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Had problem connecting my Droid Razr Maxx to my router at home (Netgear wndr 3300) but it connect almost everwhere else. After much help, and great service from Verizon and Motorola, including a next day replacement from Motorola, I found the problem was probably a conflict with the IP addresses i was using on the router. There is a conflice with base address 192.168.20.1 if it is used. You get connected, get an IP address but do not get any data. Changed to 192.168.0.1, and it worked fine. Have 192.168.16.1 at office it also works fine. Seem sot be conflict with LTE IF address. Love the Droid Razr Maxx. wonderful battery life.
From my experience, I have found that power cycling the router will in most cases resolve connectivity issues like this. But obviously that only works if you have access to said router.
On a side note, how exactly did you successfully perform a battery pull if you say you own a Maxx
I believe it has to do with what frequency range the router is using. I have a very nice VPN Linksys at my parents that I let them keep and it has the same issue with razr, thunderbolt, and Gnex so far. However my moms incredible 2 connects just fine.
I believe if you change it to a more common (off the top of my head, 90mhz) range everything should be just fine. I remember reading this somewhere and it made since, but my expertise is not in networking.
I haven't actually tried the fix because well, its my parents house and they have unlimited data and barely use 0.4 gb a month so no real need.
Hope this helps
Edit: I run a net gear at my house with 9-12 devices on it at a time and there are no issues connecting.
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When I had this problem I set up the router as no security, did not correct problem. Set up as 2,4 only no security, did not work. set up as all individual channels, did not work. Obviously powered down router and power up with each new setting, Still did not work. Even rebooted phone each time. Only thing that worked was changing base address. Did not remove battery.
Only question I have is if i run into a wifi network with this base address and I can't change it, I'm out of network connectivity.
JerseyFF said:
From my experience, I have found that power cycling the router will in most cases resolve connectivity issues like this. But obviously that only works if you have access to said router.
On a side note, how exactly did you successfully perform a battery pull if you say you own a Maxx
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I already bough the maxx but here is a link I found in that sub forum.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1477982&highlight=razr+upgrade+battery
WIFI problem
OKay... but how do you fix the wifi problem if you can't access the router? My droid razr maxx is having wifi connectivity problems with the wifi at my school. The phone will connect with the wifi for about 3 minutes, disconnect, and reconnect in an endless cycle. This sucks because I just got the phone a few days ago. I had a droid charge and never had a wifi issue like this. Any suggestions or solutions would be greatly appreciated. If I can't get this resolved within a few days I'm going to exchange my phone i hope that something will change.
wifi issues
I have 2 wifi routers at home. My RAZR could only connect to my 802.11N router and not my 802.11G router. It sees but when I try to log on to it, it would not connect.
So, it all depends on the router. It will see the signals from the routers but if it is not the N router, it will not connect.
I hope this helps.
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Had problem connecting my Droid Razr Maxx to my router at home (Netgear wndr 3300) but it connect almost everwhere else. After much help, and great service from Verizon and Motorola, including a next day replacement from Motorola, I found the problem was probably a conflict with the IP addresses i was using on the router. There is a conflice with base address 192.168.20.1 if it is used. You get connected, get an IP address but do not get any data. Changed to 192.168.0.1, and it worked fine. Have 192.168.16.1 at office it also works fine. Seem sot be conflict with LTE IF address. Love the Droid Razr Maxx. wonderful battery life.
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Thanks for this! I had two friends whose LTE phones could connect to my home wifi but did not have Internet access. My Linksys WRT54GL running Tomato 1.28 firmware was configured to the 192.168.20.xxx network. Just changed the subnet to .15 and their phones now work on my wifi.
Seems silly to me that LTE network would have a hard coded conflict with a class C private network address. They should have used a much less commonly seen class A network if it is necessary. Regardless, thanks for the solution!
why do all you guys have your subnets set so high? standard is 192.168.1.1 on linksys, the highest I've ever had to move it to was 192.168.3.1 due to neighboring linksys routers.
Side note, I don't know if this holds true for all android devices, and may be more hassle then its worth but I've read on the samsung galaxy player pages of someone with wifi issues to his belkin router and he solved it by setting a static IP for his player, maybe you could try that with your razr and see if it helps.
@bryan how is tomato? I use DD-wrt on ALL the routers I can flash it to and is why I haven't paid to have internet at my house in like a year and a half (weekend rental house across the street).
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Thanks for this! I had two friends whose LTE phones could connect to my home wifi but did not have Internet access. My Linksys WRT54GL running Tomato 1.28 firmware was configured to the 192.168.20.xxx network. Just changed the subnet to .15 and their phones now work on my wifi.
Seems silly to me that LTE network would have a hard coded conflict with a class C private network address. They should have used a much less commonly seen class A network if it is necessary. Regardless, thanks for the solution!
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I also want to pass on my thanks STEVEAPSEY, The only way to get my Droid Razor to work on my (Belkin) WiFi was setting up a public connection. I was leaning towards protocol settings but did not want to disrupt (and redo) all the other devices hooked to to it. In hind site public does give out a different IP! Well done!
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PS on a side note/side track I want to state what a epic adventure it is now-a-days to simply register and post a single comment on a message board. I know its a counter measure due to spam, but seriously I would rather give a sample of DNA then try to read and regurgitate that small type security check letters to register and post, and wait 5 min to edit you own post. /shake fist @ bots
Seems to me that Splashtop might be a big drain on data plan. Our only high speed internet is a Verizon 4g Mifi. We had one with 10g data plan which we just got a few months ago. Last month we went through 90% of that in like10 days. We figured someone had hacked into our network, because our history on our old sprint air card only showed an average of like 8g/month. A few days ago we decided to make some other changes, dropped the hot spot on husbands Droid and bought a second Mifi with 10g/month plan. But we just went thought over 3g on that Mifi in just a few days. The only thing I can think of is that I was using Splashtop Remote to run my Mac from the couch... we were not streaming any video or downloading big system updates or anything along those lines that might account for the big drain....
What did you expect. Just about any remote desktop app is going to use up bandwidth.
To clarify what the guy above said.
Splashtop is streaming essentially a 720p video from your computer to your tablet (along with keyboard/mouse input and audio). If you are doing that over your 3g/4g thats a lot of data. Typical compressed 720p video is 300 to 500 mb per half hour. So for every hour you use splashtop you are going to use probably between .5gb and a 1gb depending on how well they compress it. At least in the HD versions. If you are using a standard edition splashtop at a low framerate (if you can even set that, i don't remember) then you could save a lot of data. Splashtop is really meant to be used on wifi networks rather than over the internet, but they give you the option to do internet because some people have great uncapped internet.
Hope this helps clear this up.
Thanks for the info jacobrv.. I might be missing something here. Sorry to be so clueless about this. But, I am doing this at home, connected to our router. The router gets the internet service from the Mifi...(ACtually, what I have is one router connected to the Mifi, and a second router downstairs connected to the Ethernet and setup as an access point.)_ In theory should Spashtop not be using any Bandwidth and basically just be using the LAN network...
Well, if both devices (computer and tablet) are on the local network then it "should" use that and not go out to the internet. One thing I would try is to remove your Google account from splashtop, if you put it in, and see if they still find each other. They use your Google account to match up your devices over the internet, so without it, it should only look at the local network. If that doesn't help, or if you never put in your Google info in the first place, then I don't know.
That's pretty much all I've got. I mean, another thing to try would be to turn off all internet devices (mifi's/modems/etc) and try then. If they can no longer see each other, then obviously they were using the internet. But then the question becomes, why can't they see each other on the local network?
ok i no you can use wifi tether to tether your 3g/4g, but is there anyway to use wifi and tether your wifi through your house on a android phone. I have a wireless router at my house, but it does not reach all the way acrossed the house. is it possible to use an old android phone to tether my wifi singal further through my house? or can it only be done on my rezound with by 3g/4g signal?
Actually, this is a good question. What you're really asking is, can you use your phone as a wireless access point for your home network. I don't have an answer (at least, not one from 5 minutes of Googling) but I'm interested to know.
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unfortunately you cannot do this, as the phone's wifi connection can only be used either for connecting to your network, or tethering to another device, not both. you can however buy a "wifi repeater" to extend the range of your wireless router.
Repeater or bridge plus access point
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Repeater or bridge plus access point
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xerpy said:
unfortunately you cannot do this, as the phone's wifi connection can only be used either for connecting to your network, or tethering to another device, not both. you can however buy a "wifi repeater" to extend the range of your wireless router.
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Actually, this is a good question. What you're really asking is, can you use your phone as a wireless access point for your home network. I don't have an answer (at least, not one from 5 minutes of Googling) but I'm interested to know.
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well thanks for reply guys was really hoping it could work i got 2 extra android phones sitting around.
In theory, it is possible. You can use a tethering program to a PC via USB and then use the PC to "share" or "bridge" the connection to a WAP. I may try that when I get time, I just picked up a new Alcatel Omnistack switch I want to test out.
There is a way of doing this... but it may or may not help you out. Allow me to explain:
I used to live in a house where I kept a basic PC tower in the living room for playing movies. It did not have a wifi card. I was able to use my Droid 1 to tether this living room PC to my home AP.
Now, you're problem is that the wifi isn't even reaching the PC you want to get online. If you have a Droid 1 and it can get on to the AP without a terrible drop in throughput, this will work for you. If not, then it won't.
Here's what to do if you have a Droid 1 that can get on your home AP where the PC can't:
Install CM7 on the Droid 1
Connect to the AP
Connect the Droid 1 to the PC via the USB cable
Enable USB / Wired tethering
Done
It can be a little temperamental, but it works.
This does not address his question. Wired tethering the wifi does work, as you pointed out, but this will not help him extend the range of the network. If the phone is wired to a computer that is too far away to reach the wireless network, the phone is too far away as well.
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This does not address his question. Wired tethering the wifi does work, as you pointed out, but this will not help him extend the range of the network. If the phone is wired to a computer that is too far away to reach the wireless network, the phone is too far away as well.
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He could be a whole usb wire closer XD ... Why not just wired tether with pdanet or foxfi? Don't want the data charges, is that it? ... im lucky to be on the real unlimited train
fqrouter2 is the solution
fqrouter2 is an excellent WiFi repeater for rooted Android devices (available free in Google Play Store)
Hello.
I've actually had this problem for a while now, since I bought my first Samsung Galaxy Note, but I ignored it since I'm on a grandfathered unlimited data plan.
Anyhow.
Now I've also bought a Samsung Galaxy Note II for my mom, who doesn't have an unlimited plan, which makes this a bigger problem.
I'm on the AT&T network btw.
Network Info:
For my home internet connection, I run a Linksys WRT54G with the Tomato firmware (version 1.28), with security set to accept both WPA or WPA2, and both TKIP or AES (This was for compatibility reasons for some older devices, otherwise I'd be WPA2-AES).
I run Static DHCP, meaning each device with specific MAC addresses gets assigned a specific IP address.
I run a Wireless Filter, set to permit only devices whose MAC address is on the list get to connect wirelessly.
Problem Description:
When I bought my first Samsung Galaxy Note, I tried to connect it up to the wifi. I went ahead, registered the MAC address with the router, assigned it a specific IP address, all the settings correct.
It connected. Great!... Then later it wouldn't. After much investigation, I found that if the Laptop was connected to the wifi, then the phone couldn't connect. If the phone was connected to the wifi, then the Laptop couldn't connect. I tested this both before and after using a cooked firmware on the phone, same result. The Laptop and the Phone both have different IP addresses and MAC addresses.
So, I went ahead and got my mom a Samsung Galaxy Note II. It connects, without problems... or so I thought. Same problem, except the problem isn't the laptop, it's the wireless printer. If the printer is connected to the wifi, then the Note II cannot connect to it. If the Note II is connected to the wifi, then the printer cannot connect to it. Firmware for the phone is stock. The Printer and the Phone both have different IP Addresses and MAC addresses.
I read somewhere else in past searches being a problem inherent with the android OS in rare circumstances, but I can't find that now.
Anyone have any ideas what's going on?
BeAuMaN said:
Hello.
I've actually had this problem for a while now, since I bought my first Samsung Galaxy Note, but I ignored it since I'm on a grandfathered unlimited data plan.
Anyhow.
Now I've also bought a Samsung Galaxy Note II for my mom, who doesn't have an unlimited plan, which makes this a bigger problem.
I'm on the AT&T network btw.
Network Info:
For my home internet connection, I run a Linksys WRT54G with the Tomato firmware (version 1.28), with security set to accept both WPA or WPA2, and both TKIP or AES (This was for compatibility reasons for some older devices, otherwise I'd be WPA2-AES).
I run Static DHCP, meaning each device with specific MAC addresses gets assigned a specific IP address.
I run a Wireless Filter, set to permit only devices whose MAC address is on the list get to connect wirelessly.
Problem Description:
When I bought my first Samsung Galaxy Note, I tried to connect it up to the wifi. I went ahead, registered the MAC address with the router, assigned it a specific IP address, all the settings correct.
It connected. Great!... Then later it wouldn't. After much investigation, I found that if the Laptop was connected to the wifi, then the phone couldn't connect. If the phone was connected to the wifi, then the Laptop couldn't connect. I tested this both before and after using a cooked firmware on the phone, same result. The Laptop and the Phone both have different IP addresses and MAC addresses.
So, I went ahead and got my mom a Samsung Galaxy Note II. It connects, without problems... or so I thought. Same problem, except the problem isn't the laptop, it's the wireless printer. If the printer is connected to the wifi, then the Note II cannot connect to it. If the Note II is connected to the wifi, then the printer cannot connect to it. Firmware for the phone is stock. The Printer and the Phone both have different IP Addresses and MAC addresses.
I read somewhere else in past searches being a problem inherent with the android OS in rare circumstances, but I can't find that now.
Anyone have any ideas what's going on?
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Now, I could be mistaken, but the WRT54G was built in 2006-2008 range, right? Is your router this old/has it seen continuous use? I know my parents had their WRT54G die in about 2010-2011. It began rebooting incessantly and doing the same thing, but to our Windows-based laptops connected to it, so it might be age. Just a thought.
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Now, I could be mistaken, but the WRT54G was built in 2006-2008 range, right? Is your router this old/has it seen continuous use? I know my parents had their WRT54G die in about 2010-2011. It began rebooting incessantly and doing the same thing, but to our Windows-based laptops connected to it, so it might be age. Just a thought.
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It is old, but hasn't seen continuous usage. My original one died a few years ago, and so I replaced it with another one that had been sitting in a closet, unused at a friend's house. Both WRT54Gs.
It's possible that its age may be a contributing factor, but no other device has exhibited the problems that I have described here. Only the Note and Note II have done this. Even my old windows 6.5 phone didn't have this problem.
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It is old, but hasn't seen continuous usage. My original one died a few years ago, and so I replaced it with another one that had been sitting in a closet, unused at a friend's house. Both WRT54Gs.
It's possible that its age may be a contributing factor, but no other device has exhibited the problems that I have described here. Only the Note and Note II have done this. Even my old windows 6.5 phone didn't have this problem.
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I'll admit, I'm no networking expert. The only time i've seen something similar was with two Windows PC's running Windows 7 and Team Fortress 2. THe issue then turned out to be an HTC passthrough driver, but I don't know why. I'll let an expert answer further. :S
Well, I appreciate the help anyway dibblebill!
I had a similar problem when I bought two Galaxy Gio's for my kids. The one that connected first had no problem. The other could not connect. The phone connected and the lost connection repeatedly. The problem wasn't solved until I updated the firmware.
Dmwitz said:
I had a similar problem when I bought two Galaxy Gio's for my kids. The one that connected first had no problem. The other could not connect. The phone connected and the lost connection repeatedly. The problem wasn't solved until I updated the firmware.
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Hi Dmwitz, I have the Samsung Galaxy S 1. I have the same issue, WiFi connects, disconnects, connects, disconnects, ...and so on. Android 2.3.3 here (Gingerbread XWJVI). Worked like a charm for months until yesterday. I changed nothing, or at least I am unaware of any changes I may have made.
So, please, which exact firmware did you install that solved the problem, was it an official Samsung fw or a custom one ?
And, which fw was the one that was on the device when the problem existed ?
Xatthew
I HAVE A POTENTIAL FIX FOR YOU
I've been searching forums where people are having the same issue, and pasting my directions below. I had the same damn disgusting issue!!
ATTENTION! Jelly bean 4.2.1 and other certain patches break WIFI !
If you already installed it, and your wifi is broke. Install these two very popular programs below. They fix the wifi. Don't ask me why, but it worked for us. I found it on another forum.
And don't listen to people who are telling you to disable your security on the router!!
Just install these from the play store and try connecting again. it instantly fixed my issue with connecting to wifi at home.
1. Wifi Analyser
2. Wifi Connecter Library
3. try connecting to wifi again
amallica said:
I HAVE A POTENTIAL FIX FOR YOU
I've been searching forums where people are having the same issue, and pasting my directions below. I had the same damn disgusting issue!!
ATTENTION! Jelly bean 4.2.1 and other certain patches break WIFI !
If you already installed it, and your wifi is broke. Install these two very popular programs below. They fix the wifi. Don't ask me why, but it worked for us. I found it on another forum.
And don't listen to people who are telling you to disable your security on the router!!
Just install these from the play store and try connecting again. it instantly fixed my issue with connecting to wifi at home.
1. Wifi Analyser
2. Wifi Connecter Library
3. try connecting to wifi again
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Thanks for the post, and I appreciate the effort. However, this does not fix my particular problem, as my phone was had the OS before Jelly Bean, and it was already bundled with those programs by the cooker. Thanks again though, I appreciate the effort.
BeAuMaN said:
Thanks for the post, and I appreciate the effort. However, this does not fix my particular problem, as my phone was had the OS before Jelly Bean, and it was already bundled with those programs by the cooker. Thanks again though, I appreciate the effort.
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Have you tried disabling static IPs and only keeping the wireless filter? A friend of mine had a D-Link router, one Galaxy S Duos, two laptops, two iPads and every time I got there with my Galaxy S3, and turn wi-fi on, one thing was kicked off the network. Case was solved doing this. I don't know if it will help but I think it's worth a try.
I got a THL 5000 today,when it connects to my Wifi it disconects after a short time.
If I try to connect to the internet it does not work, even when the wifi icon is on at the top of the screen.
Anybody had this?
Please Help.
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Thilly1 said:
I got a THL 5000 today,when it connects to my Wifi it disconects after a short time.
If I try to connect to the internet it does not work, even when the wifi icon is on at the top of the screen.
Anybody had this?
Please Help.
Thanks
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I have the same problem. Has anyone found the solution ???
Thilly1 said:
I got a THL 5000 today,when it connects to my Wifi it disconects after a short time.
If I try to connect to the internet it does not work, even when the wifi icon is on at the top of the screen.
Anybody had this?
Please Help.
Thanks
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I have a THL 5000 too. Same issue. In my case I notice that it does not happen everywhere. I get disconnect at home, and at one other place. At other places like work, starbucks barnes and noble no disconnect. I tried almost everything to get around the issue and have had success a few different way. This issues is not limited to THL 5000 its many other android phones running Kit Kat. My ipad 2 has the same issues and so does my vista laptop but the issues occur only at home. This got me to think it may be router issue incompatibiity since some devices work perfectly and some dont I have three that disconnect in the same location. My ipad one has no issues my ipad air has no issues, just THL 5000, vista laptop, and ipad 2 have chronic disconnect.
My first way around this issues was to change the security setting on my router to WEP from WPA/WPA2 (both versions of WPA gave me disconects) when I did this they no longer disconneced from WIFI The issue here is that WEP is not very secure, but it solved the issue. I had checked for firmware update on the router but it reported they were all up to date. My devices are up to date too.
So if you are ok with WEP security it may fix the issue for you.
I personally did not want to keep using WEP, because my friend showed me how he can hack into my wifi. So I continued my search for another work around. I found that a wifi extender works. I found one for $30 at walmart and I had my phone link to the extender and the extender link to the router. This worked well for all devices and allowed me to maintain WPA security feature. So while not a fix it is a work around and not expensive.
A third solution is just buy a new router, but from what I gather other router have issues too, Nighthawk AC 1900 I heard has disconnect issues. So if you go via new router method keep in mind you want to save he receipt until you know for sure disconnect issue is gone. Basically its a compaibility issue. Also this may be most expensive route.
fourth methob if you phone had a previous Andorid OS (previous to Kitkat) you can try and restore a older version of the OS. Many have had success with that. In my case It came only with Kitkat so I could not place an older version.
Fifth method get a new phone. Since I could not return the phone I personally just run my phone via range extender at home and this works for me. I found a netgear range extender for $30 on amazon.
So while I don have a solution for you, there may be some work around that might work for you.