Hi, everyone. When I turn on my wifi, it seems like it tries to scan; but it does not find a network, even if I'm just a few feet away from the router. This only began this morning, and I don't get any error message. What makes things worse is that if the screen goes to sleep with the wifi on, then the phone becomes completely unresponsive and I have to pull the battery.
I've tried several things already, and even factory reset and flashing back to root did not help. Has anybody else experienced this problem?
BTW, I'm this happened when I was on Continuum 6.1, if this helps.
I'd really appreciate any guidance you could give me. Thank you so much, in advance.
Could be your WiFi antenna some how got damaged, you may try to get a replacement
just my 2 cents
gilgameshVIII said:
Hi, everyone. When I turn on my wifi, it seems like it tries to scan; but it does not find a network, even if I'm just a few feet away from the router. This only began this morning, and I don't get any error message. What makes things worse is that if the screen goes to sleep with the wifi on, then the phone becomes completely unresponsive and I have to pull the battery.
I've tried several things already, and even factory reset and flashing back to root did not help. Has anybody else experienced this problem?
BTW, I'm this happened when I was on Continuum 6.1, if this helps.
I'd really appreciate any guidance you could give me. Thank you so much, in advance.
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Here's a free app from the Market that might get you back in business, 'FXR Wifi fix and rescue'
It's helped clear up a couple of issues I've had in the past. Hope it helps!
If you are rooted:
Delete file data/wifi/bcm_supp.conf
Delete file /data/misc/dhcp/dhcp_list
reboot the device and it will create these files again and you will have to enter your WiFi password again in order to connect.
Hope this helps..
22andy2 said:
If you are rooted:
Delete file data/wifi/bcm_supp.conf
Delete file /data/misc/dhcp/dhcp_list
reboot the device and it will create these files again and you will have to enter your WiFi password again in order to connect.
Hope this helps..
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I've been having some wifi issues with my phone as well and haven't been able to nail down the problem yet. I tried looking for the files you mentioned but none were there. What I did find was:
/data/misc/dhcp/dhcpcd-eth0.lease
/data/misc/dhcp/dnsmasq.leases
and didn't even have a data/wifi folder, let alone the bcm_supp.conf file.
Do I need to manually add these files or copy them from somewhere? I've rebooted, I've deleted all wifi networks then rebooted again, still the phone doesn't generate these files. Any ideas?
It would be helpful to know what Rom you're currently using. If it's any of the Gingerbread Roms it is a known issue. Usually toggle airplane mode remedies it.
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RTBee said:
I've been having some wifi issues with my phone as well and haven't been able to nail down the problem yet. I tried looking for the files you mentioned but none were there. What I did find was:
/data/misc/dhcp/dhcpcd-eth0.lease
/data/misc/dhcp/dnsmasq.leases
and didn't even have a data/wifi folder, let alone the bcm_supp.conf file.
Do I need to manually add these files or copy them from somewhere? I've rebooted, I've deleted all wifi networks then rebooted again, still the phone doesn't generate these files. Any ideas?
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Probably the permission issue?? Can you do the chown to the /data folder?? I am just guessing..
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Probably the permission issue?? Can you do the chown to the /data folder?? I am just guessing..
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I'm using CM7 build 57, Glitch kernel v11, and root explorer. Not sure how much more permissions I can get.
Also in reply to Rhiannon, how does putting it in airplane mode help? Curious
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I'm running Cm7 nightly 19 and my wifi is acting funny. Its stays connected but after a while I don't get internet and the only way to solve it is to turn it wifi off and on again.
Did anyone face this? How do you work around it?
Have you tried turning the WIFI sleep policy to never sleep?
WIFI Settings>Advanced>WIFI Sleep Policy>Never
Ya but it didn't help!
i was having issues but builds 17+ have been much much better.
no fix that i'm aware of. you could try switching your security settings on the router.
I have seen this and have determined that it could be related to router type and or brand.
See this post.
http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/16323-cm7-discussion-of-nightlies/page__view__findpost__p__157374
I was having connection issues with 802.1x at one point - it would show it was connecting then just drop. I fixed it by replacing the wifi folder in /etc/.
Steps:
download the the wifi folder from dl.dropbox.com/u/3220557/wifi.zip
Unzip and Place it on your SD card.
Using Root Explorer, navigate to /etc/, select "mount R/W' and rename the current 'wifi' file 'wifiOLD or whatever you like.
Next, copy the new 'wifi' folder off your sd card and paste in /etc/.
Reboot the nook.
Hope this helps.
mndev12 said:
I was having connection issues with 802.1x at one point - it would show it was connecting then just drop. I fixed it by replacing the wifi folder in /etc/.
Steps:
download the the wifi folder from dl.dropbox.com/u/3220557/wifi.zip
Unzip and Place it on your SD card.
Using Root Explorer, navigate to /etc/, select "mount R/W' and rename the current 'wifi' file 'wifiOLD or whatever you like.
Next, copy the new 'wifi' folder off your sd card and paste in /etc/.
Reboot the nook.
Hope this helps.
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what exactly are you replacing with that new wifi folder? did this help others?
I've had problems with a friends nook and my router (mine, same CM7 build, works fine). I'd recommend trying what mndev12 said first, and if that doesn't work try turning off all encryption/security on your router and see if it still happens. From what I can gather here on the forums is that some people are having problems with different security configs.
This might help.
I had the same issue with my NC using a D-Link DIR-615 wireless router. I solved this issue by turning Wireless N off. I set mine to BG only. Works flawlessly. Hope this helps.
Another suggestion to folks with Wifi and router issues. Make sure your router has current/updated firmware running on it. I know we all get in the habbit of setting them up and just leaving them but the mfgs do in fact push out firmware updates from time to time that can and do make a world of difference in cases like these, specially on older routers
basrawi said:
I'm running Cm7 nightly 19 and my wifi is acting funny. Its stays connected but after a while I don't get internet and the only way to solve it is to turn it wifi off and on again.
Did anyone face this? How do you work around it?
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Did you get this issue resolved? If so, I am curious as to how... having similar issues myself. Have played with security settings on router and have tried disabling 'n'... but still seemed to have the connection issues... going to borrow and try a different router altogether tonight or tomorrow.
Good suggestion will2live. I haven't updated mine since I set it up. However I think it is a driver issue with the TI chip we have, not a router issue.
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so are youll trying to say that this isnt the issue of cm7?i dont think so...i never had such problems with the stock rom..
Im seeing the same thing - running the encore version and my wifi is all open - drops a bit or takes a while to connect? anyone else?
I loaded the most recent version of CM7 and am having issues with the Nook not finding any WiFi. It worked fine for about 12 hours, but now won't find any access points. I have tried turning off WiFi and back on several times as well as rebooting.
Any ideas on how to get the WiFi to see access points?
Try a clean install? My wifi works pretty well ( I sometimes have to turn off and let it shill for 30 sec) on Phiremod 6.1 (cm7.0.2)
Ryjon90 said:
Did you get this issue resolved? If so, I am curious as to how... having similar issues myself. Have played with security settings on router and have tried disabling 'n'... but still seemed to have the connection issues... going to borrow and try a different router altogether tonight or tomorrow.
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I have had serious wifi headaches myself (with both 7.0.0 and 7.0.2). I have tried each about a dozen times, wiping, different versions of CWM recovery, tried nightlies and always the same. Wifi will connect, I'll start downloading something, and then it will disconnect at some point (may be a minute, may be 3 or 4). Turning wifi on and off brings it back to life but only momentarily. Have no issues with Nookie Froyo or stock. I did try connecting to WEP (other than my usual WPA2) but could only do this by tethering to my phone. It seemed to have fewer disconnects but I did still have issues there. Plus, resorting to tethering or a less secure network is also obviously not really a solution. Really hoping a pattern can be discovered to diagnose this issue because its becoming a deal breaker for me. This issue aside, LOVE the ROM.
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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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.
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...
So my wifi will see networks, try and connect, then instantly disconnect and repeat. This problem has occurred for the last two roms that I installed. I don't think it is a problem with the rom because one, I havnt read so anywhere, two, i have tried installing and reinstalling and reinstalling again many many times. When I install a new rom, I always factory wipe, cache wipe, and dalvik wipe.
I am currently on Apex latest rom.
Has anyone else had this issue or know how to fix it? It is driving me crazy not having wifi!
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so it seems by toggling airplane mode on n off, the problem has been fixed. sorry for making this thread
so i thought airplane mode works, but it only did for a lil then keeps messing up. can anyone help please?
turbomalum said:
so i thought airplane mode works, but it only did for a lil then keeps messing up. can anyone help please?
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Don't know if this will work for you or not. Some have had success...
Go into WiFi settings and 'forget' your network(s), then reset your router/switch and then turn your WiFi back on. Sometimes it will reestablish with the right permissions.
ya i have tried that too. i don't understand what the problem is. I'm bout to just give up
turbomalum said:
ya i have tried that too. i don't understand what the problem is. I'm bout to just give up
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My problem is similar, it sees my home network and connects (and stays connected), but when I try to access the internet or markets, it says network error and won't let me connect. When I switch back to 3g and WiFi off, now I can hook up to internet and markets.
I'm checking into my wireless router. It might be the problem, tho my wife's computer is hooked up wirelessly and it seems fine, no problems, so idk.
Hello,
Today I have bought a Moto X.
I can't set it up because it doesn't want to connect to my wifi.
I have restarted my router and my phone countless times.
I have turned off the firewall on my router.
I have cleaned the cache on my phone.
But I am still having problems.
When I tap on the network I want to join and tap on "Connect" nothing happens, I get no error messages, nothing!
The connection bar just goes from 4 bars to 1 bar and after a second back to 4. (I am sitting next to my router.)
Sometimes, it says it's connecting but it stops after a few seconds.
The phone has Android 4.4.4
Can someone hlep me please? Thanks!
DroidSlave said:
Hello,
Today I have bought a Moto X.
I can't set it up because it doesn't want to connect to my wifi.
I have restarted my router and my phone countless times.
I have turned off the firewall on my router.
I have cleaned the cache on my phone.
But I am still having problems.
When I tap on the network I want to join and tap on "Connect" nothing happens, I get no error messages, nothing!
The connection bar just goes from 4 bars to 1 bar and after a second back to 4. (I am sitting next to my router.)
Sometimes, it says it's connecting but it stops after a few seconds.
The phone has Android 4.4.4
Can someone hlep me please? Thanks!
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Much more info....rooted? unlocked? which variant?
If rooted, use root explorer or similar to browse to /persist and tell us what files you have inside...
Lots of people have borked their /persist partitions and this prevents WiFi from working...
Or it could be a hardware failure. Only step-by-step troubleshooting will give any insight into this, but need additional info.
samwathegreat said:
Much more info....rooted? unlocked? which variant?
If rooted, use root explorer or similar to browse to /persist and tell us what files you have inside...
Lots of people have borked their /persist partitions and this prevents WiFi from working...
Or it could be a hardware failure. Only step-by-step troubleshooting will give any insight into this, but need additional info.
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Thank you for your answer.
I have not rooted the phone.
It's an unlocked model.
I think my router is having problems because I am at my sisters house
and I can connect to their wifi without any problems.
DroidSlave said:
Thank you for your answer.
I have not rooted the phone.
It's an unlocked model.
I think my router is having problems because I am at my sisters house
and I can connect to their wifi without any problems.
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Good deal! I'd say you have your answer. Try resetting your router (should be a reset button on back). Aside from that, contact the manufacturer or replace the router...we can't really help with router troubleshooting here.
Good Luck!
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Wondering if anyone has had this problem - suddenly I cannot enable wifi on my turbo. When I switch the toggle to on, it immediately jumps back to off. Tried a reboot and no luck. Anyone know what to do?
I'm having the same problem, but it's only at work! My wifi connects fine at home but at work it will say connecting then just stop. I looked at my advance settings and I see my phone is not showing an IP address. I'm trying to download WiFi Fixer from the playstore and see if that helps.
Update: It did the same thing with Wifi Fixer. Deleted it off my phone. I hate having to resort to outside third party apps to "fix" a phone issue anyway. I'll keep trying...Let me know if you find a fix.
djbling said:
I'm having the same problem, but it's only at work! My wifi connects fine at home but at work it will say connecting then just stop. I looked at my advance settings and I see my phone is not showing an IP address. I'm trying to download WiFi Fixer from the playstore and see if that helps.
Update: It did the same thing with Wifi Fixer. Deleted it off my phone. I hate having to resort to outside third party apps to "fix" a phone issue anyway. I'll keep trying...Let me know if you find a fix.
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I found some (Maybe) helpful tips in another thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/droid-turbo/help/wifi-issue-t3011157
I can't try this until I get to work monday, hope it resolves the issue
kujorulez said:
Wondering if anyone has had this problem - suddenly I cannot enable wifi on my turbo. When I switch the toggle to on, it immediately jumps back to off. Tried a reboot and no luck. Anyone know what to do?
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Looks like radio.img problem.
The exact same thing happened to me but i have motomaxx and i fastboot flash it.
Yeah. On Moto Maxx I have same problem when flash 5.0 OTA. After revert it back all is right. Can you flash stock radio image?