WiFi not surviving sleep. - Nook Color General

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.

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[Q]Wi-fi Dropping and occasional random reboots

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...

Issues with rooted Nook WIFI - connection not stable.

Hey guys, so I did some research, and it seems the only info that was relevent was this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=959823&highlight=wifi+problem
But that does not help my problem.
So heres the deal. I am running Nookie Froyo 0.6.8 on the eMMC. I started with a Nook updated to 1.1.0, then rooted. Then I installed Nookie Froyo.
Now, I am having issues with the wifi. What happens is that the wifi will work for a minute, then start oscillating between connected and disconnected.
The problem is worse when tethered with my Hero. For example, I connect to my Hero's Wifi tether, then load a web page. The Nook will download about 70Kb, then hang for about 15 sec, then download another about 50-100Kb, then hang, etc.
So I connect to the University of Pittsburgh's wireless network. It works better, but every once of a whole it hangs. Also, after about 5 min, if I go into settings, the wifi keeps turning on and off. It will just turn itself on and off and I need to restart.
So like I said, it is worst with tethering but the wifi is unstable with PITTnet too. I have restarted many times... dunno what to do.
Thanks for the help!
cardriverx said:
Hey guys, so I did some research, and it seems the only info that was relevent was this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=959823&highlight=wifi+problem
But that does not help my problem.
So heres the deal. I am running Nookie Froyo 0.6.8 on the eMMC. I started with a Nook updated to 1.1.0, then rooted. Then I installed Nookie Froyo.
Now, I am having issues with the wifi. What happens is that the wifi will work for a minute, then start oscillating between connected and disconnected.
The problem is worse when tethered with my Hero. For example, I connect to my Hero's Wifi tether, then load a web page. The Nook will download about 70Kb, then hang for about 15 sec, then download another about 50-100Kb, then hang, etc.
So I connect to the University of Pittsburgh's wireless network. It works better, but every once of a whole it hangs. Also, after about 5 min, if I go into settings, the wifi keeps turning on and off. It will just turn itself on and off and I need to restart.
So like I said, it is worst with tethering but the wifi is unstable with PITTnet too. I have restarted many times... dunno what to do.
Thanks for the help!
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you can try reinstalling froyo on your NC(i had lots of problems with froyo so i dumped it for HC which imo is better)
i did have a wifi problem though where i entered a secondary password on my grandparents wifi(my uncle set up 2) where i would connect for 5 mins than drop connection but that was fixed by entering the primary password
hope this helps
luigi90210
Yeah, I think I will just try installing HC and report back.
Just wanted to say, I flashed to HC, and it works a lot better than I thought it would! Also, the multitasking is GREAT!
BTW, tethering has been rock solid so far! Also, it seems to be only a little slower than the Xoom I got to play with today, which is awesome for a hacked build . Web browsing is great. There are just a few small UI hiccups here and there, nothing that prevents function tho!
Also, out of curiosity, any idea when we will see HC gmail?

CM7 RC4 Wifi crashing

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....
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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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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mazook98 said:
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.
Delivered by a little dude that lives behind your screen.
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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.
ahernandez646 said:
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.
BUMP
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?
nopers
Sorry man I don't have AES as a option, so I'm not sure that is the problem...

[FIX] WiFi connectivity issues with phiremod/CM7

This continued 'dropping and reconnecting' to my WPA/2 has been driving me nuts and I found the holy grail for my problem to share.
During the course of troubleshooting I:
1. updated router firmware
2. changed security from wep to wpa to wpa2
3. hard coded the nook mac address to enabled, even though there was no block setup.....
4. YadaYada.... pullin my frickin hair out then the moment of calrity
When I observed 'connected devices to my wireless I noticed that all other devices in da house had typical host names like laptop1, server1 whatever and the host name for the nook when attempting to connect was, and I quote
'android-873iurhfier98734598'
or in other words a dash with a huge random number/letter sequence that showed up as funky 'alien' ascii characters to the router.
So the fix was:
goto settings
goto applications
goto development
goto device hostname
dropdown to edit and backspace(erase) the dash-----bull****
I ended up with a host name of android
went back to wifi settings, forgot and reconnected and BAM
Done deal.
Hope this helps some of you who are having wifi problems.......
I believe this is related to certain wireless routers being unable to translate the characters into something other then gibberish ascii characters it believes its seeing????
whatever I dont care anymore....
didnt fix it for me....
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spoke too soon. worked for about 5 minutes and then i was back at the same boat
yourm0m1 said:
didnt fix it for me....
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Hmmmm,
I have a belkin N1 wireless router and did update to the latest firmware. I did change several settings during the course of getting my issue resolved as follows:
Radio = 11g
Bandwidth = 20Mhz+40Mhz-auto
QOS = OFF
Authentication = WPA-PSK+WPA2-PSK
Encryption = TKIP+AES
obscure PSK = OFF
hopefully these will help..............
mooja said:
for the love of god and all that is holy, this fixed my issue.
if you were here id give you a beer or something, this is outstanding and i will probably love you forever
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Easy there big fella.............. glad it worked for you
mooja said:
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spoke too soon. worked for about 5 minutes and then i was back at the same boat
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Try the settings I gave in post #4
I have been running consistent for several hours now.....
with the .29 kernel and cm7.0.2 i dont have any issues, so i dont feel the need to screw with the router....ill wait or deal
yourm0m1 said:
with the .29 kernel and cm7.0.2 i dont have any issues, so i dont feel the need to screw with the router....ill wait or deal
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I had issues with cm7.0.2/3 stables and phiremod 6.2, .29 kernels until I stumbled on my fix. However this also works well for me with the 2.6.32, beta 3.1.
FYI, I have been running all of these off SD, my emmc is 1.01 rooted and very stable.
Dude, you are a lifesaver. I've been running into this problem frequently and it's sort of a kiss of death for WiFi when it happens and I have to re-do the whole CM7 SD Card. It's working perfectly now though after I just had a card fixed pretty much perfectly.
Thanks for posting this...
I didn't have any connection-disconnection type WiFi problems, but I went ahead and shortened the name to just android. What it fixed for me is the YouTube on Phiremod 6.3. Previously, any clip would stop with an error message. The progress bar of loading the clip ahead of the video playback was moving slowly at the beginning, but then jumping to the very end, and when the playback was at the "jumping point", it was giving me an error. Now, after this "fix", the bar moves along slowly all the way to the end, and video never stops with an error. Even if the playback catches up with the bar, it just pauses and waits for more to be loaded (mainly for HQ clips, occasionally).
Thanks again for this "unexpected" YouTube fix
FYI, I'm no longer able to get WiFi on the 108 Nightly. I tried this sequence again and haven't had any luck. Looks like a full wipe/install again.
EDIT: Just turned off the "Network Notification" and it's working fine again. Strange, but it keeps me from having to wipe AND my WiFi is working again. I hope that helps someone else.
Well since everyone is posting what worked for them, I figure I might as well too
I started getting this problem yesterday, never had it in the week up till then.
Problem started when I changed did a factory reset on my Belkin router (yes I know Belkin sucks) and changed the security to WEP (I know, I know, WEP sucks too) so that we could connect to XBox Live with an ancient xbox receiver thing (xbox was hardwired in our old apartment, and I'm not buying a new xbox just for freaking built in wifi it should have had in the first place lol).
Enough in the way of background. Suffice to say, I was having the wifi drop issue on my nook, but the xbox, wii, and two laptops were fine.
Last night I tried flashing back to stable CM7, n108, n106, and n85. No go. Also tried the honeycomb port from SDK 11. No go.
I changed the device name in applications -> development to "android" and turned off notifications when there was an available wifi hotspot. Still no go.
Changed about every wifi my POS Belkin had, still didn't work.
I flashed back to stock 1.2 with no root and no CWM, and wifi was still turning on and off.
I did two things since then and one of two things fixed it; not 100% sure which.
1. This morning I downloaded the software for my router from Belkin and reloaded it. Before I could test it, I had to rush off to work.
2. At work I rerooted, reinstalled CWM, and loaded n110, and when I got home IT WORKED!
Seems most likely to me that reloading the router software is what did it, although it may be n110 that did it.
So anyway, for everyone who is as desperate as I was last night, here's two more things to try.
Here was my fix to my issues
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1134675
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I'm not sure if this has been meantioned or not.......I have NO problems when tethering from my phone. Its only when connected to my router. Also I ran a couple of shows from Netflix to see if it would hold a connection from the router. Both shows ran perfect. But as soon as I tried searching on the browser it stopped working. I can then at that point wait it out or disconnect and reconnect. But again it works flawlessly tethering from my tbolt using wireless tether.
quai said:
I'm not sure if this has been meantioned or not.......I have NO problems when tethering from my phone. Its only when connected to my router. Also I ran a couple of shows from Netflix to see if it would hold a connection from the router. Both shows ran perfect. But as soon as I tried searching on the browser it stopped working. I can then at that point wait it out or disconnect and reconnect. But again it works flawlessly tethering from my tbolt using wireless tether.
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See if the settings in my above link help
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I can say this forum helped tremendously. Editing the Nook hostname fixed my WIFI issues. I have a Linksys WRT610N V1 with WPA2-Personal TKIP/ASIP with no issues now. All I did was make this change... Excellent connectivity now.
This is THE most frustrating issue that remains (for me) using the NC . I've tried most everything here at home to get a stable continuous connection, and end up failing.
Took it into work yesterday & sniffed out an open wifi WAP there, showed only one bar, yet it connected & played Netflix,Pandora, etc flawlessly.
well, just now reset my router (TP-Link wr1043N) & upgraded it's FW, and it is now allowing Netflix streaming. Holding breath, fingers crossed, etc
christoophat said:
This is THE most frustrating issue that remains (for me) using the NC . I've tried most everything here at home to get a stable continuous connection, and end up failing.
Took it into work yesterday & sniffed out an open wifi WAP there, showed only one bar, yet it connected & played Netflix,Pandora, etc flawlessly.
well, just now reset my router (TP-Link wr1043N) & upgraded it's FW, and it is now allowing Netflix streaming. Holding breath, fingers crossed, etc
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Well at least you know it's a router issue, hopefully you'll have the same experience as me, perfect connectivity ever since the firmware reload here.
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SCrid2000 said:
Well at least you know it's a router issue, hopefully you'll have the same experience as me, perfect connectivity ever since the firmware reload here.
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agreed. NC is charging now, but hoping that this issue is over for good. Thanks for the idea to look at the FW as a solution
Strange. I was using build 120 with my router with no issues, then after a few days it stopped working and would not reconnect even after a reboot. Forgetting the connection and recreating it didn't work either. However making the connection not use AES worked.
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Wifi losing connectivity when in Sleep Mode.

It's my only gripe with the HTC One.... When the phone's connected to my router, it flies!!
But... if I put the screen off and put it in my pocket for a while, then get it back out to do something else requiring net access...WiFi's switched off (and yes, it IS set to 'always on' in the WiFi sleep policy btw...) and I have to wait until it re-connects to the router again (which seems to take ages if you're waiting...)
I've been doing some Googling on this and it's quite common with HTC phones apparently....not everyone has it obviously, but I've found no real helpful cure yet if you DO have the problem.
I was thinking of rooting and installing a custom ROM to see if they're any better for me, but the last I knew, if you're rooted, you can't get Sky Go, and it's something I use a LOT, so that's put the blocks on that idea
Any suggestions?
There is two options. One in the power saver and one in the power menu in settings that disable data when the screen is off including wifi. Turn those off.
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There is two options. One in the power saver and one in the power menu in settings that disable data when the screen is off including wifi. Turn those off.
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I hope this helps when I'm at work. I work at a hospital and having my connection to WiFi helps when I walk through areas with no singal I can then switch to WiFi calling. My phone unlike my galaxy s3 always disconnects from the secure guest services. My sgs3 hardly ever did that unless I didn't use it all night. I have to constantly re sign in every time my phone is taken out of my pocket.
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Nope. Unticking BOTH options hasn't made a difference. Still having to wait for the phone to re-establish itself with the router after periods of inactivity....
I'm having this issue too has anyone found a permanent solution to the problem?
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I'm having this issue too has anyone found a permanent solution to the problem?
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I've found after updating OTA to 4.2.2 today, the problem now seems to have gone....hopefully (might just've been lucky so far...dunno really yet!)
Have you updated too yet?
Willie_Heckerslyke said:
I've found after updating OTA to 4.2.2 today, the problem now seems to have gone....hopefully (might just've been lucky so far...dunno really yet!)
Have you updated too yet?
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I am still on 4.1.2 and I'm in the US so we don't have the update yet.
This was one of the first things I noticed after connecting my HTC One (Sprint US) to my home Wi-Fi. It would hold the signal for a bit, maybe a few minutes, and then it would either simply no longer transmit data or the Wi-Fi itself would turn off and back on, with the subsequent connection never establishing a usable data link. Oddly enough, I got my wife an HTC One at the same time (subsidized upgrade for contract renewal), and hers appeared to be working fine, so I was concerned that I had a faulty device. Also, our previous devices (Moto Photons...) worked fine with the Wi-Fi at home as well.
After trying a myriad of settings changes, I found that only one thing worked reliably well: toggling the Wi-Fi off and then back on always resulted in a successful re-establishing of good data throughput to the router and back to the device. I decided to try and see how it performed on other Wi-Fi networks.
I took the device to my place of employment and without fail, the device stayed connected to the Wi-Fi there for the entire 8-10 hours, which only seemed to confirm that there was an issue with my home connectivity with my device only. As annoying as it may be, I am reduced to toggling the Wi-Fi off and back on when I use the phone at home, and I will remain optimistic that this 4.2.2 update fixes my problem, and if not, then I've done enough tinkering with the router at home as well as the phone to be satisfied I tried everything within my power to remedy the situation.

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