I've had this thing for exactly a month now, and I'm sold... It has replaced my other routers (AC68U and others) and has provided similar range and speeds of my 300+ dollar routers.
Here is my video: https://youtu.be/AqSr_8K_efg
One thing I forgot to cover is that you can change the brightness of the LED at the top, and mine is set to max. You can completely turn it off if you don't want it on, but I kind of like it.
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Anyone else having this problem? I don't remember having this happen on my MT3G.
It's really eating up the battery.
I am on JI2, and I never experienced this until last night after using Odin.
you have to change the wifi sleep policy in the wifi settings. Got to settings, wireless networks, wifi, then press the menu button and select advanced.
OMG! thanks, you're a real life saver.
Sorry to bring up an old thread. I have it set to never sleep but it still does. Any ideas? Seems when the display times out, it switches off wifi.
I have wifi on all the time at home and it's set to never sleep. Sometimes I see both the wifi and 3G icons. I know my wifi signal is strong, so no idea why the phone sometimes also seems to need a 3G data connection. One example is when I test GPS at home the 3G icon will pop up briefly. Another is following a reboot. But I see other times as well, and sometimes it stays for quite a while, but eventually goes away. I wonder if perhaps some ports get blocked by my router and the phone uses 3G communication to get around it. Bit of a mystery, but I don't see any other negative symptoms.
Here is something I have experienced. This is regardless of what ROM I am on.. Stock, Bionix, whatever...
I have wifi turned on at work. Sometimes I would see wifi and 3g on at the same time.
Now today, while texting, I noticed that my Wifi connection dropped to nothing, and at that point my 3g kicked in, which I expect it to. But when my Wifi reception kicks back up again, my 3g didnt turn off. I turned off Wifi and turned it on again, and my 3g turned off.
Anyone else getting the same experience?
samnada/ELStiko, That's what I'm really seeing too as I thought my wifi was just going to sleep.
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samnada/ELStiko, That's what I'm really seeing too as I thought my wifi was just going to sleep.
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I'm pretty sure my wifi isn't going to sleep. The wifi icon is on all the time with at least 3 bars. My cell signal is definitely weaker in my location. So, if it's seeking the strongest signal my wifi will always win.
Besides the possibility that my router is blocking some ports the phone wants to use, there's also a possible security issue. I know at one point the TMO My Account app would force a switch to cell communication versus wifi and I believe it was due to security concerns. Maybe some apps do the same thing.
I just did a GPS test, got a lock, stopped the test, closed the app, and the 3G icon stayed up for a couple of minutes then went away. Just one example.
Does seem odd, but I've just assumed there's some rational explanation. Could also be a bug...
your lucky you wake up and you have 3g. i wake up my phone is always on edge. lol
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I have the sleep policy set to never yet my WiFi at work keeps reconnecting every time i power it back on. My Evo4G has the same settings and doesn't drop the signal.
Ideas?
I'm having the exact same problem!
When I let my tablet sleep, after turning the screen on, the status bar says I'm connected to WiFi, but the bars are grey, not blue. Browsing the web works and YouTube as well, but apps like Talk keep saying I'm offline. After waiting a minute, it signs me in.
I have it set to never disconnecting WiFi, I'm not sure why it's doing this.
Same problem here. I returned my first Galaxy Tab 10.1 because of this. Sadly my replacement does the same thing.
I'm wondering how common this is or if returning it again would just be a waste of time.
It's particularly annoying because I like to stream after a while when the display is off, the streaming stops (wifi apparently dropping).
Seems like it is always one dang problem after another with each Honeycomb tablet I've had. *sigh*
Am I to assume by lack of response that almost nobody else has this issue? Just curious because it seems odd I'd have this problem with two tablets. And trying to decide if I should return and try a third time. Hate to keep returning them though if it's just a normal glitch with this tablet.
Same problem here, but only on my EAP network at work. On my home network (WPA2 personal), it works great.
cryptyk said:
Same problem here, but only on my EAP network at work. On my home network (WPA2 personal), it works great.
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I have this issue too, I seem to be connected but bars are grey. I tap the wifi, which takes me to settings and once I tap on my my access point which already shows connected, it lights back up and the bars change back to blue. Mainly an annoyance for now.
I had this same problem, the only way I found that is consistent is using Bluetooth.
Anyone know of a good way to reproduce the problem on demand? It happens often. So I was going to return the tablet to Fry's Electronics. But now they've gotten super anal and won't even let me exchange unless I can duplicate the issue in store.
But it seems to happen at random times when the screen has been asleep for a while.
And I probably will do my best to avoid shopping at Fry's in the future as well.
Happens to me too. It definatly is annoying. Hopefully they can send out a fix when they release the touchwiz ui.
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It's not like I get disconnected from the net, although I see the grey bars, I can still surf the web and junk, but some apps log me out like I mentioned before. It used to happen all the time, now i only happens at times.
To see what I'm talking about, let it sleep for like an hour or two, and then launch Google Talk. It says you're offline, wait a bit and it logs you in again
Okay, that must be what is happening to me. I notice the grey bars all the time and a bit of lag once I pick up the tab and try to connect to some network resource. What I've discovered is that if you connect to a remember wifi spot (home) then let the device sleep and then move to another remember wifi spot (work) it just disconnects and waits for you to unlock the device before it even tries to reconnect.
It's driving me crazy, I take it from home to work and us to use it to keep me updated on emails but now if I forget to unlock it it won't scan the remembered wifi network that I'm now on, it just stays dormant until I unlock it which means no email notices or anything pop up.
There's got to be a setting or something to say always scan for networks, I have "never" checked but that does nothing in my opinion.
i noticed that every few seconds or so the wifi icon would go all black, no bars, and the connection of whatever i was doing such as browsing would be lost.
when i did some searching on xda it seems most people believed that it was to do with their routers but one person said it was the antenna being connected to the case at the top left when in portrait so if your hand was holding it there, that would cause it. i held it elsewhere and no drop out.
if i put my hand back there, it wasnt instantly dropped but after a few seconds it did and when i removed my hand again not instant but the signal came back.
anyone else experiencing this?
i just ordered a case that i wanted anyway, will this maybe help this issue also as my hand wont be directly touching that area?
if I put my hand over the top of the device while in portrait view the signal drops down a bit but I don't lose signal.
I've never actually lost signal while in a covered area. At home at the farthest distance from an AC point, I still have good signal w/65Mbps connection.
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cheers.
there is a definate drop from 3-4 bars down to 1-2 bars within 1 second of putting my hand over that location. if at the same time there is maybe something else downloading on my PC or something similar, that causes that last bit of a problem and the signal drops.
You're holding it wrong!
Lol jk I have the same issue too. This tablet has the worst wifi reception of all times... Of all times.
I'm seeing slight issue at 11.g, would probably be accentuated at a further distance from router.. perhaps an external mod, foil under tape?
What does the black dot on WiFi icon indicate?
I experience this exact issue. My router is at the top of the stairs on the 2nd floor. I can sit on the couch downstairs about 20 feet away and this happens all the time. This may be the type of antennas and or software these companies are using in general. My wife has the same issue with the galaxy tab 7.7.
My iPad however reaches through the whole house including from the basement and never drops below the max 4/4 bars on either a 2.4 or 5 Ghz bands.
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I remember reading that apple had some top notch experts working on antenna designs during issues with iphone reception. The rhing is I can get great speeds with good reception, so it must be antenna proficiency that is the issue.
I have this issue too
I have this issue too but I'm not certain it has anything to do with the the way I hold the tablet.
It's really annoying, and I don't have a clue about what the cause is. Like thevuman said, worst wifi reception of all time, of all time.
Wifi channel?
you could try changing your wifi channel through the routers settings because interference may be the problem.
the below app can tell you the best channels to use though my router tells me to not use channel 13 and 14 because it might be incompatible.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...SwyLDEsImNvbS5mYXJwcm9jLndpZmkuYW5hbHl6ZXIiXQ
once downloaded tap view>channel rating.
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you could try changing your wifi channel through the routers settings because interference may be the problem.
the below app can tell you the best channels to use though my router tells me to not use channel 13 and 14 because it might be incompatible.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...SwyLDEsImNvbS5mYXJwcm9jLndpZmkuYW5hbHl6ZXIiXQ
once downloaded tap view>channel rating.
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I used wifi analyzer like you suggested and ended up changing my channel and killing the guest network, and it hasn't dropped again, at least not like it used to. So yeah this looks like a good fix.
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I have a nexus 4 16 gb rev 11 running 4.2.2. it seems like I have a weak wifi reception both at my workplace and at home.
1. When I'm at work 5 meters away from the router. the values I get from wifi analyzer keep on changing constantly from
-54dbm to 66dbm and the bars go from 2/4 to 4/4... Speedtest had good results (26Mbps down/29Mbps up).
2. I walked around the office, on the same levels of reception other devices (S3,S2,S,HTC desire,Gnex) showed more wifi bars. confusing...
3. When I put the Nexus 4 right next to the router it gets -24dBm. (speedtest 26 down/31 up)
I have 3 more days to replace my device and I dunno how to make sure it's just a software issue or a hardware issue. I dont understand
how come the bars keep changing on the same dBm levels that also change rapidly in different locations (I can stand at the same spot and get -71 and then -52 and get from 1 bar to 3) .
It could be the way you hold it. The antennas for the N4 is in the back panel. The wifi antenna is located at the bottom rear of the phone. A slight change in holding it (moving a finger) can make a difference. Also, some router antennas are directional, which could explain the slower speed when placed next to the router.
Hope this helps >.<
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It could be the way you hold it. The antennas for the N4 is in the back panel. The wifi antenna is located at the bottom rear of the phone. A slight change in holding it (moving a finger) can make a difference. Also, some router antennas are directional, which could explain the slower speed when placed next to the router.
Hope this helps >.<
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I tried just now to put it aside on a table and see if the values change and they still do even without me touching it,
I'm in my room right now and it changes from -90dBm and then -75dBm and then after a few seconds -88,-84,-82 and back to -75,
then again it goes back to -90dBm. In this location I get just one bar or no bars at all but the internet still works even with no bars. Why does this happen? =[
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Help anyone??
So I may have ****ed my Wi-Fi Antenna or hopefully some sort of software setting.
I tore down my Note 3 to examine the ear-piece cause it stopped working. However after putting everything back together again, I noticed the Wi-Fi range has DRASTICALLY reduced. To the point where if it is more than 2 meters away Wi-Fi will not work. However if I am right next to the router it works swimmingly.
The Wi-Fi reception signals reflect this as well. Used to get okay strength from everywhere within the house (even upto 10m away through bricks etc) and now pretty much range is useless.
Was wondering if anyone else had experience similar problems after tear downs? and if maybe there is a setting that auto resets when you unplug the antenna. I had absolutely no problems when disconnecting it and looking at the headers again, they seem to be okay.... no physical damage noted. Just wanted to get some opinions before i get a new replacement that may not even help.