Whenever I open maps.it always shows me as being in rhode island somewhere...I happen to be in Pa. I have even set my location to my home address and when I reopen the app I'm back in RI. Wtf?!
Other then the speed the s2 has I liked my cappy better...atleast it connects to my wifi network a lot better and streaming videos ran smooth unlike my gs2..I gave my cappy to my two year old to play his birdie game..considering trading him!
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Whenever I open maps.it always shows me as being in rhode island somewhere...I happen to be in Pa. I have even set my location to my home address and when I reopen the app I'm back in RI. Wtf?!
Other then the speed the s2 has I liked my cappy better...atleast it connects to my wifi network a lot better and streaming videos ran smooth unlike my gs2..I gave my cappy to my two year old to play his birdie game..considering trading him!
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Probably one of your neighbors recently moved from RI and Google thinks their wifi AP is in Rhode Island still.
Turn off wifi and retest.
I have one neighbor to my left been there along time now...I'm on my own wifi network at home...I first noticed this when I was turned around while driving do to an accident needed a new route. I don't have wifi turned on when mobile.
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I don't know if its just me but, my phone seems slow while on my home wifi. I haven't checked wifi anywhere else. And my signal on the phone seems to be weak at times even while sitting in the same room with my router. My cappy seems faster in this area. Also streaming some video seems to be slower on my sgs2 vs my cappy at times. Any tips/advice...?
BTW..my device is vanilla as of yet...
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Well, at present, I'm on Cognition. So, I can't give an exact parallel as far as circumstances and setups; however, my phone is extremely fast when running on my wifi connection at home. I haven't really focused much on the reception, but from what I remember it has been excellent as well. If I'm in the same room, it's completely full. If I'm elsewhere in the house I still tend to have decent reception(more than just the one bar).
I'm not sure what to suggest for better performance outside of possibly considering flashing an alternative ROM instead of just running it stock. The process, overall, is honestly quite simple. I do understand though that some people like to run the phone the way that it came out of the box. It's just a suggestion.
Outside of that I mean maybe an issue between your router and your phone, but honestly I doubt that.
I appreciate the response. I'm puzzled by this...as I am no expert I'm also not new to flashing roms. My cappy is on a modded rom. I'm just giving the devs time to work out the bugs! Thanx again!
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The BCM4330 used in a LOT of mobile devices just plain doesn't seem to like some routers.
At my home, the signal strength always looks low before connecting on my GS2, Tab 10.1, and Infuse (All BCM4330) - then it suddenly looks better when I connect.
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The BCM4330 used in a LOT of mobile devices just plain doesn't seem to like some routers.
At my home, the signal strength always looks low before connecting on my GS2, Tab 10.1, and Infuse (All BCM4330) - then it suddenly looks better when I connect.
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Hates D-Link (battery drain, loss of range).
Loves Netgear (less battery drain than HSPA, excellent range).
At least that's the case with the international version.
Have a NetGear and my wifi flies. of the couple dozen or so routers I have set up for family and friends NetGear seem to always be the easiest to set up, connect the most consistently, and give the best all around speeds for both net surfing and console gaming.
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My phone was downloading normal speeds earlier. Then I rooted in and flashed Cognition X2 beta 4.
Now my speeds are REALLY slow. (takes forever to download something as small as 4 Mb...)
Idk if anyone else is having the same issue
check your router for firmware updates, if there are, appy them and then retest if your speeds are still slow
Interesting..as I am using a d-link gaming router. Will have to check into firmware update..had the router a few years never updated it.
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ive had a number of friends that get new phones and have complaints like:
whats wrong with my phone it wont connect to my router, or get sporadic connections, drop for no reason, slow x-fers...
first thing i do is update the firmware, you'd be suprised at how many issues can get 'fixed' when your router gets updated.
so, i'd start there first..
Yea, I'm going to give that a try..thanks for the heads up..!
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I've been having the problem of the wifi not coming back automatically and I was like D: so I went into the Play store (lol) and found this app. It's working well for me, so I was like I should tell people! Doesn't seen to effect (effect or affect I D my battery
Just search in the market for : blade wifi fix
Its a free app so you don't have much to lose, if it works for you great if it doesn't don't shoot the messenger!
Comments/Complaints?
Please Call 1-800-IDGAF
No seriously you can post below if it worked well or if its a battery eater etc.
Yo guys
1-800 idgaf doesn't work don't try it lolol
Come over to the dark side...
More than likely its a router issue. That's how I fixed mine.
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I guess I'm one of the lucky ones, but I have yet to have any wifi issues on both of my DX2s running CM7rc1.
I'll give it a try and see what happens.
Did have one incident with wifi stalling so I installed the app and we will see if it happens again.
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Um 1800- I don't give a f***? That's an interesting number.
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So I have been using this extensively, I can say that it does slightly improve WiFi connectivity. It is quicker and usually connects with no problem, but sometimes it seems to not work at all for whatever reason.
Anyone else have the same experience?
I have a $300 D-link router, with excellent connection. Its used for gaming, and my Wifi, has no problem connecting even after sleep mode. Your routers are probally giving out weak signals. I've had no problems with wifi connectivity since using CM7.
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Ok iam by far no DEV or phone guru lol. I was having issues with wifi signal through out my house. My routers on 1st floor and tredmill is in basement and when i was on tredmill pandora wouldnt stream. I could watch youtube videos from my car parked outside with my e4gt. I went into wifi settings and then went into advanced and then enabled best wi-fi peformance. This has helped alot. Idk why theres a seperate option to make wifi peform at its best besides saving power usage but this has helped alot
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Been stated many times in one of many WiFi threads btw...
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1.) Chrome is highly unstable and crashes often even after install/uninstall/reinstall.
2.) My phone is having major issues staying connected to my home WiFi. It connected last night for a while and then won't connect anymore. I've tried rebooting, forgetting and reconnecting to my network but it's not working. I may have to take it back!... grrrr
Has anyone else noticed these issues?
Stopped using chrome after I realized stock browser is much more fluid
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Stopped using chrome after I realized stock browser is much more fluid
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I like the stock browser, just miss the Chrome browser integration between mobile/PC.
To my knowledge the stock browser won't do this.
I believe Chrome causes crashes for me as well. It could be my keyboard as it happens when I copy and paste with my keyboard. Boat Browser wipes the floor with Chrome on all counts apart from the eye-candy animation.
Zero Chrome issues here
what kinda router do you have?
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what kinda router do you have?
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Actiontec Q1000
It seems to be working intermittently now which is better than before.. My GNex and S3 have zero issues staying on wifi so not sure what would be different with this phone.
Chrome performs perfectly for me. No problems on wifi here either.
...my $.02
No Problems with chrom here and to be honest i think it runs better than stock. no issues with Wifi either
has anyone tried running Browsermark on both Chrome and the stock browser? it runs pretty decent on Chrome and gets a good score, but becomes hella laggy on the stock browser and gets a horrible score. anyone else see this?
I have to agree with the Chrome issue. Today I was trying to show my sister how much nicer than her S3 my new DNA was and I took both phones to this graphic intense website, mine loaded everything first but hers was scrolling much much better. I couldn't understand why mine was sucking so badly. She was using Chrome on her phone and so was I. Decided to open the same website on the stock browser and it started scrolling very smoothly as well.
I too have the problem now that Stock works better but I really enjoy the way Chrome lets me open my PC bookmarks and lets me open up whatever I have open on my other computers.
I did have a couple of issues today with the phone. While I was visiting my sister I found the phone to have no signal at all a few times. This is not something that ever happens in her house. I would say maybe Verizon was having issues but her Verizon S3 was working fine.
At another point in the day while sitting at the table talking I heard the "DROID" notification go off. I'm the only one with a Droid there so I knew it was my phone. I pick it up, unlock it and there are no notifications at all... This happened 3 times. . . The phone also had a horrible signal at this other house so I figured maybe it had something to do with the bad signal.
I've noticed really slow speeds with my wireless at work. No issues at home though. I can only get about 200kb down/up at work, but normal 15mb down at home. No one else was seeing any speed issues on their phones. Work uses Linksys wireless access points throughout the building. Didn't matter which one I was connected to. Haven't noticed any connectivity issues, it always connects quickly and holds a connection. And as far as vzw signal, this phone is much better than my GS3. Getting 2 bars of 4g at home now, where the GS3 stays on 1 bar of 3g.
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Chrome causes many conflicts. such as screen flickering...stock browser is best dont use chrome.....
Try factory reset....for WiFi prob....
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Chrome even sucks as the stock browser on the nexus 4
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To Fix Wifi issue
Just click the name of you're home wifi network and select forget then connect to it back again then re enter your password... It works for me... I noticed at first.... that my Droid DNA somehow hacked to my WiFi routers even it's WPA password protected....It connected at first without requiring a password.....sounds kinda strange but it really happened. After few day's then I started to get the wifi issues..."even it's connected to my router" it won't allow internet access... Just follow the steps...I hope it helps >
I was having a similar issue where wifi was dropping and reconnecting. I read elsewhere that a reboot of the router would help. I tried this yesterday and it seems to be OK since.
Tests good on Ookla, but my V10 can't browse to save its own life. Just can't figure out why it's so slow. Worked great in the store.
Play Store apps seem to install/upgrade quite a bit slower too.
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Tests good on Ookla, but my V10 can't browse to save its own life. Just can't figure out why it's so slow. Worked great in the store.
Play Store apps seem to install/upgrade quite a bit slower too.
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Strange, I was actually very happy with my WiFi speed on my V10. Everything seems to download faster compared to my old G2. There was this one spot in my house where the connection was always weak and slow with my g2 but with my V10 its always fast there
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Rip roaring fast here, on both my home Wi-Fi and work.
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I put them side by side this morning, and my G2 ran circles around it. I doubt it's hardware.
I do notice the same thing at times whether on 5 or 2.5 connection and I am sitting right next to the router. No problems with any other devices but from time to time, yes I notice it on this phone.
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I have this exact issue, WIFI sucks and either drops or comes to a crawl on this phone. My G2 as well is super fast. Considering a hard reset but not sure if that will solve it or not. Such a hassle when I'm at home trying to use this phone on wifi.
I had good results turning off Enhanced LTE in Mobile Data setting on my AT&T device. Fixed an Exchange Sync issue, fixed browser response (except Chrome, which for some reason was never slow), and fixed some battery consumption concerns. Fixed Play Store download times, too.
Hopefully I'll turn that option back on someday to find that AT&T has fixed it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dnset
Try this. You can see if it works for you guys as it did for me. Just turn it on and do a speed test then if it works then turn off and do a test. Should keep the settings. Worked for me.
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V10 wifi speed is very fast than Mate7 in my home.
(V10 : 150Mbps over / Mate7 : 80Mbps)
But LTE slow sometimes. congested packet.