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Wireless tether headache

Okay, here's the search I did with old outdated info from other phones that aren't relevant to my problem:
http://www.google.com/cse?cx=partne...9-1&q=mobile+network+repeatedly+disconnecting
Regaw's latest is what I am running. I am using wireless tether, the one that came with his rom, and it will lose internet connection about every 3 minutes.
Why is this a problem? Normally I use ICQ in my job, because I work online., I am constantly having to have people resend me messages and stuff due to this. It also interrupts and breaks any large downloads I do, normally larger than 10-20mb, and causes me a big headache when I try to work in FTP (for those non-tech-savvy, working in ftp is basically working on the guts of a website to make it work)

Are you trying to use your phone while you are tethering? I have only used wireless tethering once but I was playing with the options while I was using it and it wouldnt intermittenly lose connection. I just assumed it was because I was messing with my phone.

No, my phone is sitting on my stand, charging, and I have the wake-lock off so the phone sleeps. Did the same thing when wake-lock was on, too

Check your Wi-Fi sleep policy?
I am not sure if Tether over rides that or not. Maybe you have it set to a time limit. Just guess though, mine is flawless...as with every other aspect of my life...

I haven't used my wireless tether in a while, but I was also having this problem. After about 2-3 minutes of working it would stop. It appears as thought the data connection is dropping, because I was also not able to use the browser on the phone to connect to the internet. I had to diasble the data connection and then restart it. This solved the problem 95% of the time. There were 2 things I was going to try, but haven't. If you want to try them and see if they work and let us know, they are
1.Turn off data connection, turn data connection back on and then starty Wireless tether and then connect computer to Wireless tether
2.Turn off data connection, start wireless tether, connect computer to wireless tether, and then restart data connection.
If any of these work it may be possible to get a script or an app to do this.

Kcarpenter said:
Check your Wi-Fi sleep policy?
I am not sure if Tether over rides that or not. Maybe you have it set to a time limit. Just guess though, mine is flawless...as with every other aspect of my life...
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That make me LOL, very funny!

What verison of wifi tethering are you using? I've had this problem before but that was using the newest 2.0 version of the wifi tethering. I reverted back to an older 1.6 version and i don't have any issues.

thasolution said:
What verison of wifi tethering are you using? I've had this problem before but that was using the newest 2.0 version of the wifi tethering. I reverted back to an older 1.6 version and i don't have any issues.
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With the eris based ROMs I had no problem with using the 1.6 version, but after the Sprint leaked ROMs I have tried every version and still had problems. My solution works for me, but it is a couple of extra steps that I need to do that i shouldn't have to. It's just crazy how some peop;le have problem and others don't

thasolution said:
What verison of wifi tethering are you using? I've had this problem before but that was using the newest 2.0 version of the wifi tethering. I reverted back to an older 1.6 version and i don't have any issues.
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dont have my phone by me... it's whatever version comes pre-packaged with regawMOD latest

I concur that it is weird how some people do have issues and others don't. I wish this app worked as well as the htc wifi tether app for the winmo phones.
Jerry43812,
I would just check the version then if its a 2.0 version uninstall it and then install the 1.6 version. If its the 1.6 version uninstall it and then reinstall. That worked for some of the roms that I've been using. I'm on the sprint leaked version now and it works just fine for me. I wish they would get the password working on it as well as hiding your SSID.

my friend had this problem on his hero until he turned on wake lock in the wireless tether app. leaves the screen on, but works

WiFi *profile* keeps getting disabled?

I've noticed that the profile for my home wifi network keeps getting disabled. Usually, I'll leave for a bit, then come back and about half the time it never reconnects. When I go into the wifi list, it's marked as disabled. I enable it and it works fine from that point unless I leave again. It's my understanding a profile will get disabled when it cannot connect to a network for some reason, but clearly it can. My G2 and SGS never have this problem. Is this a setting somewhere? Thanks...

I am having this same issue. I dont know how to fix it

This is more serious than I realized! I just got disconnected randomly even while staying in perfect coverage. Not only does it disconnect, but it DISABLES the connection and won't reconnect again unless I manually tell it to. I rely 100% on WiFi calling while home and now I'm missing all kinds of calls and texts because WiFi is disconnected...
I'm hoping this is just is a software issue that can be resolved pretty quickly, officially or unofficially...

This phone has like 10 legit problems already. Tmobile needs to hurry up with the updates or the refunds will kill them.

It might help if you talk about the router you're using. I have a Netgear N600 and haven't had any Wi-Fi issues either connecting, staying connected, or automatically reconnecting. Bluetooth on the other hand...

BarryH_GEG said:
It might help if you talk about the router you're using. I have a Netgear N600 and haven't had any Wi-Fi issues either connecting, staying connected, or automatically reconnecting. Bluetooth on the other hand...
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It's a Linksys WRT610N. Very modern and very stable router. There's no reason this phone should have any problem with it. I literally have a G2 and SGS sitting side-by-side with the G2x and only the G2x has this problem. The SGS is Froyo and the G2 is Gingerbread. I also have a slew of other wireless (on both 2.4ghz and 5.8ghz bands) and wired clients connected that all have zero issues. I don't know why it would work on one router and not the next...
Are you using WPA2-AES encryption or something else?

zaventh said:
Are you using WPA2-AES encryption
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Yes. And you're right, the phone is very temperamental across a number of areas.

Did you set up your wifi to never go to sleep? Cause if you havent - it disconnects every time you turn off the screen.
In order to do that, go to Settings=>Wireless & Networks=>Wi-Fi Settings=> click on the "menu" button on your phone=> Advanced=> Wi-Fi sleep policy=> and choose Never.
I did that, and my wifi calling is flawless ... and I rely on it pretty much all the time that I am at home (thanks for that stupid t-mobile signal)

I have the same issue and the setting I have by default to Never go to sleep... Also, has nothing to do with router as any of my other phones have this issue including Nexus One.

Did by any chance any of you with this issue restore some Titanium Back-ups? Because when I restored mine from a back-up of my 1st G2x (exchanged) I also restored the previous wi-fi settings and after that the wi-fi wouldn't work correctly. I did a factory reset and it fixed the problem.
Edit: If all else fails, then try a factory reset. I know it sucks, but it could fix everything.
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I'm having issues with this as well. Wifi set to never sleep, I haven't restored any apps. I constantly lose connection. I've tried the factory reset thing etc. and it doesn't help.

I can connect to my wireless g Linksys access point but not my airport extreme ... my Linksys is open my ape is not(I realize I wrote ape LOL)
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WiFi seems to be losing dns services
I have the same WiFi problems and while a factory reset clears the problem
temporarily and changing the WiFi sleep setting to never is an immense help
once it's gone off-line I can't get it to come back.
I have noticed that if it has a cached dns lookup to an ip address that that
ip address is still accessible. So if you can get OTA data live, look up google.
Switch to wifi, google is still accessible and you can do queries but you can't
click through on the links because the dns lookup fails.
I've fiddled with killing myaccount, suggested elsewhere, without success.
Unless there is some robust configuration change that pops up soon I suppose
I'll have to return it...

boylan said:
I have the same WiFi problems and while a factory reset clears the problem
temporarily and changing the WiFi sleep setting to never is an immense help
once it's gone off-line I can't get it to come back.
I have noticed that if it has a cached dns lookup to an ip address that that
ip address is still accessible. So if you can get OTA data live, look up google.
Switch to wifi, google is still accessible and you can do queries but you can't
click through on the links because the dns lookup fails.
I've fiddled with killing myaccount, suggested elsewhere, without success.
Unless there is some robust configuration change that pops up soon I suppose
I'll have to return it...
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Did you also uninstall market updates and freeze the market updater?
It got mine working again without any problems. Sucks that this has to be done to get wifi to work properly.

I've frozen MyAccount and WiFi calling and it's working at the moment.
Truely I was a little tired and forgot about the market updates until I got
back here.
Insane that one has to do something like this for such a basic feature.
I mean who is going to use the OTA networking when wifi is available?
Let alone the cost issues. I went from 880kbps to 10100kbps going from
OTA to wifi.
This device must have rushed out the door.

Useless at any speed
So I've uninstalled the updates to and FROZEN:
My Account
Market Updater
WiFi Calling
AppPack
and the phone is still trippy. I've discovered also (via the engineering menu)
that the networking ping test fails - "network unreachable". The wifi
data looks good but it doesn't show the current gateway or dns configuration
information.
I'm at a loss for what to try next. Anyone got any suggestions?
Is there something like a netstat android app?

I am having the SAME issue as well as the OP..... =/

wifi recovery
Too soon to say that this is a consistent work-around but I'm
having some short term luck with
rebooting the phone (remove battery) in Airplane mode
enabling wifi
turning airplane mode off
Not sure if the battery pop is necessary. I suspect it's not.
I also suspect that freezing/deinstalling the various updates
is pointless.
Probably the whole work-around is to change the
Wi-Fi sleep policy to never:
settings->wireless & network settings->Wi-Fi settings->advanced
and use the airplane/wifi enable reboot sequence.
If someone has a permanent work-around based on precise setup
sequence and freezing applications I'd like to hear it - I think I've
followed the several posts on this topic and that path is unreliable but
it never hurts to be wrong.

dj75728 said:
Did by any chance any of you with this issue restore some Titanium Back-ups? Because when I restored mine from a back-up of my 1st G2x (exchanged) I also restored the previous wi-fi settings and after that the wi-fi wouldn't work correctly. I did a factory reset and it fixed the problem.
Edit: If all else fails, then try a factory reset. I know it sucks, but it could fix everything.
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Mine does this and I never restored any system data. I only restored apps.

Strange.
I use WiFi calling at work with no problems. It is a Netgear router. I haven't had problems at home with my Linksys router either.

Wifi connection connected but won't load pages

It said connected in the wifi setting and it shows bars but it just won't load any website in the browser .. anyone got a fix for this?

I have the same issue. Tried different combinations of restarting wifi, turning on/off cell data, on/off wifi calling, etc... all with no result. I've also tried on different networks (both public and private)-- it'd start working for a while and then all of a sudden stop and never work again.
Seems similar to the problem here: forums. t-mobile.c om/t5/T-Mobile-G2x/G2x-WiFi-DNS-issue-not-the-4G-switching-one/m-p/831439 (sorry there's a new user no link restriction)
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks

coldest~~~ said:
It said connected in the wifi setting and it shows bars but it just won't load any website in the browser .. anyone got a fix for this?
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is it specific to the browser or can you not move any data?
Idk, whenever I have had problems connecting to the tmo network, which is a separate issue.. it was always that wifi calling was still on even tho wifi was turned off. Every time I had probs w/ data on tmo network, it's been wifi calling.. Your case seems to be diff tho.
Is it specific to just your network or all other networks? Try shutting off wifi, reboot... then turn it on again? Idk.. just tossing out ideas.

Some found the root cause and I am posting his finding as I do have the same issue and can reproduce the error:
I think I have discovered a new WiFi-related bug in the G2x's software. I have witnessed this occurring on my phone, and have also reproduced it on a store demo unit. I believe it is unrelated to the switching-to-4G problem people are having with the My Account app, since it occurs even if I have set up the Google account on first boot after a factory reset.
The details of the problem are:
- Every so often, the phone randomly gets stuck in a state where it is not able to initiate any new connections that are made using a DNS name. Attempting to navigate to a web site, h**p://w*w.google.c*m for example, will result in a generic failure message.
- However, attempting to connect directly to an IP address instead of a DNS name works perfectly. For example, navigating to 74.125.225.16 will work fine and will load the Google home page.
- When the phone is in this state, using a DNS lookup tool such as "DNS Lookup" from the Marketplace *will* work, even when using the default DNS server address that the DHCP server is giving the phone.
- The problem has occurred for me when data is off and WiFi is on. I do not know if data being off is a requirement, since this is the way I usually run the phone, so this may be coincidental.
- Switching WiFi off and back on again will *sometimes* work to solve the problem, but sometimes will not. When this doesn't work, switching WiFi off, then switching data on, then back off again, and then finally switching WiFi back on again will occasionally correct the problem. However, I have seen situations where none of these things worked, and the only way to get DNS working again was to factory reset the phone.
- I haven't figured out the exact pattern yet, but this issue seems to occur when the phone has been inactive for a certain period of time. I have often discovered that the phone is in this state upon waking up in the morning after leaving the phone on the charger overnight.
- I have, however, found a method to reproduce the problem that seems to work fairly consistently:
1. Turn WiFi on, and data off.
2. Power cycle the phone.
3. When the phone starts up, start the browser and attempt to browse to w*w.google.c*m. It should fail.
4. Try to browse to 74.125.225.16. It should work.
Just wanted to get this issue in the forums to see how many others have been noticing the same thing.

I know that once the device has less than 10% battery it automatically turns the WiFi off to save battery power. Were the devices this was happening on have a low battery?

Fully charged. It even happens when pluged in with the charger.

My Wifi wouldn't even work if I froze it with Bloat Freezer. It has to run in the background for wifi to work. I found that Wifi can get really inconsistent with it disabled.

smartloom said:
Som
- I haven't figured out the exact pattern yet, but this issue seems to occur when the phone has been inactive for a certain period of time. I have often discovered that the phone is in this state upon waking up in the morning after leaving the phone on the charger .
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Same problem here. After about 30 minutes of being idle, as soon as I pick up the phone it tries to connect 2g/4g. The log are saying theres no connection, so it appears that wifi its going to sleep and not waking up so android is trying to connect 2g/4g
Really starting to be a pain
I have frozen the bloat, and I think the problem is getting worse.
Toggle airplane mode is a quick workaround to get wifi to wake up
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Same thing happened to me, I did 2 factory resets, and it seems it has been fixed, don't really know what causes it.
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This may or may not be related, but...
It looks like I found a hacky fix for the dns/wifi/4g bug: install "Set DNS" from the market.
Now when I go into market, and display my downloaded apps, it jumps from wifi to 4g then back to wifi as it should, fast.
Whether or not it should even do go to 4g is debatable, all I can say is my 2 Galaxy Tabs had the same behavior.
If everyones connectivity issues are really due to the DNS settings getting wiped out, then this will work around the problem until I/we find the location of the actual bug.

Would you guys having this problem also post it here?
http://www.lgforum.com/forum/boards/general/lg/topics/g2x-wifi-problems
Thanks.
I figure the more people that post there, the more the chances are of LG fixing it quickly.

Work around:
enable airplane mode
reboot
enable wifi
wait a few seconds after the wifi connects, background crap stops
disable airplane mode.
The set dns app looks like a winner. Haven't tried it but that's what's
wrong.
The freezing and other suggestions are all useless crap.

Updates...
I did a factory reset and installed JuiceDefender (I don't know which one worked) but it seems to be all fine now... will update if things become problematic again

I've been having this problem as well. I've always been able to fix it by toggling WiFi off and back on again. I downloaded SetDNS and when it happened again last night I tried that and it worked great.
Glad to see it's a software problem and not a hardware problem.

same problem here. hopefully it won't happen in cyanogen mod

boylan said:
Work around:
enable airplane mode
reboot
enable wifi
wait a few seconds after the wifi connects, background crap stops
disable airplane mode.
The set dns app looks like a winner. Haven't tried it but that's what's
wrong.
The freezing and other suggestions are all useless crap.
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This fixed the problem, at least until the next time I reboot my phone

How do you use SetDNS? This software bug in G2X reboots my router (DGL-4500) sometimes.

Question bout SetDNS app
Does the phone have to be rooted to use the setdns app? I try to use it but it says "Cannot get root. App will not function."

[Q] Will WI-FI issue be fixed on CyanogenMod(Gingerbread)?

I've been having Wi-fi issue's ever since i bought the phone, traded it in for another one, and still had the wi-fi issue.
MY WI-FI issue was:
My phone would connect to my router the first time, and if i restart my phone the Wireless Symbol is still connected, but there are errors not letting me connect to the MARKET, or the WEB BROWSER!
i'm very upset! but i do love this phone, and i hate that this one wifi issue is ruining it for me!
i dont want to keep on factory resetting it over and over again!
I don't want to:
ROOT It
QUESTION:
WHAT CAN I DO TO FIX THIS? :[

Wait for GB or nothing
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what percentage would u give it that the wi-fi issue will be fixed in the next update?

It seems the wifi problem is caused by the bloatwares, probably myaccount. either way, after I uninstall those my wifi works like a charm.

how were u able uninstall them?!

aston60 said:
how were u able uninstall them?!
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Root........

I have this issue sometimes. I can get the wifi to work by:
1. Turning off wifi
2. Turning on 4G data
3. Turning off 4G data
4. Turning on wifi again
Hope this helps.

I had a similar problem. Wifi would show connected to my router, but it would only sporadically let me actually access anything (market and browser).
Then, by chance when I was trying to use the browser, I got a message that read: You do not have the correct data plan for this device.
I hit the chat support on T-Mobile. Apparently, a feature had not been enabled on my service. (My SIM was in my Nokia N900 before and it worked fine on HSPA+). The support tech enabled it and my G2x was working in 10 mins. Never had any more problems.
There was no charge and no change in my data plan -- it was just some config thing about my account.

i23mix said:
I have this issue sometimes. I can get the wifi to work by:
1. Turning off wifi
2. Turning on 4G data
3. Turning off 4G data
4. Turning on wifi again
Hope this helps.
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It's a shame LG has forced its customers to do weird dances just to get basic functions to work.
Do you have a trick to get the battery to last a day?

I'm having the same problem
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Root and uninstall myaccount that's the only way working 100% I just did my friends phone.
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If you are having WiFi problems with stock ROM, it is either your hardware (unlikely) or possibly an issue with your TMo account and/or SIM. I have had no issues with mine - either before or after rooting and flashing a few ROM's. I have My Account still working - no effect.
If you are looking to CM7 to make it better - not in the immediate future. I have it on another device, and a notable issue with CM7 WiFi is that it is not as strong or stable as stock.
You should get TMo tech support on the phone and have them address your problem. If a tweak to your data account and/or a new SIM doesn't fix it - you should demand a replacement phone.
All this assumes it is not problems with your WiFi Router - I have had a few issues with some where having more then one or two devices active caused connection problems.

jcbofkc said:
It's a shame LG has forced its customers to do weird dances just to get basic functions to work.
Do you have a trick to get the battery to last a day?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1054420
follow this link for you battery

I rooted the device, and removed carrier preloaded apps and made sure my wifi was set to not disable when the screen turned off. I had had issues with wifi calling before and after all that, the audio is crisp and the wifi rarely drops

work around
With a stock configuration you can clear
this problem when it occurs with
setdns app (free).
It restores working dns configuration.
When this is NOT sufficient you may also have to
disable then reenable your wifi. I installed a one-click
wifi on/off app (free) for this.
This is also necessary to force a reconnect when you
go in and out of a memorized wifi zone - it will rarely
reconnect automatically.
I found that rooting the device and freezing the bloatware
only improves the situation only slightly so I don't believe it's
worth the time.
This is at least the 4th wifi thread that's been opened and I've
posted this workaround before. Can we sticky one of these??

read my post here this will fix your problem
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1059950
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[Q] Wifi-calling stuck 'ON' when losing wifi connection

When wifi and wifi-calling are enabled, it disconnects from the tmo network.. Great.. no problemo. I don't want it connected to the tmo network at the same time.
But.. when I lose the wifi.. i.e. service is interrupted, I leave the area, etc., then wifi-calling is stuck "ON" and I cannot return to the tmo network because the app is trying to find the wi-fi connection. This causes all voice/data to be dead.
I have tried killing the wifi-calling app via ATK, it won't shut down. I tried to FC it, no go. I tried to reboot the phone.. no go. I tried to kill it via Watchdog.. no go.
So basically, if I forget to shut off the app b4 I leave my wifi area, I'm screwed and dead in the water. Or, if the wifi connection is lost (i.e. service interruption), I'm screwed.
The only way wifi-calling will display the on/off button is when it has a wifi connection.. I know, I know.. I must force myself to remember to shut the stupid app off before leaving the local network.. but I forget at times.
I have only found 1 work around, and I'm hoping someone else can chime in on this. I'd like to see if there is an easier way around this.. It can be fixed via freezing the app. Then the tmo network kicks in. As soon as the app is unfrozen, it goes back to searching out wifi and disabling all voice/data.. until I get a wifi connection.
Thoughts?

can someone test this to see if they get the same results?

Mine switches as it should when I leave a wifi area.

GideonX said:
Mine switches as it should when I leave a wifi area.
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Seriously? You have wifi calling and wifi enabled. You shut off wifi and it automatically switches off wifi calling?
that's messed up. If I do that, I'm w/o service. Guess I'll reinstall the app..

GideonX said:
Mine switches as it should when I leave a wifi area.
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Thanks!!! I have discussed this on the forums a bunch of times in misc. conversations and no one has said "Hey, that's not the case for mine." I thought it was a glitch with the app.
R&R'd the app.. good to go. Thanks so much.. It's been like this since I took it out of the box.