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The massive wifi problem that many experience

When I turn on my phone at work, the wireless connection (open unsecured) connects and works for a few minutes. After some time, it disconnects and without rebooting my phone, I cannot establish a wlan connection.
This is oly the case at work. At home it works flawlessly, but it is another network kind.
Anyone found a solution to this problem? I saw a lot of threads about this but no good answers.
I am using duttys v3.

Not sure. Perhaps there is some sort of time out on your work network for inactive devices, or dhcp ip releases or something weird and "networky" like that?
Or perhaps your phone is going into a power save mode if you are not using it?
Just general ideas, I don't have this particular problem

I dont think many people have this issue! you must not have a setting correct, try downloading KaiserTweak and adjusting the timeout and also take a look at the routers settings I find it strange that a business would have an open network for security issues

austinsnyc said:
I dont think many people have this issue! you must not have a setting correct, try downloading KaiserTweak and adjusting the timeout and also take a look at the routers settings I find it strange that a business would have an open network for security issues
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I work at the university, and the network is unsecure. You have to enter login and pass at a webpage to gain access.
I cannot reconnect at all once ive been disconnected. So it should have anything to do with kaisertweak or timeouts.
I have tried every setting and combination. I have tried to select work/internet settings. Ive tried to tell the phone its a hidden network / not hidden network. I have tried to use power save / performance mode. Ive tried to turn off 3g, bluetooth, phone (everything basically).
When I tap connect, it says connecting and then it immediately goes to "active" and tries to connect to another network (which I dont have access to).

solwretep said:
When I turn on my phone at work, the wireless connection (open unsecured) connects and works for a few minutes. After some time, it disconnects and without rebooting my phone, I cannot establish a wlan connection.
This is oly the case at work. At home it works flawlessly, but it is another network kind.
Anyone found a solution to this problem? I saw a lot of threads about this but no good answers.
I am using duttys v3.
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I have worked out the problem.. first if its a WPA enterprise connection, make sure its set to WORK and not INTERNET setting. it will work. my only works with schaps versions not duttys

on my old pda (Acer N50 premium) I had the same problem with my unis network... it would only work (if at all) for a few minutes then nada... but at home it was absolutely fine, quick stayed on and totally responsive... I wonder if it has something to do with the rubbish way unis run their IT...?

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Many do not have this issue.
According to what's being said here by the indiviuals with issues, you're having problems connecting to a certain network...not all networks.
If it were all networks; your device, settings, equipment or rom would be the common denomenator. Since it's one network, it's that network.
Just because a network is or appears to be available, that doesn't mean that you can connect to it.

dwny said:
Wasted thread
Many do not have this issue.
According to what's being said here by the indiviuals with issues, you're having problems connecting to a certain network...not all networks.
If it were all networks; your device, settings, equipment or rom would be the common denomenator. Since it's one network, it's that network.
Just because a network is or appears to be available, that doesn't mean that you can connect to it.
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no, it could be the phone software. Lets says that a string is added to the registry if the network you are connected to disconnects you; a string that makes the phone cancel connections to the network. And lets assume that the network disconnected you because there is a hidden firewall in the phone software that blocks ping requests, thus making the network believe that the connection is lost and thus disconnecting you. Then we have a moment 22, which is basically something wrong with the phone.
As some readers already pointed out in this "wasted thread", when changing the rom (in one case) or when changing settings from "internet" to "work" (in the second case) there is a great possibility that this problem in fact has to do with phone software and not network.
In my case, it just happens to be neither of the mentioned solutions or any solution that I have found in other threads.

One thing you may want to check is that your wifi is set to max performance. The issue may also be that there is a DNS cache issue, in most cases it can be resolved by manually reconfiguring the connection.
I have been successful in configuring my phone's WLAN to connect to everything from open APS's, WEP, WPA, RADIUS and AP's with proxy redirects, so I can tell you that as with most cases, it's human error.

I have tried max performance.
How do I resolve a dns cache issue? Manually reconfiguring the network did not help (only thing that helps is a reboot).
seattleweb said:
One thing you may want to check is that your wifi is set to max performance. The issue may also be that there is a DNS cache issue, in most cases it can be resolved by manually reconfiguring the connection.
I have been successful in configuring my phone's WLAN to connect to everything from open APS's, WEP, WPA, RADIUS and AP's with proxy redirects, so I can tell you that as with most cases, it's human error.
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Connection problems 3G/Wifi

Hi guys!
I have a Touch Diamond 2. It's great and certainly an upgrade from my Touch Cruise!
I have a strange problem though. Whenever I try to connect through 3G (T-Mobile Netherlands), immediatly after it makes the connection, it gives the dialog 'cannot connect etc'. 3G is truly connected but no data is coming in.
Now I have found where the problem lies, sort of. 3G works fine when I don't configure my home Wifi connection. Whenever I configure that, 3G stops working. It doesn't matter if Wifi is turned on or off. 3G does have a dynamic ip, where my Wifi connection requires a static IP. But I make all these settings in the Wifi part of the configuration screen, the IP details are under the 802.11 b/g network card.
This used to work flawlessy on my Cruise. Anyone have a solution? Thanks!

good morning. as you are with tmobile i'd suggest you are having the same problems as me with tmobile uk. for some reason tmobile sets up a proxy server in your 3g data connection setup, this caused huge problems for me but clearing it solved them all.
try this first and see how you go.

Possible, but where exactly do I change the proxy settings of the 3G connection?

BeQuietAndDrive said:
Possible, but where exactly do I change the proxy settings of the 3G connection?
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Hey that's a coincidence, just read the same question at GoT
I have similar problems.
Now and than my HSDPA connection works good, but at some moment I just can't reach any website.
Disconnecting and reconnecting to HSDPA sometimes helps, and sometimes I just have to wait a few minutes and than it works again.
I also tried another DNS (OpenDNS) but it doesn't solve the problem,
Proxy settings can be found at (I assume your dutch):
Instellingen> Meer> Verbindingen> Verbindingen> Mijn proxyserver instellen
At my TD2 is no proxy set, so thats not the cause.
Hope sombody else can help!

Do you have a static IP for WIFI as well? I kinda found out that setting WIFI on dynamic IP solves the 3G problem, so somehow they must be connected. But this should be able to work, it's almost as if 3G 'takes over' the static IP from the WIFI settings, but the connection settings from my 3G are offcourse set to dynamic.

I had exactly the same problem with my D2. I also had it on my Cruise with the later ROMs. The official HTC 6.1 ROM did not have this problem.
I experience it when I set up my wifi 802.11b/g network card in the phone to have a static IP address and set the default gateway. If I use DHCP there is no problem.
Setting the wifi card up on the phone DEFINITELY screws up the cellular data connection.

BeQuietAndDrive said:
Do you have a static IP for WIFI as well? I kinda found out that setting WIFI on dynamic IP solves the 3G problem, so somehow they must be connected. But this should be able to work, it's almost as if 3G 'takes over' the static IP from the WIFI settings, but the connection settings from my 3G are offcourse set to dynamic.
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I use a dynamic IP, for me it doesn't work.
With my dear old Wizard (MDA Vario) I had no problem at all with the same settings!

yup thought i was the only one with this problem need a fix for it soon man otherwise we are gettin bumped for not havin the settings coz we on t-mobile

I solved it temporarily by setting Wifi to dynamic IP, but this prevents me from connecting at work. I'll send HTC an e-mail, let's see if they are willing to hot-fix this one

for me i find that the web sites work but any app that requires to go online ie facebook, msn, sky fire etc jus dont work wen you try to connect online......... stupid t-mobile

My connection problems are gone.
Maybe I (we) encountered hickups with the T-Mobile proxy-server....

maybe You can help me.
I have a MDA V (germany T-Mobile) and i can not connect to my AP here at Home.
I have a ASUS WL500g configured as AP behind my Firewall/Router. All other device in my house, a Laptop, a Netbook and a 'WII' working fine!
All get the IP from the Router, the AP works transparent.
D2 will not connect. The Mac-Address from the D2 is configured in the AP, and i can see the router statuspage and see the MAC of the D2 sometimes in the list. But only as "associated" and never as "associated authorized" as the Laptop here in example:
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Stations List:
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00:23:76:yy:xx:xx associated <-D2
00:1C:BF:yy:xx:xx associated authorized <- Laptop
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I configured a lot in the settings, but i cant get the D2 online with wifi.
Can someone plz help a bit?
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other question: if i manage the problem some day, is it possible to configure the Networksettings of the D2 device in the way that the device only use USB and te WiFI-Connection to access the internet? I hat it that the device use mobile-internet connection without asking me to do so.

Same problem
BeQuietAndDrive said:
I solved it temporarily by setting Wifi to dynamic IP, but this prevents me from connecting at work. I'll send HTC an e-mail, let's see if they are willing to hot-fix this one
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I was experiencing the same problem, only with the difference that I am using 3 different Wi-Fi adapter settings every day (for 3 different networks - two with fixed IP and one with DHCP enabled. Most elegant solution that I came up with was a small, but very handy application called "WiFi Profiles". Settings for WiFi adapter are easily changed by choosing a profile that you want to use and applying it. Before you disconnect from WiFi network, you just set adapter to DHCP, and after that your GPRS/3G/HSDPA connection works like a charm. By the way, I am proud owner of Touch HD but I am using Dutty`s Topaz based rom V3.4 XTREME SHIP.

[Q] I'm getting WIFI connect..disconnect.continously (advanced set to NEVER off)

I'm getting WIFI connect..disconnect.continously (advanced settings set to NEVER off)
I just upgraded to a Virgin Media Superhub (WIFI and Cable modem built in)
I set the WIFI to "WPA PSK (auto)"
is this causing the problem
I am trying "WPAPSK2 AES" today to see if it fixes it?
Me and my house mate have a galaxy S and both phones are doing it.
is it my WIFI router or is it the Galaxy S's at fault here
apologies if this has been covered, i did a search but wasn't sure what to search for about this.
Cheers

@anyone
I tried WIFI tether and WIFI fixer apps but no joy
I had a WIFI connection before with my Netgear router in WEP. The super hub is a netgear router, i cant understand whats causing the problems.
its just connecting and disconnecting .
when ui set it up from scratch sometimes it works until i go out of range, then goes the connect disconnect route...
Also I unplugged the modem and turned SSID on (it found it and stayed locked) and then SSID off (it appeared to keep connection) ...? is this a clue as to why it keeps connect disconnect?
Any help welcome cheers

i solved this but I dont know how
i set up both to
WIFI to "WPA PSK (auto)
phone to wpa psk2
and then revealed the ssid in the modem. left it for a bit, then hid my SSID
it's worked properly for a few days now.
maybe it needed to do something to lock on?
....now if i could get my MMS working another story

I have the same problem... It's driving me crazy

all i know is this
get rid of juice defender if it's on
Turning The Virgin super hub on and off solves the problem temporarily.. faster than reboot the phone.
if your phone isn't rooted, don't enter the WIFI settings twice it can corrupt the wifi complexly needing a master reset!
also i set the Virgin hub to
WPA auto Broadcast SSID
also on Virgin Hub
settings
advanced settings
content filtering services
untick firewall and ip flood
i think broadcast SSID on your WIFI unit fixes it

galaxy44 said:
all i know is this
get rid of juice defender if it's on
Turning The Virgin super hub on and off solves the problem temporarily.. faster than reboot the phone.
if your phone isn't rooted, don't enter the WIFI settings twice it can corrupt the wifi complexly needing a master reset!
also i set the Virgin hub to
WPA auto Broadcast SSID
also on Virgin Hub
settings
advanced settings
content filtering services
untick firewall and ip flood
i think broadcast SSID on your WIFI unit fixes it
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The problem started when I updated the new official version on my galaksy S
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Transmit the modem SSID

galaxy44 said:
Transmit the modem SSID
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it's transmitting....

Reflash?
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are your setting for the phone and WIFI the same as the ones i posted above on the other posts?

I flashed CM7 and it works perfectly
http://download.cyanogenmod.com/?type=stable&device=galaxysmtd
give it a try...(you need to be rooted)

do you know your firmware version? i have the same problem. ive tested and the wifi sleep policy doesnt work at all!
my wifi reconnects every 59 seconds with sleep set to never. its the same with sleep set to never when plugged in. sleep when screen turns off doesnt work and is exactly the same, reconnects every 59 seconds and doesnt sleep at all. not as far as ive seen (watched for around a quarter of an hour before getting very bored). I dont know if this is anything to do with it but if you watch the WIFI scanning the Connection resets after every 10th scan. Im using a Belkin router but as said ive tried on several different WiFI connections and the drop out is always the same.
im using jvt firmware and semaphore kernel.
my phone was froyo before and wireless was fine before flashing.
ive spent a week on google with this. there are hundreds of threads and even vids on youtube. as yet though no fix.
ive changed router settings at home. with no improvement. the reconnection happens whenever im on wifi and i cant see mcdonalds letting me rummage through their router.
As far as i can figure the problem started in the jvs firmware. I havent tried jvs but there are a couple of google results saying that since updating to jvs wireless reconnects constantly.
same as above......
HELP!!!!!!!
Its driving me mad!
FIXED at home. Changed Belkin Routers Lease Time from "Forever" to "1 Hour". Guess outside connections will depend on what the Routers Lease times are set up as.
However the "Stop WiFi when screen turns off" still doesnt turn off Wifi at all (as far as I can see, as now tested for over an hour).

thedeester1 said:
FIXED at home. Changed Belkin Routers Lease Time from "Forever" to "1 Hour". Guess outside connections will depend on what the Routers Lease times are set up as.
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i have such a ****ty router and cant even set up the lease time
well im going back to jvr..
i believe they changed some wifi drivers in jvs and jvt and thats why some phones get this bug..

WIFI issue

Hi,
I have some issue with WIFI. WIFI connection is very unstable even in 1 feet from router (Linksys WRT350N on DD-WRT 13064). It is connected very quickly and get IP address but then connection is working with very large delays (30+ seconds). If I disable and reenable WIFI adapter then it work good for some time but then it lost it again. All other devices work find with same router. I got 2 motorola BIONIC at launch day and both have WIFI issue.
Has anyone else have same issue?
Dmitry

I get slower than 3g speeds when I connect to my home Airport Extreme router.. No idea why... but my connection speed at work on our Wifi is just fine.

ddv2005 said:
Hi,
I have some issue with WIFI. WIFI connection is very unstable even in 1 feet from router (Linksys WRT350N on DD-WRT 13064). It is connected very quickly and get IP address but then connection is working with very large delays (30+ seconds). If I disable and reenable WIFI adapter then it work good for some time but then it lost it again. All other devices work find with same router. I got 2 motorola BIONIC at launch day and both have WIFI issue.
Has anyone else have same issue?
Dmitry
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Mine kept disabling the wifi connection. Once I booted into recovery and reset, it was fine.

ive had issues with wifi too,got full signal but phone browser wont load anything.

I had this same problem. I hard reset using recovery but it came right back. I then did a reset using the the settings, privacy. I was able to fix the issue with the second hard reset. The only change I did was not allow Google to restore my phone from previous backup.
Goodluck.

tron101 said:
ive had issues with wifi too,got full signal but phone browser wont load anything.
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Mine does the same thing.
Sent from my DROID BIONIC using xda premium

ive tried resets, changing setting on router, still unable to get browser to load web pages with wifi.

Is this a universal issue, or do I need to go back to Verizon and get the phone replaced? Anyone have the exact answer to this?

tron101 said:
ive tried resets, changing setting on router, still unable to get browser to load web pages with wifi.
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What are the odds you have WPA with AES encryption set on your router? I have had the Droid X and Bionic fail to load pages under that setting. But as soon as I switched the encryption to TKIP it worked on both.

chrisb9712 said:
What are the odds you have WPA with AES encryption set on your router? I have had the Droid X and Bionic fail to load pages under that setting. But as soon as I switched the encryption to TKIP it worked on both.
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Looking at the encryption now under security - NONE is what I have selected...
WEP CONFIGURATION
WEP Passphrase
WEP Authentication Yes Open No Shared Key
Encryption No Enable 64-Bit No Enable 128-Bit
WPA Encryption No TKIP No AES
Group Rekey Interval 0 seconds
WPA Authentication No Remote (Radius) Yes Local (WPA-PSK)

check your wireless frequency
For those of you able to connect with no problem but still can not access any internet i read somewhere that some Droid bionics were having trouble with b/g 2.4GHz routers. If your router is b/g only then disabling WEP encryption could work. I checked and sure enough mine is only wireless b/g however WEP encryption was already disabled. The fact that it could be because its a b/g only router would explain why I have no problem getting online at my job, which just aquired a new belkin dual band router, and my school, which I have no doubt uses only dual band routers being a college. I believe normally a/n 5GHz devices are suppose to be backwards compatible with wireless b/g. The only difference being less reliable and slower connection. Best bet is get a dual band router.

[Q] Way to make wifi connect automatically?

I'm not sure if anyone else is having this problem, but after my phone has been on standby, the wifi disconnects. I assume this is normal, battery-saving behavior. The problem is when I wake the phone up, it's hit-or-miss in that it doesn't connect back up all the time. Sometimes, it'll connect without user intervention. Most of the time though, I'll need to pull down the menu and select the "wireless networks found" notication to bring up wifi settings (connects as soon as the settings comes up). This has not happened with any other android phone I've owned... just the Bionic.
I'm still running the stock ROM, though rooted. I'm considering putting DroidTheory's deblurred on, but the phone actually behaves pretty well, so I haven't yet.
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Go into wifi settings and click the menu button and advanced settings. I would change your wifi settings so that wifi never sleeps. You will actually save more battery life being on wifi then having your cellular radio on. Just turn off wifi if you leave your house or place where you use a wifi connection.

Try "Y5"
It'll turn your wifi off when you have no remembered wifi in the area. I believe it works by cell site recognition.
HINT: When you are configuring a new protected/secured wifi turn Y5 off until you have the passkey typed in to make sure the phone leaves wifi turned on enough time for you to enter the key.

skullvet said:
Go into wifi settings and click the menu button and advanced settings. I would change your wifi settings so that wifi never sleeps. You will actually save more battery life being on wifi then having your cellular radio on. Just turn off wifi if you leave your house or place where you use a wifi connection.
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^This - wifi sleep policy.
The problem with this phone is that the radio stays on when on wifi. If you really want to save battery, flip on airplane mode THEN wifi.
Sent from my DROID BIONIC using xda premium

skullvet said:
Go into wifi settings and click the menu button and advanced settings. I would change your wifi settings so that wifi never sleeps. You will actually save more battery life being on wifi then having your cellular radio on. Just turn off wifi if you leave your house or place where you use a wifi connection.
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I have tried this and, it's still hit and miss connecting to WiFi. The icon is in the notification bar (gray color sometimes blue) but, it won't connect sometimes.

Does every Bionic have sucky WiFi? It even disconnects while I'm browsing!

tooter1 said:
Does every Bionic have sucky WiFi? It even disconnects while I'm browsing!
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Not every one. Mine never disconnects during normal ise and reconnects automatically on wake up.as far as i know I'm using default settings

I think, I may have fixed my problem. I'll post tomorrow what I did to get it working.
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I tried everything here and non of it worked, plus making sure "USE PROXY SERVER" was unchecked and, it still didn't work.
So I got to thinking about what type encryption I was using on my router. I knew I was using "WPA" just didn't know which one.
Opened router settings and, it was set to "WPA2 Personal" set it to "WPA Personal" with same password and, my WiFi has been working ever since I did this.
Hope it stays this way!
I guess this phone wasn't meant to connect to WPA2 Personal connections. Can someone confirm this to be true?
I hope this helps someone out.....

I have 3 Apple routers with WPA2 and the Bionic works fine with them. Also on a Netgear high-end router with WPA2.
Geek stuff coming:
If WPA is what works, that's great. WPA2 is preferable, but only because there is a weird and esoteric possibility of capturing a WPA passcode using the TKIP encryption used by WPA (WPA2 uses AES encryption, or, technically, CCMP). However, if you go into the router's settings and change the WPA group key timeout (or it may be called WPA group rekey interval) to faster than 11 minutes, that will prevent that exploit from happening. (Changing to WPA with AES as opposed to TKIP would also be fine, if the router supports it. However, that may have been what was causing your issue with WPA2, so...)
(If you are interested in reading a technical article about the TKIP exploit, it's here: http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2008/11/wpa-cracked.ars )

doogald said:
I have 3 Apple routers with WPA2 and the Bionic works fine with them. Also on a Netgear high-end router with WPA2.
Geek stuff coming:
If WPA is what works, that's great. WPA2 is preferable, but only because there is a weird and esoteric possibility of capturing a WPA passcode using the TKIP encryption used by WPA (WPA2 uses AES encryption, or, technically, CCMP). However, if you go into the router's settings and change the WPA group key timeout (or it may be called WPA group rekey interval) to faster than 11 minutes, that will prevent that exploit from happening. (Changing to WPA with AES as opposed to TKIP would also be fine, if the router supports it. However, that may have been what was causing your issue with WPA2, so...)
(If you are interested in reading a technical article about the TKIP exploit, it's here: http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2008/11/wpa-cracked.ars )
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Thanks for the article.
UPDATE:
After further investigating the settings on my Linksys WRT160n w/DD-WRT firmware. I saw that it has an option to enable TKIP+AES and that was selected.
So I changed it to WPA2 Personal with just AES selected, whola it has worked like this too.
I'm glad to have it working with the better encryption settings.

tooter1 said:
After further investigating the settings on my Linksys WRT160n w/DD-WRT firmware. I saw that it has an option to enable TKIP+AES and that was selected.
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This must be an issue with Android. My Eris would have problems connecting to routers using TKIP+AES, but I figured that this would have been fixed two years later. It's weird that it's not.
Thanks for posting the update. Now at least if somebody else reports a similar issue we can have them check this setting.

Flapjack
Here's a couple things to try that I'm doing and I've had no problems since Day 1 with my Bionic.
If you're using WPA2 use the PSK variant.
Download and install the free WiFi Analyzer from Google market. It's great when dealing with WiFi networks in general-not just your own.
Next look for the Market App 'WiFi Connecter Library' by farproc (it's a helper app-not a stand alone program)and install it. It adds some nice features regarding saving WiFi settings and automatically reconnecting. Since using those I always have Windows-like options for remembering and auto-reconnecting to Access points.

Thanks for all the awesome replies! I had forgotten to enable notifications for the thread, so I didn't even realize anyone replied.
skullvet said:
Go into wifi settings and click the menu button and advanced settings. I would change your wifi settings so that wifi never sleeps. You will actually save more battery life being on wifi then having your cellular radio on. Just turn off wifi if you leave your house or place where you use a wifi connection.
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I didn't even realize there was an advanced menu. I'm trying this first, so hopefully it does the trick (or at least makes it a little more tolerable).
doogald said:
If WPA is what works, that's great. WPA2 is preferable, but only because there is a weird and esoteric possibility of capturing a WPA passcode using the TKIP encryption used by WPA (WPA2 uses AES encryption, or, technically, CCMP). However, if you go into the router's settings and change the WPA group key timeout (or it may be called WPA group rekey interval) to faster than 11 minutes, that will prevent that exploit from happening. (Changing to WPA with AES as opposed to TKIP would also be fine, if the router supports it. However, that may have been what was causing your issue with WPA2, so...)
(If you are interested in reading a technical article about the TKIP exploit, it's here: http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2008/11/wpa-cracked.ars )
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This is great summation of the TKIP exploit. You'd be amazed how many people have no idea how this works. Another thing to point out is that WPA is subject to man-in-the-middle attacks. You can effectively prevent against this by making your WPA passphrase more complex. Personally, I use a short sentence with plenty of special characters.
Here's a good read on MITM attacks in general:
http://www.ab9il.net/wlan-projects/wifi-security2.html
You can test your access point security by using the latest bootable Backtrack distro and any number of guides online.
BleedingEdj said:
Flapjack
Here's a couple things to try that I'm doing and I've had no problems since Day 1 with my Bionic.
If you're using WPA2 use the PSK variant.
Download and install the free WiFi Analyzer from Google market. It's great when dealing with WiFi networks in general-not just your own.
Next look for the Market App 'WiFi Connecter Library' by farproc (it's a helper app-not a stand alone program)and install it. It adds some nice features regarding saving WiFi settings and automatically reconnecting. Since using those I always have Windows-like options for remembering and auto-reconnecting to Access points.
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I'm using WPA2-PSK with AES encryption. I'll definitely look into those apps, though. It would be nice to have wifi turn off when there are no recognized hotspots in the area, as someone mentioned on page one.

Thanks for all of the great tips. Working better than ever!

Ever since changing the sleep setting under "advanced", I've had absolutely no problems. Battery life is much better, too. Thanks!!!

Y5 is the one of the best tips here..
It will turn your wifi off when you aren't in a known area.