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I didn't think posting this in each GB Rom thread and kernel thread would be appropriate so I'm starting here. Thanks in advance for any feedback!
Okay......After doing countless and wasted hours of searching and coming up empty handed, why is it that only a few of us are having the WIFI issue on the Gingerbread ROMs? It doesn't matter which ROM I use as soon as the screen cuts off, BAM, no WIFI or 3G data. And yes WIFI sleep policy is set to never and I've tried turning on Better WIFI performance and I've even tried every kernal out there, nothing works. FROYO ROMs are working fine so it's got to be either the Gingerbread ROMs or the Kernels.
Either way I'm okay with the issue not working (yet) and I understand that HTC hasn't released the source for the GB Kernel yet. All I would like is some clarification from the people that build these ROMs and Kernels that the WIFI is not working yet. I understand if you're in a 4G area, after all 4G is much faster than the WIFI anyway but for those of us not in a 4G area yet WIFI is king when at home or at work. So if the developers are using 4G constantly I understand the WIFI neglect, but I really don't think it's the developers. These guys are too smart to let something like that slide by! Can someone shed some light on the issue? Thanks again in advance!
This is not an issue with the leaked GB roms themselves or the latest kernels, because the wifi is working great for most people.
It is going to be helpful if you list which rom, kernel, and radio you are using. I did have a similar problem one time, my wifi was going to sleep when the screen turned off and went idle.
It had been working fine but I tried to take a shortcut and reflash the rom without wiping data because it was the same rom. After attempting that which was a bad idea but more of an experiment/learning session for me, I had exactly the problem that you stated.
After wiping my phone properly and flashing the rom, the problem was gone.
I have been running BAMF sence 3.0 with the MR2 radio. I tried MR2.5 and had some different small issues, MR2 has been working Great. Currently with BAMF 3.0 RC 3, the MR2 rom and the latest dreamKernel, everything is running perfectly, at least everything I use or thought of using.
The background data is extremely important for me because I communicate exclusively with my girlfriends using IM services such as gtalk with Trillian. So I wouldn't be able to run gingerbread if it wasn't working REALLY good.
Here's the thread that I use often as a resource. It discusses some issues similar to what you are dealing with, and is update very regularly
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1086518
I'm having an identical issue to the OP. Running BAMF GingerREMIX 2.1, Imoseyon's 3.3.8GBTest+ , MR2 radio.
Wifi just disconnects when screen is off. When I turn the screen on, i can see the wifi indicator is all black (similar to no bars). Once it's on for a second or two, it lights up again, and I get whatever notifications I missed due to no data(email, etc).
Ive done the 3x data, cache, and dalvik wipe before flashing the ROM and before flashing the Kernel. It's absolutely DESTROYING my battery life. Since noticing the problem, i've re-wiped and re-flashed everything, didn't help.
Thanks for the response...I'm stumped then because I have tried every combination of kernal/ROM that is available out of the Gingerbread leaks. I recently last night tried BAMF Sense 3.0 RC3 and GINGERTH3ORY V4.5.1 and BAMF 2.1 Remix again along with both MR2 and MR2.5 radios. Nothing worked so I went back to the reliable Perfect Storm 1.5 ROM and left my radio at MR2.5
Any suggestions? Thanks for the help!
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Thanks for the response...I'm stumped then because I have tried every combination of kernal/ROM that is available out of the Gingerbread leaks. I recently last night tried BAMF Sense 3.0 RC3 and GINGERTH3ORY V4.5.1 and BAMF 2.1 Remix again along with both MR2 and MR2.5 radios. Nothing worked so I went back to the reliable Perfect Storm 1.5 ROM and left my radio at MR2.5
Any suggestions? Thanks for the help!
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I'm having no issues with gingeritis 1.0 (Not the 3D Alpha), and lean kernel 3.4.0. Did you try those?
Wayloss said:
I'm having no issues with gingeritis 1.0 (Not the 3D Alpha), and lean kernel 3.4.0. Did you try those?
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I did try the gingeritis 1.0 3D with dreamkernel but not lean. Maybe I'll give that a shot this evening but I'm not holding my breath...lol I've tried almost everything and known combinations that are working for others and all the wipes I can muster, nothing is working.
Okay I've been trying Gingeritis 1.0 3d with the lean kernel for a few hours hours now. When my screen turns off I will receive emails for a few minutes but then I stop receiving them until I wake the the phone up. Once i wake the phone up i start receiving messages likevi just turned it on from a good nights sleep. Does anyone know what's going on?
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I've actually had this problem also ever since i moved to the Gingerbread. When the screen turns off and i turn it back off after awhile, the WiFi seems like it was sleeping the entire time. I get all my notifications when i turn the screen back on. And i do believe this has been killing my battery life a bit. I have wiped before i flashed. I tried it with the original GB radio/MR2/MR2.5. I've flash different kernels. Wifi sleep is set to never.
Note: I tried running an app such as Pandora on while the screen was off and only in situations like this the WiFi doesn't have the problem.
tethering is ****ed up as well in gb, screen off, no tether, screen on and everything is okay. personally i think that something is ****ed up at the kernel, i switched back to froyo and problems went away.
For the record.....if I set wifi sleep policy to never when plugged in I still receive notifications instantly but it's through 3G because when I wake the phone 3g is active instead of wifi.
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This is something I've brought up before too, but nobody addresses it because there probably isn't an answer about a whether it's the kernel or rom. I've just come to terms that I can't use wifi. For those who are suggesting we didn't clear data appropriately, that's not the issue. Most of us who have this wifi problem have been determined enough to try multiple clean installs to get to the bottom of this issue.
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This is something I've brought up before too, but nobody addresses it because there probably isn't an answer about a whether it's the kernel or rom. I've just come to terms that I can't use wifi. For those who are suggesting we didn't clear data appropriately, that's not the issue. Most of us who have this wifi problem have been determined enough to try multiple clean installs to get to the bottom of this issue.
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Shall I throw another quirk into our problem?............... I flashed CM7.1 RC1 early this morning. This is the best ROM I've put on my TBolt yet. WIFI seems to be working flawlessly except for right after the initial install it wouldn't download anything, through browser or even open the market. After a reboot, I'm going strong. I am receiving messages and data when phone's screen is off. I'm beginning to think that it might be a Sense 3.0 problem....any thoughts from the peanut gallery?
The problem with GB is that it is not official. The ROM is not final (or has been ported from a different phone), kernel is not final, and neither is the radio. We shouldn't be surprised that a lot of features don't work properly. Now cyanogen do their own Roms and kernels basically from scratch, and maybe that is why it's working. GB was fun to have, but i just switched to Froyo for faster 4g speeds, ability to tether properly and better battery life. I'll wait for the proper GB before switching again.
Yeah not Gingeritis 3d but the normal version.... I've noticed also that it seems settings don't change, Like I have turned off Haptic feedback yet still get it when i type on the keyboard, and still get weather sounds with the sounds turned off. This is every time I flash even with 5 wipes. Settings don't seem to stick.
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Yeah not Gingeritis 3d but the normal version.... I've noticed also that it seems settings don't change, Like I have turned off Haptic feedback yet still get it when i type on the keyboard, and still get weather sounds with the sounds turned off. This is every time I flash even with 5 wipes. Settings don't seem to stick.
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For the keyboard not turning off haptic feedback, you have to go to the settings in the keyboard to disable it. Settings->Language and Keyboard->Touch Input->Text Input->Uncheck Vibrate While Typing.
WI FI Alternative
And I thought I was the only one having problems with wifi tether on gingeritis 3D. I posted a question in a different forum but no one answered me. So after trying different versions of wireless tether I found one that is working perfectly for me. It is wireless tether v2.0.5. I've been using it for 2 days with no issues and phone screen doesn't have to be on. Now, this may not work for everybody, like I said I tried different versions until I found the right one.
Here is the link: http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/downloads/list
I hope this helps some of you.
Okay.......!!!!!!!! Thanks to the folks over at theMikMik.com (akaGingeritis ROMs) forums I now have working WiFi with the Gingeritis ROMs. Just download Advanced WiFi Lock from the Marketplace and set it up and you're good to go! Now that wasn't hard was it guys/gals? I've been looking for an answer for so long I can't even remember when I started....oh wait it was the first day that Gingerbread were available by these great developers!!!! Sorry, I didn't mean to vent, I'm not mad just very excited that now I can enjoy these Gingerbread ROMs. So everyone else that's having problems with the WiFi staying connected, download Advanced WiFi Lock from the Marketplace and get your Ginger on!
So is that the free version, or the paid version? You're finding that your WiFi now says connected even if the phone is sleeping? To do some more testing, I fully charged my phone, turned on my WiFi, and connected to my home wireless for 5 hours, just let the phone sit. Used 50% of my battery. Next day, same thing, but had WiFi off, 4g on. 5 hours later, used 15% of battery. Pretty sucky that I can't use my TB on my own home network.
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So is that the free version, or the paid version? You're finding that your WiFi now says connected even if the phone is sleeping? To do some more testing, I fully charged my phone, turned on my WiFi, and connected to my home wireless for 5 hours, just let the phone sit. Used 50% of my battery. Next day, same thing, but had WiFi off, 4g on. 5 hours later, used 15% of battery. Pretty sucky that I can't use my TB on my own home network.
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I'm using the free version as the paid doesn't offer any extra features I needed. I left my phone connected to WiFi all night idle, about 7.5 hours, and only used 13% of battery and received all messages. I can't test on 4G so please provide feedback for others.
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Not so lucky. Downloaded and installed advanced WiFi lock. Connected to my home wireless and see the same exact results. WiFi just sucking battery. Still draining at about 10% an hour on WiFi and about 3% an hour on 4g. I'm so confused over this, how is WiFi draining battery more than 4g? Phone isn't even usable on WiFi. Checking battery usage stats as noticed that the phone is constantly awake when WiFi is on.
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So today I decided I was bored with trigger and flashed project v because I'd heard really great comments about it. After a little more reading I flashed the Bali kernel which I'd had before. It's very fast but the only problem is I can't do anything that requires data usage without being connected to wifi. It's very annoying because although I'm in a bookstore at the moment and have wifi, I won't always have it and I'll be pissed when I can't use my phone. Has anyone else had this problem? Is there a solution? Thanks in advance!
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I have exactly the OPPOSITE problem. When I'm on wi-fi, internet connection will drop after approximately an hour and I can only use 3G to connect to the internet unless I turn wifi off and back on.
I tried re-flashing but it didn't really do anything. But in your case, it might be worth trying. Good luck!
Thanks, I'll try it in a few hours.
Yeah, i searched for this and apparently it was addressed in some firmware a while back, kF something. Im running the stock bell rom atm (kg2) with CFroot kernel, and the past two days I've noticed at some random time during the day, wifi sharing will randomly turn on and i will not notice.
It will then continue to run, eating up my cpu to the point where I've lost like 20% off my battery before i notice that my phone is randomly hot now and what the hell. The past two days its used 20% of my battery, and I've nEVER EVER tried to use wifi sharing ,seems to randomly turn itself on whenever it feels like.
Can anyone chime in? Especially a bell user, do you guys have this phantom wifi sharing thing going on too? I'm confused, because if samsung fixed it back in KF4 r something, why am i experiencing it in KG2?
Thanks...
I thought that issue was solved with KF3 and later, least I don't have it anymore.
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ithehappy said:
I thought that issue was solved with KF3 and later, least I don't have it anymore.
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Yeah, i read some threads on here, and all the people were like yay! its gone samsung fixed it. Don't know why or how I'm experiencing it, since the threads did say that using wifi has nothing to do with wifi sharing..
i was on KE7 i think and when i looked at the battery usage screen it had wi-fi sharing there at like 17% of the battery
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Can anyone chime in? Especially a bell user, do you guys have this phantom wifi sharing thing going on too? I'm confused, because if samsung fixed it back in KF4 r something, why am i experiencing it in KG2?
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I've only had my GS2 for a week and I am still running stock Bell ROM and kernel (KG2). I have noticed the same thing occasionally though. I was wondering if it has anything to do with these Gameloft games. I know they have ability to do multiplayer over wifi. Maybe they just leave the sharing service turned on even when exiting the game?
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I've only had my GS2 for a week and I am still running stock Bell ROM and kernel (KG2). I have noticed the same thing occasionally though. I was wondering if it has anything to do with these Gameloft games. I know they have ability to do multiplayer over wifi. Maybe they just leave the sharing service turned on even when exiting the game?
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Wow thank god I'm not the only one with a bell GSII that has this issue, its odd that samsung fixed it but it happens on our i9100 though. No it can't be, because the process actually labels as the wifisharing apk or w/e. Ive never ever launched any of the game loft games either.
So i think the only choice we have is to delete the app/freeze it using titanium backup or something?.. its pretty annoying because it always eats up at least 10-20% of my battery before i notice it.
Freeze it and WiFi Sharing Manager. It's about as useful as Bluetooth file transfer (i.e., hardly ever used by anyone), and if you do need it, you can always unfreeze it. Samsung really needed to add a toggle for it.
Freeze it with Titanium.
Does anyone know what this wifi sharing actually does? I can still tether and I can still use Kies once i froze it so what does this even do?
It seems just about anything will trigger WiFi sharing to come on. No app specific, almost random. I swear you cough and it'll come on sometimes.
But for us using the Bell S2, unless you want to gamble with a different Kernel (hit or miss on phone functionality issues), we're stuck with it until we get a fix through Kies.
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Freeze it with Titanium.
Does anyone know what this wifi sharing actually does? I can still tether and I can still use Kies once i froze it so what does this even do?
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Yes, you can still tether hot spot as well as connect to wi-fi or do anything when you freeze wi-fi sharing and wi-fi sharing manager. I can't beleive the Bell KG2 still has this problem. I had it on KE7 but one of the next firmwares seemed to fix it and it *never* triggers. I think Wi-fi sharing is kind of like bluetooth sharing where you can send files over wi-fi to another device. When browsing in file manager you can click share and share something over wi-fi, bluetooth, gmail. So I would assume that if you chose to share the file over wi-fi, that would be when wi-fi sharing would be invoked. I just don't know what devices would use wi-fi sharing...perhaps you'd need another SGS2
use titanium backup and freeze it and all of the other wifi apps you will see in the list. i froze everything that said wifi and not only did the issue go away, but wifi still works for surfing the net and downloading data.
from what i have read, in order to use wifi sharing the other device has to have that feature enabled as well, so its not like you can use it much anyways.
as for the previous commenters comment on trying another kernel and losing functionality, that has not been the case for me. check in the development section and read up on some of the kernels there. i am using the one with ninphetamine in the title and it works great