My wifi has been pretty good from the beginning. However, since updating to .21 I`m having problems. My wifi stays connected but every once in a while data stops coming in through the connection. I know it`s not the router because my other wifi devices are fine when this happens. The only solution is to turn off my wifi and then turn it back on. This problem is getting worse and worse over the last 2 days. Today I can barely use my Prime as the wifi keeps getting stuck*. Anyone else seeing this.
Jeff
Seems slower to me. Can't connect where I used to with out signal drop.
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Try rebooting the router....It's a fix that works many of the times....don't know if it willl help your specific need....but easy to try
Bob
I've had similar problems, a bit annoying.
Would also like to see an option to auto download images in emails, also some glitches in the browser search.
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I had tried rebooting the router already....didn't change anything. But following advice I received on another site I solved the problem. I did a hard reset, then I deleted the router from my wifi networks. Did another hard reset and then reconnected to my router. It seems to have worked. I did this a few hours ago and so far all is good.
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Problem 1. Many times, I will pick up my NT after it has been sitting idle for a number of hours, and wifi simply will not connect. I try to turn it off and back on in the settings, but it says it is unable to turn wifi off. I power cycle the device and it works again. This will happen on an almost daily basis.
Problem 2. Once wifi is working, certain websites will not load, or will load just once and wont' load again for hours. For example, I bookmarked these forums, and I check them often for updates. I wasn't having any problem at all until the last couple weeks. I'm rooted with google apps, i'm using the original browser. A few moments ago, I loaded the big list of forums. It worked fine. I clicked on THIS forum, however, and it would no longer load. I can browse the forums on my Droid Charge, my Desktop PC, my iPad and my girlfriend's iPhone 4s, so I know the website is not down, and it's a problem with the NT only. Other websites on the NT work fine. I can run the Speedtest app on the tablet with no problems. I can run wifi analyzer. This problem even occurs on Dolphin Browser.
I'm about to just do a factory restore again and give up on rooting for now. This was the same problem that made me restore a few weeks ago. The browser just becomes borked after being rooted for x amount of time.
Has anyone else encountered this problem?
Just an update: After factory restoring using it for a while, and then re-rooting, I've noticed that problem 2 has never re-occurred. I'm not certain what was happening. Very strange. I reproduced the problem over and over before posting. I even tried resetting my router and modem just in case.
Problem 1 persists. Rebooting always fixes the problem temporarily, but if the device goes to sleep for a few hours whether charging or not, it will almost always need a reboot. I always try to turn wifi off and back on, but the device is unable to disable wifi during this issue. I never noticed this problem while the device was unrooted, though I'll admit I didn't keep it stock, unrooted, very long.
I'm rooted and I don't have either of the problems you mentioned. I use the dolphin browser exclusively. I'd definitely go back to stock and then re-root.
Been rooted a week. Use Dolphin-Mini and little on no trouble. WiFi seems to reach pretty far. I sometimes need to restart if idle a while.
I have not had any issues with wifi.
It's you. I have yet to have an issue with wifi. Netflix amazon player, dolphinhd etc.. all hage worked almost flawlessly
I've experienced Problem 1, where I'll need to reboot wifi after leaving my rooted Nook idle overnight, a couple of times. But it's only happened 3 or 4 times to the dozens of nights I've left it on overnight. Otherwise, I haven't experienced Problem 2 or any other issues connecting to the internet using wifi. My Nook seems rock solid in that department.
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I've experienced Problem 1, where I'll need to reboot wifi after leaving my rooted Nook idle overnight, a couple of times. But it's only happened 3 or 4 times to the dozens of nights I've left it on overnight. Otherwise, I haven't experienced Problem 2 or any other issues connecting to the internet using wifi. My Nook seems rock solid in that department.
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Same Here.
I am having the same problem 1 the past two days or so. I have sideloaded amazon app store, GO Launcher EX, the Nook app manager and several sideloaded apps from the amazon store. Also running ZD Box.
I will have the wifi just go out with the same message, I turn off and back on and its fine. I figured its one of those issues that will be cleaned up with the next update.
My son has a Nook Color still on software 1.3 and he has had it once or twice.
I am having the same problem with the Nook needing to be rebooted after sitting idle. I am rooted but I don't know if this was a problem while the device was unrooted because I only had it for about a day before rooting. Could it be Go Launcher causing the problem? Because it sounds like the poster above me isn't even rooted.
I leave wifi on 24/7, but only have my NT associated with my home network and my mifi. I have not had any issues reassociating with either of my networks after sitting in my backpack all day.
Wifi so far works great for me.
I've had my NT for over a month now, and no problems with wi-fi. My wife's 1st Edition has to be rebooted and charged up to 100% to get the wi-fi to work right. I think her problem is she keeps letting the device run down to well below 50% before reconnecting to the charger. Less power- less signal strength, I guess.
There are a couple of free apps in the market that might help you. WiFi Analyzer will pick up all the nearby signals and reporrt their strength. You can walk around your premises and see how well your router is reaching various areas.
Just a thought.
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Power-saving settings to blame?
I've seen this during three weeks of using my NT. It's not a new problem.
I used an iPaq on my home wifi for years and noted that when I enabled power saving on the wifi NIC on the iPaq, it would get stupid and lose throughput completely from time to time. I'd have to cycle the connection to get it back.
Sounds familiar.
I had it happen sporadically with my NT.
Since BN did my OTA update to 1.41 a week ago, I have not seen this happen.
I don't think sideloading is the cause since I noted this very early on in using the Nook before I sideloaded it.
I believe this is an unfortunate implementation glitch with a lot of wifi NIC's and access points, and not unique to the Nook.
No problems with mine which is rooted. Wifi works great.
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My grouse with the NT's wifi is that it seems to be pretty "weak" - signals that my laptop and Nokia N8 could find and connect aren't even visible on the Nook Tablet. That's rather inconvenient.
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My grouse with the NT's wifi is that it seems to be pretty "weak" - signals that my laptop and Nokia N8 could find and connect aren't even visible on the Nook Tablet. That's rather inconvenient.
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I've had the opposite experience, In basements and rooms where my phone or notebook have spotty access, the NT has held on like a champ.
This sounds more like a "my router and my NT don't play nice" which is a problem that I have had with my mothers Iphone and my own Droid 3. I changed some settings on the router and it worked for the iPhone, and setting a static IP helped my phone.
A widget to switch wifi on and off quickly is recomended, so that you can "reboot" your wireless. So to speak.
Its also possibly your device is defective? Try it with the wi-fi at work or at school and see if it has better stability.
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I used an iPaq on my home wifi for years and noted that when I enabled power saving on the wifi NIC on the iPaq, it would get stupid and lose throughput completely from time to time. I'd have to cycle the connection to get it back.
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Man, I haven't even thought about the iPAQ in years. I used to use one all the time until I bought my first smartphone. I had to Google it after you brought it up just for a quick trip down memory lane.
I have power save enabled on my NT and still am not having this problem at all; however, my battery is not getting below 75%. Are you guys maybe seeing this problem after the battery drops to a certain percentage, or is it all the time?
EDIT: I will also point out that if you look at the B&N Nook Forums, other Nook models like the Simple Touch are known to have wifi issues. I had a NST and it would absolutely refuse to get a DHCP address from my home router, so I would just connect it to my mifi when I had the odd occasion to need connectivity on it.
My NT is rooted and I have a similar problem but only with my router not not necessarily all routers. I just unplug my router and plug it back in and it reconnects with no problems. However, before I had my OTAs blocked, I got updated to 1.4.1 and the the issue was definitely fixed. However, that fix was not worth keeping the update. I am back to 1.4.0 and love my NT.
My NT has better wifi reception then my samsung Infuse.
(Posting here as i cant post in the wifi thread in the dev forum)
Last week I tried Bricked ROM with the 0.4 and 0.35 kernel and wifi was bad. Once it went I had to do all sorts of things to get it back up and it used to go many times a day.
I'm on ClassicNerd 0.1.0 now and it is much better. I'll lose connectivity maybe once a day but can get it back usually straightaway by turning wifi off and back on.
With both roms i did ACMEUninstall, webos doctor and multiple wipes of data, cache and system.
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I've resorted to never resetting my touchpad. lol.lame I know but when it works it stays fine .....only until I reset.
sucks
Had a similar issue when my ISP upgraded my router to a virgin super hub ( its a re branded netgear one ) my solution was to disable the router function and connect my old belkin n600 play and now my wifi works and never disconnects even on the 5Ghz mode.
In my case I don't think it was a router issue. Both ROMs were used with the same router/channel as well as at the local Starbucks. BrickedROM had the problems I mentioned above with both routers and similarly ClassicNerd is pretty much problem-free with the same two routers.
It seemed that for whatever reason the WiFi would go to 'sleep' even though the OS thought it was working. So I would get the WiFi signal icon but it would never go blue or show any activity whatsoever. Once it had gone to 'sleep' though, it wasn't straightforward how to wake it up. Sometimes it needed some 'rest' so I was turning it off and back on after a few minutes, other times it would persist even after rebooting. I would even forget the network, turn it off, reboot, etc and repeating a few times but I never found a pattern that would work consistently! Very-very frustrating experience!
You talking about the bricked rom from feb02? I am currently running that (upgraded from cm7) with v0.35 kernal and don't seem to have any issues at all. Just a silly question, but can you connect in webOS
Hi,
I dont have my Prime rooted. I updated to version .15 several weeks (?) ago. I am from Europe where these update works without issues. Anyway that was some time ago but two days ago my Prime started to dropping wi-fi connections every 5-10 minutes. Extended controls widgets says "Wi-fi Interface disconected". In setting it shows me the full signal, but it is just disconnected and I cannot connected back. Everytime I have to disable and enable wi-fi to make it run again.
Any idea what causes this? Thanks!
I've been getting sth similar at times, even having to reboot to get a stable wifi again to solve "No Internet Connection" and being unable to see any access points. Thought it was just my Prime....
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Yes I have to reboot all the time. It is ok for you already??
Not much problems the past couple days but very tempted to do a factory reset!
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Not much problems the past couple days but very tempted to do a factory reset!
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A factory reset can solve all kinds of odd software glitches. Let us know if it resolves this issue.
It looks like this is brought up around the net a little bit but I don't see anything here. I'm having problems where my wifi connects fine, works great and then seems to stop. It still shows it connected but it isn't receiving any data. The other issue I have is if I leave the area and come back in range, it'll reconnect but says that it isn't getting any data from the connection. A quick on/off of airport mode seems to clean it up for a little while but it does continue to cut out again.
Sorry if this is a duplicate issue on here but I didn't see it.
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No issues here, are you running 13.1.1.0 or 13.1.0.2?
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No issues here, are you running 13.1.1.0 or 13.1.0.2?
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13.3.1.0
Been having issues like this... Doesn't totally seem to lose connection, just slows to a crawl. Other devices don't seem to have an issue when it happens
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I've had it happen before, but I have a flaky DSL connection and I chalked it up to the source rather than the tablet. It seems to coincide more after tablet's gone to sleep for a while and need to re-engage WiFi.
Mine is getting worse.. Think I may return it. Loses connection all the time while everything else in the house is working
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I wonder if it's the WiFi driver and the screen not updating the current WiFi status.
Sometimes if I get to a game that hides the notif bar and then go "home" again I get a WiFi -X (disconnected) icon. I then had to 'recycle' (airport mode) the connection and it works again.
Probably had something to do with sleep and re-init WiFi. JuiceDefender had a setting for this, but sideload that is gonna be a PITA.
I've never had a connection issue per say with the Wi-Fi, but I have had the issue that's going around a little where sometimes if I turn my Wi-Fi on and it's connecting the HDX will just restart. Haven't had it happen to me much, 1 maybe 2 times in owning it a couple weeks? No issues in terms of connectivity to my network when and while connecting though, on 13.3.1.0
As per the internetz.. I've set the IP to static and haven't had the same problems again... Will keep posted
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I just reset the entire WiFi connection (forget the SSID, then reenter a password, which is a royal PITA as I have a VERY VERY VERY long passphrase) and that seem to have resolved it. May be a corrupted settings saved?
I haven't noticed any issues with mine. You might want to (unless you don't want to lol) factory reset the kindle if you already haven't.
I spoke too soon. had a problem with my wifi cutting out twice these last 2 days. i'm sending this thing back. not sure if i'm going to get another one. really hate fire os
I think part of the problem is Amazon chose NOT to put in any sort of a "progress bar" in most of its apps, thus makes us think the whole thing's frozen. it also hid the status bar so we can't see if it's really stuck with an app like SeePU. ARGH!
Once I was on the MayDay button doing video chat with Amazon rep when we were both surprised that the Amazon store just came alive after two data resets (from AppInfo). Apparently it was just downloading stuff in the background and gave NO indication whether it's actually doing something or not.
I was having the same issue, got a replacement device and it's working fine.
When I open my Origami cover and Kindle comes out of sleep mode, my wifi has an small x on it. It never seems to reconnect or wakeup. I have to go into settings, turn off wifi and turn it on again to get it going.
Is anyone else having problems like this?
From time to time I have some problems with wifi. I don't know though if it has to do with the kindle itself.. I mean it seems more like when the network (meaning the router) has some disconnections the kindle doesn't register itself back automatically... I have to use it on another WLAN network though to see if it has to do with what I think it has. Nevertheless I than need to go turn off WLAN and turn it on again like you do.
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I had the very same issue when I was rooted. I unrooted and the issue went away. I too use the origami case.
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Me three, kind of. I don't get the x on the icon. It shows as connected but Silk etc timeout.
I thought it was Hola VPN at first but it does it even when Hola is uninstalled. Simple fix though and doesn't really bother me.
Edit: I'm not rooted...
The worst issue is when you turn off wifi, turn off your device, then turn on your device and turn on wifi. The device is just rebooting and then connects to wifi. Do you have this issue to?
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I have the same issue occasionally. Not using any cover or anything, but I am rooted. If I wait a few minutes the x goes away on its own, but usually I just turn off wifi and turn it back on.
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From time to time I have some problems with wifi. I don't know though if it has to do with the kindle itself.. I mean it seems more like when the network (meaning the router) has some disconnections the kindle doesn't register itself back automatically... I have to use it on another WLAN network though to see if it has to do with what I think it has. Nevertheless I than need to go turn off WLAN and turn it on again like you do.
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I have an old WRT54G v1.1, will have to try a newer router.
I am on another router now. I am going to try for some days and post impressions. But what about the other issue I am stating? Do you guys have it as well?
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WiFi Issue
I am rooted and have SafeStrap installed. My WiFi I noticed today dropped the signal. It show connected, but not to my network. I turn off WiFi and then go to turn it back on and find that it is grayed out. I reboot, go back and turn on WiFi again and it grays out although it shows that it is turning on WiFi. It never connects. I rebooted a third time, turned on WiFi again and was able to connect to my network. Weird.
It is not the kindle. Android 4.2.x has severe WiFi issues. It can even crash routers on connecting to older routers. Try using newer routers.
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Patch7 said:
I had the very same issue when I was rooted. I unrooted and the issue went away. I too use the origami case.
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Me too, buy the way , my thor is from JP