Has anyone noticed an issue in which the Wi-Fi disconnects after the device's screen is off for > 10 minutes?
Mine is doing this. Once I turn the screen on and unlock, it connects to the Wi-Fi network. There are no issues with the network itself as best I can tell -- I'm using it for work as well and haven't had any connections drop.
It doesn't happen if I turn the screen off and back on within 10 minutes (guesstimating).
The bootloader is unlocked and the device is rooted. No custom ROM has been loaded -- running stock.
Running:
Android: 4.1.1
Build: JRO03D
Kernel: 3.1.10-g5202719
Settings
Wi-Fi
Menu
Advanced
Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep
Set it to Always
nxt said:
Settings
Wi-Fi
Menu
Advanced
Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep
Set it to Always
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Well, this was embarrassing. At least it wasn't someone with a join date of yesterday (which was the level my question was clearly on).
Thanks. :laugh:
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Wow. I can't believe how incredibly bad WiFi is on the Sapphire update.
It keeps dropping connections on places I never had a problem, and won't reconnect by itself.
Anyone else noticing this?
download WiFi-Lock from the marketplace (it has the green icon), and it'll stay connected =]
I was having the same problem too.
I have no problems with wi-fi. Rooted haykuro 5.0.1Gr3 build.
WiFi lock is built in to Haykuro's builds
andonnguyen said:
download WiFi-Lock from the marketplace (it has the green icon), and it'll stay connected =]
I was having the same problem too.
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Both the G and H builds have an option under Settings - Wireless Controls - Wi-Fi Settings - (press Menu button) - Advanced for Wi-Fi sleep policy. If you set it to "Never" you're doing the same thing WiFi Lock does.
ei8htohms said:
Both the G and H builds have an option under Settings - Wireless Controls - Wi-Fi Settings - (press Menu button) - Advanced for Wi-Fi sleep policy. If you set it to "Never" you're doing the same thing WiFi Lock does.
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Brilliant!
no henchman is right also the siginal of the WIFI on the phone is crap with the H builds...used to get an awesome siginal around my house now it's 1 bar if that :/
Worked fine for me on G builds.
I haven't had any problems on 5.0.2H. I am using DD-WRT on my Linksys router.
well, I reflashed back to RC33 and it's radio, and the problems dissapeared.
ei8htohms said:
Both the G and H builds have an option under Settings - Wireless Controls - Wi-Fi Settings - (press Menu button) - Advanced for Wi-Fi sleep policy. If you set it to "Never" you're doing the same thing WiFi Lock does.
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Listen to him. The options for wifi connections have changed. By default it is set to drop wifi connections when the screen goes off. You have to do what he said in the menu to set it so it doesn't drop the wifi connection. There is nothing wrong with the new builds!
loomism2 said:
Listen to him. The options for wifi connections have changed. By default it is set to drop wifi connections when the screen goes off. You have to do what he said in the menu to set it so it doesn't drop the wifi connection. There is nothing wrong with the new builds!
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I found that setting within 2 minutes, when I was troubleshooting the wifi problems.
Made no difference.
Wifi is more or less useless for me with the JFv1.50 ADP1.5 ROM. It'll connect just fine, good speeds, good signal strength.. but it will hang all the time. I'll still have the wifi notification icon showing full bars, but the connection is dead. Only solution is to disable/enable wifi to get it working again, which only takes about 10 seconds using Toggle Settings, but that too gets tiresome after a while.
It's worth mentioning that I had no problems at all with earlier ROMs, like ADP1.0, JFv1.43 ADP1.1 and JFv1.43 ADP1.1H. It all started with the 1.5 update. Unfortunately the Wifi Fixer app (neither the new nor the old one) does not work either. Wifi Lock does nothing that's not already built-in to 1.5 (keeping wifi active active when screen shuts off).
Something's funky with the new radio.
Wi-fi problems.
I too have been having the wi-fi blues. No issues with prior builds. As I moved up to JFv1.50ADP1 with new radio, I started having isses. When I start wifi with toggle it will just show icon with no signal, I have to access the menu before the "connecting, obtaining IP" prompt starts. I have also noticed low signal with a Linksys wireless N 1 room away, before full signal and now two bars. Hope there will be fix soon, maybe a new radio update.
Posted in my own thread but didn't get feedback:
First: I guess you did the radioUpdate (to be found on haykuros webite?) Since then even my reception got a lot better.
I have wifi turned on all times but it goes to sleep while standby and it works more or less fine:
The problem is, that sometimes it doesn't reconnect when I turn the screen back on.
When I go to settings I find it in the state: "connection unsuccessful, please try again" and I have to click it before it tries again. That is annoying is there no way around it?
Hi,
on my x10 with 2.1 nordic I have strange problem with wifi.
When i turn it on it find and connect to my wifi network but after a while (when i'm not using the phone) it just brake the connection and cant connect again until i do it manually.
Any ideas? Its really annoying me that my phone is using 3G instead of wifi after some timeout.
Mine does this as well. When I have WiFi enabled it doesn't use it unless I disable it and re-enable it.
Same here
Also it does another strange thing.
When I have connected to my Home Wifi and entered my password everything is fine. When I turn my WIFI off and back on. The saved connection to my home network is shown + again my home network without the PW. Very strange.
I am on the global generic 2.1.
I got round this by setting the wifi sleep policy to "never".. uses a bit more juice but I'm still getting a full day out of it.
Play a little bit with battery saver app. It will help
Gunawan-GN Multimedia-X10i
im_iceman said:
I got round this by setting the wifi sleep policy to "never".. uses a bit more juice but I'm still getting a full day out of it.
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yeah go turn that to never sleep and you guys will be fine
(settings->wireless networks->wifi settings->menu button -> advanced settings -> wifi sleep policy)
gunawan-1 said:
Play a little bit with battery saver app. It will help
Gunawan-GN Multimedia-X10i
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I don't like them.. I've tried a few but they all caused other problems, and never really saved me much juice either.
zhoustanley said:
yeah go turn that to never sleep and you guys will be fine
(settings->wireless networks->wifi settings->menu button -> advanced settings -> wifi sleep policy)
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Thx. I've tried this but it is not working I still lose wifi connections.
I have the same issue with 2.1 upgrade and Wifi + WPA2 router protection!!
Wep protection works fine! but for me is not ok it is a weak wifi protection I need WPA2!
please help
I read that wifi fixer may work however I cannot test it untill I reset my modem or switch to Wep....
can some one test wifi fixer? thanks.
reference : talk.sonyericsson.com/message/35204
wififixer.wordpress.com
Latley, the past two days, when I use wifi everything seams to be working fine. When I lock the screen and wait a couple of minutes the internet connection is lost. Wifi still connected but no internet running even though the net works fone on my pc.
Every app I've installed latley I deleted and I made no changes on the setting.
Does anyone has any idea how to solve that ?
Thanks
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Check your Wi-fi sleep policy settings...make sure it is on "Never"
Settings -> Wireless and network -> Wi-fi settings -> Advanced (press settings button) -> Wi-fi sleep policy
yeah you need to change your wifi sleep policy to NEVER. which by the way is better for battery life compared to letting wifi sleep and switching back over to 3g for data.
I have exactly the same issue and my wifi sleep policy IS set to "Never".It didn't help at all.If anyone knows something,I'll be interested.For the time being,I don't really mind turning wifi off and then on again but anyway.
tolis626 said:
I have exactly the same issue and my wifi sleep policy IS set to "Never".
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I have that problem on my Asus Transformer, which happens only, when it sleeps several minutes. One or two minutes are not enough to loose connection. Several other Honeycomb users are affected too.
I think, it's a problem with the Android Broadcom WiFi drivers, though I'm astonished, that my SGS2 didn't show this problem so far.
Both devices have a Broadcom WiFi card and it seems, that it helps to use a static IP ... it doesn't solve it completely, but it happens more seldom as it seems.
So yesterday I tried to update my nook color rooted cm7 (not sure which version, but was used when nightly 177 was highest) to CM7.1.0-11162011-nightly-encore, but the thing is, my wifi would connect for maybe 5 minutes before it disconnects.
Then I would have to go to wifi settings to reconnect or sometimes it reconnects by itself. On my old version of CM7, the wifi was flawless. It would never disconnect like it does now, so I am sure it is not router problem.
Now it just says "out of range" when disconnecting. I tried the method where I forget all my networks and then connect again, but it didnt work. I also checked my adhoc = 0 thing from the root.
Anyone know why it is like that? I rooted my sd card with http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1000957 website.
since my wifi didnt work, i reformatted my sdhc card and set it up again, following the rules on the website including setting up wifi before installing gapps. Wifi still disconnects.
I have also tried using the update-cm-7.1.0-encore signed, which still doesnt solve the wifi problem.
Is this because the wifi goes into sleep mode even if the screen is on? Im pretty much on the wifi setting screen, and seeing the wifi go from connected -> disconnected -> scanning "loop". My wifi is set to sleep when screen is off, but it should still stay connected if my screen is on right? It just disconnects and reconnects constantly while I look at the wifi settings
Thank you for reading! please help..
Same issue. Wifi keeps disconnecting after about 5 minutes.
Have you tried deleting all of your old wifi spots?
Ok I fixed my problem by limiting my router to 802.11 g. Suddenly no more drops.
Yea I did the "forget" all wifi networks and it still disconnects.
Would it still be my router problem if the wifi stayed connected on my earlier version? The one before I upgraded to cm7.1.0.
Hmm. I had that issue until going into advanced wifi settings and changing the Wi-Fi sleep policy to never. Will keep monitoring.
Where did you find the advanced wi-fi settings? I go to Settings -> Wireless & networks -> Wi-Fi- Settings, but my choices are: turn on Wi-Fi, Network notification, and add Wi-Fi Network.
Also, I'm using [CM7.2-RC0] MiRaGe - KANG build of CyanogenMod...I don't know if that would make a difference?
I assume you already figured out since you posted on the other thread.
I just updated to Android 4.4 on my Nexus 4 yesterday. I have been having problem with the WIFI. Sometimes, the wifi won't turn on unless I reboot the phone. I wonder what might be wrong with it. thanks
Getting exactly the same thing. Battery widget reborn turns off my WiFi at sleep hours so I turn on my screen in the morning to sometimes find WiFi will not turn on. It's permanently stuck on "turning on WiFi..." in the WiFi settings page.
Clean factory image install too.
Salty Wagyu said:
Getting exactly the same thing. Battery widget reborn turns off my WiFi at sleep hours so I turn on my screen in the morning to sometimes find WiFi will not turn on. It's permanently stuck on "turning on WiFi..." in the WiFi settings page.
Clean factory image install too.
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How old is your router and is it 2.4Ghz or 5Ghtz? Go to Wifi and select the settings (3 dots) and then choose either 2.4Ghz or 5Ghz, don't leave it at auto. I had similar problem and solved it by selected the frequency that my router supports at 2.4GHz
taodan said:
How old is your router and is it 2.4Ghz or 5Ghtz? Go to Wifi and select the settings (3 dots) and then choose either 2.4Ghz or 5Ghz, don't leave it at auto. I had similar problem and solved it by selected the frequency that my router supports at 2.4GHz
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My router is 2.4GHz but didn't think it mattered? The WiFi module on the phone won't start sometimes since flashing 4.4, and therefore doesn't see the 8 or so WiFi networks around me.
Same with me infact bluetooth also reacts same way
my phone suddenly hangs when using wifi and reboots after reboot i am not able to switch wifi or bluetooth on, no matter how many times i reboot . i even downgraded to jellybean to see if the issue is still there, my badluck the issue is persistent i wonder what kitkat did to my phone.