I have had my Thunderbolt for over a year now and have been flashing numerous ROM's/radios since. I have always had great success in each one and as time has passed, newer and better ROM's having been coming out. I currently have the Full Blown Thunderstick ROM which I have found to be the best and smoothest ROM to date. There is only one probem.
I have noticed a drastic difference in the speeds while using this ROM/radio compared to all the ones used prior. I have flashed this ROM and it's respective radio on my Thunderbolt and numerous others and I still have the same issues with all. Can someone tell me why I went from 15mb down/7 mb up speeds which I had prior to now 3-4 mb down/.5-1mb up speeds with this MR4 setup? Also, why won't the ROM let me use the Wireless Tether for Root Users in addition to the Wi-Fi Hotspot one it came with? When I try to run and connect to it from any laptop, it says it's unable to connect the network address although I have no problem connecting to the Wi-Fi Hotspot one. But sometimes with the Wi-Fi Hotspot the ROM came with, it drops connectivity. It feels like it's not using the 4G LTE speeds but only the 3G speeds only.
Just curious, did you search first? The answer for wifi tether has been posted atleast 100 times. I posted it as recently as 2 days ago. As far as speeds, speedtest.net does not work properly with that rom, your info is not correct.
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Oh I read the whole thread and I didnt really see anything that answered these questions. Im not going with speedtest.net. Im judging it based on certain websites and web-based programs which are now slower since I installed the ROM.
Did you try Barnacle? I haven't used the ROM you have, I run Liquid.
Most people claim that Wireless Tether works great with Liquid, but I couldn't get it to work. Once I used Barnacle, it not only worked, but I've been getting great speeds with it.
You need to run Imoseyon's kernel to fix the speed issue. It's been widely documented and discussed in almost every MR4 rom thread.
I'vd had the lean kernel flashed since the beginning and still no change in speeds
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I'vd had the lean kernel flashed since the beginning and still no change in speeds
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which IMO kernel are you using? I believe for mr4 you want v5.2.0. I have it if you cant find a link. pm me
i am using v6.1.0 which was documented to use
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I just did the htc method for hboot 1.5 and keep reading problems people are having with roms. I just want to know what rom is the most stable and everything works for hboot 1.5.
Roms will run the same on both boot loaders just so you flash using fast boot.
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Try ViperRom for stability. The ROM is more stable than the official sense.
Try the blackened rom or just anything by xsmagical. All of his are stable and smooth!
hboot won't matter with how stable a ROM is. If you want speed along with stability, flash Myn's Warm TwoPointThree RLS1. Super smooth, super sexy, and super stable. Never had a random reboot or any nonsense like that with his ROM. That was a the first one I flashed when I came over from the OG Evo forum, since I ran his ROM when we had Froyo.
Everyone says they are the same but there are a few ROMs that even say that the 1.5 won't work with 4g and some other features.
I was working great on stock rooted rom but then i decided i wanted to overclock so i installed WTSB which said it was able to be overclocked. Using set cpu it would only go to 1188mhz. I was getting great 3g downloads (2.5meg down, 1.5 up). I flashed a couple different kernels and for some reason it only shows 1024mhz now in set cpu.
So i went back to the full factory restore and did a re-install of the WTSB so it's rom would be installed so i could get back to 1188mhz and now it too reads only 1024mhz with set cpu. something is going wrong. My data speeds are crazy slow now too.
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Everyone says they are the same but there are a few ROMs that even say that the 1.5 won't work with 4g and some other features.
I was working great on stock rooted rom but then i decided i wanted to overclock so i installed WTSB which said it was able to be overclocked. Using set cpu it would only go to 1188mhz. I was getting great 3g downloads (2.5meg down, 1.5 up). I flashed a couple different kernels and for some reason it only shows 1024mhz now in set cpu.
So i went back to the full factory restore and did a re-install of the WTSB so it's rom would be installed so i could get back to 1188mhz and now it too reads only 1024mhz with set cpu. something is going wrong. My data speeds are crazy slow now too.
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Data speeds have nothing to do with a ROM. If anything, a PRL effects it.
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Data speeds have nothing to do with a ROM. If anything, a PRL effects it.
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thanks
any idea about set cpu being crazy now? not only can i not overclock on this "overclockable rom/kernel" i'm not even at stock speed anymore.
Eternity Rom
I've tried many roms for my EVO 3 d...I keep ending back at the eternity ROM. (sense 3.0) This has become the ROM that I rely upon daily. Lots of other great roms out there,but with this ROM...everything works very well. No bugs,and great battery life. Just my opinion, definitely something to look into. Good luck.
My fiancee was running inbREDed rom, and loved it. I now have her Evo 3D and i cant stay away from it either, it is a fantastic, smooth, really really pretty, rom.
Edit: He is also extremely receptive to, and heartily welcomes, any advice, fixes, ideas, and suggestions. Not saying the other devs don't, but he has responded to my questions and requests within minutes, at the latest a few hours.
I ran MIUI for a little while, and it was the most stable ROM I have used... However, you do lose 4G and 3D.
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UGH! This is completely inaccurate. It is not possible for PRL to affect your data speed. PRL is Priority Roam List. It is merely a host list file for where towers are located. It is MORE possible (although not very likely) that a ROM could affect your data speed IF that ROM uses some kind of proxy that isn't standard to the device's carrier. Highly unlikely but I have seen it happen. But the PRL has NOTHING to do with data speed. Radio versions have been claimed to affect speed, but I would bet that most of those scenarios are coincidental.
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UGH! This is completely inaccurate. It is not possible for PRL to affect your data speed. PRL is Priority Roam List. It is merely a host list file for where towers are located. It is MORE possible (although not very likely) that a ROM could affect your data speed IF that ROM uses some kind of proxy that isn't standard to the device's carrier. Highly unlikely but I have seen it happen. But the PRL has NOTHING to do with data speed. Radio versions have been claimed to affect speed, but I would bet that most of those scenarios are coincidental.
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Are you kidding me? A ROM can affect data speeds sure, just like too much salt in your diet affects your blood pressure... The PRL of a device affects the entire radio/modem of the device, by telling it which towers it can connect to and which ones are PRIORITY when using mobile data, talk, etc. This is why when I run PRL 00001 I get 3G in area's where I never had it before, or even running 61XXX (any sprint based prl) I get slower 3g speeds, less signal, etc. Your PRL is just part of the overall package that affects your data speed. In all reality, a ROM has less affect on your data speed than a PRL...
What options are there for ROMs that have the 3D and 4G working? would like an AOSP if possible.
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There are currently no AOSP ROMs with 3D or 4G.
Same goes for sense 3.5
You can run a ROM of your choice and run the de-sensify patch however which is as close as you can get and have both 3D and 4G working.
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i updated my PRL and it's back to the faster speeds now again. Sprint must have updated our towers because the speeds are definitely fast now.
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Are you kidding me? A ROM can affect data speeds sure, just like too much salt in your diet affects your blood pressure... The PRL of a device affects the entire radio/modem of the device, by telling it which towers it can connect to and which ones are PRIORITY when using mobile data, talk, etc. This is why when I run PRL 00001 I get 3G in area's where I never had it before, or even running 61XXX (any sprint based prl) I get slower 3g speeds, less signal, etc. Your PRL is just part of the overall package that affects your data speed. In all reality, a ROM has less affect on your data speed than a PRL...
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The chances of this are highly LOW. Unless the PRL version comparison is around 10 revisions. The chance of a PRL update targeting any specific user is very low (although there always has to be some)... but it is NEVER the PRL version itself that affects speeds. IF your PRL happens to point you to a newer tower with quicker speed (also not highly likely since Sprint intentionally load balances), then you MIGHT see an improvement. But again, the version itself has nothing to do with it... and the likelihood of any specific change affected any specific user is extremely low.
I noticed E2 is way faster. BUT big but, E2 has way worse reception.
Am i the only one?
I was on Jersey Shore today and I couldn't get any data working.
If that is the case for you, then you could flash a different modem I suppose.
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I seem to have better reception.
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I've noticed way faster data speeds on E2. I used to see about 2 down, now I see about 6 down. And I've had no signal issues, always 4 or 5 bars. Afaik, different modems can give vastly different performance for different people. All depends on your area and what not. Just experiment with the various modems. I'm just glad Samsung finally got one right for my area, as I've only ever seen about 3 down on any phone I've owned until now.
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The AT&T version of both of those modems, which is all us Canadians have access to thus far, has, for me, had much worse data speed numbers (non LTE anyway) on the Telus network than the stock GB Telus modem.
The E2 modem is, in my very non scientific testing, slightly slower for us here in Canada. (again, HSPA only, no LTE coverage here yet)
I'd really be interested in understanding what is actually different between carrier modem implementations. I noticed a similar speed differential in the stock modems.
I tried adjusting the RF preferences but that doesn't solve it. Its almost like AT&T doesn't have the same implementation of HSPA+ as the Canadian carriers.
I say all that with some degree of confidence in the numbers... having installed a variety of ROMs n modems and the results from the stock Telus modem are consistently better when I can use it.
Currently on the One Beta and associated LE2 modem, it shows very wonky "bars" by times...like none, in what should be solid five bar area.
My fourth floor office which never wavered from five bars on stock.. Consistently now shows any where from 0 to 3... But it still transmits and receives calls and data.
A buddy of mine is testing the Telus 4.0 release with Premium Suite... so in any event, it shouldn't be too much longer.
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is it really that much faster? ive yet to upgrade from UCLD3 because its just running fine, wanted the next time i update my phone to be the last (offical ICS since i doubt we will get a update any time soon after that)
I noticed a big difference in speed. UCLD3 used to stutter a lot and freeze up from time to time for no apparent reason. Haven't had any of those issues with UCLE2. Also, bugs that annoyed me in UCLD3 were fixed in UCLE2. I don't see any reason not to flash UCLE2.
I've been having a bug on ucle2 where I cant keep a wifi connection for in app downloads resulting in the download stopping I've tested on multiple ucle2 roms and confirmed no issue on ucld3 not sure how I got so special because I haven't seen anyone else report this that I know of
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I've been having a bug on ucle2 where I cant keep a wifi connection for in app downloads resulting in the download stopping I've tested on multiple ucle2 roms and confirmed no issue on ucld3 not sure how I got so special because I haven't seen anyone else report this that I know of
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That actually happened to me. I reverted to D. Seems not as crazy fast but stable. With E I got 1mB (that's bytes) per second. D tops at about 600.
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I've been having a bug on ucle2 where I cant keep a wifi connection for in app downloads resulting in the download stopping I've tested on multiple ucle2 roms and confirmed no issue on ucld3 not sure how I got so special because I haven't seen anyone else report this that I know of
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Wifi is great here stays on all day..no problems yet im in day4 or5 lol
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Wifi is great here stays on all day..no problems yet im in day4 or5 lol
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my wifi performs completely fine until I try to do an in app download such as gta3, modern combat 3, order and chaos etc etc.. couldn't figure out why I'm the only one, did full wipes clean installs tried flapps and apps ucle2 roms, even when I went to CM9 which uses the ucle2 kernel I had the problem.. so frustrating lol then go back to ucld3 and problem never shows up once
Hello. First of all I'd like to state that this is my first android device and I am still learning the whole process of rooting and flashing ROM's so bear with me.
So to my question. I installed BlackStar V1 yesterday and I noticed when performing a speed test that my 3G performance had dropped significantly. I have a 1Mbps download bandwith plan from the best provider in my area, and got full speed at 60-120ms with my previous phone and with stock and Omega V4 rom's with GS3 at all times of the day. However after installing BlackStar my latency tripled and download speed cut to third from the 1Mbps even at night when the network is less crowded. I can manage when I'm home or at work since the wifi works fine, but when on the move handling large e-mail attachments gets frustrating. Does anyone have an idea what might be the issue?
I haven't tried to restore my Omega nandroid backup yet in hopes this issue might get fixed somehow, but am forced in couple of days if it's not, which is a shame since i really like this rom .
Unfortunately I do not have screenshot of my speedtest result before installing BlackStar.
I have a little different speeds in helsinki with stock rooted ROM and fastest saunalahti multi-sim
Yeah that shows that the stock works fine, I actually realized to check the history tab and you can see that 3G has worked for me correctly in the past.
Could it be that the creator of the BlackStar has changed the stock modem with a different one that doesnt work well with finnish frequencies?
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Seems like it was indeed a modem issue. Fixed after installing the new XXLF2 modem.
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I noticed my 3g speeds were about double or better immediately after i flashed a sense 4 rom (one shot). Up to this point i was leery of using a rom with no wimax, but this changed my mind. Has anyone else seen increased speeds that's running a sense 4 rom?
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I noticed my 3g speeds were about double or better immediately after i flashed a sense 4 rom (one shot). Up to this point i was leery of using a rom with no wimax, but this changed my mind. Has anyone else seen increased speeds that's running a sense 4 rom?
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I haven't noticed any 3G speed increases. The closest 4G tower is a hour away, so I can't comment on that. As far as overall speed though, it's probably entirely dependent on the ROM. I went back to a GB based ROM (Mean 4.5) because it seems faster and more stable than the ICS ROMS I've used.
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I noticed my 3g speeds were about double or better immediately after i flashed a sense 4 rom (one shot). Up to this point i was leery of using a rom with no wimax, but this changed my mind. Has anyone else seen increased speeds that's running a sense 4 rom?
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Some developers do tweak data settings that the radio interface daemon uses to tell the rom when and how to request data. I would put money on it that HTC didn't put the effort into Sense 4 to make it more data efficient. Could be a coincidence that the tower(s) in ur area are performing at full 100% but i doubt the later.
Gonna flash a 4.0 Rom to test this
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I noticed my 3g speeds were about double or better immediately after i flashed a sense 4 rom (one shot). Up to this point i was leery of using a rom with no wimax, but this changed my mind. Has anyone else seen increased speeds that's running a sense 4 rom?
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Which ROM did you flash? I've tried several ICS roms and the overall user experience is faster including web browsing on 3G. That could be related to the many tweaks that the developers employ.
The latest ICS I tried was Cool ICS v5. It was probably the most complete ICS Rom i've tried. Everything works. I switched back to GB because it could not do tethering.
One shot alpha, at this time you can't hook to pc and use as a disc drive after Rom is installed so might be good to have another Rom on sdcard to flash to later.
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Which ROM did you flash? I've tried several ICS roms and the overall user experience is faster including web browsing on 3G. That could be related to the many tweaks that the developers employ.
The latest ICS I tried was Cool ICS v5. It was probably the most complete ICS Rom i've tried. Everything works. I switched back to GB because it could not do tethering.
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Tethering works fine on all ICS roms, with "wifi tether" app, it does require two settings, the profile should be set to "Generic ICS" and then check that "Routing Fix" is enabled, these settings are specific to the Evo 3D on ICS
USB tethering.. well idk about that. PDANET and FoxFi can likely do that.
I'm so frustrated not sure what to do about it anymore. If I let me phone site idle anywhere from 10 minutes to 1+ hour. I will wake the phone it will show wifi is connected but there is no connectivity. No matter what app I go into, browser, slacker radio, play store etc. Nothing will load cause it can't connect. I have to toggle wifi widget off & back on before it will work again. The problem is intermittent as far as when it acts up but it usually does multiple times a day. It did it on stock rom, now stock with goodies 1.79 also just tried this method here but same issue. I have not updated my radios yet cause I don't want the new hboot but I might just update it to see if it will fix the issue.
Does anyone else run tomato firmware? My wifi router & home router both use tomato firmware so I'm not sure if it's just an issue with this or what. The same issue also happens on friends evo LTE at work. Tomato is some of the most rock solid firmware I have had and never had an issue like this with any other device or phone. Evo3D worked perfect and the orginal evo. I have tried everything I can think of to get it working from settings it to 2.4 only to replacing the settings apk nothing helps. I have no idea what to do about it anymore I have tried averting I can think of.
I guess I could try flashing different firmware on the router but I'd rather not. Does anyone else here run Tomato firmware 1.28 that could report if they have this issue or not? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Does anyone run tomato firmware or have this issue?
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Try changing the security on the router to wep.
Its actually a very common problem on a lot of routers with wpa activated, its not just the phone
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Its actually a very common problem on a lot of routers with wpa activated, its not just the phone
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I have the problem. Don't think it is the router, since none of my other wifi devices have this problem, including my OG EVO. Tried a few of the fixes on the forum; so far, nothing's worked. I ended up using Llama to turn off my wifi when I'm at home and my screen is off, and turn it on when I'm at home and my screen is on; this way, my wifi is always cycled when my screen turns on.
Have not updated to the 2.13 firmware yet, though, since I'm waiting on some of the ROMs to get updated.
well I was just stating it is a known issue with routers in general, my father has a great internet connection, his brand new top of the line laptop has the exact same issue, my cousin's tablet on my dads router, same issue, he has wireless cameras for security, same issue, every time I go visit him, I power cycle his router and release all dns leases for good measure, My old (ancient by todays standards) Dell Inspiron laptop from 2000 runs Ubuntu with a work around that allows me to use windows firmware as a means to enable wireless, it reports a 2MB connection almost all the time and on his network, my dusty old wireless b/g runs circles around his spanking new wireless n laptop, the network manager used by Ubuntu will automatically disconnect and reconnect when ever this issue come up
edit: I just remembered stock has an issue when you enable best performance from wireless menu, something to check on
Thanks for some feedback, what I don't get this was never an issue with my 3D or my original evo. I'm running WPA2 AES at home and WPA TKIP at work. Exact same problem. Why is it only an issue with this phone and never had an issue with the other phones? I could use lama I suppose but I would rather not it should work correctly. I don't have any problems with any other device. I haven't seen any feedback on this issue except for now from you guys. I would have to think it isn't affecting that many people and I can't be the only one using WPA. I really don't wanna knock it down to WEP but it seems like there is no way to fix it. Since I have an office job and at home during the evening it's extremely frustrating to pick up your phone multiple times a day and nothing works. I guess I could try a different router or firmware but it has to be an issue with the phone have ran this router for years with lots of different devices and it's never had an issue.
I was never this frustrated with the original evo or the 3D. I have no idea how to fix this issue or where to even go from here. I'm seriously considering dumping this and getting a GSIII and I have been very loyal to HTC but between this wi-fi issue that I can't get rid of, the lame ass htc dev s-on restrictions and the horrible multi-tasking I'm really starting to dislike this phone. If I could fix this stupid wi-fi I could live with the other stuff. The only thing I haven't tried is updating my radios from the latest ota cause I didn't want the new hboot.
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I have the problem. Don't think it is the router, since none of my other wifi devices have this problem, including my OG EVO. Tried a few of the fixes on the forum; so far, nothing's worked. I ended up using Llama to turn off my wifi when I'm at home and my screen is off, and turn it on when I'm at home and my screen is on; this way, my wifi is always cycled when my screen turns on.
Have not updated to the 2.13 firmware yet, though, since I'm waiting on some of the ROMs to get updated.
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None of my other devices have this issue either just this phone. What router do you use? I have a WRT54GL with Tomato 1.28 at home and a WRT54GS with Tomato 1.28 at work.
I'm using a WRT54G (old one, equivalent to the -GL) running DD-WRT. It's been rock solid for everything else.
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I'm using a WRT54G (old one, equivalent to the -GL) running DD-WRT. It's been rock solid for everything else.
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I wonder if it's something with the router then. Like I said I run Tomato on a WRT54GL at home & a WRT54GS at work. All 3 of our models are very similar hardware wise. I was thinking about trying DD-WRT which I don't really care for I prefer tomato. I don't really want to replace my router for 1 phone when everything else works perfect on the network. I even have three 3M-50 wifi thermostats hooked up at work and one 3M-50 at home. Even those have been rock solid no connection issues what so ever just this stupid phone.
Now that you mention it I had to do the exact same thing on my Asus rtn16 running tomato firmware.
I was running my Epic back then I thought it was the phone.
Running my EVO now with a Netgear 3800 I never have to toggle wifi for data.
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Now that you mention it I had to do the exact same thing on my Asus rtn16 running tomato firmware.
I was running my Epic back then I thought it was the phone.
Running my EVO now with a Netgear 3800 I never have to toggle wifi for data.
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I wonder if it's an issue with the aftermarket firmware but I just have never had issues on any other devices. I wonder if there is settings I could tweak to make it go away but I wouldn't know which settings to change.
Its the fact the wpask, tkip and other advanced encryptions are very broad standards, the hardware supports it but how well if supports it is the problem. Some routers implement the protocols in a very different way then others.
I.e. broadcom vs atheros, many atheros chipset fully support all standards while broadcom uses more proprietary implementations
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This has been a big issue with desktop Linux, I wouldn't be surprised if the issue stands with android as well
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Its the fact the wpask, tkip and other advanced encryptions are very broad standards, the hardware supports it but how well if supports it is the problem. Some routers implement the protocols in a very different way then others.
I.e. broadcom vs atheros, many atheros chipset fully support all standards while broadcom uses more proprietary implementations
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This has been a big issue with desktop Linux, I wouldn't be surprised if the issue stands with android as well
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Maybe it's time to just upgrade my routers. It just pisses me off I have used tomato for years without any issues on any device.
It happens, not much you can do about it. There's a whole consortium of these guys, you think the standards wouldn't be so lax. Then again they are still arguing about the new widi (yes thats a thing now) standards
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Maybe it's time to just upgrade my routers. It just pisses me off I have used tomato for years without any issues on any device.
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I updated to the new OTA (2.13) and still get the wifi dropouts.
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I updated to the new OTA (2.13) and still get the wifi dropouts.
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I updated my radios and went to mean rom 3.9 and updated to 4 tonight. So far it has been much better. I have only had to toggle it once but I haven't had that much time to test so will see how this week goes.
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I updated my radios and went to mean rom 3.9 and updated to 4 tonight. So far it has been much better. I have only had to toggle it once but I haven't had that much time to test so will see how this week goes.
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I will say it has been much better, but not completely cured. Probably had to toggle twice in three or four days.
Well I have given the new radios a good run and I have to say the issue is pretty much cured. I have only had it happen one time and I'm not sure if my router just glitched or I didn't wait long enough. So I am very happy with the new radios & mean rom the phone has been rock solid. I was seriously considering getting rid of it because I couldn't stand the wi-fi dropping all the time it really made for a very poor experience. Yes I had to upgrade the hboot to upgrade the radios but I'm not gonna wait forever for s-off and I really don't think it's that big of deal. Mean rom now has an s-on kernel installer that automatically does it now so it really isn't any different. So anyone having trouble make sure you upgrade your radios see if it helps.