For the past couple months I've had issues with my data. It only happens at the areas where I go on break at work too. The thing is my signal shows full bars but runs slower than edge. It doesn't happen anywhere other than at work. I've tried rebooting my phone, switching to 2g and back, going into airplane mode and back and nothing seems to fix it. It's just confusing me because it's showing that I have a strong signal but my speeds are terrible. Anyone have any ideas on what could be causing this?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
I've had this problem for awhile. Randomly drop signal, calls, data stop working. The signal drop lasts a few seconds then comes back. I never get the x as in no signal at all, but no bars. This has happened with several roms. Anyone else have this trouble? I can have my phone next to another phone and they will have perfect signal and mine has none.
I got my prime a week before the patch and I had no complaints with my wifi, but it seems like now I can barely hold a connection. After only s few minutes it'll disconnect and ill need to turn wifi off and on to be able t connect again, otherwise it just saves the network and doesn't actually connect.
When I do get connected, the wifi icon in the notification area is always showing no signal at all even though I can still use the internet. Even when I'm only a few feet from my router I still have the problem.
Anyways have a problem like this with the new update?
No, everything good for me after update. Update actually made wifi signal a lil more stable. It doesn't fluctuate as much anymore between strength frequencies.
Have you tried a reboot? Have you tried forgetting your network then entering the info in again?
I'm having exactly what you're describing, but only when I'm here at work using our wifi. At home, it stays connected like normal and works perfectly. Also, here at work the wifi symbol goes grey.
Going by these, my guess is something's up with our wireless here at work. Or something. I've only had problems here at work since somewhere after the update, but I can't say for sure that's the problem since it works so well at home...
demandarin said:
No, everything good for me after update. Update actually made wifi signal a lil more stable. It doesn't fluctuate as much anymore between strength frequencies.
Have you tried a reboot? Have you tried forgetting your network then entering the info in again?
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I have tried that before but just mow I just forgot all of my networks I've connected to then rebooted and now it actually shows me getting signal in the notification area instead if just showing an empty wifi icon. I'm not sure why it'd do that but in guess well see if it stays like this or not.
Frooty said:
I have tried that before but just mow I just forgot all of my networks I've connected to then rebooted and now it actually shows me getting signal in the notification area instead if just showing an empty wifi icon. I'm not sure why it'd do that but in guess well see if it stays like this or not.
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Sounds good. Lets hope it doesn't act up on you again.
Hol up, I think I know what you talking about. Did you mean you'd see your wifi icon and its connected but the bars are grey n not blue like it usually is when connected?
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Hol up, I think I know what you talking about. Did you mean you'd see your wifi icon and its connected but the bars are grey n not blue like it usually is when connected?
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This is what I get here at work. What does it mean? I googled around, and the only thing I could find was that if it's grey, you aren't connected to google voice or something? Heywire and the internet and stuff all work fine when it's grey for me.
Reloaded83 said:
This is what I get here at work. What does it mean? I googled around, and the only thing I could find was that if it's grey, you aren't connected to google voice or something? Heywire and the internet and stuff all work fine when it's grey for me.
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Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I think it doesn't mean anything because you still connected n can use internet. Maybe just a bug or a delay from the bars starting to highlight blue to show signal strength. I've seen it a couple times bit I was still connected to internet n n such. I just briefly couldn't see the strength, through the bars since the blue highlights didn't fill up bars yet.
I don't think it has anything to do with Google voice. Probably just a bug.
I couldn't find anything regarding the grey bars that applied directly to tablets; all I could find was regarding smart phones, so it could be a completely different meaning.
Grey=push google services unreachable
Blue=normal connection to google services
Grey doesn't mean you cant connect to google services it just means its more of a request respond connection instead of bidirectional push.
I can't connect to any wifi at all unless it's my phone that's tethered and is literally right next my tablet. I removed all stored wifi networks (about 30 of them from different offices I work at). I tried to re-add the one at my house and it found one and connected but then dropped immediately. Now no connection at all. My laptop has full signal and my tablet is right next to me and has no signal. This is really making me debate about returning it.
So now after deleting all my wifi networks and rebooting it worked fine at my apartment, then I went to my university and I wasn't able to connect at all to their networks(it could just be that their networks are ****ty, but my phone can connect to it so I think its partly the Prime messing up). I was able to tether with my phone and connect to that, but I got the no signal icon thing again.
By the no signal icon thing, I don't mean the grey bars. No bars show up at all, like this: http://i.imgur.com/vt9SB.jpg
Normally when I get grey bars, you can actually see where the bars are at, but in that picture it's just all solid dark gray. When I get that icon down there, which still happens sometimes, it usually disconnects me after a few minutes and I need to turn the wifi off and then on again before I can connect again, only to have the same thing happen again in a few minutes.
Never seen that before. Try the same tactic at university n see if it corrects itself.
Sorry to hear abouut your problem. Based on my experience, you must have a problematic sample, and should return it. My unit was amoung the earliest batches (shipped to me on 12/18), and at all times, the wI-fI signal strength has been acceptable (on par with my Epic 4g phone
Grey Bars Continued
I've given it about a day but, I also continue to have grey bars, though mine is via my wifi at home on my Prime. I can connect to the internet fine, but for some reason the connection to google servers is not working. I had blue bars for a few days after buying it but it has never gone blue again.
I've tried wiping data and updated to the new firmware with no change.
Any thoughts?
Hi everyone, I this problem has been driving me nuts. I looked for similar issues, but non exactly like the one i have.
Since about a week ago, My photon keeps dropping the signal meter to 1 bar or occasionally 2. If I toggle to 3G from 4G i get more bars for a little while.
The problem seems more prominent when connected to 4G. If I make a call with 1 bar, as soon as I hit the CALL button I get more bars on the meter. When I hit the END button, it goes down to 1 bar instantly. This is always repeatable and sometimes backwards. on the rare occasion that the phone is showing 3+ bars, If i make a call, it will drop a bit, then when i end it, it will instantly rise back up.
The signal in dbm ranges from -95 to -85 inside my house according to an app and the stock android "About" menu. Surprisingly If i watch the dBm in real time, I notice that a stronger dBm, most always results in my signal meter(bars) dropping to 1.
The phone is fully stock, running 198_6. I have tried to SBF and no dice, still the same.
Sprint says there is no problem in my area and that my area should have close to full bars or a great signal. I get 3/3 for 4g inside my house too.
Im a noob at this, If anyone knows a solution please give a shout.
thanks!
Sigh...thinking my phone may be broken or something.
When I'm in my room I get full signal (Linksys EA4500 Wireless-N router) but if I step into the kitchen which is like 10 feet away (and it's open air/no doors between my room and kitchen) I will either completely lose signal or it will switch between cell signal and Wi-Fi.
There is NO way it's my router as many other devices in my home work perfectly fine and my router is bad ass. So what's going on with my DNA? Something doesn't seem right at all. Plus I've noticed even my cell signal will sometimes just shut down (an "X" next to the bars) for like 5 minutes at a time. I'm using it with Straight Talk through AT&T so I don't know if that's the issue but it's dropping signal in places that my last phone worked perfectly.
Just odd connectivity. Anyone else having issues with their Wi-Fi at all? Thanks!