Anyone else being asked to set the time zone on your evolte?
It asks me at least once a day. I'm wondering if it is the airave
tha'ts making it happen? When it asks me to pick the current
I am stock, rooted with unlocked bootloader.
I've seen this happen on mine.. It's not as annoying now though.. I am not sure what the fix is just yet. If that is the minor bug I have to deal with then I ain't complaining about it. Especially after all the rebooting the phone was doing.
It started happening for me. I'm stock and not rooted. I started disabling a few built-in HTC and Sprint apps and this started popping up in my notifications. Sometimes I'll see it a few times a day and others it will go away for a few days.
I do have location services turned on.
it asks me like 4-5 times a day! so annoying!!
Having the same issue with my EVO..very frustrating. I have noticed that the issue seems to happen when the phone is going in or out of roaming mode.
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According to Sprint, its a known issue, and seems to stem from phones coming off a Wifi connection. I don't know about roaming, thought that could be causing it too. It doesn't affect every phone, but they said it should be corrected in the next maintenance release.
ViperYourMother said:
According to Sprint, its a known issue, and seems to stem from phones coming off a Wifi connection. I don't know about roaming, thought that could be causing it too. It doesn't affect every phone, but they said it should be corrected in the next maintenance release.
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Sweet! It's annoying, but as pointed out earlier in this thread, there are many more issues that are bigger problems than this one. I am thankful that this is all I'm experiencing!
I had this problem on my 3D while running a Sense 4.0 ROM. That leads me to believe it's more of a Sense 4.0 problem than anything else. My phone usually asks me to set my time zone when I'm leaving work.
yep, couple other threads on it as well, basically the fix is set the time zone manual, you won't see it again, hopefully they'll fix it in an update.
Now that you guys say that it does seem to happen when coming off WiFi or Roaming...
I get it about 5 times a day, on my old EVO LTE and the replacement EVO LTE. Bad luck!
Settings > Date & Time > (uncheck Automatic Time Zone)
Problem Solved!
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I maybe get it once a day on average, I just hit clear it's annoying. I'm sure they will fix it next OTA.
I tend to notice it more when leaving work or home and losing my WiFi connection. One important note also is that I keep GPS disabled 99% of the time so that might have something to do with it also.
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Yesterday it came on as soon as I left work and I ignored it in my status bar. As soon as I got home wi-fi connected and it went away on its own. This is certainly related to the phone having a solid known location. I am going to follow the above suggestion and disable automatic time zone setting because I only leave my time zone like once a year anyway.
I get this about once a week. I'm updating to the newest version of MeanROM today. I"m hoping that will fix it. Other people are saying it does.
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This is really killing me, someone please help lol heres how it goes
On boot, takes a good bit for the 3G icon to appear, eventually Phone has 3G icon gray with arrows then switches to D [still gray], i click something like a browser or Slack Radio it goes to connect and if its fast enough it does [icon changes to RED/GREEN arrows] but usually its a gray D, then the icon disappears completely. After about 60 seconds or so the icon reappears and I can continuing surfing the net/listen to music..etc. Then after about a song or 2 this happens all over again. Im in place with good reception and i just dont know what could be going on here. I tried pulling battery, doing the *228 option 2...anyone know how i can fix this
just tried hard reset, no dice
A nice excuse to call verizon and get a replacement device (most likely for free).
I've called them, they try and shoot me over to Samsung, samsung trying to tell me to get a hold of my 3G service provider...verizon did tell me i was due to upgrade, but i love this phone (when 3G worked) i just dont understand what froyo did, when im downloading stuff it works fine, but as soon as I stop and try to access something use 3G i have to wait for the 3G to "reboot" so to speak cuz thats when it disappears for minute, then comes back for me to use...but with streaming music you can see how this is an issue
I was having this same problem when they were pushing the EA28 update a couple of weeks ago which never successfully updated to my device I might add. I went into the Verizon store and after the rep spent about 10min on the phone with whoever.... Told me they were sending me a new phone. Received new phone with the EA28 update already installed 3G and all data worked GREAT! Attempted the Froyo update 6 times yesterday all unsuccessful and now the new phone I have is having the exact same problems with data connection. Comments and ideas would be appreciated. But ya better believe I'm goin into Verizon if the update attempt I'm doing now doesnt work.
I'd get another replacement from verizon tbh. If then it still doesn't resolve your issues ask to speak with a manager and tell him your situation. They might hook you up with a free upgrade.
Im going to go down to the store so I can get a face to face and show them whats happening. I mean i just wanted to make sure this wasnt some new thing on Froyo that im not understanding. I see it goes "D" [dormant] but it shouldnt disappear and take a minute to start up and let me use it right...thats poppycock!
Are you using "juice defender" by any chance?
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You're lucky that yours just takes a minute to re-establish the connection, mine will just keep giving me network errors and telling me to check network access ect., depending on what app/service I am trying to connect. Exactly the same things that happened when the EA28 updates kept failing on my last phone only 2weeks ago. Also the Froyo update that says will take 15min to download takes over an hour even though my 3g stays on constantly when downloading from Verizon.
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Are you using "juice defender" by any chance?
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Had it installed [but not in use] when I updated to Froyo, but I just did a hard reset and am still getting issues...
...my Froyo update came in in about a 1/2 hour or so, no drop issues ever when I was on 2.1, my 3G icon stayed in the status bar even when I was out of service range [it would go in to 1X] but on froyo its just disappearing no matter where i am]
This crap has happened ever since the first "froyo" modem leak for me (but not like I could call vzw and complain though until now) and had to resort to using the DL09 modem to increase my usage reliability by a small percentage. This crappy service only seems to affect people in certain regions, you all see where I live (look to the left) and you guys should update your profiles to reflect at least a region. I odin'd all the way to stock and did the ota's to froyo and ran stock froyo for 2 days with the same old ****ty results. I did get a replacement (in february) and still got the same exact dBm signal levels and data speeds at home that I had with the other device. But the voice mails with no missed calls and bulk texts and data lockups are really getting on my ****in' nerves. I'm so glad they finally did the ota cause I can guarantee that the issue will be wide spread in various regions. I spend all day driving around in a work truck with a coworker that has an epic (sprint) and he has absolute perfection in his service everywhere throughout the city. At the end of a 10 hour day I will have rebooted twice and have tws at 47% coworkers tws will be at 1% and he pays $35 less for unlimited everything, which is a kick in head too. Pondering etf to maintain my sanity and not be worried that my 70 year old mother is trying to call me with an emergency and having my **** go to voicemail. Now on to customer service to build a case. Ugh, pissed off rant over.
*edit* I use no juice defenders no task killers no set cpu or anything even remotely close to apps of that nature.
good day.
Not running juice defender or anything else for that matter, my phone is basically stock out of the box right now other than CWM 2.5.1, un-rooted. I did flash super user to phone after I received it, and that still appears in my apps list after factory reset but I am not rooted.
I've spent at least 8-10 hours [combined] searching the internet for issues like mine with the disappearing act the 3G icon is putting on, and i've noticed it to be a Froyo issue [even saw some complains on the Incredible on froyo and even on different networks other than verizon]. I'm not 100% sure its a Froyo bug, but either way it doesnt seem to affect everyone. I stream music a lot and i can't be having this damn 3G disappear on me and always reconnecting after like every 2 songs.....im off to verizon, i'll let you know what happens [tho they are prob going to offer me some kinda upgrade like they did on the phone, but i was happy with this phone at 2.1 and overall still am, i just want my 3G to stop glitching!]
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I've spent at least 8-10 hours [combined] searching the internet for issues like mine with the disappearing act the 3G icon is putting on, and i've noticed it to be a Froyo issue [even saw some complains on the Incredible on froyo and even on different networks other than verizon]. I'm not 100% sure its a Froyo bug, but either way it doesnt seem to affect everyone. I stream music a lot and i can't be having this damn 3G disappear on me and always reconnecting after like every 2 songs.....im off to verizon, i'll let you know what happens [tho they are prob going to offer me some kinda upgrade like they did on the phone, but i was happy with this phone at 2.1 and overall still am, i just want my 3G to stop glitching!]
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I agree, just want my 3G to work the way it is suppose to. Dont really want an upgrade because I've never really gotten an upgrade that I actually thought was an UP-Grade. *From Verizon anyway* Still downloading software update, been well over an hour and at 73%. At this rate Verizon store will be closed by the time I'm done with this update attempt.
"UPDATE FAILED or INCOMPLETE. reason: IP_START_UPDATE" Anybody know the possible causes of this failure?
Sounds like you are indeed losing your IP address. I have also had sporadic problems but they seem to be in low service areas. Typically I remain stationary and use local wifi so it is unconfirmed.
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Just got back from Verizon, non of the techs could figure it out, i got this phone awhile back from a friend [so naturally theres no warrenty..etc] so im stuck gonna have to hit craigslist and such to find a new one, then sell this one i guess
FINALLY FOUND A FIX [or should i say it found its way to me thanks to myself posting this issue on multiple forums lol] I can confirm that method 2 has worked for me. Dont just dial *228 with fascinate already activated, you have to remove the service completely [by activating another phone is how i did it] then reactivate it and you should be good to go. Heres a write up.
http://mobiletech.knguyentu.com/2011/04/samsung-fascinate-random-3g-disconnect.html
I just started haveing this problem when I went on the Comm. ROM
I was fine before that so I am really confused.
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So I did option 2 in the above post and it fixed it.
MSHancock said:
I just started haveing this problem when I went on the Comm. ROM
I was fine before that so I am really confused.
update:
So I did option 2 in the above post and it fixed it.
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Glad to hear it, i know how frustrating it is not knowing what is going on or how to fix it. I searched since Froyo OTA looking for an answer, luckily someone saw my plight and gave me that link as well so i thought i'd share it on all the android forums i have a name on. Cuz doin this never occurred to me and i tried everything else lol
So at least once a day my phones voice/3G radio will lockup. It'll show the last amount of signal I had. WIFI and 4Gthe work great but when trying to txt it will fail and when I try to make a call it'll sit at connecting and if I try to "end" the call it wont. Other then that the phone runs great.
So how many people are seeing this issue? I am wondering if my phone is simply poched or if everyone is seeing this.
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So at least once a day my phones voice/3G radio will lockup. It'll show the last amount of signal I had. WIFI and 4Gthe work great but when trying to txt it will fail and when I try to make a call it'll sit at connecting and if I try to "end" the call it wont. Other then that the phone runs great.
So how many people are seeing this issue? I am wondering if my phone is simply poched or if everyone is seeing this.
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It is all a bit weird. Would like to know if all these handsets come from the same place or different assembly plants.
I have not had any issues with voice/radio lockups, reboots, mute call, etc. Don't believe in luck. There has to be a reason why some are having super issues with the Photon and some have none.
I used to have silent call issues as well but after the OTA those are gone. But this whole radio lockup thing is kinda getting old and is happening more often.
Like I said the phone works great other then txt, voice and 3G data. And sometimes if I push it the phone will actually reboot itself(like make a call and try and send a bunch of txt messages while it is locked up.)
So now I am wondering if I need to get a replacement? It wont bother me to have to redo everything as long as it fixes this one issue, and like I said everything else works great not one issue.
My 3G radio acted up once so far. (showed a connection but wasn't sending / receiving texts and couldn't make calls)
what i did was turn airplane mode on then off and it seemed to reconnect to the cell network without issue. only done it once so far.
do you use juice defender? Have seen this issue and experienced this issue. I have been unable to determine the cause but i know a friends phone had just installed juice defender and it was locking up the connection! if you don't then im not sure i haven't really seen the issue since the update
edgemaster191 said:
My 3G radio acted up once so far. (showed a connection but wasn't sending / receiving texts and couldn't make calls)
what i did was turn airplane mode on then off and it seemed to reconnect to the cell network without issue. only done it once so far.
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If I try airplane it sets with it grayed out and the check box grayed out and never comes back from that. Also the signal bars still remain on the notafication bar as if I never checked airplane mode.
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do you use juice defender? Have seen this issue and experienced this issue. I have been unable to determine the cause but i know a friends phone had just installed juice defender and it was locking up the connection! if you don't then im not sure i haven't really seen the issue since the update
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Nope I don't use those things at all. I leave WIFI on all the time as I connect at work and home for better battery and speed. And before you say it it happens with WIFI on or off and the same for 4G. It almost seems like a hardware issue more then a software, but it is kinda to hard to actually tell.
And I have done two factory resets so far and still the issue occur's. Might try to do a full reinstall or just take it in to the shop and tell them to give me another one.
id def go ask for a new one. I dont have any issues other then the proximity sensor sometimes acts like a goof. I havent had the phone lock up or reboot once its entire life. knock on wood.
So I made an odd discovery. When WIFI is off this issue does not occur. WIFI on however the voice/3g will lockup and never recover after one phone call.
I have the latest update and everything, so wonder why WIFI on would cause the voice radio to lockup after one call....
I wonder if I have never seen this because I use tasker to periodically turn my 3g data off and wifi on - on a time schedule 8-10 times a day. Depending on where I am at that time of day and if there is wifi at that part of the building or location.
Had the same issue once. Was like wtf. Toggled Mobile data off and saw a FC pop up and go away. Turn mobile data back on and was good to go. So I think it may be a software glitch.
Also.....make sure you keep your PRL up to date. Old PRLs can wreak havoc on voice/3g connectivity.
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Had the same issue once. Was like wtf. Toggled Mobile data off and saw a FC pop up and go away. Turn mobile data back on and was good to go. So I think it may be a software glitch.
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Yea I'm still not sure on software or hardware, but right now my phone's 3g is locked up because I had wifi on when I received a call. I am waiting for the auto reboot lol.
I think I may just take it back to the store and swap it out for another one now that I can make this happen pretty much every time. Good thing I don't make many calls. lol
and yea I keep up with the PRL like a crazed child chasing after an ice cream truck.
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Yea I'm still not sure on software or hardware, but right now my phone's 3g is locked up because I had wifi on when I received a call. I am waiting for the auto reboot lol.
I think I may just take it back to the store and swap it out for another one now that I can make this happen pretty much every time. Good thing I don't make many calls. lol
and yea I keep up with the PRL like a crazed child chasing after an ice cream truck.
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hehe.....I used to be THAT kid.
I had not seen much of this when I had my photon.
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Anyone else constantly getting spammed by a notice saying it's unable to fine my current time zone? Rather annoying..
I just had problems with that as well. I had to power cycle my phone and it fixed the problem but it thought I was in Columbus, Ohio and right now I'm in Houston, TX
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It happens to me when I am driving through an area that drops to no bars or loses service. Not every time, just some. The weird thing is that both OG EVO's that I had lost there time zone about 4 or 5 times total within the last six months or so. I wonder if it is something with the network vision setup that triggered it. Of course the OG EVO wouldnt give a notification but I am in CST -6:00 time zone and my phone time would change by 6 hours randomly. It threw off all my alarms and alerts. I had to switch the time zone from network provided to manual to make sure it didn't happen again.
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I have the same problem. There is another thread about this....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1691903
I unchecked the auto time zone option in Date and Time, manually set my time zone , haven't seen it since
Yup. But about 4 days ago I also manually set it, and haven't been bothered by it since.
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I set the home setting to the closet city to me and have not had this issue
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Had the issue too, just set it manually..
happened to me, But I updated PRL and no problems since
I have this issue too
From Q&A (where this thread probably belongs):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1677546
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1673415
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1688189
Another from General:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1691903
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Anyone else constantly getting spammed by a notice saying it's unable to fine my current time zone? Rather annoying..
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I have/had the same problem. I tried something and I'm not sure if it worked yet because its only been a day.
Go to Calendar>Menu>Settings and scroll down to "Select 2nd Time Zone" Then select "None"
Try that and see if it works. I havent gotten the annoying notification ever since but like I said, I havent given it enough time yet to be sure. I really dont even know what that option is for to be honest with you.
Alright, I'll try to manually set it and see what happens. Those of you that updated PRL, what PRL did you update to? I updated once, but I think there is another out too..just checking before I do it.
Thanks guys
So, I've only had my LGOG for a day and a half and I am having issues connecting with WiFi. At first it worked fine but when I left the coverage area and return a few hours later it would not connect. Tried turning off the WiFi but it kept turning itself back on. I reboot the phone and it works fine as soon as it boots up it connects the WiFi no problem. It is my work WiFi and I had no issues connecting to it from either my iPad nor my HTC One X that will soon find it's way to eBay thanks to this beautiful LGOG. If no one else is having issues, I will call AT&T and have them switch it out. I just wish there was an easy way to back up everything, I mean my home screens and app locations exc. It takes so long to set everything back up the way I find most useful.
WiFi on my device has been excellent.
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The Wifi performance of this device is unbelievable. I get the best speeds I have ever seen with any device including PCs. It's either a faulty device or maybe your work has strange security settings?
I had this same problem with my LGOG and my home wireless network. It just would sit and try to connect until I rebooted the phone.
That was on stock though. I have not had any more problems with it after flashing the base rom.
My work has standard WPA settings and it was connected fine yesterday. I left again during lunch and when I came back, same problem and had to reboot the phone. AT&T is sending me another one already and a free case. Can't be too mad about it I guess and at least the phone reboots fast.
Have you tried using the ATT smart wifi app? Fixed the exact same issue for me.
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I haven't had any issues connecting to wifi, but I've noticed the status bar icon showing low signal even though it's actually maximum signal.
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Yamahar6riding said:
So, I've only had my LGOG for a day and a half and I am having issues connecting with WiFi. At first it worked fine but when I left the coverage area and return a few hours later it would not connect. Tried turning off the WiFi but it kept turning itself back on. I reboot the phone and it works fine as soon as it boots up it connects the WiFi no problem. It is my work WiFi and I had no issues connecting to it from either my iPad nor my HTC One X that will soon find it's way to eBay thanks to this beautiful LGOG. If no one else is having issues, I will call AT&T and have them switch it out. I just wish there was an easy way to back up everything, I mean my home screens and app locations exc. It takes so long to set everything back up the way I find most useful.
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Twice My O.G. wouldn't connect to wifi networks even though it had connected to them in the past. I tried to turn it off and on and scan for the network that I am in range of and it wont show any networks it just says "not in range" when I am in range. So to remedy the situation I turned the phone off and then on. It has only done this to me twice but it's a real nuisance because both times I needed wifi. My phone is stock.
You're in a minority. This thing's wifi blows most other wifi implementations out of the water.
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Twice My O.G. wouldn't connect to wifi networks even though it had connected to them in the past. I tried to turn it off and on and scan for the network that I am in range of and it wont show any networks it just says "not in range" when I am in range. So to remedy the situation I turned the phone off and then on. It has only done this to me twice but it's a real nuisance because both times I needed wifi. My phone is stock.
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Perhaps you need to swap out your phone
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I wish my wifi would stop re-enabling itself. It's chewing up my home bandwidth.
I have been having this issue as of late. It seems to have developed this habit in the last week or so. At first I thought it was Time Warner trolling me but it started happening at work. Something tells me it has something to do with the stock At&T Rom putting the wi-fi radio to sleep and not being able to bring it back online. Reboot fixes it most of the time but sometimes it takes a couple attempts. I have been hesitant to mod this phone still because I would really like to see CM working well before I flash. Also my instinct tells me another possible culprit could be IPv6 on certain routers. That, however, is far less likely unless someone with a decrapified Rom has experienced this issue as it would be a cross platform issue in this case. Anyone else have any insight? Otherwise it's time to get rid of the Att rom.
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I had this issue and disabled the at&t smart WiFi and it seems much better
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dx58soi7 said:
I have been having this issue as of late. It seems to have developed this habit in the last week or so. At first I thought it was Time Warner trolling me but it started happening at work. Something tells me it has something to do with the stock At&T Rom putting the wi-fi radio to sleep and not being able to bring it back online. Reboot fixes it most of the time but sometimes it takes a couple attempts. I have been hesitant to mod this phone still because I would really like to see CM working well before I flash. Also my instinct tells me another possible culprit could be IPv6 on certain routers. That, however, is far less likely unless someone with a decrapified Rom has experienced this issue as it would be a cross platform issue in this case. Anyone else have any insight? Otherwise it's time to get rid of the Att rom.
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Same issue here. This is my second LGOG and have been happy with both except for some minor glitches on both with the keyboard freezing up as well as with the WiFi not re-connecting after leaving the area. A restart normally fixed both problems. My first one bricked after rooting and removing all of the bloatware (the phone checks for certain apps upon booting to keep you from removing stock apps). Tried a fix but I couldn't get a Rom at that point as the phone had been out on the market for under a week. I haven't messed with it since but I may try a new Rom and be able to fix the WiFi and get rid of all the bloatware that way.
Just got this ROM running today. No more WiFi issues at all. Some minor ui bugs I am OK with.
The_Base_v0.7
The thread is from the sticky on this forum.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34424592
Seems like, as usual, At&T bloat ware is the culprit. I experienced the same on my Aria and Inspire. Hope this helps and good luck.
Also I had the keyboard problem but that went away when I switched to the Android default keyboard. One of the other reasons I decided to root was because rather than freezing, the Android default keyboard started typing then the auto correct broke and stopped displaying the words unless you touched the area you were typing in. It really bugged me when it started doing it right after I factory reset. Weird huh?
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LG Optimus G Wi-Fi Receiver Disconnect Issue
Funny...I've had some weird home wi-fi issues on two of these.
To explain, I bought mine in December, stock OS of course, and immediately noticed it turning off my wi-fi every time I tried switching between the two home wi-fi SSIDs I created when I upgraded to DD-WRT. This also occurred outside my house, but stopped shortly after the nearly-immediate Android OS upgrade came over (and forced me to install it, I might also note; I'd read the thing was just more AT&T bloatware, but two or three boots later, apparently I got no choice, and it auto-installed).
The good news was, somehow, this 'update' somehow stopped the thing from turning the wi-fi off when I switched between IDs (my base router has a 5G 2nd network which I wanna use when I'm around it, but DD-WRT won't support, as far as expanding it--thusly, I have another 2.4GHz signal I use and relay out around my yard).
That bad news is, though, that I screwed up the phone with the Root Toolbox (Lite) by merely fiddling with their bootanim settings on that original phone. And I mean bricked it, solid.
I'd never bricked any phone, so this ticked me off. Luckily, I was still within 2 days of my 30-Day Best Buy in-store replacement warranty, so I took it back, they fiddled too, and gave up on it.
Hence, my 2nd phone...which now, even after the system update direct from AT&T, still turns off my wi-fi every time I try switching to that 2nd SSID, so I'm left wondering if it was even the same update; I don't think I did anything else, and can't see it as a settings issue, because it did it right out of the box, and the first one stopped after the only system update before I got a chance to even figure ANY user settings out, much less any network ones.
So, now I'm 'going shopping' for 'some PlayStore app' that will skip this B.S. and automatically connect to the strongest home wi-fi signal (within reason--sometimes they're equally strong), without obnoxiously turning off my wi-fi receiver as I look at it.
This kind of malarky could spoil some phones for some people, but I'll struggle along due to the speedy quad-core in it [sigh...wah!].
I guess I'm a big baby, seeing as how I don't write one iota of code, but my personal haughty view is that any dedicated wi-fi devices should have better wi-fi connection than any Windows OS made...and, so far, this'n doesN'T!
What a dumb thing to let happen in such a potentially awesome phone...[AT&T!!!]
This might work or not but can't hurt to try. Apparently some people in the new snowleopard JB thread was having similar issues and for a few, changing the security from WPA2 to WEP worked. Although mines been good and fine on WPA2 but worth a try.
Using wep in 2013 is beyond retarded.
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DUDE! Senior Members here can be a little uppity and rude...even if they're completely correct.
Glad you called out the 'behavior', and not the 'member', though...
but enough of the technicalities...I'm still looking for solutions...beyond blaming AT&T (too easy), or even the strangeness of getting into blaming some weird kind of manufacturing errors (QC at best), I'm left waiting for a substantial OS update (like, oh a better place of decimal, perhaps?), or worse, an app...anyone look at the state (and sheer number) of 'wi-fi' apps? Anybody here can guess, they number in the thousands, and a Play search for 'wi-fi' gets you astronomically different results from 'wifi', even, so I'm not sure I need to be looking at that.
Maybe it's even somehow that, with the first phone, I noticed this, and somehow added my own home network to the AT&T Smart Wi-Fi 'bloatware' that came with the phone (not the worst evil they've ever done, so far, BTW--it does exactly what I imagined should be going on in the background while you're driving around, indexing locales with free Wi-Fi for you to choose to save later...an idea I would call 'Tarzaning', if you get my drift).
I'm gonna try changing two settings in the AT&T 'Smart Wi-Fi' bloatware to 'My Spots' temporarily, at least, to see if it'll latch onto my home stuff more aggressively. I just can't wait to report back my fantastically successful findings here (right after I buy the domain name 'snarkasm.net').
Oh crap...it's already taken.
Is the AT&T smart wifi thing enabled by default? I can't remember. I thought it sounded useful so I played with it a bit but ultimately I didn't like the way it worked so I disabled it.
Still wanted some way to auto-enable/disable wifi. I didn't have anything to go on, but I picked up "Smart WiFi Toggler" which seems to work well. It uses location-based rules (based on cell signals) by default. I also use AutomateIt to turn off mobile data once wifi has been on for 1 minute, and turn on mobile data immediately when wifi disconnects. I have no idea if this saves me any battery life, but I do it anyway.
Here's the deal. I have recently been forced into getting this note 3 through insurance claim, have been nexus user forever and I must say I was peeved. Though I will admit that this phone does have its benefits as well. Anyways, when I first started using this phone I was pleased with the speeds in my new area (i have moved) on 4G. I have been more than dissatisfied with the internet here as it is appallingly slower than anything I can remember from the past of my life. Anywhoo, deal is that I have an unlimited plan and don't care if i run 4G all the time on my phone. For the first while I didn't get onto WiFi till one day at work, suddenly updates happened all over the place. I tested this a few times, and sure enough I am unable to update or even download certain apps from the play store without being on WIFI. I know this is hilarious, but my Clash of Clan mates sure were unimpressed when I couldn't join a war. So I have been researching all over and trying hard to figure out what I can do. Google Play is set up to download over both data and WiFi connections. My Samsung settings? Well I can't seem to find any settings that would make a difference on that. I have spent countless hours trying to figure this out without avail. I have been coming to this forum without posting forever it seems because you guys cover everything so well that usually I can search and find the answer without too many problems. Thank you in advance for your time and knowledge!
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ImNekkid2839 said:
Here's the deal. I have recently been forced into getting this note 3 through insurance claim, have been nexus user forever and I must say I was peeved. Though I will admit that this phone does have its benefits as well. Anyways, when I first started using this phone I was pleased with the speeds in my new area (i have moved) on 4G. I have been more than dissatisfied with the internet here as it is appallingly slower than anything I can remember from the past of my life. Anywhoo, deal is that I have an unlimited plan and don't care if i run 4G all the time on my phone. For the first while I didn't get onto WiFi till one day at work, suddenly updates happened all over the place. I tested this a few times, and sure enough I am unable to update or even download certain apps from the play store without being on WIFI. I know this is hilarious, but my Clash of Clan mates sure were unimpressed when I couldn't join a war. So I have been researching all over and trying hard to figure out what I can do. Google Play is set up to download over both data and WiFi connections. My Samsung settings? Well I can't seem to find any settings that would make a difference on that. I have spent countless hours trying to figure this out without avail. I have been coming to this forum without posting forever it seems because you guys cover everything so well that usually I can search and find the answer without too many problems. Thank you in advance for your time and knowledge!
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Well lets try the easy one first go to settings/general/system update make sure Wi-Fi only is not checked. If it is uncheck and restart device for change to take effect.
It was already set. Have restarted many times. Seems like it corrected it self the other day though. Seems strange. Random glitch maybe truly looking forward to rooting. Thanks for your help!
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It was already set. Have restarted many times. Seems like it corrected it self the other day though. Seems strange. Random glitch maybe truly looking forward to rooting. Thanks for your help!
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Ok, you said sometimes it corrected it's self. Here's what I would try, when it is running on 4g Lte and the WiFi is off, go to settings/general/update device click on update PRL and Profile. Then restart device, this should set your preference to 4g Lte. I assume you want the be in 4g Lte most of the time. Two more things to check go to settings/connections/more networks/mobile networks/network mode make sure LTE/CDMA is checked not Automatic. While you are there right below Network mode click on Connections optimizer then more information make sure that box in the upper right hand corner is NOT checked it will throw you in WiFi all the time.
Do you have power saving turned on? I think there is a setting in there that restricts updating of apps.
I have been fighting this issue on a Sprint Galaxy S6. I followed Jimzweb1's instructions and found that my network mode was set to automatic and not LTE/CDMA. Changed settings and rebooted and playstore updates on LTE now. Thanks Jimzweb1!