Hello,
My WiFi on my G1 doesn't show the signal strength at all (I mean bars wise) when I am using my home router. It is an unsecured signal and anyone can connect to it. I originally had an encryption on it but took it off because some computers couldn't connect to its signal properly. When I DID have the encryption on, my G1 did actually show the bars for signal strength. So ever since I took off the encryption, it no longer shows. I have even had to wipe my phone several times. I cannot figure out what the problem is with it not showing because on other open networks, it does show the signal strength.
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated
Although I can't offer you a solution, my wifi does the same thing. There's never a problem with connecting it just never shows any signal strength but when I connect to the college wifi's it shows signal strength???
Never considered it much of an issue until you mentioned it...
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hello all, new to this forum so please any noobness that spurts out of my fingers.
Basically, I'm sat next to my wifi router and the legend can pick it up, "excellent" quailty apparently but it refuses to connect, always saying "obtaining address..." but always ending up being "unsuccessful".
Now, i was connected this morning when i was in a different room with only 2 bars of signal, but now i cant connect at all.
Cany anyone help/similar issue?
Try to restart the router.
Is your network secured? If yes, WEP or WPA/WPA2? If it is WEP, it may be just incorrect WEP-key.
My network is secure, WPA yada yada.
However, i'm now going through a stage where connection is no problem! Might just have been a one-off rough patch, or maybe its something to do with the legend itself? Some reviewers did comment on the questionable wifi signal/strength - most likely due to its construction maybe?
Well them im glad that my signal strength is extraordinary.
I still dont understand this..
I was at work, connected with our thomson (TG712), when i left the hall and went to the canteen.
I usually disconnect when reaching ±15 meters (this distance is why im so happy with this phones wifi strength), but this time it kept a connection while i was in the mess
With the weakest signal strength but still, I was able to download properly :/
This mess hall is about 50 meters away maybe more and with walls in between
Yes the SSID was our thomson and No I didn't get this working again but how the **** do you explain this.
Hi,
I have huge issues on my TF with Wi-Fi, I am really despaired with it. Signal strength is weak even if I am standing very close to my router - on default wi-fi icon it shows 2 sections of 3 and Wi-Fi Analyzer says signal is -55db. Few steps away it drops to -63db. And If i decide to go to another room signal stays around -66db and connection drops in and out like hell, sometimes it just can't connect at all for minute or so.
First thing I was thinking it's my router transmitter is week - it was abit old, but I never heard problems with it before. So I bought new router 300mbs N router with 3 antennas and very good signal. This not helped at all. Signal strength shown by Wi-Fi Analyzer remains pretty same with all other problems.
I've tried various wireless settings - b/g/n only, various channels, security on/off etc, I've tried various ROMs - not much difference. I am beginning to think there's some hardware malfunction on my TF but still hoping I missed something. May it be that TF is performing badly with this exact router? My Nokia Symbian phone shows excellent signal strength overall whole flat and I don't have any disconnects sitting in farthest corner.
Any advise welcome. Thanks
i have a Samsung galaxy tablet (the original). using wifi analyzer, the transformer consistently has a 10 dBm lower signal level than the galaxy.
I hadn't compared the signal level with my Incredible, but looking at it side by side also shows the 10 dBm lower signal...
randy
Please do a search for wifi issues.loads of threads have covered this topic before
Ok this may be kind of a long post but I'll first address what I think is the issue.
My note 2 doesn't appear to be automatically switching to stronger available wifi signals unless I manually toggle the wifi off then back on again. It will then connect to the stronger signal.
The reason why this has become an issue is because I bought a Diamond WR300n wifi range extender. I'm using it as a reapter. I want to have better wifi signal in my garage where I spend a lot of time. My current wifi signal drops off pretty much near the garage when using my phone. My laptop still gets decent wifi reception when I'm in the garage though.
I went through the fairly basic setup for the extender and got it working. I confirmed this by plugging in the ethernet port from the extender directly to my laptop and its receiving a signal just fine, browsing the internet etc.
So i put this extender in my garage, it connected normally and I confirmed it was working using my laptop again. Everything appeared to be working fine. The extender has the same SSID as my main wireless router (uverse 78wireblahblah).
The issue is when I'm inside my house I'm connected to the main wireless router because this is obviously the strongest signal. When I walk out of my house the signal diminishes as I approach my garage. I can walk into my garage and my wifi signal is pretty much gone even though there is this repeater putting out a working wifi signal with the same SSID as my main router.
Weird right, one would think it would automatically switch and connect to the repeater in the garage, but it doesn't.
Now if I manually turn off wifi and turn it back on while in the garage, bam, very strong signal and I'm connected. There really is two issues though, 1. my note 2 is not automatically switching over to the stronger signal (both the repeater and main wireless router have the same SSID) in the garage and 2. sometimes it connects to that stronger signal in the garage from the repeater (only after i manually toggle wifi off and on) but the internet doesn't work. I'm actually connected to my network because I can access my "Yamaha receiver app" that lets me turn up volume etc on my receiver but I don't have internet access etc. This is usually the case but after awhile it just seems to start working and I have full internet access.
I know this is only semi phone related but I figured since alot of guys on here are very savvy with this tech stuff, maybe someone could help.
Again
1. why won't my note 2 automatically switch over to that stronger wifi signal which should be the same in the garage.
2. why does it sometimes only connect to the network but doesn't allow outside internet access.
Should I try the "wifi jumper" app that supposedly auto switches to best wifi signal (i thought our phones do this anyways)?
Not sure if this is the right place to post this so please move if need be =)
Thoughts?
Stay on what Samsung preset.
Basically I owned a nexus s, it does have automatically jump to higher signal router or access point in android 4.1+.
So basically the WiFi just jumping from my router to access point and from access point to router and I ended up getting no WiFi signal. I have to switch off my access point (extender) to get my WiFi working again...
And note 2 won't give me this problem.
Accidentally sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note 2
If you'd ask me, just buy wifi jumper, you won't regret it!
It works perfectly fine with my 4 routers, all with different SSID. It's nice to have the best signal available wherever you are in the house. Wifi jumper gives me the best results I have had since trying a few different apps like it. The owner just finished rewriting the code for connecting to different routers with same SSID, so it should be the perfect solution in your situation!
And no, I'm not affiliated with it in any way, just a happy user :thumbup:
Edit: oops, old thread
thegipper said:
Ok this may be kind of a long post but I'll first address what I think is the issue.
My note 2 doesn't appear to be automatically switching to stronger available wifi signals unless I manually toggle the wifi off then back on again. It will then connect to the stronger signal.
The reason why this has become an issue is because I bought a Diamond WR300n wifi range extender. I'm using it as a reapter. I want to have better wifi signal in my garage where I spend a lot of time. My current wifi signal drops off pretty much near the garage when using my phone. My laptop still gets decent wifi reception when I'm in the garage though.
I went through the fairly basic setup for the extender and got it working. I confirmed this by plugging in the ethernet port from the extender directly to my laptop and its receiving a signal just fine, browsing the internet etc.
So i put this extender in my garage, it connected normally and I confirmed it was working using my laptop again. Everything appeared to be working fine. The extender has the same SSID as my main wireless router (uverse 78wireblahblah).
The issue is when I'm inside my house I'm connected to the main wireless router because this is obviously the strongest signal. When I walk out of my house the signal diminishes as I approach my garage. I can walk into my garage and my wifi signal is pretty much gone even though there is this repeater putting out a working wifi signal with the same SSID as my main router.
Weird right, one would think it would automatically switch and connect to the repeater in the garage, but it doesn't.
Now if I manually turn off wifi and turn it back on while in the garage, bam, very strong signal and I'm connected. There really is two issues though, 1. my note 2 is not automatically switching over to the stronger signal (both the repeater and main wireless router have the same SSID) in the garage and 2. sometimes it connects to that stronger signal in the garage from the repeater (only after i manually toggle wifi off and on) but the internet doesn't work. I'm actually connected to my network because I can access my "Yamaha receiver app" that lets me turn up volume etc on my receiver but I don't have internet access etc. This is usually the case but after awhile it just seems to start working and I have full internet access.
I know this is only semi phone related but I figured since alot of guys on here are very savvy with this tech stuff, maybe someone could help.
Again
1. why won't my note 2 automatically switch over to that stronger wifi signal which should be the same in the garage.
2. why does it sometimes only connect to the network but doesn't allow outside internet access.
Should I try the "wifi jumper" app that supposedly auto switches to best wifi signal (i thought our phones do this anyways)?
Not sure if this is the right place to post this so please move if need be =)
Thoughts?
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wifi jumper is a good idea
luega said:
wifi jumper is a good idea
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Yeah, Wifi Jumper is probably the way to go. In an ideal world, the WiFi stack would roam properly in all cases, but sometimes you're just not quite far enough for it to roam. This is even an issue with the PC also, but most manufacturers allow you to configure the roaming behavior of the driver to your tastes (max range or max speed).
When I'm at work and moving from one location to another, my S4 does not seem to automatically switch to the strongest wi-fi signal. It seems to "hold on" to whatever router it is connected to until it finally loses the signal completely. Only then will it re-connect to a stronger signal. I can manually work around this by turning the wifi off and on but this is a bit annoying... Does anyone else have this problem?
As an aside, I've not been able to disconnect during sleep by switching the sleep policy to "keep wifi on during sleep only when plugged in". Does this work for anyone?
Si345 said:
When I'm at work and moving from one location to another, my S4 does not seem to automatically switch to the strongest wi-fi signal. It seems to "hold on" to whatever router it is connected to until it finally loses the signal completely. Only then will it re-connect to a stronger signal. I can manually work around this by turning the wifi off and on but this is a bit annoying... Does anyone else have this problem?
As an aside, I've not been able to disconnect during sleep by switching the sleep policy to "keep wifi on during sleep only when plugged in". Does this work for anyone?
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As to your first point, that has been true of all my wifi devices (iPad, phones, laptops, etc.) I think that is by design because you might find your device constantly switching sources when competing wifi signals have similar strength or if the signals are varying in strength due to local conditions.
speedlever said:
As to your first point, that has been true of all my wifi devices (iPad, phones, laptops, etc.) I think that is by design because you might find your device constantly switching sources when competing wifi signals have similar strength or if the signals are varying in strength due to local conditions.
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Hmm, thanks. I never noticed this issue with my old S2 strangely. Perhaps it's because the S2 lost a weak wifi signal whilst the S4 has a slightly stronger lock and hangs onto it for longer. It's just very frustrating because so often my phone seems to be hanging on to such a weak signal I can't get any data through even though a strong wifi signal is available and a quick switch on/off of the wifi solves it. Anyway, I can live with it.
Anyone have any insight into my second question?
Hai..
My device cannot detect wifi signal when far from router. If i put my device next to the router, wifi signal strong. I'm currently on Pixel Experience rom, but also happen in other rom that i installed. My RSSI show -127..is it good or bad?
Thanks in advance