Hello XDA,
Right now I have an Atrix 4G, and while I know I should be happy with it, I truly am not. The battery life is horrendous, the GPS always puts me in a city I'm not in, and many other things (and this is my 4th unit).
But...the one thing that really has me ready to jump ship is that my wifi almost NEVER works. It connects, then disconnects, then connects, and back and fourth, it is very annoying. Is this a problem with the Infuse 4G?
Nope. At least in my case I have perfect wifi signal most of the time.
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halfnelson117 said:
Nope. At least in my case I have perfect wifi signal most of the time.
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Yup, once in a while it has flaked out, but all I have to do when that happens is turn wifi off then on again.
Wifi in infuse has pretty poor range but still i get around 2 bars 40ft away though 3 walls and never seen the connection drop. I even sit in my car 50ft away from the modem and get 1 bar.
I have to agree on the poor WiFi quality on the Atrix. Another big issue for me was heat. The Atrix gets extremely hot.
I ended up taking the Atrix back and getting the Infuse. I'm pretty happy with the Infuse, it's a great phone!
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I have had both atrix and infuse. The wifi range is exactly the same. No connection issues however on the infuse.
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I actually did have wifi issues on my infuse. Id be sitting at my pc desk with full wifi bars and it would not connect, either I had to reboot or id have to wait it out before it would connect. Also, id be at my friends house using is wifi without any issues, than when id come home id still be connected to his nexwork, id select my network but the phon would tell me its out of range, reboot. I called att and the rep dug thru notes and call logs and apparently others were having the same issue. Before he connected me to a samsung rep the att guy recommended me going into my routers settings and adding my phones mac id to my router. Once I finally spoke to the samsung guy he told me I need a new router, even tho all other wireless devices work fine in the house. So I did the Mac id bit and the phone was fine. The next day my phone received an update, not sure what it was (wifi fix perhaps) I updated but once I got home non of my other devices would connect. I went backs into router settings and changed it back to how it was and I haven't had an issue since.
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Same problem here too!
I have had the same issues as nash2000. I can sit right next to my router, seems to have a full connection, yet not be in range. Any MMS's coming in would get stuck and stay in that "stuck" mode for days. I have replaced SIMM cards and called AT&T continually. They replaced my phone and nothing has changed.
I notice that no matter where I am - home, another state, etc - that when I with someone who also has AT&&T with an iphone that they always have more bars than I go and better wifi strength - even when we're both sitting next to my router. AT&T claims that my complaint of this is the very first they have heard - HA!
I think a lot of the wifi issues got cleared up with the update ATT pushed. @lasmonster do you have a mirocell?
What update did AT&T push for the Infuse? The Wi-Fi is horrible. Once it's connected it works fine but it usually doesn't scan well. I have to turn off Wi-Fi and turn it back on. Adding about 20 seconds to the time it takes to connect and sometimes it will say Not In Range when I'm obviously in range.
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walkinpp said:
What update did AT&T push for the Infuse? The Wi-Fi is horrible. Once it's connected it works fine but it usually doesn't scan well. I have to turn off Wi-Fi and turn it back on. Adding about 20 seconds to the time it takes to connect and sometimes it will say Not In Range when I'm obviously in range.
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Sounds like someone didn't get the update.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1123674
Not sure how to trick your phone into downloading it, mine just got it. I believe all the ROMs available also are built off the update (infused at least for sure)
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I am wondering if anyone else has experienced issues with their phone taking way to long to establish a connection when surfing the internet. Some times when I click a link it will take for ever and sometimes not connect at all, of course when it does establish the link it is blazing fast. Typically when it cannot establish a connection I will just put my phone into Airplane mode and then turn Airplane mode off and typically after that it is able to establish a connection.
Thanks.
my phone often goes from good 4g reception to just showing two or three bars with no connection type (never auto switches to 3g, occasionally switches to 1x). just now it went from 4g to no connection type, so i dialed *#*#4636#*#* and tried turning the radio off and on, tried changing the radio mode to LTE only, cdma prl auto, and a couple of the other choices and it never seems to make a difference (always poor connectivity, sometimes total data drops, sometimes while tethering and sometimes when just using the phone normally). could just be LTE tower work in many areas, but im looking forward to an upcoming software/firmware update from htc or verizon.
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Sometimes when I lose connection, I just restart my phone and everything works again. Try that and see if it helps!
Smok3d said:
Sometimes when I lose connection, I just restart my phone and everything works again. Try that and see if it helps!
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that did work
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I run into that quite often... sometimes it clears up after 20 seconds, others I have to disable and re-enable the data connection. I'm strictly in a 3G area, and it's done it with LTE on and off, as well as stock ROM and my custom ROM.
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that did work
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Really? A $500 phone and you're ok with having to turn it off and on to maintain a data connection?
I've had several HTC phones, going all the way back to my WinMo phone, and this Thunderbolt has to be the worst HTC phone I've used to date.
On my second device, if I keep it, it'll only be to grandfather the unlimited 4G data plan.
Inconsistent data connections and force closes up the wazoo... Wow!
hecatomb said:
I run into that quite often... sometimes it clears up after 20 seconds, others I have to disable and re-enable the data connection. I'm strictly in a 3G area, and it's done it with LTE on and off, as well as stock ROM and my custom ROM.
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Quickest way so far is use the free app called "Restart Connection" works for me like a charm....
aedillor said:
Quickest way so far is use the free app called "Restart Connection" works for me like a charm....
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Well, I've got the quick buttons in the dropdown tray in my ROM, so it's just as fast... still, its something that shouldn't be happening in the first place.
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Really? A $500 phone and you're ok with having to turn it off and on to maintain a data connection?
I've had several HTC phones, going all the way back to my WinMo phone, and this Thunderbolt has to be the worst HTC phone I've used to date.
On my second device, if I keep it, it'll only be to grandfather the unlimited 4G data plan.
Inconsistent data connections and force closes up the wazoo... Wow!
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I never said I was okay with that, I just said it worked because I failed to mention doing that with success in my post
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My dig wasn't at you, no offense meant buddy. I'm pretty much fed up with this device and will most likely return and cancel contract.
I've had issues with data since day one and I've never had so many force closes on one device.
This is Verizons flagship 4G device and it's a POS.
I've been on Android since G1, iterated thru the OS with each release thru to Gingerbread on my N1.
Verizon has a rocking 4G network, HTC released a crap phone that was delayed for several weeks. I would have thought that by the time they RTM'd it would have been fixed, or at least better than it is.
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My dig wasn't at you, no offense meant buddy. I'm pretty much fed up with this device and will most likely return and cancel contract.
I've had issues with data since day one and I've never had so many force closes on one device.
This is Verizons flagship 4G device and it's a POS.
I've been on Android since G1, iterated thru the OS with each release thru to Gingerbread on my N1.
Verizon has a rocking 4G network, HTC released a crap phone that was delayed for several weeks. I would have thought that by the time they RTM'd it would have been fixed, or at least better than it is.
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It's cool, I know what you mean but I'm liking the phone... Occasional reboots don't really bother me that much - this is probably because sprint wimax is nonexistent pretty much anywhere indoors and is the most unreliable network connection ever. the evo was a solid reliable device, but it was worthless because of the network and i canceled sprint to come to verizon for the thunderbolt. im happy with it despite a few annoyances. once i root and cm is released this phone/network combination will be untouchable.
i felt more comfortable using dialup and praying the phone wouldn't ring and disconnect me than i did using sprint wimax. their 3g is slower than dialup in a lot of areas at the moment, too.
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This is driving me crazy also. My phone will constantly drop whatever connection it had (wifi, 3G or 4G) and just sit there with no data connection for a couple of minutes whereby I finally have to reset the radios and then wait while it cycles through 1X and then maybe 3G or 4G if I'm lucky. Or it just goes back to full cdma bars and no data connection. I don't have 5 minutes every time I want to check the internet or email to wait for the phone to reboot or reset radios or do whatever it's doing.
I had the EVO, and while the 4G wimax connection wasn't always stout, if you lost it you immediately grabbed a 3G connection that was solid. This delay/no data connection thing is making me think twice about switching to this phone. Love the 4G when it works, but it holds a connection way too infrequently for me to be useful, and I'm in LA where the service is supposed to be blanketed all the places I'm trying.
I mean WTF? I have almost full bars and 4g symbol but I can't get online or the market will say data connectivity is fuked. Or sometimes it's just insanely slow.
What gives?
I will try it a few times and it works perfect and it's like this everywhere in town.
You are not the only one.
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You are not the only one.
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Good to know
This blows, WTF. . . . My HD2 flies when this thing just croaks. It just hangs and waits for who knows what.
Welcome to 4G.... The G stands for Gullible.
Seems that when the 4G icon is displayed means that you have a 4G signal, however I don't think means you have a connection.
When I do get a 4G connection, life is great.
It appears to me that there are several bugs switching back and forth between wifi/4g/2g that is causing many issues.
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I mean WTF? I have almost full bars and 4g symbol but I can't get online or the market will say data connectivity is fuked. Or sometimes it's just insanely slow.
What gives?
I will try it a few times and it works perfect and it's like this everywhere in town.
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This is horse crap. The connectivity rotts, I meat rotts. . . . .The best speed I got so far was 3,000bps. But my other phone is at a constants 28.
And the worst part is not the speed, it's just spotty. Sometimes I get like 700, this is not cool.
I have never had this issue.
I rarely ever lose 4g and I constantly have fantastic speedy connections.
I have never had a phone hold a connection as well as this phone.
(iPhone, BB, Nexus One, HTC HD7, etc..)
diablos991 said:
I have never had this issue.
I rarely ever lose 4g and I constantly have fantastic speedy connections.
I have never had a phone hold a connection as well as this phone.
(iPhone, BB, Nexus One, HTC HD7, etc..)
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Word, I never lose the 4G symbol. Yet, there is no connectivity.
Did any of you guys happen to skip the initial setup for your phones? That has been found to cause a lot of problems relating to signal and connectivity. Try factory resetting and NOT skipping the initial setup if you skipped it before.
Edit: My phone is running great now, but once I did skip the initial setup and it was being really wonky.
Initial settup:/
I strongly doubt it. . . Just what I think.
Make sure T-Mobile is using the right internet for 2days they had blackberry web I noticed that while looking into the myaccount app
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I had an issue as well.
T-mobile had set up my device wrong, they put me under a "unlimited text / talk" plan with a "mobile wifi data only" option, ie: zero data on 3g/4g.
After a 15min phone call to support it was corrected but as some people know already, the promotion I'm under (and what is being advertised), which is the $79.99 unlimited text/data/talk plan, the data limit is 2 gigs a month.
Its 2011 ffs. 2 gig's is stupid low.
I was using my G2X with no issues until today. everything that uses data connection is slow and times out. when i connect to a wireless connection it is blazing fast. I don't think i skipped the initial set up i don't see why i would but i am going to reset and do it again and see if it helps, Battery life is also terrible i have not been using my phone for much today and its is already at 20% and i unplugged it at 9am , my HD2 at this point is looking good.
So strange, today the connectivity is real good(2k down) I also have SPB 3D installed and the battery is awesome so far. 6 hours and I am @ 69% with a lot of use.
I'm having this same problem and I'm pissed. Calling tmobile is a pain in the ass nowadays and I'm about to tell them to shove this phone up their ass!!!!
My question is this: Will a new ROM(when it comes out) fix this BS?
I've noticed this since I got the phone the other day. I'm connected to wifi and for the first couple of minutes my wifi speeds are what they should be which are around 15-18mbps. Then after about 5 or 6 minutes maybe a little more the download speeds decrease to around .80mbps. Upload speeds remain the same.
Can others test this out.
Connect to wifi
Then run a speedtest via the speedtest app which is available in the market
Then put your phone down for several minutes
Then run another test and see what you get
Doesn't always happen right away but more frequently when the wifi connection is being used. HTC definitely has some bugs with the Sensation. Hopefully they'll be addressed sooner rather than later.
Using T-Mobile USA by the way.
Did you already try this fix? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1118017
I haven't had the problem you speak of.
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Did you already try this fix? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1118017
I haven't had the problem you speak of.
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Yup, problem still there. I called T-Mobile and they said they are working on an update to address the latency/radio issues. Hopefully that will resolve it.
Have the problem. I think either an.app we have installed is doing it or we have to wait on a fix.
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Yup, problem still there. I called T-Mobile and they said they are working on an update to address the latency/radio issues. Hopefully that will resolve it.
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Mine can't even hang on to wifi for that long, lol
Thank god I don't use wifi much.
I'm in this boat as well. After a while my wifi slows down greatly, restarting the wifi connection being the only method of restoring it to it's proper bandwidth.
On the note of the Slow data latency fix, I'm pretty sure that that menu in its entirety, as well as the ciphering option, only apply to the network data connection, and not wifi.
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It seems to me to be correlated loosely with wifi-calling use.
It certainly isn't instant, but I've been testing it off and on and it seems that if I turn wifi calling off and then restart my wifi the gradual slowdown doesn't occur, but if I turn wifi calling on, then it does.
I heard unchecking the using mobile data speeds up wifi as well. And are you guys using the best wifi performance option as well?
Maybe its a certain app you guys are using. Mine stays at a constant 30mb/s down and 10mb/s up whether I'm on WIFI for 10 minutes or 10 hours.
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I disabled WiFi calling and the problem seems to have been stopped. So far so good. It was dropping to 2Mbs and after disabling WiFi calling my speeds jumped back up to 17Mbs.
I talked with T-Mobile tech support about it, and since my phone was recently purchased they gave me another Sensation. The issue is no longer present, all the same apps, all the same settings, same network.
Not sure what's going on. Just got this phone today, all is well. Installed all my apps. Nothing wrong yet. Then suddenly I lose data connection, but phone calls work fine??? Strange enough, airplane mode is off, data network is active/on and the bars are full strength (my area is perfectly fine with connection/reception).
In order for me to get the data to work again, I have to reboot the phone.
I already upgraded to EE4 as well.
Any one else having this problem?
This happened to me twice so far today. I did not root my phone, using stock rom.
I was having some data network issues too. Been all day.
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It happened again...this is frustrating
What region do you live in? I'm in Alabama.
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Take it back and get a replacement. I didn't make it out of the parking lot on my first one and noticed the data network was acting weird. Walked back in and showed them and they gave me a new one. Second one has been great. And with it being brand new I would not put up wiht that type of crap.
The phone I replaced had a connection that would cycle from 4g to 3g to 1x to dead if I downloaded more than 20mb of data at once. I also had it completely die and it required a battery pull after taking a picture once. When I returned it to the VZW store they couldn't reproduce the issue and factory reset it. I wasn't gone from the store for 5 min and it died again so I returned and they swapped it. I haven't had that issue since.
Dropping Network
My wife's phone looses the network MANY times per day and she has to reboot to get the connection back. Her battery also gets very hot and then the phone locks up. She is taking it back to Costco tomorrow to try another one.
both my thunderbolt and charge lose their connections ... i just got a replacement charge as they said it was defective since it was losing the network connection ... new one had to be rebooted to get a connection back, lol ... so much for the defective 'original' charge!
I went to VZ store today and they told me there is a 3G/4G outtage. Anyone else? I'm in PA.
Problem still persists even now.
4G in MO**
You guys still having issues?
Wife exchanged for another Charge and no more issues. She must of had a dud.
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Mine is doing the same thing. Located in Southern Indiana
They must be doing some upgrades to the network because it's intermittent. The past couple of days I've been getting periods of no response even though the 4G icon is displayed.
During one of my connection issues, I just wanted to confirm it was actually connected and, oddly, I recoded one of my fastest speed tests during that time. I still wasn't getting updates/notifications from the Gapps though.
4g issues
I have issues of 4g display showing and cant connect but it last about a minute. But the worst part is at 1 am when im into my phone it just goes out cant connect to 3g or 4g with my life depended on it. Its so frustrating. any guesses?
I had my phone replaced....still having problems
I'm in Georgia and I've been having this issue as well. Just received my new change and I'm going to give it a shot...
Anyone come to a resolution yet?
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I'm in NC and my 3G or 4G icon has started to randomly disappear. Sometimes it comes back sometimes not. ROM related perhaps??
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i'm from san francisco and no 4g signal since 8am PST
I have had internet connectivity issues that get cleared up immediatley after i disable mobile data and then re-enable.
It happens when i am in a solid 4g area sitting in the same place surfing the web and my data will just die. and it comes back right up after i disable and re-enable my mobile data.
it also happens when im on the bus going back and forth between 3g and 4g.
is this a normal droid charge issue?
seems like it craps out after about 10 min of surfing every time i remember it happening.
i had this happen when i was stock, after i rooted stock, and now on tweek 2.0
Had that issue yesterday on 4G, and it cleared up the same evening. Occasionally will lose data connectivity on 4G, even with it's still showing the connection. It's not very frequent or consistent, and it seems to have gotten better over time. There is definitely some flakiness on the radios on the Charge. A friend was sitting right next to me on his Spectrum yesterday and wasn't having any issues. I think it's likely related to Verizon network, but I think some phones are more sensitive to it than others.
Yeah, happens to me too. I had to disable/re-enable data at least twice today. :/
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This happened to me the first couple of days I had the phone. I went to Verizon and they swapped the SIM. Worked fine after then.
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JihadSquad said:
This happened to me the first couple of days I had the phone. I went to Verizon and they swapped the SIM. Worked fine after then.
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hmm.. i did have a few sim issues when i got the phone a week ago, after loading a rom the phone said there was no sim inserted or there was a sim error cant remember which.
maybe swap the sim tomorrow to see if that helps.
sounds like it might be a charge radio issue... i am getting what ever killer phone comes out in a few months anyway. Galaxy s3? HTC one X ? Galaxy Journal ?
Motorola hd ?
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So i got a new sim..
Nothing has changed.
I have netflix and live in a great 4g area and still have to toggle off data 2-3 times a morning on my bus trip into seattle.
It seems like the radio has a hard time figuring out wtf to do once it comes in and out of 4g. I can be sitting at in traffic for 5 min with no signal and flipping the data on and then off... BAM 4g is back.
This makes for annoying netflix / IT Crowd, viewing.
I am glad that i got this phone as a temp solution cheap from craigslist. Motorola Droid fighter or Galaxy S3 will be putting this lump of mediocre electronics to rest in the next month or so.
What radio is installed on your phone? To find this out go to settings/about phone. The baseband version would be your radio. If it says i510.06V.FP1, that means you are on the most up to date radio. I had similar issues before I updated to FP1 but since then, the 3 or 4G has been very quick to connect and stays reliable all day.
One of my buds works for Vzw and he told me that the 4g network is great when it works. In some places vzw is activating 4g network before the network is ready to be deployed. They are doing this because competition has more 4g coverage.
One solution is to set your phone to 3g only and accept reliable slow sppeds or deal with crappy 4g. Eventually vzw will get it right. Wjen though, is anybody's guess.
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