Hi, i have a problem with wifi signal strength to my computer since it is far away from the router. Is there any way to pick up the signal on my phone and boost it so my computer will have a stronger signal?
Thanks in advance.
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Put alluminum paper on the WiFi antenna which is on the back case itself. There is already another thread with pictures showing you where to put it.
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fcpelayo said:
Put alluminum paper on the WiFi antenna which is on the back case itself. There is already another thread with pictures showing you where to put it.
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What he said.
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I'm a lil upset. Phone has been amazing. I just got got to work today and they had to exchange it. Anyone had the reboot loop?
New one is having internet issues already. Not getting connection. Constant reloading 4g.
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Check the stickies above. There's an answer to bootlooping in there, you might have been able to avoid your exchange.
Is LTE turned on in your mobile network settings? I had 4g connection problems before where it was getting turned off. The app LTE on/off from the Market helped with that. You can make sure it's turned on there as well as setting it for LTE/voice only if you like.
Also, I had a problem with no 4g and noticed I hadn't clicked in one of the cover's corners tight enough, the one in the upper right if you're facing the screen, closest to the lens if you're looking at the back cover. That's the corner that has the LTE antenna inside.
cmon man, stickies are up there for a reason; it's why i asked to get that thread stickied!!
Sorry . Been using the xda app and stickies are a different click.
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Has there ever been a fix for the issue where the phone randomly switches back and forth between 3G and wifi? i constantly get "The page can not be displayed" message. My phone does it quite a bit when I am at home. Very annoying!!
I never had that issue. I dont see other threads about that being a problem either. Maybe u have poor wifi signal?
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I never had that issue. I dont see other threads about that being a problem either. Maybe u have poor wifi signal?
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No, it happens but people are starting to give up on the EVO LTE.
Mine does this and I have been trying to figure it out as well.
Note: switching Rom's doesn't help
I dont have any problems with 3g/wifi switching. I use wifi all day at work no issues whatsoever. And people giving up on the lte? I dont see it.
What ROM are you using? I'm running Decks CM10 and never had that issue.
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for the most part that wifi issue was fixed in one of the OTA's we got.. i used to have problems with my wifi staying on when i was out of range.. after the OTA we got that had the fix in it,, i havent had any problems with it since...
The Ota for me never fixed the problem. I may try CM10. I have heard that CM10 uses different drivers for Wifi.
cmdauria said:
Has there ever been a fix for the issue where the phone randomly switches back and forth between 3G and wifi? i constantly get "The page can not be displayed" message. My phone does it quite a bit when I am at home. Very annoying!!
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I as well have not had problems like that unless my WiFi router is far away.
I did see a post before about the antenna springs in some evo lte's making poor contact and they fixed it. Not sure if that's your problem. I would make sprint give me another one.
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I read a post about stretching the springs and tried it. Surprisingly my wifi signal increase dramatically.
Jack
P.S. I never had the wifi dropping problem just did this to increase my range and it did.
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What ROM are you using? I'm running Decks CM10 and never had that issue.
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Has anybody else tried this and have you seen better results?
midmadn said:
I read a post about stretching the springs and tried it. Surprisingly my wifi signal increase dramatically.
Jack
P.S. I never had the wifi dropping problem just did this to increase my range and it did.
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What springs are those?
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I am convinced that this problem is not a ROM issue. I get the problem on every ROM I've flashed, MeanROM, Fresh, Sinister and I I'm now currently UREvo. I have the same on every one. I've tried current kernels as well and nothing.
My problem is while leaving the range of a wifi network it will not disconnect and then connect to mobile network. Then the same thing happens in reverse when going from mobile to wifi it will not make the hand off automatically. I have to manually turn all radios off then back on or reboot altogether.
I have decided to unroot, relock and flashRUU and see if I have the same problem. If so, I'm headed back to Sprint for warranty replacement.
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What springs are those?
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They are the metal spring tabs under the shiny black cover on the back of the phone. Not the ones on the cover itself but the ones on the phone under the cover.
Go to a spot where your Wi-Fi signal starts to fade and take note of your location and signal strength. Then remove the back cover and gently bend those metal contacts up away from the phone a very small amount. You may not even be able to see a difference. I used a very small screwdriver. Then replace the cover making sure it is firmly attached. Go back to that location and notice you now have full signal strength there and can go a bit farther before it drops. (it did for me anyways).
DISCLAIMER- As usual, I assume no responsibility if you break your phone. I'm just passing on a technique I learned in a forum that was a positive experience for me.
Jack
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It is being addressed in the 4+ jb update that's being tested for the Hox
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I live in SLC, UT. I've noticed that when I head out to Backcountry ski my phone loses signal or switches to Edge or G band. That's fine, the issue I've noticed is that when I ski back into an area where I know 4g is available the phone doesn't switch bands. I either need to restart the phone, or turn the radio off/on with *#*#4636#*#*. I'm sure I could go in/out of airplane mode as well. It's frustrating that the phone won't switch automatically back to the fastest band available. Any ideas or things to try?
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I live in SLC, UT. I've noticed that when I head out to Backcountry ski my phone loses signal or switches to Edge or G band. That's fine, the issue I've noticed is that when I ski back into an area where I know 4g is available the phone doesn't switch bands. I either need to restart the phone, or turn the radio off/on with *#*#4636#*#*. I'm sure I could go in/out of airplane mode as well. It's frustrating that the phone won't switch automatically back to the fastest band available. Any ideas or things to try?
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is your phone 100% stock? also its a At&T one x plus right?
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is your phone 100% stock? also its a At&T one x plus right?
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No, I used hasoon2000's kit to root. Other than that it's got the stock ROM. AT&T is my provider.
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No, I used hasoon2000's kit to root. Other than that it's got the stock ROM. AT&T is my provider.
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For what it's worth I live in the SLC area too just outside of the LTE coverage and this happens to both of my phones all the time. I loose connection and get the "emergency calls only" status message on the front. I think it has to do with the LTE network not working properly when you go from LTE to 4g. I frequently go out of town and I never have this problem in Cali. View my post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2149247&page=2 here for more info
Are u using battery saver...or the power saver...try disable them...maybe it is the problem...cause power saver they try to disable mobile data....
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Nope. I i seldom use the battery savee
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I live in Saratoga Springs, UT and it's barely outside of the provo lte network. I would experience the same thing and the signal would completely disconnect or the phone would even say I didn't have a sim card in so I called AT&T and they sent me a replacement. The replacement still had problems so I did some reading around and saw that it's because of a loose sim tray. Try adding about 5 layers of scotch tape to your sim card and see if it helps. It's worked for me!
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Cool I'll give that a shot.
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Cool I'll give that a shot.
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applying the tape helped?????
I live in a LTE coverage area but my HTC One X+ never switches to 4G LTE icon.
Is there any reason my phone says it has a strong wifi signal but it keeps dropping wifi and starts using verizon network instead?
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that's it........
Thought there may be a JB vs L4 modem and rom issue (New at this...)
Thanks
Or it may be changing settings when one first gets the phone and doesn't read (not that there is a manual) about each setting first.
Is it dropping while the screen is on? There's a setting to turn off wifi when the screen is off
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Is it dropping while the screen is on? There's a setting to turn off wifi when the screen is off
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That's what I thought the problem was but I was wrong............
Turns out the phone jack in the kitchen died so the wife moved the phone into the office. Cut my wifi signal by half, so in those areas where it was iffy to begin with, it was switching to Verizon.
I think it is all solved........(but I thought that last time.
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Is it dropping while the screen is on? There's a setting to turn off wifi when the screen is off
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Well NOT fixed...and it is dropping when the screen is on. The always on is selected.
HELP ! ! ! !
And it's not a signal strength issue?
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And it's not a signal strength issue?
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Well.....my laptop is at 9.8 mps and the phone is getting 5 mps so there is some problem but signal strength says very strong.
When is the last time you rebooted your router?
As a pre-emptive strike, I am not interested in other devices work fine and there is no reason to because of that. They aren't using the same wifi card and they all behave differently with their own little quirks. Point in case, I have had my PC lose wifi, but my phone is fine and a router reboot clears it up.
Is it while MMS messaging? I've noticed my phone switches to 3g/4g while sending MMS, even if wifi is on.
Compared the wifes s3 side by side with my note and they dropped together so did a factory reset of the router and all is well.
Thanks for the efforts.....
It's been more than a month and it's stuck on Edge. Even when I go to the areas where I would have a strong signal of 4G, it doesn't change into 4G! This is really bugging me. My phone is S-ON, bootloader unlocked, and running Viper Amaze 1.7.0.1. Oh yeah, and T-Mobile is my carrier!
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It's been more than a month and it's stuck on Edge. Even when I go to the areas where I would have a strong signal of 4G, it doesn't change into 4G! This is really bugging me. My phone is S-ON, bootloader unlocked, and running Viper Amaze 1.7.0.1. Oh yeah, and T-Mobile is my carrier!
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You need to check your apns and put in the correct t-mobile apn so it will give you the proper hspa+ rather than edge.
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Check and make sure your phone isn't set to GSM only under network settings.
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Most likely you have gsm only on
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Got it! You guys are right, it was on GSM only. I thought my radio got messed up. So is there anyway to get 4GLTE on this phone?
I usually set my phone to GSM Only when I go out, because it saves a lot of battery and still lets me stay connected to the internet.
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nulcon said:
Got it! You guys are right, it was on GSM only. I thought my radio got messed up. So is there anyway to get 4GLTE on this phone?
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There is no way to get lte on this phone it doesn't have lte. If it did people would have abysmal battery life because lte consumes too much battery.
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SuperAfnan said:
There is no way to get lte on this phone it doesn't have lte. If it did people would have abysmal battery life because lte consumes too much battery.
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HSPA+ is just fine for me. It's beaten my friend's Verizon LTE on many occasions.
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Capgun_Homicide said:
HSPA+ is just fine for me. It's beaten my friend's Verizon LTE on many occasions.
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Me too. :laugh: Your friend's Verizon LTE was slow likely due to tower congestion. That's when too many people are on the tower and the bandwidth becomes tiny and people get slow data. I hope it doesn't happen to future T-mobile LTE,
My galaxy S6 is stuck on Edge as network type and it refuses to get out of GSM Only even if I try to set preferred network type. I can see the other network types displayed but when I press them it switches back immediately to GSM Only