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[Q] CM7 Wifi issues

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.

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.
Sent from my NookColor using Tapatalk

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.
Sent from my NookColor using Tapatalk

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...

[Q] Hp TouchPad running Android - Wifi force close

I've tested this with a3.5, Xron and Miui and they all get this problem. Maybe installing certain apps trigger this to happen but wifi will eventually slow down when trying to connect to a signal and will be essentially non functional since the OS will basically freeze and then tell you to force close wifi and it requires a wipe and fresh install to fix.
Has anyone else run into this problem?

Check this and see if it helps you.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20863566&postcount=14

StEVO_M said:
Check this and see if it helps you.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20863566&postcount=14
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I don't think its the same issue. In those instances you can still try to change which wifi signal you want to connect to, I think it just loops from connecting and it would disconnect. I think this issue is common and dropped connections occur as well.
But I'm talking about a situation where if you even try to enter the wifi options it will force close.

iamsamsamiam said:
I don't think its the same issue. In those instances you can still try to change which wifi signal you want to connect to, I think it just loops from connecting and it would disconnect. I think this issue is common and dropped connections occur as well.
But I'm talking about a situation where if you even try to enter the wifi options it will force close.
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Before I changed it, it would take forever to get it to release the connection. I just kept hitting "Wait" rather than "Force close" it would take several minutes but would eventually come up and allow me to Forget the network.
It sure sounds like the same, not saying it is, but very similar.

I experienced this problem for the first time yesterday in area where was about 20 WIFI networks. Never ever it happened in my house on A2. A3 A3.5 or XRON2.8
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/13779-now-i-believe-that-there-is-wifi-problem/

I have the same issue today, Wifi setting is forced to close, and cannot connect to any Wifi signals. I think it's a bug and it related to the time or date. Because I didn't do anything and it just happened.
No new apps install, no setting changed, and the device was keep on, so it just happens.
Hope someone can find out where the problem is...so sad this happen on New Year's eve....

i have this problem also, the solution i found was letting the touchpad go dead and than begin to connect wifi again.

Similar wifi comments here: rebooting [or maybe toggling/other disconnect] with wifi on/remembered would get it into a state where it was scanning and connecting over and over without really ever working. this was only happening once it was 'remembered'. Going through the wifi settings to forget in this state involved hitting 'wait' a few times and then i'd reboot and readd. 1st wifi connect is always solid for me.
I've found: market.android.com/details?id=com.brilliapps.wifiandmorefixer
Does the same thing except it is one click. I rebooted after the first go, but now no longer. i run this and then readd wifi - all set.

[HELP] Wifi & Bluetooth gone, no longer functioning (Found BT AND Wifi MAC in CP!)

[HELP] Wifi & Bluetooth gone, no longer functioning (Found BT AND Wifi MAC in CP!)
Just throwing this out there, I've actively used the hell out of my Thrill, and flashed it many times. However, the Bluetooth went out on AT&T's v20p, and Wifi went out after an OC'd crash. I was just wondering if there was some way to reset the chip itself as it seems the on/off for both do nothing, each stays permanently off now. I really want BT back, but I NEED Wifi back... Can somebody help?
I have flashed back to V20P in an effort to get both Wifi and BT working again, but still dead. I will sit on V20P for now, and hope things work eventually.
Trying to enable Wifi comes up with "Activity Wi-Fi settings (in application Settings) is not responding." leading me to believe that the hardware has to be fully reset.

Cynagen said:
Just throwing this out there, I've actively used the hell out of my Thrill, and flashed it many times. However, the Bluetooth went out on AT&T's v20p, and Wifi went out after an OC'd crash. I was just wondering if there was some way to reset the chip itself as it seems the on/off for both do nothing, each stays permanently off now. I really want BT back, but I NEED Wifi back... Can somebody help?
I have flashed back to V20P in an effort to get both Wifi and BT working again, but still dead. I will sit on V20P for now, and hope things work eventually.
Trying to enable Wifi comes up with "Activity Wi-Fi settings (in application Settings) is not responding." leading me to believe that the hardware has to be fully reset.
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Have you tried a different firmware?

The Dark Lestat said:
Have you tried a different firmware?
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I've tried V10K, V10D, V20A, V20P, V21D, and V21E, none of them restored the bluetooth (original issue), and so far V10K, V20P, and V21E have not restored the Wifi.
On V21E under settings, it's always showing as "Turning off..." under Wi-Fi. So it's definitely a hardware lockup. Is there anyway to do a full hardware reset on these things? I don't care about opening it, I'm not with AT&T anymore so the phone is mine, and frankly, I just want it to work.

I'm thinking of following some of the instructions for the lost IMEI, see if redoing the Communications Partition restores/fixes the BT and WiFi, I know stuff is getting corrupted when I crash while OC'd, and that's the only thing I haven't touched. I'll try it here tonight and see what I get. I still have both my WiFi and BT MAC addresses (WiFi stored in my router, BT in my computer when it was paired). So... I'll be trying that out soon as I get home today. Think it'll help?
So after fiddling around, I followed these steps from the reset your IMEI/SIM Unlock your phone thread, and started inspecting the CP payload that had to be flashed. I found a couple settings that I think people might find interesting:
1. Connect phone by USB
2. Activate USB debug mode
3. Enter 3845#*920# in dialer if that doesn’t work try 3845#*925#
4. Select Port Settings -> Select CP Image Download
5. A new device should appear at let it install
6. Open Tutty and select serial protocol. Click on open
7. Type AT if response is not OK, change port number (it is possible that when typing you don’t see any letters)
At this point, in order to check your Bluetooth MAC address, type AT%BTAD, this should display a string of 12 hex characters. IF you need to change your BT mac (such as putting it back in like I had to), use AT%BTAD=123456ABCDEF where "123456ABCDEF" is your Bluetooth MAC address (I had mine saved in my computer).
For Wireless MAC address: AT%MAC, same thing if you need to change it AT%MAC=123456ABCDEF. So far this has NOT restored my Wifi or Bluetooth, however it MAY help others who have suffered this loss. You will only need the Flash driver from that thread and tutty, so download the IMEI tool package, but don't worry about the CP unless you absolutely need it. Also, this is great to replace those MAC addresses once you flash (as they're likely wiped with the entire CP wipe).
I'm requesting some assistance with getting my Wifi and Bluetooth operational again if possible, maybe it's kernel modules, I'm not 100% sure, however, in the debug menu (3845#*<MDLNM>#) there is logging options for certain sections of the system. I'll be more than happy to provide logs if requested, I just want my Wifi and BT back and I feel like I'm onto something maybe. Here's to hoping!

Cynagen said:
I'm thinking of following some of the instructions for the lost IMEI, see if redoing the Communications Partition restores/fixes the BT and WiFi, I know stuff is getting corrupted when I crash while OC'd, and that's the only thing I haven't touched. I'll try it here tonight and see what I get. I still have both my WiFi and BT MAC addresses (WiFi stored in my router, BT in my computer when it was paired). So... I'll be trying that out soon as I get home today. Think it'll help?
So after fiddling around, I followed these steps from the reset your IMEI/SIM Unlock your phone thread, and started inspecting the CP payload that had to be flashed. I found a couple settings that I think people might find interesting:
1. Connect phone by USB
2. Activate USB debug mode
3. Enter 3845#*920# in dialer if that doesn’t work try 3845#*925#
4. Select Port Settings -> Select CP Image Download
5. A new device should appear at let it install
6. Open Tutty and select serial protocol. Click on open
7. Type AT if response is not OK, change port number (it is possible that when typing you don’t see any letters)
At this point, in order to check your Bluetooth MAC address, type AT%BTAD, this should display a string of 12 hex characters. IF you need to change your BT mac (such as putting it back in like I had to), use AT%BTAD=123456ABCDEF where "123456ABCDEF" is your Bluetooth MAC address (I had mine saved in my computer).
For Wireless MAC address: AT%MAC, same thing if you need to change it AT%MAC=123456ABCDEF. So far this has NOT restored my Wifi or Bluetooth, however it MAY help others who have suffered this loss. You will only need the Flash driver from that thread and tutty, so download the IMEI tool package, but don't worry about the CP unless you absolutely need it. Also, this is great to replace those MAC addresses once you flash (as they're likely wiped with the entire CP wipe).
I'm requesting some assistance with getting my Wifi and Bluetooth operational again if possible, maybe it's kernel modules, I'm not 100% sure, however, in the debug menu (3845#*<MDLNM>#) there is logging options for certain sections of the system. I'll be more than happy to provide logs if requested, I just want my Wifi and BT back and I feel like I'm onto something maybe. Here's to hoping!
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What ROM are you currently on? Baseband as well.

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What ROM are you currently on? Baseband as well.
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Currently running V21E baseband & Prometheus ROM v1.5, I've managed to make the phone stable again, however still no Wifi or BT. Inside CP, AT%IMEI, %BTAD, and %MAC show correct, thanks for the assist.
If I was on AT&T, this lack of Wifi would be absolute murder, but thankfully, T-Mo's got 5GB of 4G so I can still use my phone, just not half the apps (like Netflix (it checks Wifi status and locks up), or XBMC remote).

Cynagen said:
Currently running V21E baseband & Prometheus ROM v1.5, I've managed to make the phone stable again, however still no Wifi or BT. Inside CP, AT%IMEI, %BTAD, and %MAC show correct, thanks for the assist.
If I was on AT&T, this lack of Wifi would be absolute murder, but thankfully, T-Mo's got 5GB of 4G so I can still use my phone, just not half the apps (like Netflix (it checks Wifi status and locks up), or XBMC remote).
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I would say that you should try going back to FroYo and checking those addresses again.

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I would say that you should try going back to FroYo and checking those addresses again.
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I've gone back to FroYo without any change to Wifi or Bluetooth, but I'll go back to V10K and check the CP again.

Explanation
Cynagen said:
I'm thinking of following some of the instructions for the lost IMEI, see if redoing the Communications Partition restores/fixes the BT and WiFi, I know stuff is getting corrupted when I crash while OC'd, and that's the only thing I haven't touched. I'll try it here tonight and see what I get. I still have both my WiFi and BT MAC addresses (WiFi stored in my router, BT in my computer when it was paired). So... I'll be trying that out soon as I get home today. Think it'll help?
So after fiddling around, I followed these steps from the reset your IMEI/SIM Unlock your phone thread, and started inspecting the CP payload that had to be flashed. I found a couple settings that I think people might find interesting:
1. Connect phone by USB
2. Activate USB debug mode
3. Enter 3845#*920# in dialer if that doesn’t work try 3845#*925#
4. Select Port Settings -> Select CP Image Download
5. A new device should appear at let it install
6. Open Tutty and select serial protocol. Click on open
7. Type AT if response is not OK, change port number (it is possible that when typing you don’t see any letters)
At this point, in order to check your Bluetooth MAC address, type AT%BTAD, this should display a string of 12 hex characters. IF you need to change your BT mac (such as putting it back in like I had to), use AT%BTAD=123456ABCDEF where "123456ABCDEF" is your Bluetooth MAC address (I had mine saved in my computer).
For Wireless MAC address: AT%MAC, same thing if you need to change it AT%MAC=123456ABCDEF. So far this has NOT restored my Wifi or Bluetooth, however it MAY help others who have suffered this loss. You will only need the Flash driver from that thread and tutty, so download the IMEI tool package, but don't worry about the CP unless you absolutely need it. Also, this is great to replace those MAC addresses once you flash (as they're likely wiped with the entire CP wipe).
I'm requesting some assistance with getting my Wifi and Bluetooth operational again if possible, maybe it's kernel modules, I'm not 100% sure, however, in the debug menu (3845#*<MDLNM>#) there is logging options for certain sections of the system. I'll be more than happy to provide logs if requested, I just want my Wifi and BT back and I feel like I'm onto something maybe. Here's to hoping!
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Please Explain Tutty. I get into the hidden screen and tried the download and nothing was downloaded, this is my first smartphone and do no that there is no MAC address for the bluetooth device. it is the only thing not working. Thanks in advance for the help.

Can't use anything that needs internet but google and whatsapp.

Hello everybody on xda first post and it's a problem.
I've recently acquired a Samguns Galaxy S i9000B. First day trying it, everything went perfect, internet conection stable and without problems, everything else good too.
Today I encountered problems with the internet. I can no longar enter the store in my cellphone (Play store), in the internet browser (which is a default by movistar) I can only search for results in google, trying to connect to any other page returns the message "Couldn't connect to the server", whatsapp functions correctly oddly enough.
I have always been connected to the internet thorugh wi fi, which is broadcasted from my modem through a D-Link Dir 320 router, and I don't posses a multimedia plan, i.e. if I don't have access to Wi Fi I don't have acces to internet on my phone.
Lastly i must mention that I had a similar problem on my laptop, and it was solved by changing the MTU value on it.
I've tried the solutions on this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=790974, however, I can't do what is proposed in the first post due to the fact that My cellphone doesnt have the folder pdp0 and, it doesnt recognize the commands ip link, ip link list or ip link set. I've yet to install Busybox, however if I input ip, a list of possible commands appears, being one of them link, but it doesn't work for me.
All other solutions have been tried, such as restarting cell phone, router, pc, etc. And turning off and on wi fi save energy, etc.
Thanks for your help before hand.

Crones said:
"Couldn't connect to the server",
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1) Try to toggle Airplane mode and restart phone after a battery Pull and power button press for a min
2) Try Menu>Settings>Application>Manage Applications
Press the Menu button, then Filter, then select Running
Scroll down the list and select Device management.
Under the Storage section, press the Clear data button.
Reboot phone
3) In recovery clear data, cache and dalvik cache
4) a factory reset using settings> privacy will be the final way to solve it (only do this when you have undone any lagfix you may have done FIRST)
If this did not do it, you have no option but to flash an I9000B Rom to resolve it

xsenman said:
1) Try to toggle Airplane mode and restart phone after a battery Pull and power button press for a min
2) Try Menu>Settings>Application>Manage Applications
Press the Menu button, then Filter, then select Running
Scroll down the list and select Device management.
Under the Storage section, press the Clear data button.
Reboot phone
3) In recovery clear data, cache and dalvik cache
4) a factory reset using settings> privacy will be the final way to solve it (only do this when you have undone any lagfix you may have done FIRST)
If this did not do it, you have no option but to flash an I9000B Rom to resolve it
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Thank you for your response.
I would actually like to try some stuff with the router, as it seems this is the root of the problem. A friend of mine came with a smartphone that can "lend" internet (not sure this is the right term). After connecting to the internet his phone was lending me i could enter the google play store, load wikipedia and other pages. So it seems to be the way i'm broadcasting my wi-fi.
Having said that, I'm not sure how to begin because if wi-fi works fine for the laptop, why would it run incorrectly for my Galaxy S? I'm not sure how to modify the router to provoke an imrpovement in the conecction.

Help please? Anyone has any ideas?

Crones said:
Help please? Anyone has any ideas?
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google your router brand name, and they will have instructions as to how you can reset your router as well as go into its setup menu by using your web browser

Well.. suprisingly now internet works.... However it was sort of magical.
I applied a factory reset to the router (the options are now similar to the ones I had before), and the internet on my phone had the same problems through all the afternoon... Now, 5 hours later... for no apparent reason (no modifications made)... everything is working fine. I ain't one to argue with a good thing... but I'm seriously in awe wondering how the hell it worked itself out without me doing anything.
Thanks for the help by the way.
If it helps anyone else, I did make one change, however i don't see how it influenced anything. I uninstalled all updates to the google play store (reverted it back to android market) as well as erased it's data and cache.