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Ran into an issue with wifi on stock DK28. Wifi stopped working after two months on stock DK28. The settings>wireless and network>wifi settings menu shows "Error," and remains unchecked and grayed out, even if I try to toggle wifi on or off.
Other than the occasional reboot, the only changes I've made were to install the DialerOne app and Handcent, though I don't know how those could be related.
I did find these topics on the issue, but no solutions:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=851934&highlight=wifi+error
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=9630680&highlight=wifi#post9630680
Perhaps I need better search-fu, or just someone who can point me in the right direction.
Thanks in advance.
Happens all of the time on all of the roms I have tried that use DK28 as a base. One of the most annoying issues I have dealt with.
I've seen people report that, but it hadn't happened to me yet. Did you ever find a workaround?
Happens to me a lot. I find it happens most when I turn WiFi off after loosing my connection (ie leaving the house and then turning it off after I go out of range). This isn't 100% though. A reboot always fixes it. Sometimes an Airplane mode fixes it too, but not always.
I am one fo the fortunate ones that has not ran into this issue.
bjhill2112 said:
Happens to me a lot. I find it happens most when I turn WiFi off after loosing my connection (ie leaving the house and then turning it off after I go out of range). This isn't 100% though. A reboot always fixes it. Sometimes an Airplane mode fixes it too, but not always.
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Airplaine mode and reboots haven't fixed it for me, but a battery pull did.
Thanks for the help, everyone.
It happens to me a lot after I shut off Wifi (as mentioned above).
I just do a power off and power on to fix the problem.
This method avoids having to reboot the phone to re-enable broken WiFi after a period of time.
Temporary fix/workaround is goto > Settings > Wireless and network > Wi-Fi settings > toggle on "Wi-Fi" checkbox and wait for services to restart.
Thanks for the suggestion. I should have explained further in the OP. When the setting showed "Error" I could not toggle Wi-fi on or off, e.g. I couldn't check the box you suggest. The option remained grayed out.
I have had the same issues, although it got to the point this week that it would just not come back even when before I could just click on the greyed out error in wifi settings. Reflashed AGAIN, including the modem with ODIN just for good measure, and now I have not had any trouble at all, which is awesome. Have no clue what is causing it though!
Quick workaround is holding home button to to bring up task manager, going to "RAM" and clearing the level 2.
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bigboi3021 said:
Quick workaround is holding home button to to bring up task manager, going to "RAM" and clearing the level 2.
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2nd this. It works for me.
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I'm sure there's lots of people out there who, like me, have not activated the wireless on their Xoom and plan on using it WiFi-only. The best thing to do is keep it in Airplane mode, as this supposedly keeps the wireless radio shut off. This is great, except if you shut your power off, Wifi will be disabled when you turn the Xoom back on. Not a big deal, and it only takes a few seconds to turn it back on, but so far I haven't really used the Xoom out of my home (so I always want wifi on)
I was restoring data after updating my Droid ROM when I thought of trying Tasker out on my Xoom. The interface doesn't look great on the big screen, but it seems to work ok? (Haven't done anything else with it yet on the Xoom). Anyway, here's the simple profile:
Context: Event > System > Device Boot
Task: Net > Wifi > Set=On
I suppose as a next step, you could probably add a wait action, and then have it check if it is actually connected to a network and disable wifi if not.
Anyone else try out Tasker on the Xoom?
How do I resolve this? Am I creating a problem or?
The other day I used the side https://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/find and tried to give functions Lost your phone? We can find it for you! Everything was ok! After two days I checked again, but now we give to the picture (windows.jpg). Can someone send me where to look for the programs of something or I 'm screwed
I never booked marked it, just signed into my live.com account clicked on "Devices" from the top left when you hover the mouse over "Windows Live" and it should show up there. But this is what the site shows up to me as now:
https://devices.live.com/
Is it possible that when I check how it works ( ring, lock, or erase your phone ) that I messed something and now you can not use that option.
in order for this picture when I go to Change Windows Phone 7 setting of switch me to that previous file
Oops...
Something went wrong and we can not show you this page right now.
Go to windowsphone.com
Is it possible that I am something in the phone or in checks or something messed up...
Oh, right. You do have to enable it on your phone first.
Settings > Find My Phone
You also have to have a live (ie hotmail or msn) account on the phone.
But you also might need to re-add it on the live.devices.com. I know after I flashed it, it didn't recognize my phone so I just hit "add a phone" on the devices page. It sends a text to the phone and then you should be good.
Hey, after I installed Rataplan v6.0 and tried to activate "Find my phone" in settings > find my phone, it says "Re're still setting up Find My Phone. This will take another moment or two to finish. Come back later to make sure it's been set up, then visit windowsphone.com to use it." It's been saying this since I installed the ROM. What should I do?
EDIT: Found the solution
"Long back story:
Here's what I was previously experiencing:
In Settings, it would list find my phone and have the subtitle "Setup Needed." When I tapped this, it would take me to the find my phone options and immediately display a modal dialog that said it would take a few more minutes to set everything up. When I hit OK, it would back me out of the find my phone settings. This left me completely stuck and no amount of rebooting or fiddling seemed to fix it.
Just now, while I was grabbing another phone to take a picture of the dialog to post here, my phone went to sleep. When I woke it up, the dialog was dismissed and I was in the find my phone options. I checked the first option, Connect to these features faster (may use more battery). I then hit back and the subtitle under find my phone reported connected. I logged into windowsphone.com and my phone is now listed. I simultaneously also received an email from windowsphone.com welcoming me to my new phone. There must be a bug that results in that dialog being dismissed when the phone goes to sleep, and that bug allowed me to toggle the first option, which re-attempted connecting my phone to windowsphone.com.
Anyway, long story short, if you are stuck in this boat, try these steps to work around them:
Set your lock screen timeout to the shortest available duration (1 min?)
Go to settings and tap find my phone.
When the dialog pops up telling you to hold on, set your phone down and leave it be until the screen turns off and the phone goes to sleep.
Turn your phone back on. You should be in the find my phone options now.
Check the first setting, Connect to these features faster (may use more battery).
Back out and verify it says connected and login to windowsphone.com and verify your phone is listed." - found this on windowsphone site, posted by someone. Not my solution.
Been using NC with CM7 for over a year plus. Never any problems - until today. I haven't messed with any base settings for at least three months. The Nuance Swype and Dragon Trial app ran out today - the only thing that I messed with.
Was using it this afternoon on Google+ just cruising around. I put the NC down for about 20 minutes for an errand. Came back and I can't wake it up through the usual press of the "N". Long Press the N - no luck. Tap the Power button - no help. The only thing I could think to do was press and hold the Power button - nothing happened. Long press Power for about 15 seconds and I saw the screen flicker and the Cyanogen Mod green icon appear - like a normal start up. So the desktop arrives and I note that the Wi-Fi is turned off. Usually I have it set to autoconnect to my house router which it has faithfully done since forever. But Wi-Fi is turned off. I clicked it on and after a brief moment I see "Connecting..." up at the top of Wi-Fi Settings but every Access Point including the house router is "Not in Range". Eventually "Connecting..." turns into "Disconnected". Turn Wi-Fi off and then back on. No difference. I think that whatever caused the blowout earlier this afternoon has left the NC wi-fi system in some sort of in-between state.
Later on as I was working with this, I got up to answer the phone, came back and it's shut off again. I was able to re-engage it twice more after pressing this n' that trying to wake the Wi-Fi up. Once engaged it's fine. But as soon as you power down (or it blows up like earlier), Wi-Fi is disonnected, turned off and very hard to re-establish. Incidentally, all other Android devices, tablet, phones in the house off that router work just fine so I don't think it's a matter of a router issue.
Question: Is there a way to "reset" the Wi-Fi functions in the NC? I'm thinking some sort of hard reset is needed but I'm not sure.
Question: What would be my next step to figure out what is causing the unwanted shut down?
Thanks folks. If you need more info, I'm going to be around and will stay on top of this thread.
Hoibb
First that 'unwanted shutdown' is called SOD, Screen of Death. Very common with some devices and combination of apps. Do a little searching on that and you will get overwhelmed with info. Since you were not having it before, it must have something to do with that app or apps that you had to adjust recently. It is tied in with deep sleep and wifi.
Have you tried just forgetting the routers in your wifi list?
Edit: I just reread your post. How long have you had Google + installed? Did you recently just update that?
Edit2: Fortunately, for CM7 there is a patch that fixes SOD. If you want it, I can post a link.
Edit3: Here. Flash this with CWM. It will replace your wifi driver with a patched one that resists SOD.
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Thank you and...
Lots of good information here. Google+ has been installed for at leat 6-9 months that I can recall. I could uninstall and reinstall, I guess. But...
It's seemed to have righted itself two days ago, so I haven't had a problem - until...
Last evening. I was doing some eMail using K-9 plus floating through Google+. And I put it down to go do something. Came back and it's still working (pulled up the desktop by clicking the "N") but the Wi-Fi is shut off again. Went to Wireless and Network Settings and what I see is "Wi-Fi" sitting on the words "Turning off...". Everything beneath it is greyed out. Decided to just leave it and see. Half hour or so later, it's still in a state of "Turning off...". I backed all the way out and did a restart. On restart, Wi-Fi is turned off so I hit the box to turn it on, it obeyed and went directly to my home router, signed in and I'm back on again.
As the evening progressed, what I got in the habit of doing is short-pressing the Power button to turn off the screen. I found I could reliably come back, wake it up and the Wi-Fi would start back up again on its own without intervention.
So until I get a chance to sort out all the stuff you gave me to do/patch, I'll try to just manually "sleep" the system. I have to study up more on what you said because the terminology and procedures, while probably very clear to most, are not exactly clear to me.
Thanks again for the info.
Hoib
leapinlar said:
First that 'unwanted shutdown' is called SOD, Screen of Death. Very common with some devices and combination of apps. Do a little searching on that and you will get overwhelmed with info. Since you were not having it before, it must have something to do with that app or apps that you had to adjust recently. It is tied in with deep sleep and wifi.
Have you tried just forgetting the routers in your wifi list?
Edit: I just reread your post. How long have you had Google + installed? Did you recently just update that?
Edit2: Fortunately, for CM7 there is a patch that fixes SOD. If you want it, I can post a link.
Edit3: Here. Flash this with CWM. It will replace your wifi driver with a patched one that resists SOD.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on Hybrid SD
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@leapin. I should have come back to post add info. My apologies. I believe I was able to resolve this a bit later. I looked at Juice Defender (free) and what it does. I uninstalled it. As soon as I did that, I suffered no more of these SOD problems. Been running great since June.
So was this the real SOD? Or was it Juice Defender setting the power profile in such a way that the Wi-Fi never got the signal to reawaken? What do you think?
Hoibb
Hoibb said:
@leapin. I should have come back to post add info. My apologies. I believe I was able to resolve this a bit later. I looked at Juice Defender (free) and what it does. I uninstalled it. As soon as I did that, I suffered no more of these SOD problems. Been running great since June.
So was this the real SOD? Or was it Juice Defender setting the power profile in such a way that the Wi-Fi never got the signal to reawaken? What do you think?
Hoibb
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It could have been the real SOD being triggered by Juice Defender. Usually it is some app that triggers it (trying to use wifi while the device is in deep sleep), but the underlying problem is SOD. Some folks never experience an SOD.
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Hi guys, I've already solved this issue but couldn't find any info on it while it was going on, so wanted to share what happened and how to fix it, just in case someone else runs into this. I think this is the most appropriate section to post, but if not, please feel free to move it, mods.
The problem was this: WiFi suddenly stopped working on my rom. It just straight up wouldn't turn on. Pressing the wireless icon in the launcher did nothing, and from the settings menu I'd see the "to see available networks, turn Wi-Fi on" message, even if I turned it on. Coming out of that screen and going back in would show the WiFi was still turned off. Reboots didn't work, uninstalling suspect apps didn't work. I was ready to wipe & reinstall the rom.
The solution is this: I then had what I thought was a really dumb idea. Try changing the WiFi frequency band. It worked. I'll explain what I did step by step;
Long press the WiFi button in your notifications bar, or go to Settings>WiFi
Press the menu button (either the menu key on your phone, or the three dots at the top left of the screen) and select 'Advanced'
Tap on 'Wi-Fi frequency band', and change it from automatic to '5 GHz only' (it may be your WiFi is on the 2.4 Ghz band. I'll come to that)
Reboot your phone
If your WiFi is on the 5GHz band, and your issue was the same as mine, it will now connect to the network and you'll have internet (you may need to turn WiFi on, first)
If it didn't, repeat the steps above, but this time choose '2.4GHz only' instead of 5.
Hopefully you'll now be online again. If you like, you can now change the frequency band setting to automatic again, and the WiFi should work just like it was before.
I really hope this can help some folks who might experience this in the future. It was such a weird issue, and it's such a simple yet obscure fix. With any luck this'll prevent any unneeded wipes.
Had a similar issue on another device... this might help with that too.
How to Save this setting.
How to save it, as soon as i leave that page it changes to Automatic.