Which rom is good for wifi?

[Guest Dicky Kwan]

I have tried so many roms with android 2.2, but the wifi still suck and my situation is similar to this thread :( : http://www.droidforums.net/forum/tech-issu...ssue-2-2-a.html

As the university provides me free wifi, but I have no idea which rom or what patch should I install, to have more change to coonect the wifi sucessfully?

Thanks all :(

Edited March 9, 2011 by Dicky Kwan

[Guest wbaw]

cm7 is the best for wifi

[Guest Len Ash]

cm7 is the best for wifi

LOL! The worst by a long chalk.

Back to reality, there is a poll on Battery Life/ WiFi reliability in the forum - have a search. It was by Victor von Zeppelin as a clue.... and just a few topics below this one. Do take the time to look instead of waste time...

The concensus of 200+ users was JJ9 for WiFi.

Edited March 8, 2011 by Len Ash

[Guest]

I have tried so many roms with android 2.2, but the wifi still suck and my situation is similar to this thread :( : http://www.droidforums.net/forum/tech-issu...ssue-2-2-a.html

As the university provides me free wifi, but I have no idea which rom or what patch should I install, to have more change to coonect the wifi sucessfully?

Thanks all :(

I have JJ 9

Wifi works fine, data too

I use WPA encryption at home, TKIP or AES, not the same as mentioned in your link

did you do a full wipe and clean install?

maybe, somewhere in the phone, there's some error that stays untill you wipe?

[Guest Rotmann]

But FLB Froyo changed some WiFi things with R10 and the poll is too old, on my wife's SanFran WiFi on FLB... well it's purrfect.

[Guest Dicky Kwan]

I have JJ 9

Wifi works fine, data too

I use WPA encryption at home, TKIP or AES, not the same as mentioned in your link

did you do a full wipe and clean install?

maybe, somewhere in the phone, there's some error that stays untill you wipe?

I have tried JJ9 with full wipe too, I can access my home wifi, which is only WEP encrypted.

However, I can not connect the university wifi with 802.1x encryption ( enterprised?)

http://www.cityu.edu.hk/csc/deptweb/facili...oid-eduroam.htm

It always loops: scanning, connecting,disconnected ,... but my notebook can connect the wifi in the same time...

[Guest surfatwork]

i have found FLR froyo G2 R10 to be very good for wifi

[Guest jonathonf]

However, I can not connect the university wifi with 802.1x encryption ( enterprised?)

http://www.cityu.edu.hk/csc/deptweb/facili...oid-eduroam.htm

It always loops: scanning, connecting,disconnected ,... but my notebook can connect the wifi in the same time...

To actually answer the question at hand - Android doesn't like 802.1x networks. It will go through the initial authentication, but doesn't know how to do the second phase. Hence, it fails, and retries in a loop. I didn't find a solution last time I searched.

--edit

According to the Android bug tracker here: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=8804#c36 the fix was rolled into 2.3, so the first post was absolutely correct. Battery life "may" be worse, but at least wifi is better.

Edited March 9, 2011 by jonathonf

[Guest Ralph Martin]

Despite what the previous poster says, I use JJ9 successfully with Eduroam, which here uses a different kind of 802.1x enterprise networking to that mentioned in the first post (see http://www.cf.ac.uk/insrv/resources/guides/itc116.pdf). Maybe you can try JJ9.

Edited March 9, 2011 by Ralph Martin

[Guest IronDoc]

LOL! The worst by a long chalk.

Back to reality, there is a poll on Battery Life/ WiFi reliability in the forum - have a search. It was by Victor von Zeppelin as a clue.... and just a few topics below this one. Do take the time to look instead of waste time...

The concensus of 200+ users was JJ9 for WiFi.

Are you kidding? CM is the only one to actually fix the disconnect bug, not just work around it.

That poll is completely nonsensical to use as evidence as it doesn't take into account what ROMs people have used especially since it was done while CM was still pretty buggy.

Genuinely back to reality; try JJ, FLB and CM7. Those are the ones that are generally cited as having the best wifi reliability.

I've definitely used CM on an Eduroam network without issue. I seem to remember having a little trouble with a much earlier JJ but it was fine once I got it working.

Edited March 9, 2011 by IronDoc

[Guest Len Ash]

Are you kidding? CM is the only one to actually fix the disconnect bug, not just work around it.

That poll is completely nonsensical to use as evidence as it doesn't take into account what ROMs people have used especially since it was done while CM was still pretty buggy.

Genuinely back to reality; try JJ, FLB and CM7. Those are the ones that are generally cited as having the best wifi reliability.

I've definitely used CM on an Eduroam network without issue. I seem to remember having a little trouble with a much earlier JJ but it was fine once I got it working.

CM7 on both my Blades lasts less than ~15 mins of deep sleep before permanently becoming unable to reconnect by itself. That's on several routers in several locations. WPA2. JJ9 is best for me, never fails ever. FLB R9 is not great but passable, FLB R10 is a crock of cack in most respects. MCR R12 is pretty good in WiFi terms.

Edited March 9, 2011 by Len Ash

[Guest GX390]

i have found FLR froyo G2 R10 to be very good for wifi

Agreed so much better I'm running R10B and was running R9B before so much better now

[Guest hecatae]

CM7 on both my Blades lasts less than ~15 mins of deep sleep before permanently becoming unable to reconnect by itself. That's on several routers in several locations. WPA2. JJ9 is best for me, never fails ever. FLB R9 is not great but passable, FLB R10 is a crock of cack in most respects. MCR R12 is pretty good in WiFi terms.

and that's on 802.1x authentication?

[Guest Kthulhu]

Have you tried Finnish Fillyjonk (2.1)?

http://android.modaco.com/content/zte-blad...ls5-2011-01-05/

[Guest IronDoc]

CM7 on both my Blades lasts less than ~15 mins of deep sleep before permanently becoming unable to reconnect by itself. That's on several routers in several locations. WPA2. JJ9 is best for me, never fails ever. FLB R9 is not great but passable, FLB R10 is a crock of cack in most respects. MCR R12 is pretty good in WiFi terms.

JJ9 will be reconnecting when you wake the phone. If you pinged it would be unresponsive. JJ is normally best at reconnecting though, yeah.

From what I've read, CM does seem to have fixed the wifi sleep for nearly everyone who mentions it. Obviously could just be people not mentioning it if it's still broken though.

[Guest wbaw]

JJ9 will be reconnecting when you wake the phone. If you pinged it would be unresponsive. JJ is normally best at reconnecting though, yeah.

From what I've read, CM does seem to have fixed the wifi sleep for nearly everyone who mentions it. Obviously could just be people not mentioning it if it's still broken though.

CM7 still disconnects from wifi when it sleeps, but the reconnection is faster & more reliable. i think flb-froyo is now using a similar wifi driver to cm7, so that should be similar. if you have a sip account set to receive calls using the native sip client in cm7 then it will keep the connection open.

Edited March 10, 2011 by wbaw

[Guest IronDoc]

CM7 still disconnects from wifi when it sleeps, but the reconnection is faster & more reliable. i think flb-froyo is now using a similar wifi driver to cm7, so that should be similar. if you have a sip account set to receive calls using the native sip client in cm7 then it will keep the connection open.

I can still ping mine when sleeping. The first packet is always pretty slow but the rest are normal speed.

[Guest wbaw]

I can still ping mine when sleeping. The first packet is always pretty slow but the rest are normal speed.

I can't if i don't have the sip account accepting incoming calls (which doesn't work properly in sleep either), the connection dies when the phone enters sleep mode. It reconnects very quickly & reliably when the screen comes on though. I think some of it depends on the wifi router too. It seemed to stay connected for longer on nightly 6 than on the more recent nightlies, but I think that maybe the phone wasn't sleeping properly.

With the sip account accepting incoming calls then it replies to between 4 & 6 pings, then times out for 10-14 pings, then replies to another 4-6 pings, it follows that pattern, as if the wifi is just on for a couple of seconds then off for 10 seconds, it's enough to keep the connection open though.

On any froyo or eclair rom the wifi would die completely a few seconds after the screen goes off & it'd sometimes have trouble reconnecting (needing manual cycling of the phone's wifi, or bladewififix), so it's a definite improvement.

Edited March 10, 2011 by wbaw

[Guest Scoopading]

CM7 on both my Blades lasts less than ~15 mins of deep sleep before permanently becoming unable to reconnect by itself. That's on several routers in several locations. WPA2.

I had the exact same issue, and actually had "blade wifi fix" from the market installed on nightly 6. Then, after suffering the same problem on nightly 8, on nightly 11 I was testing stuff and switched the advanced WIFI sleep option from the default (sleep when screen is off) to never, or never on USB (probably both at some point :( . When I switched back to sleep when the screen was off - Guess what? Every time after that it reconnected 100% of the time!

So I would tell you to try setting another option in the advanced Wifi menu, maybe rebooting, and switching back. It seems to reset something on CM7 and allow the WIFI to reconnect - At least that definitely happened in my case. The speed CM7 reconnects at is pretty impressive most of the time btw.

However to keep phones WIFI open 100% of the time whilst the screen sleeps (for apps such as Skype) requires you install an app like "Advanced Wifi Lock" from the market. So the sleep "never" function is still broken on CM7. But the other 2 options work fine, and my reconnect is working 100% of the time too, but apparently CM7 does need a little push in the right direction (as mentioned above with the advanced options being set to something else first) :(

[Guest KopCity]

They are all bad!!