Just got HD2
My only problem is (and it's a major one) is that the wifi reception is very poor!
If i'm further than 10 feet away from my router i cannot get any worthwhile reception, no other phone in the house has this problem iphone and nokia E71,
is there an app to boost reception? If not i will sell phone as it's not use without wifi throughout entire house.
thanks
strange i can use wifi at the bottom of my garden which is very long have you tried a custom rom these usually have vast improvements
Just out of interest, what router do you have?
I do have cookies home tab, but it wasn't very good before i installed that so i don't think that has anything to do with it. And i'm certainly not keeping the phone if i have to unistall that
I use a dlink router, but iphone and nokia E71 have no problems. I've taken the metal back off the phone and that seems to help a bit but i'm still on one bar 15 feet away from router
jessicasdad said:
I do have cookies home tab, but it wasn't very good before i installed that so i don't think that has anything to do with it. And i'm certainly not keeping the phone if i have to unistall that
I use a dlink router, but iphone and nokia E71 have no problems. I've taken the metal back off the phone and that seems to help a bit but i'm still on one bar 15 feet away from router
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Does it affect the speed of the connection noticeably in relation to the meter? Mine fluctuates but the connection is always rock solid, even in the garden.
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Does it affect the speed of the connection noticeably in relation to the meter? Mine fluctuates but the connection is always rock solid, even in the garden.
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All i know is that i have 5 bars when i stand 6 feet from the router, if i go into the next room 15 feet i have 1 bar
It's now up for sale mint, nearly new, accessories, warranty card etc
There are lots of wifi signals that i'm picking up, BT openzone etc;
I've noticed that when i reboot my HD2 sometimes it tries to connect to BT openzone instead of my own network
This is something that my iphone and E71 never do, is there anyway with the HD2 that i can tell it to connect to my own network only??? this might help yes?
if you're using the Sense homescreen, go to the Settings tab and choose "Wireless controls". the comm manager should open up. the softkey on the left should be "Settings"...press that and choose "Wireless LAN". now the Wireless LAN settings should open. go to the "Power Mode" tab and see if it is set to "Best Battery"...if so, try moving the slider to the left, all the way to "Best Performance", and see if that gives you better reception.
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if you're using the Sense homescreen, go to the Settings tab and choose "Wireless controls". the comm manager should open up. the softkey on the left should be "Settings"...press that and choose "Wireless LAN". now the Wireless LAN settings should open. go to the "Power Mode" tab and see if it is set to "Best Battery"...if so, try moving the slider to the left, all the way to "Best Performance", and see if that gives you better reception.
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Already done that mate! otherwise it's even worse
install bsb tweaks and enable wifi n mode
it should work correctly without all those tips and tweaks..
any other hd2 in your neighborhood to test?
DN41
pakure said:
install bsb tweaks and enable wifi n mode
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You could be my hero, working great at the moment, thanks
What does that do exactly?
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You could be my hero, working great at the moment, thanks
What does that do exactly?
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Wifi N mode aka 802.11n is the fastest wifi protocol at the moment. HTC disabled it due to battery drain.
Apparently enabling it will enhance performance, even if the network router is only B/G compatible.
I think...
pakure said:
install bsb tweaks and enable wifi n mode
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good advice
jonny68 said:
good advice
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that's what we are all here for, isn't it.
hey, and if you dont want to install bsb tweaks, here is the cab (only 1 kb) from the stickies
pakure said:
that's what we are all here for, isn't it.
hey, and if you dont want to install bsb tweaks, here is the cab (only 1 kb) from the stickies
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Iv'e sold it, so it doesn't matter Have a nice life!
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Hoping someone has a solution. My wifi keeps disconnecting/reconnecting. I'm running TNT 3.1.1. Also the signal is really low even though I'm next to the router. I've searched around, but can't seem to find an answer.
Thanks.
Right there with you on this one. I can't get more then 10 feet from my router before I lose my connection. Very annoying to say the least. I wonder if this is software or hardware.
I have the same and I am using vegan b3. I don't recall having this issue while using tnt 2.2. Or the stock. Anyways, I have noticed that it only happens when I am on a page more than a few mins such as reading an article, etc. If I am watching movie(flash) or playing online game, it is fine. I am suspecting it has something to do with the battery management.
I'm running stock 3389 with GApps.
I get full signal when I'm by my router and around my apt. I have a Linksys WRT610N with DDWRT firmware. It's running on a 2.4Ghz full N radio. I used a wifi app called Wifi Analyzer on my phone to find the best channel to set the router to, as in apts. you know many people are using the same channel and this can lead to signal loss on your devices.
Anyway, it sounds like you just need to find a less crowded channel maybe, I don't THINK it's the device. Are you using G or N or both? When I was using the router's 2.4Ghz in G/N mode I saw a slight signal drop throughout the place which is essentially why I switched to pure N and then just set up a legacy network on another router for wifi G stuff.
I had this problem not with my non-existant G tablet, but my latop, cell and other wifi connecting devices.
I changed the chane l# my wifi was broadcasting on and it fixed it. Maybe you guys can try that.
In my case, it is not a signal issue since I always have full bar and there is not many wifi hotspots around my house. I am used to it now and when I see the wifi icon is gone, I just click the location of the wifi icon, and within a sec or two, the wifi icon will appear. I will flash to tnt. 3.1 soon, hopefully the problem will,disappear.
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I have the same and I am using vegan b3. I don't recall having this issue while using tnt 2.2. Or the stock. Anyways, I have noticed that it only happens when I am on a page more than a few mins such as reading an article, etc. If I am watching movie(flash) or playing online game, it is fine. I am suspecting it has something to do with the battery management.
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I havent used VegaN - is there any setting that could possibly be turning off wifi when the system is idling? In phones there's a wifi setting that turns it off after a certain time idle. I know it's unlikely but just checking all the bases.
Yea +1 on this problem
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I havent used VegaN - is there any setting that could possibly be turning off wifi when the system is idling? In phones there's a wifi setting that turns it off after a certain time idle. I know it's unlikely but just checking all the bases.
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This appears to be the case. If so, it completely ignores my WiFi Sleep Policy, which I have set at "Never".
I have the problem whether stock ROM or not. Love the tablet, but this is frustrating.
My experience is that the device is finicky with some routers. I actually have two to test with, and early on one would work fine and the other would fail constantly.
Some suggestions, for testing:
- Change the channel (already suggested)
- Turn off all security to see if that works better (again, just for testing)
- If it's an N Router, change it to G only.
if one of these changes "fixes" it, at least you know what direction to look in.
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My experience is that the device is finicky with some routers. I actually have two to test with, and early on one would work fine and the other would fail constantly.
Some suggestions, for testing:
- Change the channel (already suggested)
- Turn off all security to see if that works better (again, just for testing)
- If it's an N Router, change it to G only.
if one of these changes "fixes" it, at least you know what direction to look in.
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It's also very sensitive to interference I think. My neighbors have dozens of APs on every Inglewood channel available, and the tablet gets thoroughly confused. It seems to like G a lot better than N in this situation (makes sense, N in general is more interference prone than b/g). In another place with only a single high power B/G/N router visible at all (nice thick concrete walled building), it's only done the disconnect/reconnect loop to me once in several days.
Time to do some disassembling and see if there's room for a better antenna, but I'm not prepared to rule out a broken driver just yet. Especially with all the other sleep/suspend problems we have. Or break out the buckets of RF blocking paint...
Thanks Roebeet. I tried a couple things. Assigned a static IP to the tablet which seems to have stabilized the signal, it doesn't drop out as much, but reception was still only 1-2 bars.
Just for the sake of it, I also reset the router back to factory default to see what would happen. Funny enough, the signal reception on the tablet improved from 1-2 bars to 3-4 bars, but once I re-entered my settings it fell back.
I still can't connect if SSID is hidden. I'm using a Dlink DGL 4300.
What routers are you guys using? Especially if you can get it to connect to a hidden SSID.
I had this problem too, signal was always fine though. After coming out of idle i would notice the WiFi is off. checking it in settings could watch it turn on start searching and then in three seconds the WiFi would turn off and then on and searching again, and continue the cycle. Not sure what is causing that, but in the WiFi setting i set the WiFi to never turn off, even if the device is sleeping and Ive never had the problem yet.
This just started with mine too (running 3389 and Enhancement Pack). I went to my router and switched channels and switched to 802.11 G Only, and it's up and running again. Strange that it worked really well for the first 12 hours or so with no changes to my router. Let's hope it doesn't happen again.
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I have the problem whether stock ROM or not. Love the tablet, but this is frustrating.
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I have the same problems. The only way I worked around it was by turning airplane mode off then either turning off my router or moving away from any wifi signal. Might try changing the channel... when my internet comes back on(adhoc tethering atm)
Looks like its my router. I took tablet to a friends house and it gets a strong reception.
I know it sounds weired but try to clean Market application's cache.
It works in my case. Or (if it is some kind of memory issue) cache for all other apps.
I have noticed that it is not that bad of a problem and have heard that it is a "feature" of the gtab, if anyone can elaborate on this? There has got to be a driver/kernal that can override and keep the wifi on. Any older gtab users every remember this as a problem? If so, what did you do about it?
In my case, have had gtab for about a week. Using factory settings initially, everything seemed to work fine. Then it started randomly dropping wifi.
couldn't figure if it was hardware or software. Talked to customer service.
Restored tablet to factory specs--worked fine. Started loading on some extras, checking wifi after each load. Bingo--when I loaded Adobe flash player, wifi started kicking off.
Have tried it with several versions (10.2, 10.4)--same results. Not sure what to try next.
Ok, so I do not have internet at my house so my phone is my primary internet source via Wired Tether 1.4. Normally I can stay connected to data(3G) for about 30 to 45 minutes and then it will just shut off. Then when it shuts off I just pull down the notification bar and put it in airplane mode for a second or two then data restarts fine. I use my data heavyish if you want to say. (Youtube, XDA, Facebook, email and everything else you normally do) My signal is a solid 2 bars. I have tried *228 opt 1&2 and also swapping radios. Did not seem to help. Could be signal but just not to sure considering I can DL around 1mb/s
If it makes a difference I'm using Shed's 2.0 GSB w/2.42.01.04.27 radio and conaps unreleased kernel which generaly I keep oc'd at 729
It isn't a giant issue, its just kinda annoying.
Also I've attached the speedtest.net results for proof of speed.
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Ok, so I do not have internet at my house so my phone is my primary internet source via Wired Tether 1.4. Normally I can stay connected to data(3G) for about 30 to 45 minutes and then it will just shut off. Then when it shuts off I just pull down the notification bar and put it in airplane mode for a second or two then data restarts fine. I use my data heavyish if you want to say. (Youtube, XDA, Facebook, email and everything else you normally do) My signal is a solid 2 bars. I have tried *228 opt 1&2 and also swapping radios. Did not seem to help. Could be signal but just not to sure considering I can DL around 1mb/s
If it makes a difference I'm using Shed's 2.0 GSB w/2.42.01.04.27 radio and conaps unreleased kernel which generaly I keep oc'd at 729
It isn't a giant issue, its just kinda annoying.
Also I've attached the speedtest.net results for proof of speed.
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I have a lot of experience with tethering as it was my only home internet for about six months until several weeks ago, finally (thank the lords of cobol - ugh, did I say that).
I have tried just about every snake oil imaginable to get tethering to work better, including switching back and forth from wifi to wired tethering. Sometimes it seemed for a while that one (usually WIFI) would work better than the other, but that would only last so long, too.
The longest I hardly ever had a problem with it continuously connected was actually about a week straight if I remember correctly. That was the best I ever had. The worse was disconnects every few minutes, or just as soon as I continued interrupted downloads after re-tethering.
My favorite and most common snake oil was using an app called APN OnOff to reset the APN to default. For practical purposes, it probably effectively did the same thing as you using Airplane mode, which I thought I had tried but I didn't think it worked as well for me, or even at all. Even after using APN OnOff, most of the time I had to reboot as well.
I had tried one without the other and it seemed like it required both for my tethering to work "reliably" again. I use that term loosely, of course.
I was using over 30GB per month data at my highest tethering use, and it was probably only that "low" because of the frustration and difficulty in depending on it.
I download A LOT so it really sucked at times, but it was better than dial up...sometimes.
I will say that one definite improvement was using Cyanogen Mod (v6.x and above) based ROMs which have support for built in WIFI tethering widget and using apps off the internet to use CM's built in wired tethering as well. These are implemented differently than the "old" Wired and Wireless tethering for root apps.
I highly recommend you explore them. One major difference, for me (and I tethered to two computers, my own and my girlfriends) was just how fast even the wired tethering would connect to the computer once I started it, versus wired tethering for root. Wireless tethering also turned on and off and actually connected much faster.
If you've never wireless tethered before, in my experience if you're going to depend on it at home constantly like I did, I kept it plugged in constantly anyway because it used a LOT of battery, and I also took the battery cover out (besides taking the Eris out of my body glove case I use) and kept a fan blowing on it to keep it's temperature down.
If you do decide to try this way, like I said, CM6.x+ includes "notification power widgets", which are widgets built into the pull down notification bar. They include a WIFI tethering widget but for some reason not a wired one. There is an app on the market called "Tethering Widget", though, which has both single widgets and widgets for both functions, in case you decide to try it's tethering ability.
Edit: I'm half asleep so forgive me for not paying attention that you're already on a CM7 ROM just like me, much less that I know you've been active in the GSB thread recently.
Lol sleep is a must for most if us. Idk, like I said its not that big a deal. Its just rather annoying. Expecially when trying to download junk. I'm familiar with wireless tether for root and my thoughts are that is a useful app when "out and about". But for home use I don't prefer it at all do to the heat and it seems that over a session of use it looses its speed. Almost as if its idling down. That is majorly why I prefer wired tether. Cool battery and it maintains speed. Idk. I guess it could also be some code somewhere that prevents extended periods of use OR it could be just the limitations of the phones hardware. Might have to run logcat and see if I can get anything to come up on the disconnect. Can wt and lg be ran at the same time? Guess we'll see.
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Lol sleep is a must for most if us. Idk, like I said its not that big a deal. Its just rather annoying. Expecially when trying to download junk. I'm familiar with wireless tether for root and my thoughts are that is a useful app when "out and about". But for home use I don't prefer it at all do to the heat and it seems that over a session of use it looses its speed. Almost as if its idling down. That is majorly why I prefer wired tether. Cool battery and it maintains speed. Idk. I guess it could also be some code somewhere that prevents extended periods of use OR it could be just the limitations of the phones hardware. Might have to run logcat and see if I can get anything to come up on the disconnect. Can wt and lg be ran at the same time? Guess we'll see.
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What's lg? If you're talking about two different methods of tethering, no. You can have as many ways of tethering installed at the same time, but you'll only be able to actually use one of the ways at a time. Let me know if you try Gingerbread/CM7's native tethering instead of the "for root" apps and if it treats you any better, as it did me in general.
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Sorry I meant LC. Logcat. I'm gonna run Logcat and wired tether and see if I can get something when 3G drops.
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Sorry I meant LC. Logcat. I'm gonna run Logcat and wired tether and see if I can get something when 3G drops.
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I hope you have luck finding out something useful!
Just thought I'd share an issue that has followed me from 3.5 roms on the Dinc to 3.5/6 roms on the Rezound including both ics and gb roms. That issue is- Streaming music/radio apps when on wifi leads to drops/buffers/resumes, etc. I had hoped this was a hardware limitation of the Inc that couldn't quite keep up with the beefiness of sense 3.5-- but now it's confirmed- the same dang thing happens on 3.5/6 even with this sweet hardware. Now- there are workarounds. The stream will not drop in and out if:
A. Phone is charging
B. Enable "Best Wi-Fi Performance" under advanced wifi settings.. Problem with this is it's not a setting you want to leave on all the time cause it's a real battery killer
C. Just ditch wifi all together and use 3g/4g for your streaming- not a prob if you're on unl data
Hope this can help anyone out who's been frustrated by streaming drops on wifi. I really believe this to be a htc software issue- now that it has followed me to a different phone.
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Just thought I'd share an issue that has followed me from 3.5 roms on the Dinc to 3.5/6 roms on the Rezound including both ics and gb roms. That issue is- Streaming music/radio apps when on wifi leads to drops/buffers/resumes, etc. I had hoped this was a hardware limitation of the Inc that couldn't quite keep up with the beefiness of sense 3.5-- but now it's confirmed- the same dang thing happens on 3.5/6 even with this sweet hardware. Now- there are workarounds. The stream will not drop in and out if:
A. Phone is charging
B. Enable "Best Wi-Fi Performance" under advanced wifi settings.. Problem with this is it's not a setting you want to leave on all the time cause it's a real battery killer
C. Just ditch wifi all together and use 3g/4g for your streaming- not a prob if you're on unl data
Hope this can help anyone out who's been frustrated by streaming drops on wifi. I really believe this to be a htc software issue- now that it has followed me to a different phone.
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download wifi stay alive from the market and set it to always leave wifi on. That usually helps me. Wifi by default likes to turn off after the screen has been off a while (usually 15min), then it goes back over to data.
Interesting- I'll give it a shot. I see wifi keep alive in the market- is that what you meant?
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Interesting- I'll give it a shot. I see wifi keep alive in the market- is that what you meant?
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yeah that one. I run it anytime my phone starts dropping streaming with the screen off and set it to always on even if it already says it. Seems to help.
Well- it was worth a shot.. D/l'd - set to always on- and within 5 minutes of starting back my radio station with tune-in-radio pro- it was dropping again. Thx for the suggestion though.
Turned on GPS..
If I stand at the furthest point in my house and do a speed test with GPS disabled I get
34ping 2.30Mb/s down 3.82Mb/s up
I enable GPS and do another speed test..
11ping 17Mb/s down 4.44Mb/s up
Although this has, for me, fixed my Wifi my GPS is non existent, I am yet to get a single satellite with GPS test while in the middle of my garden.
Let me know if enabling the GPS helps with Wifi speeds for any of you
Maybe this is why my WiFi seems OK. I just leave GPS on most of the time. (although I haven't tested my GPS as it is wintry here)
interesting, i will have to give this a try.....thanks for the info sir.
Was really hoping it would work for me since my wifi gets below 5mbps which sucks...
Did multiple test and nothing major changed..
Glad it worked for you..
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You're sure enabling GPS didn't simply make speed test select a more appropriate server?
It would be better if folks tested wifi speeds over their local network, I think.
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Turned on GPS..
If I stand at the furthest point in my house and do a speed test with GPS disabled I get
34ping 2.30Mb/s down 3.82Mb/s up
I enable GPS and do another speed test..
11ping 17Mb/s down 4.44Mb/s up
Although this has, for me, fixed my Wifi my GPS is non existent, I am yet to get a single satellite with GPS test while in the middle of my garden.
Let me know if enabling the GPS helps with Wifi speeds for any of you
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Interesting. Is this with the latest firmware? Play with Wifi Analyzer as well. Check your Wifi -db signal. See what is going on with that.
Odd that just enabling GPS and not enabling would get different results. Maybe something with the latest firmware.
I can't test because my prime is totally modded. External antenna etc.
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Although this has, for me, fixed my Wifi my GPS is non existent, I am yet to get a single satellite with GPS test while in the middle of my garden.
Let me know if enabling the GPS helps with Wifi speeds for any of you
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My GPS works (marginally) . Works better with the GPS fix mentioned in other threads. However, getting a GPS fix from a "cold start" sometimes takes a while. For example, Decided to try it on a short grocery trip. When I finally got the fix (already at the store), it said "2050 sec to first fix"....Once it got that first fix, it worked fine the rest of the way home.....Again with that fix applied....although I marginally see sats without the fix.
Another side note: I happened to notice while it was searching, a little info message appeared that said "Best results are obtained if the unit is horizontal".
But sometimes that first fix can be a bear to get.
Good luck,
Bob
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You're sure enabling GPS didn't simply make speed test select a more appropriate server?
It would be better if folks tested wifi speeds over their local network, I think.
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Us iPerf to measure speeds.
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I am at starbucks was getting 11Mpbs for the last hour I enabled GPS and sure enough I am at 65Mpbs .......I work out of this starbucks and never connected at 65Mpbs........just saying what I've observed.
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I am at starbucks was getting 11Mpbs for the last hour I enabled GPS and sure enough I am at 65Mpbs .......I work out of this starbucks and never connected at 65Mpbs........just saying what I've observed.
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Lol which Starbucks do u go to? I'm lucky if I get 1mbps at any Starbucks in NY and Philly
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Pretty sure he's talking link speed, not actual throughput.
I live next to a Starbucks that is nearly always dead and with me sitting close to the registers, the speeds can hit 2 Mbps max. ****ty ATT internets.
Sorry for the noob question, but how do you enable GPS so that it stays on in other applications?
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Sorry for the noob question, but how do you enable GPS so that it stays on in other applications?
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Other than the check boxes in LOCATION Services, there is no other control. When you open an app that can use GPS, you'll see a little icon in the notification bar that says "Searching for GPS"
If the GPS system were totally working, you would never lose the signal...The only time you lose it is if it is marginal.
What is the impact of GPS on battery life, if it does not work and it keeps searching without finding anything?
Battery will be drained very very quickly. I am sure.
Think about it
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What is the impact of GPS on battery life, if it does not work and it keeps searching without finding anything?
Battery will be drained very very quickly. I am sure.
Think about it
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The GPS will only find your location if an app asks it to do so. So if the GPS icon isn't showing next to the clock the GPS is not in use.
Not sure any of you have noticed... Prime doesn't have a gps.conf file on it... I added it last night and got 8 of 13 locked... from inside... by the window. Check out system/etc/gps.......
One other thing I noticed.. in build.prop my wifi.country = is set to GB even though I bought the transformer in Canada... can someone check and see if they have anything different?
I've always wondered if the Wifi issue was a software problem. My wifi is "okay". The most annoying thing is it randomly completely disconnects from my school's wifi network and then it shows that there is no wifi available. The reason why I think its a software problem is because if I disable and re-enable the wifi it starts working again with me being in the exact same location.
Kind of odd...
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I've always wondered if the Wifi issue was a software problem. My wifi is "okay". The most annoying thing is it randomly completely disconnects from my school's wifi network and then it shows that there is no wifi available. The reason why I think its a software problem is because if I disable and re-enable the wifi it starts working again with me being in the exact same location.
Kind of odd...
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I saw this on previous firmwares, but never on the latest one. It also seemed, in my experience, to be related to the chrome beta. If I brought that up it would immediately stop any data being transferred over wifi and would then lead to a disconnect.
I never did uninstall the chrome beta to see if that fixed it entirely, but updating to the latest firmware did seem to stop the issue.
Suppose I'll hop on the bandwagon and give it a go.
It's hard for me to get any real speed degradation without actually dropping below the connection threshold with these rural speeds, but I'll try.
My wifi works pretty good after some build.prop tweaks, i would suggest that before modding the tf201. Basically, i added net.tcp.buffersize.wifi with some values and net.tcp.buffersize.umts with the same values 4096 ,87380, 256960, 4096, 16384, 256960
Of course you need to be rooted
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Is there a way to disable 4G, so the phone uses 3G instead and uses less battery or even better 2G? It seems as if the option is not on the Amaze as it was on the G2.
I have speed rom 4.0 I think. Gonna put 6.5 on soon.
Also is there a way to make your battery last longer if you game alot or watch movies?
You can try buying an Anker Battery for your Amaze, I got one off eBay and it's a noticeable difference (nothing huge though)
You can try using an app called Widgetsoid to toggle your 4G/3G but I'm not 100% sure it'll work with every ROM out there so give it a try
Mystery? said:
Is there a way to disable 4G, so the phone uses 3G instead and uses less battery or even better 2G? It seems as if the option is not on the Amaze as it was on the G2.
I have speed rom 4.0 I think. Gonna put 6.5 on soon.
Also is there a way to make your battery last longer if you game alot or watch movies?
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4G is 3G. 4G is just a marketing term. It's just a faster 3G network.
You can switch to 2G in the Mobile Network Menu.
Turn off your data, lower brightness, turn off Bluetooth, GPS. There are a lot of things you can do to save battery.
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Also is there a way to make your battery last longer if you game alot or watch movies?
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turn down the screen brightness, undervolt, use a better Kernel / use a powersaving governor (throttle down the frequency quickly when not needed)
adslee said:
You can try buying an Anker Battery for your Amaze, I got one off eBay and it's a noticeable difference (nothing huge though)
You can try using an app called Widgetsoid to toggle your 4G/3G but I'm not 100% sure it'll work with every ROM out there so give it a try
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I already bought the Anker battery 3 months back more or less. One day my phone just shuts off, and now it doesn't charge anymore.
hasoon2000 said:
4G is 3G. 4G is just a marketing term. It's just a faster 3G network.
You can switch to 2G in the Mobile Network Menu.
Turn off your data, lower brightness, turn off Bluetooth, GPS. There are a lot of things you can do to save battery.
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Well "faster 3g" might be picking up more battery than "regular 3g". I have Simple Mobile, so their "SIMPLE 3g speed" is not exactly the fastest. Seems like "fast EDGE" speed to me.
My brightness always goes up by itself even when I turn it down for some odd reason. I have my data and wifi off when I don't use it. I rarely use GPS and bluetooth, so most of the time they are off. I don't use that JuiceDefender crap cuz it doesn't do much. Doesn't it slow down your phone?
I can't find the 2G in Mobile Network Menu (which is why I said I’ve seen it in G2 or it might’ve been MyTouch 3G Slide. I'm using SPEEDROM 4.0.)
paperWastage said:
turn down the screen brightness, undervolt, use a better Kernel / use a powersaving governor (throttle down the frequency quickly when not needed)
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I don’t know the good settings to undervolt. I’m scared about screwing up my CPU. You can choose kernels to use?! I didn’t know that (I thought a ROM had a specific kernel requirement), but wouldn’t WiFi be broken or something.
Mystery? said:
I don’t know the good settings to undervolt. I’m scared about screwing up my CPU. You can choose kernels to use?! I didn’t know that (I thought a ROM had a specific kernel requirement), but wouldn’t WiFi be broken or something.
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just under volt by -12.5 using System Tuner on a good kernel...
there are basically 3 (or 4 kernels) for ICS
stock/HTC
faux http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1359951&highlight=kernel
Kozmik http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1767572&highlight=kernel
Nightmare http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1762687&highlight=kernel
all of them should have no problems with wifi or anything (well, some have "beta" versions that might not have wifi working). each of them implements different things to help give you performance or battery or undervolting etc... try each of them and see...
If you can't find it in the settings you can do the following...
Open your Dialer ( yes, like you're going to call someone)
Dial *#*#4636#*#* then pick Phone Info. Scroll Down and find Something that says "GSM Auto (PRL)" click on it. Now you can change that to "GSM only" and you will have just 2G speeds. It will save battery life if that what youre after.
Mystery? said:
Is there a way to disable 4G, so the phone uses 3G instead and uses less battery or even better 2G? It seems as if the option is not on the Amaze as it was on the G2.
I have speed rom 4.0 I think. Gonna put 6.5 on soon.
Also is there a way to make your battery last longer if you game alot or watch movies?
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There is an app on the Play Store that goes directly to the 2G/3G menus to toggle it. Unfortunately there is no way to directly change it outside of the settings menu.
stevedebi said:
There is an app on the Play Store that goes directly to the 2G/3G menus to toggle it. Unfortunately there is no way to directly change it outside of the settings menu.
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Or better than that, go here and download the apk http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=739530
It will set it to 2g while screen off, and turn 3g on after screen on or unlock.. so if you have weaker signal it will absolutely increase battery life, but 2g uses less battery anyways.. there is about 2-3 seconds after screen on before it switches back to 3g(4g, whatever). I've been using it for days, I am happy.