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So ever since I've gotten my Nexus One I've been noticing it drops out of a WiFi way too often. It does it both at home and at work on Wireless routers using the latest firmware. I've set the sleep policy to never go to sleep but most of the times I wake my phone up, I'll find it on 3G instead of the full strength WiFi it should be on. On 2.1 when I'd go into WiFi settings it would show the connection and say something along the lines of "Connection unsuccessful, tap to try again" and on 2.2 it just says "Disabled, Secured by blah blah blah". If I retry, it ALWAYS connects and WiFi will stay active for a short period of time before falling back to 3G.
Is there some way I can tell Android to retry the WiFi connection if it fails instead of just giving up? I've been looking through the WiFi API's on the Android Developer site and I'm this close to writing an application that will attempt to mitigate this issue for me.
If I'm within range of one of my pre configured networks, I want the phone to try it's hardest to stay on WiFi. If it loses connection, retry. It it can't get it after 5 retries, wait five minutes and try it again, don't just give up and mark the connection as disabled.
I've read tons of threads about people with WiFi issues and people always say "it's the router, it's the channel, etc, etc" but my WiFi works perfectly fine as long as there is a human to reconnect it if it drops.
Anyone else in the same boat as me?
ok so apparently I'm the only one with an N1 and a WiFi issue.......
I have the same exact issues.
I have the same issue as well and if it stays on I have to turn wifi off and back on so it will connect properly
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same issue here. i had been looking for an app that would force the connectivity, but the market doesn't seem to have it. just a bunch of crappy wifi on/off switcher management apps. i'm surprised that no one has hacked this function or built an app for it.
It's certainly a very annoying problem. Mine will go to known good wifi networks, at work, at home and at other locations where my other devices work flawlessly. I have a coworker with the exact same firmware (we updated using the same file) on a nexus one that has never seen this problem, which I find odd, but I'm fairly new to Android. It looks like a software or driver issue to me, but as I said, I'm new to Android.
My device shows the known networks as "Disabled", but I can connect manually.
Looks like it's worth me coding up an App to fix this then.
what kernel are you using? i used to have that problem but that has gone away with newer kernels. unfortunately a new problem has arisen where after being in standby for a while, wifi shows as connected but doesn't have an outside ip. wondering if its my rogers modem or not.
y2whisper said:
what kernel are you using? i used to have that problem but that has gone away with newer kernels. unfortunately a new problem has arisen where after being in standby for a while, wifi shows as connected but doesn't have an outside ip. wondering if its my rogers modem or not.
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2.6.32.9-27220-g328f560
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I've never tried a new kernel.. Is this something I should look into?
I'm running the same kernel.
BootsSiR said:
Looks like it's worth me coding up an App to fix this then.
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Personally I wouldn't do any work towards writing an app to fix this since it looks to me to be an OS or driver issue that should be resolved in a future release (hopefully in very short order).
An app would really just be a band-aid, but I'm the lazy type and I can deal with using my cell ular data when I don't feel like reconnecting my wifi.
Full disclosure: I'm a crummy programmer and it takes me forever to write stuff so I'm usually less inclined to do it.
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Personally I wouldn't do any work towards writing an app to fix this since it looks to me to be an OS or driver issue that should be resolved in a future release (hopefully in very short order).
An app would really just be a band-aid, but I'm the lazy type and I can deal with using my cell ular data when I don't feel like reconnecting my wifi.
Full disclosure: I'm a crummy programmer and it takes me forever to write stuff so I'm usually less inclined to do it.
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I'd rather take the time to fix it then wait for an update that may never arrive. Always fun digging into the API anyways
That's cool. I still find it a bit troubling, though, that some devices see it and some don't, using the same firmware, on the same wireless networks.
I guess it could be a board rev. difference or an app conflict or something. ::shrugs::
I have a similar problem. I use APNdroid to keep cellular data off and use wifi, but I continually have to reconnect wifi no matter what if I am not actively using it. Defeats the purpose of push email.
I downloaded APNdroid after checking data usage and finding that with wifi on there was still significant 3G leakage. Especially confusing with wifi set to never sleep and plugged in overnight.
On the plus side, APNdroid has netted me a lot more battery life, I can almost get two days and one night. I almost never use my spare battery anymore.
Just as an additional data point, I am having the exact same issue with 2.2 FRF83 (I had been on FRF50).
It looks to me like it is simply scanning all of the time and never associating with a known network. I'm not sure why it flags them as "Disabled", however.
Have you guys tried to set the "wi-fi sleep policy" to "never"
if not, try this:
Wifi settings->menu->advanced->wifi sleep policy->Never
safeplayer22 said:
Have you guys tried to set the "wi-fi sleep policy" to "never"
if not, try this:
Wifi settings->menu->advanced->wifi sleep policy->Never
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Yeah, it doesn't help, that was one of the first things I tried. Any time I leave and come back, the networks show as "Disabled". It's a frustrating issue in that it isn't consistant. It's 80% fail, 20% work.
I had my g1 for a year now and just now got my n1. I havent rooted it b/c of this bug. At first i couldnt listen online radio b/c as soon the display went out it would buffer the whole time. I played with the wifi router and the n1 wifi settings an managed to fix it somehow, BUT when i wake up in the morning for some od reason it lost connection and never reconnected again. So i can hear online radio with the display out but after some hours w/o online radio and just in standby it loses wifi connection and never connects again
This issue is not new. There is a thread on the google forum many pages long. Nobody hase even a clue where it could come from. Some1 on the forum said if u call support they will tell its ur routers fault.
The n1 completly ignores the sleep policy settings.
I have rooted two g1s with goldcard and still using one w/o a problem.
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I had my g1 for a year now and just now got my n1. I havent rooted it b/c of this bug. At first i couldnt listen online radio b/c as soon the display went out it would buffer the whole time. I played with the wifi router and the n1 wifi settings an managed to fix it somehow, BUT when i wake up in the morning for some od reason it lost connection and never reconnected again. So i can hear online radio with the display out but after some hours w/o online radio and just in standby it loses wifi connection and never connects again
This issue is not new. There is a thread on the google forum many pages long. Nobody hase even a clue where it could come from. Some1 on the forum said if u call support they will tell its ur routers fault.
The n1 completly ignores the sleep policy settings.
I have rooted two g1s with goldcard and still using one w/o a problem.
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Well, I know fore a fact it's not my access point. I am a network engineer and worked on wireless systems for years and debugging these types of problems is something I'm a bit obsessive about. This stinks of a software or driver problem to me. It could potentially be a hardware revision issue since we have a N1 that works perfectly in all scanerios.
I've tested this with the following access points:
Apple Airport Extreme
Apple Airport Express
Meru
Cisco 1231
Cisco 350
Belkin pre-n
Linksys WRT54G stock
Linksys WRT54G dd-wrt (I forget the build number)
Soekris Engineering running pfSense
All exhibit the same behavior, while my control devices (Apple iPhone 3g, Apple Macbook Pro and a MyTouch 3g running Cyanogen 2.1).
I wasn't aware that this was related to rooting, I'd be more than happy to move back to a stock ROM if that solved my problem. Maybe I'll try that today if I get some time.
Could you possibly post a link to the google forum you're referencing?
I'm currently digging through the alogcat output to see if there is anything interesting in there.
This issue is worse since I upgraded to 83. I'm actually holding off to try CM6 when it comes out to see if there is any better performance there. I'm not sure if he uses updated drivers or kernel that may give better wifi performance.
Last night I did the 8-finger salute reset and /data wipe, installed the Sideload-update and then the latest Auto-Nooter.
I had previously grabbed the com.google.android.apps.maps.apk, version 4.7.0 (#4707) from my Droid-1 and it worked on 1.0.0 so, I decided to install it on the 1.0.1 as well.
Imagine my surprise when I pulled up "Maps" and it has my location nailed down to within 70m. I'm not sure how it is getting location information from only wifi but, it is showing me at the neighbors house right this second which is about 20m error.
Has anyone else experienced this?
I have wiped data for Maps using Titanium just to make sure that there wasn't something left over and it still is picking up location somehow.
Attached is a screenshot that I just took.
Google Maps uses Wifi networks to help determine your location. The streetview cars mapped access points as they drove in order to build this database. This is not an error, and should work anywhere streetview data has been collected.
Ya... Been looking at articles about it in Google since I posted the message. That is very handy in an urban environment with dense wifi coverage.
Mine works with 1.0.0. It is pretty nice,but a little freaky, especially since there is no streetview coverage in my neighborhood.
I have seen this before too.
I just wish it would use wifi location data from a tethering cell phone.
Yes, I tried and it wouldn't, sadly.
Getting the NC to do nav is my greatest hope for it.
rogerdugans said:
I have seen this before too.
I just wish it would use wifi location data from a tethering cell phone.
Yes, I tried and it wouldn't, sadly.
Getting the NC to do nav is my greatest hope for it.
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Not possible since it's using wifi triangulation to determine where you are. I.e. it takes visible AP's and coordinates it with google's database to pinpoint where you are. Using the wifi tethering off your cel. Google doesn't know where your phone is since it's always moving and not hardmapped to a spot in their database.
rogerdugans said:
I have seen this before too.
I just wish it would use wifi location data from a tethering cell phone.
Yes, I tried and it wouldn't, sadly.
Getting the NC to do nav is my greatest hope for it.
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I think you're confused about how these "wifi-only" fixes are achieved. When Google (and others) have done street surveys, they were also mapping the RF footprint of wifi access points. You're getting a fix based on the name and relative signal strength of the APs that your NC can see.
Wick location is working great. It only claims 600m but it has me within about 10ft on the map.
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Mikroft and johnopsec:
Not confusion and yes, I have learned the error of my ways.
It had been a wild guess and a hope that was futile, obviously.
One of the things I hope to eventually be able to do with my NC is use it for nav instead of my phone: bigger screen is better, etc.
Until bluetooth gets fixed or found to be impossible I keep trying to figure out something and I probably won't stop trying.
And I will probably keep failing, of course, but such is life.
One odd note from a short while ago:
Prior to the B&N update, maps always had me pinned down to nearly exctly where my house is- now it has me about 1/2 a mile away more often than not.
It's pretty creepy, but yeah it shows me DEAD AT my house.... The radius of uncertainty literally covers my house.
BTW, maybe coincidence, but after I exited Google Maps I sat the NC down for a minute then noticed it was rebooting. Full reboot, but happily not a data clear or something, came back up like normal. Anyone else? Google Maps was the last thing I had installed and ran.
Can't wait for bluetooth to work on this thing.... Hopefully it does sometime in the near future anyway...
So any guesses why wifi location is working on Jon's nook and not others? Is this a product of the maps.apk off his droid, the 1.0.1 update, or auto nooter?
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So any guesses why wifi location is working on Jon's nook and not others? Is this a product of the maps.apk off his droid, the 1.0.1 update, or auto nooter?
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Network Location has to be enabled, one way or another.
I was promtped to enable it when I used auto-nooter, and I had found a hack somewhere to enable it before, when I rooted manually as I recall- perhaps it was a modified maps.apk?
Side note on accuracy:
Again, before the 1.01 update the accuracy on my nook was mostly right on.
Yesterday I was shown about 1/2 mile away.
This morning- about 1/4 mile away.
I have no idea why. No other changes with my network.
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So any guesses why wifi location is working on Jon's nook and not others? Is this a product of the maps.apk off his droid, the 1.0.1 update, or auto nooter?
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As said, it depends on if Google Street View cars visited your street while similar/same wifi access points are available at the location. That's how it knows. It sends up "I see access point X, Y, and Z" and Google says "You must be here". I suspect it particularly is more likely to work if one if them is unique, I suspect three "linksys" isn't going to get any results.
My AP name is unique and hasn't changed in 3 years, so I suspect that's why I'm shown at my exact location.
I just changed my SSID recently. Maybe it does it by MAC address though.
It is by MAC address. If it were purely by SSID, you would be in a million places if you were on one called linksys, wouldn't you?
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It is by MAC address. If it were purely by SSID, you would be in a million places if you were on one called linksys, wouldn't you?
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Well the only reason I even mentioned anything is because the post above me suggested that his location might be accurate due to the fact that he had a unique AP name that hasn't changed in ages.
Google currently uses 2 pieces of the data collected during the driving operation to build its database and provide location based services - the MAC address of the access point and the GPS co-ordinates of the vehicle at the point at which the access point was visible. This data is stored in aggregate form, and is used to provide the location based service.
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However they have also captured SSIDs. They must have gone by me pretty recently. I've changed routers within the last few months and even more recently cloned the MAC address.
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Well the only reason I even mentioned anything is because the post above me suggested that his location might be accurate due to the fact that he had a unique AP name that hasn't changed in ages.
However they have also captured SSIDs. They must have gone by me pretty recently. I've changed routers within the last few months and even more recently cloned the MAC address.
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Ahem, yeah, I was wrong. It goes by MAC/ESSID. So every AP is unique
So, as topic states, absolutely everything that might use data is disabled, and of course the most important one, main switch for "data enabled/disabled". Also switched on 2G-only at the moment. But still, it seems my "cost counter" is creeping upward slowly, and no calls made, nothing.
Anyone else noticed anything like this? And since I'm currently on a "General Plan" and not a "Internet" one, data is much more expensive so this isn't good, mildly put.
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So, as topic states, absolutely everything that might use data is disabled, and of course the most important one, main switch for "data enabled/disabled". Also switched on 2G-only at the moment. But still, it seems my "cost counter" is creeping upward slowly, and no calls made, nothing.
Anyone else noticed anything like this? And since I'm currently on a "General Plan" and not a "Internet" one, data is much more expensive so this isn't good, mildly put.
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what the hell... more and more bugs... by the minute.. sucks
Just install APNdroid. It should solve your problem and you don't need to turn off any of those settings.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.code.apndroid&feature=search_result
That program dosent look to promising,
I had the same problem as you, but i managed to somehow corrected it, i uninstalled goggle maps with titanium backup and then i disabled data roaming i then downloaded an app that could tell which programs that where going on the net, and as for now i have only used around 50mb in the past days , and it havent risen without me using the phone for net things.
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Sadly, APNDroid can easily be "corrected" by most carriers. And about maps, well, i want maps :C And as noted _everything_ is disabled that might even relate to using data.
No problems here. Been in Belgium and Germany, so It should have been romaing... but nothing happend...
why is it not promising? i am using APN onoff, and i think it works pretty well. They directly changed your apn name in the setting, which mean there is no way you can connect to your data, so you are safe from unwanted data download/upload.
I found out That maps have nothing to do with the data, but i dont dare turn on data roaming.. to the apn program, i dont like what the reviews says about it, and i dont want a third party program to turn off the data connection
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I have an issue here where Google.com doesn't load when the revolution is in a 3G area. It will only load Google.com when it's in a 4G network. I talked to a tech guy from Verizon Wireless who happens to have the same phone and his phone does the same thing when the phone is in 3G mode.
I was wondering if the owners of this phone can do a little test for me to see if your Revolution behaves the same way.
Instructions:
1. Go to Settings -> Wireless & Networks -> Mobile Networks -> System Select -> Network Mode
2. Change Network Mode to "CDMA Only"
3. The Phone should restart
4. Turn on the browser
5. Go to google.com
6. See if it loads
This definitely will help me and all the other owners of this phone that may have this issue. My assumption is that our phones may be faulty on the old 3G networks. The VZW tech got a Samsung Charge on his desk and the website loaded perfectly fine under 3G mode so the network theoretically is all good.
If the phone turns out to be faulty, we all may have a phone that was partially broken the whole time.
Also, if your phone does behave this way, DO NOT EXCHANGE THE PHONE. I already have and it behaves the same way.
Note: The exchanged phone HAS NOT been rooted yet. Rooting doesn't appear to have any affect on the browsing capability.
EDIT: You may have to clear the cache because the browser may bring up the page from old data. Gmail.com doesn't work as well through the browser.
Testing now. Will edit this when I find out. Also, this will prolly get moved to general. Fair warning.
EDIT: I loaded Google just fine. and I only had 1 bar of service in 3G compared to the 2 bars I get with 4G in my house. That is kinda weird to me but whatever
oh my bad.... haha
Works fine here for me too. Maybe a little slower, but it still loads.
I am in a 3G only area with wifi turned off...Google did load, albeit very slowly. other pages are loading pretty quickly...
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I have an issue here where Google.com doesn't load when the revolution is in a 3G area. It will only load Google.com when it's in a 4G network. I talked to a tech guy from Verizon Wireless who happens to have the same phone and his phone does the same thing when the phone is in 3G mode.
I was wondering if the owners of this phone can do a little test for me to see if your Revolution behaves the same way.
Instructions:
1. Go to Settings -> Wireless & Networks -> Mobile Networks -> System Select -> Network Mode
2. Change Network Mode to "CDMA Only"
3. The Phone should restart
4. Turn on the browser
5. Go to google.com
6. See if it loads
This definitely will help me and all the other owners of this phone that may have this issue. My assumption is that our phones may be faulty on the old 3G networks. The VZW tech got a Samsung Charge on his desk and the website loaded perfectly fine under 3G mode so the network theoretically is all good.
If the phone turns out to be faulty, we all may have a phone that was partially broken the whole time.
Also, if your phone does behave this way, DO NOT EXCHANGE THE PHONE. I already have and it behaves the same way.
Note: The exchanged phone HAS NOT been rooted yet. Rooting doesn't appear to have any affect on the browsing capability.
EDIT: You may have to clear the cache because the browser may bring up the page from old data. Gmail.com doesn't work as well through the browser.
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...we all do have a partially broken phone, but, it is what it is. on my phone, using the official Twitter app, bit.ly links will not work on 3G or WiFi with 3G radio on... they sit for days... but on 4G, and wifi with 3G radio turned off works as expected...
on topic: every once and again, google is stupid on all android phones i've had, (droid 2, x, evo, incredible, and this one) it's set to my home page, and what I do is i hit menu>>windows>> and then close the current window with nothing loaded. usually google then loads right up.
true true... but I expect Google.com to at least work on all networks. It is a Google phone.
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true true... but I expect Google.com to at least work on all networks. It is a Google phone.
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You are very wrong grasshopper. It is not a google phone. If you will note, it is loaded with Bing. It's a move to try to get away from the Google apps, due to crap that is above everyone's pay grade. There is stuff Google is dabbling in, that some companies don't entirely appreciate. Everything from their Earth program to geopolitical stuff.
As far as your issue, I don't have it either. I cleared the history and cache from my stock browser and Dolphin Browser. And then went in to the stock browser and loaded Google.com just fine.
As far as my messaging post here (in the development section) it must have just been the aliens, cuz now my messaging is working fine.
I have yet to find my phone's "issue"
I have noticed this as well. Google reader and google voice apps do not work for me unless I am on wifi. All other apps/websites seem to work fine.
I have noticed that google.com is slow all the time on my phone. I'm in a 4G area. I was just about to load the decrappified ROM to see if it fixed the problem.
Search for "set dns" on google market. I had sort of the same problem and using this solved it. In a nutshell, the DNS entry that came shipped on the phone doesn't work for 3g. Setting it to google DNS or OpenDNS solved the issue immediately. I'll have to find the article where I found this solution, I'll post the link when I find it again.
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markapowell said:
You are very wrong grasshopper. It is not a google phone. If you will note, it is loaded with Bing. It's a move to try to get away from the Google apps, due to crap that is above everyone's pay grade. There is stuff Google is dabbling in, that some companies don't entirely appreciate. Everything from their Earth program to geopolitical stuff.
As far as your issue, I don't have it either. I cleared the history and cache from my stock browser and Dolphin Browser. And then went in to the stock browser and loaded Google.com just fine.
As far as my messaging post here (in the development section) it must have just been the aliens, cuz now my messaging is working fine.
I have yet to find my phone's "issue"
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What I meant to say is, the Android platform was designed by Google. The Bing add-ins is an unfortunate extra that can't be changed by a novice user. The situation is kinda like having a Windows 7 computer that can't go on microsoft.com.
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Search for "set dns" on google market. I had sort of the same problem and using this solved it. In a nutshell, the DNS entry that came shipped on the phone doesn't work for 3g. Setting it to google DNS or OpenDNS solved the issue immediately. I'll have to find the article where I found this solution, I'll post the link when I find it again.
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Holy huge difference in speed! This app fixed all of my slow 3g load issues!
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Man you are awesome. This has fixed my issues with google reader and voice and has tremendously sped up my 3g load time
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Search for "set dns" on google market. I had sort of the same problem and using this solved it. In a nutshell, the DNS entry that came shipped on the phone doesn't work for 3g. Setting it to google DNS or OpenDNS solved the issue immediately. I'll have to find the article where I found this solution, I'll post the link when I find it again.
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Good find. Fixed my google+ app not working. I was getting constant unable to contact servers. Changed out the DNS and the app and data came up almost instantly.
H.
Good Find. Not sure if its speeding anything up. I've had to switch to Opera Mini because of horrendous connectivity issues with the stock browser, XScope? I'm hoping maybe this will speed up connections. Biggest complaint besides battery life I have about this phone. Using a browser is not a pleasant experience. If anyone has any suggestions to make that experience good, I'll take them.
It worked for a few hours, now its super slow again.
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Good Find. Not sure if its speeding anything up. I've had to switch to Opera Mini because of horrendous connectivity issues with the stock browser, XScope? I'm hoping maybe this will speed up connections. Biggest complaint besides battery life I have about this phone. Using a browser is not a pleasant experience. If anyone has any suggestions to make that experience good, I'll take them.
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Personally I use Dolphin broswer. Me and all of my Android using buddies feel that its faster and smoother than any of the other broswers. Hope this helps your issue.
Dolphin hd is what I use
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nfederic said:
It worked for a few hours, now its super slow again.
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Oh, right. I should clarify: this doesn't actually "speed up" your connection. It keeps your phone from having to wait until it's (bad) dns query times out. While this will resolve the slow downs caused by dns queries, it won't fix any other cause.
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So i recently switched from sprinit to verizon and at the sametime updated my phone with the new system update. Since then my gps randomly stops keeping track of my location in a trip. I downloaded a gps tool from the app store and when it happens i use the app to reset my gps and it works. But then later if I use google maps again it randomly gives me the same issue. Its a easy enough fix but its annoying to have to keep doing that.
Was hoping there was some kind of fix or am I just unlucky and the gps is starting to go out.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Check here...settings, connections, mobile network. Make sure u r on lte/cdma for Verizon
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chefjl said:
Check here...settings, connections, mobile network. Make sure u r on lte/cdma for Verizon
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Ya it was set to global. Hopefully it fixes it. Will test it out later when i need to leave work.
Having the same issue. I believe it started occurring after software update: N950USQU7DSL5 which was pushed out early February for me.
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Having the same issue. I believe it started occurring after software update: N950USQU7DSL5 which was pushed out early February for me.
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Ya I switched over from global to lte/cmda like chefji suggested and it helped were its not occuring as much but I still have the issue. Hopefully it gets fixed. If not i may have to try to revert back to an older update.
I just saw this thread after posting my questio above. Same issue and I'm on Verizon too. Mine has always been a Verizon phone. I dont recall exactly when the problem started but definitely within last 2 months. Never had issues before. For me, the workaround seems to be to use an app called GPS Fix/Optimizer and on the home page of that app, click on the button that says System off on bottom left and turn it to System on. I hate having to do these extra steps and never had a problem with any other Android phone doing this.
Try wiping the Cache Partition. If that doesn't help, backup your device and perform a Hard Factory reset.
iceepyon said:
Try wiping the Cache Partition. If that doesn't help, backup your device and perform a Hard Factory reset.
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Wipe cache partition but there is no reason to do a hard factory reset. This is a GPS problem and not a software issue. It is not isolated to Note 8 phones but seems to affect S9, S9+, Note 9, Note 10, and possibly a few others. It also started early Feb after Note 8's received a security update and the others received the Android 10 update. Samsung, Google, and especially Verizon are all pointing fingers at each other for blame instead of working together to try and come up with a fix. One thing I have found is that unlike the countless Android phones I have had in the past, there is absolutely no way to control the GPS. There no longer is an on/off switch. The best available choice is to search deep in settings to find Location but the only thing it controls is on/off switches for Wifi Scanning or bluetooth scanning. Turning both of those on now is considered High Accuracy. The only thing that has worked for me is using an app called GPS Fix/Optimizer in conjunction with an app called GPS Status. By using both of those apps before using Waze or Google maps, allows me to successfully navigate and it can find my exact position. I have also discovered that besides Waze and G Maps, many are reporting the same kind of problem with other location based apps such as Uber and Lyft. This needs to be fixed and I could care less which company is at fault but one of them needs to step up or all need to come together and figure out the problem...
mikeyk101 said:
Wipe cache partition but there is no reason to do a hard factory reset. This is a GPS problem and not a software issue. It is not isolated to Note 8 phones but seems to affect S9, S9+, Note 9, Note 10, and possibly a few others. It also started early Feb after Note 8's received a security update and the others received the Android 10 update. Samsung, Google, and especially Verizon are all pointing fingers at each other for blame instead of working together to try and come up with a fix. One thing I have found is that unlike the countless Android phones I have had in the past, there is absolutely no way to control the GPS. There no longer is an on/off switch. The best available choice is to search deep in settings to find Location but the only thing it controls is on/off switches for Wifi Scanning or bluetooth scanning. Turning both of those on now is considered High Accuracy. The only thing that has worked for me is using an app called GPS Fix/Optimizer in conjunction with an app called GPS Status. By using both of those apps before using Waze or Google maps, allows me to successfully navigate and it can find my exact position. I have also discovered that besides Waze and G Maps, many are reporting the same kind of problem with other location based apps such as Uber and Lyft. This needs to be fixed and I could care less which company is at fault but one of them needs to step up or all need to come together and figure out the problem...
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Hello, I am having the same problem. I have a Galaxy Note 8 from AT&T, this problem started end of February, workaround is to switch the location OFF and then back ON but is annoying. I reset network, clear cache and nothing fixed the problem so I thought was a problem in the phone itself so I submitted a claim to Asurion, got the brand new replacement phone and the following day exact same problem appeared.
Now reading this thread I am fully convinced that is a bug. I hope it gets solved ASAP.
I posted about this on another thread and what I have stumbled on:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=82337821&postcount=18
I have seemed to narrow it down to it only happening when I connect my Note 8 to my 2016 Chevy Silverado and use Waze or Google maps on my radio via Android Auto. I made a few changes that I mentioned in the above thread to the battery settings for a couple apps. Because of the VID, I haven't been driving as much so I haven't done a lot of testing but this has seemed to help.
Well I thought it was fixed but it doesnt seem to be and it really seems to be an Android Auto glitch. Just yesterday, I had to run a couple errands and had phone plugged in for Android Auto. First couple trips, it worked just fine. Then one more trip, all I saw was the floating blue dot in Waze. While still plugged in to my Chevy, I went to GPS Fix and clicked to turn system on. I then went to GPS Status and it couldnt get a location fix. In GPS Status, I also selected Manage A-GPS State. First I tried reset and no fix. Then I did download and again, no fix. I gave it a little bit of time to see if it would work but it didnt. So next I unplugged my phone from my Chevy and again checked in GPS Status and no fix. I again went into Manage A-GPS State, reset, no fix, then download, and it fixed on my location right away. So for me, this is really pointing to an Android Auto issue. Hopefully a fix will come along soon...
Just to add, Waze had already been started once I fired up the Android Auto on the My Link Chevy radio as I had started a route. Waze was still running in the background when I disconnected from my Chevy radio so that kind of eliminates Waze as the problem, at least for me. Especially when GPS Status couldnt get a fix while I still had Android Auto running on my Chevy but as soon as I disconnected and ran through the GPS Status reset and download, I had a fix and Waze worked fine again.
Has this been resolved yet? Any fixes found?
Not completely resolved yet but the annoying workaround gets it working again. It should just work on it's own without all the extra steps. And I was able to get semi confirmation after creating a thread in the Google Support sub forum for Android Auto. I am being told that when plugging in the phone to use Android Auto that Android Auto attempts to also connect to the gps in my Chevy. It's kind of confusing and dont quite understand exactly what is happening. My vehicle does not have a dedicated gps system but I am being told that there could be some kind of GPS in the vehicle anyway and that could be causing the problem. I call BS on this info but I also didnt have any part of creating Android Auto. If this is what is happening, it pretty much says that Android Auto is probably the cause of the issue. I dont need military precision on my gps location and my phone inside my house will give me an accuracy of around 10 feet. No reason to be more accurate than that and this shouldn't even be a part of the Android Auto app.
https://support.google.com/androidauto/thread/45792804?hl=en
I posted this in the other thread but I'll add it here for completeness. I'm having the same issue on an unbranded note 8. But I'm not using android auto. I can use gps tools and it holds a lock fine. But if additional programs are launched, waze, maps, jbv1 I lose lock.
My Note 8 has the problem, I am not using WAZE, I am using The FitBit App with my VERSA 2, My Husband has the Note 9 and is using the FitBit App with his VERSA 2. His resulting miles walked and my resulting miles walked should be almost identical. They are not. I am consistently showing less miles than he does. When looking at the exercise map, generated by the GPS data, His walk path follows the streets we walked accurately, while mine cuts the corners, has me walking in drunken path across the properties located near the road and in some instances cutting across non walkable terrain. Giving me less mileage than my husband. Thankfully, my steps are accurately accounted for. I want this problem fixed. I don't like being cheated of my exercise miles.
Any update here? Note8 on Verizon. Having the same problem with Endomondo (fitness app) and Google Maps. Hard reset phone, and it's still problematic. For me, it might start out working fine, then midway thru a run it will stop. Usually resetting the app will make it work again.
I use T-mobile, and I tried just about everything and almost gave up. Today I was thinking that mayve its the wifi and bluetooth settings helping the GPS so I went to location and turned off the wifi and bluetooth improve accuracy settings and problem is fixed for me! So much headache gone. I was about to buy a new phone.
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I use T-mobile, and I tried just about everything and almost gave up. Today I was thinking that mayve its the wifi and bluetooth settings helping the GPS so I went to location and turned off the wifi and bluetooth improve accuracy settings and problem is fixed for me! So much headache gone. I was about to buy a new phone.
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Keep us updated if this continues to work. I will try this as well to see if it helps on mine too.
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I use T-mobile, and I tried just about everything and almost gave up. Today I was thinking that mayve its the wifi and bluetooth settings helping the GPS so I went to location and turned off the wifi and bluetooth improve accuracy settings and problem is fixed for me! So much headache gone. I was about to buy a new phone.
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I just tried this and it failed location fix right away after opening Waze in Android Auto on my Chevy. So still searching for a real fix...
Well it looks like the Android Auto developers are starting to listen. After creating a thread on their google community page months ago, and numerous others posting same issue, they said they were going to reach out to several posters by email with directions on creating a bug report to forward to them. They claim they have been unable to recreate the problem and wanted bug reports from several having the problem so they could take a look. I had another failure today on a trip so I created a bug file and forwarded it. We shall see what they find...