I am happy htc hero user for 2 days. Tmobile (uk) branded. My problems started from the very begining. My phone was able to see my router and even connect with full signal strength but connection was inactive - couldnt do anything, browser giving error like no network connection available. I did my search and found kernel might have some issues with wpa psk coding. Tried all the settings on router (even with open network) - nothing helped. Updated to MoDaCo 3.1 rom and radio updated to newest available (downgraded using goldcard to root). Now i got wireless, can connect but its kinda slow (slower than 3g/hsdpa) and signal is very weak. I cant get signal at all downstairs where htc touch hd and nokia e71 both show ab 50% ?! even if i go to bathroom signal strength drops to 30% while htc touch hd and nokia e71 got ab 70%.
Router is netgear dg834g v5 - virgin.
Any suggestions please. I really like the device and this is only but major drawback.
It has been reported a lot that the Hero does not like some wireless routers. Various suggestions include that they won't connet to those using n rather than b or g. they will say they are connected but whenever you try to download you get an error message. I have 3 routers - 2 work fine and 1 (the newest and most expensive) doesn't.
Try a search of these forums for more details.
peterc10 said:
It has been reported a lot that the Hero does not like some wireless routers. Various suggestions include that they won't connet to those using n rather than b or g. they will say they are connected but whenever you try to download you get an error message. I have 3 routers - 2 work fine and 1 (the newest and most expensive) doesn't.
Try a search of these forums for more details.
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I agree on this one. The signal is better one some routers. I have a great signal all the time when connected to my Linksys WRT54G (old but good one). At work, where we got Cisco SB Wireless-N Gigabit VPN Routers the signal drops quite often...
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Can anybody confirm, that wifi (wlan) roaming, between different access points on the same SSID network and different channels, is working?
I have at home 2 access point (one is on channel 1 and another is on channel 6) and my SGS2 wouldn't switch from one AP to another when I walk in the house. My son has SGS1 and wifi roaming works for him. Before I had Nokia N95 and I had no problems with wifi roaming. The same thing, when I'm at work. We have 3 AP's (all three Cisco) in the house and switching between them doesn't work. In order to switch between AP's I toggle WiFi off then back on again.
I went from KE2 to KE7, now I'm on Litening ROM 1.5, but it's all the same.
I tried everything, I can think off (set AP/router to b/g/n, only b, only g, only n, set different channels, set different security,...tried also flashing different modems on the phone...) but for me wifi roaming is not working...
Any ideas?
Anybody?
Nobody? Realy?
That's realy strange...
Nobody?
I really can't believe.... almost 90 views and no answer...
I'm I the only one with this problem?
While you are moving round your house do you lose connection, i think that your phone will be connected to the strongest signal.
mine loses signal when i leave home and auto picks up an usecured signal down the road.
I don't quite understand, what you mean...
When I walk in my house from basement to the top floor, my SGS2 is always connected to the router in the basement. When I come to the 2nd floor, where I have another Access point, it should switch to that AP, but it wouldn't. Instead, it's still connected to the router in the basement, which (in the Wifi Analyzer) shows -90 db (and the AP on the 2nd floor shows -30). When I switch off Wifi on my SGS2 and then back on, then it will connect to the AP in the 2nd floor. But then, when I walk back, down to the basement, it stays connected to the AP on the 2nd floor, even when I stand next to the router in the basement and Wifi Analyzer shows -28 db on the router.
I can confirm that wifi roaming is not working (at least for me). The phone stays connected to the same old AP all the time even with really poor signal quality.
Unless it loses the connection it doesn't connect to the best AP available.
Tried it on several ROMs (multiple stock roms and now I am on Cognition 1.20), same behaviour every time.
Exactly the same with my SGS2.
I also tried several ROM's, from original KE7 to latest KG3, now I'm on Lite'ning 3.2, and it doesn't work...
That's really strange...
Exact same issue here. Tried three different stock ROMs and a couple of modified ROMs and no change.
I'm even running Cyanogenmod now and the problem persists! How does that work? Does Cyanogen use the Samsung source-code for the Wifi driver?
It's really pissing me off. I basically cant use Wifi on the end of the house I use it most in without cycling the Wifi on/off switch as I pass a different AP on my way into the house to get there!
The most strangest thing is, that nothing can be found on the web about this issue (only one on code.google.com)...
And also here, on XDA, millions of posts, but nothing about wifi roaming...
Are people not using more then one AP/router?
zxcslo said:
The most strangest thing is, that nothing can be found on the web about this issue (only one on code.google.com)...
And also here, on XDA, millions of posts, but nothing about wifi roaming...
Are people not using more then one AP/router?
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Yes, I am sure most people use one AP/router - that is why you are not seeing too many responses. The source code is from the samsung source drop, the drivers were written by broadcom. We at teamhacksung have not modified them for CM7, so the behavior would be the same across all ROMs that are using the drivers unmodified.
So, that means, we are stuck with this, until Samsung fix it?
I still can't believe, that the best phone on the world (at the moment... ) has such a flaw...
What about trying driver for Wifi from SGS1? On SGS1 wifi roaming works beautiful (my son has one and he is laughing at me all the time ).
Is there much difference between SGS1 and SGS2 in the wifi handling?
Wow - this is an annoying issue to have. Yup, i have 2 routers too, and it really sux to be in an 'overlapping' zone and see the SGS2 connect to the router that is further away.
Is there nothing that can be done about this?
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Wow - this is an annoying issue to have. Yup, i have 2 routers too, and it really sux to be in an 'overlapping' zone and see the SGS2 connect to the router that is further away.
Is there nothing that can be done about this?
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I'm very pis..... angry, when I'm in my room/office, and see, that my phone is connected to the AP, which is in my son's room, two floors above me... and I'm sitting 1m away from router...
Yesterday I tried in my office with 3 AP's with my friend's SGS2 with original stock ROM KE2 (he didn't change nothing on the phone).
Result:....... the same as with my SGS2.... wifi roaming not working....
Any news about wifi roaming?
How annoying!
I'm having similar problems at work.
At home connectivity's fine with just 1 AP. Here at work there are about 10 Cisco APs. Every now and then I have to turn WiFi off and on again and I use the original stock rom.
I have exactly the same problem, it always connects to the same AP, not the one with the better signal... very annoying! How difficult is it to fix that?
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I have exactly the same problem, it always connects to the same AP, not the one with the better signal... very annoying! How difficult is it to fix that?
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Which channel does this AP have?
I think it's somewhere in the router settings, but my wrt54g at home with dd-wrt can connect just fine with my Epic 4G Touch running Cyanogen 9 (or any other ICS rom for that matter). The one we have at work (also wrt54g running dd-wrt) won't. I'll reference this thread here: http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=667631
I've changed the "no acknowledgement" setting, changed security modes, disabled the SPI firewall, and even tried factory defaults. But it just doesn't want to connect for some reason, however when I use a gingerbread rom it will connect just fine.
So my question is, if anyone has found a solution as to why ICS phones don't like connecting to DD-WRT routers.
Widespread issue
I don't know if it's any consulation but this issue seems to be affecting a lot of people. << link to thread on sprint's site but I'm new to this forum so can't post it >>. No one on that site mentions dd-wrt but that doesn't mean it isn't a dd-wrt specific issue.
I am also expericing what I think is the same problem. I am using the Sprint Nexus S 4G connecting to my linksys wrt320n router with dd-wrt build 18946M (I upgraded from 14700(ish) to see if that resolved my issue but it didn't).
The issue seems slightly more complicated than a simple inability to connect. Before upgrading to ICS (in stock ginger bread), a few days ago, I would occasionally see my phone attempting to connect to my router and failing. Now with ICS, my device connects, gets an IP address and the router wifi status page shows the device as connected with good signal strength, but alas, there seems to be no network connectivity.
I decided to try CryogenMod 9 and see if the issue was resolved in their build. So I flashed the lastet (update-cm-9-20120411-NIGHTLY-crespo4g-signed.zip) cm9 mod and still experience the same issue.
Any help anyone could provide on this issue would be swell.
Confirmed it is DD-WRT
I came across this thread immediately after upgrading my router from stock to DD-WRT. Immediately the wifi on my phone stopped working. My phone, Nexus S 4g will not even see the network. Conveniently my neighbor has the same router as I do, a Cisco e3000 with a factory rom. I can connect to his network without any problem. Ugh. I love DD-WRT. Maybe I'll try a Tomato firmware... Well at least all my other phones/tablets work. It is specific to the Nexus S 4g.
UPDATE: I believe it is tied to the mixed network mode on my 802.11n router. I tried my old 54G in G only mode and it is working fine with my phone
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UPDATE: I believe it is tied to the mixed network mode on my 802.11n router. I tried my old 54G in G only mode and it is working fine with my phone
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Confirmed. I changed the wireless mode to 2.4Ghz N only and everything works. Mixed Network mode was giving the Nexus S fits.
I just *successfully* got my MotoE/Android5.1 working on DD-WRT after 2 days down (problem started w/new version of DD-WRT on a repeater)
MY WORKING SOLUTION: Turned of "auto" on the channel selection of my 2.4Ghz channel on both primary and repeater routers, turned control channel to 20 on the primary (where the DDWRT offerred a choice) then restarted phone. It was probably something with auto channel on one or both of disparate routers.
Phew. Nasty glitch.
Hi all ,
I met wifi problem with a dozen roms ... i flashed and wipe ... firstly I think is my phone hardware problem , but after I changed the channel of my rounter to channel 1 ... the problem solved...(so far)... I would like to ask if any razr owner have the same problem also ?
Hi mate,
I'm experiencing some WiFi problems with my RAZR and the home Linksys router as well. Haven't tried your solution with Channel 1 yet, though, but I'm gonna go and switch to it right away and report the outcome.
EDIT: Weird... Now my WiFi connection is almost lightning fast and no data losses. Well, thanks, hiha!
Speaking of Linksys routers... a While ago I changed my Linksys WAG120N router from G mode to N mode. Strangely, my RAZR started to reboot randomly. I switched the router back to G, and everything got back to normal.
Funny things are happening, it appears.
My Linksys E4200 is currently in Mixed mode and set on Channel 1 - this appears to be the optimal configuration for work with RAZR.
I also have problems with wifi. Really bad signal at home, like 5 meter away it drops to zero
I tried channel one, still same problem.
I noticed when u hold the phone and cover the right side wifi drops and dies constantly. Just like the iphone 4
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I'm on my 2nd Razr Maxx (first one had a cracked screen), and neither has/had any issues with my Wifi network. My router is on the 2nd floor (FiOS Actiontec, mixed mode G N). I get a good signal throughout my entire house, and have never had a single problem.
I hope ics fixs the wifi signal, its horrible. I am now on 2.3.6
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romdroid. said:
the right side wifi drops and dies constantly. Just like the iphone 4
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this is spot when wifi chip is and probobly antenna
when i have hand in that place signal is much weaker - 20dbm
wifi issue
My wife has a droid 3 and I have a razr. I am running netgear routers
with dd-wrt open source software. Both of these phones were unusable
when we first tried them. I logged into my router and set the qos settings
to enable and both phones now work flawlessly. It seems that the wifi chip
in these phones cycles on and off to conserve power. Without the proper handshaking between the two devices ,when the phone chip shuts down the
buffer overflows in the router and it disconnects because the data
is no longer valid. By eneabling the quality of service setting the router and
the wifi chip use a protocol to prevent this buffer overfllow.
If you search the microsoft knowledge base you will find that vista and win 7
had to have a software upgrade to address this same problem when they
first came out.
Some modems have the qos disabled by default to maintain a higher
throughput.
If you go to the dd-wrt wiki and search for qos it goes into more detail
as to how this works.
Wifi issues here too.
Forget low connectivity, my phone blatantly refuses to even connect to a connection secured with 802. 1x EAP. It is embarrassing to say the least.
I have issues where mobile connection and wifi go blue to grey after a while and no longer work. Possibly what the op refers to.
Also, similar to the iphone4 problems, holding my phone reduces both wifi and mobile data signals drastically. Is this a general device issue?
I am wondering if its something the motorola ics release might address.
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I constantly drop wifi in my house. Is this just my phone or is it an issue? Tried everything and won't stay connected. Network just disappears and then connects 10-15 second later.
I have some issues also. Just bad firmware on LG side
I'd check your wifi modem, I use my LG V10 on numerous different modems, and have no problems with it. It connects to my home, alone with a few places I go to, and even when tje signal is extremely weak. So I'm not seeing the same thing
Also have issues on Wi-Fi
2.4 seems to hold connection longer than 5ghz. Luckily I have unlimited data. I have almost never used WiFi on this device due to this. The problem is both on my Asus RT router and my brother's Netgear Nighthawk router. Both with latest firmware. I'd like to have the option of a stable WiFi connection though.
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2.4 seems to hold connection longer than 5ghz. Luckily I have unlimited data. I have almost never used WiFi on this device due to this. The problem is both on my Asus RT router and my brother's Netgear Nighthawk router. Both with latest firmware. I'd like to have the option of a stable WiFi connection though.
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I've read a few posts that suggest being sure the MAC address of your phone is registered with your router. I've come from 2 galaxies and I do feel the LG is a little more sensitive to a low or fluctuating signal. I "feel" it, but everytime I actually compare, it doesn't seem to be the case
Thanks for the advice
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I've read a few posts that suggest being sure the MAC address of your phone is registered with your router. I've come from 2 galaxies and I do feel the LG is a little more sensitive to a low or fluctuating signal. I "feel" it, but everytime I actually compare, it doesn't seem to be the case
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Tried the registering the Mac on both bands. Tried several device resets. Disconnected all other attached devices from the router. Had much hope for this. But no bueno. Still dropped connection after less the three minutes. Disabled 4G and the other nanny settings for WiFi on the V10. Just hoping for the much needed firmware update (s) for this sweet phone.
Again, thank you for the advice and your time.
So I am on t-mobile, and I also have one of the routers provided to me by t-mobile (I believe it's an Asus) , and I have noticed recently that my wifi calling has been sucking big time. It cuts in and out and says I need to connect to a wifi network, when I am connected. It's like it doesn't notice that there is a wifi connection. Anyone have suggestions as to what might help?
What is your isp bandwidth (down/up)?
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What is your isp bandwidth (down/up)?
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100 down 20 up
WiFi calling on Android is hit and miss. I wish it was as stable as Blackberry UMA calling.
I tried the old turn it on and off again on the modem and router and it seems to have helped quite a bit.
Unfortunately, I have this issue for a quite while. Funny thing wifi calling works smoothly on pixel or essential phone!
How old is the router?
The router's WiFi radio maybe showing its age by being intermittent with its throughput's strength and/or signal's strength.
Try with newer router or access point. If there is a coffee shop with very good throughput strength (this is most important) you can do a test with that hotspot.