Does anybody know how to improve the tilt's Wifi Range? I have to be practically sitting on top of my router for wifi to work. I literally go behind a wall, or over 20 feet away, and I can't connect.
hmm i dun seem to have that problem i have my router set in the basement and i'm in my room on the top floor...two levels up and i dont have any problem connecting
mooshwa said:
Does anybody know how to improve the tilt's Wifi Range? I have to be practically sitting on top of my router for wifi to work. I literally go behind a wall, or over 20 feet away, and I can't connect.
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I had the similar issue. I believe it might be the router issue. I had to set the router to use different channel. After I did that, it seems connecting without issue.
However, previously, I could connect my other wireless devices when I was far away from the router. However, it does not work well with tilt thou.
no issues here, excellent range and speed.
move the slider in the "battery saving - better performance" to "better performance" (dunno how they're called in the English roms but the idea is clear) in the wifi options and it should improve
you can increase the power in the "Wireless LAN" (in settings/connections) and go to the "power mode" and drag it to max performance (you'll loose some battery life).
Otherwise try reseating the router to a more central area, and move any microwaves and cordless phones that are close to it. Or get a better router.
(soz i have just repeated what Gpx85 just said as he posted just before me)
I think I will try the "Router Channel" issue. That sounds promising, as the other stuff I have already attempted.
Thanks for the feedback. Appreciate it!
Actually, I also did to reseat my router and increased the performance from WMob.
The range isn't as good as a laptop with integrated antenna. This is to be expected, as the Kaiser has a smaller, lower gain antenna. About 40 feet away through one floor and a couple of walls I get 1-2 bars, vs 2-3 from my Laptop with Intel a/b/g wireless.
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When on wifi my kaiser seems to loose the signal and picks it up again.
its just going on and off.
No problem with the routersignal all wireless computers work fine.
anyone knows about this problem?
cbgnl said:
When on wifi my kaiser seems to loose the signal and picks it up again.
its just going on and off.
No problem with the routersignal all wireless computers work fine.
anyone knows about this problem?
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Have you put the slider to best performance rather than best battery?
Yes i did
never had the problem with the tytn and wizard.
I only get that on my TyTN II when I'm far away from the router and the signal strength is low. If you've already set the performance vs battery life slider to give maximum performance as suggested by kareem9nba and it's still behaving as reported, what happens when you're near to the router?
If it's just that your saying the range isn't as good as youve been used to with other devices, I have nothing to compare my TyTN II with as this is my first WiFi capable ppc - but I'm sure other more experienced members here will be able to comment. If you're near to the router where there's no doubt it should be working fine and still getting problems then thats a different matter.
maybe your router needs a restart or maybe its just faulty.
have you tried other devices with same router?
try a wifi sniffer/scanner see what happens (a good example would be PeekPocket)
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maybe your router needs a restart or maybe its just faulty.
have you tried other devices with same router?
try a wifi sniffer/scanner see what happens (a good example would be PeekPocket)
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All other devices doenst have the problem output signal is ok but i ll try peekpocket
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I have nothing to compare my TyTN II with
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I do! My Kaiser's performance is on a par with my old HTC Universal, which is to say, they are both terrible at getting a signal. I don't think my Kaiser is faulty as back in the Universal forums, it was often commented how useless the WiFi was in comparison to other machines. I used to have a HP Ipaq 5450 which could get a signal upto approx 20m from my router, my laptop starts struggling at around 50m. The Universal could just about get a signal upto 4m away, the Kaiser is no better.
I realise much of this is due router location and the fact that I was trying to get WiFi in my garage, but in my bedroom with a full signal on the laptop, the HTC devices struggle to get more than 1 bar and if I move 10cm further away from the router the signal goes completely.
I think the WiFi on the Universal and the Kaiser just isn't that powerful. I guess it's Maximum Performance setting is still quite low power in order to save battery life. Wonder if there is a registry tweek to increase the power to the WiFi card, and if doing that would blow the card?!
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The Universal could just about get a signal upto 4m away, the Kaiser is no better.
I realise much of this is due router location and the fact that I was trying to get WiFi in my garage, but in my bedroom with a full signal on the laptop, the HTC devices struggle to get more than 1 bar and if I move 10cm further away from the router the signal goes completely.
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I'm using an 11 Mbps Wifi capable router (about 2003 vintage) and even with a wall and a floor between my TyTN II and the router it still works about 15 m away, I've yet to try any further as that'd be outside the house. I was impressed to see it even detected other WiFi sources in the area though. I found that even though the signal quality bar was fluctuating, my web browsing still worked OK. Bumping the slider towards the performance end did make a difference to the signal quality indicator (although it still fluctuated). If your TyTN II is only working up to 4 m from your router then I think there's a fault with either device, you should be getting better than that.
I can connect to my linksys WRT54G when beside the it and 20mt away. Even when beside it the TynII will cycle off (disconnect) and then reconnect again. I thought it was signal strength but I am beginning to think its just a crappy wifi setup on the tyn. I also have my slider on best performance.
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I'm using an 11 Mbps Wifi capable router (about 2003 vintage)
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Funny that, so am I! However I bought it because it was cheap and I really didn't know much about WiFi etc several years ago when I bought it. I notice many routers come with external antenna's, mine is all internal so I would think that it's more my router isn't that powerful, combined with the Kaiser having a less powerful WiFi set-up that older models. To be fair, the Ipaq had an external antenna (of sorts, a little lump on top) and my previous laptops didn't have built in WiFi, their external WiFi adaptors also had external antenna's.
Frankly I think that all this internalisation of components is having a negative impact on signal strength and range. To compare I have a GSM car kit with an external antenna that picks up a much better signal than a phone on it's own. Likewise my GPS can be connected to an external antenna and I've noticed when connected it will pick up more satalites, with a stronger lock, than when on it's built in antenna. It also picks up more than the Kaiser (internal antenna) or Universal (external bluetooth GPS with internal antenna) ever do.
Still, it all just about works for my needs, so I'm going to leave well alone!
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I can connect to my linksys WRT54G when beside the it and 20mt away. Even when beside it the TynII will cycle off (disconnect) and then reconnect again. I thought it was signal strength but I am beginning to think its just a crappy wifi setup on the tyn. I also have my slider on best performance.
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i have the same problem... i hope that's a firmware problem....
checked
i checked signal and even did hard reset on kaiser.
i still have full signal and goes to zero all the time
no clue here
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i have the same problem... i hope that's a firmware problem....
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But does this actually affect your browsing? In the end the signal quality bar can do whatever it wants as long as the data still gets through as far as I'm concerned and for me that’s happening. My hunch is that the reason why the signal quality bar intermittently dips down (even when nearby a router) is associated with power management on the TyTN II (which will still be in place to a certain degree even when the performance vs. battery life slider is fully at the performance end).
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But does this actually affect your browsing? In the end the signal quality bar can do whatever it wants as long as the data still gets through as far as I'm concerned and for me that’s happening. My hunch is that the reason why the signal quality bar intermittently dips down (even when nearby a router) is associated with power management on the TyTN II (which will still be in place to a certain degree even when the performance vs. battery life slider is fully at the performance end).
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really i can't connect to my wifi router, while other hardware can (a laptop for example). it loops from "connecting" to "available" with 5 bars. but nevers connect or never shows an error. i tried open, WEP, WPA, WPA2 with no results... its a compatibility problem of TYTN II with some routers....
i hope that upgrading firmware, this problem dissapear....
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My experience isn't that the signal itself is particlarly poor, but that it can be prone to loose connection regularly if its very weak. Atm I'm sitting some 150m from the accesspoint (quite powerfull transmitter), through a couple of concrete walls and its fast, as in almost so fast as the Kaiser can chew. Livestreaming from Youtube is np etc. The signal is no doubt very poor tho, and I have to use max signal/minimum battery on that bar you can adjust.
What drives me nuts is that it DCs me and often force me to key in the network key randomly every 1 to 20mins or so. I don't know if this is due to weak signal (both my laptop and the kaiser have 1 bar) or config of the wlan/kaiser. The PC dont DC, but its deffo a cranky connection. It almost seems like theres some auto-DC feature somewhere.
On other networks I haven't seen this. Generally I find the Kaiser wlan surprisingly powerfull, albeit it often shows a weak signal I've found this to be very relative and far from always descriptive of real life performance.
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kaiser wifi low signal - wi fi poor reception - wifi disconnecting and reconnecting:
Suffered a lot with my kaiser wifi poor reception. Tested several radio versions and could solve the problem.
Radio version:
1 71 09 01 - too low WIFI reception
1.27.12.11 - disconnecting and turning OFF the WIFI with no automatic reengage of the access point or turning ON the WIFI if coverage is good.
1.65.17.56 is the versione that SOLVED my problem.
This radio was collected from the original HTC shipped rom:
RUU_Kaiser_HTC_WWE_3.28.405.0_radio_sign_25.83.40.02_1.65.17.56_Ship.exe
In this moment I am running Radio 1.65.17.56 with
ROM jjblaster3 - updated 28014 with good WIFI behaviour.
I need to underline that the reception I have now with the Kaiser, can never reach the sensibility of my Nokia 5530 WIFI or the one I have on my laptop with good antenna embeded in my LCD framem but I am happy now because the WIFI is making sense now.
Best Regards
cbgnl said:
When on wifi my kaiser seems to loose the signal and picks it up again.
its just going on and off.
No problem with the routersignal all wireless computers work fine.
anyone knows about this problem?
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I'm facing the same problem. WiFi worked fine and one day it was suddenly gone. Tried quite a few radios, including 1.65.17.56 and still no deal.
To elaborate, when WiFi is turned on, the icon never even comes up in the taskbar, and it continues to remain in an off state (when checked in wifi settings) even when it's turned on (in the comm manager).
I'm guessing this could be a hardware problem like a loose contact to the antenna? Anyone heard of such issues?
(On a side note, the phone function never worked either, I always got a "No Service")
I've fixed it! I believe the problem was indeed a loose antenna. I opened up my phone and removed the antenna peice (the plastic plate that also houses the speaker) and pushed up the two pins left of the camera (so that they'll have better contact with the antenna piece. Put everything back and now the WiFi works!
Now if only I can figure out why the cellular doesn't work..
i dont know exactly what wifi should be like on a Tilt, because to me, the signal has always sucked big time. From stock, to shipped rom, to plenty of cooked roms, and lots of radios.
Example: I have a wrt54gl. very good router. i go out on my balcony to smoke, and its approx 20 feet away from my router. Nokia N95 in left hand says 95% signal strength. Tilt in right hand says, nothing. my router is not found.
Is there maybe something wrong with the wifi on mine? or is it just a joke on the tilt?
Works fine here, where my laptop has a very weak signal the Kaiser won't see it, but not worse than that.
yeah kaisers seem to be hit and miss on the wifi, some of us have very poor signal's and perfomance.
I've tried multiple roms, hard spl's, radio's, loads of wifi settings, routers, wep or wpa security, unlcoked networks, nothings works.
Some people have no problems and great signals.
My htc hermes had a brilliant signal could be on wifi in the garden or any room in the house, now in the room next to the router the kasier gets a 1 bar signal, and will drop the connection sometimes.
I believe some of them are just faulty, i've heard of a few people retuning them and the replacement being perfect, so sounds like a bad batch but it seems to effect t-mobile mda's and at&t tilts at least, not sure anbout htc's, oranges, xda's etc.
Yes, The Kaiser has an under powered WiFi chip and a weak internal antenna.
To top it off almost all ROMs have the setting to "Best Battery." There is a WiFi setting of "Best Performance" that helps the strengths but sucks up battery like a Dyson Vaccum.
Go to your Comm Manager -> Settings -> Wireless LAN. Power Mode (tab). There you can play with the Slider. See if that helps.
As the title suggests, I have very weak Wi-Fi reception with my Diamond. I already set the Wi-Fi to best performance, I was wondering if there was any other setting that might help enhance the reception. I hate to think the unit is defective.
I'm only getting Three bars of signal in the same room, it hovers between four and five within three or so feet, but if I leave the same room it drops to only one bar most of the time, occasionally shooting up or dropping all together. Any help would be appreciated.
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It could be so many factors. Have you changed the channel number to see if that helps What other electronic equipment is close by the router and maybe bluetooth or wireless devices such as telephones etc that my use 2,4ghz frequency (if thats what you are using on 802.11 router. My diamond picks it up just fine.
But bear in mind the overall speed should not really be affected that much for browsing etc if at all
How would I go about changing the channel? Im a bit of a novice with networking.
you would need to change the channel on your route by going into its properties normally something like 192.168.2.1 or 192.168.2.254 etc. But read up if you are unsure so you done mess up any other settings that could disconnect or interrupt your current wireless settings
I gotta tell ya, id absolutely love this thing if it wasnt for wifi issues. This thing drops connection all the time and lags so bad its awful. Done everything I read to do, freezing or deleting apks. Think it would be a home run if it wasnt for the wifi.
I've had mine a few weeks and I've never seen it drop wifi.
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Never had a problem with the wifi, but the lag is horrible
Did you messes with your kernel?
I've got an 8.4 but I'm assuming the WiFi hardware is the same??? I've had mine for several months and never dropped a connection (except when my router went down) . I use it mainly on a 2.4 Ghz network at work. In my office I'm on the other side of an elevator shaft from the access point so reception isn't good on any device in my particular location - but it works and even there never dropped a connection. At home I've got it on 5 Ghz and where I typically use it the signal is very strong. On speedtest.net it matches the speed of my desktop PC which is wired into the router....so it's getting all my internet connection has to offer (service level is 30 Mbps but speedtest.net usually shows 32 - 35).
I'm assuming you have already checked the obvious things like signal strength? Does it drop the connection in some locations but not others? Does it make a difference what router or access point you are connecting to? Interference from other WiFi networks or (if using 2.4 Ghz) other devices like cordless phones?
Try installing WiFi Analyzer (free in the play store). It will give you a real time chart of your signals strength for all access points it can detect on both 2.4 Ghz and 5 Ghz. For example in my Culdesac I can see at least 6 other access points with pretty strong signals (all my immediate neighbors). At my office, on the side of the building facing an appartment building on the opposite side of the street, I can see at least 25 2.4 Ghz access points. Amazing how many are named Xfinity WiFi or Linksys . On the other hand, on the 5 Ghz band in my home I only see one access point other than mine.
Try manually setting your router/Access point to a channel no one else is using. Switch to 5 Ghz if your router has it or buy a new router if it doesn't. This band is a lot less crowded, at least where I live. If your signal strength is low in the place you want to use the tablet, try moving closer to the router to see if that helps. If it does, consider moving the router or getting a second router or repeater.
I use to have problems in my home with 2 things.
A baby room monitor - REALLY tore up my wifi all over the house!
A set of wireless rear surround speakers was a problem for about a day. Lucky for me they have the ability to change the channel they use. Wipped out my freq counter, found out where they were and moved them to ch 11. Unit isn't marked as to what 3 channels you can select from. So the freq counter helped me find where they were and where I could put them. After I got them on ch11 I moved the router to ch4 as there was no one using it near by. Problem solved and have no wifi problems at all with the Sammy.... Matter of fact my router sits on a cabinet 6 feet off the floor. I get coverage over my whole .7 acre Ponderosa while listening to music riding the mower!
my wifi seems to drop once in a while too but i think its the crap router i use.. not sure
i also reset my tab and that helped.
Another thing I just thought of that you may want to check.....
Make sure no devices are fighting with each other trying to get the same address on your network. I just went through this last night. Once resolved, no problem.
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I use to have problems in my home with 2 things.
A baby room monitor - REALLY tore up my wifi all over the house!
A set of wireless rear surround speakers was a problem for about a day. Lucky for me they have the ability to change the channel they use. Wipped out my freq counter, found out where they were and moved them to ch 11. Unit isn't marked as to what 3 channels you can select from. So the freq counter helped me find where they were and where I could put them. After I got them on ch11 I moved the router to ch4 as there was no one using it near by. Problem solved and have no wifi problems at all with the Sammy.... Matter of fact my router sits on a cabinet 6 feet off the floor. I get coverage over my whole .7 acre Ponderosa while listening to music riding the mower!
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A lot of this sort of problem can be fixed by going to 5 Ghz - which may mean a new router if you are using a router that isn't dual band. Most of those other devices in homes (and in your neighbor's homes too) are on 2.4 Ghz so there are a lot of things that compete for that spectrum that aren't even WiFi.
No WiFi issues here
No wifi issues here. I was on stock for about the 1st 30 days on the device and have rooted and installed various ROMs since. I would argue that this device has better wifi than other devices in my house, though my router is not AC so I have no comment on AC performance. I do have an issue with N 5 ghz networks not being seen right now, but that is something I induced.
Too many factors to consider but I can say if other's haven't had issues than it's likely something else.
Distance from access point
Access point's distance from other electronic equip.,
Wireless channel
G or N connection
latest firmware on wireless access point
cabling on AP
trying a different Access Point or wireless network altogether (coffee shop, etc)
wireless sucks to troubleshoot. Constantly changing settings until some magical combination works for all of your equipment.
like to connect my Nexus 5 to wireless N I have to set my 5Ghz channel to be on upper or lower frequency band or something- can't remember which it's supposed to be, though. My PSP needs the 2.4Ghz radio set on a b/g mixed setting. That's the only weird wireless settings I've ever needed to actually get specific devices to connect.
if you're looking for advice we'd need to know the model of your router/access point, though I'd probably go look at a forum where people talk about it.
Hi,
I am wondering, if anyone else having this problem...
My best available 2.4 ghz wifi channel is 13 (2472). If I select this channel my tab does not find the wifi anymore ("out of range"). All my other devices are running on channel 13. All other channels working.
Tried it with stock rom + stock kernel as well as with stock rom + latest UpInTheAir kernel, iron rom + UpInTheAir kernel, iron rom + stock kernel, factory reset, clean flash etc...
Can anyone confirm channel 13 is working on this tab?
SM-T805
Thx, brgds!
My wife and I both have the Turbo on VZW (joint plan, etc). I generally perform any mods on my phone first, before doing the same to hers, so that I know what issues will happen and I can make sure the phone doesn't work any differently for her daily usage. So, aside from apps, we have the same phone in theory. Both phones are stock SU4TL-44, rooted, BL-unlocked (via Sunshine) states.
My wife's has been having rather poor battery life for the past many months. I can get a good 3.5+ hours of screen-on-time on my phone (as reported by GSam) but hers only gets like 1.5 hours on a good day. Her phone radio is what's reported as the largest load, so I started trying things there. We were both on the .49 radio (using the TWRP download by firstEncounter), so I thought maybe her phone doesn't like that radio, and put her back to the .44 radio. (Note, I have checked the hashes on these files, and they match. I also have used the same-exact files on both phones (via dropbox)... so it shouldn't be a radio/corruption issue.) Both
I'm not sure if the battery life has improved or not (only been a few days, but checking just now it looks like her max is now 2.5 hours in GSam, so that's a start I guess) but now another problem has come up - her phone keeps dropping the internet connection. Wifi appears to remain connected, but it shows an "!" which means it has lost internet connectivity. Checking the browser confirms that it is really lost for internet sites. (Next time, I plan to try going to the router IP and seeing if I can get to that, at least...) This drop happens sporadically, and doesn't self-repair... it is only fixed by disabling and then re-enabling Wifi. I "forgot" the wifi (2.4GHz, by the way), re-connected, and re-entered the password... this doesn't seem to fix the dropout either.
The wifi, itself, is working well. My Turbo has none of these issues, my work phone (Turbo2) doesn't appear to have issues, nor do our 2 laptops or wifi-Tivo... every other device works fine, just her phone has been giving issues.
Needless to say, the priority is to fix the dropping internet connectivity... if anyone can help me troubleshoot this further, I would appreciate it.
Longer term, I'd like to figure out the battery issues (health is reported as "good" by various battery apps... is there a way to see what the "real" capacity is, and not just "good/bad"?)... but the wifi is the primary issue. Part of me thinks of doing a factory reset (or maybe flashing SU4TL-49 and then re-rooting)... but I fear this may not fix anything.
Any help/ideas are appreciated. Thank you!
EDIT: One more difference - she has a Tile Gen2 along with the associated app. The app requires Bluetooth to be on, as it does some polling, I expect. I have turned this off for now (further testing) to see if it helps. She's had the Tile for a while, so it's not a new change... but I'm running out of ideas. Battery usage isn't significant, based on what's reported... but I thought maybe it has some effect on the wifi... I simply don't know, so I'm trying anything!
A little more info. I have left her bluetooth off for the past day, thinking that maybe Tile was the problem... it certainly seems to have helped the battery life (weird, since all the battery tools I've used don't seem to identify the app or BT as a large battery sink?)
Things were great for about 24 hours, but now the dreaded exclamation point is back. I tried getting to the router, but I get "ERR_ADDRESS_UNREACHABLE" from Chrome. Weird since I'm giving it an actual IP address (so no DNS should be involved). Phone has a valid IP address (same one it's had for a while now) and claims to have the interface "up" as well.
Any ideas, anyone?
EDIT: I see some UPNP activity in my router... I wonder if that has something to do with it. As a test, I have disabled UPNP to see if that helps (and what it breaks... which shouldn't be much, as I try to keep things explicitly configured)....
A further update in case others run into problems like this.... the issue may be caused by an interaction between my router and the bluetooth Tile app (which isn't on my phone but uses BT relatively often) - note that BT runs on the same 2.4GHz frequency as her wifi. I chose 2.4Ghz wifi (instead of 5Ghz) on her phone because it helps extend the range. Turning off BT on her phone seems to keep the connection stable and without issue... I have a little more testing to do to ensure it's the root cause before I consider it found.
There are a few potential solutions. One is to update the firmware on the router to a newer one which has an option to enable BT coexistence mode (disables some features in 2.4GHz wifi to improve compatibility). Another is to move her to 5GHz. I plan to test the coexistence mode, just to prove it's the problem... but my final solution will likely be to move her to 5GHz as the coexistence mode may reduce performance on 2.4GHz.
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A further update in case others run into problems like this.... the issue may be caused by an interaction between my router and the bluetooth Tile app (which isn't on my phone but uses BT relatively often) - note that BT runs on the same 2.4GHz frequency as her wifi. I chose 2.4Ghz wifi (instead of 5Ghz) on her phone because it helps extend the range. Turning off BT on her phone seems to keep the connection stable and without issue... I have a little more testing to do to ensure it's the root cause before I consider it found.
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What about changing Wi-Fi channels on the router?
I also disable 5GHz on both our Quarks because the 5GHz range is shorter. I set our phones to ONLY connect to 2.4GHz and that's what I use for Wi-Fi router too (even routers with dual bands, I disable the 5GHz band).
But you can change 2.4GHz Wi-Fi router channels to mitigate interference, right?
http://www.goldtouch.com/stop-bluetooth-interference-messing-devices/
How to Stop Bluetooth Interference From Messing With Your Other Devices
Change Router Channel: If you have an Apple router and you’re constantly getting interference with your WiFi, try rebooting it. Upon restart, the station will search for a new channel — specifically, a different channel than the one your Bluetooth devices are using to communicate. If you don’t have an Apple router, you may need to instead go into your router settings and try changing the channel manually. Experiment with different channels to see which one works best.
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I don't use anything Apple -- I just quoted from that article because it suggested what I was suggesting, changing Wi-Fi channels...
Yeah, I kept testing and found that the BT wasn't the only issue (may have been part of it, but it still dropped internet after a day or two even when BT was off).
Like you said, it's probably a 2.4GHz interference issue... and since I'm in an apartment building the spectrum is rather crowded. Plus, if anyone else bought a new phone/monitor/microwave/router that could be causing the issue, too. Bottom line, there's too much out of my control, so I switched her back onto 5GHz and the problem seems to have gone away (at least for the past few days)... so I'll leave it at that. I can't solve the entire area's problem, after all!
I am on the "cleanest" channel I can find, but that's only based on seeing other routers (via Wifi Analyzer)... interference won't be "seen" there, so we can only guess on those issues.
Bottom line, switching her phone to 5GHz is good enough for now, and solves the issue. I'll flip her phone back to the 49 radio as well.
In fact, this might have also helped her battery issue - when the phone lost internet, it would sit there and suck down power for "phone radio" doing who-knows-what. I don't see why it should do that, but it really killed the battery on one of the days. Putting her on 5Ghz prevents the loss of internet, and the battery drain from that, too... so that's better. Still, she gets much less SOT than I do on my phone, and she uses it less than I do... maybe the battery just needs to be replaced after all.
I wish there was a way to see what the "real capacity" is of the battery, instead of just assuming that 100% = original capacity (which we know it won't be). Do you know of a way to get that info?