Question about Wi-Fi - Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hey does anyone else have problems with the Wi-Fi? It seems that when I turn the Wi-Fi off and want to turn it back on it takes significantly longer to turn on than with my previous android
And I've also noticed that sometimes when I walk out of the range of any router it kind of gets stuck and I'm forced to turn the Wi-Fi off and back on
If anyone reading this post can just add a quick reply saying whether they have this same problem or not that'd be nice
Thanks
- Mark
Sent from my Nexus 4

Yeah, I'm having the same issue when I get out of range of my campus' WiFi range. It seems to get stuck on that network and never disconnects and I have to turn off Wifi and turn it back on.

Heartbreak said:
Yeah, I'm having the same issue when I get out of range of my campus' WiFi range. It seems to get stuck on that network and never disconnects and I have to turn off Wifi and turn it back on.
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Yea I just noticed that it happens on my campus router too :/

Good Guy Mark said:
Yea I just noticed that it happens on my campus router too :/
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I was planning on trying my campus' guests network tomorrow and see how that works out. It my have to do with the verification that my university uses. I would suggest trying the same, if you have a guest network that is.

Good Guy Mark said:
Hey does anyone else have problems with the Wi-Fi? It seems that when I turn the Wi-Fi off and want to turn it back on it takes significantly longer to turn on than with my previous android
And I've also noticed that sometimes when I walk out of the range of any router it kind of gets stuck and I'm forced to turn the Wi-Fi off and back on
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Same problem here on campus.
Tried using "Best Wifi" and "Wifi Strongest Signal" but I don't think they've been helping.
More of a problem for me since I'm only using this as a Wifi device. (Not activated)
Do iDevices suffer from this issue?

Yeah, I have been having problems with wifi itself. For me, after I turn it off while connected to my home wifi network, I will not be able to connect back into the network until I restart the network. Anyone else having the same issue as this?
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wifi issue

Is it me or anyone having Wifi sometime take forever to scan? (not auto connect when you move in a known/recorded wifi area)
wrongfeifong said:
Is it me or anyone having Wifi sometime take forever to scan? (not auto connect when you move in a known/recorded wifi area)
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No problems for me... I do hate how much battery wifi drains for me though.. I thought its supposed to use less battery than 3g, but for me its the other way around
wrongfeifong said:
Is it me or anyone having Wifi sometime take forever to scan? (not auto connect when you move in a known/recorded wifi area)
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What FW? I'm on XXXXXX24 and mine is fine.
pngface said:
No problems for me... I do hate how much battery wifi drains for me though.. I thought its supposed to use less battery than 3g, but for me its the other way around
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It shouldn't drain too badly. You may need to tweak your wireless networks settings or troubleshoot your phone.
bongd said:
What FW? I'm on XXXXXX24 and mine is fine.
It shouldn't drain too badly. You may need to tweak your wireless networks settings or troubleshoot your phone.
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For example when I leave wifi on in the night and the battery is at 100%, when I wake up its going to be something like 75%, and when I check the battery usage it says Wifi has used 40%... isnt that way too much
i'm starting to think alot of x10s are defective, this and the in-call volume. i don't have that volume problem, but i do have this terrible wifi problem, the thing has a mind of its own. if leave the wifi zone it almost never reconnects by itself, i need to go into settings, disable wifi, enable wifi, select the network that it should have connected to already, and click connect. sometimes i just need to turn wifi off then on, on rare occasions, it will connect automatically. i can't find any pattern for what causes it to not connect.
I sound like a broken record by saying this, but it is an android issue compounded with router incompatibilities. Happens on the froyo nexus I have too.
needmoregigs said:
I sound like a broken record by saying this, but it is an android issue compounded with router incompatibilities. Happens on the froyo nexus I have too.
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Do you know if there is a list of routers that are compatible with the nexus one or android phones for that matter?

[Q] Wifi stops working

Anyone else experiencing this? I go between wifi for work and home, and wifi stops working when I do. When I go to the wifi settings, it shows Wifi as "scanning" and shows remember wifi networks, but no actual live networks. It pretty much happens every time I go between work and home and a soft reset or manually cycling wifi off and then on fixes it.
I get the same issue when connecting to 5G N network... it tries to connect the disconnects... I usually restart and it works fine...
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This sometimes happens on my mt3g. Maybe a froyo issue and not a phone issue.
jOrOdee said:
I get the same issue when connecting to 5G N network... it tries to connect the disconnects... I usually restart and it works fine...
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Wow, I think you may have hit the nail on the head. At home, I am 5ghz N only, and at work, I connect to 5ghz N half the time, and 2.4ghz N the other half.
Where would I submit the bug for this? HTC? I can gather up enough technical data for a good ticket.

WIFI problem after wake-up in Froyo

Hi,
When i open my phone from sleep it shows me that I'm still connected to my wireless but i cannot access the internet. When i turn off and on the wifi it works fine again but as you can understand this is very annoying. I disabled the wifi sleep option but now my battery gets empty way too fast. Has anyone seen a fix for this?
Thanks
I have a simular issue. Does not happen all the time but frustrating when it does. The same fix of turrning Wi-fi off and back on works for me as well.
slekkas said:
Hi,
I disabled the wifi sleep option but now my battery gets empty way too fast. Has anyone seen a fix for this?
Thanks
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Turn off 3g/data then disable wifi sleep, 3g/data uses &*^% loads more battery than wifi
If i leave wifi on all night and turn off 3g/data after 10 hours of sleep i still have 96% battery left
checkbox111 said:
Turn off 3g/data then disable wifi sleep, 3g/data uses &*^% loads more battery than wifi
If i leave wifi on all night and turn off 3g/data after 10 hours of sleep i still have 96% battery left
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You are right about that. But the fact that the wifi sleep does not function properly still upsets me.
What rom are you running and also what baseband?
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playin4sheezy said:
What rom are you running and also what baseband?
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Im running official 2.2 with baseband GAUSB1A131500-EU
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FWIW - similar thing happens to me with stock 1.6
Unchecking the rechecking the wifi box always fixes.
Kohawk09 said:
FWIW - similar thing happens to me with stock 1.6
Unchecking the rechecking the wifi box always fixes.
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Well i don't think this is a solution. it's very annoying actually. Since it seams that this problem exists from version 1.6 what the heck are they fixing with their updates???
Kohawk09 said:
FWIW - similar thing happens to me with stock 1.6
Unchecking the rechecking the wifi box always fixes.
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+1
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slekkas said:
Well i don't think this is a solution. it's very annoying actually. Since it seams that this problem exists from version 1.6 what the heck are they fixing with their updates???
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Yeah, I don't see it as a solution either - rather ridiculous you have to do that. Not sure they're fixing anything with their 2.2 lol, maybe creating more issues
did we find a fix?? this is driving me crazy...
Same here just noticed it, for awhile I was thinking it was me forgetting to turn wifi back on, but nope its just jumping back to 3g off wireless.
With all my widgets running I don't want to kill all my data on my plan...I'm always around wifi, so this is killing me..
Wifi going off when the device sleeps send to be an android issue. I had this same problem with my nexus one. Never could get it to stay on all the time agen the device slept.
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I have the same problem. Toggling the wifi widget fixes it, but yeah, kinda annoying.
I not sure if this is the same problem but see what happens to mine if I turn My device off or use Airplane Mode when turn on I have no HSPA(3G) or Wi-Fi I can call but no data and I need to do a factory reset to and erase everything make the data works again
The only time mine quits is when I go from wi-fi router to wi-fi router.
Hotspots are ok, but both my home & work routers, both Netgear 614 types
have me reboot the routers if I go out of range, or turn the streak wi-fi
off/on several times. Goofy...tried deleting the profiles and everything else.
http://www.androlib.com/android.application.co-uk-syslynx-fixmywifi-ADjA.aspx
try this.. worked for me
also setting router wifi to wep encryption / wpa seems to help
for netgear router set the channel to 3 and use wpa2 aes only and 300mbit max

Selective Wi-fi

Hello everyone,
I checked the forums and I haven't seen anything like this, but I'm hope my situation isn't unique.
So I got the Nexus 4 and I love it. I have it linked to my wi-fi at home and the campus wi-fi. Every time I got to the college campus it links just fine. However, when I get to the home wi-fi, it sometimes takes a while for the phone to connect to the wi-fi, or say that the wi-fi is out of range.... even when standing next to the router.
I've tried rebooting the router, rebooting the phone. When it connects it's awesome. Sometimes I have to turn off the wi-fi on the N4 then back on again for it to connect.
Does anyone know what this may be? Anything would be great help.
P.S. - everything else works on my wi-fi just fine. A couple Rokus, a notebook, and etc.
Thank you
nexuscanvmx said:
Hello everyone,
I checked the forums and I haven't seen anything like this, but I'm hope my situation isn't unique.
So I got the Nexus 4 and I love it. I have it linked to my wi-fi at home and the campus wi-fi. Every time I got to the college campus it links just fine. However, when I get to the home wi-fi, it sometimes takes a while for the phone to connect to the wi-fi, or say that the wi-fi is out of range.... even when standing next to the router.
I've tried rebooting the router, rebooting the phone. When it connects it's awesome. Sometimes I have to turn off the wi-fi on the N4 then back on again for it to connect.
Does anyone know what this may be? Anything would be great help.
P.S. - everything else works on my wi-fi just fine. A couple Rokus, a notebook, and etc.
Thank you
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Nexus 4 has several flaky wifi issues. When I first got mine I could not get it to connect to my home router at all. Then it just started and has been working fine ever since. You may try changing your frequency settings on the router or using a different security protocol. In my case it seems once it got connected the situation was resolved. Good luck!
grubbster said:
Nexus 4 has several flaky wifi issues. When I first got mine I could not get it to connect to my home router at all. Then it just started and has been working fine ever since. You may try changing your frequency settings on the router or using a different security protocol. In my case it seems once it got connected the situation was resolved. Good luck!
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I tried changing the frequency, seeing that my neighbor was on the band as me. I'm not sure if that did the trick, but now my N4 seems to be picking up the signal a little more quickly.
Thank you for your suggestion.
nexuscanvmx said:
Hello everyone,
I checked the forums and I haven't seen anything like this, but I'm hope my situation isn't unique.
So I got the Nexus 4 and I love it. I have it linked to my wi-fi at home and the campus wi-fi. Every time I got to the college campus it links just fine. However, when I get to the home wi-fi, it sometimes takes a while for the phone to connect to the wi-fi, or say that the wi-fi is out of range.... even when standing next to the router.
I've tried rebooting the router, rebooting the phone. When it connects it's awesome. Sometimes I have to turn off the wi-fi on the N4 then back on again for it to connect.
Does anyone know what this may be? Anything would be great help.
P.S. - everything else works on my wi-fi just fine. A couple Rokus, a notebook, and etc.
Thank you
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Same issue here. Sometimes I'm connected to campus wifi, I drive all the way home and look at my phone, it's still trying to connect to campus wifi. I have to turn wifi off then back on for it to disconnect and auto connect to my home wifi.

Wifi problem

Does anyone having wifi connection problem? Normally every time when the phone screen goes back on, I will see the toast about changing network to mobile data, then goes back to wifi straight away. Also sometimes it happens even when I'm using the phone too... I'm using statics IP and Smart connect is off, then now I'm not too sure what's going on...
It's not a very big deal, but sometimes it's quite annoying, does anyone know the solutions? Or share your story
I have seen that same message several times I have smart network on. Even though I've seen this message before I have never experienced interruption on wifi
Haven't seen this yet tho I always turn network notification and always allow scanning to off in advanced Wi-Fi.
I am having a WiFi problem also but mine is different. I am having a problem connecting and staying connected to WiFi on the Note 4. If I turn WiFi on, it will not come on unless I restart the phone. Then after I get it to come on, it will stop working if I stop using the phone. Anyone else having this problem? Any solutions? And no it is not my home WiFi that is the problem. It happens on any WiFi network I try to connect to.
Katz916 said:
I am having a WiFi problem also but mine is different. I am having a problem connecting and staying connected to WiFi on the Note 4. If I turn WiFi on, it will not come on unless I restart the phone. Then after I get it to come on, it will stop working if I stop using the phone. Anyone else having this problem? Any solutions? And no it is not my home WiFi that is the problem. It happens on any WiFi network I try to connect to.
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I had this problem on my brand new HTC One, I called Verizon, and said it's a manufacturer's issue. I've never had the issue like that, before that phone. Call Verizon and have them ship you a new one. Since it's under the manufacturer's warranty you shouldn't have to pay a dime!
So, does anyone reckon the router I'm using would be an issue?
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Easy to troubleshoot, try connecting to another router or connect using another phone.
My N910U does not have this problem, but my HTC ONE E8 does, it kills my VPN which drives me crazy.
The problem is very noticeable to me because in China, dropped VPN means no youtube/google/twitter, which I cant live without.
I figured that it has something to do with rooting, because the E8 was not dropping wifi before root.
I am not rooting my note 4 because of this, until proven otherwise
Please, post the variant name of the Note 4 with the issue, i.e. SM-N910*. Angelky have a SM-N910U. Katz916, which model have you?
Ask because I had a wifi issue with galaxy S4, never solved even from Samsung assistance.
i got the same problem sometimes..my wifi sometimes disconnect and then reconnect again..same model with u too..SM-N910U
liquidz17 said:
i got the same problem sometimes..my wifi sometimes disconnect and then reconnect again..same model with u too..SM-N910U
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did you root your phone
dookie foo said:
did you root your phone
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yea i root my phone..but is it have anything to do with it?well..it's not really bothering me...the problem sometimes when i using vpn (im in china so i must use vpn to connect anything in here) and it disconnect, it automatically turning off my vpn and i must re restarting the vpn again..
liquidz17 said:
yea i root my phone..but is it have anything to do with it?well..it's not really bothering me...the problem sometimes when i using vpn (im in china so i must use vpn to connect anything in here) and it disconnect, it automatically turning off my vpn and i must re restarting the vpn again..
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I need always-on VPN as well.
My HTC ONE E8 was fine before rooting, drops wifi like crazy after root
I cant be 100% sure that root causes the problem, but I am not rooting my N910U until we know exactly what causes the problem.
dookie foo said:
I need always-on VPN as well.
My HTC ONE E8 was fine before rooting, drops wifi like crazy after root
I cant be 100% sure that root causes the problem, but I am not rooting my N910U until we know exactly what causes the problem.
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sometimes i wonder if it's router problem though..i have 2 router in my house..when i connect the other one it's fine..no disconnect or anything..but i'm not sure..
liquidz17 said:
i got the same problem sometimes..my wifi sometimes disconnect and then reconnect again..same model with u too..SM-N910U
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liquidz17 said:
sometimes i wonder if it's router problem though..i have 2 router in my house..when i connect the other one it's fine..no disconnect or anything..but i'm not sure..
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Ya, i think rooted phone may be one of the issues, and probably router as well. I never try other routers, but in my case it always connects to mobile data when i wake up the phone, then straight goes back to wifi. And randomly connect to data then back to wifi again.... As i said its not very big deal, but sometimes its quite annoying...
angelky said:
Ya, i think rooted phone may be one of the issues, and probably router as well. I never try other routers, but in my case it always connects to mobile data when i wake up the phone, then straight goes back to wifi. And randomly connect to data then back to wifi again.... As i said its not very big deal, but sometimes its quite annoying...
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well my problem is not like that, whenever im using phone sometimes the wifi disconnect and then reconnect it again, just like that..strange though..but yeah..maybe because of the rooted..
and now i just factory reset my phone because it have battery drain problem before, seems ok now
liquidz17 said:
well my problem is not like that, whenever im using phone sometimes the wifi disconnect and then reconnect it again, just like that..strange though..but yeah..maybe because of the rooted..
and now i just factory reset my phone because it have battery drain problem before, seems ok now
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Ya, pretty much similar to mine, but i don't have battery drain problem and i'm glad
angelky said:
Ya, pretty much similar to mine, but i don't have battery drain problem and i'm glad
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yeahh..because last time i only can use my note4 for 7-8 hours and dead..and after 1st reset..i got indexservice problem..=(
after 2nd reset now seems fine..6h use, 1h 45m sot and still 65% left..so far so good
liquidz17 said:
yeahh..because last time i only can use my note4 for 7-8 hours and dead..and after 1st reset..i got indexservice problem..=(
after 2nd reset now seems fine..6h use, 1h 45m sot and still 65% left..so far so good
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I juz flashed a 3rd party rom and now seems works fine with the wifi now Not very sure, still need to test a bit more.....
angelky said:
I juz flashed a 3rd party rom and now seems works fine with the wifi now Not very sure, still need to test a bit more.....
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which rom u flashed?did it work flawlessy now?

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