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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---------- Post added at 07:35 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:26 PM ----------
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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On my Amaze after official updateing to android 4 with sense 3.6 my telephone work very good,but there is only and big problem,,,,everytime after restarting after 5 minutes SIGNAl is loosing,and i can use phone,,,everytime is showing NO SIGNAL,,,how can i solve that problem!???
I've noticed poor signal indoors in places where I got decent signal on GB. I really am not a fan of the ics radio
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I've noticed poor signal indoors in places where I got decent signal on GB. I really am not a fan of the ics radio
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I dont have such problem on GB. It began now,,,i cant use my phone,,,can you help??)
Flash a different modem?
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Flash a different modem?
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How???Where cna i find ?...but i dont have root,recovery.
It's an ICS thing. The new update messed with our signal. The only way to fix it is to S-Off and go back to Gingerbread.
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It's an ICS thing. The new update messed with our signal. The only way to fix it is to S-Off and go back to Gingerbread.
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THere is no other way???(((
Sorry for the late reply, you can search for modems I can provide a link if necessary but a Google search should be fine and you will need to root and have cwm installed to do this or use a flash tool or Odin if you have a galaxy,
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Am I the only one who doesn't have problems with the pics radio it fixed my signal and has been great
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I use to get full five bars at home using GB, after updated to ICS (SuperSayain rom) I pretty much only getting 3 bars. What I did was in the mobile network setting, changed mode from auto to WCDMA only and so far i've been getting pretty much 5 bar most of the time with occasionally dropped down to 4. hope this works for you too.
I am also having this strange issue. So is reverting to GB the only way or can you just flash the gb radio? Anybody know anymore about this??
Same issue here. At home used to get full 5 bars, now 3 sometimes 4, which is fine as I am usually on WiFi anyway. Problem is I had great signal all throughout my daily commute to work to where there is sections of my drive that I have no signal. Before in that area it would revert to EDGE from 4G and mine is set to auto.
Just believe like everyone else mentioned that it is the ICS radio. Hopefully an update will fix it
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If it's just a radio can we just flash an older one??
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If it's just a radio can we just flash an older one??
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No. And to the people talking about modems and odin and.. yea, no. We don't have modems to flash, and odin is just for samsung devices. Until now we couldn't flash a radio if we WANTED to.
You know the iPhone's fix when people were talking about how bad the signal was for the iPhone4? They had been boosting the REPORTED signal strength. So did HTC, so did Samsung, so did.. all of them. You'd drop a call when it showed you had GOOD signal.
Not a single person has posted about having ACTUAL worse issues. The OP said he can make calls and talks about how many bars.
Apple's opinion:
We have discovered the cause of this dramatic drop in bars, and it is both simple and surprising.
Upon investigation, we were stunned to find that the formula we use to calculate how many bars of signal strength to display is totally wrong. Our formula, in many instances, mistakenly displays 2 more bars than it should for a given signal strength. For example, we sometimes display 4 bars when we should be displaying as few as 2 bars.
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People here are having the OPPOSITE problem, it LOOKS like you should have an issue, and you don't.. but people keep posting about it even tho there hasn't been any issues.
This is the ONLY person who had actual signal issues(Weird Interference/Reception Call Issues on my Amaze) I have seen since ICS dropped, and it turned out to be a hair on the contact for the antennae. Read his thread, he methodically checked quality and could answer basic questions - and then he fixed the actual problem.
Edit: I'm not trying to be a jerk, but if someone is ACTUALLY having problems, they actually can't make calls, drop calls where they didn't before, etc.. then there is probably a problem that can be fixed. But unless you are having those issues it is likely that the signal strength you're seeing is more accurate(EXACTLY like the apple quote I put above), they are just doing a better job of SHOWING the actual signal. Which is good, no unexpected dropped calls or BS.
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Am I the only one who doesn't have problems with the pics radio it fixed my signal and has been great
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I got better signal here where am at with the official ics, even though its the same as the leak, I just get better radio communication with the official
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wow i have been having internet issues. unable to connect at all. no websites no you tube nothibg and im outside of my job where a block away is a tower. i have to reset the phoneat least 3 times a day in order to get my downloads ( podcasts) or view this wonderfull site. i have noticed the call quality is about the same. dont make tjat many calls on here. its mostly text and web. i have also noticed that the phone gets really hot while on the tmobile network and im surfing. other then that its great!
You've probably been throttled
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I use to get full five bars at home using GB, after updated to ICS (SuperSayain rom) I pretty much only getting 3 bars. What I did was in the mobile network setting, changed mode from auto to WCDMA only and so far i've been getting pretty much 5 bar most of the time with occasionally dropped down to 4. hope this works for you too.
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This didn't help btw
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You've probably been throttled
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Don't know if that's the case because when I so connect its fast. Just as fast as the first day of the month. I do have the 5gb plan and have never hit it. Been close but never hit it. I'm going to call just in case. You do have a good point.
Do a speedtest. If its 60 kb/s and steady, or something similar, that's your issue
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Ok I never had WiFi problems until I took the update minus hboot. I am running mean Rom with only HTC unlock is this normal?
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I am also having this problem and I am stock. I wish I never took the ota cause I am also having battery life issues and getting warm problems. I did a hard reset and still having the WiFi issues, but the others I can't tell yet.
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I am also having this problem and I am stock. I wish I never took the ota cause I am also having battery life issues and getting warm problems. I did a hard reset and still having the WiFi issues, but the others I can't tell yet.
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Hi this worked for me. I'm stock and experienced connection issues with my wifi...sitting 2 feet from the router!!! Never had any problems connecting anything via wifi b4.
Go to settings>>wifi>>menu>>advanced. in the advanced section there is a radio button to enable Best Wi-Fi performance. Once activated I had no more connection problems.
Hope this helps.
Not sure if this might help but I changed WiFi to 2.4 GHz and like above best WiFi per. So far good
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Not sure if this might help but I changed WiFi to 2.4 GHz and like above best WiFi per. So far good
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I did this and it worked for me briefly but then reverted to "authenticating" and then telling me it is the wrong access key for the network. I don't understand why it's doing this but at least for me it seems to be a 1.22 based problem as everything I've run with the prior firmware has been fine....
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I did this and it worked for me briefly but then reverted to "authenticating" and then telling me it is the wrong access key for the network. I don't understand why it's doing this but at least for me it seems to be a 1.22 based problem as everything I've run with the prior firmware has been fine....
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Your problem is different. Mine was dropping WiFi signal and then self reconnecting. Not anymore though. Your problem I have not came across. Have u tired running the ruu and reset your router?
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Your problem is different. Mine was dropping WiFi signal and then self reconnecting. Not anymore though. Your problem I have not came across. Have u tired running the ruu and reset your router?
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I've reset the router multiple time and even gave my EVO a static ip to see if that would work. I guess I'll ruu and see if that will help. It's weird though.
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I have encountered a rather odd issue and am at a loss.
My download rate is atrocious (approx. 250–300 kbits) but my upload speed is about 5 mbits. I have isolated it to my EVO which I just activated and started using on my Wifi. Obviously the bandwidth is there based on the upload but no matter what I try; resetting the modem and router, isn't working.
Stock evo lte on most recent firmware.
Any help you have to offer is greatly appreciated.
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Have you checked your download speed with another device, just to make sure it's your phone and not something else, like the router/network?
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Yes. Both my lappy and tv are chugging along nicely via Wifi
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menu/settings
click WI-FI
click Menu then advanced
click WI-FI frequency band
check
2.4Ghz only
try that. It might be trying to bounce between 5Ghz and 2.4Ghz
Still crap speeds. Ugh. May be my router and phone just aren't meant to be friends.
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Changed my router from auto to G only.. Finally getting the 15Mbits per second I'm paying for.
It would appear to be a software issue, hopefully one of the many that is fixed if we ever get JB.
Thanks to all those who provided feedback on this matter
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Maybe this might be your problem?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2048895&highlight=wifi
Seems to have happened to a few people with Evo LTEs.
Joshmccullough said:
Maybe this might be your problem?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2048895&highlight=wifi
Seems to have happened to a few people with Evo LTEs.
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thanks for the link, but the OP solved the problem 3 months ago in the post right above yours
Quick question. My wife and I both have the EVO LTE. I've had mine since August and she just got her's recently. We activated it Tuesday. Our phones can sit side by side, mine will have either full signal or close to it but her's will go between none, one, and two bars. I've always had strong signal here and it worries me that her phone is getting such weak signal. Should I be worried? Is there anything I can do to improve her signal or should I take it to the Sprint store? Trying to prevent her getting s refurb since she just got this new phone. Everything else seems to be working fine, she even picks up 4G. We're both completely stock. Any help would be appreciated.
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Kanes_Inferno said:
Quick question. My wife and I both have the EVO LTE. I've had mine since August and she just got her's recently. We activated it Tuesday. Our phones can sit side by side, mine will have either full signal or close to it but her's will go between none, one, and two bars. I've always had strong signal here and it worries me that her phone is getting such weak signal. Should I be worried? Is there anything I can do to improve her signal or should I take it to the Sprint store? Trying to prevent her getting s refurb since she just got this new phone. Everything else seems to be working fine, she even picks up 4G. We're both completely stock. Any help would be appreciated.
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have you tried a profile prl update?
Yep, both phones have updated prls.
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Kanes_Inferno said:
Yep, both phones have updated prls.
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are both phones on the latest software? also you should be within the buyers remorse period. you can take the phone back to the store and they have to give you a new one. dont let them trick you into a refurb.
If your both on the same radio with profile and prl updated I wound exchange it if you can
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are both phones on the latest software? also you should be within the buyers remorse period. you can take the phone back to the store and they have to give you a new one. dont let them trick you into a refurb.
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Yeah, both are JB. And thank you for that, I wasn't about to stick her with a refurb. So, we'll likely go Tuesday to the Sprint store. (Next time thar I'm off) so they can either fix it or give her a new one. Should I just request a new one or what?
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If your both on the same radio with profile and prl updated I wound exchange it if you can
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Thank you, that seems to be our plan of action now
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Oddly enough her signal is doing better now. Is it possibly it took a while to get her profile and the Rom settled in? Should I still take it anyways while it's still in the 14 day time frame or now that it's doing better just roll with it?
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Its most likely the spring terminal contacts under the little cover you remove to access the micro sd card slot.
There is a post somewhere about stretching the little spring terminals to gain signal. I have done it and it absolutely worked. My wife and I both have EVO LTE's as well and her phone had better signal than mine exactly as you describe.
Jack
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Oddly enough her signal is doing better now. Is it possibly it took a while to get her profile and the Rom settled in? Should I still take it anyways while it's still in the 14 day time frame or now that it's doing better just roll with it?
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You only have 13 days to return, they count the day of purchase so don't make the mistake of waiting too long!
Assuming you're on sense, you can enter ##debug# in the dialer and see your actual signal levels in terms of dbm, not bars.
Not sure what the deal is, but my OG has the worst WiFi reception. Multiple routers to test as well. Just poor reception every network. WiFi will drop out often, and the signal is kinda whack. It'll show full strength then drop to a circle and eventually drop out after and reconnect with like 2 bars.
Anyone else having this issue?
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Not sure what the deal is, but my OG has the worst WiFi reception. Multiple routers to test as well. Just poor reception every network. WiFi will drop out often, and the signal is kinda whack. It'll show full strength then drop to a circle and eventually drop out after and reconnect with like 2 bars.
Anyone else having this issue?
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It would be best to provide additional details. Are you using a custom ROM or are you stock? Are you rooted/unlocked? When did the issue start?
Running the JB Canada Rom. I didn't have it long before I unlocked the bootloader. But right around when I rooted it, I suppose. It's been a universal problem though through different roms. I've only flashed a CPU kernel, but it shouldn't be active anymore.
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I don't have any of those issues on a stock phone with the current software version. I've used it with an Airport Extreme and a myriad of others wherever I'm at. I've never had a problem that was the phones fault.
After I made sure that the ATT smart wifi app was happy after I got the phone all has been well. That app seems to be the common thread running through all of these threads.
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I also have funky Wi-Fi issues with the JB ROM. It'll be working fine and just drop for no reason. Disabling and reenabling fixes it temporarily. I've read it's a common issue in 4.1. Annoying.
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Alpione said:
I also have funky Wi-Fi issues with the JB ROM. It'll be working fine and just drop for no reason. Disabling and reenabling fixes it temporarily. I've read it's a common issue in 4.1. Annoying.
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Yep, same problem here with the JB ROM. I have to disable then renable then it works. Annoying but it works
Try setting the wifi to 2.4 Ghz frequency on the settings menu
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I don't experience the problem but having to use 2.4 ghz is hokey. That band is saturated to hell and gone, even in Arkansas. But 5ghz lets me transfer crap across my lan at around 290mbps
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