After upgrading to the official WM 6, I find myself struggling with poor wi-fi performance. Even when sitting next to the router (Dlink DI-624), it shows only three bars. It often drops the connection. When I open the Wireless settings, the Athena wakes up and refreshes the networks close to me. After that I can reconnect to my own network. The safety setting on the network, is of the WPA kind. Anybody else noticing poorer wi-fi performance with WM 6 ? Any known tweaks that might help?
joohan said:
After upgrading to the official WM 6, I find myself struggling with poor wi-fi performance. Even when sitting next to the router (Dlink DI-624), it shows only three bars. It often drops the connection. When I open the Wireless settings, the Athena wakes up and refreshes the networks close to me. After that I can reconnect to my own network. The safety setting on the network, is of the WPA kind. Anybody else noticing poorer wi-fi performance with WM 6 ? Any known tweaks that might help?
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I had this problem with the first WM6 leaked ROM. Once I updated to the Athena Project Black ROM, the signal strength has gotten much better for me. Not sure if anyone else has had this results or not but it worked for me.
Hi everyone,
I'm just wondering if anyone has had experience with the H icon not showing constantly on the recent 6.5.1 builds. I still get it when downloading, so HSDPA is still working, but it no longer shows up constantly. Seems a lot like on my old Hermes, which only supported HSDPA (but not HSUPA). It may be that there are some issues at my carrier, but I just wanted to confirm that noone else has seen this before I contact them...
I'm currently using Timolol's 81 build, was on the 71 for the last few weeks, had no issues before that, though I think I had a brief period back at the start of using 71 where it was working fine...
caeci11ius said:
Hi everyone,
I'm just wondering if anyone has had experience with the H icon not showing constantly on the recent 6.5.1 builds. I still get it when downloading, so HSDPA is still working, but it no longer shows up constantly. Seems a lot like on my old Hermes, which only supported HSDPA (but not HSUPA). It may be that there are some issues at my carrier, but I just wanted to confirm that noone else has seen this before I contact them...
I'm currently using Timolol's 81 build, was on the 71 for the last few weeks, had no issues before that, though I think I had a brief period back at the start of using 71 where it was working fine...
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T-Mobile Netherlands?
TPG (Optus) Australia ;-).
Using Radio 1.14.25.05 and 1.14.25.35 (the only two that work reliably with GPS)...
do you have touch pro config or advanced config type tools installed? They can do a registry tweak that can close data connections after X minutes of inactivity. On mine with this option set (to 1 minute) i will get the H icon with signal strength (as opposed to the other H icon on the left which is always there) when a connection occurs and it downloads something, then 1 minute later it goes back to the antenna icon with signal strength (and you can see in HTC COnnection Manager that Data Connection has now been switched off).
Perhaps you have this setting/option set now? In general leaving the data connection on all the time cant be as good for battery etc, especially when the connection is re-established whenever something like activesync or your browser requests it anyway
Thanks for a good suggestion, however, sadly this is not my issue. I am still maintaining connections (on 3g) when not downloading. I did wonder if perhaps MS had tweaked the power management in new builds to drop back connection speed when not in use (Symbian does this, though it drops back all the way to GPRS) but don't think this is the case. Is there any way other than via the icon being constantly H to know HSUPA is working?
In relation to battery and the auto disconnect tweak, I used to use this but sadly it breaks simultaneous voice and data, which makes it a no-go for me (nothing worse than downloading a file and having it bomb out due to an incoming call).
I'm on ATT, and lately the only thing that's happened is H has been showing up more. I use the .25.35 radio and the newest NRG ROM and it works excellent. Hope this helps.
I believe that AT&T have recently increased their coverage significantly for HSDPA in the States...
We've had it over here in Australia over quite a large area of the country for some time now, and it was certainly working well for me before. I've just called the network, but they don't have any information about faults. I'm currently trying to deprovision and reprovision my data service, and hope that will help (I wonder if it's something to do with me at one point using unmatched RILPhone DLL and radio...if that did something funny on the network perhaps they switched something off for my phone. After I tried that, I put it to radio 1.14.25.35 (+matched RIL), which worked fine on H again, but a bit later I changed to 1.14.25.05 (+matched RIL) as I get better battery life with that one...no luck on that, but since then changing back to 1.14.25.35 (+matched RIL) doesn't bring the magic H back either :-( )...
OK, just flashed back to stock to see if that helped, and no luck. So it's not the new ROMs, and it's not anything on my phone. I guess the phone company has either detected me doing screwy things with my radio and switched off my HSUPA for some reason, or more likely, have screwed something up or switched it off in my city for some reason.
All i've got to say about that is BUGGER!
Back to my nice new 23081 w/1.14.25.05 radio then...
Hi caeci11ius,
I'm on virginmobile(Optus) as well. I noticed the same behavior with various new WM 6.5 roms (I'm on latest Exquisite now), but an old EnergyROM build I had which used WM 6.5 21016 build was on H almost all the time.
I think Windows Mobile by default automatically drops down to 3G access from HSDPA to save on battery-life when the device is not utilizing high amount of mobile internet. I noticed I can easily get back on HSDPA (even for just a few seconds) if I do something like browse the internet or even just update the weather and I can also sustain HSDPA with problems.
I think what you are experiencing is a feature. I haven't noticed any problem with the behavior, in fact I think it works better for me, it uses less battery.
Steve
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.
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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...
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?
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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?
MorRoquen said:
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?
Morghus85 said:
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?
Hey Guys
I was wondering. Is the bad wifi signal strength on the HTC legend unfixable ?
I am currently standing 5 meters away from my Wireless router and only getting "good" sometimes "fair" reception when i got 2 meters to the left and into my kitchen whereas with my laptop I can go out into the yard of my appartment complex and still get "good" reception - out there the legend can't even pick op the signal.
I'm running CM 7.0.3.
(And also has problems with getting a gps fix even when lots of satellites. And overly exposed flash photos - but that's another story - maybe these will be fixed in the next CM)
Have you tried different radios?
As far as I have been told the radio firmware is for the GPS since the WIFI is on a separate chip ?
But have tried several deffirent radios to try to fix the GPS issue I also have without any luck.