Hi, I'm using i9100 running:
SlimBean 4.2.2 build 3
Baseband i9100XXLPX
I have been encountering some weird issues with the different colour of the signal bars when blue and grey (both in wifi and mobile data). I have read a whole bunch of threads about this and am pretty sure of a couple of things:
1. Blue = connected to a network and in touch with google servers
2. Grey = connected to a network and not in touch with google servers (you may or may not have internet connectivity with grey)
So when I'm blue everything is fine and works as expected. Except this doesn't happen all the time, when I'm on mobile network only it generally is blue but sometimes isn't. When I connect to wifi networks about 50% of the time (whether or not I have to do some web based authentication after connecting) the wifi signal is grey.
When this happens sometimes I can use web browsing fine, but google play won't work. Sometimes I can use both. Sometimes no internet connectivity, also when this happens if I switch to mobile data they bars remain grey and no connectivity.
Is there a fix or workaround for this as it's very irritating and it also only seems to rear it's ugly head when I really need to use data for something important and works fine when other times just to troll me.
Things I have tried:
Clearing data from google framework services and google play and then rebooting, but didn't work.
Any help or insight would be most appreciated. Lots of people just seem to post what I said in 1 and 2 but don't seem to recognize that there is a problem with the lack of connectivity sometimes when icons are grey.
Thanks
Sadly I'm having the same issue. No fix yet? I'm running slimbean 4.2 cause build 5 gps is broke
Have you tried changing your modem? A good start would be LP4, but every modem is different for everyone. Also, when the WiFi icon is grey for me, nothing loads. When it is blue, it does load. To fix this for me, I just reset the router/booster, and it will work fine. Annoying I know, but at least it's a workaround.
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Hi all
Sorry if this question has been answered, I've had a good search through the forums and can't seem to find an answer.
My problem is as follows. Completely randomly but quite frequently my phone will lose signal, the signal bars remain full but I am not able to make/recieve calls, send/recieve messages or send/recieve any data for anywhere between 30 seconds to a few minutes, then just as suddenly all will start to work again. It occurs in different locations so I dont think it's a issue with the tower I'm currently on. When it occurs with data I have noticed that the 3G symbol will not change to H.
I have tried several different radio's and roms including 1.5, 2.1 and 2.2 roms, currently running cyanogenmod 1.4.3 (froyo) but as I say this occurs across various roms and versions of android. I have also tried setting the region in the Info(*#*#4636#*#*)-Phone Information menu to Automatic, Aus1 and Aus2 with no improvement as well as enabling and disabling cyphering (no clue what that does but thought it worth a try)
Can anyone shed any light on this at all? It's driving me crazy!
Thanks
Ok, first off I've searched many of the data connection issue threads out there but nothing seems to apply to my situation.
I'm having a problem where my data will disconnect whenever i receive/make a call and/or send/receive a text message. About 1-2min after the call has ended data will reconnect, if I toggle airplane mode data will reconnect a bit quicker.
I'm using a Bell Atrix, unlocked running Turl's CM9 from the below thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1500535
I've had the phone for a year running the stock 2.2 then 2.3.4 then 2.3.6 and never had any problems until I unlocked the bootloader and installed CM9 a couple days ago.
Haxornator said:
Ok, first off I've searched many of the data connection issue threads out there but nothing seems to apply to my situation.
I'm having a problem where my data will disconnect whenever i receive/make a call and/or send/receive a text message. About 1-2min after the call has ended data will reconnect, if I toggle airplane mode data will reconnect a bit quicker.
I'm using a Bell Atrix, unlocked running Turl's CM9 from the below thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1500535
I've had the phone for a year running the stock 2.2 then 2.3.4 then 2.3.6 and never had any problems until I unlocked the bootloader and installed CM9 a couple days ago.
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You sure you're not in an EDGE/GPRS area? You can only have data during phone calls on 3G/HSPA+.
Edit: To verify this, go to Settings > About phone > Status and look at what it says for Mobile Network Type.
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You sure you're not in an EDGE/GPRS area? You can only have data during phone calls on 3G/HSPA+.
Edit: To verify this, go to Settings > About phone > Status and look at what it says for Mobile Network Type.
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System settings/about phone/status/Mobile network type is :"HSPA:11"
I'm in a HSPA+ area, same location I've been using the phone since I bought it a year ago which is in the city core
ok, after a bit more trial and error I haven't been able to solve the problem but I have been able to narrow it down. As it turns out when GPS activates my connection will disconnect for the 1-2min as per above.
My workaround was just to disable GPS for the time being, but this isn't exactly a solution, if anyone has any advise it would be very much appreciated.
Haxornator said:
ok, after a bit more trial and error I haven't been able to solve the problem but I have been able to narrow it down. As it turns out when GPS activates my connection will disconnect for the 1-2min as per above.
My workaround was just to disable GPS for the time being, but this isn't exactly a solution, if anyone has any advise it would be very much appreciated.
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Remove multiple APNs. This happened with my old Desire Z. Whenever the GPS is on, data disconnects. Deleting unused APNs fixed this.
hmm, I've never deleted an APN before, if I do this will the network automatically reselect ones for me?
Don't delete everything, just delete what's not needed. The APN that's in use has a selected radiobutton at the right side. Leave that and the MMS one alone, delete the others.
I just deleted one of my two apns, then tested internet and a voice call which both still work, I turned GPS on and opened maps, I get the gps icon on the notification bar but it isn't blinking(also my network connection reset again), then I tried GPS test and again the gps icon at the top isn't blinking like it used to(it has the icon but it's hollow, i.e. no dot on the inside of it blinking) though my network connection didnt' reset this time at least.
I'm about ready to just chalk this up to CM9 on the Atrix just not working right because its unofficial and lacking proper drivers.
GPS icon in status bar does not blink when searching in ICS. You get a blank crosshair when it's searching for a signal, and a filled crosshair once it gets a lock.
quetzalcoatl2435 said:
GPS icon in status bar does not blink when searching in ICS. You get a blank crosshair when it's searching for a signal, and a filled crosshair once it gets a lock.
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ok so I tried turning gps on and running gps test, I let it go for 20min and it didn't pick up a single satellite(this is outside)
Try clearing agps data.
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Thanks for the advise, I downloaded "GPS Status & Toolbox" from the market and used it to clear my A-GPS data, this seems to have solved the problem of my network disconnecting, however I'm still unable to get any satellites to show up in GPS test(yes GPS is turned on).
Any thoughts?
The short of it is, my Wifi crapped out for reasons beyond my experiences thus far.
The long of it. I flashed epinter's 07/25/2012 Nightly and everything seemed to be working nicely, Wifi especially. Then today, out running errands and dropped my Atrix in my Car Dock and attempted to turn on Bluetooth for the first time since flashing, and the device froze then restarted. Once back up, I tried turning Wifi back on, and the device froze again and restarted. Thinking maybe the radio driver went south, I grabbed epinter's 07/27/2012 build (epinter-cm10-20120727_1846-UNOFFICIAL-olympus.zip), and still no luck. Back into Recovery, Wiping everything and also factory resetting then flashing twice over again, boot up, still no wifi, and if it manages to seemingly fire up, the device hangs and restarts.
Within the last 2 hours (Been at this for about 12 hours now.) I grabbed Jokersax's build (Beta 0.1.0), wiped/reset/flash twice as I have before. Now as I take a breath I noticed that the Wifi Icon came up in the Notification bar, but when I go into Settings and Scan, I see none of the Networks around me. I looked under Advanced and noticed that my MAC Address is 'Unavailable' nor am I showing an IP address, even though Wifi is saying 'On'. Verified on my Router, my Phone is not connected to it.
Odd Side note, installed aLogcat just to see if I could catch any errors, and it is not giving me anything, that is, I am not seeing any logs through the app. Most likely an unrelated issue, but still a tad annoying.
Everything else seems in order, including Mobile Data (Able to access Web Pages, Market/Play Store, receive email, etc.). Just Wifi pretty much 'Lights are on, but no one is Home.'. Any suggestions on next steps?
We discussed this issue over in some other threads and conclusion is that it's a hardware malfunction Ur broadcom chip is burned,many people (including me) had that problem.
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I need to really work on my searching, tried several variations of 'atrix WiFi cm10' and could not pin down a related thread.
But back on topic, CRAP! What I was hoping was not the case. Thanks for the reply, will continue to dig for those threads and cross fingers the chip really is not fried (doubtful but hey, people can dream right?).
Thank you for the reply.
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try making a clean install and you'll se that you won't have that problem!
Stark5 said:
I need to really work on my searching, tried several variations of 'atrix WiFi cm10' and could not pin down a related thread.
But back on topic, CRAP! What I was hoping was not the case. Thanks for the reply, will continue to dig for those threads and cross fingers the chip really is not fried (doubtful but hey, people can dream right?).
Thank you for the reply.
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I can't search the threads right now as i am typing from my phone-search is limited to 20-30 posts... But keywords for ur search should be : "atrix wifi error" or "wifi and bluetooth error on atrix" Several forums have this kinda threads,not just xda unfortunately ... seems like it's very often malfunction on this lovely phone. I couldn't repair my previous atrix so i bought another one.
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try making a clean install and you'll se that you won't have that problem!
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We're talking fastboot wipe kind of clean install? Going to give that a go as a last attempt, will post results here.
Glimmer of hope tonight, was discussing the problem with a friend, went to turn on WiFi and it actually scanned and connected for about 2 minutes before crapping out. This tells me there maybe life to the chip still. Now to get fastboot to connect and try a wipe and see what happens.
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Any news on this front? I am one of the afflicted as well.
I'm having a similar issue. though my BT works just fine, no delays, no errors, no intermittance.
Wifi, I can scan for networks just fine. i click on mine to connect. it shows connecting, noting that when it says connecting the signal shows 1 bar as compared to the full set of wifi bars when scanning, i am also right next to the AP. is tries connceting for about 20 seconds or so. then goes back to saying "saved" under the SSID, other networks showing "disabled" when this happens. i originally noticed this after flashing epinters cm10. i tried flashing 37p, 36p and 30p radios with no difference.
EDIT: also want to note that i HAVE disabled the "avoid poor connections" option. and have tried setting static IP.
I flashed the same and I am unable to get my wifi to work after clean wipe, radio install or anything else that I have tried. Could software have really burned up a wifi radio????
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I flashed the same and I am unable to get my wifi to work after clean wipe, radio install or anything else that I have tried. Could software have really burned up a wifi radio????
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Mine works occasionally so I don't think the radio is dead. The rom just acts like it's not there most of the time and doesn't give a mac address. Sometimes it works though after a reboot. Would flashing a different radio help? My baseband version says N_01.77.37P
I had an IP and a MAC, but no wifi internet.
Using mobile data, I downloaded Set DNS and then enabled wifi, works fine.
Now it's working but mobile data is going very very slow, it took 5min to download Set DNS.
I have a skyrocket but the "no wifi" issue is probably the same - your not getting DNS
I'm going back to CM9 for now.
+1 wifi matter under CM10
Try rebooting the router.
Experienced same issue (unable to connect, showing full bars, dropping to 1 bar when connecting and never being able to complete a connection) rebooting my router has fixed the issue. I'm not technical but it might have to do with the DNS release for addresses .. in any case unplugging my router for a bit and restarting it fixed the issue for me.
Lately I have been facing a problem.
Any CM10 rom I flash, both WiFi and Data signal icons are grey instead of blue indicating some misbehavior.
For example, WiFi works for browser but not for any other application (Play store, Gmail, Facebook, etc etc).
Data also has problems. It seems to make calls but I don't receive any, as well as sms.
I tried using different recoveries when flashing.
I tried going back to ICS to flash bootloader etc and then go to CM10, problem persists.
After 4-5 tries, it somehow worked but then I had to go back to Samsung rom and now can't get back to CM10.
Any ideas?
jastonas said:
Lately I have been facing a problem.
Any CM10 rom I flash, both WiFi and Data signal icons are grey instead of blue indicating some misbehavior.
For example, WiFi works for browser but not for any other application (Play store, Gmail, Facebook, etc etc).
Data also has problems. It seems to make calls but I don't receive any, as well as sms.
I tried using different recoveries when flashing.
I tried going back to ICS to flash bootloader etc and then go to CM10, problem persists.
After 4-5 tries, it somehow worked but then I had to go back to Samsung rom and now can't get back to CM10.
Any ideas?
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Dude, try flashing a different modem!
I have the same issue with with the icons grey (20%) time. Doesn't affect data transmission but I'm curious as it to what it may indicate. Cm10
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23Six said:
I have the same issue with with the icons grey (20%) time. Doesn't affect data transmission but I'm curious as it to what it may indicate. Cm10
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I flashed a different modem and things are MUCH better. Before it was 98% grey.
Now, like you, it's 20% or less.
Still I am having huge battery drain which I believe is caused by the modem.
Check if "Android OS" is high on the battery (Settings > Battery) list.
Also, betterbatterystats (or free version on XDA).
After 10 hours of boot time, it show 8+ hours were used by : No Data Connection and No or Unknown Signal!
Thread moved to Q & A section, post in the relevant section next time.
It means you are not connected to googles servers, that's why playstore doesn't work
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So I bought a new Galaxy SII and pretty much rooted it as soon as it arrived, I use CyanogenMod nightlies and update daily to the most recent version. It worked fine for a month but at some point when people called me, the phone would automatically hang up and i'd hear stange sounds, the phone is prepaid but at some way, if i'd enable connectivity I would still be able to use WhatsApp everywhere (it also said thing like H, H+ and 3G)when I had a signal, even without a data plan.
Then after a while it just said KPN (my provider) in the lockscreen but the signal indicator would be black all the time (no sim-card detected), now it's even weirder, you know when you turn on Wi-Fi and it connects, the Wi-Fi signal bars will be gray for a while and then blue and when it's blue you can use the internet. Well, as soon as i'd turn on Wi-Fi and connect to one of my routers, both the Wi-Fi AND sim-card signal would get 5 bars, and the sim-card signal bar would also get gray and then blue, so I thought yay I can call again, nope, it says full bars, it says KPN but as soon as I call someone the screen goes black for a while and then the phone app crashes ...
Can someone help me? Is this a software problem or something intern? Is this repairable? Please let me know
The 1st screenshot is with Wi-Fi, the 2nd one without Wi-Fi for a few seconds and the 3rd one is without Wi-F- after half a minute.
I hope someone has also experienced this and knows how to fix it ...
Someone?? I will by a new phone if nobody knows how to fix it, I can't even call or text right now..
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