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I have my router setup in my den, less than a foot away from the outside window. If I goto my car in the driveway, 75ft (max) from the router itself, I don't even pick up a weak signal. Why is this? I feel like I'm running on 802.11b with the range I get. Speeds seem to be at G speeds but still, the distance seems really false. Anyone else experiencing this?
802.11b and 802.11g have the same effective range.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/802.11
i have the same issue. i have a linksys router, but it might be crap. Ill swap and see what happens
@coolb, sorry, meant to type a, just had b still in my head from looking up the g1's specs.
I have a Belkin N1 Wireless Router, most definatly not a POS And I mean it can pick it up from other rooms, but it seems when i go out of my house it just says no to me.
Either way I'm still under 40m from it, I wouldn't expect any more than 15m, maybe 20m, and like i said its right next to a huge bay window that I'm in direct sight of.
Try changing your router's channel or something. Maybe too much interference.
i have a belkin b/g and get no or 1 bar of wifi signal in my house. my buddy has the same basic router, but the n model and my meter is full and the connection was fast. I am definitely getting an N router in a week or so. i havent had any problems with the last couple of belkin routers i have had, so it will prolly be them.
I have a belkin n1 vision router, and i get signal down the street, about 50 feet away.
i have 3 routers, a 2wire gateway, a crappy netgear and a linksys, and on all 3 sometimes i get great signal sometimes i get low signal, i think the wifiradio no the g1 reacts based on battery life, i could be wrong but its just random like that... prob something that will be fixed on future firmware updates.
It can be anything not just the G1 but what is around, between you and the router, which way the antenna's are pointing, what is near the router. Honestly... I had a microwave between the router and one desktop and it always had issues even when the microwave was off... I moved it and signal came back and no problems. So just because it is off it could still impact the router.
i cant get any wifi network even from 2 feet away.
I had the same problem with my linksys wrt54gs till I went to do some searches about firmware on it. I came across a free firmware site that replaces linksys original firmware and worked great after I installed it. It was fairly easy to install and a big community for help incase you come across some issues. the website is http://dd-wrt.com. I usually had to reset my router once a week cause of failure to connect issues, but since the change I yet have not to reset my router and the signal is stronger. Its been two months now since.
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i cant get any wifi network even from 2 feet away.
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Go to a computer connected to you router preferable wired and connect to you router(by typing its ip address in browser) it might ask you for a username & pass, you can looked it up online ie google linksys admin password. Usually its admin and there's no password or admin admin etc. Then change some of the settings around until you get it to work . Mess around with the security and the frequency. That's what did it for me.
I have problems with the G1's WiFi as well, it refuses to stay connected for more than 10 seconds at a time to my uni wifi. It'll constantly disconnect and reconnect... I have to turn off the wifi to get any internet usage out of this thing. It works fine with my home router, and my laptop and old winmo phone connect fine to the school network. No idea what's wrong
My wifi connection is not very stable. Keeps on disconnecting.
I heard this is a known problem for theb g2x. Are any of u experiencing this issue? And or know how to fix this?
Is tmobile gonna do an update fix for this?
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I've experienced wifi issues myself. Wifi was working flawlessly the first week i had the phone but now it seems as though it does not want to connect to any network -__- it just says 'error'
Not sure if i had something to do with it acting up, maybe i downloaded an app that caused it to act up.. idk
No definite word if the upcoming gb update will fix this issue but i sure hope it will!
sometimes simply rebooting your router can fix this. of all the wifi threads i've seen, i never saw anyone mention this. but like i said, it will sometimes fix it.
After leaving my phone idle for 15+ minutes, I'll lose wifi. Simple fix is to disable/enable wifi. LG knows of this problem and will release a fix on the next update. http://www.lgforum.com/forum/boards/general/lg/topics/g2x-wifi-problems
Now others are having a different type of wifi issue where it won't connect at all, I'm not sure if it's a hardware or software issue.
I'm having the exact same issue. Wifi will be connected, then after a period of time the connection gets disabled. It's quite annoying, as I often do not notice it for a while, after I have already gobbled up a bunch of 4G bandwidth.
I fixed this problem with G2xFixWi-Fi from the market.
Just 4 clicks and it is done.
two separate wifi problems with the g2x
it's good that your wifi problem was fixed with the G2xFixWi-Fi app. but that only fixes the dns problem.
there is another wifi problem where if the phone is in idle for a while and you wake it up, you see from the indicators at top there is no wifi icon and that it is trying to connect 4g but doesn't succeed. the 4g icon flashes on briefly and disappears. it keeps on doing this every second until i manually turn off wifi. then it connects to 4g. from what i can deduce, if i don't turn off wifi before putting it in idle, it does this as well after the phone is in idle for a while. i'm not sure how long after the screen switches off that this looping process happens, but give it 2 hours and i feel that the back of the phone is really warm. i'm thinking that it's warm because it is constantly in this loop. this may also be the source of the massive battery drain that some are seeing.
if i manually turn off wifi before putting it in idle, this doesn't happen. so that's my solution for the time being. i heard about using tasker to automote toggling wifi on/off as the screen is on/off. and it seemed to work at first. but after an overnight test, i found out that the phone response time is sluggish and unpredictable, to the point where i had to have perfect timing just to unlock the phone from idle. rebooting the phone didn't resolve the sluggish response problem, but uninstalling tasker did the trick. so now, it's back to manually turning off wifi before putting it in idle.
another solution proposed is to set wifi to never sleep in the settings. the last time i tried it, it didn't work for me. but i'll try it again to see if it'll work this time.
setting wifi to never sleep did not help
nope. i changed my wifi settings to never sleep and the wifi disconnection problem still happens.
When my phone was stock I had problems with Wi-Fi when it was simultaneously trying to run 2G or 4G. Since then I have switched to various ROMs and Wi-Fi is rock solid. I do use Juice Defender which turns it on and off when screen is off and I'm not running a short list of programs like Pandora. It also reliably switches on when I arrive home.
My G2X won't connect to every WiFi network, and there are a few it cannot even find. I was in a cafe the other day and my friend's laptop and Nokia connected to its WiFi network and my G2X could not even find it... (( So, the problem is, some networks it recognizes but does not connect to (it sticks to "obtaining internet IP..." and then disconnects) and some it cannot even recognize. But to most networks it connects no problem (my home included)... What could be the problem? Can anyone help me?
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My G2X won't connect to every WiFi network, and there are a few it cannot even find. I was in a cafe the other day and my friend's laptop and Nokia connected to its WiFi network and my G2X could not even find it... (( So, the problem is, some networks it recognizes but does not connect to (it sticks to "obtaining internet IP..." and then disconnects) and some it cannot even recognize. But to most networks it connects no problem (my home included)... What could be the problem? Can anyone help me?
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If you have not messed with the ROM and are having this problem - try TMo tech support first, then ask for a replacement if not fixed.
I have had excellent WiFi performance with stock ROM and EB Froyo's and GB (with and without kernels) - WiFi always worked OK. Could be bad unit - it should work!
My wifi has worked flawlessly, but I think it may depend on the router. I recently bought a wifi repeater to use on the other side of my house and when I connect to that, the G2x will disconnect from wifi after about 15 minutes of idle time, like previous posts have said. I switch back to my regular router and it never disconnects.
I have also notice the problem to.
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it's good that your wifi problem was fixed with the G2xFixWi-Fi app. but that only fixes the dns problem.
there is another wifi problem where if the phone is in idle for a while and you wake it up, you see from the indicators at top there is no wifi icon and that it is trying to connect 4g but doesn't succeed. the 4g icon flashes on briefly and disappears.
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I am experiencing this same issue. My phone is rooted with no roms. This just started happening within the last week. Does anyone know of a fix for this yet besides possibly factory resetting?
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I am experiencing this same issue. My phone is rooted with no roms. This just started happening within the last week. Does anyone know of a fix for this yet besides possibly factory resetting?
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This sounds like normal behavior honestly. What is your wifi sleep policy set to? By default the wifi radio turns off when the screen is turned off and then turns back on when the screen turns on.
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Thanks for responding. I have it set to "when screen turns off." The weird thing is I never noticed it do the little switcheroo before. Also, I have Juice Plotter just for fun and it used to show wifi for most of the night when I'm sleeping and the phone is charging. And now it shows APN during that time. I guess it was messing up before and now it's doing what it's supposed to.
Can you enlighten me on a myth, I heard that the wifi consumes less power than the APN or 4G. Is this true or false?
Thanks again
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Thanks for responding. I have it set to "when screen turns off." The weird thing is I never noticed it do the little switcheroo before. Also, I have Juice Plotter just for fun and it used to show wifi for most of the night when I'm sleeping and the phone is charging. And now it shows APN during that time. I guess it was messing up before and now it's doing what it's supposed to.
Can you enlighten me on a myth, I heard that the wifi consumes less power than the APN or 4G. Is this true or false?
Thanks again
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With a LTE or Wimax phone, I think so. With a phone using hspa+, I don't think so.
Did you try.
Did you set it like I do, WI-FI never sleep. Because where I live
T-MOBIL had no cell service. Well, Very spotty coverage.
Also check how many people in you're neighborhood are on your same channel. And change yours.
Look in mark there's a free APP that's a WI-FI analyzer.
And change to one
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My wifi is acting weird. It does a loop whenever i have a WPA/WPA2 settings on my home wifi but works when i have it disabled. :S It was alright with stock froyo and stock GB i uploaded from LG. then i flashed Xboarders OTA 1.2.2 GB and this happens.
Can any1 give an insight how to fix this ? =(
im having the same problem, i bought the g2x the day it came out (when it had froyo before gingerbread came out) and never had a problem leaving my wifi on 24/7 it wasnt until the update for gingerbread came out that this problem started happening, it really sucks for me since im using my g2x as an AT&T phone for now all i get is 2g speeds
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also something i tried and worked was turn wifi off, turn off your phone and turn it back on then go to menu>settings> wireless & network>wi-fi settings>check connect to wifi and check connect to wifi that worked for me (holding the phone in landscape mode (horizontally) ) i add that in because one time i was turing the wifi on in that order it didnt work i dropped my phone and picked it back up in landscape mode and wifi was connected. im not sure if anything i said helped anyone at all but hope i didnt waste anyones time
I have only done this for 2 days so it is hardly scientific but I noticed that for some reason when the infuse is at home on wifi it won't stay asleep. It divides the time between 800mhz and deep sleep. When at work it will stay asleep probably 95% of the time while on wifi. The signal strength is about the same according to wifi analyzer. Is my router chatting with it more than work? Neighbors wifi signal competing? I am stock and rooted just last night. The next thing I planned to do was load better battery stats to try to see what is eating up the battery at home. Maybe change the channel? I think work was 6 and I am using 11. I also noticed if I turn wifi off at home and use 3g it uses less and stays asleep.
It does sound like some interference, I would try changing the channel on your router to the same as your work's.
I think I figured it out. Apparently my android devices hate WEP. I know I shouldn't be running WEP but my neighbor is running open so I figured people would go after him first. Anyway after changing to open or WPA the infuse and transformer both sleep about 80% of the time with wifi always on.
Wrong again! All was fine until I added my other wireless devices back. The android devices then went back to not sleeping. Searched xda and it appears the dlink dir-655 that I have tends to do this. Strange thing is that it behaves as long as my windows computers are not connected via wireless. Any suggestions on a router with gigabit ports?
Netgear WNDR3700.
Thanks. I saw this one on newegg but the last 10-20 reviews weren't great. I assume you have or used it? Are you using stock or alternative firmware?
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Thanks. I saw this one on newegg but the last 10-20 reviews weren't great. I assume you have or used it? Are you using stock or alternative firmware?
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Stock firmware. It works well, has great coverage. I currently have three in use here at the house (fairly complex linked setup for auto failover to two ISPs and bridging) Never a problem with any of them.
Sounds like Netgear finally got their **** together. I've had many Netgear routers plagued with wacky firmware problems like shutting off DNS access because it decided the computer was infected with malware for requesting DNS too often. (affected 3 completely different Netgear routers).
However even if the stock firmware gives you problems, I believe the 3700 is very well supported by DD-WRT. I'm running DD-WRT in access-point-only mode on a 3000 or 3200 right now (I forget the exact model, it's not a 3700). As soon as I bother to buy some antennas it's getting replaced with a Ubiqiti Rocket M5 though.
Thanks I assume you have some windows devices hooked to them as well? Like I said the dir-655 works great until I fire up the laptop. One other report was some HP software is constantly polling so i will try to delete all that and maybe a few other settings but most threads have no solution.
Linux, Mac (Lion and Snow Leopard), Windows (Vista and 7), iPad, iPhone, Android, Wii, Samsung BD, Sony BD, Slingbox, all connected and functioning.
Can you set DTIM on that router? Just curious what it was set at on that router. I fiddled with that on the dlink but couldn't find a setting the tablet liked. It got better but never went to sleep like it should.
Thanks for the recommendation. I swapped out this weekend and have seen greatly improved sleep when I leave the devices idle.....over 90%
Had an issue with attached devices list being blank. There are a bunch of links on the internet about it but no solutions. For whatever reason it just started working 2 days later? Anyway, so far so good.
Thanks!
Ok, so I think I've figured out why my SR wouldn't go into Deep Sleep when WiFi is on. I think it stems from fact that there's a lot of multicast traffic (IPTV) on my network. I'm a U-Verse subscriber with fiber to the home (FTTH) and my entire house is connected via Ethernet, including the set to boxes (STB). No coax whatsoever is connected. As a result, my STBs share the same network as my non-STB devices (WiFI, Servers, PCs, etc). This causes the STB IPTV traffic to flood the network including the WiFi (my theory). I decided to test my theory by moving all my WiFi APs (3 of them) to a separate subnet, thereby eliminating multicast completely from the WiFi. And what do you know?...my SR goes into Deep Sleep when WiFi is on.
Hope this helps others with the same problem. Switches that are more intelligent can help with the filter multicast more dynamically. Look for something that is IGMP aware and that should help.
How did you get FTTH with U-Verse? It is typically FTTN.
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How did you get FTTH with U-Verse? It is typically FTTN.
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I think it depends on your area. My friend lives in a brand new house about .25 miles from me and he has FTTH, while I can't even get FTTN because my neighborhood is 15 or so years old.
Some wi-fi routers are better than others for this issue.
I've attached a betterbattery screenshot of the wifi related kernel wakelocks I get. This is supposedly from the wi-fi router saying "are you there, are you there, are you there".
This thread talks about the issue and even recommends a router model that does not cause the problem.
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/16134-kernel-wakelock-wlan-rx-wake/
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I've attached a betterbattery screenshot of the wifi related kernel wakelocks I get. This is supposedly from the wi-fi router saying "are you there, are you there, are you there".
This thread talks about the issue and even recommends a router model that does not cause the problem.
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/16134-kernel-wakelock-wlan-rx-wake/
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The wakelock described in that article was essentially my theory, but for multicast. I noticed the lights on my APs blinking like crazy. I'm using the exact same three APs, just now separated by a router. I'm running DDWRT on three different types of APs as well (Netgear WNDR3300, Netgeard WNDR3400, and Linksys E2000).
As for FTTH, yes...there is a single strand of fiber going into an Alcatel-Lucent NID and then Cat5 to a 2Wire gateway that feeds the Ethernet to the rest of the house. Pretty killer setup. I've got GigE everywhere with 2 ports per room...even in the garage.
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The wakelock described in that article was essentially my theory, but for multicast. I noticed the lights on my APs blinking like crazy. I'm using the exact same three APs, just now separated by a router. I'm running DDWRT on three different types of APs as well (Netgear WNDR3300, Netgeard WNDR3400, and Linksys E2000).
As for FTTH, yes...there is a single strand of fiber going into an Alcatel-Lucent NID and then Cat5 to a 2Wire gateway that feeds the Ethernet to the rest of the house. Pretty killer setup. I've got GigE everywhere with 2 ports per room...even in the garage.
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Heh, nice. I've got FTTN, but the VRAD is like, less then 100 feet away, so they can easily provide me with higher then promised speeds (I have the 24/3 plan, I get 26/4).
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The wakelock described in that article was essentially my theory, but for multicast. I noticed the lights on my APs blinking like crazy. I'm using the exact same three APs, just now separated by a router. I'm running DDWRT on three different types of APs as well (Netgear WNDR3300, Netgeard WNDR3400, and Linksys E2000).
As for FTTH, yes...there is a single strand of fiber going into an Alcatel-Lucent NID and then Cat5 to a 2Wire gateway that feeds the Ethernet to the rest of the house. Pretty killer setup. I've got GigE everywhere with 2 ports per room...even in the garage.
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Good to know they are finally doing that. Maybe eventually they can compete with FIOS on speed. Gotta love 44 down and 35 up.
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I think my skyrocket is just defective
Well this doesn't appear to be the problem with my Skyrocket. I got home, took it to my friends house and connected to his wifi. (Not Uverse) Phone spent 95% of the time awake and 5% in deep sleep, and it was just sitting on the couch next to me with the screen off, I never touched it. So then I tethered it to my Galaxy Nexus, and the exact same thing happens. I thought maybe this would be the case, as my Galaxy Nexus has no issues going into deep sleep at home on my Uverse wifi setup. I really believe now that there is some defect in this phone, and will be returning it to AT&T for a new one. Or some other phone even.
I have this same problem on my FIOS home wifi. Plagued me for weeks. Looked for solutions, tried everything. The router just sends out too many ARP requests, which constantly wake the phone. Even on boneStocketeer with background sync disabled and no apps installed, not even signed in Google account, I'd still get like 15% wake locks from wlan. I've given up at this point I've tried everything on that router. And since ARP doesn't have a port, I can't block them.
If I set up a separate AP connected to my router with dd-wrt, I could filter multi cast stuff like that?
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Well this doesn't appear to be the problem with my Skyrocket. I got home, took it to my friends house and connected to his wifi. (Not Uverse) Phone spent 95% of the time awake and 5% in deep sleep, and it was just sitting on the couch next to me with the screen off, I never touched it. So then I tethered it to my Galaxy Nexus, and the exact same thing happens. I thought maybe this would be the case, as my Galaxy Nexus has no issues going into deep sleep at home on my Uverse wifi setup. I really believe now that there is some defect in this phone, and will be returning it to AT&T for a new one. Or some other phone even.
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Wouldn't a simple solution to fix the wake lock caused by wifi be to change the wifi sleep settings so that the phone turns off wifi when the screen is also off?
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Wouldn't a simple solution to fix the wake lock caused by wifi be to change the wifi sleep settings so that the phone turns off wifi when the screen is also off?
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Well yes, that is what I'm currently doing, but LTE is much more of a battery hog than Wifi. So I get about 12 hours on battery, with fairly light to maybe moderate usage, but better than nothing I guess. It is frustrating because otherwise this phone is just absolutely great. Super fast, and LTE is amazing here in Houston. I will get this figured out eventually.
I can get up to 17 hours with moderate use, I usually leave LTE on all day, and it is a huge drain when the screen is on. But it is better than nothing, better than what I was getting on my Inspire. I think the Wifi also has more to do with the ROM you use, when I was on stock I got better battery life when I used Wifi all day, rather than leave it off and have LTE on.
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Well my skyrocket wouldn't take the update that I guess came out just a few days ago (probably because it was root and had CWM on it) but whatever. I was FED UP with this thing. So I downloaded the UCLA rooted ROM and Modem and wiped the whole blasted phone. Factory reset/wipe data, Formatted /system, wiped cache and Dalvik. There was nothing on the phone (except the internal and external SD card where my titanium and nandroid backups were at. Flashed that ROM and Modem. Set up phone, restored JUST my downloaded apps like games, etc. Froze AT&T bloat.
And I no longer have the sleep issue.
I solved restarting my router.
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I just got this issue too.
Tracked it back to SX Virtual server and Dropbox, and now the wakelocks seems to be gone.
What I did was this:
Tried Shark - it showed that there was a lot of packets sent to and from local computers on my network. Nothing more useful info from that.
Tried Network Log, it showed the amounts of packets sent and receieved by Kernel. And most of them was sent to/from local computers, using specific UDP ports.
Used TCPview on the computers to see what it was. It informed that the ports was used by two programs: SX Virtual Server (identical to D-Link Shareport) and Dropbox.
I uninstalled SX Virtual Server/Shareport (it's useless anyway) and disabled Lan sync in Dropbox.
Now, the Kernel network activity is almost idle.
Hope this helps others with this issue.
Hello all!
I have a S10e, running stock Android 10. The wifi at my house constantly disconnects and reconnects, rendering my phone as virtually useless, as it switches between my mobile network and wifi. I have tried all of the trouble shooting I've found online, just short of a full backup/master reset. I'm trying to avoid that.
Does anyone have any idea what may be causing this? Better yet, how can I fix it? I'm rather annoyed, as I've had several Samsung Galaxy phones that have had minor issues, but nothing as annoying as this. I'm about to buy another model phone.
Thanks in advance
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Hello all!
I have a S10e, running stock Android 10. The wifi at my house constantly disconnects and reconnects, rendering my phone as virtually useless, as it switches between my mobile network and wifi. I have tried all of the trouble shooting I've found online, just short of a full backup/master reset. I'm trying to avoid that.
Does anyone have any idea what may be causing this? Better yet, how can I fix it? I'm rather annoyed, as I've had several Samsung Galaxy phones that have had minor issues, but nothing as annoying as this. I'm about to buy another model phone.
Thanks in advance
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Hi, I have the S10e G970F_MMI - Singapore Snapdragon. Similar issues with wifi and bluetooth turning off immediately after update. Got one message from Wi-Fi control history that said Google Play services turned off wi-fi. I tried disconnecting Play services but that did not help however I am suspicious that it might also have something to do with Bixby Routines. Tried Samsung but no help as my phone is only 13 months old and 1 month out of warranty and I am not in Singapore but stuck in UK. Like you, I am a long time Samsung client with phones, tablets and TV's but I have now lost confidence in them. I tried factory reset and reflashing the custom ROM but no luck. I do hope that you can resolve your wi-fi issue and have a wonderful New Year.
Apparently, Samsung admitted the S10 series suffers from this issue. I noticed it on mine, just in the last month or two, disconnecting intermittently roughly every 30 minutes. I thought it might have been my router, but I realized it's definitely my phone (S10e US snapdragon).
Nothing I tried fixed it. I did disable "wi-fi power saving mode" and wifi auto connect (I have tasker auto re-connect wifi when it disconnects).
I do have "wi-fi san throttling" enabled in developer options, which shouldn't have anything to do with this. HOWEVER, you might try "wi-fi safe mode" under developer options and see if that helps keep it more persistent.
One other suggestion, though it shouldn't matter, is to try assigning a specific IP address to your phone (do this from your router settings, not your phone). And you can search for other solutions online to cut down on radio interference on your home network. Other devices and neighbors might be disrupting the router signal strength, possibly dropping it below a level that causes your phone to drop wifi.
I got the same problem before, used an Asus router. I changed to a Qualcomm chip router and its fixed. Try a different router?
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I got the same problem before, used an Asus router. I changed to a Qualcomm chip router and its fixed. Try a different router?
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Unfortunately I cannot, as the router I have is from my internet provider. I would have to run that to another router and at that point it's just a waste of money. Thank you for the info though! If I get annoyed enough I may buy a cheap router to see if it fixes the problem.
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I got the same problem before, used an Asus router. I changed to a Qualcomm chip router and its fixed. Try a different router?
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My Exynos stopped disconnecting after installing OpenWrt on my Qualcomm router