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hello all.
im having issues with my wifi. im getting realy poor reception even when standing next to the router. i did lots of reading about the matter but could not conclude whether it was a software or a hardware issue. im running stock rom.
i got the phone from google the tmobile version and im currently using it in Oman.
when i got it, i turned the phone on, it asked me if i wanted to update i said, all went perfect.
at first i didnt notice, then couple of hours later i noticed that the wifi bars will not go more than 1 bar if im 20 feets away from the router. if i put the phone on top of the router i still got one bar short than full.
last week i ordered another phone for myfather inlaw. i asked him to cancel and not update his phone to ere27, the same update i performed.
i compared his phone and mine at his house, my phone wouldnt even see the network when we were one floor down when his phone showed 2 bars.
im totaly confused, i dont want to root nor unlock the bootloader. however, i tried to manually flash the update ere27 again using sd card, thinking maybe there was some error last time. still the same.
on the other side i have a jawbone 2 headset. the reception is so bad if i take the phone more than 15cm for my headset, same with the dock. the dock being bluetooth capable, the phone doesnt have to be sitting at the dock in order for it to play music.
while i was doing my readings, it seemed that the bluetooth and wifi are the same chip, thus im wondring it might be a chip issue.
so now im back to zero, radio software issue or chip hardware issue.
some other facts:
i have no problems staying connected to my wifi with my low signal. i have no voice issues nor 3g issues. (3g still under observation and testing to see whether it works fine for me.
this week im getting another nexus one for my brother and dont know whether i ask him not to perform the ere27 update and wait till google sends another ota that might update the radio.
correct if im worng, i was thinking to flash only the radio. i currently have the 4.03, locked and unrooted and was thinking to flash the 4.04 radio but from what i understood that to flash radio u need to be rooted and unlocked?
if yes, then i will have to wait for googles ota.
if no, then point where to find the tutorials and radio file.
any feedback is much appreciated
Try the app wifi fixer... it helped me alot with keeping a good signal
i tried that also but that software helps u maintain a connection. i have no issues staying connected but i have issues with the strength of the wifi signal.
any more inputs
you should WiFi fix app because it shows you what channels are too crowded in your area and which ones are free. it sounds like your channel is so crowded that even next to the router the phone can't get a good signal.
hello
thank u for ur input. today i asked my father inlaw to update his nexus one to update1. i have asked him to refrain from it before thinking it might be a software issue on mine. after his update, his signals got even better when mine struggled to maintain a signal. mind u both phone where next to each other.
i also had blurtooth issues using my jawbone. at first i thought it was my bluetooth but today i tried his headset. the headset would start staticing if the phone is below my shoulder. after doing some readings, i learnt that the nexus one shares the same chip for bluetooth and wifi.
now im certain its a hardware issue.
since im in oman, i emailed htc and told them about the problem and my location. i offered them the option of me sending the phone to my company in san diego or directly to them. lets see what they say.
in the meantime, i decided to purchase another n1 (loaner) till i send mine and have it back after repair. after which i will sell the loaner ; )
cheers
Hello everyone,
I have been playing with my evo for the last 3 weeks and I love this phone.
However, earlier this week there was an automatic update on the phone and I realized that when I tried to connect to my wifi it would say "unable to start wifi". I cannot scan the network (grayed out) or anything.
Any thoughts.
Thank you.
Nim
Yup - this is an issue
I have this same problem...started the same time!
If anyone has an idea as to what to do to resolve this, I'm open to suggestions. I noticed this issue a couple of days ago when I had an update pushed to me phone.
Would love to see this problem with the WIFI radio resolved...
Robbio123! said:
I have this same problem...started the same time!
If anyone has an idea as to what to do to resolve this, I'm open to suggestions. I noticed this issue a couple of days ago when I had an update pushed to me phone.
Would love to see this problem with the WIFI radio resolved...
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It's called return your phone. That update bricked my radios too, WiFi, 4G and Hotspot. Wifi had the same error and the 4G said "Failed". Sprint gave me a brand new one and no problems.
If it's rooted and was working before the update you can delete the following file
Code:
/data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf
It worked for me.
brick?
Noooooo. Really? Darn.. I have a lot installed already. errrr. Thanks guys..
Hello all, this was brought to my attention today, courtesy of my news feed from mobile syrup.
Today Telus is pushing out an OTA update to Gingerbread, and according to the picture in the link, it looks like it has a new radio with it too. I have no clue about how to get a hold of this, but I thought I would pass on the information to the folks here.
Source: Mobilesyrup
http://mobilesyrup.com/2011/06/23/telus-htc-desire-hd-upgrade-to-os-2-3-starts-rolling-out/
hxxp://fotadl.htc.com/OTA_Ace_Gingerbread_S_TELUS_WWE_2.43.661.1_R-1.84.661.1_R_release_194023aok9iw7hmtj4lilk.zip
Sorry for bypassing the link, spam blocker but I don't have enough posts to share links yet.
does anyone notice any fix on it?
*Fixed* i have been having internet connection problem when switching wifi between data
gwmkwan said:
does anyone notice any fix on it?
i have been having internet connection problem when switching wifi between data
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I notice my weather now updates to my current location,other than that,I'm still playing.
I posted some information in the HTC Desire HD radio thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15005471&postcount=1619
So far here is what i found after update
Quadrant benchmark is max at 1580
Program opens a bit faster
HTC Message widget no longer have any choice on which sms program to open from
much faster on phone reboot
So is this Telus GB rootable?
Is anybody else having horrible 3G data issues with this update? Whenever I'm not connected to Wifi and attempt to use data my phone reboots. It has made my phone completely unusable. So far I haven't heard of anybody else with my issue though....
It also does not seem rootable. In an effort to prevent having to take my phone in to Telus I tried rooting and failed.
mikecousins said:
Is anybody else having horrible 3G data issues with this update? Whenever I'm not connected to Wifi and attempt to use data my phone reboots. It has made my phone completely unusable. So far I haven't heard of anybody else with my issue though....
It also does not seem rootable. In an effort to prevent having to take my phone in to Telus I tried rooting and failed.
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after the update
my phone works perfectly
i never rooted my phone
regards to your data issue, it works fine for me on FIDO
My brother who is in Saudi had his DHD fixed by HTC when he got i back it came with a new ROM:
Android Version
2.3.3
HTC Sense Version
2.1
Baseband Version
12.54.60.25_26.09.04.11_M2
Kernel Version
2.6.35.10-g997575f
[email protected] #1
Wed May 18 14:55:55 CST 2011
Build Number
2.42.415.1 CL68905 release-keys
Software Number
2.42.415.1
Browser Version
Webkit/533.1
It's UNROOTABLE but he said battery lasts for nearly 2 days with the new rom whereas he only had a day of use with the old ROM.
mikecousins said:
Is anybody else having horrible 3G data issues with this update? Whenever I'm not connected to Wifi and attempt to use data my phone reboots. It has made my phone completely unusable. So far I haven't heard of anybody else with my issue though....
It also does not seem rootable. In an effort to prevent having to take my phone in to Telus I tried rooting and failed.
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I've been having issues where it won't connect to mobile network .When I try to do it manually it tells me my SIM won't work with Telus,but restarting the phone fixes the issue,still very annoying.
That's a weird one. Mine's even worse though. If I leave my phone in my pocket it restarts about once every minute or two.
Ever since the new year, the clock on my HTC has been advancing too quickly. Its normally an hour at a time, although once it was 30 minutes or so. At worse, it has been around 12 hours too fast. Ocassionally it will correct itself, only to switch back later. I havent had this connected to the net via wifi or directly to my pc and I havent been roaming. I have tried a soft reboot with no luck.
Ive disabled the automatic sync for now.
Anyone heard of this problem - cant seem to find anyone experiencing this recently via forums or the net?
Thanks
spikeyl said:
Ever since the new year, the clock on my HTC has been advancing too quickly. Its normally an hour at a time, although once it was 30 minutes or so. At worse, it has been around 12 hours too fast. Ocassionally it will correct itself, only to switch back later. I havent had this connected to the net via wifi or directly to my pc and I havent been roaming. I have tried a soft reboot with no luck.
Ive disabled the automatic sync for now.
Anyone heard of this problem - cant seem to find anyone experiencing this recently via forums or the net?
Thanks
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You're not alone! We've got the same problem on most of our work HD2's on Orange (Same network as you effectively now Orange and T-Mo have merged networks into EE).
HD2's with Android on them aren't affected, but HD2's with stock WinMo 6.5 ROM's are.
EE have suggested installing the latest firmware (not sure on version number at the moment) from the HTC website which is a daylight savings fix, but doubt this will make much difference seeing as the UK switched to GMT months ago! I'll try installing this at some point, don't hold out much hope though so for the moment we've been disabling automatic timesync.
I suspect it's something EE have been doing with their network that has affected WinMo 6.5 on the HD2 somehow.
Same problem in DK
zaphy42 said:
You're not alone! We've got the same problem on most of our work HD2's on Orange (Same network as you effectively now Orange and T-Mo have merged networks into EE).
HD2's with Android on them aren't affected, but HD2's with stock WinMo 6.5 ROM's are.
EE have suggested installing the latest firmware (not sure on version number at the moment) from the HTC website which is a daylight savings fix, but doubt this will make much difference seeing as the UK switched to GMT months ago! I'll try installing this at some point, don't hold out much hope though so for the moment we've been disabling automatic timesync.
I suspect it's something EE have been doing with their network that has affected WinMo 6.5 on the HD2 somehow.
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We have the same problem her in Denmark on HD2 and I have seen the problem reported for other HTC devices with WinMo 6.5
I am on Vodafone in the UK with a totally stock HTC 1.66 ROM, WinMo 6.5
Twice in the last 48 hours my clock has advanced by exactly 1 hour sometime during the day. Today it was around midday but I did not notice the exact time.
Glad I'm not alone on this. I thought I was going mad!
I'd forgotten about the time sync option. It was on so Ijust turned it off. Will wait and see if the problem persists tomorrow.
Thanks
Thanks for all the replies - I thought I was the only one! Looks like its a Winmo6.5 problem with handling 2013 date updates rather than a specific network? - unlikely to get a fix then I would have thought...
Things have been fine with the sync turned off for a day, so looks like its not the device itself.
Yeah, mine did not advance an hour today with time sync switched off.
Its being reported on the O2 forum too: http://community.o2.co.uk/t5/Android-Devices-Samsung-HTC-Sony/HTC-HD2/td-p/378652
One of my work colleagues has an HD2. I will check with him on Monday.
problem fixed by workaround...
So far my problem is fixed with sync turned of:
Start-Settings-Menu
all settings
Personal
phone
GSM/UMTS
select Time synchronization - get settings then untick Automatic time zone, then ok
Have been OK since friday 4/1
But as we have 2400 devices (HD2 and Touch Diamond 2 (yes - I have users reporting the same problem on WinMo 6.1 devises))
Is there an knowledge of a "central fix" from either operators or HTC?
Thanks in advance for any reply
Soren
turned off time sync, still getting issues
Hello,
we've got this problem too on the majority of our corporate HD2s. I've tried turning off the time sync but having monitored this, the devices are still changing their time. O2 are saying it's not their end doing anything.
has anybody got any further with this or is turning the time sync off for you working?
thanks
Jack
GrayFrost said:
Hello,
we've got this problem too on the majority of our corporate HD2s. I've tried turning off the time sync but having monitored this, the devices are still changing their time. O2 are saying it's not their end doing anything.
has anybody got any further with this or is turning the time sync off for you working?
thanks
Jack
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Strangely the workaround (turning off time sync) worked from saturday 5/1 and until today 9/1.
From today my 1100 corporate HD2's is advancing with 1 hour again.
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GrayFrost said:
Hello,
we've got this problem too on the majority of our corporate HD2s. I've tried turning off the time sync but having monitored this, the devices are still changing their time. O2 are saying it's not their end doing anything.
has anybody got any further with this or is turning the time sync off for you working?
thanks
Jack
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Just spoken to HTC, they have assured me that the daylight saving fix on their website should fix this. I won't hold my breath as it says it's not applicable to the T-Mobile devices, which we also have the problem on
GrayFrost said:
Hello,
we've got this problem too on the majority of our corporate HD2s. I've tried turning off the time sync but having monitored this, the devices are still changing their time. O2 are saying it's not their end doing anything.
has anybody got any further with this or is turning the time sync off for you working?
thanks
Jack
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Thats odd - havent had any problems since I turned the sync off. Havent switched it back to see if its fixed yet - can anyone confirm?
Hi guys
Just got a and s8 and its the first phone I've been able to use Wi-Fi calling on. I'm on vodafone uk and the WiFi calling works okay. I've just got a question though.
At home I generally get an okay mobile signal but the WiFi calling symbol remains even though i have 2 bars. Is this normal? I though WiFi calling would only kick in when your signal was really weak?
Many thanks
Hi just a question do you have any problems with wifi calling? Just that I'm on vodafone and when using wifi calling no-one can hear me when I talk.
I tried it today mimo2008 in airplane mode and WiFi on and it worked okay for me. Are you running a vodafone firmware or a standard uk one?
Had the same issue in that quite a few times the person at the other end could not hear me. Also the WiFi calling symbol would remain even after I was out of range of WiFi!
Used to work fairly well on my old S7. Given up using it for now and turned the Sure Signal back on.
I'm not using a Vodafone firmware BTW.
It's strange because it only works in airplane mode not in normal. I'm running vodafone software unfortunately.
Thx for letting me know.
Are you guys connected to 5ghz WiFi when you are having problems? I had the chance to try WiFi calling at work today where I don't get signal. It worked really well and disconnected as it should as soon as I walked outside and had a couple of bars mobile signal. I tried this a few times. The only difference to at home is that we only have 2.4ghz WiFi at work.
Came home and forgot the 5ghz network and joined the 2.4ghz one. Magically it just works now. As soon as I'm down to one bar it comes on. Then goes off when I'm stood by the window and have 2+ bars.
Edit: Seems that didn't fix it after all. I'm sat here with 2-3 bars and WiFi calling remains on. Oh well hopefully in a future firmware update it might get fixed.
Just to update I'm now having the problem of the other person not being able to hear me. I've had to disable WiFi calling now as it's too buggy. I've left a message on the Vodafone forum where others are having the same problem. Apparently they are looking in to it.
Yeah I've been told it's not compatible with nougat which i think is a load off bull.
If it was the case then it would effect other carrier's
mimo2008 said:
Yeah I've been told it's not compatible with nougat which i think is a load off bull.
If it was the case then it would effect other carrier's
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Have they said if they are working on a fix mimo?
Hi @rob77
This is the email I got from vodafone.
Hello,
We?ve just investigated the fault you are experiencing with wifi calling. Your phone is currently running the latest version of Android (Nougat) which regrettably is currently incompatible with wifi calling, as soon as an update is released to Android wifi calling will resume normal service on your phone.
Regards,
No time scale I'm afraid.
Thanks mimo2008
Oh well I guess I'd better invest in a sure signal for work then.
Your welcome Rob hopefully they will get it fixed soon.
Bought a sure signal yesterday and have set it up at work. I've got to say it performs really well
@ Rob77 - Funny, cos it worked perfectly fine on my S7 running Nougat?
@Richy101 I've read quite a bit on the Vodafone forums and it does seem mainly s8 owners complaining of this problem. I've submitted a ticket and would like to see it fixed but the sure signal is actually better for me at this moment in time. I only need WiFi calling at work and the sure signal supports texts as well. At home I get usually get 2 bars 4g and falls back 3g if the signal gets too low.
rob77 said:
Just to update I'm now having the problem of the other person not being able to hear me. I've had to disable WiFi calling now as it's too buggy. I've left a message on the Vodafone forum where others are having the same problem. Apparently they are looking in to it.
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Just received a large "bug fix" software update which seems to include updated carrier software (VOD_0058 to VOD_0061) - does anyone know whether this WiFi calling bug was fixed?
Still broken for me with the latest update; no sound transmitted from my phone to the remote side
Slinky Wizard said:
Still broken for me with the latest update; no sound transmitted from my phone to the remote side
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Try it in aeroplane plane mode
Slinky Wizard said:
Still broken for me with the latest update; no sound transmitted from my phone to the remote side
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How frustrating - I've not had that problem yet since the update
EDIT: I notice Vodafone appear to have updated their site to say S8 is officially supported so they think any issues are now fixed