Try turning off your mobile data while using WiFi. This has my phone using the full home network capabilities for the first time. You can set an automation (tasker, llama, etc) to take care of it for you automatically if it's helpful.
For myself speed test results are up and websites aren't taking forever to load anymore. I will do a few more tests later to confirm.
Just to share my findings: Turns out it's an interference issue with Location mode: Battery Saving and having the WiFi frequency band set to Auto.
With Wifi frequency set to "2.4ghz only" to match my network there is no interference however this lacks 5ghz mode for any other networks. Using Auto with High Accuracy or Device only location modes was also allowing full WiFi transfer speeds.
Having the data on or off does not seem to be the issue and is handled by the phone automatically.
tried tweaks, still slow
Tried different settings, got up to 8 mbps,while S3 is 16 mbps
Something else is going on. I posted this issue here earlier
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I have observed this but don't know why this happens. Sometime, my data download speeds lag to really low speeds of 50 KB. When I turn the airplane mode on and off, the data speeds increase drastically to around 2.6 MBps. Does anyone know why the data speds change so much after the airplane mode and why it lags in the first place?
I am on LQ2, stock ICS, LPT modem, AT&T (US).
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Have you tried flashing a different modem?
I think what you are experiencing is either traffic shaping by your carrier or the tower you are connecting to for data is overly busy. By cycling your radio with the airplane mode you are actually re-registering your handset on the carrier net and this may also cause you to connect to another tower that has less traffic on the backhaul link.
Some of our local networks are sometimes saturated and one can't get a connection to make a call. So what some people do is dial the emergency 112 and then drop the call, this prioritizes the handset on the tower and one can them make a call.
If you can't find a proper work around for this problem, please download the app "restart connection" from the play store. this app disconnects and then re registers your phone within 3 seconds so you don't have to manually enable and then disable airplane mode all the time which can be frustrating.
you might also wanna install "network monitor mini ", this app gives you a live reading of your data transfer on your screen in a pretty non intrusive way, so you can always know the speed of your data transfer.
I have the network monitor mini live widget at the right bottom Corner of the screen and I check it occasionally to see my connection status and whenever I am on a congested tower or if iam getting low speeds, I click on restart connection icon on my dock, and my phone gets re registered on the network and I get better speeds.this set up has helped me numerous times.
Both of us basically do the same thing, its just that my set up is a little bit easier and less annoying. I Hope you find it helpful
Good luck
I wonder what is the connection that uses more battery, 2g or wifi.
I only use the internet to update the app lockmix, then the 2g enough for me, but I was wondering which spends more battery if it is 2g or wifi
2G uses very little power in the background, but it's very slow so transferring much data over it will use a lot of power because the radio will need to be on constantly.
WiFi uses a significant amount of power even on standby - that's why WP8 defaults to turning WiFi off when the screen is off - but it's probably worth using when available if your only other option is 2G.
BTW, are you sure you meant 2G? That's archaic; 3G has pretty much entirely replaced it and 4G is become more and more common.
I only use the internet on your phone to update the lockmix application (for screen lock), the 2g is enough. I have to have an active connection, my doubt is on wifi or 2g due to battery consumption. my wifi router this to 2/3 meters away and have speed of 30 mb.
But obviously, battery drain's on 2G network, & no issue about Wi-Fi distances, but it also drain's down when background searching & attempt to connect to the network at multiple times.
I'm having a strange issue with my Exhibit . I'm running CyanogenMod 11 20140714-UNOFFICIAL although I think I saw this earlier too. When I'm home on my WiFi, battery use it great. Under 2%/hour. When I'm at work on the WiFiit is pretty bad, around 6-7% per hour. If I turn off WiFi, it gets much better (maybe 3% per hour). Same thing if I forget the WiFi network at work. Sometimes in my battery use graph I can see it get flat for and hour and then get bad again -- I think this is losing the WiFi connection for a bit and then reconnecting.
Work recently moved and the results didn't change enough though my data service strength changed a lot. So I'm pretty sure it has to do with the WiFi network. Other people at work don't notice a drain when using WiFi, so I'm guessing it is a combination of the work WiFi and the phone.
The work WiFi is running tomato 1.27, which I administer. I sniffed the WiFi traffic with my laptop and saw a lot of ARP requests for 'who has address' for address not on the WiFibut on our unsecured network. So I separated that with a VLAN and that helped a bit but not a ton, and the ARP requests are much lower (maybe a ~1 / minute). Signal strength is as good or better at work than at home and at home there is way more congestion of neighbor's WiFi.
I know it isn't my phone usage as I would reboot my phone and not touch it for 3 hours and look at the battery drain at both work and at home and see these differences.
Any ideas on what makes the WiFi at work with a tomato router (vs some netgear wifi router) worse on battery than my home network. Work has maybe 7 clients connected at a time, vs probably just the phone at home. Any ideas on how to troubleshoot / debug. Packet sniffing on the WiFi didn't show anything that stood out.
Thanks!
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I'm having a strange issue with my Exhibit . I'm running CyanogenMod 11 20140714-UNOFFICIAL although I think I saw this earlier too. When I'm home on my WiFi, battery use it great. Under 2%/hour. When I'm at work on the WiFiit is pretty bad, around 6-7% per hour. If I turn off WiFi, it gets much better (maybe 3% per hour). Same thing if I forget the WiFi network at work. Sometimes in my battery use graph I can see it get flat for and hour and then get bad again -- I think this is losing the WiFi connection for a bit and then reconnecting.
Work recently moved and the results didn't change enough though my data service strength changed a lot. So I'm pretty sure it has to do with the WiFi network. Other people at work don't notice a drain when using WiFi, so I'm guessing it is a combination of the work WiFi and the phone.
The work WiFi is running tomato 1.27, which I administer. I sniffed the WiFi traffic with my laptop and saw a lot of ARP requests for 'who has address' for address not on the WiFibut on our unsecured network. So I separated that with a VLAN and that helped a bit but not a ton, and the ARP requests are much lower (maybe a ~1 / minute). Signal strength is as good or better at work than at home and at home there is way more congestion of neighbor's WiFi.
I know it isn't my phone usage as I would reboot my phone and not touch it for 3 hours and look at the battery drain at both work and at home and see these differences.
Any ideas on what makes the WiFi at work with a tomato router (vs some netgear wifi router) worse on battery than my home network. Work has maybe 7 clients connected at a time, vs probably just the phone at home. Any ideas on how to troubleshoot / debug. Packet sniffing on the WiFi didn't show anything that stood out.
Thanks!
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try adjusting some of the settings in the wireless advance settings also make sure your wifi is using the least crowed possible channel and 1,6,and 11 can overlap without interference. easy way to find the best channels is to use an app on a laptop or smartphone with wifi.
Android Wifi Analyzer Free in app store
windows insidder 3 free
Linux LinSSID free
*NOTE too much interfernce may cause network delays which in turn force rechecking connection due to lost packets. also it after trying the above the second thing it could be is possible routers wifi is slowly going out. I've had a linksys router do that. new ping was awesome for e.g playing league of legends 81 when wifi notice her wifi connection kept droping. rebooted router and it worked fine for a a while then did it again and slowly became more frequent ping also increased to 106. replaced router with a new one and ping dropped to 73 and 0 wifi drops or slow downs. hope this helps
I'm pretty sure it isn't interference. At home there are 15 strong WiFi stations across all channels. At work, there are only 2 other WiFi stations and mine is at a channel far from them, so the X-talk from WiFi is way better at work. Also when work moved, I saw no change (although WiFi wasn't crowded at only location either) so I think it has to do with the WiFi network and not the environment.
did you test to make sure wifi isnt dropping packets either as well as check routers wifi intervals
did you test to make sure wifi isnt dropping packets either as well as check routers wifi intervals
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How would you test if wifi is dropping packets? Just a ping on my phone? I can ping wireless consistently from my desktop, but that is over ethernet.
What do you mean by "wifi intervals"? Is that a setting I should see on my tomato firmware? "Beacon Interval" is set to 100, but I don't claim to understand that. "DTIM Interval" is set to 1.
Thanks,
exhibit679 said:
How would you test if wifi is dropping packets? Just a ping on my phone? I can ping wireless consistently from my desktop, but that is over ethernet.
What do you mean by "wifi intervals"? Is that a setting I should see on my tomato firmware? "Beacon Interval" is set to 100, but I don't claim to understand that. "DTIM Interval" is set to 1.
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yes that is correct for wifi intervals in the tomato firmware. look at This for better info for what each setting is for. the 3 main ones i would be adjusting as needed is Beacon Interval , Fragmentation Threshold and Interference Mitigation.To test pack loss anything thats on wifi and can ping router. So yeah your phone will work. just make sure you ping the routers ip address e.g for linksys 192.168.1.1
I haven't changed any of the wireless settings yet, but I do have more data. My phone sometimes is on the wifi and has normal (low) battery usage. Today from 9:30 - 12:30 it was great, but after 12:30 there was a discontinuity in the battery vs time graph as the slope decreased by over a factor of 3. Not sure what changed -- I don't see different devices on the wireless or higher wireless utilization. I'm thinking something in the wifi trips a setting or something on the wifi isn't completing on the phone and is draining the battery.
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Phone: Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo aka quark XT1254. Sunshine rooted, TWRP 3.1.1-0 for recovery.
Problem: WiFi constantly disconnects from network. Several seconds is the longest it has been connected before dropping. Issue persists on multiple WiFi networks as well as the following ROMs:
AospExtended-v4.0-quark-20170406-1925-OFFICIAL.zip
AospExtended-v4.2-quark-20170511-1731-OFFICIAL.zip
RR-N-v5.8.4-20170815-quark-Official.zip
crDroidAndroid-7.1.2-20170815-quark-v3.7.zip
Usually using open_gapps-arm-7.1-nano-20170817.zip
Tried flashing Clean_modem_status.zip followed by flashing MCG24.251-5-5+ModemFsg.zip and SU4TL-49_bl-radio_twrp.zip (while restoring from a backup of my original bootloader).
Any suggestions would be more than welcome. Thank you!
Same Issue here. For the life of me I can't figure it out. I think this is an issue with the phone and not the software.
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telpnr said:
Tried flashing Clean_modem_status.zip followed by flashing MCG24.251-5-5+ModemFsg.zip and SU4TL-49_bl-radio_twrp.zip (while restoring from a backup of my original bootloader).
Any suggestions would be more than welcome. Thank you!
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You've done almost everything I would suggest. Here's two more suggestions.
1) disable 5GHz band and use 2.4GHz only . 5Ghz is notoriously weak and you will get a lot of disconnections. Yes, 2.4GHz is slower but also much more stable -- and the signal goes for longer distances. 5GHz has much shorter broadcast range. I disable it on all the phones I touch. Once I disable it on my friends' phones, they no longer complain about Wi-Fi.
2) See if your Aggressive Handover setting is enabled and disable it. May be in Dev Options. That also causes Wi-Fi drops.
It could be a hardware issue. I've noticed an issue with my GPS reception (really, the lack of GPS reception) and I think it is a problem with the antennas in the phone. After I looked at a diagram of where the antenna are located for GPS and then pressing the phone front and back together in that spot, the signal would lock in. You might want to try something similar for where the wifi antenna are located. Here is the link to the diagram:
https://fccid.io/IHDT56PK1/Internal-Photos/Internal-Photos-2385106
If you look at the last image there the wifi antenna is located just underneath the gps antenna in the top corner of the phone.
Having the same issue with on a 32GB i just switched to from my 64GB which has been super slow even on a fresh install. I will be restoring to factory image this weekend and see if that fixes anything. My wifi stays connected though at least but gets 1-1.5mbps MAX and cell reception drops to 3G in about 80% of the places i easily got 4G at.
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I'd sign on to my home wi-fi. It showed as being connected and IP address found and then in a second or so WiFi Disconnected.
Verizon provides an app called Security & Privacy. I realized it was taking action if I tried to enter an unsecured wifi, such as that from optimum. I entered it and turned Wi-Fi security OFF.
Voilà! My wi-fi no longer drops.
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I'd sign on to my home wi-fi. It showed as being connected and IP address found and then in a second or so WiFi Disconnected.
Verizon provides an app called Security & Privacy. I realized it was taking action if I tried to enter an unsecured wifi, such as that from optimum. I entered it and turned Wi-Fi security OFF.
Voilà! My wi-fi no longer drops.
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Glad you got it straightened out. So it was a Verizon app problem...
For others who are not using this app, if your Wi-Fi always drops seriously consider disabling the 5GHz Wi-Fi band and check your Aggressive Handover setting.
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You've done almost everything I would suggest. Here's two more suggestions.
1) disable 5GHz band and use 2.4GHz only . 5Ghz is notoriously weak and you will get a lot of disconnections. Yes, 2.4GHz is slower but also much more stable -- and the signal goes for longer distances. 5GHz has much shorter broadcast range. I disable it on all the phones I touch. Once I disable it on my friends' phones, they no longer complain about Wi-Fi.
2) See if your Aggressive Handover setting is enabled and disable it. May be in Dev Options. That also causes Wi-Fi drops.
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Try to clear the cache on the phone. It fixed my issues. I found the app to clear one time but this time I just cleared the phone cache available from the boot menu.
I have this strange issue that has been with me almost since the beginning. I haven't been able to trace when it happens, but it now seems almost 100% of the time.
I only have WiFi in the house (wifi6, if it matters). If I go out, I only have 4G (I left only 4G and disabled 5G). I have no data until I put the phone into airplane mode and back, or I disable and re-enable mobile data.
Same thing when I go back in the house: no data until I disable and re-enable WiFi.
I've disabled the option for 'always-on mobile data' or similar, it's quite a battery drain if there's no cell signal.
Seems like a very strange bug, I don't have this with any of my other phones.
So you have both WiFi and 4G enabled and they don't switch seamlessly?
Exactly. I always have to restart each one of them, usually by toggling airplane mode. Was wondering if anyone else ran into this issue.
Ok this really is strange. There are 2(!) different toggles to enable data switching between WiFi and 4G, but for me it works flawlessly without them! As soon as I get out of my home WiFi range, 4G kicks in, and when I get in range again, the phone connects to my WiFi...
Hi, i have this problem too but it's not always.
I have a wifi 6 router too.
I also have problems switching from wifi to 4g. Need to toggle airplane mode on/off. 5g deactivated. No wifi 6 here.
I always assumed my vpn is causing problems during the switch to 4g. But hearing others have the same problem i would assume its zenfone problem.
I never had any issues in this area with my ZF8. With the option to have cellular always on I could walk out of my WiFi zone during a video call and no drop or short pause would appear.
With this off the network need a few second to work, and some apps need to be refreshed/restarted to gain connection. Never needed to toggle connection for this to work.
Maybe a reset would be enough or check for updates.
Ah, exactly! It does not necesarily need a network restart, but some apps just lose connection for a while, which can be from a few seconds to >1h. Which is even more weird as the icons are showing full connectivity. I would go out of the house, do stuff, come back later and I would only get the notifications when I'm back inside the house.
Rarely I had the connection drop completely (no signal) when switching, but I haven't noticed this happening since the last update.