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wifi drops

I have a tattoo for a couple of days and my wifi connection drops out every few minutes. Have searched around xda and google but haven´t found an answer that worked/helped.
I have wireless router in my house. We don´t have any free wifi connections around city so i don´t how it behaves on other connections.
Did anyone found any kind of a solution for this?

What's your router model?

Wifi Drops
Same problem here i got a Netgear WNR2000

have you tried your router's connection with any other device ? (ex. a laptop or another cellphone? ) 'cause it might be a router connection problem

I haven´t tried it with other devices i will do so... It´s Huawei echolife HG520b

djhancks said:
have you tried your router's connection with any other device ? (ex. a laptop or another cellphone? ) 'cause it might be a router connection problem
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i tried 4 laptops and 2 printers to wifi ( works well

I have also been having this issue over the past couple of days. It has worked fine since I bought the phone last month and now the wifi connects and then starts searching again immediately. The router is working fine with laptops and ps3 and another desktop in the back of the house. Im sitting right beside the router now with the signal showing full bars but instantly looping into the search mode and dropping connection. Have soft reset several times and nothing. Also does it with a friends router.
What's the deal here? Is there a fix or a setting im missing?
Att Tilt2
Energy.RHODIUM.23554.Sense2.1.Apr.09

I have tried my friends laptop and nokia E65 phone and both worked without any problem!
So it seems to be android problem...
I have tried many things that I´ve found on google site and other forums and nothing helped.
Have been changing chanels, security, firewall, hard reset the phone etc. and always the same-every couple of minutes it loses connection!
It seems to be the problem with android 2.1 also....
Hope that someone has a valid solution (and soon)

I had the same problem as all of you. Some times the internet connection was fine and other it simply droped and I couldn´t even find the connection in the setings..
So I asked in a Portuguese forum what could I do to solve the problem and I was advised to use the app 'fix my Wifi'.. I have to say it worked perfectly. It needs some time to understand the problem (some drops will hapen at the begining), but when it understands, the problem disapears.. Until this moment, it never droped again.. I advise you all to use it..

Hello from Slovenia!
Same problem with wifi. I checked the wifi fixer, but i dont know how to do with this app.
I cant click on start or ok, when i start the app, because the text is over the button.
I´ve got DL-524, and sometimes it works perfect, that stop working for 30sec maybe, and then work and then again stop.....
VERY MAD !
Greetings

Hello.
What it says in the begining is that you need to select 'never' in the wifi setings, the part where you choose when does the wifi turns off. Don't worry, use a wiget to turn wífi off when you don't need it..
Then just leave it on, it will fix, in time, your wifi problem. Whit me worked perfectly..
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Silu_Donerbar said:
Hello.
What it says in the begining is that you need to select 'never' in the wifi setings, the part where you choose when does the wifi turns off. Don't worry, use a wiget to turn wífi off when you don't need it..
Then just leave it on, it will fix, in time, your wifi problem. Whit me worked perfectly..
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I change it manual, to always on. So just start the problem and turn on wifi and check if somethink happened

I think, that app Wifi Fixer, isnt for the HTC Tattoo. It stops all the time, screen is not in the right dimension, its buggy.
Force close, when try to activate it
Any other ideas?
I try :
- No security, open network ( Same problem )
- No Mac Filter
- WPA Personal TKIP
- WPA2 Personal
I change everything but, still problems
((( Sad

That is very strange, because i have a tattoo (i'm writing in it this moment!) and i'm using the app.. it works fine, no screen problems. I open it (and an icon appears in the tab bar) and i dont have to do anything else.. It really woks great, the connection never failed again and, as i said, i'm using it and it didmt go down. Before thist app, thist was impossible..
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But when you start the app, i get on the tab bar, response like thank you for using ...... etc. but when i go to the program, the main screen is bad, About button and Ok, are got, but the active is in the middle of the text. Text is over the button. Heh strange

That ís very strange. But you dont need to go to the main menu. Just make sure the icon is in the tab bar. Then just wait for the app to do is job.. as i said, it will take some time..
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Hello!
I tested app, yesterday evening, and I think that app really help. I will test it today again, becouse yesterday i can browse normal via Wifi, with no problems.
we will see

I hope your problem is fixed.. allways have it on and i dont think it should be any more troubles..
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Hello again
My final conclusion is, that i have to change the router!
I try friends Linksys WRT54GL and wifi works very fast with no problems!
So 1 hour ago, i buy this router, and the problem is fixed
Greetings!

nobody needs a new router just a program called connectify and a wifi dongle or card or a laptop with built in wifi read my post in click android development labeled wifi drop fixed
read my thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=697021

Cannot enable WLAN

dear all,
I cannot anymore enable WLAN on my galaxy...
Yesterday everything worked fine, I have nothing installed since then.
After enabling WLAN, the icon remains green for a few seconds, but no icons is shown in the status bar.
I also switched off an on the phone -> did not help
my phone is not rooted and the official fw is installed.
I have not reflashed the phone yet (hopefully there is another solution)
Thanks for your help

Do you have a wi-fi access point defined? Maybe the wi-fi is connected and you didnt choose an access point...
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yes, I also tried this, but as long WLAN is not enabled I cannot define a new network.
when i enable WLAN in the settings, the status is saying, that WLAN is switching on, scanning is starting, but then a message appears that the scanning is not possible and a few moments later WLAN is disabled.

I had the same problem.
I was trying to configure a invisible ssid and by distraction I created a normal WPA 2 network, ending up with two networks with the same ssid (when I was turning off the wifi, it wouldn't go off at the first try, weird, )
You may try this:
Edit the "/data/wifi/bcm_supp.conf" (with root permission) and eliminate the duplicated network, problem solved! At least in my case (no need for factory reset ). Or try to find something strange on that file, in last resort you can delete all the networks, it may solve your problem.

Hard reset helped for me in similar situation.
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Wifi problem due to wifi helper [Solved]

Today I went to my university after a long time and tried to get access to the university network (eduroam) with an app called Wifi Helper (you have probably already heard about it). After a few tries my wifi suddenly stopped working and now goes off everytime I try to search for networks. Even now at home when I try to connect to my home network it doesn't work and my phone doesnt find neither my network or the networks from the neighbors. Also all the networks saved in my phone disappeared and I can't add any new network configuration.
To summarize:
-if I turn the wifi on the phone makes a scan for wifi-networks but doesn't find any
-the wifi goes off after 15-20 seconds
-I can't add new networks
I made a search in the forum but didn't find anything similar. I'm not 100% sure wifi helper caused this but I would say I'm 99,99% sure.
Until now I've tried uninstalling wifi helper, rebooting the phone, taking out the battery but nothing seems to help....so I would recommend not to use this app (if it's allowed to make such a recommendation).
I wish this has a solution and the wireless can work again. Hopefully someone can help me here or give me a couple of ideas (since this doesn't seem to be a common issue)
Edit: can someone tell me what files you have in /data/misc/wifi ? I checked in my phone with root explorer and I only found reg_code and wpa_supplicant.conf ...maybe wifi helper deleted something there.

Try a factory restet, its a bit of a pain but it should fix it

You mean to flash to the original firmware? X_X
I hope that's not the only way...
Maybe there's something missing in my wifi folder that I could compare with other phones.
I think wifi helper deleted almost everything in my wpa_supplicant.conf
This is all I got in there:
ctrl_interface=tiwlan0
update_config=1
can someone check if thats ok?

ctrl_interface=DIR=/data/system/wpa_supplicant GROUP=system
update_config=1
network={
Network info goes here
}
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wifi helper screw-up your wpa_supplicant.conf, it happened to me 2.
Update the "ctrl_interface=DIR=/data/system/wpa_supplicant GROUP=system" like Bourbon Brain mentioned and your wifi will work normal again (hope you know how to do that).

Thanks for your help
I had to backup all my data to do the factory reset (I had totally forgotten about it ) and it took me quite a lot of time to set everything back to normal but it worked. After that the only difference I could find was in wpa_supplicant.conf so I guess if I had changed it to what Bourbon Brain and gpmg762 said it would have worked too (even much easier). Unfortunately I didn't wait till today

Glad to help regardless
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hello all,
The last week I was using my wifi without problems in any wifi, I left the wifi on and after a while my phone shutdowned (lost charge). After this, my phone isn't connecting to any wifi (even those that it was able). I did a factory reset and he doesn't detect the networks.
I though I had the same issue with my x10 but editting the file didn't take effect on my phone. Tryed to delete the wpa_supplicant config file, edit it, downloaded various wifi fixers, and nothing seems to work. Could you help me?
Thank you

Elelinux WIFI problem

Hi, i don't know very much english but i can explain...
I installed the Elelinux ROM to my SE Xperia X8, it's smooth but WIFI doesn't work, it says: Connecting...and then Disconnected, i tap Connect but shows the same thing...
So please help me

Forget network you're trying to connect.
Forget all networks if don't help at first.
It's a know bug @ all custom roms...

How should i forget all ? Just click the networks and click forget ?
Another question: After 5-10 seconds my screen goes black but the screen timeout is 15 seconds.
LE: I did what you say, forget the network but how the...i connect to that network ?

LegoGabi said:
How should i forget all ? Just click the networks and click forget ?
Another question: After 5-10 seconds my screen goes black but the screen timeout is 15 seconds.
LE: I did what you say, forget the network but how the...i connect to that network ?
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Omg. Click on every network you have remembered and click forget. Click again and enter.key to conect again...
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I tryed to connect only to 2 networks, i tap forget and enter the password again, but nothing.

LegoGabi said:
I tryed to connect only to 2 networks, i tap forget and enter the password again, but nothing.
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Forget all network,turn off wifi,turn on again ,try to conectc. If doesent work ful wipe.
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Ok, i will try this. At this time im a little busy.
Thanks.

Nevermind, i changed Elelinux (crappy ROM) with FroyoBread (WIFI didn' work - did all, full wipe) then i installed Floyo 0.20 by racht and wireless connection started so fast.

My X8's wireless wasn't shown any access point to connect. Even rebooting the device or switching to the airplane mode for a while, no success. So i installed the FXR Wifi Fix and Rescue (from Market) and ask it to do his job and i got everything working again.
Cheers

i will try this to

Network disable poor connection on my note 3.

Im havin a trouble connecting to any mobile router..it always showing up this message and that was really pissing me off..i used that be4 without facing any problems.but it happens like this without knowing whta maybe the cause..i havent installed new apps and im sure that my router and the sim has a good connection..it shows full bar wfi strenght..see attchment..
sent from my samsung E1200 lol!

amzkyz said:
Im havin a trouble connecting to any mobile router..it always showing up this message and that was really pissing me off..i used that be4 without facing any problems.but it happens like this without knowing whta maybe the cause..i havent installed new apps and im sure that my router and the sim has a good connection..it shows full bar wfi strenght..see attchment..
sent from my samsung E1200 lol!
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go to wifi hold down the toggle then press menu then advance and untick auto network switch

jaythenut said:
go to wifi hold down the toggle then press menu then advance and untick auto network switch
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I did this already, updated to MJ7 and still have this problem... It's really PI$$ING me off....

I have same problem...
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jaythenut said:
go to wifi hold down the toggle then press menu then advance and untick auto network switch
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Now i know whats causing this..both connections were active the wifi and mobile data aswell so if the router is gettin slow connections, it automatically switch to mobile data but in the options that u r suggesting jaythenut disabling auto network switch and still havent swith off ur mobile data, that is how the problem persist..so i suggest use 1 type of connection at a time neither use wifi or switch to mobile data manually..SOLVED!
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ultramag69 said:
I did this already, updated to MJ7 and still have this problem... It's really PI$$ING me off....
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Bumped an old one here I know!, but still having issues? -- tried WiFi power saving in the serivce menu? it seems to have done the trick for a few people. Myself included.