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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."

Mobile Data turning off during standby automatically problem

I've been unable to get around this problem for the last few weeks now.
No matter what ROM my Milestone is on (It's the latest CM7 right now), it's been having problems keeping the mobile (2G/3G) data connection on, it seems lose connection every time the phone goes into standby.
At first I thought I was just losing connection to gtalk but I've caught the phone a few times coming out of standby with the data icon missing and then showing up a second later.
Other basic details;
I always flash the Singapore baseband from OR (which AFAIK is the same for Malaysia)
No battery saving apps
No Toggle2G use
WIFI has no data connectivity issues
I'm hoping someone can help me figure out this problem as it's a real killer to not get txts (gmail/whatsapp/etc), emails etc on-time

Going to try to leave wifi off for a day instead of a few hours for a better battery status screenshot but you can see what's happening in this one
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In the period without wifi, and the period with actually, you can see I keep losing 3G/sync. This happens whether I'm moving or in the same location. Hell, it happens even at home.
Anyone think that flashing all the way back to stock froyo etc might help?
Are there any log files I should be looking at or posting for someone to help me with to figure out wtf?
I should also mention that this screenshot is from a FRESH flash of the latest CM7 from kabaldan, so I've ruled out (many many many times) that it's just a bad flash, or a bad rom (it does this on HO!NO!, FroyoMOD, milaq's cm6 and kabaldan's cm7 and probably others as well but those are the ones I've tried)
At this rate I'll get a new phone just for my sanity

I have the exact same problem with froyomod! help please!

update
I've flashed back to stock then to GOT 2.2.1 then to CM7 and it seems to have improved things by a lot on the first day. You can still see it happening however.

Looks like going to Stock -> GOT 2.2.1 -> CM7 has fixed my issue. More time needed but looks good already, I'm going to put down momentary loss of connection/3G as normal network issue rather than made by the phone now.
As you can tell, the last 2 screenshots have improved tremendously since re-flashing from stock
gosunta,
get on it, just follow the sticky'd posts.

I may have spoke too soon, it's still no good. New screenie in 6 or so hours to see if it continues.

Yep it's still doing it. It's worse when on the move and it obviously only notices its not connected/in-sync whenever I wake it up. I actually dropped the phone today and apart of me kinda hoped it would break so I could justify a new phone hahah .
Going to try going back a few versions of CM7 and see if that fixes it. Sick of this.

I had an idea a few hours ago of replacing the modded Talk (as included in Kabaldan's cm7 gapps or Ho!no! etc) for the stock one, so I went ahead and flashed gapps-gb-20110828-signed from the CM7 page.
Seems good so far over the last 2-3 hours, will report back in a day or two with screenshots. I hope this works. Also, if it does work I'm just going to go ahead and kill myself after all the flashing over and over of millions of roms (or so it feels hehehe)

There is no modding done to Google apps itself in the package I upload. Modding gapps is a bad idea, you would destroy the signatures by it, they need to match.
Only the updater script and app choice is modified.
Try to add this:
Code:
service dhcpcd_rmnet0 /system/bin/dhcpcd -ABKL
class post-zygote_services
disabled
oneshot
service iprenew_rmnet0 /system/bin/dhcpcd -n
class post-zygote_services
disabled
oneshot
to /system/etc/rootfs/init.mapphone_umts.rc like it can be seen here:
https://github.com/nadlabak/android...rebuilt/etc/rootfs/init.mapphone_umts.rc#L539
Let me know if it helped.
Btw., do you get connection to google servers at all when you switch to 2g only?

Hahah yeah I've just realised that your gapps isn't the issue, my bad kabs . It's still having the same problem now, lemme try your suggestion right now.
And yes, I do have connection to google servers while on 2g only.
edit in a few minutes.

Excuse the late reply as I've been busy but I figured it'd give me more screenshots of testing kabaldan's suggestion but...
Also note how the brown bars tend to correlate to when the phone is awake and even happening while the phone is awake.
It's still happening but I've noticed that the phone is at least capable of getting out of 2G and into 3G with some network activity which it has always done after sometime of use, get stuck in 2G and then I'd have to manually toggle it back despite WCDMA preference and no Toggle2G or Battery Saver usage.
I've noticed that I'm less likely to be disconnected from gtalk now though, it still happens obviously. My last chrome2phone sent link I waited 2 minutes with no response until I brought it out of standby and proceeded to use dropbox (thereby, I guess, it prompting to check connection to things...).
Kind of hankering to upgrade phones at this point but with the majority of phones being retail here and the fact that even a pre-order special of the Galaxy Nexus from my telco with a 24 month contract only results in saving less than 50EUR over retail, it would seem kind of stupid to get most phones still since everything is on the cusp of changing over the ICS :-/. Also STILL no droid3 here and I guess quite a few of us Milestone users love QWERTY like me

Same **** different day. Everyday. Going to now try updating to the newest CM7 and see if it still does it, been very busy (and disheartened by this issue as well) I only just noticed Kab's has 7.1.4 up.
I think I'm just going to start saving for a new phone

Have you tried using Toggle 2G/3G and setting 2G when screen is off? Yes, I know, it is not the solution, but, you would not gain anything using 3G with screen off and it would avoid this crazy 2G/3G/2G loop you get... I believe it is a decent work around.
By the way, in Brazil I got the same issue, only to realize that my phone carrier/operator is the one to blame, they have sold too much lines and their 3G connection is totally unrealiable due to that... When I saw that many of my friends were having the same issue with this carrier, then I've noticed that it was not the phone causing this issue... Perhaps somehow you are having the same issue, or, perhaps, someone build anything new between you and the tower causing this unrealiable connections (or perhaps you really have an issue). Are you sure you have flashed the proper baseband for your region? I believe CM7 comes with European Baseband (900/2100) which I believe is not the best for you....

The toggle2g suggestion might work, I'll look into it and see if it does it. However, I do think that I'm losing sync with g-chat even over 2G occasionally as well but I'll check anyway to be sure.
It seems to me that it specifically loses the data connection whenever the screen is off, as if its got a similar setting that it goes to sleep like "Wifi off when sleep". The actually annoying part is that when it does lose sync, it takes quite sometime before it gets it again (sometimes doesn't) or until I wake it. It looks like a loop but it clearly often matches against the Awake bars as well, ie the phone only noticing its not in sync (or 3g) when the phone is awaken.
Definitely don't have carrier problems, ruled that out as there's 3 others on same carrier at home without issue. Euro baseband seems to be the same thing but I always flash to Singapore anyway just to be sure.
I'll keep testing, I thought 7.1.4 CM7 update might fix this but it seems to be doing the same thing anyway . That reminds me that I need to try an older ROM and see if that helps.

kabaldan,
Any chance that if SU was denying radio permission that it would do this?
I've just noticed that in my SU logs radio keeps getting denied. In fact it has occurred to me that I haven't seen the Radio Allow/Deny SU screen every time I flash for some time now. I guess it gets stuck behind the setup-wizard screen and times out :-/
I'm reflashing to current CM7 right now and then if it happens again will Clear Data on SU and see if the radio permission screen comes up again and then check if its fixed my ****.

"Radio" asking for root permissions is Toggle2G.

Thanks for clearing that up for me kabaldan <3
I think I'm just going to assume my 3G radio is defective for now and put up with it.

Found this
http://code.google.com/p/market-enabler/issues/detail?id=116
Uninstalled it and reflashed.
Testing now. Looks good so far in battery stats.
EDIT:
Nope, not that either. OK I give up . It's definitely only doing it whenever it goes to Standby however. I've been running Sleep as Android lately to track my sleep cycles and it never loses sync when the screen is awake (the screen dims to minimum so that the app can track sleep, thus meaning the phone is always awake)

Any news on that issue? I'm having the same problem.

I'm having trouble with 3g and battery, my phone normally lasts for 16hs aprox with 6 hours of wifi and little / medium use, and I do not have a mobile data plan, so I never use it.
But, whenever I use 3g, my battery drops from 100% to 0% in less than 5 hours of almost "idle" and even with the screen off , it starts to heat like if I were playing Nova2 with a Walkie Talkie .
This is a battery problem or the mobile is not working properlly ?
Thanks

[Q] Desire S loses signal on calls and unlock

Hello XDA, I have only just registered here but I have been an avid reader of the Desire S forums for a year ever since I got my phone. My phone has been playing up for some time and I've not let it bother me too much but now it's getting quite annoying. It is an unbranded Desire S btw. I have searched but haven't found anyone complaining of the same problem.
The problem is as such: I first noticed in my house the phone seems to lose signal quite easily, fair enough it's a big house, lots of walls, I can understand that - moving to another room usually resolves the issue. However, what's more concerning is I've noticed it drop from fine to nothing in the same place. Even stranger still, if there is an incoming call and I go to pick up the handset, 9 times out of 10 it will lose all signal. Now my gf thinks I keep hanging up on her...
EDIT after further testing, i have think I have found the root of the problem... If I turn the screen on (call or no call) after two seconds or less it will lose all signal whether I leave it at the lock screen or open it. I suspect the problem may be something to do with the kernel governor. I would be grateful if anyone has any insight into this rather frustrating problem
I tried flashing the latest radio (below) but this has not solved my issue.
For reference, I am running the following:
ROM: IceColdSandwich v8
HBOOT: 0.98.2000 ENG S-OFF
RADIO: 20.71.30.0833U_3831.17.00.16_M
NETWORK: ORANGE

errr, i dunno if it works for you but whenever i at home i switch my network to use only 2g as it is much stronger and i barely get/no 3g signal where i stay, but if i am out i switch that off to get 3g signal. give it a try.
hope it helps :-/

Thanks for your suggestion, I will try it for a while and see how things turn out. I have set in the Mobile Networks settings menu to use 2G only and also for my 'Home' profile in Tasker I have included change mobile data to 2G only.

How did you get on with this. I have the exact same issue with mine.

As well as the above, I have also turned off the power saver mode in the ROM Control menu. It seems to be running fine so far. I haven't tested each option individually yet to narrow down the solution but at least it's working.
I personally suspect the problem is to do with the power saver menu because I had enabled switch to 2G on screen off, so whenever I would turn the screen on it would restart the radio and switch to 3G.

[Q] Wondering if the Venom ROM will get any of the updates TMO just released

If anyone knows, will the ViperOneS ROM get the updates TMO just released?
http://phandroid.com/2012/09/26/htc-one-s-for-t-mobile-usa-getting-android-4-0-4/
Specifically,
Helps with data connection delay
Helps with signal fluctuations
At random times, data signal will drop and won't reconnect to the network. Only fix is to go into Airplane mode and back.

treklos said:
If anyone knows, will the ViperOneS ROM get the updates TMO just released?
http://phandroid.com/2012/09/26/htc-one-s-for-t-mobile-usa-getting-android-4-0-4/
Specifically,
Helps with data connection delay
Helps with signal fluctuations
At random times, data signal will drop and won't reconnect to the network. Only fix is to go into Airplane mode and back.
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for the signal fluctuations i solved it with "Disable FastDormancy" got the same problem like you before.
For the data connection delay I don't understand what you mean.

McGiver93 said:
for the signal fluctuations i solved it with "Disable FastDormancy" got the same problem like you before.
For the data connection delay I don't understand what you mean.
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I've done the "Disable Fast Dormancy" and that seems to keep it connected to the network longer, but it'll still randomly disconnect from the network (just less frequently).
Well the "Helps with data connection delay" seems to describe what happens to me when I browse or use an app that requires data.
http://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-4288
Basically, you can see the data signal bars drop and everything appears to time-out, then it will disconnect from the network. You can either wait a few minutes for it to reconnect, or go into Airplane mode or do a reboot to get it to re-connect.
One thing that I've noticed when going into Airplane mode, is from the Settings menu, the Mobile Network switch is greyed out and the phone takes about 1-2 minutes to put itself in Airplane mode. But when I do have signal, going into Airplane mode is much quicker. Is there a way to view what the phone or radio are doing when it disconnects?

Wich radio are u on?
Maybe updating could fix it
If I helped in anyway please hit thanks

[Q] Connection Problems

For the past couple weeks I have been having major connection problems with 3G & WiFi. It would just stop working, even though the bars would be there and show that it is working, but nothing would load. Normally have to turn off Wifi or data for a couple minutes and then turn it back on, or reboot, but even then it does not last that long.
I found on these forums and other places that people seem to have been having the same issue and was caused by the recent update from SuperSU and something it was giving permissions to called mksh. So I denied it permissions, continued to have problem, I went back to the older version, still the saem, I removed the program, and started using just normal Superuser, and the problem still continues.
I was for sure this was the problem, but the program is gone now. I know it can't really be the mksh by itself because it's part of the android OS. For awhile I thought it might have been my SIM card but quickly realised that well WiFi is a problem as well, not just 3G data.
Any one have ideas about this? It's getting really annoying and almost not usable.

BUMP, anyone, this is getting quite annoying. I have searched and done everything possible.

Still needing help.

I don't like bumping this all the time.
I have done all the searching I can, no one has similar problems, no one has any ideas?

Still looking for some answers.
I guess I am the only one.

service issue
toggle airplane mode and if it works call your provider it sounds like a issue with your service

frog1982 said:
toggle airplane mode and if it works call your provider it sounds like a issue with your service
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What do you mean by toggle Airplane mode, when having the problem, turn it on, then turn it off, to see if service works again?
Yes that works, that is what I do most of the time, actually most of the time I have airplane mode on, and then have only wifi enabled.
Either way, how does troubles with WiFi as well as 3G connections mean a problem with my service provider? They don't provide WiFi

Anyone..