I've searched the forum and noticed that there have been several other HD owners who have had issues with their wifi. In my case, my HD has been working fine and I've been able to use my HD in the bedroom with my home wifi which is in the living room...and that's through two doors but only about 25 feet away, but still I'm very happy with that, it's about the same as my Samsung Innov8.
Well, just about 4 days ago my HD suddenly couldn't pick up any wifi signals in my bedroom at all. I had to move to the living room and be literally about 6-8 feet away for it to detect anything. Once I stepped in to the hallway, a door away, the signal would drop. Everything else is fine, but it seems as if suddenly the wifi antenna or something in my HD has just broke or malfunctioned. Does anyone have the same experience or can offer some suggestions? I've e-mailed HTC but no reply yet. Would reflashing the radio rom do any good? Any suggestions are helpful, because one of the main things I use the HD for is to access my home wifi network, and this is pretty annoying.
There could quite possible be something in the registry that could be changed to enchance the wifi performance on the HD. Try installed HD Tweak and see what you can find in there.
You may have a 2.4Ghz radio interference. Try choosing a diferent wifi channel. Most routers enable to choose channels 1 to 13 and AUTO (enabaling the router to choose the 'cleanest' channel). There may be other wifi related configuration issues, but first start with that.
thanks for the suggestions, I'll give it try tonight...
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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.
Just picked up my Desire HD today and it's a lovely phone.
However, the wifi connection is pitiful compared to anything else using my wifi. According to the Desire HD, the wifi signal is poor and it loses connection 6 metres away from the router whilst other devices (an iphone 4, an ipad and a laptop) say the signal is fine.
I have tried both holding the device and putting it on a table, so as to remove any antenna issues while moving away from the router.
Has anyone found this issue or should I expect wifi to be this poor? Is it something I could look into and get sorted?
Thx
Not seen a problem with mine. Got a Draytel router and all is fine anywhere in my house. Can you change wireless channels on the router?
Dave
My Magic is having issues connecting to Wifi hotspots. I live in a 3 story house. There are 2 wireless modems in the house, on the first floor and the third floor. From my office on the second floor, I have no problems connecting to either hotspot with my laptop and Nexus One, with a fairly strong connection to each. But for some reason, the Magic will never connect. Half the time, it won't even detect the networks as visible. When they are visible, the signal strength is poor. The Magic will only connect when in the same rooms as the modems, and even then, the signal is only half good.
I have tried over a dozen different ROM's, various SPL's, radios, and kernels. Nothing seems to fix the problem. I'm starting to think it's a hardware issue.
I'm lost, so hopefully someone can point me in the right direction. Thanks!
Sadly, I believe your on the right track with it being a hardware issue.
I was afraid of that At least I have my trusty Nexus - but it's always nice to have a backup..
Yay so I'm really happy about the iconia so far. The whole no acees to SD card through computer while connected to the computer will take some getting used to, but its the wifi that'll probably get this sent back. It's really bad. I've reset the connection half a dozen times since last night because it keeps hangin and can only downloads app when in the same room with the router.
Now the issue is that I'm laying beside the router now and getting 2 bars. If I sit up I get 3 bars. Yippee. The signal in the bedroom, on the first floor, get maybe 1 bar and I can't stream or download anything in there. I never get a great wifi signal in there', but its between 2 and 3 bars on my phone and netbook,. I wondered if there might be some interference so brought up the handy wifi analyzer and found 4 other wifi signals all on the first channel, so now my router is on channel 11. It didn't help any :-\
So if I exchange it, will the new unit possibly be an improvement? Is this just the way it is?
I noticed that the connection quality drops sharply the further away you are, but atleast on my tablet it still doesn't drop as sharply as in your case. I have the router here in living room and I get 65Mbps, everything works fine. Then if I move to bedroom or kitchen it drops to something around 20Mbps, yet it still works just fine.
What type of router do you use.I have a newer netgear with no issues my router is in the basement at front of house almost under the front porch.concrete ceiling above it. I can go out to my back yard approximately 200 feet and still get 1 bar and OK speed.I do notice. That the indicator bars do not exactly deplict your signal strength.
I also know there is a issue with some routers and the network card in this device I read in a thread long back.you have to turn off n or g feature I think it was.but do firmware update on router as well might help.not all routers are created equally Linksys sucks in my book. Lately
I can also see neighbors wifi signal but 1 bar they are 500 feet. Prob could not connect thou
Wish you lots of luck
hmmmmm
You could have a faulty Wi-Fi antenna ...
More likely, you are using a cheap router or a router with out of date firmware. Have you checked to make sure you have kept your router up to date with the latest firmware?
Also, have you tested this with other routers? If a multitude of routers show the same issue - you likely have a hardware problem with the a500 - if only your router shows this problem, then likely it is a problem with your local router.
a different unit MAY help, but I would try friends routers n such. My router blows but I can still stream Netflix no problem all the way across the house. I can't even do that on my laptop which has a beastly card. +1 for updating your router and device though, that might help.
Thanks for the replies. I have an old Motorola sbg900. I think I bought it 2 years ago. I have noticed that the iconia doesn't see as many networks as my phone does and the speedtest results are interesting. I left everything default in the app. By the router, I get 9 mb/s with the iconia vs 7 mb/s with the phone. In the bedroom, I get. .8 mb/s on the iconia and almost 6 mb/s on the phone. That is a huge drop and gap :'( I'll look up updating the router. I've never had connection problems before and we have 2 desktops upstairs plus both me and my roommates phones and both laptops and the wii and xbox. I just hope I can get some signal improvements on this nifty device.
sounds like firmware or...
I would find a friend with a different type of wifi router and test your connection with it. That way you get a pretty good indication of if you have a issue with your router or an issue with your Iconia.
Bother, my work wifi allows me to connect, but doesn't allow me to do anything with the connection. I am connected, but cannot do a speedtest. Relying only on bars the phone gets all 4 while the iconia gets only 3. The iconia also only sees 3 of the wifi signals in the building while my phone picks up 7 plus an open adhoc network. I know, it's time to visit with some friends so I can do a second test or maybe this is an excuse to go out for lunch today
ETA: At McDonalds, both devices had 3 bars and identical download and upload speeds. I've gone ahead and ordered a cheap $20 wireless n router to see if that improves things. It should arrive tomorrow, but since it's coming via UPS, it may not arrive until Monday.
Hi every one
My ideos was working fine but for some time i am getting wifi issue
Before i was getting good wifi reception and no signal bar up or down
But now its very bad wifi signal
In landscape mode i always drop a bar in signal bar even i sit next to my router.
Or when ever i cover the phone from top or insert handsfree i also loose a signal in signal bar
Anyone having this issue
Please give me advice to solve this problem
Sent from my Desire HD using xda premium
I have the Ideos X5 too. The wifi drops out or at least the signal becomes worse when i cover the top side of my phone (for example when i'm typing and i want bigger letters) It is also not very good at finding wifi connections. My laptop always finds internet upstairs (3rd floor) but the phone does not... it drops out from time to time and does not recover. When i open the door and walk to the stairs (not even going down) it finds it again an the problem is solved, but still it's irritating, especially because searching for wifi eats my battery...
don't know how to solve it though... Doubt you can solve it.
What rom are you guys running?
B135 for me
I have to say though, if i'm on the second floor (modem is on the first floor) i don't have any problems. Although of cours the signal becomes less when i cover the top side, but i'll still have a connection. So it's more of a distance problem for me.
I m running oxygen r3 with franco latest
But it happens with every rom i tested
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Possible Solution to WiFi Issues
Erratic wifi reliability, frequent drop outs and wifi spontaneously disabling itself (usually in the middle of app downloads) has been a "feature" of my X5 ever since I've owned it, about six months now. Rooted or unrooted makes no difference. I always use my home wifi and no other device I own has any issues with it - Dell and Apple laptops (running a mix of Mac OS X, Win 7, Ubuntu Linux and Win XP) and an iMac desktop, plus an iPad and iPod touch, they're all rock solid with my router.
Then the other day I was at my sister's place and attempted to connect to her wifi router. I got a message that I'd not seen before when connecting my X5 at home - it complained that the SSID was hidden and that "Android is unreliable" (or words to that effect) with hidden SSIDs, it recommended using an exposed SSID for the router instead with a "secure" password. I'm not sure if this was an Android message or from WFi Manager which I use, but it sure came as a surprise to me. Of course my SSID at home is hidden too.
I've changed my SSID at home to exposed and so far things seem better, a couple of app downloads and no wifi dropouts so far. I can't be sure yet but this may be the solution to my months of wifi frustration!
Of course why Android can't reliably handle a basic security feature of a long-established tech like wifi is another matter...
Hidden ssid isnt a security fearure... the ssid is still broadcasted with every data package, so one only have to wait for one of your devices to connect (also there more ways but not that easy)
Have a bit the same problem. Most of the time all is working fine.
Sometimes when the phone is locked and unlocked Wifi is not working.
Policiy for Wifi Sleep is allways on.
Sometime Wifi icon disapears wil working with it.
When is stop WiFi and start it all is fine.
My HTC Desire is working fine so it's a problem with the phone.
use with Android Stock not yet flash a mod.