fine all night but other times it can do it every 10 minutes or so.
I have tried it with a few different roms, it works better with CM but is not as quick as it is with LeeDroid or Android Revolution. AR disconnected the most, and i am using LeeDroid now and that is about every 10 mins.
There are no signs of the disconnection, for example the phone is still connected to 3g, and the wifi (or usb) connection is still active.
P.S. i dont know if this is related but i cannot use my phones internet when the tether is active. Like, i cannot download anything from the market at the same time as having the tether activated.
Thanks in advance for your help.
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I don't know if this has been posted already, but I was struggling trying to find solutions so I thought I would post what worked for me.
After updating to froyo rooted deodexed stock rom, my wifi tether became very unstable. It would say it was connected, but my computer would lose internet access and would only reconnect after I stopped and restarted wireless tether.
The day it started to behave again I did the following:
- Turned "Find My Location" off in Shopsavvy
(this did not make a noticeable difference, but I left it like that anyway, just in case)
- Upgraded wireless tether to 2.0.5-pre8
- Installed Wifinder to make sure I was using a clear channel in wireless tether
(The default channel I was on was clear from what I could tell, but I went ahead and changed it to 1 in the wireless tether settings anyway)
- On my computer, I right clicked on the wireless tether connection, selected properties, connection, and put a checkbox in "connect even if the network is not broadcasting its name (SSID)", then ok.
(I believe I read some people saying that the phone was stopping broadcasting the SSID when the internet was dropping, which is why I did this)
After those changes, I was able to stay connected for hours versus minutes, but after restarting the phone I have been able to stay connected until I disconnect.
The only time it has disconnected without me physically turning off wifi tether since then was a couple of times trying to test my upload speed, but not every time. I think there must be something they are doing to shut down the connection when large or aggressive uploads are detected or something.
I was actually having this same problem on the old Fresh .02 ROM I was using. Thanks for the info I will give what you said a try!
I was having the same problems as well...it seemed like every 10 minutes it would just stop but still said I was connected when clearly I wasn't. I will have to test this tonight when I get home...thanks so much!
Can anyone confirm this works? I'm having major issues with all data connection dropping after a few minutes of being online. What I've noticed is that the 3G indicator in the notification bar will actually disappear momentarily, then reappear, but once it reappears...I'm not able to connect further until I restart the tether app.
moonrequiem said:
Can anyone confirm this works? I'm having major issues with all data connection dropping after a few minutes of being online. What I've noticed is that the 3G indicator in the notification bar will actually disappear momentarily, then reappear, but once it reappears...I'm not able to connect further until I restart the tether app.
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I would change your version of wireless tether first. Which one are you using? I am using 7 now, but I believe 8 was best for me.
lehalter said:
I would change your version of wireless tether first. Which one are you using? I am using 7 now, but I believe 8 was best for me.
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Using "Wireless Tether for Root Users 2.0.5-pre11" now...haven't tried it with this version however I was using pre9 and that version was causing the 3G problems that I described in my last post.
I had this same issue. When I went into the wireless tether application and changed it to use channel one everything started working perfectly.
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I had this same issue. When I went into the wireless tether application and changed it to use channel one everything started working perfectly.
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I'll try that and report my results...really annoying problem, ya know?
I think the "aggressive download" portion is accurate. I can stay connected for hours with a little web browsing going on; however, start up a torrent or connect to my PS3 and it disconnects in 5-10 minutes. I'll try the SSID broadcast later tonight though and test it under heavy load.
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I think the "aggressive download" portion is accurate. I can stay connected for hours with a little web browsing going on; however, start up a torrent or connect to my PS3 and it disconnects in 5-10 minutes. I'll try the SSID broadcast later tonight though and test it under heavy load.
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My issue isn't "aggressive downloads" - a PS3 connection doesn't require a lot of bandwidth, just a low latency connection - which is probably the reason you are disconnected. I use my wireless tether for playing online games from my computer. When it is actually working and playing well, its running 8-12 kbit/sec, which is very low bandwidth. It's only when the 3G indicator disappears that my whole connection is lost and I have to restart my game and restart Wireless Tether as well. FWIW my latency while playing is roughly 400-500ms - high, but the game tolerates it.
Dear friends,
My Defy seems to be dropping wireless from time to time. Here's the whole story:
It's a green lens Defy running PAYS v6.0. What I've noticed in the last few weeks is that Skype calls drop sometimes (when the screen is off) followed by a relogin to skype (usually takes like a minute or so to relogin). Then I also noticed that when I turn on the screen the wireless sign disappears and reappears like it would be reconnecting.
Other 2 phones and 2 computers have no problems connecting to my router, even skype. Skype works fine on my Defy's mobile connection.
I've had Juice Defender installed but I've disabled anything related to wireless and then froze it. Wi-Fi sleep policy is put to never. Other programs that I have and might have anything to do with wireless/data connection: 3G watchdog, 3G mobile hotspot, widgesoid.
It looks like it's something about the wireless, but I cannot understand what. The only thing I could do is try another wireless network at my parent's or something...
Thanks in advance!
PS: I keep on mentioning skype because it needs constant data flow.
Later edit: Might, by any reason, have anything to do with the fact that I'm using a French release instead of a CEE one (like I "should")?
had the phone over a year now, never had an issue before.
As soon as you turn on the portable wifi hotspot, i loose the 3g/h symbol from the top of the screen and from that no data conectivity?
and as sopon as you turn the wifi hotspot off, it regains an internet conection
Any ideas, ive not installed any apps recently, as far as i can remember?
Do you get an internet connection when another device connects to your phone's wifi hotspot.
If you are able to connect, then it must be working, as it's the 3G signal that the phone uses to connect the wifi to the internet. It might remove the icon, but if you can connect then it's fine.
nope, can conect my ipad to the DHDs hotspot but no internet.
the same for when i turn the hotspot on, cant brouse anything on the phone as no data conection
still not sorted this, anyone else got a aide or something to sort this?
First post (longtime lurker)
I've got the same problem here although this has only started happening in the last couple of days. The phone's data connection is fine until you enable the wifi hotspot at which point the connection is dropped to the phone, connecting any devices to the phone is fine, they get an IP address and can ping the phone directly, but beyond the phone there's nothing.
Rebooting the phone does not help.
The only app I've installed recently is Google Shopper.
Out of curiosity Fil what ROM are you using? I'm on RCMix3d Runny 3.0 which is based on Android 2.3.5 and Sense 3.5. I'm looking at switching to an ICS build pretty soon.
It also looks like we're on the same network although I think that's just coincidence.
yep sounds exactly the same issue,
as for rom, still on t-mobiles original 2.50.110.5 Adroid 2.3.3
was thinking of flashing something custom to see if it solved the problem
I've just flashed IceColdSandwich today at work (it's been a slow day!) and you'll be pleased to know that wireless tethering is working again. I'm on the train home as I type this. It's possibly something in the 2.3 image? I can't really say since we both had different ROMs (mine was a Sensation port). It could just be a bad bit of code in the gingerbread OS that produces this bug on rare occasions.
It may have something to do with the fact that T-Mobile and Orange allow you to roam on eachother's networks. Do you have roaming enabled?
To be honest I'm just stabbing wildly at possible causes here and a flash fixed it anyway. I went ICS but I don't think you'd have to go that extreme but flashing a new ROM overwrites whatever it is that caused this in the first place.
I'm just hoping it's fixed in ICS and won't happen again!
cheers, enabled data roaming, and it now works!
Since the issue, my batterys turned to crap! guessing thats the cause constantly jumping networks, and also data speeds have been very poor lately, was ok when just t-mobile, but orange is poor!
Off to the t-mobile foeums to see if its just me, or others!
I came around a problem with Youtube app from Google and wifi. Everytime I try to load some video, it just disconnects from wifi at same point, sometimes instantenously, sometimes after 15 minutes, and connects to mobile plan, even when wifi is avaiable. No other app does that. And what bugs me most is the fact, that the phone cannot see that wi-fi hotspot afterwards, even thought it is still running and other devices see it fine. It just says Out of reach. I have to restart that wi-fi hotspot and then my phone is able to see that wifi again. What could be the culprit here?
I am using stock .62 rom and kernel with root privilages. But the problem occured even before rooting. Thanks for the help.
Hi all
Seem to have a wifi or network problem.
I'm running ARHD 20.1 and have noticed lately that my wifi connection just seems to stop randomly when connected to the internet.
When I say stop I mean it still shows full signal on the wifi but just lose all network connectivity. web pages time out, play store times out, youtube times out and local connections time out. But it still shows my wifi is connected to my router and it still shows full signal.
Once it stops the only way I can reconnect is to turn wifi off and on again.
I normally have wifi turned on all the time.
Funny thing is it only seems to happen when i've been browsing for a few minutes, I can always access the internet the 1st time I try so its not disconnecting when i'm not using it
This has just started happening over the last few days and prior to this everything was fine.
I've tried reloading the Rom and Boot.img but its still doing it.
Any idea's?
Stu
Try to flash an other kernel like xm
If don't work, try to change the rom and see if that rom have this bug.