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I tried the latest Wireless tether app, it was a dud, not biggie
So then I tried the other stable version (2.06?) and it works.... For about 5-10 minutes. The app gives no errors, the phone gets no errors, the 3G icon doesn't go to 1x, or disappear, or anything like that. it is just... Not sure how exactly to describe it. It just. Doesn't. Work. Its almost like my connection is cut off without knowing.
Cyanogenmod7 has a portable wi-fi hotspot feature unlocked. It sort of works. Then I try downloading a simple 20mb file. It will work up for around 8MB, maybe 15. Then, on the phone, the 3G icon turns white?? I guess that's a warning for the thing that happens next... Ok, so it turns white, then the bars turn white, then, omg, the f-ing 3G icon disappears!
Wtf???!?!!!? Does it go to 1x? Nope. It literally flashes from 3G, to nothing, then says 3G again, then nothing (while staying white) and it will do this until I disconnect from my laptop.
What the f is the meaning of this?? Has Verizon found some way to sniff in on what we're doing and somehow figured out that I'm tethering and cuts off my data until I stop my behavior?
I would also like to point out, I have barely downloaded 2GB of data so far for this month. So, I think that's about average for most people.
Dr. Hax said:
I tried the latest Wireless tether app, it was a dud, not biggie
So then I tried the other stable version (2.06?) and it works.... For about 5-10 minutes. The app gives no errors, the phone gets no errors, the 3G icon doesn't go to 1x, or disappear, or anything like that. it is just... Not sure how exactly to describe it. It just. Doesn't. Work. Its almost like my connection is cut off without knowing.
Cyanogenmod7 has a portable wi-fi hotspot feature unlocked. It sort of works. Then I try downloading a simple 20mb file. It will work up for around 8MB, maybe 15. Then, on the phone, the 3G icon turns white?? I guess that's a warning for the thing that happens next... Ok, so it turns white, then the bars turn white, then, omg, the f-ing 3G icon disappears!
Wtf???!?!!!? Does it go to 1x? Nope. It literally flashes from 3G, to nothing, then says 3G again, then nothing (while staying white) and it will do this until I disconnect from my laptop.
What the f is the meaning of this?? Has Verizon found some way to sniff in on what we're doing and somehow figured out that I'm tethering and cuts off my data until I stop my behavior?
I would also like to point out, I have barely downloaded 2GB of data so far for this month. So, I think that's about average for most people.
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Have you tried the new Kernel?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=905873
I can actually fix this... Maybe... my friend noticed something SUPER useful... when you wifi tether don't plug the phone into a charger... I used to get the 3g just all together disappearing and wireless tether crapping out all the time then I started tether with out it plugged in and now I tether for hours no problem what so ever.
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I can actually fix this... Maybe... my friend noticed something SUPER useful... when you wifi tether don't plug the phone into a charger... I used to get the 3g just all together disappearing and wireless tether crapping out all the time then I started tether with out it plugged in and now I tether for hours no problem what so ever.
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Hours? On a stock battery? Cool if you can but I know I can't...at least not for hour(s). Maybe for an hour or so lol.
Personally I would try and download a different wireless tether app from the market. I had an issue where I would make a connection, it would work for a minute or two and then just drop for no reason, even though both pc and phone said they were still connected. Uninstalled and then downloaded a later version and its been fine ever since.
Change Channel?
Have you tried changing the channel on the tethering app?
Open Wireless Tether App>Menu>Settings>Change Channel.
There's an article floating around on reported success changing the channel - I'll post the link if I find it.
Edit: Found article, channel change, and google vs market version(s) also come into play, as well as screen lock timing.
http://forum.androidcentral.com/verizon-fascinate-rooting-roms-hacks/35016-wireless-tether-4-root-fascinate-3.html
Have any luck getting it working better?
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Gahh Its Lee said:
I can actually fix this... Maybe... my friend noticed something SUPER useful... when you wifi tether don't plug the phone into a charger... I used to get the 3g just all together disappearing and wireless tether crapping out all the time then I started tether with out it plugged in and now I tether for hours no problem what so ever.
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Makes me wonder if the heat from charging, combined with the heat from running the two radios was just too much and the phone shut down the 3g as a precaution?
Maybe because the only time I've had luck charging and tethering was when I left my phone in aa window while it was ten degrees out but it stilled crapped out.
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Rofl, I switched to the super Z Rom, I'm bipolar when it comes to ROMs xD.
You know the stock tethering app (one that comes on factory DIncs), he managed to get it to work without paying (or someone did lol) o_0
Anyway, Same problem -.-
That kernel says for AOSP, so it won't work on Sense roms? :/
I guess... Also the way to get the stock tethering free is just dialing a number and changing some settings.
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Rofl, I switched to the super Z Rom, I'm bipolar when it comes to ROMs xD.
You know the stock tethering app (one that comes on factory DIncs), he managed to get it to work without paying (or someone did lol) o_0
Anyway, Same problem -.-
That kernel says for AOSP, so it won't work on Sense roms? :/
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In my experience, the phone basically freezes while being charged. Whatever the CPU load is just by plugging the thing in, it probably doesn't afford enough CPU cycles for something as timing critical as the wifi operation you are gunning for.
I like WP7 so much. The potential is amazing, and after NoDo it was looking to be my OS of choice. However the fact that I cant keep WiFi running 100% of the time is such a damn shame. I cant receive email notifications, calender sync and no notifications from 3rd party apps like Twitter which makes it just utterly useless. I cant have the phone on charging all the time. It's a WIRELESS device and I use it that way. I dont want a data plan either. It just seems ridiculous. I have WiFi access to 90% of the places I visit everyday.
It's an incredible shame really and I cannot believe that it was intentional. It looks like an oversight on Microsoft's part.
All phones I know turn off Wifi when in sleep/standby. Did you know your Wifi comes back on automatically every X minutes depending on what you set your email/account sync settings to be?
My problem is with the amount of time it takes for the Wifi to connect again. On an iPhone, it takes mere seconds, while on my WP7 device, it takes at least 10-15 seconds on average, and sometimes, it doesn't even connect, and I need to either lock the screen, and unlock again, or go to settings, turn off Wifi and turn it on again.
It would be nice to be able to choose whether or not this happens.
Perhaps at some point we will see a simple app to keep wifi always on.
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All phones I know turn off Wifi when in sleep/standby.
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Not on Android. You get to chose how wi-fi operates while in sleep/standby.
Did you know your Wifi comes back on automatically every X minutes depending on what you set your email/account sync settings to be?
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Even if it is true (I doubt it), it won't work when you have EAS emails like Live, GMail and Exchange email and set to push email. In this situation, an active connection to the mail server must be maintained all the time.
my focus reconnects fairly quickly, usually within a few seconds. Android does allow wireless to stay on, but I bet this can be fixed with a registry mod.
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All phones I know turn off Wifi when in sleep/standby. Did you know your Wifi comes back on automatically every X minutes depending on what you set your email/account sync settings to be?
My problem is with the amount of time it takes for the Wifi to connect again. On an iPhone, it takes mere seconds, while on my WP7 device, it takes at least 10-15 seconds on average, and sometimes, it doesn't even connect, and I need to either lock the screen, and unlock again, or go to settings, turn off Wifi and turn it on again.
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it does not come back on when your screen is off. If my screen is off for two hours, and I get an email in the first 10 min, I will not get any notification of it until I unlock the phone 2 hours later. What an absolute **** up from Microsoft.
An option would be better. Though iPhone sleeps Wifi automatically either...
It's not really a miss by Microsoft.
You want to use your phone in a very specific way and that is different than the vast majority of consumers.
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It's not really a miss by Microsoft.
You want to use your phone in a very specific way and that is different than the vast majority of consumers.
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Yea, it's a phone, not an iPod Touch.
ammarmalik said:
it does not come back on when your screen is off. If my screen is off for two hours, and I get an email in the first 10 min, I will not get any notification of it until I unlock the phone 2 hours later. What an absolute **** up from Microsoft.
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Not really... having Wi-Fi on all the time will flatten your battery literally every day. Smart phones were designed to be combined with data plans (try finding one on a no-data contract).
If your phone is plugged in to the charger the wireless will stay on, but otherwise it turns off when it's not in use.
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Not really... having Wi-Fi on all the time will flatten your battery literally every day.
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Simply not true. As long as you're connected to a WiFi network (not constantly searching for one) WiFi consumes less battery than 3G. I agree that it should definitely be an option at least.
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Not really... having Wi-Fi on all the time will flatten your battery literally every day. Smart phones were designed to be combined with data plans (try finding one on a no-data contract).
If your phone is plugged in to the charger the wireless will stay on, but otherwise it turns off when it's not in use.
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Seriously. If WiFi stayed on all the time the battery life would be horrible, then instead of *****ing about the WiFi issue this guy would be on here whining about battery life. Some people just can't do research before buying and accept something. And I'm pretty damn sure there's a Registry tweak for that in the D & H section.
radeon_x said:
Simply not true. As long as you're connected to a WiFi network (not constantly searching for one) WiFi consumes less battery than 3G. I agree that it should definitely be an option at least.
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I'd LOVE to see your evidence on this. Absolutely LOVE it.
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Seriously. If WiFi stayed on all the time the battery life would be horrible, then instead of *****ing about the WiFi issue this guy would be on here whining about battery life. Some people just can't do research before buying and accept something. And I'm pretty damn sure there's a Registry tweak for that in the D & H section.
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OK First of all I did pretty extensive research. No where was this mentioned. Secondly my HTC Desire lasts me a little over a day with WiFi constantly on. Go figure!
I have wifi enabled constantly and data connection turned off which gives me better battery life than being constantly on 3g.
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Simply not true. As long as you're connected to a WiFi network (not constantly searching for one) WiFi consumes less battery than 3G. I agree that it should definitely be an option at least.
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I'd LOVE to see your evidence on this. Absolutely LOVE it.
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He's right. Problem is, the average consumer isn't stationary, especially here in the US where the majority of people commute, constantly. Therefore, your phone is polling consistently for a WiFi connection, which does eat up the battery. I've said this a few times, this feature isn't there to save battery while you're connected, it's to save battery while you aren't. The main reason it stays on while you're on a charger is because THEN you're stationary, and it knows it'll have a constant connection. If I were to leave my WiFi on all day, and use my phone the way I do, which is every 20 seconds, my battery would be shot in 2-3 hours...
So get an android device. why do people insist on getting phones that are not suited to their needs?
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Not on Android. You get to chose how wi-fi operates while in sleep/standby.
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The default on Android is to turn WiFi off, and while I concerde Android's settings heirarchy is a hot mess... I still haven't found the option to force WiFi to stay on all the time... Unless you mean some third party application or custom ROM, in which case I could care less. That is why some applications like Trillian for Android provide an Option to force WiFi to stay on when the phone goes to sleep/standby. The phone doesn't automatically do it by default, and the option is not well-exposed for the user.
Even if it is true (I doubt it), it won't work when you have EAS emails like Live, GMail and Exchange email and set to push email. In this situation, an active connection to the mail server must be maintained all the time.
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Unless you have no reception, the active connection will be maintained all the time. It works over Data and over WiFi, and ActiveSync can work largely fine even on a decent GPRS (i.e. 1G) or Edge data connection.
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it does not come back on when your screen is off. If my screen is off for two hours, and I get an email in the first 10 min, I will not get any notification of it until I unlock the phone 2 hours later. What an absolute **** up from Microsoft.
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Yes you will. When WiFi goes off, the phone reverts back to using the cellular data connection. When WiFi goes on, it hands off to the WiFi data connection.
You should still get your emails. This has never happened to me and my ISP had tower issues, so I had almost 2 weeks of my internet connection cutting off every 5 minutes (so I didn't even have WiFi on my phone).
My phone's cellular connection is typically 3 bars of GPRS or less.
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Yea, it's a phone, not an iPod Touch.
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I think saying "not a ZuneHD" would be more accurate.
However, Steve Ballmer at the WP7 launch did say "every WP7 device is a ZuneHD."
So you're wrong there...
Really odd problem here - as of a couple days ago, everything was working perfectly with my galaxy nexus. I decided to jump over to CM10 (was on codename android, IIRC), right after I think there were some new commits to AOSP.
From here on out, my phone would never enter deep sleep when connected to wifi. Any wifi hotspot - the ones I've been using, a hotspot I created from my desktop - the icon would show the phone constant receiving data via wifi. Using better battery stats, over about 5 hours on my desk, 4.5hrs were spent with a WLAN_RX_WAKE kernel wakelock with my phone sitting at 350MHz instead of deep sleep for that time.
I tried a bunch of different kernels (stock CM10, franco, imoseyon, etc) both new and old versions, but the problem was still there. I tried clean flashing a rom, and only installing better battery stats. Same thing with all kernels.
Factory restored google stock images to BOTH ICS and JB. I still have the problem. Tried disabling google location services. No dice. Tried a couple basebands, but I'm pretty sure that only affects cell/data performance, right?
I honestly have no idea what is going on. I've been on this hotspot (campus wifi) for months now without a problem, and now this. Some threads say that this is caused by DHCP requests from the router, but why would I have not seen this until now? My idle drain was at about 1-2% per hour before this, now it is close to 10-15%.
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Really odd problem here - as of a couple days ago, everything was working perfectly with my galaxy nexus. I decided to jump over to CM10 (was on codename android, IIRC), right after I think there were some new commits to AOSP.
From here on out, my phone would never enter deep sleep when connected to wifi. Any wifi hotspot - the ones I've been using, a hotspot I created from my desktop - the icon would show the phone constant receiving data via wifi. Using better battery stats, over about 5 hours on my desk, 4.5hrs were spent with a WLAN_RX_WAKE kernel wakelock with my phone sitting at 350MHz instead of deep sleep for that time.
I tried a bunch of different kernels (stock CM10, franco, imoseyon, etc) both new and old versions, but the problem was still there. I tried clean flashing a rom, and only installing better battery stats. Same thing with all kernels.
Factory restored google stock images to BOTH ICS and JB. I still have the problem. Tried disabling google location services. No dice. Tried a couple basebands, but I'm pretty sure that only affects cell/data performance, right?
I honestly have no idea what is going on. I've been on this hotspot (campus wifi) for months now without a problem, and now this. Some threads say that this is caused by DHCP requests from the router, but why would I have not seen this until now? My idle drain was at about 1-2% per hour before this, now it is close to 10-15%.
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This is literally the EXACT SAME problem I'm having...I wish someone could properly explain why this is happening and how to fix it.
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Not sure if you've tried this and it helps but maybe you can try Network Log or Shark from the store to diagnose this?
Network Log doesn't show up with anything, so the wakelock shouldn't be caused by a rogue app.
Shark, on the other hand, after about 10 seconds of logging, netted me about 300 DHCPv6 'solicit XID' requests. There a bunch of different sources from these requests, they just seem to be other devices on the network pinging my phone to see if it's a DHCPv6 server...?
I've seen some suggestions on other forums to mess around with the router settings, which I can't do because it's campus internet.
Since you've tinkered with rom/kernels etc on phone without any seeming change, it's feasible that there's been some change recently on the other side of the equation namely the network settings of your campus wifi? Maybe your University's tech department has implemented something new etc? Have you tried asking others with wifi enabled phones if they are experiencing this as well?
Found this here (pretty sure you've come across this if you've been googling abt this issue but posting anyways)
"Another more elaborate solution if you rely on that network a lot, is to purchase a wireless bridge or gaming adapter and connect it to your apartment wifi and then connect your own wifi router to that. Then the gaming adapter would get the dhcp IP from your apartment (so who cares if it is renewing it constantly) and your router would treat the connection just as if you were connected directly to an internet connection. Then configure your router for static IP addresses or if your router does not cause issues with DHCP then you don't need static IPs."
from http://rootzwiki.com/topic/16134-kernel-wakelock-wlan-rx-wake/
I know I had an issue with some wlan rx wakelock thing last year but I cannot for the life of me remember how I got rid of it or what changed
Hmm, seems like an okay solution but my friend's devices don't seem to show the same symptom, and since I roam campus alot, a wifi extender wouldn't be ideal.
Bump. Any other ideas?
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I am seriously ripping my hair out from this goddamn wakelock ****.
I wake up at 9am and have to charge my phone by 4pm because it's at 16% with 40 minutes of screen on time. Seriously? This is a JOKE.
I've checked with BetterBatteryStats and CPU Spy. Both confirm the phone keeps sitting at 350MHz when it's supposed to be sleeping, as well as wlan_rx_wake keeping the phone awake.
I've set my phone to receive a static IP from my router (DIR-655) but it doesn't help. I really don't know WHAT to do. I've downloaded shark to my phone, sniffed packets, but haven't been able to get anything useful out of it since there is a LOT to sift through (unless you know what you're looking for - which I don't).
This is by far the worst bug/issue I have ever encountered with my phone and it is seriously getting on my nerves. I will be forever greatful to anyone who can help me pinpoint the issue and make it stop.
Also, i REFUSE to "go buy a new router" as it's bull****. This is a bug people experience only sometimes it seems and NO ONE has a fix for it. I read somewhere about a fix being implemented in some kernels but they were for other phones, never found anything like it for the GNex. If anyone knows anything about a fix like that, please show me the way.
I already checked for rogue apps, there were none keeping wifi awake. I've even tried with a totally stock, newly flashed phone with stock kernel and everything. NO extra apps installed except shark, CPU spy and betterbatterystats sideloaded. I didn't even input my GMail to stop the syncing. It STILL KEPT MY GODDAMN PHONE AWAKE.
I am SERIOUSLY desperate. Considering just selling my phone and opting for something else if this continues, it totally cripples everything.
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turn on WiFi, Bluetooth, and GPS, for about 30seconds, then turn them off. put your phone to sleep, then check if you're going into deep sleep. CPU spy is a good app to check if your hitting deep sleep.
Change wireless network encryption? Wpa2, tkip+aes, aes only, tkip only? Wpa?
Change wifi channel?
Edit: scratch that. Try disabling 5ghz band.
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I had a similar issue, it turned out it was Dropbox LANSync in my home LAN. I used an experimental forum build on my PC, so it could be this, but in the end I turned LANSync off, since Android doesn't make use of it anyway.
So try this if you have Dropbox running on your network clients.
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turn on WiFi, Bluetooth, and GPS, for about 30seconds, then turn them off. put your phone to sleep, then check if you're going into deep sleep. CPU spy is a good app to check if your hitting deep sleep.
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At the moment I am fiddling with putting my router into different security configurations, per the quote below. But I will give your idea a try as well.
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Change wireless network encryption? Wpa2, tkip+aes, aes only, tkip only? Wpa?
Change wifi channel?
Edit: scratch that. Try disabling 5ghz band.
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5GHz band? Where do I disable this, the phone or the router? My router chooses channel automatically and is set to Auto 20MHz/40MHz channel width.
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I had a similar issue, it turned out it was Dropbox LANSync in my home LAN. I used an experimental forum build on my PC, so it could be this, but in the end I turned LANSync off, since Android doesn't make use of it anyway.
So try this if you have Dropbox running on your network clients.
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I don't have DropBox on my phone or on any of my PC's
A quick update, I just tried all the suggestions in the quotes in my previous post but to no avail, still getting the wake locks. I'm seriously going crazy.
Turning wifi off did let the phone sleep, but that was expected as the wake lock is related to wifi. Nothing else has worked. NOTHING.
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EddieN said:
A quick update, I just tried all the suggestions in the quotes in my previous post but to no avail, still getting the wake locks. I'm seriously going crazy.
Turning wifi off did let the phone sleep, but that was expected as the wake lock is related to wifi. Nothing else has worked. NOTHING.
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This issue appeared again for me, it obviously also helps to disable the NETBIOS on your Windows PC network adapter. There are guides for that online. Also get the "Network Log" app in the Play Store, it shows the traffic so you can see which one's are for the kernel (wlan_rx_wake is a kernel wakelock).
Also uPNP feature in router can cause all kind of weird behavior. Better block it from router's firewall.
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What baffles me the most is that all of this shouldn't be needed. I shouldn't have to disable netbios and do things to OTHER devices just so my phone sleeps. This is a jellybean issue imo, I never had these problems on ICS.
The experiments continue, updates incoming.
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I also suspect the major issue was that my wifi channel was the same as the ones around me. When I changed it, the wlan wakelocks went down significantly.
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EddieN said:
At the moment I am fiddling with putting my router into different security configurations, per the quote below. But I will give your idea a try as well.
5GHz band? Where do I disable this, the phone or the router? My router chooses channel automatically and is set to Auto 20MHz/40MHz channel width.
I don't have DropBox on my phone or on any of my PC's
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5 Ghz band is disabled when you enter Wi - Fi - advanced - Wi - Fi frequency band ... It's set to auto by default, you try either 2.4 or 5 ghz on manual and check if that helps ( incase you didnt already )
Does anyone have any news about this issue? I have the same problem and I can't find the solution. I made several test without any good results.
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Does anyone have any news about this issue? I have the same problem and I can't find the solution. I made several test without any good results.
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Change the Wifi channel.
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I have an issue where my Wi-Fi will stay connected but lose communication (icons are grey). Now the odd part is that this only really happens with my home wireless router (its a wireless N router). When I go back to my parents for a weekend or something (i.e this past weekend was thanksgiving) and use their wireless (wireless G) my phone stays connected AND the data stays working the entire time. A good example is that if I'm at home connect to my wireless network and I go to bed my phone will lose internet at some point during the night (sometimes it can lose it after just a few minutes) so when I wake up in the morning and turn my screen on (which always causes the Wi-Fi to communicate again) I will get a bunch of emails/whatsapps, etc. At my parents place I go to bed and the emails/messages are received right when they are sent and I will hear them (if my phone is not on silent).
The sleeping part isnt that big of an issue but I use my phone for work connected to an exchange server and it will quite often either sit in my pocket for long periods or sit on my coffee table at home without being used. Its frustrating when I think its a slow day and all is well then I turn on the screen of my phone and emails come flooding in
Stock rom and kernel??
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Stock rom and kernel??
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Oh sorry, I should have specified. This is the case with almost any ROM (stock or not) that I use. I suspect its an issue with the wireless settings in my router though I'm not sure which ones it could be. I've been playing around with it a bit lately to see if anything helps but so far no success. I have another wireless N router sitting around that I may throw in to try out as a test but just thought I'd see if anyone else has this issue at all as it would affect anything that uses data (whatsapp, etc.)
I imagine it definitely has to do with either your router (some just don't work well), connection, or some router setting.
Try toggling 'Avoid Poor Connections' off.
Settings > WiFi > Advanced.
If you have an extra router a highly recommend trying it out and seeing what happens. I have owned several routers that simply refused to work well with specific gadgets, but other gadgets functioned tremendously well.
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I have the same problem, or eventi worse.
Yesterday i was using my phone connected to my university wifi and even if i was using Tapatalk and the screen was on it didn't receive whatsapp messages. Only when i came home and I've go back to mobile data i received them.
I dont want to jinx it or speak too soon but it seems so far that simply changing the preamble length from Long (default on my home router) to short has made things much better. Last night my phone continued working throughout the night (its happened before so I'm not calling it solved yet). I also notice my phone has rarely been losing connection over the last 2 days as well.
Hopefully thats got it!
Recently I've been having problems with Wi-Fi. My phone and nexus 7. They both stay on blue bars all the time claiming they're connected to Google servers. And it'll work good for about 20 seconds and then I'll have no connection for about a minute. Bars will stay blue like its connected and WiFi show that it's fill signal but pages won't load, apps will timeout and YouTube videos won't stream. Makes it impossible to download any Roms or apps at times. This just recently started happening. Videos will stream good for maybe 2 minutes tops. Then pause, after a minute Wi-Fi will stay streaming and going again by itself and stream. I haven't changed my router or is settings. I have static ip's assigned too. All other computers work just fine for internet. Never a problem.
I've tried changing kernels, Roms, complete wipes and reinstalls. Rebooted the router. Nothing fixes it. I'm getting really frustrated. I'm at the point where I'm going trio go buy a new router just cause I want to use 5ghz. Anyways, any suggestions to solve this?
There may be an error in aosp code that can cause wifi instability: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=35146886&postcount=5128
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There may be an error in aosp code that can cause wifi instability: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=35146886&postcount=5128
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Weird how it affects just my device in an entire thread with a ton of people using the rom and same kernel.
I went and picked up a new router. I'll see if that fixes it. Thanks for the input though. I appreciate it.
Didn't help with new router. My WiFi still cutting out like crazy on Franco kernel. Almost as soon as I turn off screen. But its not turning WiFi off. Just goes into some sort of state where nothing comes through. When screen on everything is fine though now.
In Wifi settings, you could try unchecking "Avoid Poor Connections" and see if that helps.
Also do you have any other devices at home on the same wifi network - do they experience the same issues, I know where I am if we get a lot of rain, it causes intermittent internet slowdowns, I had similar issues and after testing other devices found this to be my problem not my Wifi.
Also, have you got any cordless phones in the house that might run on the same frequency?
I still have an issue keeping wifi at 100% d/l when the phone is asleep, even though the setting is for always on. It must be a hardware thing for me because every rom I've tried from ICS to the latest JB exhibit the same issue. If I am in a desperate need to d/l a large file on my phone, I just temporarily change the screen display off timer to 10 minutes of so so the wifi will stay at max d/l speed.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ratcash.wifiperf
Could try this I use on my gnex for voip
Edit I am on a galaxy nexus forum
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Ya avoid poor connections is unchecked. And wifi optimization is unchecked. I've tried putting my router on full auto, tried setting static ip addresses for everything. Changing from wireless n to wireless g. Changing security to off as well. Using the 5ghz band instead of 2.4. The nexus 7 is working perfectly fine with the new router. But my galaxy nexus is totally unreliable. Weird is that it just started happening within past couple weeks. And actually, it was good for the first day or so after new router. I can confirm all other wifi devices jn the house work just fine without any hiccups. I've never had a problem with other devices. No dropouts or anything. It's really puzzling me!
One thing I found weird, if I disable wmm on my router, my nexus 7 and galaxy nexus will not connect. Anyone else get this?
I hope you also have your router firmware completely up to date.
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I hope you also have your router firmware completely up to date.
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Ya my router auto updates itself. Its a Cisco EA6500 in case your wondering and is helpful.
I use my wifi at work and it's very unreliable. At times going into an endless disconnect/reconnect loop. Sometimes restarting the wifi helps or putting it in and out of airplane mode. Other times nothing helps except a reboot of my phone. Some apps may make the issue worse. I don't think there is a fix and waiting for google to fix the flaw a user pointed out earlier.
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I use my wifi at work and it's very unreliable. At times going into an endless disconnect/reconnect loop. Sometimes restarting the wifi helps or putting it in and out of airplane mode. Other times nothing helps except a reboot of my phone. Some apps may make the issue worse. I don't think there is a fix and waiting for google to fix the flaw a user pointed out earlier.
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Possibly a 4.2 issue. But its not affecting everyone it seems. But i see that there is a huge thread about this at the google site. Not an isolated case
When you say you set a static ip, you set one from the router, have you tried setting a static ip on the phones wifi advanced options as well?
Have you tried different radios?
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Yup has happened to me mine connects to the net but has grey bars and doesn't open any websites and apps dont connect to the net a reboot solves the problem
chrisinsocalif said:
When you say you set a static ip, you set one from the router, have you tried setting a static ip on the phones wifi advanced options as well?
Have you tried different radios?
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I set static on both router and the phone. I've tried all the north american radios. None of the euro ones. no effect. Sticking to the latest North American radio for now. I've managed to make it work sorta with CM10.1 with stock kernel on completely fresh install. It works, but the down arrow on the Wi-Fi icon stays lit almost 100% of the time. no idea why, only other device that was on all yesterday was the nexus 7, and that was on the 2.4ghz and phone the 5ghz. Huge wlan_rx_wake!
It's likely this:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=40065&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20Stars&start=1000
See if that sounds about right and if so, you'll just have to wait for a Google Patch.
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It's likely this:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=40065&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20Stars&start=1000
See if that sounds about right and if so, you'll just have to wait for a Google Patch.
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Yeah. Just don't understand how so few here experience this. And only my phone, not my nexus 7 gets this.
M3drvr said:
Yeah. Just don't understand how so few here experience this. And only my phone, not my nexus 7 gets this.
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When i first updated to 4.2, I was getting crazy dropouts. After unchecking the Wi-fi optimization, it was more consistent but still drops out frequently while at work. There is a known bug with the wifi driver that hasn't been addressed for years, but still trying to find the original articles describing the problems.
It seems you are having tons of issues, worse than most.
If you are having a problems suggested on this site, maybe this can help.
http://goo.gl/voSxF
It affects me as well. Completely random. Everything appears fine except that instead of blue, the icons are grey. Turning off wifi and turning it back on fixes it.
In the link above, there is a comment where you can submit more info for Google to help solving the problem:
http://support.google.com/nexus/bin/request.py?contact_type=bugreport&src=7679593
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When i first updated to 4.2, I was getting crazy dropouts. After unchecking the Wi-fi optimization, it was more consistent but still drops out frequently while at work. There is a known bug with the wifi driver that hasn't been addressed for years, but still trying to find the original articles describing the problems.
It seems you are having tons of issues, worse than most.
If you are having a problems suggested on this site, maybe this can help.
http://goo.gl/voSxF
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the weird thing is, it just started happening about 2 weeks ago. It was perfectly fine up until then. Never had an issue with Wi-Fi. If this don't work i might try doing an entire wipe right back to stock and locking bootloader.