Wifi problem

[Guest appolus]

hello

i am having this annoying problem, every time i try to connect to my wifi network i get disconnected, and i need to restart the router in order to let the phone connect properly. i have tried to change channel and tried several channels still the same problem. i am on ginger stir fry b16. is the wifi broken on the phone? how to fix this?

thanks

Edited July 29, 2011 by appolus

[Guest adamsy]

Hey,

You need to go onto the Android market and search for blade wifi and install the blade wifi fix.... all will be good and the magic of the software should solve your problem....

[Guest appolus]

ok but i would like to mention that the problem is not when i wake the phone up from sleep.

[Guest k0zmic]

Tried changing the security from the router e.g. WAP to WEP?

[Guest adamsy]

This is a known problem with blade, I have same problem with my blade, its to do with wifi drivers on blade and certain types of AP's

I can confirm that gsf b16 has solved my wifi problem without blade wifi fix installed.

Good luck. Have you give the blade. Wifi fix a spin dude? Or why not install gsf b16. Really recommend it!

Let is know how you get on...

Sent from my ZTE-BLADE using Tapatalk

Edited July 29, 2011 by adamsy

[Guest t0mm13b]

Check the DHCP's lease time on the router - there was an issue with it on prior occasion - if the lease time is infinite, i.e. -1, it gave an error condition within the wifi part of the ROM and gave up, i.e. - you're going to run into problems connecting.

Change the lease time to something smaller, say every 72 hours, then it should be okie :)

[Guest Force.]

hello

i am having this annoying problem, every time i try to connect to my wifi network i get disconnected, and i need to restart the router in order to let the phone connect properly. i have tried to change channel and tried several channels still the same problem. i am on ginger stir fry b16. is the wifi broken on the phone? how to fix this?

thanks

i also had this problem in b11 fyi

Bit of a shot in the dark here but make sure you haven't restored any wifi settings with titanium backup etc, as this can break things.

[Guest appolus]

This is a known problem with blade, I have same problem with my blade, its to do with wifi drivers on blade and certain types of AP's

I can confirm that gsf b16 has solved my wifi problem without blade wifi fix installed.

Good luck. Have you give the blade. Wifi fix a spin dude? Or why not install gsf b16. Really recommend it!

Let is know how you get on...

Sent from my ZTE-BLADE using Tapatalk

hey mate i upgraded to b16 and still the same problem :/

Bit of a shot in the dark here but make sure you haven't restored any wifi settings with titanium backup etc, as this can break things.

i only restore apps not wifi settings just double checked

[Guest Phoenix Silver]

what is your blade model ?

It's strange i never had wifi probs.

And i use 200 or 300 different routers per year (in different hotels for my work)

I never had probs and this with all the roms i have tried.

Seems to be specific to some blade model and only this one.

[Guest adamsy]

hey mate i upgraded to b16 and still the same problem :/

Well sorry to hear that, it does seem to be the case between different phones, reacting differently.... Have you installed the magic of blade wifi fix and does it work for you?

It is a bit of a bind, but the other option is pulling different wifi drivers from different ROM's and trying em out on your blade to see if it helps... I personally had the wifi problem on my blade in its original factory state.... Today my wifi for the first time played up again, my blade has made me a liar :( so alas although Wifi is a lot lot better with the GFS ROM I am back to using Wifi blade fix again too for that odd time I get a problem.

Is your Blade a gen1 early OSF with AMOLED screen, like mine?? Sounds like from your problems it is, yes?

[Guest appolus]

its gen 2 comviq, TFT model

I upgraded to b16, then it seemed like it fixed the problem but in a couple of hours the problem return again..very annoying

Like i mentioned earlier its not when i wake the phone from sleep my wifi gets disconnected, its randomly when i just want to start wifi it says "connecting" and then "disconnected"

Edited July 29, 2011 by appolus

[Guest adamsy]

Well sounds like your Wifi hardware is identical to my blade.... the only real solution is blade wifi fix that I have found, maybe someone will come up with a better solution at some point.....

I find GSF to be the fastest connectint wifi for my blade, and generally the one with the least problems still, but have bladed wifi fix installed for that odd problem time...

A real drag I know..... So are you using Blade wifi fix??

[Guest wbaw]

The problem is with your wireless router (Netgear?), not your blade.

[Guest targetbsp]

You could try CM7. I had trouble with GSF disconnecting randomly from my wifi (Netgear ofc :D ). Sometimes it would reconnect if I told it to, sometimes I had to reboot the phone (I never thought to reboot the router). CM7 on the other hand only has trouble reconnecting upon waking (and there's a work around for that - set the wifi sleep policy to never). Once it's connected it is perfectly happy.

[Guest appolus]

The problem is with your wireless router (Netgear?), not your blade.

nop not netgear, belkin

[Guest janderclander]

I'm having the same issue. Now with wbaw's GFS b18 it seems it's not getting the problem as often as before with CM7.

At least I've discovered a little trick for my router (linksys WAG54-G2) : when I'm having this connect/disconnect bug loop, I switch the channel of the wifi (at the router web admin), and then I switch it back to the previous channel. This way the "fix" is quicker, some seconds, no need a full router reboot and I don't loose ADSL connection for 2 minutes while rebooting... but it's still very annoying and obviously I don't have the chance to make it outside my house...

[Guest Sluysen]

i'm having the same issue, connecting and disconnecting 10 secs after each other..

I had it on Swedish Springs and i'm having it now again on a fresh Portugese springs :wtf:

also, hard to get on the market without wifi :D

[Guest gavin08]

I'm having problem with getting on to the Browser. I go on and it automaticallies goes back to homescreen after a few seconds. What can I do to fiz this also my Wifi is so weak and keeps disconnecting when my phone is locked.

[Guest wbaw]

I think there are a few slightly different wifi problems here, they affect people that use different routers a bit differently. AFAIK the dhcp lease time problem that t0mm13b mentioned only affected CM7 & it's fixed in recent builds. Theres another dhcp bug that affects bt homehub routers (on froyo & cm7, fixed in gsf, didn't happen on eclair). Some Netgear routers have trouble too. They're all different bugs, afaik.

On GSF my wifi reconnects fairly reliably, blade wifi fix works to fix any problem reconnecting for me. However, blade wifi fix just turns the wifi off & on again, so if that doesn't fix it & you need to reboot your router, it wont help.

For a lot of these bugs the router is at least as much to blame as the blade, you shouldn't ever need to restart your router to get something to connect, if you do then it's the router's fault. You should look for a router firmware update to fix the issue.

In gsf you can set the wifi sleep policy to never, so that it stays connected longer, if you set up a sip voip account to receive calls then it stays connected all the time (until you're out of range).

Wifi disconnecting when the screen is locked is a bug common to all blade roms, except ones based on the zte gingerbread leak, like gsf, it's standard zte blade buggy behaviour.

gavin08, wipe data or try a more recent rom (and also wipe data) to stop your browser crashing, it's just you with that bug.

Edited August 1, 2011 by wbaw

[Guest janderclander]

It's not only the router, because I connect every device to it without a single problem, including desktop computers, laptops, tablets and several phones (3 android's). I'm talking about 20 devices (not only mine but friends)

The ZTE Blade is the only one that fails (sometimes) and get the loop bug, so it is not the router itself, maybe a bad combination between the blade wifi driver and the router firmware, I don't know, but there are a bunch of routers failing with the ZTE Blade.

I'm getting the best results with your GSF rom, and the phone keeps the wifi ok several days, but eventually it happens again the wifi loop bug. I think the most times the bug appears is when I awake the phone in the precise moment that it is entering in sleep mode. I have no proof, only based in observation.

[Guest wbaw]

It is a combination of both, but if it causes your router to crash & need restarting, then there is certainly a bug in your router, no doubt about that, no device should be able to do that, no matter how badly programmed.

[Guest janderclander]

Nop, the router doesn't crash, all the other devices including android phones are working properly 24/7 with the router no matter what.

The bug affects only the ZTE Blade: while it gets the infinite loop, all other devices and the router itself still working correctly.

[Guest wbaw]

but then rebooting your router fixes it, which confirms that there is a router bug. You should never need to reboot your router, no matter what device tries to connect or how badly it does it. I'm not denying that there are any wifi bugs in the blade, there clearly are - there are lots, some of them big, but no wifi bug in any device should ever cause you to need to reboot your router, so your router is at least partly to blame.

As others have said, the Blade works fine with most wifi routers & access points.

The wifi drivers are all closed source & are never likely to be open sourced, so there isn't much that anybody here can do to fix any of the wifi bugs unless we can find an open source wifi driver that works, or unless ZTE fix it in an updated driver (ha! don't hold your breath). Complain to ZTE, otherwise you're just wasting your time.

Edited August 2, 2011 by wbaw

[Guest janderclander]

Well, the fact that you need a router reboot doesn't mean that is a router bug, could be that the ZTE blade is not accepting the packets sent by the router at a certain point, and by rebooting the router the dhcp tables are cleaned, so the phone accepts them again.

As I've said, every other device of any kind has no problems (tried like 20 devices), and this is not the first router I've found that pulls out the bug on the Blade (and only the Blade), so obviously I blame the phone.

I was only posting to let people know a bit more of this bug, and I still thinking is a ZTE Blade fault, besides that the solution is to reboot the router wifi (I'm not complaining to you ;) )