Hello all
I just rooted my NC last night and I'm having two issues.
First, my NC reboots when I dont use it for a few minutes. It seems like any time I let it idle for more than 1-2 minutes it reboots itself. So far I've seen this happen in the wireless screen multiple times, but I'll be testing it on other screens today as well.
Second, I cant seem to stay connected to my home wifi network. When I rooted it last night it wouldnt connect at first, but I just toggled wifi on/off and it connected. Now I cant seem to access the internet at all. I can see and connect to my network, but the status hangs at "Connected, but no internet." I use a N router on WPA/WPA2 PSK.
I did run into a few weird things when rooting the device, which may or may not be related. The instructions on nookdevs say once you have the SD card in the device and it's then connected to your PC it should boot from the SD card with the screen off, then reboot on its own into the new boot animation. Mine never did this, (left it for about 20 minutes and the screen remained black) so I unplugged it and booted it up myself. It booted with the new animation and loaded into android and I was able to get the marketplace working. At this point the network started doing some really strange things, (dropping connection mid-stream on youtube, failing to load new tabs in market) so I did the 8 failed reboots reset and wiped the device to factory settings. From here I re-rooted it using the same steps with the same outcome. The device did not auto-boot but the root seems to have taken OK, but I have no network access just like before.
I was able to get it working for long enough to open up the market and download angry birds and a few other apps late last night, but I've been trying reboots and toggling wi-fi all day today and it still cannot connect.
Also, I am very new to Android and I can't seem to add shortcuts to applications to my home screen. How do I edit this?
I've been having issues with restarts as well. I think it has something to do with Soft Keys.
I am brand new to Android starting last night, but have been a Pre Homebrewer since July
I do use soft keys. I am unsure if that is causing the problem or not
I am going to go test the wifi issues on some public wifi hotspots today. Will report once I do
swapdotavi said:
Hello all
I just rooted my NC last night and I'm having two issues.
First, my NC reboots when I dont use it for a few minutes. It seems like any time I let it idle for more than 1-2 minutes it reboots itself. So far I've seen this happen in the wireless screen multiple times, but I'll be testing it on other screens today as well.
Second, I cant seem to stay connected to my home wifi network. When I rooted it last night it wouldnt connect at first, but I just toggled wifi on/off and it connected. Now I cant seem to access the internet at all. I can see and connect to my network, but the status hangs at "Connected, but no internet." I use a N router on WPA/WPA2 PSK.
I did run into a few weird things when rooting the device, which may or may not be related. The instructions on nookdevs say once you have the SD card in the device and it's then connected to your PC it should boot from the SD card with the screen off, then reboot on its own into the new boot animation. Mine never did this, (left it for about 20 minutes and the screen remained black) so I unplugged it and booted it up myself. It booted with the new animation and loaded into android and I was able to get the marketplace working. At this point the network started doing some really strange things, (dropping connection mid-stream on youtube, failing to load new tabs in market) so I did the 8 failed reboots reset and wiped the device to factory settings. From here I re-rooted it using the same steps with the same outcome. The device did not auto-boot but the root seems to have taken OK, but I have no network access just like before.
I was able to get it working for long enough to open up the market and download angry birds and a few other apps late last night, but I've been trying reboots and toggling wi-fi all day today and it still cannot connect.
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Reboots: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=880785
No problems using or reconnecting to wifi here. No other problems.
And I doubt this reboot problem is related to softkeys, but I'm not going to uninstall it to find out. The problem has been (greatly) reduced by changing the scaling governor from conservative to ondemand, per the thread above.
Ah perfect thank you. I will read that thread fully once I get home.
I just tested the NC's wifi at a Starbucks and had no issues at all. Everything connected on the first try and I had 0 disconnections during 15 min of testing in multiple apps. I have to assume it is specific to my network, but I am not sure what the issue would be. I already have a 360 and a laptop using that network with no problems, and even my iPhone can use it when I tell it to.
Has anyone had similar network woes? I use a DIR 615
I found on other topics / forums that people generally has problem with N routers. I've got Linksys WRVS4400n and it randomly hangs when Nook is on (it just drops everything and there's no network connectivity on any devices @ home). When I have turned off N (I left only b/g) everything seems to work normally again. I did not dump traffic that Nook generates, but N-on configuration was a problem..
I hope that will help somehow.
Thanks very much. I've updated to newer firmware and that seems to be helping. If my issue persists I'll disable N and report my findings.
My wife and I gifted each other with nook colors for christmas, so I have 2 to compare side by side.
I'll be returning mine, as it has definite wifi issues. It can connect sometimes, and I was able to get registered after a couple tries and get a couple books downloaded, but more often than not I can't connect at all and the browser rarely works.
My wife's works fine and connects without any problems at all every time.
Both connecting to the same wireless network just an old 802.11G belkin access point that I've been using for a couple years.
Well, I hate to admit it, but my wifi issues were of my own making, and they're now fixed.
I used to keep my wireless network separate and on a different subnet. Once we got playon for the wii, which connects wirelessly I had to move my wireless network to the same subnet as my desktop PC which was running the playon server.
Long story short, at some point in the past for some reason I hard coded my desktop IP address, but left that address in the DHCP scope for that subnet. My nook color happened to get that IP address, so the root cause was an IP conflict.
I deleted the lease and removed that address from the scope and then reconnected the nook to the wireless network, and now it works great.
Neither the nook nor my desktop reported the IP address conflict.
khaytsus said:
Reboots:
And I doubt this reboot problem is related to softkeys, but I'm not going to uninstall it to find out. The problem has been (greatly) reduced by changing the scaling governor from conservative to ondemand, per the thread above.
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Can you explain what scaling governor is and how to change it? My NC reboots every so often and I'd like to give this a whirl.
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Can you explain what scaling governor is and how to change it? My NC reboots every so often and I'd like to give this a whirl.
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The frequency scaling governor is the cpu control setting that configures a cpu with built in throttling capability to one of the power options available. In linux this is usually configured as a kernel option and can be set to ondemand, conservative, userspace, powersave or performance. In Win systems it is a configurable item in the power profile settings. Ondemand will keep the cpu throttled at the lowend until the system begins working and then it will speed up to the higher end. Userspace is usually required for apps that control the cpu like some taskbar widgets you would find in Gnome or another desktop environment. Powersave would be always run slow to conserve power. Performance would throttle the cpu at its highest level. Etc.
I'm experiencing both of these issues on my 1.0.1 nook. I downloaded spare parts and set the wifi sleep policy to never and nothing happened, I just changed my router from mixed to B-G mixed, we'll see if that helps. That being said, I also downloaded CPU Tuner and changed everything to on demand and am still experiencing reboots. Hope this info is useful for someone!
Yea, SetCPU set to ondemand has not solved my reboot issue, either. It just rebooted on me again about 10 min ago right after i put the device down. I don't seem to have the wifi dropping issue, though.
CPU Tuner has done nothing but make my wifi stop during sleep. I have all the profiles at leave unchanged or enabled. All file transfers stop during sleep now. The random reboots were a smaller issue before. I think I will undo all the changes I've made.
Just so everyone is up to speed with where I landed on these issues.
Wifi:
It was a problem with my DIR 615. A very knowledgeable poster was kind enough to offer a potential solution, which I never tested as I ended up getting a new router anyway. If you are experiancing issues and dropping N helped, you may want to read that thread and talk to aludal.
Reboots:
Still occurring, but very rarely. I see one every day or two. It was worse before I installed Set CPU and set it to "on demand." For a full list of the settings I am using in Set CPU please see the OP in this thread. It's towards the end of the OP.
Hope this helps.
I also have DIR615 and Slingplayer continually crashes my router's wifi internet connection but it works fine using my phone's wifi hotspot. Thanks for the info.
Only thing to reliably do is shut off wifi when the screen goes off.
This issue will be addressed by B&N with their 1.1 update rumored to release this month. Only 20 days possible left...
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So ever since I've gotten my Nexus One I've been noticing it drops out of a WiFi way too often. It does it both at home and at work on Wireless routers using the latest firmware. I've set the sleep policy to never go to sleep but most of the times I wake my phone up, I'll find it on 3G instead of the full strength WiFi it should be on. On 2.1 when I'd go into WiFi settings it would show the connection and say something along the lines of "Connection unsuccessful, tap to try again" and on 2.2 it just says "Disabled, Secured by blah blah blah". If I retry, it ALWAYS connects and WiFi will stay active for a short period of time before falling back to 3G.
Is there some way I can tell Android to retry the WiFi connection if it fails instead of just giving up? I've been looking through the WiFi API's on the Android Developer site and I'm this close to writing an application that will attempt to mitigate this issue for me.
If I'm within range of one of my pre configured networks, I want the phone to try it's hardest to stay on WiFi. If it loses connection, retry. It it can't get it after 5 retries, wait five minutes and try it again, don't just give up and mark the connection as disabled.
I've read tons of threads about people with WiFi issues and people always say "it's the router, it's the channel, etc, etc" but my WiFi works perfectly fine as long as there is a human to reconnect it if it drops.
Anyone else in the same boat as me?
ok so apparently I'm the only one with an N1 and a WiFi issue.......
I have the same exact issues.
I have the same issue as well and if it stays on I have to turn wifi off and back on so it will connect properly
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same issue here. i had been looking for an app that would force the connectivity, but the market doesn't seem to have it. just a bunch of crappy wifi on/off switcher management apps. i'm surprised that no one has hacked this function or built an app for it.
It's certainly a very annoying problem. Mine 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.
Looks like it's worth me coding up an App to fix this then.
what kernel are you using? i used to have that problem but that has gone away with newer kernels. unfortunately a new problem has arisen where after being in standby for a while, wifi shows as connected but doesn't have an outside ip. wondering if its my rogers modem or not.
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what kernel are you using? i used to have that problem but that has gone away with newer kernels. unfortunately a new problem has arisen where after being in standby for a while, wifi shows as connected but doesn't have an outside ip. wondering if its my rogers modem or not.
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2.6.32.9-27220-g328f560
android-[email protected]#1
I've never tried a new kernel.. Is this something I should look into?
I'm running the same kernel.
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Looks like it's worth me coding up an App to fix this then.
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Personally I wouldn't do any work towards writing an app to fix this since it looks to me to be an OS or driver issue that should be resolved in a future release (hopefully in very short order).
An app would really just be a band-aid, but I'm the lazy type and I can deal with using my cell ular data when I don't feel like reconnecting my wifi.
Full disclosure: I'm a crummy programmer and it takes me forever to write stuff so I'm usually less inclined to do it.
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Personally I wouldn't do any work towards writing an app to fix this since it looks to me to be an OS or driver issue that should be resolved in a future release (hopefully in very short order).
An app would really just be a band-aid, but I'm the lazy type and I can deal with using my cell ular data when I don't feel like reconnecting my wifi.
Full disclosure: I'm a crummy programmer and it takes me forever to write stuff so I'm usually less inclined to do it.
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I'd rather take the time to fix it then wait for an update that may never arrive. Always fun digging into the API anyways
That's cool. I still find it a bit troubling, though, that some devices see it and some don't, using the same firmware, on the same wireless networks.
I guess it could be a board rev. difference or an app conflict or something. ::shrugs::
I have a similar problem. I use APNdroid to keep cellular data off and use wifi, but I continually have to reconnect wifi no matter what if I am not actively using it. Defeats the purpose of push email.
I downloaded APNdroid after checking data usage and finding that with wifi on there was still significant 3G leakage. Especially confusing with wifi set to never sleep and plugged in overnight.
On the plus side, APNdroid has netted me a lot more battery life, I can almost get two days and one night. I almost never use my spare battery anymore.
Just as an additional data point, I am having the exact same issue with 2.2 FRF83 (I had been on FRF50).
It looks to me like it is simply scanning all of the time and never associating with a known network. I'm not sure why it flags them as "Disabled", however.
Have you guys tried to set the "wi-fi sleep policy" to "never"
if not, try this:
Wifi settings->menu->advanced->wifi sleep policy->Never
safeplayer22 said:
Have you guys tried to set the "wi-fi sleep policy" to "never"
if not, try this:
Wifi settings->menu->advanced->wifi sleep policy->Never
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Yeah, it doesn't help, that was one of the first things I tried. Any time I leave and come back, the networks show as "Disabled". It's a frustrating issue in that it isn't consistant. It's 80% fail, 20% work.
I had my g1 for a year now and just now got my n1. I havent rooted it b/c of this bug. At first i couldnt listen online radio b/c as soon the display went out it would buffer the whole time. I played with the wifi router and the n1 wifi settings an managed to fix it somehow, BUT when i wake up in the morning for some od reason it lost connection and never reconnected again. So i can hear online radio with the display out but after some hours w/o online radio and just in standby it loses wifi connection and never connects again
This issue is not new. There is a thread on the google forum many pages long. Nobody hase even a clue where it could come from. Some1 on the forum said if u call support they will tell its ur routers fault.
The n1 completly ignores the sleep policy settings.
I have rooted two g1s with goldcard and still using one w/o a problem.
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I had my g1 for a year now and just now got my n1. I havent rooted it b/c of this bug. At first i couldnt listen online radio b/c as soon the display went out it would buffer the whole time. I played with the wifi router and the n1 wifi settings an managed to fix it somehow, BUT when i wake up in the morning for some od reason it lost connection and never reconnected again. So i can hear online radio with the display out but after some hours w/o online radio and just in standby it loses wifi connection and never connects again
This issue is not new. There is a thread on the google forum many pages long. Nobody hase even a clue where it could come from. Some1 on the forum said if u call support they will tell its ur routers fault.
The n1 completly ignores the sleep policy settings.
I have rooted two g1s with goldcard and still using one w/o a problem.
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Well, I know fore a fact it's not my access point. I am a network engineer and worked on wireless systems for years and debugging these types of problems is something I'm a bit obsessive about. This stinks of a software or driver problem to me. It could potentially be a hardware revision issue since we have a N1 that works perfectly in all scanerios.
I've tested this with the following access points:
Apple Airport Extreme
Apple Airport Express
Meru
Cisco 1231
Cisco 350
Belkin pre-n
Linksys WRT54G stock
Linksys WRT54G dd-wrt (I forget the build number)
Soekris Engineering running pfSense
All exhibit the same behavior, while my control devices (Apple iPhone 3g, Apple Macbook Pro and a MyTouch 3g running Cyanogen 2.1).
I wasn't aware that this was related to rooting, I'd be more than happy to move back to a stock ROM if that solved my problem. Maybe I'll try that today if I get some time.
Could you possibly post a link to the google forum you're referencing?
I'm currently digging through the alogcat output to see if there is anything interesting in there.
This issue is worse since I upgraded to 83. I'm actually holding off to try CM6 when it comes out to see if there is any better performance there. I'm not sure if he uses updated drivers or kernel that may give better wifi performance.
I have read some accounts of WiFi problems after sleep & I am now seeing it. I am auto-nootered for 1.1 & was previously auto-nootered 1.0.1 & had no problems. Now the WiFi doesn't reconnect after a long sleep. Don't know how long is the magic time, but it works fine after a short (1 Min. ? nap), but several minutes kills it. All I do is turn WiFi off & back on & it is fine.
Cheers,
kev
bugeyed1 said:
I have read some accounts of WiFi problems after sleep & I am now seeing it. I am auto-nootered for 1.1 & was previously auto-nootered 1.0.1 & had no problems. Now the WiFi doesn't reconnect after a long sleep. Don't know how long is the magic time, but it works fine after a short (1 Min. ? nap), but several minutes kills it. All I do is turn WiFi off & back on & it is fine.
Cheers,
kev
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I have the same problem. Toggling WiFi off/on doesn't always cause it to reconnect. If it doesn't reconnect, I have to go to Settings -> Wireless and it reconnects
There's multiple threads on this issue in the last few days. It seems to be a post 1.1 issue. Stock and adhoc are affected. I have yet to find an app that helps, though forcing wifi off with profile settings seems to make things worse. Currently experimenting with wifibuddy as a quick route to settings. Setting wifi to stay on if charging during sleep seems to prevent the problem.
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soft locker keeps your phone running except for the screen so that wifi stays on and doesnt disconnect. you can get it in the market
jay0911 said:
soft locker keeps your phone running except for the screen so that wifi stays on and doesnt disconnect. you can get it in the market
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+1 on Softlocker
****e! That means that B&N will have to push another update/fix on us! I thought I could rest for a while & not worry about them breaking my root. Ironically, I need this fix.
Cheers,
kev
I also have this problem. What i accidentally discovered is that if I ping my nook from any other machine on the network my connection to the network (on the nook) is restored. Looks like some caching issue.
I haven't had this issue unless I do a hard reboot by powering system down. After that, I tend to have to reset the Wifi connection. I ended up flashing my SD to the honeycomb port and everything seems better and I don't have to worry about B&N messing with an automatic update.
+1 for SoftLocker as well.
A little more experimenting and... cwm back to 1.01 and all is well. Then on 1.1 all is well until the adhoc is implemented. Now seeing how bad the hit is on battery life if I use wifibuddy to keep wifi from sleeping. THIS SUCKS
Avoid 1.1
Wifi was working great for me until 1.1 update. Had the same problems where wifi would disconnect and reconnect. Even tried Fryo. I had to revert back to 1.0.1 to avoid the problem.
+1 for softlocker free... that app is awesome and i haven't noticed any major battery decline from leaving it on all day with pandora streaming.
A combination of setting a static IP with Wifi Static and using Soft Locker has my wifi working perfectly 99.999% of the time. I still occasionally get a disconnect that requires a quick toggle via the settings menu but it is very rare, like once every few days.
Ok so on the RC4 CM7 build my wifi is very unstable, whenever I attempt to download files it will randomly crash resulting in any files being downloaded without a restart bookmark being lost as I have to leave the program I'm in turn off Wifi turn it back on and then finallly i'm able to reconnect to the internet. Is anyone else having this problem? If you did, do you know how to fix it? I'm at my wits end here as there are programs I've had to try to download for over 2 hours because of these wifi crashes....
Thanks,
Adan
Adanedhels said:
Ok so on the RC4 CM7 build my wifi is very unstable, whenever I attempt to download files it will randomly crash resulting in any files being downloaded without a restart bookmark being lost as I have to leave the program I'm in turn off Wifi turn it back on and then finallly i'm able to reconnect to the internet. Is anyone else having this problem? If you did, do you know how to fix it? I'm at my wits end here as there are programs I've had to try to download for over 2 hours because of these wifi crashes....
Thanks,
Adan
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I've had the exact same issue, and I'm not 100% sure yet, but mine completely went away when I uninstalled Setting Profiles Lite. I was using it to turn off Wifi every time it went into suspend mode (same settings I used on Eclair) but since I did that, wifi hasn't burped once. Like you I could barely download anything before it would stop and I had to turn off and back on wifi to make it work again for a while.
this seems to happen to me every morning between 5 and 7am.. most other times it works great.. i cant figure it out either
not using that program.....
Well I checked just to make sure and I am not using the program you mentioned so I am at a loss as to why the wifi will crap out randomly and have to be turned off then on... Any other ideas?
Thanks,
Adan
I'm having the same issue. No idea what's going on, but it's driving me crazy.
I don't seem to have the same trouble just surfing the web, but if I try to download anything or stream video, it craps out about every 5 minutes.
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Yeah, mine is still crapping out tonight too.. stock wifi works perfect. I am using CM7 on SD, anyone else?
yep yep yep
Exactly the same setup man. Using my CM7 on my SD card and WIFI runs just fine on my reg Nook software, Nookie Froyo, and HC sds i have run....
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Ok so on the RC4 CM7 build my wifi is very unstable, whenever I attempt to download files it will randomly crash resulting in any files being downloaded without a restart bookmark being lost as I have to leave the program I'm in turn off Wifi turn it back on and then finallly i'm able to reconnect to the internet. Is anyone else having this problem? If you did, do you know how to fix it? I'm at my wits end here as there are programs I've had to try to download for over 2 hours because of these wifi crashes....
Thanks,
Adan
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This may be silly, but are you all setting your wifi to 'never sleep's on advanced settings under wifi settings? If you are not familiar with Cm roms, I can see how you might miss this essential setting. Just press the menu key after going into wifi settings, and a secondary menu will come up..with scan, and advanced...under advanced, set wifi sleep policy to never. Hope this helps, but if it's something you all already know, then please disregard.
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This may be silly, but are you all setting your wifi to 'never sleep's on advanced settings under wifi settings? If you are not familiar with Cm roms, I can see how you might miss this essential setting. Just press the menu key after going into wifi settings, and a secondary menu will come up..with scan, and advanced...under advanced, set wifi sleep policy to never. Hope this helps, but if it's something you all already know, then please disregard.
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yeah, thats one of the first things i do when installing a rom and the problem persists past that
Adanedhels said:
Ok so on the RC4 CM7 build my wifi is very unstable, whenever I attempt to download files it will randomly crash resulting in any files being downloaded without a restart bookmark being lost as I have to leave the program I'm in turn off Wifi turn it back on and then finallly i'm able to reconnect to the internet. Is anyone else having this problem? If you did, do you know how to fix it? I'm at my wits end here as there are programs I've had to try to download for over 2 hours because of these wifi crashes....
Thanks,
Adan
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i have a mytouch slide and i have try everything and i have same issues with the wifi. a lot of you say to put the wifi on never sleep, but it dosent help. wifi issues still out there on rc4. please help.
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i have a mytouch slide and i have try everything and i have same issues with the wifi. a lot of you say to put the wifi on never sleep, but it dosent help. wifi issues still out there on rc4. please help.
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So this isn't specific to the Nook Color, it's a CM7 bug overall that Wifi falls out?
What's interesting is my wifi will stay connected, idle, for 8+ hours (while I slept) but I then download 2M of files while eating breakfast and it dies and I have to restart wifi to make it work again...
This is definitely going to make me wait until it's fixed to put CM7 on emmc, this is really aggravating. Which I hate, because I'm really digging CM7. It's perkier, runs smoother, and no B&N shortcut thingy popping up by accident all of the time.
So anyone NOT on SD seeing this problem on the Nook Color? Sounds like this might be a generic CM7 issue but I've also been told that heavy IO on the SD could cause IO problems in other areas, including wifi.
I'm not on SD and having the same problems.
http://code.google.com/p/cyanogenmod/issues/detail?id=3314
Can you guys go there and Star that issue and add your configuration and experience?
And please, if anyone figures out anything, be a hero and tell us I'm thinking about wiping fresh and not installing any apps and seeing if the behavior continues.
Popped out my CM7 SD card and booted to Eclair and just spent 45 minutes updating my apps I hadn't done in 4 days, read Engadget, read some news in Pulse, played a youtube video, downloaded some other data.
Not one hiccup.
CM7 is sooooo nice, hopefully this gets figured out. What's bad is that a lot of people say they don't have the problem, so something is going on.
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BUMP
Don't want this forgotten until it is fixed
I have been dealing with thisfora while and I seem to have come across a work around. I switched the security settings of my router and made it a compley open network. Since then, I've had zero issues. My wireless network is unsecure now, but I live out in the woods, so I'm not too concerned.
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Several people have reported this, specifically with the Nook Color. I personally haven't had wifi crashes or refusal to wake up, but I have noticed that websites take significantly longer to load on my Nook Color than they do on either my wifes or my Droid X. Obviously there are a ton of factors that could be responsible for this though.
Okay, so I tried everything I could think of.. Imaged back to totally clean CM7 RC4, not even gapps.. Fiddled with all sorts of CM Perf settings (vm heap, JIT, etc)
Considering I've also had the wifi dropouts on my phone, work, and home router I was convinced it could not be anything router specific, but I have an old Linksys B router that I keep up for my daughters computer which I have an ancient Prism wireless card in so I didn't have to run cables to her room.
It works. I used it about hour last night, off and on for a few hours today. No wifi hangs.
So my next step is to figure out if it's the router or the encryption... My B router has no encryption on it, just MAC filtering to keep out the neighbors. The G router running DD-WRT has WPA Encryption. So I'm going to disable Encryption on the G router and turn on MAC filtering and see what happens. If it works there, it must be related to encryption. If it still fails, it must be something related to the router or router FW.
Okay, first thing I did was change from TKIP+AES to only TKIP on my G router and so far so good. I found some other evidence that AES might be an issue:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11598765&postcount=187
Anyone else, please try TKIP only if your router has AES available?
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Sorry man I don't have AES as a option, so I'm not sure that is the problem...
Had my phone for a few months now and recently found that it can't connect to my secure network at home.
When I turn wifi on I get the dreaded connect/disconnect message while it constantly tries to connect to my network. If I leave it on then the battery will drain overnight while the phone tries to connect. I have an iphone which connects to the network no problem. As does my laptop etc
To try to fix this I deleted all my new apps, especially the push ones which give me news updates, etc but this has made no difference.
The weird thing is if I turn off my router's security then the phone will connect and works perfectly fine. I've tried using all the different security settings (even WPS) with new passwords etc and everything seems to setup fine on the phone except it just doesn't want to connect (or more accurately stays connected for a microsecond).
If I go back to an open network it connects immediately and stays connected.
I think this is the root cause of the wifi connection problems that many other people are getting. But I'm at a loss to try to understand why it won't pick up a secure network but works fine otherwise.
My phone is using 2.2.1 and has been rooted
Any thoughts?
I think this is the root cause of the wifi connection problems that many other people are getting. But I'm at a loss to try to understand why it won't pick up a secure network but works fine otherwise.
My phone is using 2.2.1 and has been rooted
Root the problem highly unlikely ..
Secure home network test .
Remove security from Router that is no password .
Remove that connection from phone .
Reboot phone let it pick up router and connect .
If it does then delete reset router password and add in phone .
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Thanks for suggested fix. I'll give it a go and let you know if it worked.
Root was a bad choice of word..... I meant that while looking for a solution to my wifi problem I noticed many other people complaining that they can't connect to a wifi network for one reason or another and I was thinking that maybe broken security is a common cause of many wifi connection issues.. In my case there was nothing physical at all to suggest that security was an issue, especially since all my other devices work fine on the same network.
Cheers
Hi, tried your suggestion but I still cant connect. The first time I rebooted the phone it knocked out my internet connection! I've setup a static IP address for my PC and the phone was insisting on trying to connect using the same address and creating a conflict. I fixed that so that's not the issue.
This is what I've tried..
I checked to make sure DHCP was enabled in the router, rebooted everything. No luck.
I tried adding an IP Address Reservation for the phone and assigning a dedicated static IP Address. No luck either
I tried connecting the device using WPS. It all went as it should - my router saw the device, added the mac address to the list of devices etc. The phone acknowledged the handshake. But again it still wont connect.
I checked the router log and it says "DHCP IP: (192.168.1.2)] to MAC address B4:07:F9:336:3D, Tuesday, May 24,2011 03:08:48" which I think is what it should say.
OK I've just fixed it!!! Or at least its connected.
All along I've been securing the network with WPA2-PSK. I just changed it to WEP and the phone connected immediately. I hadn't considered WEP because I read that its not that secure and I do all my banking etc through my PC.
I've tried all the other security options and only WEP works with the phone. I suspect its a compatibility problem between the phone and my router (a Netgear WNT834B v2) because both the phone and router work independently but not very well together. There's plenty of posts discussing the Galaxy S connecting to WPA networks so it can do it.
Now, after trying all the other security options. It won't connect again even on WEP. Bummer. It is acting slightly differently in that its trying to acquire an IP address instead of simply not connecting, although it doesn't seem to be able to find one.
I need to try this on a friends network and see if the router or the phone is to blame. I've no idea... but the phone's a bit too touchy for my liking
I had a similar issue, I had to reflash the ROM to get it to work. Backup all your contacts and stuff and then do a full factory resetting. See if that helps, if it doesnt, reflash the ROM. It should work.
Well I've spent the last few days looking into this issue and it's considerably more widespread than I first realised. The problem is that while many people have a wifi connection issue we all seem to have variations on a theme.
As I say in my case the phone will connect and stay connected to an open network but won't touch a secure one. I tried many suggested fixes and nothing's worked so I am now trying a factory reset.
A couple of questions: there appears to be two ways to do this, a factory data reset through the phone menu; and a hard reset using a combination of volume buttons, etc. The hard reset seems to be the deeper of the two.
When you say full factory setting which one did you mean? I am currently data resetting and therefore using the "authorised" Samsung reset
But how long does this process take? My phone has had a black screen and been vibrating every 10 seconds or so for the last hour. It's getting quite hot and there appears to be no end in sight. Has the phone hung or something? If it has how do I get out of this without bricking the phone? It's beginning to concern me because I'll have to do something real soon.
As an aside, in my search for a solution I found something that might help someone people (it didn't work for me). According to the bloke who posted it, the problem for everyone is that the wifi drivers have not been installed properly and if you enter *#*#526#*#* on your keypad it unlocks a service access that reinstalls the wifi driver. I tried it and the phone told me the software was installed successfully but no change.
Waited long enough so pulled the battery out and restarted the phone. I get the startup screen but after that the screen goes black and it vibrates again every ten secs and I can't get in.
Have to try the other reset.....
Things are going from bad to worse..
Have managed to start a full factory reset using the volume, power and home button but it's gone back into the black screen and vibrating every ten seconds.
I know Im going off topic here but Ive now reset the phone, wiped the cache, tried to apply the sd card update (aborted because it can't find the directory) and it always comes back to the black screen and vibrating every ten secs.
Am now trying to reflash the rom. Oden reports that the flash was successful but the phone wont reboot. I tried a couple of times - one with Re-Partion checked and the other unchecked but neither will reboot. What could be causing that? I somehow remember that my firmware was JPH but I could only get hold of JPK. Could that be the cause?
I seem to have solved all the issues at last. Thought it was going to be a bit over my head for a spell.
Once I discovered that the only way I was going to get into my phone was by flashing the rom the first problem I came across was I didn't know which firmware my phone was using previously, apart from the fact it was 2.2.1 and from Asia. I guessed wrongly and after "successfully" flashing the phone it wouldn't reboot. I then noticed that there were only three variations of the 2.2.1 firmware for my region. The second one I tried went a little further than the first but I got an error message about the SD card. The third one installed no problem.
So I instantly checked the wifi signal and the phone connected to the secured network. And stays connected - so far about an hour and a half.
It's amazing how the phone deteriorated the way it did. Hope it doesn't do it again.
Thanks for any help/suggestions
My WiFi has issues opening new connections, like checking my email can take anything from a normal 1 second to just sit there and spin for 30 seconds.
This gets worse if I ask the email client to check all three accounts at the same time.
Opening say facebook through a bookmark on the start screen, can either load instantly, or just show a white screen until I force close Chrome and retry.
I never get an actual timeout error, but it'll keep loading some items between 10 seconds, to just never connecting.
When I do a speed check, there's no issue, I get the same 12 Mbps as the wired computer, assuming it'll actually start downloading.
On the play store there's broken downloads though, it'll download at max speed instantly, but then hang in the middle until I force stop the play store (or reboot).
If I let it sit long enough, it might resume but often with corrupt downloads as a result.
I've had this problem for a while now, and I've tried connecting to various other networks with completely different configurations and it's pretty much consistent.
Disabling WiFi and using the LTE network instead, it doesn't display this behaviour at all, so it has to be something with the WiFi.
Has anyone else had this? I can't find anything useful through the search or google, they all suggest I do this and that on my router, but the other devices work fine.
Tested with the HTC M7, an old Motorola Razr, even the now ancient Moto XT720 has no issues.
If you are in the stock Lollipop 5.0, then you should check your logcat (or use CatLog app in PlayStore if you are rooted).
There are many many WifiStateMachine errors that are logged each second.... I made a thread about it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x-2014/help/xt1095-pure-edition-stock-5-0-major-t3002124
I reverted back to 4.4.4 and had no more of those errors.
eyeoncomputers said:
If you are in the stock Lollipop 5.0, then you should check your logcat (or use CatLog app in PlayStore if you are rooted).
There are many many WifiStateMachine errors that are logged each second.... I made a thread about it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x-2014/help/xt1095-pure-edition-stock-5-0-major-t3002124
I reverted back to 4.4.4 and had no more of those errors.
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I checked your thread, and I had a bug like that on 4.4.4 actually.
Where it would work fine, go to sleep then not wake up again.
For me, it was a game from humble bundle that triggered this, "The Deer God"
There was another game on play that did the same, but I can't remember the name of that one.
After I emailed the devs of Deer God, they oddly found the bug immediately and their new version didn't have this problem.
I didn't even send them a log file or anything.. Which was weird.
So far this never happened after upgrading to Lollipop though.
My WiFi problems disappeared at work, but remained at home.
Thinking it was the router, I borrowed a WiFi repeater but the problem still occurred.
Even when I used the repeater as a hotspot with cable.
I was about to give up, and just use my 4G all the time..
But I installed DD-WRT, and lo and behold, WiFi works flawlessly?!
It's not like I'm using a cheap rubbish router, it's the Netgear Nighthawk for crying out loud..
You'd think the software for it would be well coded considering how long they've been doing these devices...