When ever I turn on HSDPA in the diagnostic tool's settings the phone reboots but the option stays off? Is anyone else having this problem?
It's on anyway even though the toggle says off. At least for me. I regularly see the H even though that setting is off.
Despite what it looks like, it's not an HSPA on/off switch.
Rusty! said:
Despite what it looks like, it's not an HSPA on/off switch.
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What exactly is it for then?
Not a freaking clue
This is the thing that Nokia handles not too good. Diagnostic tool is for Nokia staff to check Lumia and there are cases that the battery check are different from the percentage remaining in the battery saver of WP setting. Back to this post, the changing of HSPA connection actually work after soft boot but the WP setting did not indicate this highest connection. If the Lumia is within HSPA network connection, it will display "H". This is what Nokia should implement: either remove Diagnostic tool (not available for public downloading), or also put HSPA in the connection setting of WP in addition to the exisiting 2G, 3G and HSPA in the firmware.
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Does anyone experience wifi reception issue on Samsung galaxy s II? I am in my friend's house and the reception is very poor. Yet both my laptop & iphone 4 has no problem. Is there some setting that I can fine tune the phone?
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I do get that after having the display off for a while with no network activity, it's usually solved by disabling and enabling the WiFi. I think a more permanent way of doing it is via the advanced WiFi settings and setting the WiFi to never shut down.
Just purely basing on the signal bars, on my S2 it only gives 1 bar compared to a laptop/iphone4/ipad/itouch where they get even max, but at as I increase the distance the other devices start to drop on signal bars while the S2 keeps the 1 bar, out of all the devices the S2 has the shortest range dropping off the connection while followed by the apple devices about a mere 1-2 feet more, the laptop has about a meter more of range.
Steffe2 said:
I do get that after having the display off for a while with no network activity, it's usually solved by disabling and enabling the WiFi. I think a more permanent way of doing it is via the advanced WiFi settings and setting the WiFi to never shut down.
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Check your WiFi sleep policy under Advanced Settings.
Yes, the WiFi signal bars strength of GSII is low compared to other phones I've used, but don't know if that affects the speed or not.
Regards.
plus low bar wifi signal , my download speed with wifi os very slow !! what should i do ?
betaelmer said:
Does anyone experience wifi reception issue on Samsung galaxy s II? I am in my friend's house and the reception is very poor. Yet both my laptop & iphone 4 has no problem. Is there some setting that I can fine tune the phone?
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I think that all the sgs2 have this kind of problem, the wifi reception is poor also in my house and it's a pity!!
lupos89 said:
I think that all the sgs2 have this kind of problem, the wifi reception is poor also in my house and it's a pity!!
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do u have slow download speed tooo ??
The issue is: All the antennas are on the back bottom side of the phone (where the embossment is). When you hold it in your hand you screen all the antennas and as consequence GSM, WiFi and Bluetooth reception and transmission become poorer. Just try to hold your phone by the top side and you will be surprised with all signals quality improvement. Good luck! That's an antenna's design fault, IMHO. You may check WiFi networks strength with WiFi Analyser app.
Try also to check TX power with WiFi TX Power utility (requires iwconfig to be installed). By default samsung uses 32dBm (max). For home use 4-11dBm is enough. Probably you have 4 dBm set up and it's not enough for your conditions.
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The issue is: All the antennas are on the back bottom side of the phone (where the embossment is). When you hold it in your hand you screen all the antennas and as consequence GSM, WiFi and Bluetooth reception and transmission become poorer. Just try to hold your phone by the top side and you will be surprised with all signals quality improvement. Good luck! That's an antenna's design fault, IMHO. You may check WiFi networks strength with WiFi Analyser app.
Try also to check TX power with WiFi TX Power utility (requires iwconfig to be installed). By default samsung uses 32dBm (max). For home use 4-11dBm is enough. Probably you have 4 dBm set up and it's not enough for your conditions.
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I don't even know I can adjust the transmission power. I have installed Wifi TX power utility but like what you said, it requires iwconfig. How can I install iwconfig? I am using Litening Rom with Ninphetamine-2.0.5 kernel.
Thanks.
Hi there,
Here is the zip file. Install it as zip update through CWM or CWM recovery. If first attempt is failed, just try again.
Ivan_Belarus said:
Hi there,
Here is the zip file. Install it as zip update through CWM or CWM recovery. If first attempt is failed, just try again.
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hey man! do u have any suggestion for download speed? my download speed is very slow ...
Is there a way in either the settings menu or an app that will prevent the Photon from constantly looking/pinging for a stronger tower? I have determined that once locked onto a tower and it stays locked (or locked onto wifi), my battery life is actually very good. For example, at lunch, I sit in my car for about 45 minutes connected to one of the 4g towers and am using the phone the whole time while listing to music/podcast and using the internet and I start with a full charge and will only lose between 10 to 15 percent of the battery.
However, where I actually live are a bunch of weak coverage areas. While sitting in the school car pickup line for about 30 minutes I will typically lose close to 40 percent of the battery and the temperature goes up to 107 – 110 while I do nothing with my phone. My normal temp is 93 – 95. I used one of the locale apps that tells you what cell tower number you are on and in the 30 minutes I was in the car line it connected to seven different towers switching between them all many times. The cell phone tower pinging also happens when at a football came (Bucs, Raymond James Stadium) because of the amount of people trying to use their phones. There is no possible way of making it through the six hours without the phone dying.
So my question is – without going into airplane mode is there a way to prevent the cell tower hopping? I would rather have a constant weak signal then having the phone constantly looking for a better signal.
I am rooted on stock rom.
I don't think so man. Cell signal plays a huge roll on cdma phones, obviously the better signal you have the better battery life. Ive never heard of a way to prevent cell tower hopping as these phones are programmed to link with the best tower it feels will offer best signal. Sometimes you'll be on a Verizon tower and that may be the best one around or it may be the worst but if its closest to you your phone will possibly connect to it. You don't have to turn on airplane mode; i use the data saver profile that only uses data when the screen is on so when screen is off i save a **** ton of battery because the phone isn't trying connect the radio.
This is the only feature remotely close to what you're asking and it won't prevent "tower hopping". This will just only connect to sprint towers if you choose "Sprint only" resulting in probably even worse battery life.
http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/7494/20110915114711.jpg
Thanks for your input. I was reading some of the other threads hear and found what you show in the picture. Mine was on any cdma and I switched it to auto as it was suggested it might help with 3g.
I am going to see how automatically performs today when I pick up my kid. Tomorrow I will switch to sprint only to see if that makes a difference.
I will report tomorrow evening with findings.
If we can get custom radios for the phone that should make a difference. The radio (afaik) contains the algorithm for determining which tower to connect to based on the PRL, among other things.
What battery setting will restrict data to only when the screen is on?
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What battery setting will restrict data to only when the screen is on?
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Go to settings and battery etc then find battery mode. Works like a charm i.swear.
http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/6687/20110915145312.jpg
By turning off data when screen is off , will data sync automatically when I wake the phone up?
Also, switching to automatic in the settings did not help while in my kid's car line at school. I am going to change to Sprint Only tomorrow and reboot before I leave work. I did not reboot today when I changed to automatically. Not sure if that makes a difference.
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By turning off data when screen is off , will data sync automatically when I wake the phone up?
Also, switching to automatic in the settings did not help while in my kid's car line at school. I am going to change to Sprint Only tomorrow and reboot before I leave work. I did not reboot today when I changed to automatically. Not sure if that makes a difference.
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Yes when u wake up the phone it will sync everything.
Just an update. Today my phone has never been better with battery and cell tower switching. The only other thing I did was reboot after changing to "automatically " . Real test will be this afternoon.
What really stands out is the battery tempature. At idle it is in the low 80s. After heavy use it is in low 90s. Maybe I did get lucky with the change.
I got my prime a week before the patch and I had no complaints with my wifi, but it seems like now I can barely hold a connection. After only s few minutes it'll disconnect and ill need to turn wifi off and on to be able t connect again, otherwise it just saves the network and doesn't actually connect.
When I do get connected, the wifi icon in the notification area is always showing no signal at all even though I can still use the internet. Even when I'm only a few feet from my router I still have the problem.
Anyways have a problem like this with the new update?
No, everything good for me after update. Update actually made wifi signal a lil more stable. It doesn't fluctuate as much anymore between strength frequencies.
Have you tried a reboot? Have you tried forgetting your network then entering the info in again?
I'm having exactly what you're describing, but only when I'm here at work using our wifi. At home, it stays connected like normal and works perfectly. Also, here at work the wifi symbol goes grey.
Going by these, my guess is something's up with our wireless here at work. Or something. I've only had problems here at work since somewhere after the update, but I can't say for sure that's the problem since it works so well at home...
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No, everything good for me after update. Update actually made wifi signal a lil more stable. It doesn't fluctuate as much anymore between strength frequencies.
Have you tried a reboot? Have you tried forgetting your network then entering the info in again?
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I have tried that before but just mow I just forgot all of my networks I've connected to then rebooted and now it actually shows me getting signal in the notification area instead if just showing an empty wifi icon. I'm not sure why it'd do that but in guess well see if it stays like this or not.
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I have tried that before but just mow I just forgot all of my networks I've connected to then rebooted and now it actually shows me getting signal in the notification area instead if just showing an empty wifi icon. I'm not sure why it'd do that but in guess well see if it stays like this or not.
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Sounds good. Lets hope it doesn't act up on you again.
Hol up, I think I know what you talking about. Did you mean you'd see your wifi icon and its connected but the bars are grey n not blue like it usually is when connected?
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Hol up, I think I know what you talking about. Did you mean you'd see your wifi icon and its connected but the bars are grey n not blue like it usually is when connected?
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This is what I get here at work. What does it mean? I googled around, and the only thing I could find was that if it's grey, you aren't connected to google voice or something? Heywire and the internet and stuff all work fine when it's grey for me.
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This is what I get here at work. What does it mean? I googled around, and the only thing I could find was that if it's grey, you aren't connected to google voice or something? Heywire and the internet and stuff all work fine when it's grey for me.
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Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I think it doesn't mean anything because you still connected n can use internet. Maybe just a bug or a delay from the bars starting to highlight blue to show signal strength. I've seen it a couple times bit I was still connected to internet n n such. I just briefly couldn't see the strength, through the bars since the blue highlights didn't fill up bars yet.
I don't think it has anything to do with Google voice. Probably just a bug.
I couldn't find anything regarding the grey bars that applied directly to tablets; all I could find was regarding smart phones, so it could be a completely different meaning.
Grey=push google services unreachable
Blue=normal connection to google services
Grey doesn't mean you cant connect to google services it just means its more of a request respond connection instead of bidirectional push.
I can't connect to any wifi at all unless it's my phone that's tethered and is literally right next my tablet. I removed all stored wifi networks (about 30 of them from different offices I work at). I tried to re-add the one at my house and it found one and connected but then dropped immediately. Now no connection at all. My laptop has full signal and my tablet is right next to me and has no signal. This is really making me debate about returning it.
So now after deleting all my wifi networks and rebooting it worked fine at my apartment, then I went to my university and I wasn't able to connect at all to their networks(it could just be that their networks are ****ty, but my phone can connect to it so I think its partly the Prime messing up). I was able to tether with my phone and connect to that, but I got the no signal icon thing again.
By the no signal icon thing, I don't mean the grey bars. No bars show up at all, like this: http://i.imgur.com/vt9SB.jpg
Normally when I get grey bars, you can actually see where the bars are at, but in that picture it's just all solid dark gray. When I get that icon down there, which still happens sometimes, it usually disconnects me after a few minutes and I need to turn the wifi off and then on again before I can connect again, only to have the same thing happen again in a few minutes.
Never seen that before. Try the same tactic at university n see if it corrects itself.
Sorry to hear abouut your problem. Based on my experience, you must have a problematic sample, and should return it. My unit was amoung the earliest batches (shipped to me on 12/18), and at all times, the wI-fI signal strength has been acceptable (on par with my Epic 4g phone
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I've given it about a day but, I also continue to have grey bars, though mine is via my wifi at home on my Prime. I can connect to the internet fine, but for some reason the connection to google servers is not working. I had blue bars for a few days after buying it but it has never gone blue again.
I've tried wiping data and updated to the new firmware with no change.
Any thoughts?
Hi, I have some spots in office and home that WIFI signal is strong enough for me to locate it but not strong enough for actually having internet access, and so it causes me to not have an internet access at all since 3G is disabled for WIFI but WIFI is dead.. :\
The option on the Advanced for "Avoid Poor connection" seems to work only for REALLY BAD signal, and a little bit more than that it approves..
(But I don't)..
Is there a way to edit it? re-arrange it so it will avoid "Fair" signals too? or set a minimum percentage of signal (lets say 50%) and less than that it forces 3G..
Or some great app that already built for that..
Thanks!!
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Hi, I have some spots in office and home that WIFI signal is strong enough for me to locate it but not strong enough for actually having internet access, and so it causes me to not have an internet access at all since 3G is disabled for WIFI but WIFI is dead.. :\
The option on the Advanced for "Avoid Poor connection" seems to work only for REALLY BAD signal, and a little bit more than that it approves..
(But I don't)..
Is there a way to edit it? re-arrange it so it will avoid "Fair" signals too? or set a minimum percentage of signal (lets say 50%) and less than that it forces 3G..
Or some great app that already built for that..
Thanks!!
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I am in the same boat. This is not a device specific issue as I've had the exact same issue on many models of Android phones and tablets.
Its only in one room of my home and I've just grown accustomed to, ok, time to sit on the pot, gotta disable wifi (luckily I get 4g).
The phone goes wonky between connecting and disconnecting and worsens when viewing in landscape (due to the antenna I'd assume).
It would be nice to be able to have a bit more adjustment with this feature.
I've noticed an issue with my Moto G Power when walking around facilities I work at. The phone seemingly refuses to roam to another AP prior to completely losing its signal. Typically it simply disconnects from the wireless network, and completely reconnects. If I'm walking around a lot the phone essentially doesn't have wireless connectivity.
I compared with two other phones, a Pixel 3A and Motorola G6 Play. Neither of those phones show the same behavior, they will roam to the next AP seamlessly. The phone is brand new but I did do a factory reset with no change. Anyone else seen this / have a solution?
UPDATE 1340 - I was standing in one spot with fairly poor signal quality. I'd estimate it took approximately 10-20 seconds and the phone finally jumped to a closer AP. I doubt there is anything I'll be able to tweak, at least not without root to resolve this. Really bizarre behavior.
I'm having same problem. Just read where you can disable wifi scanning. Not sure if it saves the ones you want to keep.
I switched to a different SSID and the roaming works as expected. The only difference is the new SSID was protected, versus open. Doesn't make a lot of sense given the APs / controller are the same for both SSIDs.
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I'm having same problem. Just read where you can disable wifi scanning. Not sure if it saves the ones you want to keep.
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