I flashed clockworkmod recovery from the CWM app. I rebooted and gave me bootloop. I force rebooted into recovery, cleared cache and dalvik cache and booted fine. The problem is that wifi says turning on, but never actually turns on. After the boot every app gave a force close so I installed them again with titanium.(I don't know if it is relevant, but I say it anyway!). I am on stock, rooted 3.2. Any help will be appreciated guys.
EDIT: I tried rebooting, and activating/deactivating flight mode (I forgot to mention that I have the 16gb 7500).
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Panos_dm said:
I flashed clockworkmod recovery from the CWM app. I rebooted and gave me bootloop. I force rebooted into recovery, cleared cache and dalvik cache and booted fine. The problem is that wifi says turning on, but never actually turns on. After the boot every app gave a force close so I installed them again with titanium.(I don't know if it is relevant, but I say it anyway!). I am on stock, rooted 3.2. Any help will be appreciated guys.
EDIT: I tried rebooting, and activating/deactivating flight mode (I forgot to mention that I have the 16gb 7500).
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Don't know if it will help but it has helped me in the past to goto settings and have it forget all the wifi connections and then when it refinds the wifi you want to use connect to it again setting it up add needed, mine was just the default settings. Rebooted and everything was good to got.
HTH
Edit: After reading your post again, I'm wondering if its even found any wireless networks.
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Benzoman said:
Don't know if it will help but it has helped me in the past to goto settings and have it forget all the wifi connections and then when it refinds the wifi you want to use connect to it again setting it up add needed, mine was just the default settings. Rebooted and everything was good to got.
HTH
Edit: After reading your post again, I'm wondering if its even found any wireless networks.
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Thanks for your time but it seems like you can't help me.. Wifi doesn't work at all!!!! That is the problem. I managed to turn it off by rebooting after turning airplane mode on and off, but after reboot when I either click on wifi or turning airplane mode off, the problem is there....
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could be wrong but if it just keeps saying 'turning on' then eventually unchecks itself, this is usually a kernel module error. try reflashing your kernel and/or rom?
zefie said:
could be wrong but if it just keeps saying 'turning on' then eventually unchecks itself, this is usually a kernel module error. try reflashing your kernel and/or rom?
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Well, I was afraid of that. I had a similar problem with my phone a couple of months back. I just hoped that it wouldn't come to this...So it appears it's time for the tab's first custom rom...
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Usually kernel issues can be fixed by flashing another kernel via CWM on top of it.
Misledz said:
Usually kernel issues can be fixed by flashing another kernel via CWM on top of it.
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Well yes. I wanted to see if anytjing could be done by remaining stock. But I think it is about time to check out the ICS build. And try another rom. I think I will go for overcome. But thanks anyway!
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Might wanna try different options, Overcome has it's own stock kernel, aswell as ICS (Pershoots) but you are welcome to try what suits you best Hopefully the problem fixes itself, magically
Actually I flashed pershoot's kernel but nothing happened. A factory reset solved the problem, but I went on and installed ICS. It's just perfect! Anyway, it has its bugs, so I flashed overcome and everything is well Now I wait for cyanogenmod to work its magic...Thanks for everyone's help. Other thing that bugs me: If i flash stock rom from sammobile will the flash counter increase, since it will be an "official" rom?
Id like to know that too, my phone has been flashed aleast 150+ times over the past 7 months *Developer pride? * so I wanna know how to reset counters o.o
Well I have asked this question in 4 different forums and it is the third time on xda...Seems noone knows...
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I think official still count's as a counter+1, but so far only Samsung knows how to reset the counter :| I think they keep it secret just so their consumer's don't sue them saying "Samsung faulty products"
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This started happening a few days ago, the wifi whenever attempted to be turned on, would just say error. I have done multiple factory resets and soft resets. The device has been rooted before, no roms installed. The only things I haven't tried is rom flashing because when ever I try to download CWRM it requires me to download something off the phone, and well, I don't have a data plan either. Does anyone have a solution?
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This started happening a few days ago, the wifi whenever attempted to be turned on, would just say error. I have done multiple factory resets and soft resets. The device has been rooted before, no roms installed. The only things I haven't tried is rom flashing because when ever I try to download CWRM it requires me to download something off the phone, and well, I don't have a data plan either. Does anyone have a solution?
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back up you sd card to pc and reflash a stock rom in odin...use this guide if you need directions. scroll down to section 5, which is the going back to stock section.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1238070
droidstyle said:
back up you sd card to pc and reflash a stock rom in odin...use this guide if you need directions. scroll down to section 5, which is the going back to stock section.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1238070
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Darn, I was really hoping that would fix it. I did the procedure and I still says error when clicking on wifi. Thanks for the suggestion though.
bump, problem is still unsolved
robzor562 said:
bump, problem is still unsolved
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I think you have a hardware problem being you wiped clean and reinstalled. time for a replacement maybe??
Replacement isn't an option :/. Something I've noticed is when I reset the wifi will work for a good 10 seconds then fail and constantly give me an error.
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I think you have a hardware problem being you wiped clean and reinstalled. time for a replacement maybe??
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I agree, sounds like a hardware problem. Replacement might be your only option.
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So I flashed CM9 alpha 13(after wiping) but can't get service to activate on my phone. Same problem I'm having with alpha 9. I use the activate button when it starts and it tells me it failed. Under "About Phone" and "Status" I can see that the My Phone Number setting is wrong so is the MIN.
When I call my carrier to manually activate, the short codes they give me to manually input this info do not work.
Anybody else had this problem?
Go into Sprint Zone, and try to manually activate.
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Nevermind. That won't work. Sorry
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Flash cm9 and reboot dont install gapps till after it activates
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I will try this. Thank you sir!!
Ok, so I wiped... Flashed CM9. Rebooted. The activation call failed, so I called sprint to manually activate again. They asked me to punch in ##971912# which is supposed to pop up a dialog screen where I can manually input MIN etc but did not. Not sure what to do.
Flash back to a blur rom activate then reflash
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Ok, so I wiped... Flashed CM9. Rebooted. The activation call failed, so I called sprint to manually activate again. They asked me to punch in ##971912# which is supposed to pop up a dialog screen where I can manually input MIN etc but did not. Not sure what to do.
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Ok, I've got my phone up and running on Rocko's ROM. I'm doing a nand backup now. So, to be clear... I need go to my recovery. Data Reset and wipe dalvik cache. Then I need to flash CM9. I then need to activate(or make sure I'm still activated), and once that is confirmed I need to flash Gapps?
Sorry. I'm just trying to figure out where I went wrong the first time...
Try that, you're the first person to have issues so its a new issues
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Ok, I've got my phone up and running on Rocko's ROM. I'm doing a nand backup now. So, to be clear... I need go to my recovery. Data Reset and wipe dalvik cache. Then I need to flash CM9. I then need to activate(or make sure I'm still activated), and once that is confirmed I need to flash Gapps?
Sorry. I'm just trying to figure out where I went wrong the first time...
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tcf84 said:
So I flashed CM9 alpha 13(after wiping) but can't get service to activate on my phone. Same problem I'm having with alpha 9. I use the activate button when it starts and it tells me it failed. Under "About Phone" and "Status" I can see that the My Phone Number setting is wrong so is the MIN.
When I call my carrier to manually activate, the short codes they give me to manually input this info do not work.
Anybody else had this problem?
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I had this problem as well. I've also bricked my phone flashing an electrify pudding by mistake on my photon. My fix after fixing my boot loader issues was: I reverted to completely stock. Then I called sprint and had to reactivate my phone. After getting everything working and having a secure connection for over a day I then flashed cm7 to make sure that would work. After it did I did a says wipe and wiped everything else. And flashed cm9 then went into recovery wiped and flashed again. Then I flashed gapps and boot up. After booting up I went back and wiped again. And then used the phone for about twenty minutes and wiped and flashed "all" again. It was a long drawn out process. But I have had none of the issues that people are having on the forum. Battery life is great after calibrating. 3G is almost as fast as the 4G I had. Never have a single reboot or battery pull. Wifi and Bluetooth bead on perfect. I'm new to xda but not development. I'd post my success in the forum, but I'm not yet at ten post.
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I had this problem as well. I've also bricked my phone flashing an electrify pudding by mistake on my photon. My fix after fixing my boot loader issues was: I reverted to completely stock. Then I called sprint and had to reactivate my phone. After getting everything working and having a secure connection for over a day I then flashed cm7 to make sure that would work. After it did I did a says wipe and wiped everything else. And flashed cm9 then went into recovery wiped and flashed again. Then I flashed gapps and boot up. After booting up I went back and wiped again. And then used the phone for about twenty minutes and wiped and flashed "all" again. It was a long drawn out process. But I have had none of the issues that people are having on the forum. Battery life is great after calibrating. 3G is almost as fast as the 4G I had. Never have a single reboot or battery pull. Wifi and Bluetooth bead on perfect. I'm new to xda but not development. I'd post my success in the forum, but I'm not yet at ten post.
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I tried reverting to stock as outlined by qbking77 but every time I sbf'ed the file as instructed I lost my recovery. The 'Unlocked' notice disappeared as it was supposed to but once I did that I couldn't get any recoveries to stick, stock or CWM, until I "re-unlocked" the phone with that sbf. Even then I couldn't get the stock recovery to write properly.
I'm pretty new to all of this. I unlocked my Optimus S and tried a few ROMs on it before I settled on Reborn Rom, but that's about my only experience with these things. I'm not incompetent(I hope) when it comes to this stuff, but it's definitely a learning curve. I'd like to master the whole process though so I can delve into the dev side of things a bit.
Joker - Thanks for the help. I'm up and running with no problems.
What did you do?
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Joker - Thanks for the help. I'm up and running with no problems.
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A combination of what you and FanBoy suggested. First I wiped and flashed Rocko ROM. Got the phone to activate. Then I wiped. Flashed CM9. Wiped again. Booted up and verified service was active. Wiped again, Flashed CM9 again, wiped again, and flashed gapps v3.
I really don't know what the problem was to start. I originally tried to flash CM7 and couldn't get signal at all. So I flashed MIUI with the same issue. Finally I flashed CM9 and had signal but couldn't activate. So the problem wasn't tied to CM9, but I honestly have no idea what I did to lose signal/activation or to gain either of those back, but my phone does work now and I've successfully flashed both CM9 and Rocko without the loss of signal or service and have nand backups of both since my biggest problem originally stemmed from not having a nand backup of my latest working set up.
I think I hear the ice cream man!
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A combination of what you and FanBoy suggested. First I wiped and flashed Rocko ROM. Got the phone to activate. Then I wiped. Flashed CM9. Wiped again. Booted up and verified service was active. Wiped again, Flashed CM9 again, wiped again, and flashed gapps v3.
I really don't know what the problem was to start. I originally tried to flash CM7 and couldn't get signal at all. So I flashed MIUI with the same issue. Finally I flashed CM9 and had signal but couldn't activate. So the problem wasn't tied to CM9, but I honestly have no idea what I did to lose signal/activation or to gain either of those back, but my phone does work now and I've successfully flashed both CM9 and Rocko without the loss of signal or service and have nand backups of both since my biggest problem originally stemmed from not having a nand backup of my latest working set up.
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Most custom roms disallow communication from what ever it is that allows you to activate with sprint. I noticed that porting in sprintzone.apk often doesn't work and you can't activate with the dialer because it requires communication with sprintzone. So you need to flash to a rom that allows activation and then work your way back up. Glad to hear you got it working.
This is the second phone this has happened to, so I'm inclined to believe the problem resides in either the recovery package or there is no way to go from ICS to stock. Here's what I did and what the result was.
1. Initial phone was having hardware issues. I needed to return it to the warranty exchange depot, so I went to flash the no BL file that you can download from the recovery thread. Everything indicated that it flashed just fine. Phone reboots after the process and it gets the the "rethink Everything" splash screen and just sits there. After a minute, it reboots the phone again. Does the same thing. I take the phone in and get it swapped out under warranty.
2. Load CM9 on new phone and notice that GPS doesn't work. Everyone else says theirs works for the same nightly (5/22), so obviously it's my phone that's the problem or a bad flash. Flash a new nightly (5/29) and GPS still doesn't work. I want to flash back to stock to ensure that it's the hardware that's the problem, not the software. I download the most current recovery NO BL file from the recovery thread to ensure I have a good one. Flash it and the exact same thing happens. I get the splash screen then a reboot.
So now the question is, does flashing ICS permanently make it so you can't flash back? Does ICS work fine, but for some reason CM9 doesnt? Has anyone else done this without a problem? If so, what did you do because 2 phones 'bricking' like this isn't convinsing me that it can be done.
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This is the second phone this has happened to, so I'm inclined to believe the problem resides in either the recovery package or there is no way to go from ICS to stock. Here's what I did and what the result was.
1. Initial phone was having hardware issues. I needed to return it to the warranty exchange depot, so I went to flash the no BL file that you can download from the recovery thread. Everything indicated that it flashed just fine. Phone reboots after the process and it gets the the "rethink Everything" splash screen and just sits there. After a minute, it reboots the phone again. Does the same thing. I take the phone in and get it swapped out under warranty.
2. Load CM9 on new phone and notice that GPS doesn't work. Everyone else says theirs works for the same nightly (5/22), so obviously it's my phone that's the problem or a bad flash. Flash a new nightly (5/29) and GPS still doesn't work. I want to flash back to stock to ensure that it's the hardware that's the problem, not the software. I download the most current recovery NO BL file from the recovery thread to ensure I have a good one. Flash it and the exact same thing happens. I get the splash screen then a reboot.
So now the question is, does flashing ICS permanently make it so you can't flash back? Does ICS work fine, but for some reason CM9 doesnt? Has anyone else done this without a problem? If so, what did you do because 2 phones 'bricking' like this isn't convinsing me that it can be done.
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I know it works, I just used it the other day to go from ics to gb. Did you do a factory reset after flashing? Make sure you have your sdcard backed up before you use stock recovery.
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I know it works, I just used it the other day to go from ics to gb. Did you do a factory reset after flashing? Make sure you have your sdcard backed up before you use stock recovery.
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by factory reset, you mean from the recovery console?
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I know it works, I just used it the other day to go from ics to gb. Did you do a factory reset after flashing? Make sure you have your sdcard backed up before you use stock recovery.
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Ok. You may now mock me. I did a factory reset and it worked. Feel like such a noob.
nothing to see here folks. Move along. Red, you can shut 'er down.
stalked_r/t said:
Ok. You may now mock me. I did a factory reset and it worked. Feel like such a noob.
nothing to see here folks. Move along. Red, you can shut 'er down.
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No one would mock you over this. It is your experience.
Next time, when somebody hit the same or similar problem, do help them.
Friendly reminder.. If you can start your title with [q], it probably belongs in QA...
Mock mock mock!
Great to know, this may not be posted and is only available as "common knowledge". You sir have made this solution available to anyone searching for it. Thank you!
Clay
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Hello everyone
Since a few days ago my S2's Wifi is not working
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The icon stays like this, pressing it does nothing. it happened 3 - 4 times before, usually, I'd just reboot it and that would do the trick (I google'd a bit and saw this is a common glitch when trying to turn wifi on), but not anymore, it refuses to turn on no matter what I do, rebooting, shutting down and restarting, it's stuck.
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I can't Scan, add a network nor switch the toggle on/off because pressing them does nothing, So... I thought I should do backup and factory reset it, nope. still stuck.
What's wrong with it? Any ideas? The phone is a year old, running 4.0.3 Stock
Sorry about the dots in the URL's, can't post links yet.
Edit: Forgot to mention it started doing this since I got ICS, maybe I should try flashing it to see if that fixes it, I'm kinda reluctant though, since the factory reset didn't seem to do anything and I haven't done it before.
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Hello everyone
Since a few days ago my S2's Wifi is not working
h.ttp://i.imgur.com/ojDOm.png
The icon stays like this, pressing it does nothing. it happened 3 - 4 times before, usually, I'd just reboot it and that would do the trick (I google'd a bit and saw this is a common glitch when trying to turn wifi on), but not anymore, it refuses to turn on no matter what I do, rebooting, shutting down and restarting, it's stuck.
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I can't Scan, add a network nor switch the toggle on/off because pressing them does nothing, So... I thought I should do backup and factory reset it, nope. still stuck.
What's wrong with it? Any ideas? The phone is a year old, running 4.0.3 Stock
Sorry about the dots in the URL's, can't post links yet.
Edit: Forgot to mention it started doing this since I got ICS, maybe I should try flashing it to see if that fixes it, I'm kinda reluctant though, since the factory reset didn't seem to do anything and I haven't done it before.
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Do the steps below
- Boot to CWM recovery
- wipe cache partition
- wipe dalvik cache (under advanced)
- fix permissions (under advanced)
- reboot system now
The above steps will not make you lose some files and data
If that does not help, then flash another kernel
Since putting a custom kernel on my phone my bluetooth does exactly the same as what your wife is doing. Only way to turn it on is to reboot the phone whilst it is trying to turn on (ie whilst it is a shade of green)
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Do the steps below
- Boot to CWM recovery
- wipe cache partition
- wipe dalvik cache (under advanced)
- fix permissions (under advanced)
- reboot system now
The above steps will not make you lose some files and data
If that does not help, then flash another kernel
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Gonna try that and flash CM9 while I'm at it, never done this before... Lets see how it goes following the steps on CM's wiki
Cathari said:
Gonna try that and flash CM9 while I'm at it, never done this before... Lets see how it goes following the steps on CM's wiki
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you should be Ok its relativley straight forward
Well, Flashed in CWM Recovery and CM9, wiped cache, Dalvik cache and fixed permissions but the wifi is still not working... it's still stuck at "Turning Wi-Fi on"
I really have no idea about kernels and that stuff, I don't know how to flash 'em (unless it's the same as flashing CWM) or which one to get at all, since theres too many and I don't know what they do/know if they're compatible.
Flashing kernels are the same as flashing ROMs and modems..
There are 2 ways to flash kernels.. 1 is via odin (.tar file) and 2 is via CWM (.zip file)
Now, if your ROM is on JB then use a JB Kernel
If ICS = ICS Kernel
AOKP = AOKP Kernel
AOSP = AOSP Kernel
The thing with kernel is that you have to match it with the ROM's base..
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Hm...Checked my phone 7 hours after flashing CM9 on it and suddenly the Wifi's back on
Any explanation for this? It doesn't make any sense, I didn't even touch the phone during that time and it fixed itself?
Edit: Thanks for clarifying that up saywhatt, since I already flashed if and thus, voided the warranty I might as well go ahead and try flashing a kernel to improve battery life and get into the scene.
Cathari said:
Hm...Checked my phone 7 hours after flashing CM9 on it and suddenly the Wifi's back on
Any explanation for this? It doesn't make any sense, I didn't even touch the phone during that time and it fixed itself?
Edit: Thanks for clarifying that up saywhatt, since I already flashed if and thus, voided the warranty I might as well go ahead and try flashing a kernel to improve battery life and get into the scene.
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No problem.
Perhaps the ROM was "settling"? Lol i dunno.. but i'm glad to hear you got it sorted out. You can revert back to complete stock if you have some serious problems and it is needed to be sent to the service center..
1 download triangle away to clear the binary count
2 flash stock firmware
Voila! U no longer have a void warranty
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Hi,
I have a problem with my Wi-Fi. After a while it starts to go very slow. I have checked it with a speed test and its about 0.5 mbits. I first fixed the problem with a factory reset, but it came back after a day.
I have since found that a cache wipe, from the stock recovery menu, fixes the problem too, but it comes back again after about a day or even less.
I tried some cache wiping apps, but only the wipe from the recovery menu seems to do the trick.
I am on stock JB and I don't want to root out put a custom ROM on yet as my phone is still under warranty.
How can I find out what's causing the problem? It's getting rather annoying having to go to the recovery menu every day.
Thanks
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Anyone?
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No?
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kingkevbo said:
Hi,
I have a problem with my Wi-Fi. After a while it starts to go very slow. I have checked it with a speed test and its about 0.5 mbits. I first fixed the problem with a factory reset, but it came back after a day.
I have since found that a cache wipe, from the stock recovery menu, fixes the problem too, but it comes back again after about a day or even less.
I tried some cache wiping apps, but only the wipe from the recovery menu seems to do the trick.
I am on stock JB and I don't want to root out put a custom ROM on yet as my phone is still under warranty.
How can I find out what's causing the problem? It's getting rather annoying having to go to the recovery menu every day.
Thanks
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That is strange? Maybe its an app you have installed or maybe a bug in the filmware. Head over to "samfilmware" and download the latest build for your version.
Dont think flashing official firmware from there will void your warranty as its official.
stonedpsycho said:
That is strange? Maybe its an app you have installed or maybe a bug in the filmware. Head over to "samfilmware" and download the latest build for your version.
Dont think flashing official firmware from there will void your warranty as its official.
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Tried flashing the latest stock ROM, same temporary fix like wiping the cache, but after a few hours, goes back to normal. This is with no other apps installed, other than the speedtest app, which I installed after I first identified the problem, so its not an app.
Another thing I noticed is that it went away after I disabled the 5Ghz wifi connection on my router, but it came back. The I tried manual wifi channel instead of auto, same thing. Problem went away, and then came back.
If I change the wifi channel the problem goes away, and then comes back after a few hours.
It seems like wifi settings must have something to do wit it, but I can find a combination which cures it completely.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, this is starting to drive me bonkers:crying:
Try hawkerpaul s GS2Nuke script, if it doesn't work try another wifi (other then the one at your home), if it works with another wifi then reset your router, if it doesn't work try making it without password.