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For some reson my Wifi on n8013 is very slow. Any solution for this? I have latest firmware stock and root.

norbarb said:
For some reson my Wifi on n8013 is very slow. Any solution for this? I have latest firmware stock and root.
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Would be nice if we knew more about your situation, how you came to this assumption.

kkretch said:
Would be nice if we knew more about your situation, how you came to this assumption.
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If i download anything from web or play store it takes forever. My normal internet speed is around 24 mb if i check on note is lower then 1 mb. I try almost everything exept of restoring firmware. On my galaxy S4 in same place in house i get some around 18-20 mb on wifi.

norbarb said:
If i download anything from web or play store it takes forever. My normal internet speed is around 24 mb if i check on note is lower then 1 mb. I try almost everything exept of restoring firmware. On my galaxy S4 in same place in house i get some around 18-20 mb on wifi.
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Have you always had poor speed or did it just start acting up?
Have you tried it at a coffee shop or a friends house that has WiFi?
Set to 2.4 or 5ghz?
Have you used an app like Wifi Analyzer or WiFi Overview 360 to see if you have neighbors overpowering your signal?
What WiFi channel is the tablet on?
Do you have a cordless phone in your home and if so what MHZ is it? Is the base unit near your wireless router?
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How do I can change channel on my note? Seems like I get better signal on channel 11- 14
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norbarb said:
How do I can change channel on my note? Seems like I get better signal on channel 11- 14
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You change the channel in your router software.

can you check the ping time of your router within terminal?!
i some how had the similar issue, when I checked the ping it was so unstable, around 500ms!! and as i couldnt fix my problem i made a factory reset and it gone to 4ms ( a normal ping for mobile devices ).

Ok thank you to all. I change channel to 11 and looks like everything is fine.
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norbarb said:
Ok thank you to all. I change channel to 11 and looks like everything is fine.
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Glad to have helped.....
Most people don't know that by default many 2.5ghz wireless routers default channel is 6 and if you and your neighbors are all trying to connect to channel 6 there is going to be issues.
With there being more and more wireless device and if you live in apartment buildings and housing plans you need to use the apps I posted links to in post #4 to dial in to the best wifi signal in your area.
I also run the app every month or so to make sure I'm getting optimal signal.

Nowadays my wifi is terrible slow with Note10.1.. DL 7-9mbps (speedtest, several servers), UL 9 mbps. My net is 100/10 and Note 10.1 tells me that the "link speed" is 72mbps. Everything is working SLOW, opening webpages is like back in the phonemodem age.
My laptop gets 80-90 mbps for dl at the same time. I even tried to change channel to better one, but no help... Im not sure did this started after the latest "stability" update from Samtoy.
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norbarb said:
For some reson my Wifi on n8013 is very slow. Any solution for this? I have latest firmware stock and root.
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is it slow on all. Or just on your access point.

i fix it
i had the same prob.my note N8000 wifi suddenly sluggish.... i fix it with opening the tablet, disconect the battery cable, push power button for 10 sec, leave the tablet for 2 or 3 minutes, reconect the battery cable, turn it on....n everything back to normal

how to make android phone a wifi repeater

what i want
well let me describe what i want.
i am in hostel and my room don't get wifi signals but room next to me get upto medium i wanted to use my friends android phone and connect it to wifi and then use tethering to connect my phone to his.
What happened
when i connect to tethering it disconnected my friend's wifi and switched to mobile data.
can any one tell me any way to solve this problem

How can it be possible that your friend room next to yours is receving medium wifi signals and you aren't even receiving a single bar. Is your wall made of lead?
Anyways I don't get it. You can't use wifi and tether at same time.

mrishantsharma01 said:
You can't use wifi and tether at same time.
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Yes you can.
At least on linux, windows using connectify, and some android phones (unluckily a little minority of them).

good luck bro

The Solutor said:
Yes you can.
At least on linux, windows using connectify, and some android phones (unluckily a little minority of them).
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Well sorry for gravedig, but this is something I am curious about.
And again sorry for such late reply...

mrishantsharma01 said:
Well sorry for gravedig, but this is something I am curious about.
And again sorry for such late reply...
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It depends on WIFI drivers, for windows you have a list on connectify drivers, for linux usually the Atheros cards are the ones better supported.
Android is more complicate, too many brands, rom versions, Android apis and so on, but some phones hus allows to enable the WIFI hotspot w/o killing the wifi connection. No tricks needed.

[Q] Hiding WiFi HotSpot on Nexus 5

Hey there,
First, let me say thank you for everyone that has helped me in the past, this is a great community full of very knowledgeable people.
Does anyone know of a way (or an app) that will hide my WiFi connection so no one can see it? I use it at work, and we aren't supposed to hook up to our own internet, we are supposed to use the public WiFi (no way in hell I'm doing that) with my tablet.
I searched a bit but can't seem to find anything as such.
Thank you

gsteelx said:
Hey there,
First, let me say thank you for everyone that has helped me in the past, this is a great community full of very knowledgeable people.
Does anyone know of a way (or an app) that will hide my WiFi connection so no one can see it? I use it at work, and we aren't supposed to hook up to our own internet, we are supposed to use the public WiFi (no way in hell I'm doing that) with my tablet.
I searched a bit but can't seem to find anything as such.
Thank you
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The only thing I can seem to find is apps that will allow you to search for hidden WiFi networks... :/

gsteelx said:
Hey there,
First, let me say thank you for everyone that has helped me in the past, this is a great community full of very knowledgeable people.
Does anyone know of a way (or an app) that will hide my WiFi connection so no one can see it? I use it at work, and we aren't supposed to hook up to our own internet, we are supposed to use the public WiFi (no way in hell I'm doing that) with my tablet.
I searched a bit but can't seem to find anything as such.
Thank you
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VPN?
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PhilipTD said:
VPN?
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That would work, but I just simply want to hide it... :/

gsteelx said:
That would work, but I just simply want to hide it... :/
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Do you mean hide it from the IT department?
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PhilipTD said:
Do you mean hide it from the IT department?
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Nah, just hide it from anyone at work that scans and looks for WiFi to connect to... I of course have it locked so they cannot connect, but I don't want them to see it show up in their available list at all.

gsteelx said:
Nah, just hide it from anyone at work that scans and looks for WiFi to connect to... I of course have it locked so they cannot connect, but I don't want them to see it show up in their available list at all.
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You mean you are connecting to your phone's mobile hotspot?
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PhilipTD said:
You mean you are connecting to your phone's mobile hotspot?
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Correct, via my Tablet.

gsteelx said:
Correct, via my Tablet.
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I don't know of a hack or app that would disable the broadcast of your hotspot's SSID. I think, however, that some carriers offer software that facilitates creating the hotspot and which can hide it.
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PhilipTD said:
I don't know of a hack or app that would disable the broadcast of your hotspot's SSID. I think, however, that some carriers offer software that facilitates creating the hotspot and which can hide it.
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Do you know if AT&T does?

gsteelx said:
Do you know if AT&T does?
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Sorry, I don't.
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PhilipTD said:
Sorry, I don't.
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Well thank you for your help.
Anyone else know of anything? Please?

As a workaround you can bluetooth tether. It's not as fast but still works well.
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gsteelx said:
Well thank you for your help.
Anyone else know of anything? Please?
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I researched this extensively (for the same reasons) and found nothing....sort of. Essentially, if you're going to connect to a hidden SSID, the machine (laptop for me, tablet for you) that wants to connect has to be looking for SSID constantly, which isn't secure. That and I literally found no way of hiding my SSID.
So I thought about it...and I remembered there was an old wireless network on my campus that most people used, but the company changed proxies/routers/everything, so the SSID was 'retired.' My wifi hotspot SSID went from "suck it" to "My-Workplace-b" since that's the naming convention that was used.
This is nice since it's not nearly as suspicious, but more importantly....most everyone around me had certain proxies and protocols set up so that they could connect to that "xx-b" SSID. Those assorted proxy settings now prohibit them from connecting to my phone wifi
tl:dr: I was disappointed I couldn't hide my SSID, learned I didn't want to hide my SSID for security reasons, but then got creative and feel good about the situation.
Hope this helps somehow. Anybody that knows how to right-click will be able to see your nexus isn't a company router, but hopefully they're not that ambitious.
edit: PS: I USB tether extensively. Way less power consuming than wifi tethering (and stealthier). Maybe can't do that with your tablet...but a thought.

A WLAN will always be visible if you create one, all you can do it obscure the SSID by typing spaces and saving. However, then you'll need to go into advanced settings of the client device and enable connections without SSID's. In Windows 7 it's under "wlanSSID' Properties->Connections Tab->Connect even if the network is not broadcasting its name (SSID).

vladimirhtg said:
I researched this extensively (for the same reasons) and found nothing....sort of. Essentially, if you're going to connect to a hidden SSID, the machine (laptop for me, tablet for you) that wants to connect has to be looking for SSID constantly, which isn't secure. That and I literally found no way of hiding my SSID.
So I thought about it...and I remembered there was an old wireless network on my campus that most people used, but the company changed proxies/routers/everything, so the SSID was 'retired.' My wifi hotspot SSID went from "suck it" to "My-Workplace-b" since that's the naming convention that was used.
This is nice since it's not nearly as suspicious, but more importantly....most everyone around me had certain proxies and protocols set up so that they could connect to that "xx-b" SSID. Those assorted proxy settings now prohibit them from connecting to my phone wifi
tl:dr: I was disappointed I couldn't hide my SSID, learned I didn't want to hide my SSID for security reasons, but then got creative and feel good about the situation.
Hope this helps somehow. Anybody that knows how to right-click will be able to see your nexus isn't a company router, but hopefully they're not that ambitious.
edit: PS: I USB tether extensively. Way less power consuming than wifi tethering (and stealthier). Maybe can't do that with your tablet...but a thought.
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Thanks for your post. Have been USB tethering to my tablet, working great.
Thanks again!

[Q] Big Wifi problem on the Nexus 5

Hello,
I just bought a Nexus 5 and fell in love with it. :victory:
But there is one big and annoying problem:
When I'm connected to my router and use Wifi I get a lot of Wifi drops and sometimes it won't work at all.
Switching to Airplane Mode or turning wifi off and back on again and all these standard solutiones. (flashing another baseband version, turning router off and back on)
Sometimes for 1 min it's perfect! But then it's back in this very annoying problem. (On every other device it's so fast like it's supposed to be)
Is somebody out there, who shares the same problem and maybe got the ultimate solution?
Greetings (sorry for my bad englisch)

what wireless type are you using? ac? n? g?

Zepius said:
what wireless type are you using? ac? n? g?
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Where can I find this?

Lautherman said:
Where can I find this?
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login to your router and it should tell you the wireless type. it would be one of the ones i just mentioned.

Zepius said:
login to your router and it should tell you the wireless type. it would be one of the ones i just mentioned.
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it's a n

Lautherman said:
it's a n
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change it to G and see if it fixes your issue. wireless downloads will be slower since the throughput will have changed.

Zepius said:
change it to G and see if it fixes your issue. wireless downloads will be slower since the throughput will have changed.
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I can change it?
Also in the router settings?

I think you can fix this problem by changing the channel your that your router uses or by connecting to a 5GHz ap(if possible) but this sort of does the same with the channel 'trick'.
Download an app like inSSIDER or similar, find out what channel is least used by surrounding routers and change the channel of your router to that one.
If you need help with this let me know.
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failly said:
I think you can fix this problem by changing the channel your that your router uses or by connecting to a 5GHz ap(if possible) but this sort of does the same with the channel 'trick'.
Download an app like inSSIDER or similar, find out what channel is least used by surrounding routers and change the channel of your router to that one.
If you need help with this let me know.
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Thanks for your tip! I changed the channel to 11, now it's working and hopefully it will also work in the future.
I'm writing if it's now solved or if the wifi drops come back.

Nope, didn't worked...
Still no Wifi on Nexus 5... God that's annoying

Lol
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I had the exact same problem and after literally trying everything imaginable I tried several routers. The solution, change your router. I tried several and returned them until I settled on one. But never at the same store. Lol

nitramus said:
I had the exact same problem and after literally trying everything imaginable I tried several routers. The solution, change your router. I tried several and returned them until I settled on one. But never at the same store. Lol
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Just bought a new router and it's working!!! [emoji9] Thank you all for your help!

I had the same issues with Linksys routers. Finally bought a netgear nighthawk and couldn't be happier. I can saturate my internet connection with the phone. And it outputs 1watt of power to each 5ghz and 2.4. So I get almost full signal on 5ghz on the other side of the house

[Guide] [Discussion] (Possible) battery savings by disabling unused network bands.

WARNING: I DON'T TAKE ANY RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY DAMAGES THAT MAY OCCUR TO YOUR PHONE/ SIMS/SD CARDS OR ANY OTHER ACCESSORIES OR DEVICES. DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK.
As the title suggests this is a guide to disable certain network bands (GSM/WCDMA/CDMA/LTE) that are not supported by your carrier. Theoretically it should help save battery as the phone won't search for those bands anymore. I'm currently testing this myself and will provide feedback too. The more users try this the better as more feedback will provide better insight to how much battery saving we can get by doing this (if any).
Pre-requisites:
1. The phone needs to be rooted.
2. A free app called Network signal Guru from play store. Link below :
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.qtrun.QuickTest
3. The bands that your carrier supports. Use Google/ wiki to search for your carrier and all the bands it supports.
Here it goes :
1. Install network signal guru and give it SU permissions.
2. The app will check for compatibility and download some "online configurations".
3. After the app opens click on the menu and select lock bands.
4. Click on the corresponding network and and UNTICK the bands that you found are NOT supported by your carrier. You might get a message saying that this might force the phone into a power cycle. Ignore it or just stop if you're "not interested now". ?
5. Do this for all the network types.
6. The phone might reconnect to the carrier (you'll notice by network icon in the status bar )
7. Exit the app if you want as these settings still stick if the app is not running.
That's it. You've successfully disabled the bands that you found are not supported by your carrier.
Currently I've tested it on MIUI 9.4.18 and should work on any ROM/ kernel as long as you do it right.
Notes:
1. The settings are removed after a reboot.
2. You might have extra options in the bands if you're using two carriers i.e dual SIM . The secondary carrier is marked by "extended" and the primary by "primary". Select the bands accordingly.
3. The LTE bands look to be "shared" by both the SIMs. So just select the bands of both the carriers if you're using LTE on both.
4. Try to give as much feedback as possible.

Kinda risky cause we have different network band usage and maybe "I'm in Philippines" I might screw something up but hey, I can restore it back. Worth a try I guess, thanks for the info.

Darklouis said:
Kinda risky cause we have different network band usage and maybe "I'm in Philippines" I might screw something up but hey, I can restore it back. Worth a try I guess, thanks for the info.
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It isn't risky at all. I've been doing this on many phones since a long time and never had any problem (unless you're really really unlucky ?.
If you're worried about "power cycle", it just means that the phone will restart and nothing else.
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MasterFURQAN said:
It isn't risky at all. I've been doing this on many phones since a long time and never had any problem (unless you're really really unlucky ?.
If you're worried about "power cycle", it just means that the phone will restart and nothing else.
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Could you post a maybe timelime of your battery usage? Are you still using it on stock ROM?

Darklouis said:
Could you post a maybe timelime of your battery usage? Are you still using it on stock ROM?
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Yep. Using it on MIUI EU 9.4.18.
I'll post a full battery timeline when I go through a full battery cycle.

while we are on this topic can any body tell me is there any way of prefring 5ghz wifi over 2.4 ghz wifi... no i cant do it on router side it broadcast both with same ssid.

bravo2526 said:
while we are on this topic can any body tell me is there any way of prefring 5ghz wifi over 2.4 ghz wifi... no i cant do it on router side it broadcast both with same ssid.
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The phone by default connects to the WiFi with better signal which more often will be the 2.4g. I see that you can't disable 2.4g on the router. I remember an app called smart WiFi selector and another app called WiFi 5 that can help you. Google them.

Driver not working or unknown error?

meckar said:
Driver not working or unknown error?
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Same with me

meckar said:
Driver not working or unknown error?
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I don't think that you're using the same app as me. I've updated the op with the official play store link of the said app. Download from there.
D1stRU3T0R said:
Same with me
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i got this working on stock kernel, both malakas and extreme kernel will not work with this.

MasterFURQAN said:
I don't think that you're using the same app as me. I've updated the op with the official play store link of the said app. Download from there.
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Same app...

TOMPPIX said:
i got this working on stock kernel, both malakas and extreme kernel will not work with this.
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The app needs /Dev/diag to communicate with the modem and some kernels disable it. That's why it won't work on those kernels and I can't do anything about. You can ask the Dev of the kernel to include it.
D1stRU3T0R said:
Same app...
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