Since updating my XE to ICS I've noticed a bug with the wifi signal strength icon. On unlocking the device I see minimal wifi strength, but then if I lock and unlock again, the wifi strength shows a full signal. As far as I can tell, the actual true signal strength is the same, it just the wifi bars that appear to have a glitch.
Anyone else get this?
Same experience here - I thought I was going mad!
Same here.. And also I see sometimes minimal wifi strength icon while wifi is off.. :O
I'm glad it's not just me then. I should have mentioned that I noticed this after I'd done a factory reset, not sure if the problem was there before that.
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Wow guys you're so funny Its not a bug, when phone is locked it goes into sleep mode and lowers wifi strength to save battery
I can understand that. But why does the icon not show full strength when the phone is unlocked? I'm currently on Wifi and the only part of the icon that is white is the dot at the bottom. I'm next to my router so the strength should be all the way up.
Bullitt_McQueen said:
I can understand that. But why does the icon not show full strength when the phone is unlocked? I'm currently on Wifi and the only part of the icon that is white is the dot at the bottom. I'm next to my router so the strength should be all the way up.
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It takes time to regain the signal.
Ahhhh, makes perfect sense and, now that I know what I'm looking at/for, that's exactly what I'm seeing!
Thanks Deathsongx3!
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I used Wifi Analyser this time and with the wifi reception showing at just one bar, then again with full bars after another unlock, the signal strength remains the same other than my hand effecting the reception slightly. That would seem to suggest that it's nothing to do with sleep mode or low power wifi.
If the signal strength remains the same, then it must just be a glitch with the wifi signal indicator in the status bar?
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I used Wifi Analyser this time and with the wifi reception showing at just one bar, then again with full bars after another unlock, the signal strength remains the same other than my hand effecting the reception slightly. That would seem to suggest that it's nothing to do with sleep mode or low power wifi.
If the signal strength remains the same, then it must just be a glitch with the wifi signal indicator in the status bar?
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I wonder if the "Best Wifi Performance" option in Advanced Wifi settings has any bearing on this issue? I'm calling it an issue because Seagull's post definitely suggests it is...
Not sure, but I don't have 'Best Wifi' selected.
Hmm, neither do I. I'm going to select it and see what happens...
Did anyone get to the bottom of this?
I'm wondering if the 'settings update' patch that came after ICS has anything to do with it.
Hello,
i had same Problem under Gingerbread, but founded a solution. Its not perfect, but it works. Download the App "Network Signal Info" over Play Store. After Installation, put a Wifi Widget to your Homescreen. Now the Signal works correctly. I hope this helps.
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Does anyone know of a piece of software that can display the signal level in the today screen rather than in the title bar at the top of the screen?
The reason I ask is that I use a piece of software called IcBar which is by far the best and most stable task manager program I've ever used. However it does not have its own signal strenth meter.
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Hudson Mobile's (http://www.hudsonmobile.com) Phone Dashboard
(It will track your phone calls as well )
Hello, I seem to lose my WIFI connection too easily, switches to 3G, and often turns off the WIFI without asking for it.
Does anyone have an idea ? I am using the WM6 FRE original.
thank you,
yves
Goto wireless lan settings > power> and move the slider to the left for best performance.
Mine was doing the same now I never lose a connection..although I have to sacrifice battery power.
thanks pistonripper, have made the changes and doing some testing
I have the same problem, and sometimes wifi won't turn on at all!
Also, the blue led on the top flickers sometimes , but not in a normal frequency but more like a 'flickering' for a few seconds.
Next to that, i also can't get my FM Radio to work, but it has worked in the past!
Have hard-resetted the device, cleaned it, slider of wifi is on best performance but no use!
Someone help? Or is my phone partly defected?
keerttttt said:
I have the same problem, and sometimes wifi won't turn on at all!
Also, the blue led on the top flickers sometimes , but not in a normal frequency but more like a 'flickering' for a few seconds.
Next to that, i also can't get my FM Radio to work, but it has worked in the past!
Have hard-resetted the device, cleaned it, slider of wifi is on best performance but no use!
Someone help? Or is my phone partly defected?
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sounds like hardware issues.
Has anyone experiencing wifi won't connect once it wakes up from sleep. Mine is running the latest 2.2. My wifi keeps turning on and off in a loop until I put it back to sleep, and it does ok. 2nd time.
Any ideas or suggestion?
rob_z11 said:
Has anyone experiencing wifi won't connect once it wakes up from sleep. Mine is running the latest 2.2. My wifi keeps turning on and off in a loop until I put it back to sleep, and it does ok. 2nd time.
Any ideas or suggestion?
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I have 2 Gtabs... from my garage lab 1 shows 3 bars to basement router, other shows 1 bar to same router... the 3 bars one wakes almost everytime cleanly... the one bar (weaker) one shows similar problem to your's... I loaded power widget on top of one on my homescreens and just use the enable/disable wifi button to retry connect when it doesn't wake first time (else loops trying till disable/enable) and that has always fixed it for me on the tab having weaker signal (bad internal antenna????)...
Well I don't think it has anything to do with the signal strength since no matter where I am close to the wireless router.
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rob_z11 said:
Has anyone experiencing wifi won't connect once it wakes up from sleep. Mine is running the latest 2.2. My wifi keeps turning on and off in a loop until I put it back to sleep, and it does ok. 2nd time.
Any ideas or suggestion?
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I think this has been an issue with TnT stock (and Lite) since Day One. I usually leave the WiFi on even in sleep mode (in WiFi Advanced Settings) which seems to help.
Or, I use a WiFi widget to just turn off the Wifi before I put it into sleep mode.
roebeet said:
I think this has been an issue with TnT stock (and Lite) since Day One. I usually leave the WiFi on even in sleep mode (in WiFi Advanced Settings) which seems to help.
Or, I use a WiFi widget to just turn off the Wifi before I put it into sleep mode.
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Thanks. It is good to hear that I am not the only one. Yes, I have started using widget to force things.
I am going to try that advanced settings to see if it works. So far I think it happens when it goes to deep sleep overnight.
jtbnet said:
I have 2 Gtabs... from my garage lab 1 shows 3 bars to basement router, other shows 1 bar to same router... the 3 bars one wakes almost everytime cleanly... the one bar (weaker) one shows similar problem to your's... I loaded power widget on top of one on my homescreens and just use the enable/disable wifi button to retry connect when it doesn't wake first time (else loops trying till disable/enable) and that has always fixed it for me on the tab having weaker signal (bad internal antenna????)...
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You may be on to something, since my previous G (first 1000), was very picky as mentioned and newer G much better.
There are more then 1000's of these are out there? Anyway to track them by the serials? I have $279 version may be the earlier model.
First and foremost let me say that I love this phone. But I am having an issue with serious battery drain that's occurring when I have WiFi on. I need to use WiFi Calling in my house,and it worked flawlessly on my previous mytouch 4g, running under the same conditions. In fact, my wife now has that phone and it works great, we actually manage to save a ton of battery with wifi calling turned on.
So when I got the Sensation I hoped for more of the same, great battery life when at home due to wifi calling. However, that is not the case, when I have wifi on, with or without wifi calling enabled, my battery drains at a rate of about +-10% an hour! And thats with out even touching it! Without wifi on, 2-4% per hour battery drain.
Speeds when I do things over wifi are blazing fast, and the signal is full bars, so I know the phone is not searching for the wifi. With wifi, and minimal use, I max out at 5-6 hours! Not sure what to do, as not using wifi is really not an option.
One other thing, coming from the mytouch 4g, a highly underrated phone imo, I do see some lag that wasnt present in the "lesser" phone. In particular, the USA Today app, for example, on the Mytouch scrolling was smooth as butter, not so much on the sensation, I also see it in the Android market when I look at my apps, same app list on both phones, mytouch scroll is smooth as can be, Sensation is very jittery.
Maybe someone has some thoughts, or is having similar issues, cause I am so jealous of all the "OMG my battery lasted 6 months" posts!
Thanks in advance!
Because the phone comes stock with the WiFi sleep policy set to never. In my opinion that's a stupid decision on HTC's part. Easy fix though. Go into Wireless settings and clock on WiFi settings. Then click the menu key and click advanced. You will see the WiFi sleep policy menu. Just change it to "Never When Plugged in" or after 15 minutes. If you change it to Never when plugged in then the WiFi will go into sleep mode when ever you turn your display off.
Ive had it set to the 15 minute setting, but I thought that the wifi calling would block wifi from sleeping. Once when looking at the battery screen, I zoomed either on wifi or wifi calling, and it said something to that effect.
mlish420 said:
Ive had it set to the 15 minute setting, but I thought that the wifi calling would block wifi from sleeping. Once when looking at the battery screen, I zoomed either on wifi or wifi calling, and it said something to that effect.
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Sorry, I forgot you said you use WiFI calling. That might have something to do with it. I always keep mine of so it doesn't matter if my WiFi sleeps right away.
Wifi can't sleep!
I don't know if i should start a new thread but this was the closest to my problem I could find.
Basically I'm having the same WiFi battery drain issues, and I tried to do the usual Wifi Sleep 'after 15 mins' or 'Never When Plugged in' options in the advanced menu but it always reverts to just 'Never' after a few minutes.
On my power graph it shows that I have had continuous wifi on despite changing the settings. So its not just the option returning to default when i open the menu either.
I'm really confused here, is there something forcing my wifi to be on all the time?
Any help is much appreciated.
Make sure wi-fi best performance is not checked. That will drain battery faster also
When I'm at home, I always switch my phone to WiFi. I always get a great signal in my house but the battery drain seems high. I did notice that the up and down arrows under the WiFi icon are constantly blinking. If I have the phone on 4G, the lights do not blink constantly and my battery life is good. Do the blinking lights mean there is some type of data being transferred? Why would they blink on WiFi, but when I switch to 4G they don't?
Some apps only download when they have WiFi available.
I have G+ set to upload photos over WiFi only, Play store only downloads app updates if it has WiFi available, etc.
I would start with checking of something like that is going on.
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You're not alone
I have a similar issue (will open a new thread) but mine is always in "downloading" mode and consumes a VERY large amount of data traffic on my network. It's an android system task that's causing it. I've disconnnected my router from ALL other connections (including internet) and the download when connected to the router continues.
This just started happening to me and happens on multiple different JB ROMs, including stock.
lennie paz said:
When I'm at home, I always switch my phone to WiFi. I always get a great signal in my house but the battery drain seems high. I did notice that the up and down arrows under the WiFi icon are constantly blinking. If I have the phone on 4G, the lights do not blink constantly and my battery life is good. Do the blinking lights mean there is some type of data being transferred? Why would they blink on WiFi, but when I switch to 4G they don't?
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Use a build.prop editor to change your WiFi scan interval to be as low as possible
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I fixed my WiFi downloading problem by odin back to stock.
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data usage monitoring
It's too bad you can't use the "Mobile Data stats" thing to investigate which app is causing it.
Is there an equivalent for Wifi traffic? Would be nice.