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How to improve wifi range ?

There are any tweaks to improve the range of wifi in universal ?
I have already set to maximum in wifi settings the option "optimize for perfomance"
Do you know some registry tweaks or chip hack tecnhics to improve wifi range ?
My friend nokia n80 and my laptopt as far more range than universal.
Just for comparassion the nokia was floating arround excelent and good signal , and my universal was no signal / poor signal and can not connect to internet...

It's not just you..
I think the WiFi range on my XDA IIs needs improving, but I don't know if its a hardware or firmware/software issue..
I've just "upgraded" from a Dell Axim X3 with which I used a Sandisk 256Mb+ WiFi SDIO card and my WiFi range has dropped dramatically.
So why the move?
a) WiFi SD meant swapping SD cards around all the time
b) no bluetooth on the Axim X3 that I had
c) tired of carrying a phone and PDA
I've seen mod's and upgrades on this site, but often it's unclear which devices they're suitable for... Of course, I try the WiKi for BA first..
Help please?

Well, From my experiences, the Universal's wifi range is almost as good as other wifi devices I have... as long as your wireless router is put in the right place.....
I used to have great problems with my universal's wifi connection, it's just not xxxxing stable, I mean it was connected a min ago, and then it disconnect whenever I use it, and I have to be in that very same room with the wifi router to get a stable wifi connection
Therefore, I bring it to the customer service for over 5 times, the repair guy just keep telling me everything is fine, everything is good, your wifi on your universal is PERFECT! And the dan thing is, it work perfectly for over 30 min in their office.
so I kept changing my wifi router, and another..... but then after some time, I found out all I need to do is place my wifi router indoor, Do not place it near/next to any window, but maybe put it in the middle of the apartment/house/office ....
I found out the Universal is easy to disturb by ANY interference, and place your wifi router near/next to your window will somehow do that. Once I place the wifi router "indoor" everything work just fine
try that, I am pretty sure it will work
J

Please let me know if it help ?

Re: Repositioning WiFi Router
Sounds like a good idea, thanks. I'd have to do some fairly major re-wiring to move my wireless unit though as it is the ADSL modem also and in an office which is not in the main house. Maybe I will have to buy a 2nd wireless unit for inside the house; I have a wired connection between the office and the house.
Strange, though. My Axim would always connect from certain rooms in the house, now by BA doesn't. Perhaps the antennae in BA's need improvement

will android switch to a better wifi if available?

Heyho, i currently have access to my wifi as well as to my neighbors network as my wifi gets weak while i am in the garden. I feel like android isnt awitching to my neighbors wifi automatically. Only when my wifi is completely gone, android will look for a new one.
I thought about making a task with tasker which looks for another wifi as soon as the current wifi strength goes below 25%.
Or is/should android do that aleady on its own?
Thanks

In wifi -> Advanced settings there's an option to avoid poor connection. I have no idea what it actually does, but give it a try.

I did the test with my router, which supports 2 frequencies.
Assuming both networks are saved in the phone, it connect automatically to the one with better signal or look for an alternative if signal is lost.

Thats what I mean, it will connect to the other WiFi if the connection is lost. But if the connection is crippled (bad) enough to not handle a music stream, but still "availabe" it will not switch to the other WiFi eventhough that other WiFi has 100% signal strength ?
I activated the "use wlan only if good strength available".. lets see how this works

I have multiple APs in my house and the only way I've ever got it to switch is by toggling wifi off and on (or loosing the first signal completely). This is an Android issue IINM, my GS2 and my N4 both have this issue.

I tried the "do not use weak WiFi".. didnt work.

zakazak said:
I tried the "do not use weak WiFi".. didnt work.
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It has never worked for me either. Didn't work on my GSM GNex or with the N4.

I think it's how most WiFi clients work, otherwise if you were in the middle of 2 equal signals, it would spend more time disconnecting and reconnecting creating a DOS attack on the 2 AP's and leaving you with no data.
As for 2 home wireless routers, use the same SSID and authentication settings for both, and put one on channel 1 and the other on channel 11.
Make one a AP only (no router, no firewall, no dhcp server) and connect it to a client wired port on the first one. You can roam between them like people in large offices do.

or I try to make a tasker profile
if wifi strenght below 20% and another wifi is available with more than 30%, connect to that one.. then wait 5 minutes ?

Why does every android phone want WiFi on when using maps or navigation?

I would think the GPS and a network connection would be good enough to triangulate where you are. I'm tired of the nag screen. I tried to Google for an answer but didn't find anything that exactly answered my question. Maybe when Google mapped out street view, they were also sniffing for Wi-Fi access points, and their names with locations? Just a theory.

Mine will work with Wireless off. Just tried it. Location settings to just GPS, Wifi turned off, map worked perfectly. Didn't try to navigate, but it should be the same.

Mine works fine without WiFi. It asked me once and I skipped it and it hasn't showed again.
Maybe because each WiFi router has the ability to send its location. If you were in a building without GPS signal you could still have location.
SGS4 Sent

Yeah I know you can skip it, but if the program senses you're on a mobile network, and the GPS is on, I don't know why it still wants to have Wi-Fi on.

Just did a test with a couple mapping apps. If I am in an airport or mall without WiFi on it can't tell which store or gate I am at. With the WiFi on it can tell exactly what store or gate I am near. Maybe they use WiFi to pinpoint. Oh and I did have GPS on at all times but without the added WiFi location it was either not good enough signal or no GPS signal... Who knows maybe they are just watching us.
SGS4 Sent

I think it's just that WiFi will always be more exact than data. You're accessing the Interwebz through one point rather than through your carrier.

Yeah but you're not connected to anything on Wi-Fi, it just has to be on.

There's a database of found access points out there. Your phone can triangulate its position far more accurately if it uses the available wifi access points to do so, especially indoors. Like oscar said, it doesn't need to be connected to wifi. It only needs wifi activated in order to "see" what access points are nearby.
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Any suggestions for prioritizing Wifi networks?

Now what I mean by this is if I have multiple overlapping wifi networks I want to be able to select which one the phone will prioritize its connection to
Why this is important for me is at home I have my 5Ghz network and my normal network(2.5Ghz I think).The 5Ghz network wont travel as far as my other network but speeds are much better
So basically I want my phone to use the 5Ghz network until its no longer available.Another example of how I want to use this is at work I have access to my private wifi around my desk and corp wifi around the office
The corp wifi blocks access to certain content so by prioritizing my private wifi the phone would stay connected to it unless it loses coverage and then it would switch to the corp wifi and vice versa
I tried a bunch of apps I could find and none seem to work too well. I know some versions of CM had something like this but cant seem to find anyway to do this properly on stock ROMs which I figure would be a good feature
Any suggestions would be welcome

My case the only way I have found to solve that was enabling roaming assistant on my routers (RT-AC88U's) to help my devices switch to stronger signals, and smart connect to switch from 5ghz to 2.4ghz and viceversa when bandwith on that band is saturated.
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sentinelvdx said:
My case the only way I have found to solve that was enabling roaming assistant on my routers (RT-AC88U's) to help my devices switch to stronger signals, and smart connect to switch from 5ghz to 2.4ghz and viceversa when bandwith on that band is saturated.
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Unfortunately that would only help for the area around the router. I'm looking for a phone based solution
I would figure in this day and age this should be a default feature

Yeahp... that's why I have subscribed to your thread to see if someone has phone based solution

Here it is https://goo.gl/5L6ymo
You're welcome

whynottoday said:
Here it is https://goo.gl/5L6ymo
You're welcome
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Thanks but tried this app already but half the time it isnt doing what it should
Hasnt been updated in over a year either

fidorulz said:
Thanks but tried this app already but half the time it isnt doing what it should
Hasnt been updated in over a year either
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Works great for me

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Works great for me
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Tried the app again to see if I missed something and it pretty much has nothing from what im looking for. There is no option to prioritize specific SSID. You can prioritize 5Ghz or setup specific signal thresholds but what im talking about is an app that will prioritize SSID
So for example if I have WIFI 1 and WIFI 2 both have great signal but I prefer WIFI 1 unless it has no service then and only then it will goto WIFI 2. Once I go back in the coverage area for WIFI 1 it switches back

Found this app and so far so good.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.com.superwifi&rdid=app.com.superwifi
It has the option to prioritize by SSID
Will test a little longer

This also seems very promising
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.za.flash.wifiprioritizer&hl=en

fidorulz said:
Now what I mean by this is if I have multiple overlapping wifi networks I want to be able to select which one the phone will prioritize its connection to
Why this is important for me is at home I have my 5Ghz network and my normal network(2.5Ghz I think).The 5Ghz network wont travel as far as my other network but speeds are much better
So basically I want my phone to use the 5Ghz network until its no longer available.Another example of how I want to use this is at work I have access to my private wifi around my desk and corp wifi around the office
The corp wifi blocks access to certain content so by prioritizing my private wifi the phone would stay connected to it unless it loses coverage and then it would switch to the corp wifi and vice versa
I tried a bunch of apps I could find and none seem to work too well. I know some versions of CM had something like this but cant seem to find anyway to do this properly on stock ROMs which I figure would be a good feature
Any suggestions would be welcome
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You know Tasker? With the autotools plugin you might be able to do this. You could make it search for ssid and if xx ssid is available, connect to it. I don't have time for more in depth before the day after tomorrow, but quote me if you need help.

Faspaiso said:
You know Tasker? With the autotools plugin you might be able to do this. You could make it search for ssid and if xx ssid is available, connect to it. I don't have time for more in depth before the day after tomorrow, but quote me if you need help.
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Thanks ill tinker around with it for a while

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.seah0rse.swififree
Lets you prioritise 5ghz, and also set at what difference in signal strength it should switch to better network

asjstian said:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.seah0rse.swififree
Lets you prioritise 5ghz, and also set at what difference in signal strength it should switch to better network
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Thanks but mainly looking for SSID filter vs signal or 5Ghz.
You can have different SSID for 5Ghz vs regular which is what I do at home but at work 5Ghz isnt available to I mainly need to prioritize one SSID over another unless its not available

Did you try Tasker o Automate? (I didn't try it yet, that's why I'm asking). Tasker is a very powerful tool which can help on such things.

sentinelvdx said:
Did you try Tasker o Automate? (I didn't try it yet, that's why I'm asking). Tasker is a very powerful tool which can help on such things.
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I use Tasker but only for simple tasks such as when bluetooth connects change audio info
Otherwise many of the options go over my head

sentinelvdx said:
My case the only way I have found to solve that was enabling roaming assistant on my routers (RT-AC88U's) to help my devices switch to stronger signals, and smart connect to switch from 5ghz to 2.4ghz and viceversa when bandwith on that band is saturated.
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Eh . I'm going to buy AC88U later this month. I wanna know. So. I know that if you enable roaming assistant on 5ghz. It'll switch your phone to 2.4 when the RSSI match the settings. But the thing I don't know is. If we can do the same for 2.4ghz. so when it reaches how much high strength it'll disconnect it. So making the client connect to the 5ghz. Well I know smartconnect can do it. But smartconnect disables the channel selection. Thanks [emoji4]

WiFi unstable

WiFi is very unstable when you aren't next to the access point. It keeps switching from WiFi to data connection.
Furthermore, when gripping the phone from the upside without a cover (near the camera), the WiFi connection will not work anymore.
Someone is experiencing this problem?

same to me

WiFi works normal here... No deathgrip

Maybe you can try enabling Aggressive WLAN to Cellular handover at developer settings under the networking tab to fix your issue

alfatihrobb said:
Maybe you can try enabling Aggressive WLAN to Cellular handover at developer settings under the networking tab to fix your issue
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Definitely this is not a solution...

jack_21 said:
WiFi is very unstable when you aren't next to the access point. It keeps switching from WiFi to data connection.
Furthermore, when gripping the phone from the upside without a cover (near the camera), the WiFi connection will not work anymore.
Someone is experiencing this problem?
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Well, the problem in my case was that I have two access points with the same name at the two sides of the house, and from my room the second AP has a better signal, but it had some trouble and it wasn't working, so the phone wifi was switching from the first to the second continually.
However if you hold the phone from the upside, there is a very strong loss of signal. A workaround is to use a case.
I can say that wifi antennas of this phone are not that good, like the iPhone 7.
My previously Xiaomi phone had a better wifi signal on very distant access point.

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Definitely this is not a solution...
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I agree: not a solution.
I've changed ssid of 5Ghz wifi (now is different from 2.4) and wifi don't disconnect random anymore.

ohdearlord said:
I agree: not a solution.
I've changed ssid of 5Ghz wifi (now is different from 2.4) and wifi don't disconnect random anymore.
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Yes, the same SSID on different AP / technologies makes only troubles.
Never use the same name for 2,4Ghz and 5Ghz. Unfortunately many providers have the routers that are configured this way.

jack_21 said:
Yes, the same SSID on different AP / technologies makes only troubles.
Never use the same name for 2,4Ghz and 5Ghz. Unfortunately many providers have the routers that are configured this way.
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I've configured my router with same ssid to use band steering (i can't post link: search "band steering avm" from a search engine)
That technology do exactly the trick: switching from frequency bands, but even disabling it Mi A1 doesn't manage WiFi correctly and don't suppose to do that!

Hi Guys
Is there a solution for unstable wifi connections.
thank you