My wifi is very spotty at best. It always seems to say it connects just fine but it won't let me actually use it. I just went and stood right above my router and had full wifi strength and couldn't browse the internet. Are there any solutions to wifi issues or do I probably just have a bad wifi chip?
There could be a ton of different reasons why you can't connect. There might be a compatibility issue (some devices just don't get along), there might be an issue with security (you aren't using WPA2/AES on your router), there might be a channel issue that can be fixed by trying another channel on the router, the list goes on and on.
What kind of troubleshooting have you done so far? What router do you have?
Running a netgear WNR3500L with WPA2 encryption. All I've done so far is a simple restart of the router.
EDIT: downloaded and used wifi analyzer to see which channels were open and they looked to all be about the same. I switched it to 6 for tests without any improvement. My router auto detects the best channel to be on. Any other advice?
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Need a little help. My G-tab is running current VEGAn-TAB rom. I am having problems getting the wifi to actually connect. My icon shows a good signal, and inside the wireless settings I am showing connected to my wireless network. I also went to advance settings and made sure wifi never sleeps. All apps that need internet connection (market, browser, etc.) show no data connection.
Used yesterday with no problems. My laptop is running on same network and working fine.
Any ideas?
have you restarted? Sometimes happens to me too but it's nothing a simple restart can't fix.
Yes. Restarted several times. Didn't work.
Oddly enough I have a Airave from Sprint to boost my cell phone signal, and it may have been the problem. When I unplugged it and returned to my G-Tab later the Wifi was working. Not sure why.
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Yes. Restarted several times. Didn't work.
Oddly enough I have a Airave from Sprint to boost my cell phone signal, and it may have been the problem. When I unplugged it and returned to my G-Tab later the Wifi was working. Not sure why.
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Could be competition on the 2.4 GHz frequencies. Some wireless phones and even microwave ovens can trash a wifi connection.
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Anyone else having WiFi problems with Vegan? Since installing this mod, I can only connect to a WEP signal and not a WPA-secured network.
I can't connect either. Trying to connect to a wep wifi and it stays on "obtaining ip address from ..." but never completes the connection. Any help?
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Anyone else having WiFi problems with Vegan? Since installing this mod, I can only connect to a WEP signal and not a WPA-secured network.
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No problems with home WEP, office WPA2-PSK and several wide open public ones. I just wish the damn thing would auto-connect to the ones I have been to before.
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I can't connect either. Trying to connect to a wep wifi and it stays on "obtaining ip address from ..." but never completes the connection. Any help?
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My only guess is, if its a 5Ghz N Router you should check to see if it allows
2.4Ghz signals and not just 5Ghz. The GTAB doesn't seem to support connections at 5Ghz.
I just changed over from TNT Lite(latest version) and was able to connect fine but I didn't like the interface and some of the features. I've loaded Vegan tab 7.0.0 and I was able to connect at work (802.1 EAP) network but I can't connect to a wep wifi at home (were several other pc's are connected and working fine) and it stays on "obtaining ip address from ..." but never completes the connection. Any help?
I have a Linksys wrt300n router and have confirmed that it configured to accept 2.4Ghz & 5Ghz signal and have rebooted several times with no luck.
I don't have a lot to add to help you troubleshoot, but I can say that I am running VEGAn Gingerbread RC1 with pershoot's latest kernel. I am able to connect at home on a WAP2-PSK (Linksys Linux based G/N) at home, WAP2-PSK at the cabin (Linksys's cheapest G/N), and at work on a 802.1 EAP network (Cisco).
I has some unexplained issue mounting the internal storage on a computer. After a little head scratching, I started to wonder if it had something to do with the custom kernel I was running. I flashed Pershoot's latest kernel and my problems went away.
I mention all that to suggest that you might try flashing a different kernel and see if you get different results.
I have an issue with vegan where when i reboot the device (or turn off and turn on) wifi is off even if left on when turning off, i have to manually turn on wifi after every boot.
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fajordan said:
I just changed over from TNT Lite(latest version) and was able to connect fine but I didn't like the interface and some of the features. I've loaded Vegan tab 7.0.0 and I was able to connect at work (802.1 EAP) network but I can't connect to a wep wifi at home (were several other pc's are connected and working fine) and it stays on "obtaining ip address from ..." but never completes the connection. Any help?
I have a Linksys wrt300n router and have confirmed that it configured to accept 2.4Ghz & 5Ghz signal and have rebooted several times with no luck.
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Have you checked to see if you're using MAC address filtering, and if so, that your gTab's MAC address has been added to the whitelist on the router? I get the feeling that that may be the issue. You have the WEP key on your device, but your router's still blocking it. I'm running the same ROM you are, and have had absolutely no troubles connecting to my work network with 802.1 PEAP, WPA/WPA2-TKIP and AES at home, and multiple makes/models of access points/routers.
Hmmm. Just reread your original. Now I'm wondering if you have enough DHCP leases available on your router. If you're out, you'll have to wait until a lease expires or add some more to your scope of addresses.
Hope some of that helped in some way...
I just upgraded my router to a wireless one. Firstly, it's connected via ethernet to a PC and it is happily getting internet access.
On my i5500 I get a strong wifi signal. Wifi Analyser shows the signal at max constantly. I can also connect with Gmote and it works just fine.
The problem is that I can't actually access the net at all from the phone.
So basically I know that my phone is talking to the router with no problem. It's just getting out onto the internet.
Does anyone know of a solution?
try logging into your router and change the broadcast channel to something else and test it again. it should be something like a/b/g mode... define a single channel and see if it works.
I had originally thought that was working. It did for the first few minute where I had connection but then it just dropped.
I have noticed that I have some very small bursts where I can connect.
Do you think that trying the different channels may be the solution?
I have the same problem. Have you found a solution?
Still no solution. I went through every channel and every encryption method.
So far I've found that having the channel set on 'Auto' and then disabling encryption seems to give me internet connection through WIFI for at least the initial period but it eventually drops. But that's also not always.
I've also Googled it to death and found nothing. If you do find the solution please post it here and I'll do the same.
Maybe we can help each other.
make sure you entered the right password of wlan.
use a pc to connect the router and in the wlan you'll find the password.
Ok, just to clarify. My phone connects to the Router via WLAN. In fact I can use Gmote to control my PC. So the WLAN connection is great.
The problem is accessing the internet when using that connection.
I had similar problems with a router last year. I resolved the issues by flashing DD-WRT firmware. The manufacturer's firmware was junk.
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I had that idea but they don't have firmware for my router yet. I have asked them if they intend to make one.
Any chance the firewall on your phone is blocking your browser from using the Wifi?
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I have no firewall on my phone.
Ok I've tried some new stuff and they I've had the longest connectivity so far (which is about half an hour).
First I made sure my Wifi wasn't set to turn off when the screen goes to sleep. Second, according to a forum I read, Netgear recommends channel 7. If that channels doesn't work try 1,3,6,9,11,13.
I then disabled encryption.
Fortunately no one near me uses Wifi at all and I've got the kind of walls that stop the signal from getting outside.
Anyway. It's working so far but I'll monitor and report.
[edit] And I forgot. The router was checking for firmware but it wasn't actually finding so I downloaded it myself. Seems that also made a difference.
Ok. I can confirm after 2 and a half hours my internet connection is stable. I even left half way through and when I came back it connected perfectly.
So as a summary here's what I did:
1) Get latest firmware
2) Change channel to 7
3) Disable encryption
I will change encryption and see if it still works
I'm having a strange problem lately with the Wi-Fi. I was at work where I've previously set up the wi-fi details, but now it says the network is not in range. The laptop I have sees and connects to it just fine so the connection details haven't changed, and the signal strength is 5 bars on the laptop, so it's still in range.
Well failing that, I connected the laptop to a wired connection and created an Ad-Hoc network to share the internet from. The latest honeycomb 3.2 update added support for Ad-Hoc and the network was seen on the tablet, I typed in the password, but it won't connect. It sees it as full strength, attempts to connect, and then the network suddenly loses all strength gives me a "-1 mbps" link speed and seems to get stuck in an infinite loop of trying to connect.
This same issue happened at a friends place where she has your typical household wi-fi but I thought it was just a fluke. I still get the "-1 mbps" link speed and lack of connectivity. The strange thing is it still works at home and at another friends place.
Does anyone have any experience with this?
yeah i had the same problem. i got Linksys router on WPA\WPA2 personal. But at the same time i changed ISP...150mb/s down and up bebeh! ...so i used the router they gave me instead.
not sure linksys and/or the WPA/WPA2 personal is the problem. But i dont have the problem anymore.
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yeah i had the same problem. i got Linksys router on WPA\WPA2 personal. But at the same time i changed ISP...150mb/s down and up bebeh! ...so i used the router they gave me instead.
not sure linksys and/or the WPA/WPA2 personal is the problem. But i dont have the problem anymore.
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Yeah, it's weird. For the Ad-Hoc connection I was able to change the security type to basic WEP and it worked fine after that. Previous it was WPA2 and not working.
I'm wondering if the latest firmware update has anything to do with this?
hello
i use wifi through connectify virtual wifi from my pc
whenever my phone is idle or i dint use wifi for an hour or so the network becomes disabled ( i can use wifi on other devices) when i connect it shows connecting but does not connect and wifi becomes not in range even if i am standing next to my wifi router
and now its not even connecting to the wifi even if i reset my wifi ... i also have restarted my phone not working helllpppp !!!
and the wifi sleep policy is set to never
my device - nexus s i9020t
android 2.3.6 gingerbread
pls some1 help !!
Have you restarted your router?
I know you said everything else is working, but give it a try anyway.
I have the same problem...Please help
yes i restarted my router n every thing !! but i cant get it to work
I had a similar problem once, but luckily it was during a session of me messing with my router settings. I live in an apt building, TONS of other routers here, so the frequencies are all crowded.
Do this...
Get this app for your phone:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.farproc.wifi.analyzer
Find the best channel available for your wireless network (you don't need to be connected to the internet or your router for this). In your router settings set your wifi to that channel (should be the least congested, the app will tell you which channel number). Hopefully that will help.
Also, if possible, set your wifi to only use 20MHz instead of 40MHz if it's in the 2.4GHz range, otherwise you're just causing the same problems for your neighbors. Be a good wireless neighbor!
Oh yeah, and update your router's firmware too, older firmwares are sometimes not fully compliant to wifi standards, it might help your connection issues! Also, use WPA2-AES encryption. WPA2 because it's the most secure right now (for personal uses anyway) and AES because most devices can do AES in hardware, so it's faster and uses less battery (plus I believe the higher end 802.11n speeds recommend that encryption for top speeds).
This problem happened spontaneously with all the android devices in our house. Router had been set up for a month with great performance and then the day before yesterday things just got crappy on our wifi.
Here's the problem:
There's a significant lag between trying to get data (refresh Facebook app, load a Youtube video, go to a web page in Chrome, whatever) and actually getting the data. This occurs on two Nexus 5 phones running Lollipop and a tablet running Kit Kat. Sometimes it'll be 10 to almost 30 seconds between trying to view, for instance a youtube link, and the video description and video actually starts to load. Sometimes I'll get a network timeout. A laptop running Arch Linux on the same network has no such lag.
Here's the weird thing. When I do a speedtest with the Ookla app, it will take a VERY long time to "find the best server" (it's been a minute so far while I've been writing this post just sitting at that screen) but once it does I'll get really excellent speeds. Basically maxing out the possibility of my home internet connection (40Mbps+). Same with upload (13Mbps). Ping to server was 10ms. When I use a terminal emulator to ping a site like google or facebook it will ping with typical wifi reaction rates, usually under 25ms consistently.
Wifi reception on the 2.4Ghz band is great. throughout the house. Different wifi channels do nothing. Note, my wi-fi signal is not dropping, so it's not that issue that's often reported. Reception is great, there's just major lag between trying to get data, and actually connecting.
And again this isn't just one device, this is three separate devices running two different flavors of android. So I'm guessing my router one day decided it didn't like android. Because like I said, things were great until literally just Thursday, with no change in settings on any devices or the router from us.
Yes, I've done a power cycle on the router, which is a Netgear C3700
Any ideas on what might be happening?
It's possible there is an IP addresses conflict. Do any devices on the network have a static IP?
No IP conflicts that I can see ever have been the issue.
If I reboot the router the problem goes away for a couple hours, but then I get the WiFi lag soon enough. I've seen a lot of reports about lag on WiFi (with bad ping results) on some other google searches I've run, but they all point to problems with IPV6, which my router doesn't support at all, so there's nothing for me to turn off there. I can't find any IPV6 settings for anything anywhere on the phone itself.
I don't see any other problems with my router and android devices specifically mentioned anywhere.
Are your android devices using different DNS servers than that of your laptop?
I have never specifically set up any DNS settings on any device in the house. Not even sure how to see what the settings for that are on the Android devices.
I'll try using a static DNS settings from the router instead of the "let my ISP choose" as I have been having problems possibly related to DNS issues on a wired laptop machine (running Linux as well).
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I have never specifically set up any DNS settings on any device in the house. Not even sure how to see what the settings for that are on the Android devices.
I'll try using a static DNS settings from the router instead of the "let my ISP choose" as I have been having problems possibly related to DNS issues on a wired laptop machine (running Linux as well).
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Try Google DNS or something
I'm fairly convinced it's not a DNS issue. If it was, rebooting the router would have absolutely no effect at all. But a reboot of the router (unplug and re-plug, a software initiated reboot doesn't seem to work) makes the net fly at great speeds and pings on all devices. For a while. Then it goes bad.
I'm testing a 3rd party app to change the DNS settings to 8.8.8.8 (google) on one android device to see if that one behaves differently. Setting the router to custom DNS settings caused me to get locked out of all internet completely. I couldn't even get into the router software from a wired computer to see the settings anymore. It was like the router didn't exist anymore.
Hooya said:
I'm fairly convinced it's not a DNS issue. If it was, rebooting the router would have absolutely no effect at all. But a reboot of the router (unplug and re-plug, a software initiated reboot doesn't seem to work) makes the net fly at great speeds and pings on all devices. For a while. Then it goes bad.
I'm testing a 3rd party app to change the DNS settings to 8.8.8.8 (google) on one android device to see if that one behaves differently. Setting the router to custom DNS settings caused me to get locked out of all internet completely. I couldn't even get into the router software from a wired computer to see the settings anymore. It was like the router didn't exist anymore.
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Try setting static IP's for the Mac adresses of the phones in the router and on the phone. Make sure it's outside of DHCP lease boundry of your modem. Sounds like conflicting IPs as already mentioned.
The responders have good intentions but really don't understand the problem entirely. I've faced similar issues.
To quickly dumb down the problem:
Wifi stays connected, but all packets are lost for 10-60 seconds or until wifi is toggled off then on again.
We'll call this Wifi-Connected-No-Connection (WCNC) for the purposes of this thread for easier reading.
Here are my findings...
It may be related to this issue on the google code discussions, there are mentions of complete drop out while remaining connected: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=64706
This has affected both N4 and N5 devices since Jelly Bean. The issue persists in Kitkat but I haven't followed to see if it's entirely been resolved in Lollipop as I refuse to upgrade until certain other issues are worked out with L. If you're good at searching you'll find posts about this drop out issue from a decent time ago.
AP isolation doesn't help.
Modifying most other settings for the router did not help.
What DID help though, is turning the router from N/G mode to B/G mode. I had no WCNC issues with that. Of course, that meant slower speeds, significantly slower speeds. Back on N/G, I find this problem happens pretty frequently.
Packet loss happens at the connection level. Pinging the router means some or all packets are dropped. This is NOT a dns issue.
toastgodsupreme said:
The responders have good intentions but really don't understand the problem entirely. I've faced similar issues.
To quickly dumb down the problem:
Wifi stays connected, but all packets are lost for 10-60 seconds or until wifi is toggled off then on again.
We'll call this Wifi-Connected-No-Connection (WCNC) for the purposes of this thread for easier reading.
Here are my findings...
It may be related to this issue on the google code discussions, there are mentions of complete drop out while remaining connected: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=64706
This has affected both N4 and N5 devices since Jelly Bean. The issue persists in Kitkat but I haven't followed to see if it's entirely been resolved in Lollipop as I refuse to upgrade until certain other issues are worked out with L. If you're good at searching you'll find posts about this drop out issue from a decent time ago.
AP isolation doesn't help.
Modifying most other settings for the router did not help.
What DID help though, is turning the router from N/G mode to B/G mode. I had no WCNC issues with that. Of course, that meant slower speeds, significantly slower speeds. Back on N/G, I find this problem happens pretty frequently.
Packet loss happens at the connection level. Pinging the router means some or all packets are dropped. This is NOT a dns issue.
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This makes a lot of sense. Wonder why this would happen with one router set to b/g/n and not another set to b/g/n (the a/n settings are only for the 5Ghz band)...