Root Limiting support and Ending development for the C771

[Willster419]

Hello guys,
I'm not sure how appropriate this thread is, but I think it's better to let you guys know, then to just randomly leave the fourms and never come back. It is not that I am done with the phones entirely, but I am just about done with this one. By October 1st, 2013, I will be ending my developing on this phone, and limiting support as well. You can still PM me about stuff, and I might respond here and there to questions. I need to focus my time elsewhere (like getting into WPI), and simply do not have time for android development.
Thought you all should know, and best of luck.

 

[LimitedRelease]

Well in that case time to ask a tough question.
So my phone has an issue I have seen others report, and I have some investigation of the issue but no good resolution yet.
On any wifi network my phone remembers it will often times see the network and connect, but not get data, this is most easily identified by the phones wifi signal indicator showing full strength but not changing color. The issue can sometimes be resolved by reboot. It seems that when this occurs it's due to the phones ip negotiation or assignment. It happens on all wifi networks. I have found assigning the phone a static ip instantly resolves the issue. Any one else, or have you encountered this on this phone or Android devices in general? I am wondering if ip collisions are happening because this phone will not renegotiate an ip?

 

[Willster419]

i have had problems with this phone, and most of them are due to the wifi. phone rebooting randomly, seeing a known wifi network but not connecting, all sorts of stuff. For this specific issue, the only time that this has happened for me (wifi connect but no change color) is when I am trying to filter ip adresses via P2P networking. Sometimes the huge amounts of said traffic break it as well. I have two guesses to this (maybe three)

the phone simply cannot handle the amount of traffic, but that is expected, and it does not seem to be your problem.

the phone could have some software/driver issues about DHCP (i think it's called). If it dosn't like/accept the DHCP server or take the ip adress, then you have a problem

it could also be a problem with the software for encryption. this is what i think it might be. here is why:
my wifi at home (secured with WPA2-PSK) has had all of these problems.
my school wifi (unsecure) has not had any problems with restarting, nor "loosing" connection.

have you expiermented with the above? thats the best i can give.

you could also have forgotten to turn your swagger on

 

[LimitedRelease]

So I think it has a lot to do with IP assignment,
theres a light app called wifix that can do a quick fix, (seems like it just chooses an ip)
I think you might be on to something with the dhcp, im looking into how the phone connects to new networks, I could write a shell that does the same thing the app does on network connect if I can find a place to hook in the shell call.

 

[who444444]

btw thanks for all the time effort and info.
I was able to root my commando and could not have done it without all the valuable info from you and the rest of the folks on this forum. you have made this phone able to hang in there with the newer phones.
dave