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Help Dropping wifi randomly?

The_Superhoo

The_Superhoo

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I've had my Razr Maxx for ~a month now, and i love it so far. Up until now, I havent had any problems related to data, but as of today, it randomly loses it's wifi connection, then shows a network being available.

It will let me reconnect to my network, but not automatically, and I have to type in the password again. In the past, it detected my home network automatically and would connect without inputting the password again.

What's up?


Shouldnt be my router, as it's pretty new too (like last month or two) and I dont have an issue with wifi connectivity on my laptop (that I've noticed anyway)

TIA
 
I've been having this issue very frequently for a while now. Happens across my house (3 APs to roam across) and at work (1 AP) similarly. The various other wifi devices don't seem to have any problems.
 
I've had mine for three days and this happened to me for the first time last night. It wasn't bad though. It reconnected really fast.
 
It may be the channel that your phone is set to connect on. You can get an app from the market called Wifi Analyzer which will help determine the channel with the strongest signal on any given network. Find the best channel, then tweak the network settings on your phone. It's not fool-proof, but it does help.

My DX used to drop wifi all the time. Haven't had this problem yet with my Razr.

I've also noticed over time that range of the receivers on handsets seems to be pretty limited. For example, i get normally about twice as much range from my galaxy tab than i do from my Razr.
 
thedrizl said:
It may be the channel that your phone is set to connect on. You can get an app from the market called Wifi Analyzer which will help determine the channel with the strongest signal on any given network. Find the best channel, then tweak the network settings on your phone. It's not fool-proof, but it does help.

My DX used to drop wifi all the time. Haven't had this problem yet with my Razr.

I've also noticed over time that range of the receivers on handsets seems to be pretty limited. For example, i get normally about twice as much range from my galaxy tab than i do from my Razr.
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Thanks for the suggestion but the WAP determines the channel not the end device. Each of my WAPs are set to automatically find open spectrum within the noise of my neighbors. Currently channels 1 and 6. There is considerable noise on 6 so I'll take your comment and set my WAPs manually to open space.

Jon
 
Mine had this problem at first...but it seems to be OK now, maybe it was the factory reset that fixed it but I can't say for sure.

I had to reset my phone 3 times before I figured out how to set everything up the way I wanted it, LOL.
 
Same thing here, kept loosing signal, then regaining, it took a bit to reconnect tho, like 45 seconds. It was really bad, happened 12 times when trying to skype, 7 of the times it happened with the phone propped up in a stand next to the router
 
Yeah I have this issue as well. I'll be two feet from the source and lose signal. I thought it was my router at first but it seems to be the phone as I get the same issue at work.
 
I've got a Linksys WRT160Nv3 and I experienced the same WiFi drops with my Razr Max as described above. In the router, all I did was change Wireless "Basic Wireless Settings" from WiFi Protected Setup to Manual, changed "Channel Width" to 20MHz only and selected the channel that I had previously used which was 6. I did change from 6 to 11 back to 6 but once I saved settings with each change, on the last change no WiFi drops. Could have been just the wireless router reboot but I got no drops now.
 
I got same problem in the first several days, just change the router's WAP/WEP settings, switch to a different one to see.
 
yohocn said:
why would we always choose factory reset when we meet problems? i do not take it as a panacea. we never dig into it...
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I can't say why everybody else does it...

I did it because this is my first smartphone and I wanted to learn how to set it up...some folks learn faster by doing things the hard way (and learn a lot of other useful things along the way)...I'm one of them.

I didn't know enough to "dig into it" at the time...now I do.
 
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