I've got 10 MDAs, one for me and 9 others. All I've used so far either can't pick up the network or once they connect, I can only load one page before it stops browsing.
On my personal MDA, the first day I used it, I was able to browse for about 15 minutes flawlessly and browse at a friend's house on his network. I don't think it has loaded more than one page a day since. All the other MDAs seem to have equally miserable wifi.
I used my friend's 9100 with a hacked rom and it browses flawlessly for hours.
What's going on? HELP!
Thanks
-Kyle
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Hi, i recently bought and upgraded a 02 XDA Mini S to WM6 and the wifi seems bad like i have to go right next to the wireless point to get a good signal and even then its not at full bar can any1 help me with this or is it just the wifi is rubbish on the wizard?
thanks,
Kurt
Did you go to start-->settings-->connections tab-->wireless LAN-->power mode tab and set it on best performance? That should give you some more room to work with.
yep still is really bad though about 10 meters and 2 walls away from the router an i couldnt get a signal.
At "10 meters and 2 walls away from the router" I also get no connection -where my Wifi enabled laptop works fine at the same time. Seems like the Wifi on the HTC device is rather weak and operates from a small distance only. Anyways I've learned to live with it.
oh rite well annoying though considering my dell axim x51 can get a very good signal like 30 meters from the access point. is there anyway i can up the power on my wizard? ive got wireless G enabled aswell.
Ya, I have a 7db antennae on my router and I still seem to need to be inside of 20 or so feet, and no walls for my wizard to find the network. I think it's just a weak card.
I also noticed that.
Yes I also noticed that. I have a wifi hotspot subscription and with my old WM5 ROM i can connect and surf without any problem, however when useing any WM6 ROM i just connect poorly and the connection breaks everytime.
Even in my wireless home router i had turn on the name broadcast (enabling WEP of course) in order to connect properly at the first try.
Ive noted this with every WM6 Rom out there and since my device is a G4 i cant upgrade the radio rom. so... well i suffer from this issue also.
Soon after I got my phone, I used the ##778 reprogramming trick to enable "free" usb tethering. (PDAnet would crash my Vista laptop every 10 minutes.)
After the 2.2 OTA, I've been using the same trick to enable "free" hotspot through my Inc. (No root necessary!) I was able to access email and surf the web and after 1.5 months, I never once saw the MBC feature added to my bill.
Until 3 days ago, everything was working great. I would turn on the hotspot, my laptop would connect to the network and I was able to access the web.
Since then, my Inc creates a network and my laptop connects to the network, but it never connects to the internet. (The little globe icon doesn't appear. If that makes sense...) I checked ##778 settings and everything is fine.
I'm running stock kernel and 2.2 OTA with LauncherPro. I have ~200 apps installed currently. BUT none of that should matter because it worked fine with all these apps before.
Has anyone else experienced similar problems? Would the app that works for rooted phones work for me? I've been trying to avoid rooting my phone because, I'll end up spending WAY TOO MUCH time playing with ROM's and such. (It's inevitable, but I'm holding out as long as I can. Until then, I'll continue to read this forum to stay current.)
Mine still works fine - Root it jackass (jk) your phone will literaly be 100 times better
My co-worker used to connect his BB to my network, but now it won't even connect. It detects the network with 4 bars, but he gets an error connecting. (Probably because it won't detect an internet connection.)
This is bothering me a lot. I have a feeling it could be a hardware issue.
I got a wireless router yesterday for my workplace now so I don't really need the feature anymore (it's so much faster than VZW's network!), but I'd like to able to use it in emergency situations when I can't find an open network on the road.
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Has anyone else experienced similar problems? Would the app that works for rooted phones work for me? I've been trying to avoid rooting my phone because, I'll end up spending WAY TOO MUCH time playing with ROM's and such. (It's inevitable, but I'm holding out as long as I can. Until then, I'll continue to read this forum to stay current.)
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+1 Root. Bro it will honestly take you less than 10 minutes to root your device and install wireless tether and you'll be off and running. If your timid you don't have to do anything more than that. All you have to do to revert is flash the stock image from your sd card to unroot.
Hi again, since my last problem, that my galaxy tab did not wanted to turn on, I got a refund and waited until the machine came to my country..... months later, I could buy it at walmart, and all went fine, I got a 16GB wi-fi/3G tablet and went to a friend's house to use it, wi-fi worked well, then I bought a router, and installed it in one of my houses, and all went fine, I could even use it 20m away, then I installed it in my actual house and first it came ok, I could connect it, and worked for several days, went away and used the 3G internet, and came back and used the wi-fi because it has better speed, and it started to don't work, so I reseted the router like 3 times, each time it didn't work, then I contacted a friend of mine that works installing routers for companies, and he configured mine so it had a better security and values he knows that would work better, and indeed the problem was solved... for a couple of days... now, it says connected and it does not charge the pages, or if I "forget" the network, and charge it again, internet works but it loads pages partially it does not load them completely. On my phone and laptop the internet always works, in the tablet that is the problem... so what could it be, or how could I fix it?
PD: this is really strange, because normally it happens either when I shut down the router (because it is right besides my bed and the computer (big desktop) makes noise) or when I leave the tablet in stanby for a day or so, I write this because now I just restarted the tab and internet worked as if anything had happened...
I was recently having problems with wifi also. Mine was connected to my network but I couldn't get on the internet. This happened after a few weeks of ownership with no issues. I found this article and it pertains to my issue, not sure if it will help you though. You do need a rooted device to be able to do this "fix". It worked for me though.
http://steve-shaffer.com/2011/02/samsung-galaxy-tab-wifi/
Ok thanks so to root it, is the method suggested in the article safe, or what could I loose with that procedure? meaning, do you know a trustfull procedure I could follow?
I had the same problem too recently...works well at my friend's place but not with my router...it seems that the tab works well with static ip and not with dynamic ip address with we people usually have...
Oh , just read that link...i was about to say the same...
There s another way...
Without root,
reset your router
go to your wifi settings
go to wifi channel
set the channel to 11 (6 or 4 works too)
these channels tend to workout the problem i heard...worth a try right...
You can try this before you root
Hi, I'm having trouble with my N7 dropping WiFi signal. Not sure if it's related to android 4.2.2 or what. It was working a while ago, but now not so much. The wifi hangs - like when I'm in chrome a website will take way too long to load, and then a minute later it will load in like half a second. Or when I'm streaming netflix, I'll go for 5 minutes just fine. And then the next 5 minutes it will stutter every 2 seconds.
I'm really not sure what the deal is. Any ideas?
I've tried on a couple networks. I have an asus n66u router. I set up a separate network on the 2.4 ghz band all by itself just to see if it would improve performance. It hasn't. Most recently I tried using my phone a a wifi AP from about 3 inches away. Still the N7 stutters and drops the signal.
Any help would be appreciated thanks!
Sorry if this is in another thread. I tried searching but couldn't find anything similar.
I did a search and found nothing to help. All over the internet ive searched. no help.
Yesterday all of the sudden my power went out..nothing got fried or anything..prior to power outage i had perfect performance from my note 3....after...the Wifi is slow ONLY on my home router. Work and parents house perfect..my house it severely lags with anything downloading oriented including opening a web page which could take up 10 seconds to load. My laptop is running via wifi on same router...seems to be working good..i did a speed test..25MBPS with 8MBPS upload...which is exactly what i should be getting.
i tried everything basic..restarted phone..restarted router and modem..hard reset router..left everything off for hours. forced phone to forget network. i changed bandwidths on router..channels. network names. upgraded firmware. everything i could think of.
i could be at home and pickup neighbors xfinity with 1 bar and it can zoom like i was sitting next to router. my house., extreme delay.
does anyone have an idea what to do?? please and thank you
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I did a search and found nothing to help. All over the internet ive searched. no help.
Yesterday all of the sudden my power went out..nothing got fried or anything..prior to power outage i had perfect performance from my note 3....after...the Wifi is slow ONLY on my home router. Work and parents house perfect..my house it severely lags with anything downloading oriented including opening a web page which could take up 10 seconds to load. My laptop is running via wifi on same router...seems to be working good..i did a speed test..25MBPS with 8MBPS upload...which is exactly what i should be getting.
i tried everything basic..restarted phone..restarted router and modem..hard reset router..left everything off for hours. forced phone to forget network. i changed bandwidths on router..channels. network names. upgraded firmware. everything i could think of.
i could be at home and pickup neighbors xfinity with 1 bar and it can zoom like i was sitting next to router. my house., extreme delay.
does anyone have an idea what to do?? please and thank you
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Same issue here. Tried resetting modem, no go. Speed test is fine but everything takes forever.