So I've noticed on every stock GB ROM and every custom ROM ive tried (including some early ics roms) that whenever my phone decides to switch from 4g to 3g or if I switch the wifi off, basically every time the radio switches, the internet stops loading whatever it was loading. does anyone else have this issue? It gets pretty annoying sometimes although coverage has been pretty good lately.
I could try and list all the roms ive used but it doesnt matter, the problem is consistent.
Sent from my SPH-D710 using XDA
from what i've read, it's just an inherent problem with this, and most, phones that are capable of using both networks, when forced to switch from one to the other, the "handoff" is never clean.
shultz11588 said:
So I've noticed on every stock GB ROM and every custom ROM ive tried (including some early ics roms) that whenever my phone decides to switch from 4g to 3g or if I switch the wifi off, basically every time the radio switches, the internet stops loading whatever it was loading. does anyone else have this issue? It gets pretty annoying sometimes although coverage has been pretty good lately.
I could try and list all the roms ive used but it doesnt matter, the problem is consistent.
Sent from my SPH-D710 using XDA
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
After reading this I went online and switched the wifi on and off while loading pages and videos and it just picked up where it left off.
Caulkins E4GT gb 2.9.2, fb27 modem, rogue gunslinger kernel on one EPIC beast of a phone
Did it actually connect or disconnect from 3g/4g?
Sent from my SPH-D710 using XDA
shultz11588 said:
Did it actually connect or disconnect from 3g/4g?
Sent from my SPH-D710 using XDA
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yes, the page stuttered until it hooked back up then finished
Caulkins E4GT GB 2.9.2 bare ROM, FB27 modem, rogue gunslinger kernel on one EPIC beast of a phone.
Hmm. Maybe its just my phone, ill have to see maybe its been fixed and im just imagining th ings
Sent from my SPH-D710 using XDA
Ok, so I started a market download over wifi. Turned the wifi off at 10%. Now it starts trying to connect 3g first, which connects almost instantly and the download resumes. But when 4g connects a second later, it just goes to sleep and the download stays where its at until something else wakes up the 4g. Not a huge deal I guess just bothersome that it even happens.
Sent from my SPH-D710 using XDA
I wrote a download manager before and made the download thread delay and re-attempt if the connection was by abolished. Maybe stock touchwiz browser doesn't do that
Sent from my SPH-D710 using Tapatalk
shultz11588 said:
Ok, so I started a market download over wifi. Turned the wifi off at 10%. Now it starts trying to connect 3g first, which connects almost instantly and the download resumes. But when 4g connects a second later, it just goes to sleep and the download stays where its at until something else wakes up the 4g. Not a huge deal I guess just bothersome that it even happens.
Sent from my SPH-D710 using XDA
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Same thing here with downloads, my EVO 4G was the same way
Caulkins E4GT GB 2.9.2 bare ROM, FB27 modem, rogue gunslinger kernel on one EPIC beast of a phone.
Related
I have had my phone since launch and whenever I turned on 4g my phone will seems to be a bit jerky or lag. I thought it is because I am in a 4g test area (LA), but now that it is official, I am still experiencing the same problem. Also, 4g seems to be dropping in/out throughout 405, even sensorly map viewer have reported solid coverage throughout. Anyone has similar experience?
I'm not in the LA area, but I've noticed the same lag in the device with the 4G radio on as well. Apps take longer to load, tend to freeze for a few seconds, scrolling is choppy, and so on. I am also in a 4G market.
Running stock 2.2 and hardware version 003. I end up not bothering to use my 4G radio, since I don't really need the speeds.
In the LA area and have the same problem, even when I have a good signal still lags quite a bit at times. But then at times it works flawlessly.
Sent from my PC36100 using Tapatalk
I was in Minneapolis over thanksgiving and it was choppy tand spotty there too. I found that if you restart your phone with 4G on it wont be choppy, but when you switch back to 3G I got terrible batter life till I restarted my phone again, like 10 or less hours of batter life with me barely touching my phone. There are still some bugs to be worked out with 4G, thats for sure
It happens too in Miami
Same problem here. It used to be fine a couple of months ago with my wife phone ... the only difference is that her phone is rooted now.
Had same problem
I had the same problem. After six months I realized it was due to running adfree. The host file was blocking the ads and for some reason freezing or lagging the web page. No problem with 3g or wifi, only when using 4g. I have since reverted the the original host file and unistalled adfree and bam. 4g is smoking fast even with the ads. Don't know if any others have had similar experiences but it was finally nice to figure it out and enjoy 4g speeds.
Amazing! I always thought it was a flaky 4G but it was just 4G choking on the adfree block list in dns. 4G seems much smoother now and pages that refused to come up work fine with the adfree block list reverted! Any idea why it doesnt affect 3G/WiFi?
Keep in mind after you turn wimax off, the wimax chip is still running. If you download alogcat from the market you can see the wimax chip constantly trying to initialize but erroring out. The only way to turn it off is by rebooting the phone. This happens on both the Evo and Evo-Shift.
*edit - reboot to turn off wimax.
Sent from my PG06100 using XDA App
abanh said:
Keep in mind after you turn wimax off, the wimax chip is still running. If you download alogcat from the market you can see the wimax chip constantly trying to initialize but erroring out. The only way to turn it off is by rooting the phone. This happens on both the Evo and Evo-Shift.
Sent from my PG06100 using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
noob question but how do i get it to turn off (rooted) is there a command i can use in term. emulator?
r916 said:
noob question but how do i get it to turn off (rooted) is there a command i can use in term. emulator?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Only way is reboot. You do have a great idea. I'm curious as why the devs have not tried to implement a kill switch so it really stops.
Sent from my PC36100 using Tapatalk
novanosis85 said:
Only way is reboot. You do have a great idea. I'm curious as why the devs have not tried to implement a kill switch so it really stops.
Sent from my PC36100 using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yeah this would be a good thing. My phone doesn't act like that when 4g is on though, I'm oc'd to 1.19 but it's on interactive and it barely goes over 998.
What can i do with my signal? Everytime i get on the browser or use any type of data, the signal always drops at random times and it stays off and then it comes back on. What should i do? Is there a fix for this? Please help
Where is it happening? at home or everywhere
What modem u using ?
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA App
Mine does this too. At work I'll have full or 5 bars w/ 3g and it will drop when I'm surfing the net or doing something on the phone. That happened today actually, and I'm on the EF10 modem. I was thinking of swapping to EF02 to try, but I wanted to try ef10 for a few days.
it happens everywhere
im using the ef10 modem.
I get that, mostly at home, with the EC05 modem.
is there anything you do that helps? do i need to change anything in the data menu? ##3282#
Yeah, I've just recently started having that kind of weird behavior too. I just watched my bars rocket from full strength to one. My 4g had been weird too, works, then just goes to sleep in the middle of downloading or something....I'm running srf 1.2 on ec05 modem...just flashed genocide 1.1 kernel which is awesome on battery life already, btw!
Anyway, all I can think of is to try some different modems...
@Neckberg, nice avatar!
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA App
@mookdawg7 im running the same rom, kernel, except the modem, im running ef10 but plz if you try out any modems or if anything you adjust in the settings please let me kno cuhz this problem is really getting annoying:/
Is anyone else having this? I still have 3g connected, but if I look at the phone periodically, the 4g has an X on it (red x, im on honeyglow) it will reconnect if I toggle it, but if it drops it will not reconnect, like from 3g or wifi.
Is this s known issue and is there a fix?
Oh, and Im on the LosTKernal OC to 1.6 (stable) and Starburst 1.6, it did it on 1.7 as well.
Thanks
Which kernels have you previously tried? I tried one that made my 4g stop connecting even after switching back to stock but I did find a fix so give me some details on what you've tried so far....
Sent from my SPH-D710 using xda premium
I think I have only used ZedoMax, and then this LosT Kernel, or versions of it.
I had midnight ROM, now have been running Starburst. I think another configuration I had dropped signal on data a lot and had trouble switching between WIFI 3g and 4g. But this has helped my LOS issues as best I can tell.
If I can get 4g to work (im in Dallas, lots of 4g) great, if not Ill just try to ignore it.
If you have a fix, that would be great.
Thanks!
Honestly, if I had a choice between this and the screen wake lag, I'd not worry about 4g.
The screen wake lag is rediculous, it takes 3 full seconds to wake up with my class 10 8g card in it.
Well, what I did was Odined Crawrj's odexed with root and Busybox. You would want the deodexed version obviously. Run that in PDA slot. It will keep your data but then you will have to Odin back akernel with CWM like LoSt. It fixed all of the 4g and Wifi not connecting crap I had going on from something I triedthat had borked changes
Sent from my Nexus S 4G using xda premium
Thanks JC, what were your symptoms?
bdf said:
Thanks JC, what were your symptoms?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
The yellow kept going like it was searching but would never connect then it would finally go gray and 3g kicked in
Sent from my Nexus S 4G using xda premium
I'm running team nocturnal's themed OTA Stock, and I have no apps that manage any of my radios such as green power or juice defender, but while my WiFi is connected it will suddenly drop and give me an error of not being able to establish connection. Or while I am actually using it, it will drop, the 3g will kick in then my WiFi kicks back in under a minute. I'm not sure if it is the Rom and I have updated to the newest radios. And my router seems fine since it happens to nothing else connected to it. Any ideas?
TLDR= WiFi is broke, helpz?
Sent from my PC36100 using xda premium
I had the same promlem a while ago on an AOSP ROM (can't remember which one), but my WiFi drop only came while sleeping. When I'd wake the phone up, it would show no WiFi connection for about a second, then WiFi would kick in. I could never find out why and have since moved to ICS ROMs, but we seem to be in a similar boat.
Here how a cap of the error of anyone knows how to solve it
Sent from my PC36100 using xda premium
double check that you dont have any conflicting scripts running, and try redownloading your kernel, double check that md5sum matches and reapply the zip in recovery after clearing cache and dalvik a few times.
Has anyone else had constant wifi issues with ics based roms? For example my range seems like it jas dropped dramtically. And if I leave my wifi on and set my phone down even for a small length of time amd pick it back up to browse the web or perform any internet based actiony device just hangs for a while. Its almost like it might be a wifi wake issue. Its really anoying and most times i have to switch between 3g and wifi just to get an internet connection back. I have seen this on all ics flavors i have ran so far. I am currently running a fresh install of ff18 i wanted to have that as my base to try and deduce what the issue could be....
Sent from my SPH-D710 using XDA
FWIW I have noticed similar with FF18 - didn't have these issues with FF02, the prior build that I had on this phone. I don't get the wi-fi sleep that people mention but I do see the signal drop and the occasional delays in apps. Also did a full flash but copied previous wpa_supplicant.conf due to need for custom file.
garwynn said:
FWIW I have noticed similar with FF18 - didn't have these issues with FF02, the prior build that I had on this phone. I don't get the wi-fi sleep that people mention but I do see the signal drop and the occasional delays in apps. Also did a full flash but copied previous wpa_supplicant.conf due to need for custom file.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Did this solve any of your issues?
Sent from my SPH-D710 using XDA
cas8180 said:
Did this solve any of your issues?
Sent from my SPH-D710 using XDA
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Like you they didn't appear until I flashed FF18. I'm considering flashing the FF02 modem to see if this corrects - I'll let you know what happens.
(Odd since there shouldn't be any changes in this process since FE26...)
Yeah try a different modem. The FF modems seem to have issues but FD26 works good for me all around
someguyatx said:
Yeah try a different modem. The FF modems seem to have issues but FD26 works good for me all around
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Flashed FD26 modem everything else is still FF18 right away I noticed better wifi performance but it is still a little early to tell. But apps dont seem to lag anymore while attempting to connect to the internet. And wifi seems to find the routers right away and connect almost instantly. Also while going almost out of wifi range I am still getting a signal and able to surf the internet. Before if I was almost out of range I couldnt do anything and had to drop my wifi connection and switch to 3g. So these are the things I have noticed so far but I will continue testing and report back.
On a side note I had an office space sound board installed it was 20 or so MB and after flashing the model it was uninstalled and everytime I try and reinstall it I get an error that says "Can not install onto sd card" I thought this was really crazy and should be completely unrelated. Yet now I cant reinstall this app. So I am wondering if there is some kind of bug in FD26 though could possibly inhibit certain apps from being written to the sd card?