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[Q] Wifi Issue, wont connect.

ok before the update my phone never had any issues connecting but since i downloaded the official update that someone posted in the development forum it has stopped working, i have tried both Bionix 1.9 as well as Bionix Fusion 1.0 (currently using this one) neither has helped.
whats happening is the phone finds the wifi, connects to it, and then keeps like restarting or losing connection saying obtaining IP address. I have tried this from my home router as well as my work router neither of which work any longer.
I have also tried giving it a static ip address but then it just keeps losing and connecting (refreshing i guess).
If i try and go to the market or a website while the wifi is connected, refreshing doing whatever it doesnt work at all just shows could not load screens.

I have the same issue, with a stock (but rooted) JI6. The only resolution I have is rebooting the phone.
-bZj

down8 said:
I have the same issue, with a stock (but rooted) JI6. The only resolution I have is rebooting the phone.
-bZj
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rebooting the phone for me doesnt do any good, i leave wifi on, reboot and then when its back on wifi still doesnt work. Is it possible to go back to pre JI6? if so have you tried that yet?

You could ODIN back to stock. At least you won't be having this problem and plus you could test to see if JI6 is the problem.
I HIGHLY recommend to do a nandroid backup before anything and save ur apps with titanium backup. :]

You need to rest your wi-fi router ie once it connect for the first time its fine afterwords. I have fixed four of my friends vibrants same way.
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Dbryon said:
You need to rest your wi-fi router ie once it connect for the first time its fine afterwords. I have fixed four of my friends vibrants same way.
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I havent done so yet but even if this does fix my router at my home issue i cant very well tell my work and places with free wifi "hey i need you to reset your router"...

well im not sure what the issue was but it fixed when i put rom Bionix Fusion 1.1 onto my phone.

Problem with wify connection on 3.2 stock

Hi ppl, I'm having some serious problem with my wify connection getting lost every time since the 3.2 update the wify icon! Goes gray and blue each moment, it's like it lost the inernet from the router. Because of this gtalk doesn't keep connected. Hope y can help me here
Xoom wifi us stock 3.2

Hope ur xoom is not configured to get static IP from the router if yes remove the static IP or u can configure the static IP on the xoom itself hope it helps
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Yep, same issue here. I think there is a bug with the update...

Its no bug
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I had the same issue it use to dissconnect and get stuck at obtaining IP address when I removed the static IP I configured from the router i for xoom a day earlier when I got the update
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I have no problem getting an ip, and it's not static. And how do you know for sure this is not a bug? Are you and Android developer?
2 of us have the same issue afte updating. I bet there will be more as it rolls out.

I won't say anything here was just trying to help I faced a similar problem so I thought it might help you as we'll have fun figuring it out
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The router its configured to assign an static ip to my xoom. Until the update was perfect now doesn't keep the connection. Have to add that the xoom get its ip with no problem, but had I say keep disconnecting

ahmed007 said:
Hope ur xoom is not configured to get static IP from the router if yes remove the static IP or u can configure the static IP on the xoom itself hope it helps
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Wow this actually worked like a charm, it's weird that this be a problem with the xoom now, it should be totally transparent to it. Well I guess that later will come out some sort of explanation to this. Thx!.

Ur welcome
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I don't have such problems, but i want to point out that gray wifi icon doesn't mean there is no internet connectivity. If you disable sync the icon will turn gray, but you still have internet.

i have the exact same problem with losing connection to the Google server and the wifi icon switching from blue to grey constantly. When this happens my internet cennections also times out for a split second causing downloads in progress to end. I do also believe that it is a bug associated with 3.2. I've tried everything that I can think of to resolve it with no luck too. First I went through all of my router settings and did a wipe of the xoom. It didn't work so I went through the hassel of unrooting, relocking, and starting from scratch on 3.0, and I still have the same problem now that I'm back to 3.2. The xoom did not experience this issue on 3.0 or 3.1 and my Asus transformer is not having any problems running on the same connection, so the only thing left to blame my issues on is the 3.2 update itself.

droidx1978z4 said:
i have the exact same problem with losing connection to the Google server and the wifi icon switching from blue to grey constantly. When this happens my internet cennections also times out for a split second causing downloads in progress to end. I do also believe that it is a bug associated with 3.2. I've tried everything that I can think of to resolve it with no luck too. First I went through all of my router settings and did a wipe of the xoom. It didn't work so I went through the hassel of unrooting, relocking, and starting from scratch on 3.0, and I still have the same problem now that I'm back to 3.2. The xoom did not experience this issue on 3.0 or 3.1 and my Asus transformer is not having any problems running on the same connection, so the only thing left to blame my issues on is the 3.2 update itself.
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I agree, my wifi turns off when the screen is off even though I have it set to always on!

I am also seeing some strange WiFi connectivity issues that I did not have on 3.1. The indication goes from blue to grey constantly and does cause a interuption of any downloads. Nothing has changed on my router or Xoom settings and both are set to dynamically assign the IP address. While I can still surf when it is grey, something is just not right. I have tried resetting both the router and my Xoom, nothing seems to solve this issue. This definately seems like a bug to me.
Can anyone confirm this is not an issue with the latest Tiamat kernel? I am currently 100% stock and this would give be one more reason to root.

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Can anyone confirm this is not an issue with the latest Tiamat kernel? I am currently 100% stock and this would give be one more reason to root.
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I just finished reunlocking the bootloader, rerooting, and reinstalling cwm. I am in the process of downloading the deodexed 3.2/tiamat 2.0.0 rom to see if this has any effect on the wifi problems that I have been experiencing on 3.2. If this does not work then I am going back to 3.1 until another update comes out. I'll report back to tell you whether I still have these wifi issues tomorrow.

Unfortunately the deodexed 3.2/tiamat 2.0.0 rom did not help with my wifi issues. I flashed the tiamat 1.1 rom, which is based on 3.1 and now everything is working great. I don't know what my problem was with 3.2 or why so few people seem to be suffering with the same problem, but I'm sticking with this rom for awhile.

Was having similar wifi issues... connection retry messages in Market, failed to load web pages, etc. Additionally, network indicator remained primarily "gray". Removed DCHP reservation from router as recommended in earlier post and problem seems to have disappeared. Network indicator remains "blue" and retry messages have completely vanished. Thanks for suggestion

I think I have solved my issues. On the networks I manage (home and portable hotspot) I set the profile on the Xoom to use a static IP. What is strange is that on networks that I do not have control over (work and public hotspots) I left it as DHCP and I am not having any issues. I was having issues before I changed the OTHER profiles to static. Very strange.

I have opened issue 18648 at google code for this:
http://code.google.com/p/android/is...CP&colspec=ID Type Status Owner Summary Stars
DHCP seems to renew my IP address every 2-3 mins according to the adb debug log. Please star the issue if you are still getting it.

Just chiming in...I have a (new to me) XOOM with 3.2, 100% stock, no root, no funny business -- and I have the exact same problem.
There is a constant shift from blue to grey WiFi connection status icon, and issues with playing games online (server disconnections) and downloading apps.
I watched the log and do not see DHCP re-attempts as a new comment suggested, however.
I will attempt to set a static IP when I am home tonight and see if that fixes my issues there...

Overcome rom wifi problem

To my understanding the 3.2 update was pulled for the dhcp issue with wifi. it seems though I'm having the same problem with the overcome rom. The can anyone confirm if hey are having the same problem?
PHP:

anrichp said:
To my understanding the 3.2 update was pulled for the dhcp issue with wifi. it seems though I'm having the same problem with the overcome rom. The can anyone confirm if hey are having the same problem?
PHP:
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This issue happend to me as well with the official OTA update. The main story is pretty much like this:
The tab updated over the air, to 3.2 stopped being able to connect to a DHCP WiFi network. Basicly this is a network that gives your tablet the IP configurations automatically. This goes for almost all modems and routers out there.
To "Fix" this problem, you have to manually setup your connection from your tablet, putting in the right IP adress numbers to match your router, etc. And I also belive that I had do remove the DHCP function from my router.
I couldn't handle this and basicly wanted to "save" my tablet, instead of downloading yet another update from Samsung, that might be currupt. So I Flashed "Task650" 3.2 ROM, it's really quite nice and I didn't have any issues since then. It might be that the overcome ROM failed to fix this part, or that you got a bad flash?
Greetings.

I had the same problem and then did a restock and reflashed 3.2 and it solved the problem.
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Help with fixing Wi-Fi

I have reached my wit's end trying to resolve my problems, so I'm posting here for ideas on fixing this, any input is appreciated!
When this started I was on stock, rooted, ICS 4.0.3 and had been for months. My wife has a nexus s with the same config and hers works fine.
Last week, my daughters sidekick 4G stopped having wi-fi internet connectivity. I turned her wi-fi off, then back on and it was fine and has been ever since. Later that night, my nexus did the same thing, the same procedure resolved it. Ever since then, my wi-fi will only work for 1-5 minutes after turning the wi-fi on. This is the only thing I can think of that changed that could have caused this. This was the first night we connected her sidekick to wi-fi.
The wifi symbol is up there, it'll be blue for up to half an hour, but won't have internet connectivity for long. One thing I noticed pretty quickly was that even though the grey wi-fi symbol is there, I can't access the router settings at 192.168.1.1 from the phone. I thought the grey wifi symbol still indicated I was connected to the router still, but it's not working. Each time this happens, I can turn wi-fi off, back on immediately and it'll work for 1-5 minutes. It appears that the more I constantly use it after turning it back on, it seems to maintain connectivity longer.
Last weekend, just after these issues started, I visited my sister and my phone operated on her wi-fi all weekend just fine.
When I came back home, my problems started immediately.
Here's what I've tried in pretty much the order I tried them:
I started by uninstalling avast, facebook, and autostarts
selected "Forget network" in access points screen and reconnected
Factory reset
Wipe dalvik cache & fix permissions
see if it worked without sim card in (it didn't)
flash GB broadcom driver
Switched router channel from 6 to 1
flash stock 2.3.6 (wi-fi problems still present)
flash OTA ICS (still had problems)
flash stock 2.3.6
flash OTA ICS
re-root
Flash PixelROM 1.60 LiteTouch
factory reset router (No wifi problems on using open network and default SSID for 30 minutes!)
resetup WPA Personal security and rename SSID same as before
Worked for another 15 minutes or so after this
flashed stock 2.3.6
flashed OTA ICS
re-rooted
Restored nandroid backup - quit working after this step
Factory reset router - worked for about 15 minutes, I decided I was ok so I setup security and SSID as before, then it quit working again
flashed PixelRom 1.60 LiteTouch
flashed stock 2.3.6
Flashed OTA ICS - THIS time I did not restore my google backups from the cloud, fearing that this was somehow restoring something that was causing me problems. It did not help.
Changed SSID on my router and reconnected phone
I have spent countless hours trying to fix this. I don't believe it's the hardware because the router factory reset seems to help quite a bit, works fine on unencrypted default router settings, and it worked on my sister's wi-fi.
I have nmap and wireshark and have a basic working knowledge of them. I have adb setup and usable on my computer. I also have dd-wrt installed on my router and have for years. Is there any kind of IP or hardware logging I could perform with these tools to help figure out what's going on??? ANY help is GREATLY appreciated!!

Well i'm no expert with any of this, but it sounds more like a router issue.. If both your sidekick and nexus have the same characteristics of failing wifi, it cant be the devices..
If you've already reset your router and it does the same exact thing, maybe it is something wrong with the router itself. You said it connected fine at your sisters house, so it cant be any hardware within the phone.. The only thing I could think of is maybe try a different router in your house to see if it works? If that helps get rid of the connectivity issue, then you can just get a new router and be happy with the wifis

I don't think a *hardware* problem with the router would only affect 1 device connecting to it wirelessly. I would think that kind of issue would affect all devices on the network.
Which makes me wonder if there's a setting on the router that may be causing it somehow, or some combination of packets might somehow cause the router to block my phone.
But again, I'm open to ideas here and I appreciate your input. I think getting another router will be my next step if I don't hear anything better by the time I get my next paycheck.

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I don't think a *hardware* problem with the router would only affect 1 device connecting to it wirelessly. I would think that kind of issue would affect all devices on the network.
Which makes me wonder if there's a setting on the router that may be causing it somehow, or some combination of packets might somehow cause the router to block my phone.
But again, I'm open to ideas here and I appreciate your input. I think getting another router will be my next step if I don't hear anything better by the time I get my next paycheck.
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Ohh, I thought you had said that both the sidekick and nexus were having problems connecting. My bad.
But yeah have you changed any settings on it lately? Or messed with anything related to the router? Some setting may be kicking your device off after 5 mins, maybe some frequency setting or something dumb like that, I have no clue.
I know how it feels to have funky wifi, so I was only trying to help. good luck

Have you removed DD-WRT from your Wireless Router and back to stock OS? I had a Linksys router with DD-WRT and after about 3 years it started working so weird it became useless with any device. Had to buy a new one.
BTW, are other devices connecting fine to this router?
As swamp goblin stated, I would try with a new router.

It sounds like an issue on your router (or AP) with mixed client settings. I have had this issue with an old Netgear AP.
Try forcing "WPA2 with AES only" if all clients support it, otherwise force "WPA with TKIP only". If you have mixed B/G/N devices, force the fastest mode that all devices support. I use "G only".
Then remove and re-add the router on all your devices.
Also check for router firmware updates, and if you use DD-WRT firmware, find the Wiki page for your model and revision and use the suggested build there. The DD-WRT database they have is a mess and should not be used!

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Ohh, I thought you had said that both the sidekick and nexus were having problems connecting. My bad.
But yeah have you changed any settings on it lately? Or messed with anything related to the router? Some setting may be kicking your device off after 5 mins, maybe some frequency setting or something dumb like that, I have no clue.
I know how it feels to have funky wifi, so I was only trying to help. good luck
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I haven't changed any settings, until this problem began, which makes this even more maddening. I appreciate your input regardless
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Have you removed DD-WRT from your Wireless Router and back to stock OS? I had a Linksys router with DD-WRT and after about 3 years it started working so weird it became useless with any device. Had to buy a new one.
BTW, are other devices connecting fine to this router?
As swamp goblin stated, I would try with a new router.
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I haven't removed it. I thought I had a model that couldn't go back to stock, but I WILL be looking into this. The other devices connecting fine are Sidekick 4G, Wife's Nexus S, Acer Aspire one, HP tx2000 laptop, and my wife's HP laptop. I also have my satellite receiver connected via ethernet.
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It sounds like an issue on your router (or AP) with mixed client settings. I have had this issue with an old Netgear AP.
Try forcing "WPA2 with AES only" if all clients support it, otherwise force "WPA with TKIP only". If you have mixed B/G/N devices, force the fastest mode that all devices support. I use "G only".
Then remove and re-add the router on all your devices.
Also check for router firmware updates, and if you use DD-WRT firmware, find the Wiki page for your model and revision and use the suggested build there. The DD-WRT database they have is a mess and should not be used!
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I will certainly try these settings. Thanks for the tip on the wiki page

I had this problem too, I solved only flash again my radio...
Try if solve...
Or if don't work try to make a reset.
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THIS FIXED IT! I tried it first since it was the simplest solution and I've been 4 days with no loss of connectivity since I changed it to AES only, which all my clients do support! Thanks so much!

[Q] wifi issues - will not hold connection

after the latest updates from asus my transformer will not hold a wifi connection for more than 2 seconds - it keeps trying to obtain an ip address but will never stay connected. i just tried a hard reset and the problem still persists. i can't believe i'm the only one having these issues, but i don't see a specific thread here that talks about it.
is there any way to load a new ICS update or a different rom, given that i cannot connect to wifi?
any help would be greatly appreciated - thank you!

harryzwd said:
after the latest updates from asus my transformer will not hold a wifi connection for more than 2 seconds - it keeps trying to obtain an ip address but will never stay connected. i just tried a hard reset and the problem still persists. i can't believe i'm the only one having these issues, but i don't see a specific thread here that talks about it.
is there any way to load a new ICS update or a different rom, given that i cannot connect to wifi?
any help would be greatly appreciated - thank you!
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this happens suddenly for me ... this wasn't happen 1 or 2 days ago ... maybe an updated app .... :|

for the hell out of it i was going to reboot my home wireless router and noticed that there was an updated firmware out for it - so i installed the new firmware, rebooted, and my transformer hopped right on. anyone having issues might try sinply rebooting their router. that (and maybe the new firmware?) worked for me...

I was suddenly having connection issues myself. Turned out my neighbor moved the channels of his router onto the channels I use. This is of course after I checked what other routers near me were using and selecting free channels when I did my initial router setup. Perhaps you also have an inconsiderate or stupid neighbor. The free app Wifi Analyzer will show this sort of situation.
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