All these dang wireless problems with my Nookie Froyo got me going crazy.
Trying WakeTimer and it doesn't seem to be doing anything. Just curious for those using this app, how did you set it up. Doesn't seem like much to configure, just wondering if I'm not doing something obvious. Thanks.
Basically trying to work around the wireless connecting problems turning on from sleep.
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Any way to keep wifi on when NC screen times out from inactivity?
I have tried Keep wifi alive with no success. There is no option in the NC settings like there is on my HTC Inc.
Any help would be appreciated.
JDP
jdposhkus said:
Any way to keep wifi on when NC screen times out from inactivity?
I have tried Keep wifi alive with no success. There is no option in the NC settings like there is on my HTC Inc.
Any help would be appreciated.
JDP
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Spare Parts app has a setting to set wifi sleep policy to never. I've heard mixed reactions as to whether it works, but I'm pretty sure it's working fine for me.
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Spare Parts app has a setting to set wifi sleep policy to never. I've heard mixed reactions as to whether it works, but I'm pretty sure it's working fine for me.
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Verified that it's working for me as well.
Thanks.
Ill give it a shot.
SpareParts is definitely not working for me. I think it modifies the settings.db/system table. Went to look at the table, nothing there related to wifi sleep policy. Should be wifi_sleep_policy with a field of 2, and that didn't work either. Any ideas?
Not working for me either.
Yeah, spare parts isn't keeping my wifi alive either. Every time i turn my NC on after sleeping for a few minutes I have to turn wifi off and back on again.
I got mine working. Spare Parts UI did not work. In fact i ran into issues restarting WiFi when I used the UI to set Sleep to never.
I had to manually create an entry in the secure table for wifi_sleep_policy and i use a widget to turn off wifi when i dont need it.
insert into secure values(152, 'wifi_sleep_policy', 2);
I used WiFi OnOff widget (free from market) to turn wiFi off when not needed.
^ Is there a guide somewhere?
duh.. this worked yesterday and now i am back to where i was before. This seems really flaky. I lose wifi even after having the setting. setting in DB or in spare parts does not fix it. its very random but fails more often than it works.
Possibly a faulty device? I cannot imagine that the Nook has such a basic problem. The only time it consistently reconnects is when i power on/off.
Any thoughts?
Is there a reason you wouldn't hit the power button to turn the screen off instead of waiting for it to time out? I do this when listening to tune-in radio, for example, and wifi remains on just fine. It also saves battery
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mikerocks said:
Yeah, spare parts isn't keeping my wifi alive either. Every time i turn my NC on after sleeping for a few minutes I have to turn wifi off and back on again.
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I've never had to turn wifi off and back on to make it work again, you sure you aren't having problems with your wireless access point?
I found a quick solution that mostly works. If you download WakeTimer from the market, and create a wakelock (cpu on, screen off) that will keep Android from going into sleep mode and keep your wifi running. I tested it out by continuously pinging my Nook. I said "mostly" works because when you hit a button to turn the screen back on (either power button or nook button) I'd get a single ping timeout before it would resume.
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Even though a single ping times out, there doesn't seem to be an interruption in streaming data. Don't know if I have to say it, but I will just in case...keeping your Nook from going into sleep mode will be a drain on the battery.
give it a try.
Hi guys,
Did a search, but couldn't find anything on this problem; Pandora is very unstable on my stock, unrooted 1.1.0 Nook. about 70% of the time, it won't play the next song in my station; it's dead silent. When I wake the nook up, I see that it's on the next song, but it won't play at all. When I hit pause or forward, the song controls disappear, then it takes a long while to load into the next song.
Sometimes it will play 3-4 songs in a row no problem, but then it starts acting up again. Is this an issue with the wi-fi connectivity? Anyone else have this problem? It happened when I was on 1.0.1 too.
Any help/insight is much appreciated. Thanks!
Is your nook sleeping when you notice this happenng? If so it would make sense as I am fairly sure the wifi shuts down when the nook sleeps. It usually takes a few seconds for the wifi to reconnect on waking up. If anyone knows different please let me know, but that seems to be my experience.
cshehan said:
Is your nook sleeping when you notice this happenng? If so it would make sense as I am fairly sure the wifi shuts down when the nook sleeps. It usually takes a few seconds for the wifi to reconnect on waking up. If anyone knows different please let me know, but that seems to be my experience.
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It happens in sleep mode and while it's awake. I spoke to a B&N rep, and he told me that the wifi disconnecting on sleep mode should have been fixed on the 1.1.0 update, but that it's still disconnecting on many Nook Colors. He also blatantly said that they didn't spend too much time on the Pandora app itself. He basically told me to wait for the next batch of updates to hopefully fix these issues.
inyrules said:
Hi guys,
Did a search, but couldn't find anything on this problem; Pandora is very unstable on my stock, unrooted 1.1.0 Nook. about 70% of the time, it won't play the next song in my station; it's dead silent. When I wake the nook up, I see that it's on the next song, but it won't play at all. When I hit pause or forward, the song controls disappear, then it takes a long while to load into the next song.
Sometimes it will play 3-4 songs in a row no problem, but then it starts acting up again. Is this an issue with the wi-fi connectivity? Anyone else have this problem? It happened when I was on 1.0.1 too.
Any help/insight is much appreciated. Thanks!
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This is most likely caused by a hardware/software/wifi problem between the NC and wifi. Go to settings/devices/wifi. Typically you see connected with "testing" or disconnected. It happens after a large amount of data is streamed to the NC. You also see this problem if you download samples of books or "SHOP".
What is the model of your wifi?
Are you using 802.11n or g or b?
Are you using encryption.
A simple test is to go to a BN store. If there's no problem then it's the Router/NC at your home that's the problem.
The NC is the first wireless device that I have encountered problems at my home.
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This is most likely caused by a hardware/software/wifi problem between the NC and wifi. Go to settings/devices/wifi. Typically you see connected with "testing" or disconnected. It happens after a large amount of data is streamed to the NC. You also see this problem if you download samples of books or "SHOP".
What is the model of your wifi?
Are you using 802.11n or g or b?
Are you using encryption.
A simple test is to go to a BN store. If there's no problem then it's the Router/NC at your home that's the problem.
The NC is the first wireless device that I have encountered problems at my home.
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I'm using g at home, and I'm not sure what is at my job, but the issue happens there too. My wifi security at home is WPA2-PSK [AES]. The Nook does not take long to connect to my router, but it still disconnects when in sleep mode. Again, not sure about the setup at work. After trying all the troubleshooting methods, I finally called Barnes & Noble today, and they are sending me a replacement.
Barnes & Noble's replacement came in last night running 1.0.0, and Pandora streaming couldn't be any better! I'm afraid to update it to 1.1.0 in fear that it will screw it up.
inyrules said:
Barnes & Noble's replacement came in last night running 1.0.0, and Pandora streaming couldn't be any better! I'm afraid to update it to 1.1.0 in fear that it will screw it up.
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Thanks for the update.
I think the problem is with NC 1.0.1 and 1.1. The wifi connection got worse with 1.1. When I used Froyo from an SD card, the streaming problem went away.
You may need to stock with 1.0.0 until BN fixes the problem and come out with 1.2.
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Thanks for the update.
I think the problem is with NC 1.0.1 and 1.1. The wifi connection got worse with 1.1. When I used Froyo from an SD card, the streaming problem went away.
You may need to stock with 1.0.0 until BN fixes the problem and come out with 1.2.
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Sorry, meant I was on 1.0.1. Streaming Pandora at home is phenomenal. At work, not so much, but I attribute that to their router settings. My phone sometimes has problems with their connection as well.
I know that there are random reboot/freeze issues with this phone but I have noticed that my issue seems a bit different.
My phone goes into reboot loops and freezing only when I turn on the WiFi. I'm patiently waiting for the LG "update fix" but wanted some advice from the experts.
Im in afghanistan and only have until next week to return the phone. If it is a software issue then I dont mind waiting but if it is hardware then I dont want to get stuck with a 600.00 paperweight.
I know Im shooting in the dark but I really would appreciate some thoughts or advice.
BTW - I have had the same issues on custom ROM's and stock ROM's. I think I damn near flashed the phone with every possible thing i found on this board, haha.
well it seems like my issue is still isolated to wiFi. The phone has almost no reboots and very little freezes when WiFi is off. any ideas on if this is a possible hardware or software issue?
was it with every ROM you tried the same ?
It happens with every rom but I hate to get my hopes up but it seems to have start happening not as often. right now Im using this
[ROM][21/4-11]TK-ROM Vanilla + LG = true. v0.5.7 (Fr12)
couple of hours so far and it is better but not perfect.
Mine has just recently been randomly rebooting but was fine when I first got it. It never seems to reboot when I'm stationary only when I'm in the car or riding my bike. Twice it happened in the same location on the drive home from work which got me thinking it could be location related. The gps wasn't active at the time so I tried turning off wifi/cell tower location in the options. I managed a two hour bike ride with no reboots today whilst using gps tracking and listening to music. Yesterday the phone wouldn't go more than 10 minutes without rebooting.
Could it be bad location data in some mobile phone masts are making the phone crash due to a bug in the software?
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Hi all, Im running the latest leankernel 1.8 with stock 5.0.1 ROM. After long periods of deepsleep the WiFi will turn itself off, and wont reconnect until i turn the screen on. (eg: after sleeping for the night, when i turn the screen on in the morning, the wifi is off, then reconnects after a few seconds). I don't have any of the battery saving features turned on, and the wifi is set to "always on" in advanced wifi settings. I've searched Google and XDA and come up with nothing. I cant be the only person this is happening to. I have 3 other phones and 3 other tablets, none of which have the same issue. Has anyone run into this problem on their nexus 6? Any help or ideas/ opinions at all would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Anyone?
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Anyone?
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I've run into this exact issue. Even happens on 5.1.1
Did you ever end up figuring out the issue. I feel like it might be app related rather than an Android issue.
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I've run into this exact issue. Even happens on 5.1.1
Did you ever end up figuring out the issue. I feel like it might be app related rather than an Android issue.
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Never figured it out. Only happens on nexus6. I use wifi keepalive app, seems to do the job without impacting battery.
Seem to be having an issue that I can't take care of that I've tried everything that I know that I believed could be causing the drops. The issue I'm having is any time I turn the screen off while driving my GPS will lose its connection after about 5 minutes. I was also losing data so I figured it was an application causing that issue with that problem I got resolved by removing the battery saving application called battery guru. That was actually shutting my data connection off with my screen off so I got rid of that completely but I still seem to have the problem with my GPS drops. My data stays up just fine but it seems like clockwork every 5 minutes the screens off I'm driving and I get that voice GPS connection lost. All I have to do is click the back button in Google Maps and reload my route and BAM its right back up and going. Now I can leave the screen on and I will not lose the GPS signal whatsoever until I turn the screen off. Have went through all the settings that I know of and of course the only battery saving application that I had installed and I can't seem to find the issue. I also use the search tool and couldn't find anyone else with a problem like mine. Does anyone have any suggestions or have seen this on their device? I'm beginning to think this may be a hardware issue I'm not sure. But if it was a hardware issue you would think I would be losing the connection all the time not with just the screen off which leads me back to a software issue. I'm going to keep freezing apps with titanium to see if I can find another culprit. I just don't have anything else installed that should have anything to do with that. Thanks in advance for any help for insight you may have.
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Seem to be having an issue that I can't take care of that I've tried everything that I know that I believed could be causing the drops. The issue I'm having is any time I turn the screen off while driving my GPS will lose its connection after about 5 minutes. I was also losing data so I figured it was an application causing that issue with that problem I got resolved by removing the battery saving application called battery guru. That was actually shutting my data connection off with my screen off so I got rid of that completely but I still seem to have the problem with my GPS drops. My data stays up just fine but it seems like clockwork every 5 minutes the screens off I'm driving and I get that voice GPS connection lost. All I have to do is click the back button in Google Maps and reload my route and BAM its right back up and going. Now I can leave the screen on and I will not lose the GPS signal whatsoever until I turn the screen off. Have went through all the settings that I know of and of course the only battery saving application that I had installed and I can't seem to find the issue. I also use the search tool and couldn't find anyone else with a problem like mine. Does anyone have any suggestions or have seen this on their device? I'm beginning to think this may be a hardware issue I'm not sure. But if it was a hardware issue you would think I would be losing the connection all the time not with just the screen off which leads me back to a software issue. I'm going to keep freezing apps with titanium to see if I can find another culprit. I just don't have anything else installed that should have anything to do with that. Thanks in advance for any help for insight you may have.
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Is called a nexus. Google stock has always had that issue. Unfortunately nexus users spend most of the time locked in a basement and never happen to use gps, therefore they will say their gps works just fine.
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Really? Interesting. Don't remember that on my galaxy nexus but don't know that I ever used the gps honestly. Anyone else confirm this?
ambervals6 said:
Is called a nexus. Google stock has always had that issue. Unfortunately nexus users spend most of the time locked in a basement and never happen to use gps, therefore they will say their gps works just fine.
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FYI my gps DOES work fine... But I forgot you know my experiences better than me. My bad. Stupid response.
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My GPS on my Nexus 6 is and always has been amazing. (Thanks for reminding me to compare that when I get the 6P). I use my GPS daily to keep Waze up when I drive to watch for cops, traffic, etc. Even when I know where I'm going I use it and Google play streaming over Bluetooth and my GPS keeps connection even in Manhattan.
I would recommending getting an app called GPS status, it has a few settings to keep GPS active etc, which should solve your problem. However I have no clue what could cause something like that...
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