Q: wifi issues - AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL

Every time I pick my phone up the WiFi connection is dead.. It has two three bars but it doesn't work. I have to turn off WiFi and restart it. Then it works
This also occasionally happens when I'm using the WiFi too. It just stops working and requires WiFi toggle on and off
This happens both on sense ROMs (viperxl) and cm10.1
The WiFi is also murdering the battery

Oogy said:
Every time I pick my phone up the WiFi connection is dead.. It has two three bars but it doesn't work. I have to turn off WiFi and restart it. Then it works
This also occasionally happens when I'm using the WiFi too. It just stops working and requires WiFi toggle on and off
This happens both on sense ROMs (viperxl) and cm10.1
The WiFi is also murdering the battery
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s-off if your not already. then boot to fastboot and RUU. If its still happening it's a hardware issue. If not, software issue In which case you can flash back your rom and test different radios.

exad said:
s-off if your not already. then boot to fastboot and RUU. If its still happening it's a hardware issue. If not, software issue In which case you can flash back your rom and test different radios.
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Have long since ruu'd to 3.18 then installed cm10.1 with 3.4 kernel.
Wifi is still terrible guess I might open it up and try one of those antenna fixes

Nono the point is to stay stock to see of it happens when not on cm. Not to get a fresh start.
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exad said:
Nono the point is to stay stock to see of it happens when not on cm. Not to get a fresh start.
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Fair enough might go down that road later. Just not a fan of sense

Try turning off Wifi power saving. That's helped me in the past when the router hates you for whatever reason.

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Wifi turns off when signal is weak (1.85)

While using the phone in a spot with poor wifi reception, I've noticed the wifi icon completely goes away sometimes. It will then pop back on shortly thereafter. Is this normal behavior when it thinks the wifi signal is completely gone?
I just picked one up yesterday and have been having issues. In my bedroom it will read 2 bars, drop to one, then shut off. Comes back on within seconds. This phone seems to have WiFi issues for a lot of users.
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In the same room as my gateway full signal it stays connected no issues.
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Same problem here, but it also happens when it says i have full bars. I need to enable best wifi performance to fix it. My gsii never had this problem...
This is exactly how mine behaves too. I'm in the room with my router so I normally have full bars (and should) but every once in a while the signal goes away and comes right back 2 seconds later. I've tested it with 2 routers, a linksys running dd-wrt and a d-link one, both have the same results.
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ditto here but it reconnects fast, it doesn't disrupt me...im sure it will be fixed eventually!!
00_MACKIE_00 said:
ditto here but it reconnects fast, it doesn't disrupt me...im sure it will be fixed eventually!!
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International One X has issues too. The newest update 1.85 was supposed to fix some WiFi issues along with other bug fixes, and it doesn't seem to have helped us. Let's not assume they even know what the problem is at this point.
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http://www.xda-developers.com/android/hardware-fault-found-in-the-htc-one-x-causes-bad-signal/
^For anyone with wifi issues.
TKTAB911 said:
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/hardware-fault-found-in-the-htc-one-x-causes-bad-signal/
^For anyone with wifi issues.
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I don't think what I am experiencing is a hardware issue at all. Im not even moving the phone when this happens, and my phone passes the squeeze test. I'm confident this means it has to be software related.
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This is kind of an old/dead thread by now, but I just wanted to share my experience with wifi on the One X.
I'm also having problems, but I'm currently running a nightly (though very stable) build of CM10 on my One X and still have wifi issues. This COULD be hardware related, in that it's just crappy hardware (though it could also be software related if CM10 is built using wifi "code" (not really sure what the correct term for the wifi stuff in the software is ) from the stock software)
I'm sitting at work right now, for example, and every once in a while the wifi will disconnect. When connected it shows 2-3 wifi bars, when it's NOT connected, my wifi network shows up as "not in range" .
same type of thing has happened at my house. I thought my phone was defective so I traded it in for a replacement at best buy. Same issue. Such a shame becuase I really like everything else about this phone and wifi was never an issue on my last HTC device.
kernel changes affect wifi. some of the cm10 builds have known wifi issues.
i would never think of returning a phone because of an experience with a custom rom, since the phone wasn't built to run that rom.
always revert to full stock and see if you still have the issue. also updated ota/ruu are made to fix issues also. at&t rom doesn't have many stock wifi issues, but you can always run into issues with wifi access point incompatibilities.

[Q] Phone occasionally becomes completely unresponsive with non-stock ROMs

Quick background: I purchased a One X from AT&T a few weeks ago. It came with the 2.20 firmware, so I used the X-Factor Exploit and unlocked the bootloader via HTCDev. From there I flashed TWRP Recovery and then AOKP.
Pretty much everything was fine at that point, except for the fact that once or twice a day I would pull my phone out of my pocket and it would be completely unresponsive. None of the buttons would wake the phone up, plugging it in didn't do anything, and it wouldn't receive calls. I would then have to do a hard reboot (Power + Volume Down) to get anywhere.
I thought maybe it was an AOSP problem, so I flashed a Sense-based ROM (CleanROM 5). I experienced the same issue.
From there, I re-locked the bootloader and ran the latest RUU. That was 4 days ago and I have yet to experience the problem again.
Has anybody else experienced this, and is there any way to prevent it?
power + Vol down puts you into the bootloader. What do you do from there to get the phone booted? Have you tried just holding the power button for 5 seconds or so, until the capacitive buttons flash (same as a battery pull)?
GPS on, by any chance?
redpoint73 said:
power + Vol down puts you into the bootloader. What do you do from there to get the phone booted? Have you tried just holding the power button for 5 seconds or so, until the capacitive buttons flash (same as a battery pull)?
GPS on, by any chance?
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I would just select reboot and it would boot normally. Power alone would also work, I believe. I usually just did power and vol down out of habit I guess.
GPS and WiFi were always on.
What radio/RIL were you running?
What hboot version?
You are on 2.20, did you flash the correct KERNEL manually and clear dalvik and cache?
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c5satellite2 said:
What radio/RIL were you running?
What hboot version?
You are on 2.20, did you flash the correct KERNEL manually and clear dalvik and cache?
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HBoot 1.14. Didn't mess with the radio, so the stock AT&T 2.20 one (0.19as.32.09.11_2_10.105.32.25L).
Yes, I flashed the correct kernel. It did it with both the plain AOKP kernel and rohan's kernel.
Cleared caches several times.
GPS on when this happens, by any chance?
redpoint73 said:
GPS on when this happens, by any chance?
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I hardly ever disable it, so it was likely on. No idea if it was actually in use any of the times.
I can say one time it happened immediately after a call, one time it was immediately after a SMS notification, and the rest just seemed to be randomly in the middle of the day.
Try going straight to CR5 directly from the stock ruu rom and see if it persists. Maybe the aokp Rom borked something along the way and the ruu has restored it now. I have seen issues similar to this that only the ruu will fix.
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Have the same issue.Try going to ViperXl and see what happens.My phone constantly reboots and enters sleep of death.I always have the gps disabled.have 1.09 hboot.And currently I am on 1.85 stock at&t.This issue is kikling me
I only mention GPS, since my old phone (Desire Z) had an issue where leaving the GPS on, would make the phone shutdown, and only a battery pull would start it (never tried going into hboot). Which sounds similar to what you were seeing. In my case, no ROM, kernel, or radio flashing ever remedied it. And I could isolate the issue to the GPS being on. If the GPS was used, the phone was going to black screen within a couple hours, without fail. But rebooting the phone after using the GPS (and shutting off GPS) prevented it every time. A few other owners of the DZ had the same problem. One guy sent his into HTC, and they told him it was a defect of the GPRS module, and replaced the motherboard, which fixed the problem.
Hopefully, its not a similar hardware issue in your case. But the fact that you have the GPS on all the time, and the black screen hasn't cropped up like clockwork (like it did in my case) seems to point to the fact that it might not be the exact same issue.
These types of issues tend to be really hard to troubleshoot (and pinpoint the cause). In my case, it took me a couple months to realize it was the GPS, since I usually have it off, and don't use it all that often (usually just when travelling). And I also suffered a lot of "placebo effect" type incidents while flashing various ROMs and kernels trying to fix the issue. If the issue doesn't crop up again after running the RUU, I'd consider myself lucky, and leave it well enough alone.
No it is not the same problem redpoint73.This only happens on Custom ROMS.I have tried every combo on the 3 ROMS i flashed.Could it be an int.d problem???My only is this.
nighthawk696969 said:
No it is not the same problem redpoint73.This only happens on Custom ROMS.
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Yeah, I already said its probably not the same problem. But it doesn't hurt to check everything. As I mentioned, its easy to get sucked into thinking you have the cause isolated, when you really do not.
I understand what you're saying but i have checked it,i'm sure..
nighthawk696969 said:
I understand what you're saying but i have checked it,i'm sure..
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It also doesn't sound like your problem is exactly the same as the OPs. You mention reboots, while OP does not (just BSOD, or shutdown requiring rebooting in hboot).
No my main problem are the Sleeps of Death.There are no BSODs in android
nighthawk696969 said:
No my main problem are the Sleeps of Death.There are no BSODs in android
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Some people have been calling this condition BSOD = Black screen of death. Yes, its a little too derivative of things like Windows blue screen, XBox RROD etc. But you get the idea.
Update: I re-unlocked the bootloader and flashed CM 10.0.0 upon its release. I've yet to encounter this issue, so I'm thinking my stint on CleanROM might have buggered something. I probably forgot to wipe something somewhere along the line. D'oh.
I am, however, having a pretty severe albeit unrelated problem with an app called Voxer. Every time I listen to a message it kills the microphone until I Force Stop the app. I guess I'll pop over to one of the other AOSP ROMs and see if it persists.
I was having a similar problem on king kang and pacman. I could turn the phone on and off with the power button, but the touch screen was completely unresponsive. Happened randomly, I would have to hold the power button down and watch the lights flash until the phone shut down, and would be fine after a reboot. When I tried installing viperxl, I had the same issue during the aroma installer, I had to try flashing it 7-8 times, because it kept freezing during the install. No issues running it after a successful install. I was using king kang and rohans b5 kernel when it was happening most often

Anyone else having this WiFi break issue.?

Any aokp or aosp Rom I flash it breaks my WiFi. Flash or restoring to a sense based WiFi is fine. This is what I notice, on an aokp or aosp Rom when I hit connect on my WiFi, the WiFi signal instantly drops to poor with no signal from excellent, once it isn't trying to connect any longer the WiFi signal bumps right back to excellent. I don't get it. I've spent the last evening flashing every non sense based Rom I could to confirm this and it happens on every non based sense.. I didn't try miui cause I don't like miui.. device info.
One x, 1.85, rooted, loader unlocked via HTC dev, unlocked blahblahblah..
Tia..
Yes, everything wiped and cleaned between installs.. cache, dalvik, system and factory reset.. never dirty install.
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I haven't had any wifi issues on AOKP. Did you factory reset going between Sense and AOSP? I'm not positive but I think that is needed. I'm on the Nov. 10th nightly. Hope that helps a little, don't forget to back everything up (nandroid) before wiping factory reset.
Thanks but this isn't the problem, I wish it was tho.. :*(
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sinco54 said:
Any aokp or aosp Rom I flash it breaks my WiFi. Flash or restoring to a sense based WiFi is fine. This is what I notice, on an aokp or aosp Rom when I hit connect on my WiFi, the WiFi signal instantly drops to poor with no signal from excellent, once it isn't trying to connect any longer the WiFi signal bumps right back to excellent. I don't get it. I've spent the last evening flashing every non sense based Rom I could to confirm this and it happens on every non based sense.. I didn't try miui cause I don't like miui.. device info.
One x, 1.85, rooted, loader unlocked via HTC dev, unlocked blahblahblah..
Tia..
Yes, everything wiped and cleaned between installs.. cache, dalvik, system and factory reset.. never dirty install.
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I couldn't tell you. I always have 1 bar unless I'm next to the router or downstairs in my living room.. and the connection cancels or drops.. oh the joys of a router without an external antenna..
I am having the same problem. I use the King Kang rom and sometimes i will have to press connect many times before my phone will connect to wifi. Sometimes it wont connect at all. In the wifi settings it usually says i have full bars, but when i connect it goes down to 1 or 2 most of the time. I am in the room with the router, so i know i should be getting full bars all of the time. It's really frustrating.
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I am having the same problem. I use the King Kang rom and sometimes i will have to press connect many times before my phone will connect to wifi. Sometimes it wont connect at all. In the wifi settings it usually says i have full bars, but when i connect it goes down to 1 or 2 most of the time. I am in the room with the router, so i know i should be getting full bars all of the time. It's really frustrating.
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This is all too familiar with me..
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sinco54 said:
This is all too familiar with me..
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Yes there are a few more of us that are having this same issue. We have started a thread but it has been pushed back to page three of the forum. Please post here your issues and we can try to bring some light to this issue and get it worked out.
Here is the thread I have started. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1989203&page=4 Also check the issue list for CM10 and star the issue about wifi towards the bottom. I am user: backslashcs on google and I have posted a comment on the issue there as well.

All AOSP roms have trouble keeping WiFi connection

My wifi connection never seems to hold on any AOSP based rom I try, and I've tried many. I never had any issue with any Sense 4 based roms. Does anyone know why? Is there a workaround? I've tinkered with all the advanced settings within the wifi area. When I tell it to connect to my wifi, it doesnt even seem to make an attempt until 2-3 minutes later. There's always this dead period for 2-3 minutes every time I turn the screen back on. I set it to NOT put the wifi to sleep with the phone.
My Phone is rooted/unlocked/supercid/s-off. AT&T HTC One X (USA). It was flashed with the final firmware RUU before wiping and going back to AOSP roms, and that still didn't help. I'm almost positive I have the newest firmware, radio, hboot, etc. What else can I try?
Is it a two wire router? I've heard they have trouble with aosp ROMs.
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timmaaa said:
Is it a two wire router? I've heard they have trouble with aosp ROMs.
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Actually yes, my home router is, but I seem to have the same trouble with my netzero hotspot and my friend's router, which is definitely not the same type of router. Still, is there anything I should try for now?
To be completely honest, I'm not sure. It's definitely not happening at all on Sense/stock ROMs?
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I'm following these threads and will try the methods listed within. Here's hoping.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2177495
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2181124
After restarting the phone, it seems none of that has helped at all.

Mobile Data Connection Dropping

I have installed ViperOne and Clean Rom and I have the same problem with both. After a while of inactivity my data will just quit working. The icon will still be there but the phone won't connect at all. I have to place it into airplane mode to fix this. And just fyi sleep mode is off and power saver is off. It's just like my phone forgets how to connect after a little while. I had ZERO problems when I was stock. And now this.....please help me!
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Oh and I have also done factory resets between each Rom install so everything was clean when it was flashed.
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tm1618 said:
Oh and I have also done factory resets between each Rom install so everything was clean when it was flashed.
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Did you figure this out? i'm having the same damn issue.
bnsrowe said:
Did you figure this out? i'm having the same damn issue.
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Nope. I've returned completely to stock and am going to get a new SIM card tomorrow. If that doesn't work I'm going to get a warranty replacement.
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Did you figure this out? i'm having the same damn issue.
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Read santod's post here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=55130095
then respond in this thread. scrosler doesn't want us to discuss this issue in his rom thread. This is the perfect place to continue.
I can't wait to try it because I have the same issue on my travels but will have to wait until I get home and to my PC. Would love to read more success stories...
In essence santod says: flash the stock recovery, do a factory reset from hboot to restore the VZW radios, then restore your setup. Should work with most sense roms, but so far the people solving this issue all flashed a RUU.
Anybody have a link handy for the stock recovery?
i've ruu'd back to "stock" and am trying this now.
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Read santod's post here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=55130095
then respond in this thread. scrosler doesn't want us to discuss this issue in his rom thread. This is the perfect place to continue.
I can't wait to try it because I have the same issue on my travels but will have to wait until I get home and to my PC. Would love to read more success stories...
In essence santod says: flash the stock recovery, do a factory reset from hboot to restore the VZW radios, then restore your setup. Should work with most sense roms, but so far the people solving this issue all flashed a RUU.
Anybody have a link handy for the stock recovery?
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Stock Recovery: Link :good:
You can find that and my firmware links in this thread.
Did the stock recovery so far so good but I won't know for sure until I get out and about today. It seems I didn't have the issue until it dropped from 4g to 3g back to 4g and have a decent 4g signal at home.
For now it seems as though that did the trick. I didn't loose data all day, we will see though.
Well it didn't work, I had to toggle airplane mode several times today to get data to work again.
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Well it didn't work, I had to toggle airplane mode several times today to get data to work again.
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Are you going to RUU?
That's what I plan to do tomorrow. It's getting to be extremely annoying. Not even toggling airplane mode or mobile data on/off does anything. I have to reboot every time.
berndblb said:
Are you going to RUU?
That's what I plan to do tomorrow. It's getting to be extremely annoying. Not even toggling airplane mode or mobile data on/off does anything. I have to reboot every time.
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RUU'd, stock recovery, flashed radios, and new SIM. I've tried everything. It seems as though if I'm in a low signal area where I go from 4g to 3g to Wi-Fi it happens. It's like there's a handoff problem between all the radios. Will show 4 bars of 4g but under mobile data in settings says disconnected.
Mine just started doing this. I'll RUU when I get back home to Texas.
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RUU'd, stock recovery, flashed radios, and new SIM. I've tried everything. It seems as though if I'm in a low signal area where I go from 4g to 3g to Wi-Fi it happens. It's like there's a handoff problem between all the radios. Will show 4 bars of 4g but under mobile data in settings says disconnected.
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May want to try this
kc6wke said:
May want to try this
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Trying this now, we'll see what happens.
bnsrowe said:
Trying this now, we'll see what happens.
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I can confirm that it did fixed the issue, I didn't loose data all day no matter if wifi, 4g,3g, or 1x,
Same here. In the last 5 days I travelled in 3 states, large cities and very rural areas where it dropped to 3G or 1x - it never had problems to return to 4G (or getting a data connection at all).
This fix proves what's so great about these forums! I probably would have ditched a phone I totally love in all other aspects due to a problem that OEM customer service would not even acknowledge existed!

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