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Poor WIFI signal on sensation?

I have been using it for a couple days now. The signal is very weak on my phone, it disappears sometime. It shows "Excellent" on my laptop. Does anyone has this problem?
I'm using stock rom from tmobile.

Actually i have almost the double of wifi strength that i had on Galaxy s2, no problem at all, so test it better

Did you get the 2.3.4 update? It improves WiFi signal strength.

Mines great ! Way better than my old Evo 4g. Just picked up the NETGEAR N600 dual band wireless router. Works like a charm.
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aNYthing24 said:
Did you get the 2.3.4 update? It improves WiFi signal strength.
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On my phone, " Upgrade version to 1.45.531.1 (45.18 MB)- FOTA update". Is this what you are talking about?

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On my phone, " Upgrade version to 1.45.531.1 (45.18 MB)- FOTA update". Is this what you are talking about?
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Yes that's the latest update.
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Do you know about the deathgrip issues with the Sensation? Try looking it up, it might be what's affecting your signal.

Laptops probably have better wireless antenas built in. It is after all a cellphone we are talking about. Just like your 2 core CPU is no match for a 2 core laptop/pc, same is probably true for WiFi. But that's just my guess. I don't get a lot of range on my sensation either, but my previous phones were kind of the same, maybe even weaker.

nunomeneses said:
Actually i have almost the double of wifi strength that i had on Galaxy s2, no problem at all, so test it better
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Same here !

Mine picks up the wifi from the back of the house just fine. If I turn the phone and put my hand on the top it gets worse for sure.
I dont use wifi tho so it doesn't matter at the moment. I hear the update improved this issue.

nextonline said:
Laptops probably have better wireless antenas built in. It is after all a cellphone we are talking about. Just like your 2 core CPU is no match for a 2 core laptop/pc, same is probably true for WiFi. But that's just my guess. I don't get a lot of range on my sensation either, but my previous phones were kind of the same, maybe even weaker.
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I used an iphone on the same spot. It got pretty good signal. I think that's the problem from the phone.

mythe said:
Do you know about the deathgrip issues with the Sensation? Try looking it up, it might be what's affecting your signal.
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I don't hold the phone, just put the phone on the desk to test.

Dare i suggest try a windsurfer. I have one on a dg834g and have no wifi issues with any of my mobile devices (touch wood)
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The wifi gets poor signal when you cover the top part of the back with your hand, like when you rotate it for landscape, it loses signal. Something I noticed whenever I'm on youtube

Try some of the new custom 2.3.4 ROMS. It completely fixed my deathgrip on my WifI. I don't like to name them but just look in the changelogs and you will find them,

Nope, when i am using WiFi its been good. Does this happen to you everywhere?
Sent from my HTC Sensation

I just made the newest update. Yeah, I saw some new APs, but even I connected to one. It gets so easily disconnected. I think I will bring it to tmo store to check it out.

Question about wifi.
Hello guys, I have a question about the wifi.
I use cm10.1 and wifi on the phone is very weak (the same was with the factory-installed software)
Is there a way to strengthen the range of wifi?
Greeting.

poor signal wifi problem is here too!
if i am not wrong I think its an Hw issue cuz mine older galaxy gio gives me full range wifi and don't even drops.Sensation is dropping like hell!

There is a difference of wifi signal on CM JB roms VS ICS / Sense Roms. I tend to have a LOT better signal / performance with Sense roms.
And I'm not just talking about the signal strength bars, but speed, overal connectivity, stability, etc. Stock kicks ass, same goes to all ICS Sense roms (even ICS AOSP), but Jelly Bean roms I have signal degradation.

How is Wi-Fi?

Seems in the few reviews I've read Wi-Fi signal strength is not all that great, and this worries me. Last year when I had the HTC Sensation it also had really bad Wi-F reception, often dropping signal when I went in certain rooms in my house.
Would really appreciate some feedback from those already using the Rogers or AT&T version of this phone. Is Wi-Fi signal strength good, bad, or somewhere in between?

I personally don't have my phone yet, should be getting it this friday. However other people have been reporting that the Rogers version has had spotty wifi reception.
Check out this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1627782

nephipower said:
I personally don't have my phone yet, should be getting it this friday. However other people have been reporting that the Rogers version has had spotty wifi reception.
Check out this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1627782
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Yeah that thread actually made me create this one. I want to know if others are having issues or if its just certain routers.
Hopefully someone with the AT&T version can chime in pretty soon.

might be worth researching if it was an 802.11a/b/g/n router it was communicating with, and what chipset the router uses. Make/model can figure that out though.

Yep, I can confirm that the WiFi has been a bit spotty. Not horrible. When I'm in my living room, maybe 10-15 feet from the router, it's aces. In my bedroom though, through 2 walls and maybe 50 feet away, it can go up and down, but I've only noticed it once or twice in the past week.
Once, however, as I was leaving work for the day, the phone reported that it was still connected to WiFi, even once I got a mile or so down the road. I had to turn wifi off/on again before it resumed normal operation.

MattMJB0188 said:
Yeah that thread actually made me create this one. I want to know if others are having issues or if its just certain routers.
Hopefully someone with the AT&T version can chime in pretty soon.
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Yeah, I am hoping that the AT&T version doesn't have the same problem too. I know that the Rogers and AT&T version are the same hardware but it seems like it is a software issue.
Hopefully, *fingers crossed* the AT&T version doesn't come with the same problem and has already fixed the problem in the software.

nephipower said:
Yeah, I am hoping that the AT&T version doesn't have the same problem too. I know that the Rogers and AT&T version are the same hardware but it seems like it is a software issue.
Hopefully, *fingers crossed* the AT&T version doesn't come with the same problem and has already fixed the problem in the software.
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I think I read on here or Android Central that someone played with one in the AT&T store and said the Wi-Fi was fluctuating like crazy.
So I'm sure the AT&T will be the same.

MattMJB0188 said:
I think I read on here or Android Central that someone played with one in the AT&T store and said the Wi-Fi was fluctuating like crazy.
So I'm sure the AT&T will be the same.
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Yeah, someone here wrote that and it will likely have the same problem unfortunately. However, we don't know at the store how far away the router is or even how good the quality of the router is.
So you have to make sure you base your analysis on where the problem lies by first having a baseline. Meaning right now I know that with my iPhone my wifi work very well and has great coverage with my Cisco E4200. So once I get my HOX I can then compared it to see what the difference is.
Follow a process like that then we will be able to tell for sure if the AT&T model does have a wifi problem and it is a problem with the handset and not some other external factor.

Same problems here ...
craig0r said:
Yep, I can confirm that the WiFi has been a bit spotty. Not horrible. When I'm in my living room, maybe 10-15 feet from the router, it's aces. In my bedroom though, through 2 walls and maybe 50 feet away, it can go up and down, but I've only noticed it once or twice in the past week.
Once, however, as I was leaving work for the day, the phone reported that it was still connected to WiFi, even once I got a mile or so down the road. I had to turn wifi off/on again before it resumed normal operation.
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Regrettably, I seem to be having similar problems. Like you, I also get situations where my phone reports that it's still connected to my WiFi network, both at work or at home, yet I could be 1-2km down the road.
I certainly hope this issue is resolved soon. I use an automatic profile manager that needs to detect WiFi connections/disconnects accurately.
Peter

I'm experiencing ongoing WiFi issues.. Mostly just signal completely dropping off randomly and inconsistent speeds. Again, I haven't tested with the "Best wifi performance" turned on.

tawheed12 said:
I'm experiencing ongoing WiFi issues.. Mostly just signal completely dropping off randomly and inconsistent speeds. Again, I haven't tested with the "Best wifi performance" turned on.
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that's exactly what that option does. starts to kill the wifi in order to improve battery life. I think it increases speed/range when the screen is on, but it's still never set to maximum power/speed.

I think we are going to have the same issues as the Rogers version. I've played with the demo unit at the Corp store several times and had wifi drop out about half of those. The signal strength was full, but that's all I know of their setup. Today I had to turn wifi off and then back on before it would even connect. It's a bummer that HTC has done such wonderful job on everything else, but we still have spotty wifi on their flagship device. I am preordering tomorrow anyway though. Hope it can be fixed with a software update down the line.

bimmerd00d said:
that's exactly what that option does. starts to kill the wifi in order to improve battery life. I think it increases speed/range when the screen is on, but it's still never set to maximum power/speed.
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I urge anyone with Wi-Fi issues to contact HTC immediately so they can start working on a fix.

bimmerd00d said:
that's exactly what that option does. starts to kill the wifi in order to improve battery life. I think it increases speed/range when the screen is on, but it's still never set to maximum power/speed.
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I'll test with this setting on today and see how it effects my wifi performance / battery. When I was running b/g/n on my router I did speedtests with the option both on and off and it made absolutely no difference in the speeds and the connection would still drop off. Literally right next to it my iPhone constantly got 6-8 mbps.

tawheed12 said:
I'll test with this setting on today and see how it effects my wifi performance / battery. When I was running b/g/n on my router I did speedtests with the option both on and off and it made absolutely no difference in the speeds and the connection would still drop off. Literally right next to it my iPhone constantly got 6-8 mbps.
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How is it these flagship devices have such huge issues like this? I mean do they not test this? This really upsets me and I don't even have the device. I guarantee the AT&T version will have this issue.

MattMJB0188 said:
How is it these flagship devices have such huge issues like this? I mean do they not test this? This really upsets me and I don't even have the device. I guarantee the AT&T version will have this issue.
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Tried checking "Best WiFi performance". Doesn't seem to help for me
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tawheed12 said:
Tried checking "Best WiFi performance". Doesn't seem to help for me
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I remember with the dreaded HTC Sensation, wifi would often cut in and out and data speeds would be very poor. Looks like HTC's bad habits didn't die young.

AS i mentioned in previous posts. I am having the same wifi issues and i'm on my second HTC one xl. They both have poor wifi performance. I also have the problem where it sometimes stays connected when i leave the house and im 3 km's away.

Feel a little better as the International version got a new update tonight which supposedly resolves the Wi-Fi bug. So hopefully we'll get an update relatively soon.
http://www.androidcentral.com/htc-one-x-gets-second-firmware-update

I contacted HTC with all these bugs. Hopefully, they give me a response. If they do, i will post it here in the forums.

CM7 R9b - how's your wifi signal?

Just wondering for those who are running the newest cm7, how's your wifi signal? Mine seems to be pretty bad, I have 1 bar about 20ft from the router. Upstairs, the phone will drop the wifi completely at times (never noticed it happening on VB). On VB, I would have 3 to 4. I still don't get why wifi is so terrible on this phone lol.
David
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I agree that wifi is a little quirky, but I wouldn't complain.
Last year we had several devs tells that we would never have Gingerbread officially and or CM7 was never possible because of lack of driver source.
I am so happy we have it.
BTW, my wifi is full until about 30 ft. Then it switches between 2 and 3.

I totally agree, not complaining. Just wondering because maybe something is messed up with my install. I did buy this phone used, so it could also be a phone issue. I've never gotten the best signal with wifi. Sometimes my regular TMobile signal isn't great either.
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Wifi calling

I was wondering how many people actually use wifi calling? I personally do not always had dropped call issues even stock unrooted. I ask this cuz I read that milestone 6 build 2 has removed to increase Wi-Fi stability. If that's the case maybe it could be excluded from builds till we get another kernal
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anoymonos said:
I was wondering how many people actually use wifi calling? I personally do not always had dropped call issues even stock unrooted. I ask this cuz I read that milestone 6 build 2 has removed to increase Wi-Fi stability. If that's the case maybe it could be excluded from builds till we get another kernal
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I use is very frequently at home because I don't get very good coverage. I have problems with drops on it, though. I get "Wifi signal lost. Call dropped." but never really took the time to look into the issue, though, due to lack of time.

I also use it a lot at home, because T-Mo's signal is very weak inside our condo. Obviously, my wifi signal is very strong when I'm sitting in the same room as the router, so I don't have issues with dropped calls on wifi.

mike-y said:
I also use it a lot at home, because T-Mo's signal is very weak inside our condo. Obviously, my wifi signal is very strong when I'm sitting in the same room as the router, so I don't have issues with dropped calls on wifi.
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I'm actually near my router when it happens. I have a repeater across the house (with line of sight to the main router) so that I have really good coverage. I don't know if my problem is potentially the router & repeater dropping the call when they re-handshake, if it's my router (it's a tad old) doing something stupid, or if it's a T-Mobile issue. It is potentially a combination.

This was discussed the other night in irc. Bhundven stated we will never get wifi calling on the ics roms. There is libs that cant be ported in to the builds. Im sure somebody will come along and say otherwise but until they can prove him and m4xm4n wrong Im going to figure this is fact and not bug them about it.
Like I said in the other thread there is two options, but I forgot about the third so actually its three.
1. Use something like grooveip and forward calls to your google number.
2. Stick with stock based roms.
3 Put a bounty up get enough people donating and we might get other devs interested in helping out to find a way to make it work.
I dont think it will happen but who knows.

I can care less if it ever works I'm on an unlimited plan and don't understand in this day and age why people would settle for anything less, I know times are tough but this is our toy get the most out of it
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anoymonos said:
I can care less if it ever works
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Then why start a thread about it?

i was just interested to see how many people actually use this service, i would of just added a poll to it but could find that option. If you read the OP I stated that i read that it was removed from kernal to increase wi-fi stability. My point is that if removing this from roms until a fix is found, would many people really care. If it increases my wi-fi by removing this im all for that no matter what rom i am running, and if not many members use it i'd say keep it gone. This is just my opinion

anoymonos said:
I can care less if it ever works I'm on an unlimited plan and don't understand in this day and age why people would settle for anything less, I know times are tough but this is our toy get the most out of it
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Its not a matter of having unlimited minutes. Its in some areas t-mo has no service. Like certain office building or 20 miles out in the middle of no-where.

20 miles out in the middle of no-where.[/QUOTE]
where are you getting WI-FI in the middle of nowhere lol

anoymonos said:
where are you getting WI-FI in the middle of nowhere lol
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Some people have this thing call wired internet that is connected to a wifi router. They put them in their houses so their computers can connect to them.

eollie said:
Some people have this thing call wired internet that is connected to a wifi router. They put them in their houses so their computers can connect to them.
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my bad thought you meant like in the middle of the dessert you know away from you home

anoymonos said:
I can care less if it ever works I'm on an unlimited plan and don't understand in this day and age why people would settle for anything less, I know times are tough but this is our toy get the most out of it
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For those with limited minutes, that's still not always the issue - most Tmo plans (with a couple exceptions) still count wifi calling against your minutes. It's purely a matter of reception and/or clarity. Tmo decided not to support femtocell (personal cell tower) solutions in favor of wifi calling to cover dead spots.
Likewise, it's not always a matter of being in the middle of nowhere. I'm in a large city, my office is a quarter mile from a tower, but reception inside is spotty due to thick, reinforced walls. My apartment is on a basement level, with no signal whatsoever. Without wifi calling, I'm stuck on stock derived roms for the time being. I'm considering GrooveIP, as I've used my gVoice number for everything for years, but have reliability and memory use concerns about going that route.
All that said, I can also understand perfectly well why it's not supported on the current CM roms, and why it is unlikely to be supported any time in the near future. I appreciate the work that's gone into them, and hope sometime soon I'll have a chance to try them out.

A series of tubes
LOL!
eollie said:
Some people have this thing call wired internet that is connected to a wifi router. They put them in their houses so their computers can connect to them.
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I am fine at home, but we have similar work situations. I'm in the 2nd basement of my building and no signal at all. I also have a child in high school...in a major city, which means I NEED TO BE CONNECTED. Kids in the city...you never know, right? For a minute I thought Erikmm's miui 2.0 was giving me wifi calling, but discovered after a day of missed calls that it does not. So, I fall back to Raver's Val Black for my daily (using miui home launcher for the eye candy) and flash new stuff, like erikmm and dao, on the weekends, just to play. Slight pain in the butt moving back to V Black each Sunday night, but it's worth it.
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For those with limited minutes, that's still not always the issue - most Tmo plans (with a couple exceptions) still count wifi calling against your minutes. It's purely a matter of reception and/or clarity. Tmo decided not to support femtocell (personal cell tower) solutions in favor of wifi calling to cover dead spots.
Likewise, it's not always a matter of being in the middle of nowhere. I'm in a large city, my office is a quarter mile from a tower, but reception inside is spotty due to thick, reinforced walls. My apartment is on a basement level, with no signal whatsoever. Without wifi calling, I'm stuck on stock derived roms for the time being. I'm considering GrooveIP, as I've used my gVoice number for everything for years, but have reliability and memory use concerns about going that route.
All that said, I can also understand perfectly well why it's not supported on the current CM roms, and why it is unlikely to be supported any time in the near future. I appreciate the work that's gone into them, and hope sometime soon I'll have a chance to try them out.
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[Q] Wifi Help

Hey xda-devs. I've got a Samsung Galaxy S 4G and I'm having a bit of an issue with the wifi. First of all, this is not flashed nor rooted. At first I wasn't able to get any connection to my wifi from my room. It would show 1-2 bars of connection but a 5mb connection speed which does nothing. About a weeks after that the wifi started working in my room. This happened for about a week. Now it's doing the same thing it did the first time. Does anyone know how to fix this or get better reception on phone? Do I need to put a new modem on it?

Move your router better? Seems like maybe someone was or wasn't in the way before or somedays, wifi works better than other. but if on stock, you only get 5mb, no modem or rom is going to fix that, seems like it's a distance thing.

getochkn said:
Move your router better? Seems like maybe someone was or wasn't in the way before or somedays, wifi works better than other. but if on stock, you only get 5mb, no modem or rom is going to fix that, seems like it's a distance thing.
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Well it seems like moving the router better fixes every problem. Let me elaborate some more then.
It's just this phone. One of my friends has the same model yet gets better reception than I do. This phone is a used phone and it's been dropped. I'm thinking the antenna might have gone bad from these drops.

Some router brands and isp's work better with this phone, some less. I had better connection when using att service at my friend's house than at mine on Time Warner. I believe it was the router. My original router from Linksys on g band gave full signal, while my new supposedly "state-of-the-art" router from dlink on n band only gives me 2 bars. But hey, as long as u have a connection, you are good as a full signal.
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gizmoscoop said:
But hey, as long as u have a connection, you are good as a full signal.
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What? Since when? Signal strength is huge for how much bandwidth you can actually use out of what's available. Think of it like a water supply. The person closest to the supply gets most of what's available. The person 300 feet down the line gets less because of friction loss. Same principle just described really badly by me. LOL

Well, I was able to watch netflix on 2 bars without a hiccup. Signal strength only applicable if you have a lot of users connecting to the same router. Here is an analogy: if you only need to consume to 8 glasses of water to stay healthy, do you really need a whole tank of water?
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Good analogy. Try this one. Say your house is on fire. Do you want to put it out with cups or would you want that water tank close by?

Lol, that is not the same.
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Sure it is. Its based on how much of a resource you can use. Cups if your far away the whole tank if you're close. Why settle for cups?

Alrighty, no help so far. Here's an update on the situation. Whenever I'm like less than a foot away from my router I have full bars and the internet on my phone is running full speed. Then it disconnects for a few seconds to a minute saying I have no wifi. Anyone know how to fix this issue?

Does this happen on other wifi networks outside of your home? Or you might have hardware problem then.
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Does this happen on other wifi networks outside of your home? Or you might have hardware problem then.
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I do randomly disconnect from other networks as well. So this is a hardware issue then?

We can't determine it is a hardware problem yet. Try to do a factory reset or perhaps flashing a new Gingerbread rom on this forum. Use AntonX version. Is your phone on Froyo or Gingerbread?
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@Gizmoscoop You sound pretty confident saying Honeycomb
I think you mean Gingerbread.

th3controller said:
@Gizmoscoop You sound pretty confident saying Honeycomb
I think you mean Gingerbread.
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Damn, u got me there. I didn't realize it till u mentioned it. That is my usual line when I....u know what.
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Oh crap. That is right. :banghead:
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I also have this phone, at first I was on froyo but hated it and upgraded to ICS.....I've used 2 different ROMs but all have really poor wifi signals.....where I can connect on my nexus 7 I can't even get one bar on my phone...if I'm in the same room as the router I get one bar. My friend said its a ICS problem and that all ROMs have the same problem and that flashing a kernel won't help. He also said that To get a better signal I would have to go back to froyo.....is there really no other way????
Please help and tell me how our WiFi is on your device!!
I'm running aokp latest build
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ICS displays signal strength differently from Froyo/GB. If you want an accurate view, use a ROM with percentage display rather than bars. It's still the same, it just looks different.

Yeah I read that but it's not just the bars I'm not seeing..... I'm not connecting either!!! To use my Wi-Fi I have to be exactly in the sane room as the router or the room right next to it!! And that's really limiting!!
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DaKoin said:
Yeah I read that but it's not just the bars I'm not seeing..... I'm not connecting either!!! To use my Wi-Fi I have to be exactly in the sane room as the router or the room right next to it!! And that's really limiting!!
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Not sure what kind of router you are using. I would look at dd-wrt router software so you can turn up the output signal of the router. I have a netgear router that is a repeater in the house. The output on it is turned as high as possible without deteriorating the signal. And that helps the devices that have piss poor reception on the other side of the house.

gizmoscoop said:
We can't determine it is a hardware problem yet. Try to do a factory reset or perhaps flashing a new Gingerbread rom on this forum. Use AntonX version. Is your phone on Froyo or Gingerbread?
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Factory reset was no good. I'm using Froyo. So I should flash Gingerbread?