I just got my S3 today and it has been great so far save for one issue. I seem to be experiencing really bad WiFi performance. I ran a speed test using the speedtest.net app on my iPhone 4 and got around 8 megabits per second down. However, when I ran the same test on my S3, I got about 1 megabit per second down consistently between numerous tests.
I don't have this issue while using LTE, which makes me think that it is a problem with the WiFi antenna. Is anyone else experiencing this issue?
Thanks
Mine runs perfect on both 2.4ghz and 5ghz bands through wifi.
Getting 30Mbits down and 22Mbits up.
does this happen on when connected to any wifi? or just particular one?
Make sure your phone is not on Power Save mode.
caveman999 said:
I just got my S3 today and it has been great so far save for one issue. I seem to be experiencing really bad WiFi performance. I ran a speed test using the speedtest.net app on my iPhone 4 and got around 8 megabits per second down. However, when I ran the same test on my S3, I got about 1 megabit per second down consistently between numerous tests.
I don't have this issue while using LTE, which makes me think that it is a problem with the WiFi antenna. Is anyone else experiencing this issue?
Thanks
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Try forcing the WIFI to 2.4GHZ and see if that improves things
TranceMission18 said:
Mine runs perfect on both 2.4ghz and 5ghz bands through wifi.
Getting 30Mbits down and 22Mbits up.
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Well, I have tested and yes you can get great speeds via the wifi, however something is quite wrong with it too, see my bug post in this subforum.
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I have my wifi forced to 5GHz and just now at work I got 49ms ping 33449kbps down and 38990kbps up to a server that is ~200 miles away. Seems to be working fine to me
I have the same issue. It's not as fast as my s2 on WiFi.also sometimes it loses signal and the WiFi turns off by itself and then on. It's really weird
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Thanks for all the suggestions. It might have just been a temporary thing because I wiped the cache on my phone using the default recovery, rebooted the phone a few times and now its fine.
I'll keep testing it to check if this issue comes back, but ad of now I'm just glad that it is working now.
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Make sure your phone is not on Power Save mode.
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That made a HUGE difference for me. From 5mbit/s to 50mbit/s downstream. THANK YOU.
I've had issues also with it "re-initiating wifi" after waking, even though set to keep wifi always... feel like this is truly a bug. Dropping wifi frequently...
Same issue with wifi. I also notice a difference every time as well if I single handly hold the phone back case mid section or higher. Bars go from 4 to 2 or 1. Then back to 4 if I move my hand and palm below the buttons.
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That made a HUGE difference for me. From 5mbit/s to 50mbit/s downstream. THANK YOU.
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I take that back, now I'm getting 10mbit/s down when my laptop does 50mbit/s down shortly after. Tried a few more times, same results. Something is not right with WiFi on this device. It lost 5gHz signal when i stepped outside, not more than 10m from the base station.
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I take that back, now I'm getting 10mbit/s down when my laptop does 50mbit/s down shortly after. Tried a few more times, same results. Something is not right with WiFi on this device. It lost 5gHz signal when i stepped outside, not more than 10m from the base station.
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Yeah, I have continued to test the wifi on the phone and I am getting inconsistent performance. I hope this can be fixed in a software update and isn't a hardware defect.
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we had a few galaxy nexus phones in our office that had horrible wifi performance/signal. i believe that device used the BCM4330 chipset.. which is odd, because my 4s has that same chip (i believe) and the wifi performance/range is great - can anyone confirm what the S3 uses?
Mines keep disconnecting and reconnecting
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I posted this in another wifi complaint thread. I don't know if anyone has tried.
I had this problem on my Captivate. It was not very obvious, because the disconnects were so brief. I discovered while working with some Tasker WiFi settings.
The fix was to set my phone to use static addresses. You can use WiFi Static in order to achieve static addresses only where you want. I am using this on my S3, so I don't know if I would have problems without it.
I'd be curious to know if this helps anyone.
My wifi keeps disconnecting and it's driving me crazy anyone have a solution?
Not at all. In fact, when I ran tests against my iPhone 4S my Galaxy S3 on WiFi got faster data speeds every time.
Wifi problem went away for me. Although I know for a fact it's not as fast as it should be.. I'm going to double check my router to make sure
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Router: Netgear Wndr3400
ROM: vipermod
The image below is of a scan I did in WiFi analyzer. Scan frequency of 1 second.
As you can see its very frustrating. And its not like I have a poor signal.
I have searched everywhere and tried many things. (Turning WiFi performance on, messing with the channels)
No dice.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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wifi settings>menu>advanced.wifi sleep policy>never.
It has always been on never. First thing I checked.
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It has always been on never. First thing I checked.
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Sorry, you didn't list that in your OP. Sounds like a trip to Sprint repair is in order. You've already done the only other fix I've heard of, changing channels.
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Sorry, you didn't list that in your OP. Sounds like a trip to Sprint repair is in order. You've already done the only other fix I've heard of, changing channels.
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It's cool. I will keep trying. See if I can diagnose the problem. I have read about others with similar problems with the 3d and my router but no conclusive answer.
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It's cool. I will keep trying. See if I can diagnose the problem. I have read about others with similar problems with the 3d and my router but no conclusive answer.
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Good luck, and let us know what you find.
No, no this has to deal with the roms we download. I was on Cm7 and it constantly dropped when i was on my phone surfing the web. Switched to nightley 150+ #build and it did not drop on me. I recently Switched to MIUI and it has started to drop on me, this is frustrating when you need to download a rom.
My only guess is it has to deal with the roms we download. Before anyone says anything no, my wifi is on a NO SLEEP policy, it not likes to drop the wifi while im surfing the web.
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It's not the rom. I had the same problem with my EVO3d before and after rooting and trying multiple roms. I tried a different router and haven't had a single problem. It is clearly and issue between the router and the phone. Now I just need to figure out why they don't get along. Ive heard about switching channels but haven't had a chance yet.
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It's not the rom. I had the same problem with my EVO3d before and after rooting and trying multiple roms. I tried a different router and haven't had a single problem. It is clearly and issue between the router and the phone. Now I just need to figure out why they don't get along. Ive heard about switching channels but haven't had a chance yet.
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Ya, your right its not the rom. I tried switching channels from auto to the one i needed but it didn't help and then i went back to auto and it worked well for a bit. Now it isn't working well.
Notes + im on a HTC Increíble. My router cost me 139$, ive never had a problem vía wifi nor on ethernet. This is strictly something on these roms, trust me ive looked into this alot. The only conclusion is that..
If you think about, did your signal drop with your stock rom? Not mine.. Until i Switched to Cm7 i randomly have connection issues? Lol
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Notes + im on a HTC Increíble. My router cost me 139$, ive never had a problem vía wifi nor on ethernet. This is strictly something on these roms, trust me ive looked into this alot. The only conclusion is that..
If you think about, did your signal drop with your stock rom? Not mine.. Until i Switched to Cm7 i randomly have connection issues? Lol
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You keep mentioning cm7. I'm assuming u do not have an evo3d correct? And my stock phone straight out of the box and after rooting and flashing a custom rom had the same problem with one of my routers. It works just fine with other routers. Also the signal doesnt fade or drop like with my og EVO, it simply disconnects then reconnects 30 seconds later.
Edit: just realized you said u have an incredible. Also no other phone or device, including my old EVO, has had this problem. There must be a setting within my router that isn't playing nice because it is the only router my EVO3d has a problem with.
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On my OG evo the only time i had problem with wifi was on cm7 but that was just weak signal. Nothing like this. If you like at my pic in the first post it is scanning every second. so its not like its disconnecting for 30 seconds. Which is weird because it says im connected the whole time.
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You keep mentioning cm7. I'm assuming u do not have an evo3d correct? And my stock phone straight out of the box and after rooting and flashing a custom rom had the same problem with one of my routers. It works just fine with other routers. Also the signal doesnt fade or drop like with my og EVO, it simply disconnects then reconnects 30 seconds later.
Edit: just realized you said u have an incredible. Also no other phone or device, including my old EVO, has had this problem. There must be a setting within my router that isn't playing nice because it is the only router my EVO3d has a problem with.
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Hmm, that's odd I am having the same problem but only its not my router.
But yeah, I'm usually on for 30 minutes to an hour and it drops for 20-30 seconds. Disrupting my downloads, I have heard there is a program for I think what you need axe. You said it's refreshing every second? If I'm right I remember seeing you could change your refresh rate somewhere to save battery life too.
So we have the same problem but different issues.
Hmm...
Edit------ My old router was terrible and did not want to cooperate with any of these devices I use. So I bought a 139$ Router and works perfect.
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Hmm, that's odd I am having the same problem but only its not my router.
But yeah, I'm usually on for 30 minutes to an hour and it drops for 20–30 seconds. Disrupting my downloads, I have heard there is a program for I think what you need axe. You said it's refreshing every second? If I'm right I remember seeing you could change your refresh rate somewhere to save battery life too.
So we have the same problem but different issues.
Hmm...
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naw the refresh rate i was talking about was just how frequent it scanned the signal strength in wifi analyzer.
Ahh, lol sorry then. I just wish we could find a root to this problem.
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ya.
Just some more info on my problem.
When i run a speed test the ping is very quick (~50ms)
But once the download test starts it just dies. It freezes on a number then goes to "network communication issues"
Hmm, yeah it might be a router problem for you guys.
When I do that it finishes, I'm just having wifi issues.
Mine occur only in certain roms as stated above, with miui and cm7. Nightley though worked, I didn't have any drops. I'm thinking about switching to a sense 3.0 here soon to see how it stands up.
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I've had similar issues with stock and custom ROM's on my old Hero. I started having similar problems with my 3VO, so the first thing I did was reset the wireless settings on my router to default and then redo the SSID, change the channel and power setting, and of course - change the password.
I haven't had a problem ever since.
I had the problem on my Stock ROM. Actually it only showed up when connecting to my N router, but did not happen when connecting to my G router. However my issue I had to turn off the radio and then back on before it would reconnect. I downloaded something called WiFi fixer. This fixed my issues completely. Hmmm, might have to play with some different kernels and turn off the fixer and see what happens.
Check router firmware netgear.com/support. They have WiFi issues on 3700 maybe yours too
Thought I'd share my tests for bandwidth, bluetooth and GPS using them with various test scenarios and comparisons.
Background info: I bought the Prime last week at Best Buy. I pretty much pulled it out of the box and ran all the OTA updates, so I have ICS and it's got the latest updates. Not rooted.
Serial: BCOKAS11**** (Gray, 32 GB)
Network: Ran the test at my house. I'm probably hitting my upload bandwidth on all the tests, so it may not be the best test for upload bandwidth. My average bandwidth on a computer is about 11.8 mbps down, 1.7 mbps up. I only run G Wifi at my house. I have an older N router, but it slows down my network overall... so I have it disabled.
The Speed test image below are the following scenarios (pictured from top to bottom):
- Wifi, GPS, bluetooth earpiece paired using Google Music
- Wifi, bluetooth earpiece paired using Google Music
- Wifi, GPS, bluetooth on
- Wifi and GPS
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As you can see, BT streaming kills about half of the bandwidth from wifi. This isn't great, but I can live with that.
Next test are for GPS. Sorry the pics are so big, I'll try to fix that later. These were done outside my house in a Michigan suburb with GPS Test and are picture in the following order (you can tell by the icons in the dock):
- All Radios on, connected to my Wifi network, Bluetooth using Google Music
- Wifi on connected to network and GPS on
- GPS only on
It took less than a minute to start picking up satellites, but no where near as fast as my phone. I am not too familiar with these read-outs.
I'm clearly picking up some GPS satellites outside. I seemed to be able to get some signal in my house.
Overall, I pretty happy with the tablet. It does have a few bugs that could be related to ICS like the slow browser issue and some FCs. I don't have any light bleeding, but my eye aren't that great either. I was really worried about this thing after everything I've read on here, but I think I must have got the keeper model.
I'm new to xda, so throw me a 'thanks' if this helps you! Thanks!
Links to your pictures dont work, guessing they are not in the public section of dropbox
Argh... standby. Guess that's why I'm still a 'Junior Member'.
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Links to your pictures dont work, guessing they are not in the public section of dropbox
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Can you see them now? It blew up the ones of the GPS screens after I did that. They weren't that big originally. Thanks for pointing it out.
I have the same tablet 32gb grey and mine is also BCOKAS11XXXX like yours.
Mine is perfect except wifi the wifi/bt issue.
So this batch is good , and mine confirms that the wifi/bt problem is hw related.
I'm afraid no firmware update will solve that, but I still hope.
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I'm afraid no firmware update will solve that, but I still hope.
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I heard that the same problem exists on cell phones, but I've never tried that for comparison.
Very weak signal compared to other devices, and this has come up a million times, yes it works. Yes it has a very weak signal.
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Very weak signal compared to other devices, and this has come up a million times, yes it works. Yes it has a very weak signal.
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Well, there are a lot of posts where people say they can't get a signal at all. So, I was just sharing my results with the serial numer I have since that seems to be trending info on the forum.
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Well, there are a lot of posts where people say they can't get a signal at all. So, I was just sharing my results with the serial numer I have since that seems to be trending info on the forum.
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Well yes, I agree it is working and usable for lets say photo tagging (in open air) or something but for example driving it most of the time will not work. But still it looks like you're lucky with your unit!
BTW: This is from the Galaxy S II
Can you tell me what the giant '0' is for on the GPS Test app? One test I ran had a '2'.
But yes, you definitely have more strength. I'm not implying its an amazing GPS device... but it's functional. It got my position to around 50 ft from every test according to the app.
Can we do some runs with WiFi please on a new C1 prime? I'd like to see a 250MB file transfer on a 2.5GHz N router connected to a ethernet wired PC and the transfer speeds associated with that transfer from various distanced.
I think what is happening is that people are reporting good Wifi using Speedtest because their DSL/Cable only goes as high as ~15mbps
For example, when I had both of my primes, my wifi was AWESOME with regards to Speedtests because my DSL line with verizon was only 7.1mbps down/768kbps up.
I never checked the LAN speed which would have accurately tested the maximum capability of my route/prime.
Who can help?
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I think what is happening is that people are reporting good Wifi using Speedtest because their DSL/Cable only goes as high as ~15mbps
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Well, I only pay for 12 Mbps down at my house. And that's still faster than any free wifi I would be connecting to anywhere (or my phone). I could test at a friend's apartment... I think he gets around 35 down and 6 up on an N router. He has the fastest internet out of the people I know. Providers are kinda limited / expensive in Michigan because they are different in each city.
If I stop at his apartment this weekend, I'll take my Prime.
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Can you tell me what the giant '0' is for on the GPS Test app? One test I ran had a '2'.
But yes, you definitely have more strength. I'm not implying its an amazing GPS device... but it's functional. It got my position to around 50 ft from every test according to the app.
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Not my picture by the way, I'm not sure what that means, maybe someone else?
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Not my picture by the way, I'm not sure what that means, maybe someone else?
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Ah. I thought you just ran that test and posted the pic from the S2.
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Ah. I thought you just ran that test and posted the pic from the S2.
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Nope, I found it online. I can however see what my HTC Sensation does, that one also has a partly aluminium back cover.
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Nope, I found it online. I can however see what my HTC Sensation does, that one also has a partly aluminium back cover.
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Ha. I have the same phone. I will probably test it out later today out of curiosity... better comparison to test in the same location I did the Prime.
P.S. I'm rooted using the DarkForest ICS Sensation ROM... Version 5.1 flys and the hotspot functionality works.
*edit... with O/C kernel too.
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Can you tell me what the giant '0' is for on the GPS Test app? One test I ran had a '2'.
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Ended up figuring this out. It's the MPH. Changes if you move around.
As much as I love this phone I'm really starting to hate it. When I first got the phone I had problems with the wi-fi dropping and when you wake the phone it would come back on along with the awful multi-tasking recent apps. After the OTA it doesn't seem to do that anymore.
Now what it does it will show my wi-fi is connected full strength but I go to use the browser, an app, play store whatever and nothing. Just sits there forever no internet connection. I have to toggle wi-fi on and off for it to work again. I use wi-fi all day at work & while I'm home obviously so this issue affects me a lot. The router is a WRT54GL running Tomato which I have been running for years it's been ROCK SOLID on all my devices (including evo3D, original evo, laptop, etc) I just recently rooted and am running Stock With Goodies part of my reason for rooting I thought the wi-fi would maybe have been fixed but same issue on this rom as well.
It's so frustrating to pick up your phone to do something and have zero connectivity so you have to restart your app your trying to use cause it gets errors. I have tried everything I can think of, setting it to 2.4 only, high performance, changing channels on the router (again other devices work perfect). I don't know what to do about it anymore, I could bring it in to Sprint which I will absolutely not bring to them unless absolute less resort usually I know more then them anyway. They are just gonna tell me it works fine and give the phone back so I came here looking for some advice. Not really sure where to go from here but I can't stand having the phone like this. Does anyone have the same issue as me or is it possible my radio is bad? Speed are signal levels are just fine when it's working. Also it seems the longer the phone sits in sleep the more likely it is to happen.
Try going to WiFi settings. Then menu that and click "Best WiFi performance" that solved it for me. Running viper 4g and had a consistent problem with the WiFi dropping and reconnecting or not connecting at all.
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FSJETS12KB said:
Try going to WiFi settings. Then menu that and click "Best WiFi performance" that solved it for me. Running viper 4g and had a consistent problem with the WiFi dropping and reconnecting or not connecting at all.
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How does this affect your battery? I'm trying to figure out what is even causing this issue if it's just the router, my phone only or what.
Best wifi performance will seriously impact your battery. It prevents your phone from sleeping properly. I found that I got an extra 10 hrs of life when I disabled best performance when I was still running stock.
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As much as I love this phone I'm really starting to hate it. When I first got the phone I had problems with the wi-fi dropping and when you wake the phone it would come back on along with the awful multi-tasking recent apps. After the OTA it doesn't seem to do that anymore.
Now what it does it will show my wi-fi is connected full strength but I go to use the browser, an app, play store whatever and nothing. Just sits there forever no internet connection. I have to toggle wi-fi on and off for it to work again. I use wi-fi all day at work & while I'm home obviously so this issue affects me a lot. The router is a WRT54GL running Tomato which I have been running for years it's been ROCK SOLID on all my devices (including evo3D, original evo, laptop, etc) I just recently rooted and am running Stock With Goodies part of my reason for rooting I thought the wi-fi would maybe have been fixed but same issue on this rom as well.
It's so frustrating to pick up your phone to do something and have zero connectivity so you have to restart your app your trying to use cause it gets errors. I have tried everything I can think of, setting it to 2.4 only, high performance, changing channels on the router (again other devices work perfect). I don't know what to do about it anymore, I could bring it in to Sprint which I will absolutely not bring to them unless absolute less resort usually I know more then them anyway. They are just gonna tell me it works fine and give the phone back so I came here looking for some advice. Not really sure where to go from here but I can't stand having the phone like this. Does anyone have the same issue as me or is it possible my radio is bad? Speed are signal levels are just fine when it's working. Also it seems the longer the phone sits in sleep the more likely it is to happen.
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Are you rooted and running a custom rom?
aliwho said:
Best wifi performance will seriously impact your battery. It prevents your phone from sleeping properly. I found that I got an extra 10 hrs of life when I disabled best performance when I was still running stock.
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Even with best performance checked I've still been able to get pretty amazing battery life running viper 4g
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WiFi was on the whole time pretty much
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aliwho said:
Best wifi performance will seriously impact your battery. It prevents your phone from sleeping properly. I found that I got an extra 10 hrs of life when I disabled best performance when I was still running stock.
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hell yea best wifi juice's the sh*t out of ya battery!!!
I feel your pain. The wifi issue plus the constant 3G dropouts are really starting to get to me. I've been rooted & S-Off and have tried every ROM & every fix and the problem still persists. Starting to think its a hardware failure.
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Silly question...but are you guys having these issues on the latest firmware?
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Are you rooted and running a custom rom?
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yea part of my reason for rooting was I thought it might cure some issues but it didn't. I am rooted and running latest stock with goodies. I had this exact same issue before I rooted.
klbjr said:
I feel your pain. The wifi issue plus the constant 3G dropouts are really starting to get to me. I've been rooted & S-Off and have tried every ROM & every fix and the problem still persists. Starting to think its a hardware failure.
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Yea I'm starting to think so as well, I don't have 3G problems actually the 3G radio I think is pretty good. I don't have the drop out problems anymore just after the phone being idle on wi-fi for a while I have to toggle it on and off for it to actually work. My signal levels and speeds are totally find when it's connected it's just letting it sit sleeping for a while is when I have the trouble. It's super annoying I pick my phone up to do something and it doesn't work.
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Silly question...but are you guys having these issues on the latest firmware?
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Yes latest firmware for me.
I just really don't know if it's an issue with the hardware or software. I have no issues what so every with the wi-fi hot spots at my work and home with any other devices and all my old phones never had issues.
klbjr said:
I feel your pain. The wifi issue plus the constant 3G dropouts are really starting to get to me. I've been rooted & S-Off and have tried every ROM & every fix and the problem still persists. Starting to think its a hardware failure.
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I think it is, I had the same issue and finally took it in for a replacement and all is well...
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I think it is, I had the same issue and finally took it in for a replacement and all is well...
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Yeah. I don't remember having those issues with my first LTE but then again I didn't have it that long before I took it back to BB for a borked NFC chip. Wondering how their return policy is on a phone past the initial 30 day purchase..
yea my wifi just randomly drops and reconnect all the time and some time my data to it guess anoying after awhile when your usein the browser at work
Think this has been discussed before. The latest ota was supposed to fix the WiFi dropping, so if you have that and still experience problems then it's hardware related.
My first LTE dropped WiFi for 3g constantly. No matter what I did it kept happening. Finally took it back after I messed w gwallet too many times and got secure element error. New one doesn't drop WiFi at all. Also haven't updated to newest ota.
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I have newest OTA I don't get the disconnection issues any more since then but rather it staying connecting but not being able to get online after the phone sits idle. I have another person that has the exact same issue with me having to cycle wi-fi to get it working. I'm starting to think maybe it's something to do with Tomato but I have never had issues with it on any other device.
Every tomato Rom I used before was awesome and never had issues either.
Noticed that when I wake my phone it doesn't want to connect on WiFi. 3g disconnects a lot on bad signal too.
WiFi isn't as bad when I use juice defender. Mainly because it reconnects all radios when awakened though.
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Hey guys I have a WiFi issue with all 4.2.2 roms that maybe someone can help me with.. It seems as if my WiFi will work fine for a lil bit than it seems to timeout or something if i stop using the phone for whatever period of time... If I turn it off, and on, it will work again and the process will continue as I just mentioned.. I've checked my WiFi settings and its not set to turn off dring sleep either... My router is a Belkin F5D-9230 Mimo G Router, and all my other devices work fine on WiFi or Ethernet.. Any help would be appreciated..
I'm s-off btw..
ummm
Mine does the same with any jb rom.
I use evervolv 4.2 works perfectly.
I also use mean bean ics works perfect also.
I have DLINK, tons of posts about wifi problems with DLINK
and THIS phone.
That and the off and on problem where when making a call the person on the other
end can't hear me, arrgh.
Next phone will not be an HTC.
trsix said:
Mine does the same with any jb rom.
I use evervolv 4.2 works perfectly.
I also use mean bean ics works perfect also.
I have DLINK, tons of posts about wifi problems with DLINK
and THIS phone.
That and the off and on problem where when making a call the person on the other
end can't hear me, arrgh.
Next phone will not be an HTC.
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So do the evervolv and mean bean give u those problems as well, or did u mean they work perfectly except with this wifi issue..?? Thanks for the response as well, maybe someone could help figure this out..
Maybe try using komodo. Also in settings you can set WiFi to 2.4 ghz only. There'salso some other settings I can't seem to recall now .
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So do the evervolv and mean bean give u those problems as well, or did u mean they work perfectly except with this wifi issue..?? Thanks for the response as well, maybe someone could help figure this out..
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wifi great on both. i use wifi and bluetooth hours a day.
if you read mikeys opening post (ICS) he did a fix in that rom for the wifi issue.
Mines a 2wire doesn't work on AOSP at all.
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Go to the wireless setting in your 2wire change the channel and increase the power... Is it a 2701-HG?
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I'm still having this issue, ahhhh..!! It sucks cuz I like a lot of aosp roms but i also like wifi because LTE isn't fully launched here yet..!! =(
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I'm still having this issue, ahhhh..!! It sucks cuz I like a lot of aosp roms but i also like wifi because LTE isn't fully launched here yet..!! =(
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What kind of router do you have? I have had all the at&t routers and I don't have issues connecting my phone to any of those, if it's the white 2wire increase the power output and change to a lower channel like 1-4, if it's a black one (pace or netgear) change from wpa to wep, you're gonna loose the wireless n and the router will broadcast in b/g...
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What kind of router do you have? I have had all the at&t routers and I don't have issues connecting my phone to any of those, if it's the white 2wire increase the power output and change to a lower channel like 1-4, if it's a black one (pace or netgear) change from wpa to wep, you're gonna loose the wireless n and the router will broadcast in b/g...
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mines a belkin, and it works fine on 4.1 roms only quirky on 4.2, as well as my data.. I'll lose data and go into 1x quite frequently on 4.2 roms.. I was certain I wasn't the only one experiencing these issues.. I'm S-OFF, full wipes before flashing, downloads all check out fine, etc...
Are you using wpa or wep? B, G or N? 2.5 or 5 GHz? Is channel on auto?
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WPA, auto channel 11, its a belkin mimo b/g router..
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I suggest to leave on g then change the channel to 1, leave it manual not on auto, try channels 1-5, and increase power if possible, I'm not familiar with belkin routers, but that's what I do with routers most of the time when I see an issue like yours...
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Did you ever figure out the issue? I have the same one and have tried everything.
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Did you ever figure out the issue? I have the same one and have tried everything.
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nope, still happens... =/
Same here, I thought it would be fixed in the newer roms. Hopefully it will get fixed eventually. Thank for writing back though.
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First time poster here.
I've tinkered quite a bit to figure out the wifi issue. I'm currently running stock with goodies.
On the router side my 2.4ghz and 5ghz settings are similar and look like this
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On the phone side I use a home screen widget called Wifi status widget to monitor my throughput. I get about 65 megs a second on 100% signal. On 80% I can get as low as 13 megs a second.
Limit your band to to 2.4 ghz or 5ghz.
Select best wifi performance.
Use rim toolbox as a build.prop editor. Make a backup of your current build prop and add this line to the end.
net.tcp.buffersize.wifi = 4096,87380,256960,4096,16384,256960
It increases the tcp stack memory which helps throughput from what I can tell.
Good luck.
Sorry if this has been talked about in the past but trying to find a true fix... if available. My wifi has gone haywire over the past week. I have flashed a few different roms and the same thru and thru.. My 4g is way more reliable than my wifi. I thought maybe it was my router so I reset that and modem at home.. no change. I am currently running Trents Alliance Rom with stock kernel which btw is an amazing rom... thanks devs. Its 4.1.2. Hoping someone has an answer. Thanks in advance.
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Alliance Rom wifi has always worked flawlessly for me. Here's what I would try:
1.Download a wifi scanner from the market place and do a channel search and see how many other routers are using the same channels. Also, are you using any other wifi devices in close proximity of your router? I.e. 2.4 ghz wireless keyboard or mouse?
2. Routers do produce heat...if they are in cool well conditioned areas they usually last a long time. If they are kept in highly elevated areas in not so cool conditions, the life span will decrease considerably.
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Alliance Rom wifi has always worked flawlessly for me. Here's what I would try:
1.Download a wifi scanner from the market place and do a channel search and see how many other routers are using the same channels. Also, are you using any other wifi devices in close proximity of your router? I.e. 2.4 ghz wireless keyboard or mouse?
2. Routers do produce heat...if they are in cool well conditioned areas they usually last a long time. If they are kept in highly elevated areas in not so cool conditions, the life span will decrease considerably.
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Ty. No wireless mice or keyboards close at all. This is everywhere I go and use wireless including optimum wifi hotspots or friends routers etc. Signal is strong but just very slow. Was downloading from market last night full signal wifi and took 5 minutes for a 8mb app. Flipped off wifi to 4g and bang instant.... my router isnt in a hot area whatsoever. I read online there were some known issues with wifi on note 4.1.2 but cant find a solid answer besides flashing a 4.1.1 gt7100 file but saw many had bigger issues after that. So kinda at a loss. Thanks for the input. Ill try ur 1st idea this evening and go from there.
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Thats the image of the scanner. The red image is 20 ft from me the blue is next door which is well over 150 ft.
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Are you using the latest firmware for your router?
Edit: I just saw the "it happens on other networks routers too...I'm really stumped on this one. The only other thing it could be is the phone...or, what case are you using? Have you tried to connect ect with no case or nothing surrounding the phone?
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Its funny u mentioned the router firmware. . I came home and updated it. We will see what happens. I googled it and again it seems that many are having an issue. I never experienced the issues in the past. Idk what it could be.
I am using UAG case and its the same case I have had for a long time.
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I have the same issue and have had it for awhile. I had it on jellybeans and now on
Nephi limited with saber kernel 44.6
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Same problem - Very slow downloading/uploading using wifi
I see you posted your question back in October 2013. I've had the galaxy note 2 on Verizon for over a year and since the last Samsung update my phone on Wifi is extremely slow opening most applications, downloading pictures/videos from any application and uploading pics and videos also. Not sure why because on my phone states my wifi download speed is 65mbps. I've cleared all cache, even the cache partition, and turned off power saving mode with no luck at fixing this problem. Has anyone, considering how old this thread is, figured out how to actually correct this problem?