[Q] Poor wireless connection - HTC One X

I just got a new One X (well it was a used one ) but I have one big problem - wireless is not really working... It connects but the signal strength is not very great (sometimes only the "Bottom" of the signal bar is white and the bars are all greyed out). Sometimes even on full signal I have a speed from 250 kb/s and pages are not loading. But 1 minute later I have a speed of 11 MB/s (wich is the fastest speed I can get here)... Its very frustrating while watching youtube videos or using WhatsApp...
Is there a RADIO Upgrade for One X? Or should I sent it to costumer Support? Or is there anything I can do?
I am using the ViperX ROM and have a SpeedPort W701V Router from T-Mobile (Germany)
Thanks
Robin

Well there can be 3 options
1: you can try different settings/channels on the router
2: you are on the 3.18 base of the viper x .... the base has WiFi issues with alot of people. No real solution for that atm (HTC fault)
3: you have a faulty WiFi module, early builds of the HTC one X can experience it. Its hardware related

tried different router already - didnt help. Also tried other ROM - didnt help either...
Well, hardware fault I think.. :/ what can I do? self repair? (without soildering I hope )

I dont repair phones so thats out of my league

In case of option 3, take a look at this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1688538

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Poor Wi-Fi - Solutions?

I'm fed up with the poor Wi-Fi reception on my Desire. Has anyone tried doing this: ttp://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-512618.html (see 9th post) with their Desire? (I can't insert a proper link because I'm a new user!)
Alternatively, is there a custom ROM that is known to improve Wi-Fi reception?
I've tried 1.15.405.4 and 1.21.405.2 Radio 32.36.00.28U 4.06.00.02_2 Release 126984 so far and they both sucked. The latter seems to consume more power in fact!
3 bars, 20m away behind two thick concrete walls. 2.8Mbps dl / 0.1Mbps ul through the Speedtest app. Never been poor for me since day one. It drops signal much but the source is always the crap stock O2 router (which keeps disconnecting that I'm forced to run).
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- Sent via my HTC Desire -
I get 3 bars 5m away with two stone walls. I wonder if it's the hardware or the software.
I'm still on 1.15.405.4 and the WiFi on this device is awesome, best in my household.
What's the radio version of your phone? Can I install it on mine?

[Q] Low wifi signal..help ><

i just bought my desire hd and currently root..
im using Android Revolution HD 3.6 by mike1986 with his recommended radio 26.06.03.24_M2
compared to my previous HTC HD2..i usually get high strength on wifi signal usually like 3-4bars..(3-4 meter from wifi router)
my desire hd just recieved signal for just about 1 or 2 bar(similar 3-4 meter from wifi router)..and sometimes i also disconnected automatically due to limited signal
tried to change other ROM particularly RCMix Gingerbread..(but havent try changing radio yet though) but still the wifi signal is rather low
whats the problem with my phone?? Is there possiblity that my desire hd hardware is bulsyht that cause the problem? or izit somthing else? Izit the radio..to my knowledge radio is just connected to the mobile cellular network signal from provider right? Or is my assumption wrong??
Need ur guyz help ..search all over the forum..but cant find anyone else with similar problem..
flawlessx92 said:
i just bought my desire hd and currently root..
im using Android Revolution HD 3.6 by mike1986 with his recommended radio 26.06.03.24_M2
compared to my previous HTC HD2..i usually get high strength on wifi signal usually like 3-4bars..(3-4 meter from wifi router)
my desire hd just recieved signal for just about 1 or 2 bar(similar 3-4 meter from wifi router)..and sometimes i also disconnected automatically due to limited signal
tried to change other ROM particularly RCMix Gingerbread..(but havent try changing radio yet though) but still the wifi signal is rather low
whats the problem with my phone?? Is there possiblity that my desire hd hardware is bulsyht that cause the problem? or izit somthing else? Izit the radio..to my knowledge radio is just connected to the mobile cellular network signal from provider right? Or is my assumption wrong??
Need ur guyz help ..search all over the forum..but cant find anyone else with similar problem..
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the battery cover of desire hd is actualy an antenna for the wifi.. take it off and ul see gold plates left cover... try not to hold ur phone in left hand while on wifi.. or cover the area above battery cover. see if that helps.. helped me..
whoa..u r totally right!!..haha
damn it..im using rubber protective cover..no wonder my signal is quite low..
>< now i see 1 clear bulshyt disadvantages of desire hd....haha..
nvm still loving my desire hd ^^
P/S: whats the best solution anyway to protect ur phone without affecting ur wifi signal..i intend to use protective cover ..dun wanna my phone scrathing all over the place..got some scratch alredy though ><
and is there anyway to improve the signal btter?
I took a simple cover from ebay where I put my DHD in while having it in my pocket.
So it's not permanent covered by anything, just while it is in my pocket.
The DHD WIFI antenna is pretty bad.
My friends Xperia X8 (mid-range droid) got a 2 bar signal, while mine didn't even detect it, even with multiple tries and holding my phone upward and exposing the cover like an idiot
flawlessx92 said:
whoa..u r totally right!!..haha
damn it..im using rubber protective cover..no wonder my signal is quite low..
>< now i see 1 clear bulshyt disadvantages of desire hd....haha..
nvm still loving my desire hd ^^
P/S: whats the best solution anyway to protect ur phone without affecting ur wifi signal..i intend to use protective cover ..dun wanna my phone scrathing all over the place..got some scratch alredy though ><
and is there anyway to improve the signal btter?
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be near the wifi router... because then the reception isnt affected even if the cover is covered..

Poor Wifi - 1.29.401.11

Since receiving the 1.29 builds (.11 this morning) I've noticed the One X's wifi performance to be seriously sub-par. My home Wifi AP (a Cisco WAP4410N) is in the next room to me and yet the Wifi indicator on the One X status bar shows only the dot (no bars) and Wifi Analyzer (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.farproc.wifi.analyzer&hl=en) shows a signal strength of about -90 dBm (very close to disconnecting). My Galaxy Nexus by comparison (placed beside the One X) shows between -50 dBm and -60 dBm... (my iPhone 4 never drops below two bars and seems to hold a strong signal wherever I go in the house).
Is this similar to others experience? Something's seriously at fault here, it's so bad I'm thinking of switching back to the Galaxy Nexus...
(Sorry for the poor quality of the photos below, taken quickly).
Shot in various locations around my apartment:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-...AAYwA/KfJdhJXn5FM/s2048/120522-One-X-WIFI.jpg
Same here on 1.28 mate.
Sent from my HTC One X using XDA
Same here - got 129.401.11 this morning and wifi indicator now seems 2 bars less than before the update. In fact wifi has now totally dropped off despite my netbook having 4 bars in the same place.
Is it possible to rollback out of this update as I was having no issues before the update?
I've had a hox from 3 since day one. The original 3 software had this bug, the updated 3 software had this bug and now I'm on the latest Arhd 6.0 wifi is slightly improved but still much worse than my wife's gnex my pc and our laptop.
Really hope HTC can fix this with software and soon
Sent from my HTC One X using xda premium
Applied 1.29.401.11 this morning any my Wifi is still fine.
smartmove said:
Applied 1.29.401.11 this morning any my Wifi is still fine.
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Me too. No problems so far.
Sent from my HTC One X using xda premium
Try factory reset, AFTER BACKING UP STORAGE DATA, and all media in it.
It fixed for me.
skr_xd said:
Try factory reset, AFTER BACKING UP STORAGE DATA, and all media in it.
It fixed for me.
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Hi - does settings-privacy-"backup my settings" and "automatic restore" keep all my settings, including the general phone settings and app settings?
I've never done a factory reset on a HTC and don't want to root so Titanium backup isn't an option. Thanks.
I've had the same issue with mine since day 1 with no real improvement through ROM upgrades. I tried the same test with my Asus Transformer side by side with the One X and from about 5 meters from the router but still in direct view of it I got -50dbm on the TF and -90dbm on the HOX
I also get times when the the radio won't reconnect after losing signal requiring the Aircraft mode switch to reset the radio.
All very sub standard and now really wish I'd got an unbranded phone so I could get latest OTA's
mrirvs said:
I've had the same issue with mine since day 1 with no real improvement through ROM upgrades. I tried the same test with my Asus Transformer side by side with the One X and from about 5 meters from the router but still in direct view of it I got -50dbm on the TF and -90dbm on the HOX
I also get times when the the radio won't reconnect after losing signal requiring the Aircraft mode switch to reset the radio.
All very sub standard and now really wish I'd got an unbranded phone so I could get latest OTA's
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Or a Galaxy Nexus...
philask said:
Since receiving the 1.29 builds (.11 this morning) I've noticed the One X's wifi performance to be seriously sub-par. My home Wifi AP (a Cisco WAP4410N) is in the next room to me and yet the Wifi indicator on the One X status bar shows only the dot (no bars) and Wifi Analyzer (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.farproc.wifi.analyzer&hl=en) shows a signal strength of about -90 dBm (very close to disconnecting). My Galaxy Nexus by comparison (placed beside the One X) shows between -50 dBm and -60 dBm... (my iPhone 4 never drops below two bars and seems to hold a strong signal wherever I go in the house).
Is this similar to others experience? Something's seriously at fault here, it's so bad I'm thinking of switching back to the Galaxy Nexus...
(Sorry for the poor quality of the photos below, taken quickly).
Shot in various locations around my apartment:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-...AAYwA/KfJdhJXn5FM/s2048/120522-One-X-WIFI.jpg
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I gave up hope. WiFi was very poor and also troubles with Bluetooth, so I decided to send it back.
latest update made wifi much worse here.
Has anybody tried, Settings»WiFi»Menu»Advanced»Best WiFi performance?
Sent from my HTC One X using XDA
nickhuk said:
Has anybody tried, Settings»WiFi»Menu»Advanced»Best WiFi performance?
Sent from my HTC One X using XDA
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Yes, tried that numerous times. Most of the times it was on Best Wifi, but didn't help.
Yes, I had best wi-fi on before and still have it enabled but it still seems to be a fair bit worse after this s/w upgrade.
I have the same problem last week after my 1.29 update, what i did was to switched my wifi router off and after a few seconds switched it on again, after i did that, i got a full bar again, hope this help.
The problem I'm seeing is that the wifi seems really erratic - it can show full bars or no bars with the phone in the same place and Wifi-Analyzer shows the signal to be weaker than I'd expect and compared to other devices in the same location.
All you have to do to make wifi better after update is factory reset works perfect
minx007 said:
All you have to do to make wifi better after update is factory reset works perfect
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I'm doubtful. It seems it's hardware related.
Try squeezing the back top left of the phone and watch the wifi improve before your eyes.
A loose connection seems the most likely fault. It's send back time I'm afraid
Sent from my HTC One X using xda premium
bigoliver said:
I'm doubtful. It seems it's hardware related.
Try squeezing the back top left of the phone and watch the wifi improve before your eyes.
A loose connection seems the most likely fault. It's send back time I'm afraid
Sent from my HTC One X using xda premium
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Same here. Signal strength improves dramatically when gentle pressure is applied on the top left then drops away completely when released before returning to a weak signal state. Not something that a software update will resolve. Disappointed to have to return this otherwise flawless phone.

Is something wrong with my WiFi?

The other day me and two of my friends were conducting a lil experiment to see which phone had the best wifi download speed using the speedtest.net app, one has the iphone 5 and the other a year old sony xperia phone. We all connected on the same router and when conducting the test they ended up having speeds of 32mbps!! While my phone only managed a measly 15mbps..feeling slighly embarrassed after bragging to them about how my phone is so much better then theirs we did the test again just to make sure it wasnt a fluke thing but nope we got the same results. My question is..is something wrong with my wifi..i mean ive never had a situation where its disconnected but ive noticed that the wifi icon does fluctuate from having full bars to no bars quite alot even if im right next to the router but i havent noticed the performance drop..im just baffled as to how such a amazing phone got beaten by the iphone and a phone thats older then mine with download speeds.
DharmzVala said:
The other day me and two of my friends were conducting a lil experiment to see which phone had the best wifi download speed using the speedtest.net app, one has the iphone 5 and the other a year old sony xperia phone. We all connected on the same router and when conducting the test they ended up having speeds of 32mbps!! While my phone only managed a measly 15mbps..feeling slighly embarrassed after bragging to them about how my phone is so much better then theirs we did the test again just to make sure it wasnt a fluke thing but nope we got the same results. My question is..is something wrong with my wifi..i mean ive never had a situation where its disconnected but ive noticed that the wifi icon does fluctuate from having full bars to no bars quite alot even if im right next to the router but i havent noticed the performance drop..im just baffled as to how such a amazing phone got beaten by the iphone and a phone thats older then mine with download speeds.
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It looks like you have the dreaded Wifi problem. The fluctuation sounds all too familiar to me. Read the topic about this problem in the General section.
Don't worry man.
Forget the wifi issues cause by hardware, it is very rarely and is is very unlucky cases (other comes from user's mind)
For your matter, I have to face the same situation and in my case, I found that the issues comes from channel of the router. Normally, wifi router has many channel could be set with different frequency:
1- 2412 GHz
2- 2417
3- 2422
4- 2427
....
11- 2462
12 - 2467
13 - 2472
14 - 2477 GHz
The HOX work best in Wifi mode G / Channel 14 as I could easily got 54Mb/s. You could try again with other setup of router. Install wifi analyzer app from market and it could help you to find best channel for your HOX.
(remember to update your phone with latest ship rom).

Very poor WiFi signal

Something happened to my mobile phone. WiFi works pretty weird, I have a router with stronger antenna in my home, every single device works great with it (Pentagram Cerberus), gets stable connection even 20 meters away from it. My HTC worked OK (however the signal was very poor too) till now. At the moment it can't even find any WiFi networks while it should at least 2 (mine and neighbour's). It finds my rounter only sometimes (not everytime), when the phone is 10 cm away from the antenna at max (!!!).
What is the cause?
Dragonji said:
Something happened to my mobile phone. WiFi works pretty weird, I have a router with stronger antenna in my home, every single device works great with it (Pentagram Cerberus), gets stable connection even 20 meters away from it. My HTC worked OK (however the signal was very poor too) till now. At the moment it can't even find any WiFi networks while it should at least 2 (mine and neighbour's). It finds my rounter only sometimes (not everytime), when the phone is 10 cm away from the antenna at max (!!!).
What is the cause?
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It could be deterioration over time. The desire is a pretty old phone, and its wifi antenna isn't as good as new.
abaaaabbbb63 said:
It could be deterioration over time. The desire is a pretty old phone, and its wifi antenna isn't as good as new.
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do you inspect what are you saying?
1) router settings has been changed, like N standard, HTC Sense sometimes do not like it
2) update RADIO/clean the phone http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2277365
3) the antenna is broken
I had the same problem. My wifi antenna wore off, and I couldn't find any WI-FI further than 1m. After I replaced it, everything was fine.
trey32 said:
1) router settings has been changed, like N standard, HTC Sense sometimes do not like it
2) update RADIO/clean the phone http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2277365
3) the antenna is broken
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Hey, thanks for your post.
1. It's all the time set to 802.11b+g in my router, it worked quite fine before but the signal was poor too (not as poor as it is now).
2. I've got the newest radio version, about the cleaning, will do in a day or two, thanks!
3. Is the antenna removable so I could buy a new one somewhere? How does it look like?
Dragonji said:
Hey, thanks for your post.
1. It's all the time set to 802.11b+g in my router, it worked quite fine before but the signal was poor too (not as poor as it is now).
2. I've got the newest radio version, about the cleaning, will do in a day or two, thanks!
3. Is the antenna removable so I could buy a new one somewhere? How does it look like?
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1. with b+g my Desire is not connecting, try Mixed mode or G mode with Channel 20Mhz.
2. then check what happens when you connect to Free wi-fi or friend router.
3. i don't think that antenna is wrong, but http://www.formymobile.co.uk/desiredisassembly.php#.UmYabBCDpD8 (4 step probably may be antenna)
I managed to semi-fix my issue, the pins were unable to connect with WiFi antenna. There's also another side of this - MW5 seems to have the crappiest WiFi signal ever, tried other ROMs and the signal is much better on them, however I like MW5 much. I guess this caused by MW5's kernel - 2.6.35.14-cox-oxy - could you propose me any good replacement for it? I guess thalamus ones will do the trick but can't find them anywhere (official site does not work for me).

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