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Root Gingerbread OTA/Leak dropping wifi

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lexluthor

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I'm running the 2nd gingerbread leak.

I find that my internet connection on wifi sites dies occasionally. Wifi still shows as on and connected, but I cant ping anything. If I cycle wifi off and back on, I'm good again.

I did have a data wipe in the process of installing, but wifi settings did get automatically reloaded through the google cloud backup.

One of the wifi points that's I'm dropping from is totally new to my device (never had before gb).

Definitely not a router issue as it happens at 3 different locations.

Does the happen to anyone else. Any ideas on thing I can try?
 
Happens to me as well. This happened on the first GB leak too. I did have the occasional Froyo drop as well.

I've concluded it is probably my old as time router. My X is rock solid at work. Motorola is aware of these problems in the X from the Froyo days and has pushed fixes out with subsequent updates. When I got Froyo, my X did run very well on WiFi.

Interestingly enough, my Xoom has the exact same problems. Fine at work; bad at home.

I guess we will have to wait and see if the true OTA fixes it, or someone else comes up with a fix in a ROM. Or else I will just have to buy a new router. It's probably about time anyway.
 
Same problem here though sometimes it just flat out won't connect to the router. Everything else in my house will connect to it and retain a connection.
 
Well I never dropped on froyo and I have the issue on 3 different routers, so sounds different than your issue. Anyone else seeing what I am?

Is there a wa, using titanium, to just wipe out my wireless settings? I doubt it would help, but couldn't her.
 
lexluthor said:
Did this only start on gb for you? If not, probably a different issue.
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You know, I use another router and don't lose connection so it probably is my home router. I think that my phone just flat out doesn't get along with my old POS Dlink router. I left my super solid netgear with my ex.
 
As an aside, for any that are reading this thread, has anyone ever flashed DD-WRT? My router is an ancient Linksys WRT54G. I wonder if new and improved firmware would fix some of the issues? The router has long been out of support (around 2007 I believe).
 
I have this issue as well, both at home and work. I have resigned myself to not using wifi waiting for a fix. Googled it a few times, not a lot of it out there, but notice there seems to be a fair amount of people who have this issue too.

Is there any way to port the wifi from froyo to work with GB?
 
I'm having the same problem. Droid X, rooted GB. Froyo was rock solid on this handset. GB wifi icon turns from blue to white and drops the connection as often as once per minute. Downloading files causes the most trouble. The browser seems slightly more stable. I'm not convinced that changing router settings to WEP is a real solution since Froyo had no issue with WPA.

Mad props to anyone with a fix.
 
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