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So I had my phone up and running, wifi running great. For giggles I click on the Mobile hotspot feature even though I don't have that service. It disables my wifi and tells me the feature is unavailable. I turn my wifi back on and it turns off immediately. I've tried restarting the phone to no avail.
Has anyone run into something similar yet? Please help, the "4G" is slower than 3G on my old backflip (not really haha)
I did the same thing and I don't have that problem.
I assume you're rooted?
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Yup, one of the first things I did.
My wifi was dropping out using 802.11n. I took away all encryption and made the router invisible by disabling the broadcasting and the connection has been fast and reliable.
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well I think the issue is with my phone since wifi doesn't work with any router (home or work). In fact, the wifi wont stay on long enough to try and connect to a network, it just turns off as soon as it turns on.
That happened to my rooted and ROMed Captivated a while back, and it still wont connect to certain towers here on campus.
Try deleting all wifi settings from the phone/ and resetting the router and starting over.
Rooted/ROM Captivate
Rooted Atrix
That's apparently normal for the phone. If you try to enable a hotspot and you don't have that on your bill, WiFi gets disabled.
I was traveling overseas where there was no CDMA service but I brought my Fascinate and had it on airplane mode. However, I could not lock a GPS signal for the entire trip, even when standing in the middle of an empty field. I read on the dev forum something about GPS and NTP. DO you need a network connection to GPS lock on the Fascinate? Was running superclean 2.9.2 at the time.
I use mine off net fairly frequently. Typically with BackCountry Navigator. What app were you using?
I was using MapDroyd but even GPS Status couldnt lock it.
Airplane mode shuts everything off except for the phone. So the GPS chip was turned off and that is why you couldn't get a lock while over there.
drnihili said:
I use mine off net fairly frequently. Typically with BackCountry Navigator. What app were you using?
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Slight hijack. . .
How do you like BackCountry Navigator? I am planning a trip out west this summer with the family and thought this may be nice to have. It is worth the $10?
No matter which app I use, 4G stops working about 10-15 minutes into my tethering session. Does anyone else have this issue? Going into airplane mode then back out fixes it but its pretty annoying.
Yes I have a tethering plan, but its rooted so I can choose which app I want to use. Even the one built into the phone doesn't cooperate much.
Thanks.
I am having the same issue on stock.
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My data would pretty much shut down as soon as I started USB tethering on stock. Now it works flawlessly on Liquid Thunderbread and the latest gingerbread radio leak.
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Have not had this issue on DT ASOP ROM at all..
Kind of off-topic but is USB tethering > Wireless tethering either officially (on plan) or unofficially (rooted,etc)?
Try to flash an updated radio such as .627 OTA it helped me get a great lock and updated speed even on 3g. I was getting .3 to .5 Mpbs on stock radio now I am getting 1 to 1.2 Mpbs speeds after radio update. You can find Radios here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1201600 Scroll down and look under Radio
psufan5 said:
No matter which app I use, 4G stops working about 10-15 minutes into my tethering session. Does anyone else have this issue? Going into airplane mode then back out fixes it but its pretty annoying.
Yes I have a tethering plan, but its rooted so I can choose which app I want to use. Even the one built into the phone doesn't cooperate much.
Thanks.
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Yep, .627 radio helps a lot. FWIW bamf 2.1 4G tether DID NOT work when I went to ATL a couple days ago. I had to flash into TeslaCoil GB RC3...tethering 4G worked the whole time I had it enabled, at least 30-40 mins.
I've had this problem, and often a quick toggle of mobiledata will fix it.
Search Chingy's new radio from GB leak, it turned my signal bars a different color the signal was so good.
New radio didn't do anything... Its always when I'm at work. Data just completely goes down (signal shows its fine) and the up arrow just lights up. Toggling airport mode fixes it, but its literally every 15 minutes.
I have tethered for hours at a time over 4G. Only problem is that the phone gets quite hot.
Does anybody else have GPS locking issues? I'm having intermittent problems with my GPS. Sometimes it will lock almost instantly and be flawless
Other times though it will take up to a minute to lock. After it locks it will drop my location after a couple of minutes too.
Can't find the root cause of the issue. Restarts and toggle airplane mode won't fix it. It seemed to be working all the time when I first got the phone. I don't want to factory reset to see if it will fix it either.
Does GPS have anything whatsoever to do with a data connection? Is it in any way related to Verizon network issues of late? FYI I'm always on 4g. I'm noticing patterns of certain areas causing me problems more frequently.
If you are using assisted location then yes, if you lose data you will lose GPS.
AtLemacks said:
If you are using assisted location then yes, if you lose data you will lose GPS.
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Not true. I have used GPS status (on an inc), where I had ZERO service and it pinpointed my exact location perfectly (checked on a 1:24000 map using utm).
remmy5r said:
Not true. I have used GPS status (on an inc), where I had ZERO service and it pinpointed my exact location perfectly (checked on a 1:24000 map using utm).
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This phone and the Inc are 2 completely different devices and have different antenna's as well as how they connect to various networks including satellites. If he is using ASSISTED GPS, like I said, he is using the network, not satellite signal. If the network is down, guess what?
GPS has been great so far. GPS was great on my EVO but horrible on the EVO 3d. ....
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No problem with my GPS , locks in less than 10 seconds every time I use it.
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AtLemacks said:
This phone and the Inc are 2 completely different devices and have different antenna's as well as how they connect to various networks including satellites. If he is using ASSISTED GPS, like I said, he is using the network, not satellite signal. If the network is down, guess what?
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Well I've checked it again, with a 1:24000 map and Google earth on a comp, against known coordinates, with WiFi off, and no service. It's accurate to a couple meters. This rezound is great GPS, if you are trying to use the network as GPS, you are pissing up a rope. use the built in satellite function for it.
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So far NO gps issues.
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I know the custom ROMs have a few nice features and clean up some dead wood.
But do any absolutely Fix any of the network issues?
For the record I'm considering OMJ's or Flipz's.
Some background for my question if you interested.
This phone is really starting to suck (Stock Rooted only, no mods).
I really wanted to hold out for possible S-OFF to try any custom ROMs but the phone is becoming useless without doing something.
Last weekend I used my Wifes EVO 3D (my old phone with MeanROM ICS 2.2 on it).
I Tethered from West of Boston to Central NH (2 hr 20 min drive) with out a glitch.
Phone was running Navigation and WIFI Tethered the whole way.
Not one glitch. I've done it many times. My wifes former Touch Pro 2 and EVO 4G was also just as reliable.
Same trip this weekend with the EVO 4G LTE.
Laptop lost WIFI connection to EVO 4G LTE like 5 times.
Sometimes I could get it back by reconnecting or restarting WIFI Tether.
Other times I had to reboot phone, and other times I had to reboot the Laptop to get it back. It just flat out refused to see the phone any more. Even tried shutting WIFI off on laptop and phone, but no, PC or Phone required a reboot not always the same either.
It was also fairly slow and laggy. Just aweful.
When I leave my house with WIFI on, the EVO LTE phone stays connected to WIFI and gets no data until I shut WIFI off. It works fine if I leave work with WIFI on though.
I know there are patches to remove smartsync in several ROMs but the phone was not going to sleep during most of these issues (Had Nav running).
You would need a ROM where someone actually rewrote some code . That's probably not going to happen till source comes out
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You would need a ROM where someone actually rewrote some code . That's probably not going to happen till source comes out
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That might be true but certainly not always true.
And if it is "code" I must depend on that get fixed it's likely a driver and most developers on XDA don't do drivers.
And that "code" could also be on the Radio Side (where I suspect the real issues are) and that code is never released.
Doing things like enabling the 2nd Core full time (which is enabled on my EVEO 3D) might make things run more stable. I don't know.
Most "code" on my EVO 3D is "stock" it's just borrowed from different phones and some build.prop tweaks.
mswlogo said:
I know the custom ROMs have a few nice features and clean up some dead wood.
But do any absolutely Fix any of the network issues?
For the record I'm considering OMJ's or Flipz's.
Some background for my question if you interested.
This phone is really starting to suck (Stock Rooted only, no mods).
I really wanted to hold out for possible S-OFF to try any custom ROMs but the phone is becoming useless without doing something.
Last weekend I used my Wifes EVO 3D (my old phone with MeanROM ICS 2.2 on it).
I Tethered from West of Boston to Central NH (2 hr 20 min drive) with out a glitch.
Phone was running Navigation and WIFI Tethered the whole way.
Not one glitch. I've done it many times. My wifes former Touch Pro 2 and EVO 4G was also just as reliable.
Same trip this weekend with the EVO 4G LTE.
Laptop lost WIFI connection to EVO 4G LTE like 5 times.
Sometimes I could get it back by reconnecting or restarting WIFI Tether.
Other times I had to reboot phone, and other times I had to reboot the Laptop to get it back. It just flat out refused to see the phone any more. Even tried shutting WIFI off on laptop and phone, but no, PC or Phone required a reboot not always the same either.
It was also fairly slow and laggy. Just aweful.
When I leave my house with WIFI on, the EVO LTE phone stays connected to WIFI and gets no data until I shut WIFI off. It works fine if I leave work with WIFI on though.
I know there are patches to remove smartsync in several ROMs but the phone was not going to sleep during most of these issues (Had Nav running).
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Just my experience : zero difference in connectivity issues (cellular or WiFi) . Previous 3d and OGEVO both had their issues but in the exact same locations I used them ( work WiFi home WiFi commute cellular) -this thing is just bad comparitively. Wireless N (100Mgps down from Cisco rtr) at office drops CONSTANTLY and even just running l navigation will drop out from suburbs to city ( Chicago ) . Go to Mexico this week and I was there in December and was stunned how well Telcel''s network operated ( very fast 3g no dropped calls - thank god work picks up the tab). New York and San Francisco the week after in which I am very familiar with how my service usually acts so ill have some controls to measure against. Very dissapointing so far LTE can't get here glfast enough- realize I veered slightly off topic but , no, I haven't seen any major difference other than great battery life on Vipers
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For the record I am currently using Viper ROM and I currently have absolutely no issues paring the phone to my car via Bluetooth in comparison to the stock ROM where my phone will not hold a bluetooth connection.
Dude, honestly, u need to take your phone back and exchange it. Had the same problem with WiFi dropping constantly, about every 5 seconds. Would go to 3g then WiFi. Sometimes switching settings would help, tried rooting and did numerous roms, fixes, mods, but the problem was still there.
Well, I took my phone back bc I bricked the secure element somehow and my new phone has none of those issues. I believe it is a faulty receiver/radio. Trust me and take it back for a new one before your 30 days is up. U will thank me.
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I got my evo this past friday and I've been using my wifi more than my 3G and i haven't had problems. May wanna take it back and have them check it out.
mswlogo said:
I know the custom ROMs have a few nice features and clean up some dead wood.
But do any absolutely Fix any of the network issues?
For the record I'm considering OMJ's or Flipz's.
Some background for my question if you interested.
This phone is really starting to suck (Stock Rooted only, no mods).
I really wanted to hold out for possible S-OFF to try any custom ROMs but the phone is becoming useless without doing something.
Last weekend I used my Wifes EVO 3D (my old phone with MeanROM ICS 2.2 on it).
I Tethered from West of Boston to Central NH (2 hr 20 min drive) with out a glitch.
Phone was running Navigation and WIFI Tethered the whole way.
Not one glitch. I've done it many times. My wifes former Touch Pro 2 and EVO 4G was also just as reliable.
Same trip this weekend with the EVO 4G LTE.
Laptop lost WIFI connection to EVO 4G LTE like 5 times.
Sometimes I could get it back by reconnecting or restarting WIFI Tether.
Other times I had to reboot phone, and other times I had to reboot the Laptop to get it back. It just flat out refused to see the phone any more. Even tried shutting WIFI off on laptop and phone, but no, PC or Phone required a reboot not always the same either.
It was also fairly slow and laggy. Just aweful.
When I leave my house with WIFI on, the EVO LTE phone stays connected to WIFI and gets no data until I shut WIFI off. It works fine if I leave work with WIFI on though.
I know there are patches to remove smartsync in several ROMs but the phone was not going to sleep during most of these issues (Had Nav running).
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I'm in RI and kept my Evo og just for tethering. If you were satisfied with the 3d, then the lte will seem more effectual in fringe area reception. Though not as good as the OG in my particular area. The og bounces across a bay without issues. Did I just say sprint has shoddy coverage? Whoops. Didn't mean to.
What I'm getting to is that the risk of depending on htc unlock, vs new radios might be worth evaluating.
Anthonicia said:
Dude, honestly, u need to take your phone back and exchange it. Had the same problem with WiFi dropping constantly, about every 5 seconds. Would go to 3g then WiFi. Sometimes switching settings would help, tried rooting and did numerous roms, fixes, mods, but the problem was still there.
Well, I took my phone back bc I bricked the secure element somehow and my new phone has none of those issues. I believe it is a faulty receiver/radio. Trust me and take it back for a new one before your 30 days is up. U will thank me.
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Thanks for the data point.
I did try calling Sprint and the tech said I need to shut WIFI off when I leave home and work. They were clueless. After I explained to them how it's supposed to work they said I need to have tech look at it.
Yeah I'm sure they can repeat the problems at will. Some days it's fine.
I don't get WIFI drop outs. Biggest problem is it won't let go of the WIFI when I leave home and that locks data up until I toggle the WIFI enable. Leaving work it's fine.
I have put a custom ROM on it now (flipz). And it's running better. But did have to switch it to 2.4Ghz only again. I do like some the custom ROM features and it allows be to better monitor Data (since it show 1x or 3x) and I can do full nandroid backup to compare changes.
However I did see the bouncey thing when you wake it goes to WIFI to 3G to WIFI again and that I believe is a sign of it struggling.
Then I looked into my Router for more settings to play with and learned Bluetooth can interfere with WIFI (i.e. there are settings for it in my router).
I'm 99% sure this is the problem (and may or may not be the phones fault).
This would explain why a "new" phone could fix an issue because each time you pair a bluetooth device it may choose a different channel. Some channels will conflict with WIFI more than others.
It may explain why some people have no issues too. Can depend on your bluetooth devices as well.
I started a seperate thread on this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1721196
I'm amazed nobody has responded.
For grins I left Bluetooth off today and it has run flawless. It didn't get stuck on WIFI when I leave home and it always did.
I need to dig into how to check what channel bluetooth is paired on and how I can control what channel is uses.
mswlogo said:
Thanks for the data point.
I did try calling Sprint and the tech said I need to shut WIFI off when I leave home and work. They were clueless. After I explained to them how it's supposed to work they said I need to have tech look at it.
Yeah I'm sure they can repeat the problems at will. Some days it's fine.
I don't get WIFI drop outs. Biggest problem is it won't let go of the WIFI when I leave home and that locks data up until I toggle the WIFI enable. Leaving work it's fine.
I have put a custom ROM on it now (flipz). And it's running better. But did have to switch it to 2.4Ghz only again. I do like some the custom ROM features and it allows be to better monitor Data (since it show 1x or 3x) and I can do full nandroid backup to compare changes.
However I did see the bouncey thing when you wake it goes to WIFI to 3G to WIFI again and that I believe is a sign of it struggling.
Then I looked into my Router for more settings to play with and learned Bluetooth can interfere with WIFI (i.e. there are settings for it in my router).
I'm 99% sure this is the problem (and may or may not be the phones fault).
This would explain why a "new" phone could fix an issue because each time you pair a bluetooth device it may choose a different channel. Some channels will conflict with WIFI more than others.
It may explain why some people have no issues too. Can depend on your bluetooth devices as well.
I started a seperate thread on this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1721196
I'm amazed nobody has responded.
For grins I left Bluetooth off today and it has run flawless. It didn't get stuck on WIFI when I leave home and it always did.
I need to dig into how to check what channel bluetooth is paired on and how I can control what channel is uses.
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I think you're onto something... If I leave the house and wifi sticks on, then I normally have to reboot phone before I can connect to wifi again. Simply toggling wifi off and on doesn't work.
So on a whim, I turned off bluetooth. Then turned wifi off and back on, and bam! Connected! Hmmmm....
dre22era said:
For the record I am currently using Viper ROM and I currently have absolutely no issues paring the phone to my car via Bluetooth in comparison to the stock ROM where my phone will not hold a bluetooth connection.
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Weird. I had opposite. Rooted, S-off and flashed MeanROM which really liked but bluetooth on one of my cars that was foolproof on stock became very hard to connect. Went back to stock and connects fine again. Miss the customization and may try again. Was a good exercise putting back to stock if ever need to return phone to Sprint.