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Wifi issues with known networks showing as "Disabled"

There is a thread over in the N1 Q&A about this (although i can't post links), but I wanted to post something in here to see if others have seen this issue.
I didn't see much else about this when searching, basically my issues are as such:
My N1 will go to known good wifi networks, at work, at home and at other locations where my other devices work flawlessly. I have a coworker with the exact same firmware (we updated using the same file) on a nexus one that has never seen this problem, which I find odd, but I'm fairly new to Android. It looks like a software or driver issue to me, but as I said, I'm new to Android.
My device shows the known networks as "Disabled", but I can connect manually.
Mine shows the same issue running FRF83. Device is unlocked and the FRF50 was a stock rooted build, the FRF83 is FRF83 stock rooted + insecure + ChainsDD's Superuser app + deodexed update.
there are some screenshots tha tI took if anyone cares to take a look. I'm happy to do any debugging to help resolve this issue. I'm relatively new to android but I'm pretty technical and am not afraid to poke around, etc. I have the SDK installed. Attached are the details of my environment.
Thanks in advance,
nb

Telus Desire HD OTA Gingerbread - New Radio

Hello all, this was brought to my attention today, courtesy of my news feed from mobile syrup.
Today Telus is pushing out an OTA update to Gingerbread, and according to the picture in the link, it looks like it has a new radio with it too. I have no clue about how to get a hold of this, but I thought I would pass on the information to the folks here.
Source: Mobilesyrup
http://mobilesyrup.com/2011/06/23/telus-htc-desire-hd-upgrade-to-os-2-3-starts-rolling-out/

hxxp://fotadl.htc.com/OTA_Ace_Gingerbread_S_TELUS_WWE_2.43.661.1_R-1.84.661.1_R_release_194023aok9iw7hmtj4lilk.zip
Sorry for bypassing the link, spam blocker but I don't have enough posts to share links yet.

does anyone notice any fix on it?
*Fixed* i have been having internet connection problem when switching wifi between data

gwmkwan said:
does anyone notice any fix on it?
i have been having internet connection problem when switching wifi between data
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I notice my weather now updates to my current location,other than that,I'm still playing.

I posted some information in the HTC Desire HD radio thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15005471&postcount=1619

So far here is what i found after update
Quadrant benchmark is max at 1580
Program opens a bit faster
HTC Message widget no longer have any choice on which sms program to open from
much faster on phone reboot

So is this Telus GB rootable?

Is anybody else having horrible 3G data issues with this update? Whenever I'm not connected to Wifi and attempt to use data my phone reboots. It has made my phone completely unusable. So far I haven't heard of anybody else with my issue though....
It also does not seem rootable. In an effort to prevent having to take my phone in to Telus I tried rooting and failed.

mikecousins said:
Is anybody else having horrible 3G data issues with this update? Whenever I'm not connected to Wifi and attempt to use data my phone reboots. It has made my phone completely unusable. So far I haven't heard of anybody else with my issue though....
It also does not seem rootable. In an effort to prevent having to take my phone in to Telus I tried rooting and failed.
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after the update
my phone works perfectly
i never rooted my phone
regards to your data issue, it works fine for me on FIDO

My brother who is in Saudi had his DHD fixed by HTC when he got i back it came with a new ROM:
Android Version
2.3.3
HTC Sense Version
2.1
Baseband Version
12.54.60.25_26.09.04.11_M2
Kernel Version
2.6.35.10-g997575f
[email protected] #1
Wed May 18 14:55:55 CST 2011
Build Number
2.42.415.1 CL68905 release-keys
Software Number
2.42.415.1
Browser Version
Webkit/533.1
It's UNROOTABLE but he said battery lasts for nearly 2 days with the new rom whereas he only had a day of use with the old ROM.

mikecousins said:
Is anybody else having horrible 3G data issues with this update? Whenever I'm not connected to Wifi and attempt to use data my phone reboots. It has made my phone completely unusable. So far I haven't heard of anybody else with my issue though....
It also does not seem rootable. In an effort to prevent having to take my phone in to Telus I tried rooting and failed.
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I've been having issues where it won't connect to mobile network .When I try to do it manually it tells me my SIM won't work with Telus,but restarting the phone fixes the issue,still very annoying.

That's a weird one. Mine's even worse though. If I leave my phone in my pocket it restarts about once every minute or two.

nexus player cant recognize 5ghz channel

my 1 day old nexus player cant recognize my 5 ghz channel ,no problem with the 2.4 ghz.

Gilico79 said:
my 1 day old nexus player cant recognize my 5 ghz channel ,no problem with the 2.4 ghz.
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I couldn't connect to my 5ghz router (tplink archer c7 v2) even though other devices could. However none of my other devices are ac, the others are N 5ghz. On a hunch, I went to my router's config and disable ac on the 5ghz then the nexus player connected immediately to the 5ghz band. I don't know if it's an issue with the archer c7 or with nexus player but at least I have better speeds now.
But if there's something else to change I'd like to know because I'd prefer to use ac.

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I couldn't connect to my 5ghz router (tplink archer c7 v2) even though other devices could. However none of my other devices are ac, the others are N 5ghz. On a hunch, I went to my router's config and disable ac on the 5ghz then the nexus player connected immediately to the 5ghz band. I don't know if it's an issue with the archer c7 or with nexus player but at least I have better speeds now.
But if there's something else to change I'd like to know because I'd prefer to use ac.
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I have the same exact router and I am connected to 5gz with my Nexus player with AC enabled. I am not able to confirm if Nexus is actually connected as AC just yet. I will confirm and post back, but I just wanted to let you know it is working for me with AC on. I am using the stock firmware, no DD-WRT for what it's worth. I also did not see any stock firmware updates for this version of the router.

Interesting, please let me know. I had openwrt on it for a bit but had issues and went back to stock. But I am on tplinks latest firmware. Released in April of this year. Maybe let me know what firmware version you currently have. I may revert firmwares.

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Interesting, please let me know. I had openwrt on it for a bit but had issues and went back to stock. But I am on tplinks latest firmware. Released in April of this year. Maybe let me know what firmware version you currently have. I may revert firmwares.
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I have not been able to find a way to determine if the Nexus is connecting with AC or not, but AC is on and it is connected to my 5gz signal. If you know of an app or some other method to find this out, let me know. So far the few apps I installed didn't tell me much. I am rooted with Stock at the moment, so most apps I need to test in the Play store require to find the apk to sideload. I hope the Play store blocking what I can and can not install goes away when I install a custom rom like Lollirock or AOSP 6.0 onto the Nexus. It says it isn't compatible, but it loads up just fine when I sideload it.
Then the last time I checked tplinks site for firmware, there was none listed. Then after I saw you mention the April update, I checked their site again and now see they just released another one on Oct 14, 2015. I have not updated it and my release listed in the router is Firmware Version: 3.14.1 Build 141030 Rel.56452n Hardware Version: Archer C7 v2/v3 00000000 The bottom of the router is listed as v2 though. It may be worth testing unless you know of a way to downgrade to my version easily.

r4wb0Ss said:
I have not been able to find a way to determine if the Nexus is connecting with AC or not, but AC is on and it is connected to my 5gz signal. If you know of an app or some other method to find this out, let me know. So far the few apps I installed didn't tell me much. I am rooted with Stock at the moment, so most apps I need to test in the Play store require to find the apk to sideload. I hope the Play store blocking what I can and can not install goes away when I install a custom rom like Lollirock or AOSP 6.0 onto the Nexus. It says it isn't compatible, but it loads up just fine when I sideload it.
Then the last time I checked tplinks site for firmware, there was none listed. Then after I saw you mention the April update, I checked their site again and now see they just released another one on Oct 14, 2015. I have not updated it and my release listed in the router is Firmware Version: 3.14.1 Build 141030 Rel.56452n Hardware Version: Archer C7 v2/v3 00000000 The bottom of the router is listed as v2 though. It may be worth testing unless you know of a way to downgrade to my version easily.
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Hmm, where are you seeing a new firmware dated Oct 14, 2015?
When I look here:
http://www.tp-link.com/en/download/Archer-C7_V2.html#Firmware
The latest firmware I see is dated April 27, 2015 which I am currently running. It's listed in the tplink admin login as:
3.14.3 Build 150427 Rel.36706n
Hmm, I don't see your firmware build even in the prior ones.
There are only 3 firmware versions in total. Mine & Archer C7_V2_V3_141110 (dated Nov 10, 2014) & Archer C7_V2_150304 (dated March 4, 2015)
The only thing I can think is you have never upgraded the firmware on your tplink and they don't post the stock firmware? Although I thought there were more than 3. Maybe they remove older ones. I'd be curious if you can connect with ac on the latest firmware but I don't think you can roll back to what you are currently running. Unless you're looking at a tplink page that I am not.
Yes when you go to a custom rom you won't have the market limitation anymore. I'm still on stock but probably going to go to a custom rom. The only negative is I don't think the remote is currently working. I may wait and see.
Regarding confirming if a device is connected as AC or N on 5ghz, I have no clue. I've seen a couple of friends routers (different models) and they don't show it either. Kind of annoying. However, I believe yours is probably connected at ac, as when I leave ac enabled the nexus continually fails connecting. Only when I disable ac does it successfully connect at 5ghz. Even though you may lose ac, you might want to consider updating as I believe they fixed a couple of serious security bugs in the older firmwares. That might even be why some are removed. I'm living with N right now, but I would like ac as I may move the nexus player to a room that's further away and ac supposedly handles distances much better than n.
Just as some tips for side loading. You probably know of apkmirror.com, which is good but doesn't have everything. There's also a chrome plugin for the market that gives you the option to download apks directly, and also install directly to another device. The second option doesn't always work though. the Nexus player may be greyed out when you try this but a lot work. So from my browser I'm just searching for apps and selecting install to the NP. For the others I download them and I was going to use ftp but I found it's easier just using airdroid which I already installed on the NP.

sark666 said:
Hmm, where are you seeing a new firmware dated Oct 14, 2015?
When I look here:
http://www.tp-link.com/en/download/Archer-C7_V2.html#Firmware
The latest firmware I see is dated April 27, 2015 which I am currently running. It's listed in the tplink admin login as:
3.14.3 Build 150427 Rel.36706n
Hmm, I don't see your firmware build even in the prior ones.
There are only 3 firmware versions in total. Mine & Archer C7_V2_V3_141110 (dated Nov 10, 2014) & Archer C7_V2_150304 (dated March 4, 2015)
The only thing I can think is you have never upgraded the firmware on your tplink and they don't post the stock firmware? Although I thought there were more than 3. Maybe they remove older ones. I'd be curious if you can connect with ac on the latest firmware but I don't think you can roll back to what you are currently running. Unless you're looking at a tplink page that I am not.
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I was using this site: http://www.tp-link.us/download/Archer-C7_V2.html#Firmware The only difference I can see is this site is the .us version vs the .com version you linked me, which was the first time I seen this. I am located in the US, but it seems odd they would have different firmware downloads available between the 2 nearly identical sites. Then I either updated the firmware when I first installed the router, which was approximately a year ago, or I installed whatever was out then. I do not recall 100%, as everything was working I didn't bother with it. But now I am curious if it will help with security issues and/or break my AC connections.
sark666 said:
Yes when you go to a custom rom you won't have the market limitation anymore. I'm still on stock but probably going to go to a custom rom. The only negative is I don't think the remote is currently working. I may wait and see.
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I think the remote works, but it only has so many buttons, so it will dramatically limit your functionality. I plan on using a TV Launcher to replace the default launcher, no matter what rom, stock or not, I am using. It is designed for basic functionality so the remote should be just fine for it. Then I found a badass remote app called Droidmote on XDA and it works very well with the Nexus player on the stock launcher. I am sure it will work just as well with a custom rom too. I have it installed on my phone and tablet and was able to maneuver around every app I tested that I was not able to before I installed it and was only using the stock remote.
sark666 said:
Even though you may lose ac, you might want to consider updating as I believe they fixed a couple of serious security bugs in the older firmwares. That might even be why some are removed. I'm living with N right now, but I would like ac as I may move the nexus player to a room that's further away and ac supposedly handles distances much better than n.
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Yeah, I am not sure if I should upgrade to the latest firmware or not... but if there are a couple serious security bugs, I suppose I probably should update. Hopefully the October firmware allows AC to still work enabled. I sure hope so as I was planning on moving the Nexus to the opposite end of the house and having AC wifi is one of the main reasons why I chose the Nexus player.
sark666 said:
You probably know of apkmirror.com, which is good but doesn't have everything. There's also a chrome plugin for the market that gives you the option to download apks directly, and also install directly to another device. The second option doesn't always work though. the Nexus player may be greyed out when you try this but a lot work. So from my browser I'm just searching for apps and selecting install to the NP. For the others I download them and I was going to use ftp but I found it's easier just using airdroid which I already installed on the NP.
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I am familiar with apkmirror.com and similar sites, but I never dug into chrome with the market plugin. That is good info to know and may test it out, but I dont mind sideloading. I send the files to Google drive and load ES explorer and installs fast. However, I do prefer having the ability to do this directly from the Play store, which will be possible when I go to a custom rom. Anyway, if you update to the October firmware, let us know if it helped or made any difference. I will check it out myself by the weekend and post back if anything changes on my side.

That is strange but I've seen tplink do that before. I wish they wouldn't do that.
And your US site doesn't seem to have historical firmware available, unless there's a link I'm not seeing. I may flash this one and see if it fixes ac as I bought this as well with the intention of it being somewhat far from the router and would rather not rely on N.
Coll, I'll check out that TV launcher. If it works with the remote then that's a plus. One thing I'm not sure of, if one changes to a custom rom how does install the TV version of an app? Some of them are easier to use. Just wondering if the TV versions of an app will show up in the market when on a basically stock rom.

This problem has to do with the channel of 5Ghz, you need to select a low number channel otherwise the nexus play simply won't pick it up.
I have set 5ghz to channel 48 and works great.

cchaves77 said:
This problem has to do with the channel of 5Ghz, you need to select a low number channel otherwise the nexus play simply won't pick it up.
I have set 5ghz to channel 48 and works great.
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I can confirm that I am running on a low channel (36) for 5ghz as well.

I have the same router. I ended up setting 2.4ghz to channel 1, and 5ghz to channel 169. Kept having issues with streaming Hulu, it would stop and buffer a lot. Seems better after I made these adjustments. I used a WiFi analyzer app on my phone to make sure I am not using channels that other people in the building are using.

That is odd. I have a Netgear true dual band AC router. My Nexus Player pulls and runs excellent on my 5G. Both my Nexus 6 and Nexus Player pull 800mbps link speeds on my 5G. Sounds like a router related problem.

I've had the same problem! It comes from the Location setting. At the very beginning, in the setup wizard you've set the location as US probably, and not all 5Ghz Channels are (legally) available there.
Change the location to the same location as your Router. For me that was the problem.

ungureanub said:
I've had the same problem! It comes from the Location setting. At the very beginning, in the setup wizard you've set the location as US probably, and not all 5Ghz Channels are (legally) available there.
Change the location to the same location as your Router. For me that was the problem.
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There is no where to set your location in NP.
Real life got in the way but I just tried this on every ac channel available starting from the lowest and the NP could never connect; disable ac and it connects instantly.
I'll see about flashing that firmware for the archer c7 v2 and see if that fixes it.

Gilico79 said:
my 1 day old nexus player cant recognize my 5 ghz channel ,no problem with the 2.4 ghz.
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I had this problem with my Zyxel 802.11ac access point. Once I told my access point to stop trying to use 80Mhz channels (selection read "20/40/80MHz"; switched it to "20/40MHz") and went from forcing a specific channel to "auto" (i.e. let the access point choose the channel) the problem went away, and my Nexus Player has a nice strong, steady connection on 5GHz.

It is because Google fails to the DFS channels. I modded my Nexus 10 to get them but can't figure out how to enable them on the player. http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-10/general/adding-support-5ghz-wifi-channels-nexus-t2961722
Check this out to see the supported channels. (note 80mhz uses 4 channels.)
http://clients.mikealbano.com/

When I received and turned on my nexus player, it was not able to see 5GHz SSID. I immediately went and updated to the latest MarshMallow and now all 5GHz channels work without any problem. Those who had trouble with 5 GHz channels, are you all updated to the latest Android?

sark666 said:
There is no where to set your location in NP.
Real life got in the way but I just tried this on every ac channel available starting from the lowest and the NP could never connect; disable ac and it connects instantly.
I'll see about flashing that firmware for the archer c7 v2 and see if that fixes it.
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When you choose your language in the setup wizard. As long as I had there "US English" it did not worked. After choosing UK English or German ... well its working. I knew the trick from my Nexus 5. As I received it from Google Play I could not connect to the same 5GHz Network. I've called the Support and they knew from the beginning what my problem was and "advised" me to do this trick.
But I do not know, why you have to do this!

Updating through Firmware Finder but No Badges for all apps! & slow wifi connection

Updating through Firmware Finder but No Badges for all apps! & slow wifi connection
I received my 32GB Huawei Mediapad M3 from Amazon USA and because of no updates available, I used firmware finder and sent the 2.49GB firmware (the middle one) to my updater, then I applied the top one skipping the 2nd one with the 656MB (thinking that it's the same version as the 3rd one).
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1JBWb7LffXYm5I7mpSv54NIrXzWYHD0ET
Am I fine with what I did? or I should install that second update?
Another remark is that I can't see all app badge notifications like FB, Pages Manager...etc but I can see it for some apps only which is weird (plz see screenshot below)
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ILk8vvnL9AR86FK2trhTuVwEmkcEtimJ
The 3rd issue which annoys me a lot is the very slow wifi connection. I'm quite sure my router is innocent because my 4 year old phone (LG G2) is having my full connection speed (which is about 14 Mbps) but my tablet is just taking only up till 2 or 3 Mbps! (I used speedtest). Is it because I'm using non-official ROM or something? Can I get a link - with instructions - on how to download the latest official ROM?

magoooood said:
I received my 32GB Huawei Mediapad M3 from Amazon USA and because of no updates available, I used firmware finder and sent the 2.49GB firmware (the middle one) to my updater, then I applied the top one skipping the 2nd one with the 656MB (thinking that it's the same version as the 3rd one).
Am I fine with what I did? or I should install that second update?
Another remark is that I can't see all app badge notifications like FB, Pages Manager...etc but I can see it for some apps only which is weird (plz see screenshot below)
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What vers did you get to begin with? Was it C128B005?
What update method did you use? The DNS, or the proxy or SD card?
Is your bluetooth working? Do you have all the apps that were there when you first got it?
I think the one you used is the full update, and the others are incremental updates.
You used the B351 update to get from B350 to B351. If you wanted to use the B350 incremental update, I'm not sure what version it would update from.
Did you try to get updates from the HiSuite PC program?

fidrat said:
What vers did you get to begin with? Was it C128B005?
What update method did you use? The DNS, or the proxy or SD card?
Is your bluetooth working? Do you have all the apps that were there when you first got it?
I think the one you used is the full update, and the others are incremental updates.
You used the B351 update to get from B350 to B351. If you wanted to use the B350 incremental update, I'm not sure what version it would update from.
Did you try to get updates from the HiSuite PC program?
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I used Firmware Finder and I sent my update to the updater.
Bluetooth and GPS are turned off.
I don't know the original build that came with the tablet fresh out of the box but it was the old Marshmallow with EMUI 4.x.
I indeed used the bigger full update (2.5GB) first and then updated to build B351 (which was around 70MB)
I'm downloading the HiSuite PC Program right now and I'll check what I can do with it because I'm not happy with the WIFI performance at all at the moment. When I downloaded the firmware using the proxy method, the whole update downloaded very quickly using the same exact router so I'm quite sure the updates with the Wifi on my tablet are not playing well together.
Updates:
I don't know what happened all of a sudden but the wifi speed return back to the normal speed I'm used to.
HiSuite doesn't show any recent updates as it tells me I have the latest.
I tried to recover my tablet and start fresh but HiSuite doesnt' support my tablet!

@magoooood I am also on same boat. to make things worts, my keyboard also doesn't show up.
Did you find any way to fix your problem? It might apply for me too....

buzzi321 said:
@magoooood I am also on same boat. to make things worts, my keyboard also doesn't show up.
Did you find any way to fix your problem? It might apply for me too....
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I have no keyboard problems. I still have no luck with badges missing from some apps like fb. I'm not sure if this is because I'm using a Wi-Fi tablet only or not.
Sent from my BTV-W09 using Tapatalk

the USA version of the M3 for some reason does NOT enable the 5GHZ wifi band, only the 2.4GHZ, so thats why wifi is slower on this device than it might be on your other 5GHZ enabled devices..hopefully, this gets fixed some day..

I have a US WiFi only tablet that would barely get 25mb down and my pixel next to it would get 50mb. I have FiOS internet and I switched to there newest router (quantum gateway) the other day and I now get 50mb down. I only ever use 2.4ghz on all my devices. There was something about that other router this tablet just didn't like. Wonder if this is the issue others are having, maybe it just doesn't like certain routers.
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What do you do? 5ghz Wi-Fi issue...

Hi Guys,
I just got my Prime Day Essential set up and after updating to the latest Android 8.1.0 build with the July patches I'm one of the lucky ones with the 5ghz Wi-Fi issue, where when I connect to a 5ghz Wi-Fi, the connection and speed starts throttling down to no bandwidth at all. My workaround has been using the slower 2.4ghz SSID. I also have the issue where the Play Store download sometimes waits forever to download in the queue.
What do you guys do with this issue? Flash to Android P? Something else with you router?
I really don't think it's my router because obviously all other devices in the house are working flawlessly... Appreciate ANY help... Thank you!

ProFragger said:
Hi Guys,
I just got my Prime Day Essential set up and after updating to the latest Android 8.1.0 build with the July patches I'm one of the lucky ones with the 5ghz Wi-Fi issue, where when I connect to a 5ghz Wi-Fi, the connection and speed starts throttling down to no bandwidth at all. My workaround has been using the slower 2.4ghz SSID. I also have the issue where the Play Store download sometimes waits forever to download in the queue.
What do you guys do with this issue? Flash to Android P? Something else with you router?
I really don't think it's my router because obviously all other devices in the house are working flawlessly... Appreciate ANY help... Thank you!
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Welcome to the "club"... :silly:
I've been searching for a solution to this issue since I got the PH-1 about 3 weeks ago. Here I read your post, and I just did a test to disappoint myself once again with the issue... but... it doesn't seem to be happening anymore?!??
I am running AOSiP (8.1 w/ July security patch) with the latest Neutrino Fornax kernel (important because it has the latest Android P WLAN drivers, same as the Essential P B3 066 stock release). I am going to see if I can determine what might have fixed it, but I've been running this setup for a week and it originally had the problem.
What I would suggest:
- Don't spend much time diagnosing your router, all the changes suggested in these forums didn't change anything for me at least (YMMV). As you said, all other devices in your home are working fine (same here).
- Don't install P to resolve this issue. I clean flashed the Essential P Beta Release, and the problem was still there. In fact it seems to have been worse, with PS download stopping completely with a message "Waiting for WiFi".
- Try a different kernel. Try the latest ElementalX kernel (3.0.6). I believe it has the updated WLAN drivers as well since it supports Android P. I don't believe the Neutrino kernel works on stock.
- Check your PlayStore version, I think mine was updated recently (11.0.50-all[0] [PR] 206665793)
I am going to look into this more, and if I find a definitive "this is what fixed it" I will post it here. Good luck...

This is issue is not present for me on 9.0 further the speed difference between 2.4 and 5 isn't really world eg being on 2.4 is still faster than most broadband connections. This is seems to be a google security patch issue on 8.1 and likely will be fixed in the next patch. When the latest 9.0 beta came out it seemed to go away. So it seems they know how to fix it.

I have no problem either, latest android P, rooted with rey darkroom kernel
Edit, can u guys connect to any wifi? There seems to be an issue, after flashing various ota's, stock images, or treble gsi's that disable wifi and Bluetooth and the only way i have found to fix them, isfor android P at least) to flash a july 8.1 images (flashall. Bat) then flash android P to fix wifi and Bluetooth issues.

jdgesmlls said:
Welcome to the "club"... :silly:
I've been searching for a solution to this issue since I got the PH-1 about 3 weeks ago. Here I read your post, and I just did a test to disappoint myself once again with the issue... but... it doesn't seem to be happening anymore?!??
I am running AOSiP (8.1 w/ July security patch) with the latest Neutrino Fornax kernel (important because it has the latest Android P WLAN drivers, same as the Essential P B3 066 stock release). I am going to see if I can determine what might have fixed it, but I've been running this setup for a week and it originally had the problem.
What I would suggest:
- Don't spend much time diagnosing your router, all the changes suggested in these forums didn't change anything for me at least (YMMV). As you said, all other devices in your home are working fine (same here).
- Don't install P to resolve this issue. I clean flashed the Essential P Beta Release, and the problem was still there. In fact it seems to have been worse, with PS download stopping completely with a message "Waiting for WiFi".
- Try a different kernel. Try the latest ElementalX kernel (3.0.6). I believe it has the updated WLAN drivers as well since it supports Android P. I don't believe the Neutrino kernel works on stock.
- Check your PlayStore version, I think mine was updated recently (11.0.50-all[0] [PR] 206665793)
I am going to look into this more, and if I find a definitive "this is what fixed it" I will post it here. Good luck...
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Thanks for the warm welcome, my friend and even more so, thank you so much for your very detailed post and what you've done to remedy.
I assume messing with the kernel and etc will require Bootloader unlocking and rooting, right? I haven't rooted a phone since the V20, just been opting out of that life for secure payment methods, stable battery and just general ease of moving from phone to phone like I do ?.
What I did last night... Could be a fluke, could be placebo, however, changing the channels on my 5ghz network, rebooting the router, I've been connected to the 5ghz network with my Essential for about 12 hours now with no throttling. I'm not sure if it was in fact the channel change or rebooting the router that cleared things up? Albeit, the signal strength on this network on this phone is the lowest I have seen between the Note 8, HTC U12+, iPhone 7 Plus...
Please keep the research up, I will too, this problem really has no documented solution yet.
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This is issue is not present for me on 9.0 further the speed difference between 2.4 and 5 isn't really world eg being on 2.4 is still faster than most broadband connections. This is seems to be a google security patch issue on 8.1 and likely will be fixed in the next patch. When the latest 9.0 beta came out it seemed to go away. So it seems they know how to fix it.
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Thank you bud, good to hear you're not seeing the issue... But honestly, it does exist for some of us. I really hope it's the issue with the July patch, that'll make things so much easier! Although, I disagree 5ghz is much faster for me than my 2.4ghz network...
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I have no problem either, latest android P, rooted with rey darkroom kernel
Edit, can u guys connect to any wifi? There seems to be an issue, after flashing various ota's, stock images, or treble gsi's that disable wifi and Bluetooth and the only way i have found to fix them, isfor android P at least) to flash a july 8.1 images (flashall. Bat) then flash android P to fix wifi and Bluetooth issues.
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Thanks for reporting, good Sir. Yes, I can connect to any network, just low signal strength and the choking issue I had before my router change. Bluetooth seems stable with my smart watch, though the watch seems to be draining the battery faster on this phone... Who knows man ??

You might have noticed I am on the P beta. Also have you run actual wifi speed tests or are we taking seat of the pants feelings?

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You might have noticed I am on the P beta. Also have you run actual wifi speed tests or are we taking seat of the pants feelings?
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Hey bud, yes good to see promising reports from P beta... Hoping the bad WiFi is resolved for the ones who get it.
And yes, speed tested, repeatedly. Sadly, Essential's top speeds are way worse than the Note 8, HTC U12+, iPhone 7 Plus... I'm talking almost 100mbps less ?...
For whatever reason though, the choking of the bandwidth down to unusual issue has gone away. Not sure if rebooting the Router did that? WiFi signal is also the worst I have seen on this phone out of all the others mentioned...
I appreciate you sharing your experience.

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Hey bud, yes good to see promising reports from P beta... Hoping the bad WiFi is resolved for the ones who get it.
And yes, speed tested, repeatedly. Sadly, Essential's top speeds are way worse than the Note 8, HTC U12+, iPhone 7 Plus... I'm talking almost 100mbps less ...
For whatever reason though, the choking of the bandwidth down to unusual issue has gone away. Not sure if rebooting the Router did that? WiFi signal is also the worst I have seen on this phone out of all the others mentioned...
I appreciate you sharing your experience.
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So your downloads are not as fast as your other devices but you no longer see the downloads slow to a crawl (~100KB/s)? My downloads are not slowing to a crawl either any longer. Something must have been updated from a Google perspective because nothing I changed could explain the issue just going away... :fingers-crossed...

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So your downloads are not as fast as your other devices but you no longer see the downloads slow to a crawl (~100KB/s)? My downloads are not slowing to a crawl either any longer. Something must have been updated from a Google perspective because nothing I changed could explain the issue just going away... :fingers-crossed...
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Haha well my good luck didn't last too long, I fried my data, playing with Substratum, on a rooted system :'(... but here's to hoping the 5ghz good luck continues! Don't you love it when "magic" is the answer !?
All jokes aside, my WiFi signal and radio is still the weakest hardware I have EVER seen on ANY device!

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Haha well my good luck didn't last too long, I fried my data, playing with Substratum, on a rooted system :'(... but here's to hoping the 5ghz good luck continues! Don't you love it when "magic" is the answer !?
All jokes aside, my WiFi signal and radio is still the weakest hardware I have EVER seen on ANY device!
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I just had a issue with Substratum as well... what do you mean "fried my data"? I was able to recover my system using the Substratum rescue, copied to the cache/ partition and flash in TWRP. Did you already re-flash everything?

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I just had a issue with Substratum as well... what do you mean "fried my data"? I was able to recover my system using the Substratum rescue, copied to the cache/ partition and flash in TWRP. Did you already re-flash everything?
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Hey bud, yeah, I was playing with Substratum on a NON-rooted, bootloader locked device with Andromeda. So when I had the bootloop, I had no custom recovery in place to flash the rescue zip. :'(
So I "fried" my data, beyond retrievable, I mean. I was surprised that the Essential stock recovery didn't even have a way to install update.zip? That way us non-rooted folks can always save our rescue zips on our computers and see if there was a way to sideload the zip through the stock recovery... Oh well, either there is a way, or I didn't know and couldn't get enough help in time in the middle of the night. I needed my phone working in the AM...

I have had 7.01 when I got the phone yesterday. Went to 9 same day and I can't watch a video. Speed test shows 1.2 M down 2.3 up. I checked other devices and they are showing 70 down and 10 up

My Essential didn't even see my 5Ghz network on 8.1, but I just updated to 9, and now everything is good. Getting 72mbit on a 75mbit connection, too.

On 9.0 rooted with ex kernel on 5ghz ac 866mbit no issues at all... I get 40 megabytes a sec on my wifi.. I have 65 megabytes a sec with my current isp. I why straight to 9.0 phone was on 7.1.2 when I got it a few days ago.
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I just did the see 5th security patch update while already on P. My ph1 has never been able to connect to my Xfinity 5ghz channel. Actually, it will sometimes connect, but says 'connected (no internet)' then drips connection. So it's ALWys had trouble with that. My HTC 10 does not, my V30 does not, my M7 does not.
Since the 9/5 update, even my 2.4ghz channel is crazy slow. I get about 3mbps down with my case on. Took off case and get 15mbps. Verified thru multiple tests. My V30 gets 63mbps on same 2.4 channel.
Anyone have this situation? I can't seem to find any further settings in wifi settings to try to see if a setting is wrong.
Does the ph1 just have the worst wifi radio ever? Or is there somewhere in setting that I can change something that I just haven't found? Much thanks.
Stock. Not rooted, no custom kernel,etc. I've been hesitant to root this device because of the A/B slots confusing me a little and just don't have the time currently to really dig into it.

I've the same problem with 5GHz wifi... Connection is very poor. Automatically reconnect to 2,4GHz network. My iPhone 6s didn't problem with this. I don't know, how fix it.

Xfinity routers suck. That said my PH1 connects just fine to my Linksys 5ghz AC channel. Works all over my house and only switched to the 2.4 GHz when I go outside.

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Xfinity routers suck. That said my PH1 connects just fine to my Linksys 5ghz AC channel. Works all over my house and only switched to the 2.4 GHz when I go outside.
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What are you guys using to confirm throughput? I'll be testing my replacement (recording audio issue with the one I purchased) when it gets in.

I do file transfers from my PC to my phone and back again and measure the time vs size of file. Over the local network obviously.

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Xfinity routers suck. That said my PH1 connects just fine to my Linksys 5ghz AC channel. Works all over my house and only switched to the 2.4 GHz when I go outside.
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I've Tp-Link Archer C1200 with 5GHz and wifi AC. Other devices like a MacBook Air, iPhone 6s and ZTE Axon 7 works perfect with this router on 5GHz and AC speed. I think, that problem is with my Essential Phone.