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Root School Wifi Crashes my phone.

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lusciouslou

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I have rooted my phone, but have not installed any ROMs. The crashing only happens on my school's Wifi network. My Wifi, my girlfriend's Wifi, all of my friend's Wifi networks all work fine. The problem is that when I try to connect to my University's Wifi my phone will crash a few minutes after connecting. Everything is working fine until then. Processes are all running normally, then out of no where my phone restarts. If I don't turn Wifi on my phone off as soon as it reboots, it will crash continuously until i do something about it. This is becoming a big problem because the constant reboots drain my battery quickly. This happens no where else besides at school.

What is going on, and how can I fix it. Thank you.
 
What's probably going on is that they've found a new way too keep you from using the school's wifi, and there's probably nothing you can do about it.
 
lusciouslou said:
I have rooted my phone, but have not installed any ROMs. The crashing only happens on my school's Wifi network. My Wifi, my girlfriend's Wifi, all of my friend's Wifi networks all work fine. The problem is that when I try to connect to my University's Wifi my phone will crash a few minutes after connecting. Everything is working fine until then. Processes are all running normally, then out of no where my phone restarts. If I don't turn Wifi on my phone off as soon as it reboots, it will crash continuously until i do something about it. This is becoming a big problem because the constant reboots drain my battery quickly. This happens no where else besides at school.

What is going on, and how can I fix it. Thank you.
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I remember reading about a year or so ago the mention of something similar happening to other users. IIRC, it has to do with the security protocol, MAC address, or something else along those lines, of your school's wifi network. And, consequently, your phone can't handle it stably. There isn't much you can really do about that, since I doubt you'd be able to convince their IT team to switch to a more generic setup, but what you can do is download Wifi Tether for Root Users (only wifi tether app that works for the Optimus Elite without damaging it), and tether using 3G. Despite 3G being notoriously slow on the device itself, the wifi you get from tethering is actually much faster/snappier for some reason. However, if you're looking to get the wifi access on your Optimus Elite itself and not some other device as an alternative (or don't have an alternative available), I'm not sure of anything else you can do. But, perhaps someone else might know of something :)

Aside from that, a logcat may be useful for those who can understand them to help diagnose the issue.

Hope that helps!
 
Thanks guys. I will try your options. I figured it was something to do with their wifi settings. After much internet searching I only found one person with a similar problem, but there was never a solution posted.
 
Hey, I think what you're seeing is a known problem with older Android (v 2.3) releases and "enterprise" wifi security.

I used to have the same problems when connecting to a university network or my office network, but it worked fine at my house. I think the problem has to do with LEAP/PEAP 802.1x security and some bug in the network stack.

Check out these threads for more info:
Optimus Elite reboots a lot - Android Forums at AndroidCentral.com
How to use Eduroam under Android 2.3 (GingerDX / Cyagenmod) - Gnu York: IT- and computer services in Dresden
wi fi - University network crashes phone - Android Enthusiasts Stack Exchange

You might try this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oneguyinabasement.leapwifi&hl=en

But what solved it for me was just flashing to a newer ROM that used Android >4.0
 
Yeah, my work wifi crashes my phone too. Pretty regularly too, actually. I've just flashed a JB ROM (AOKP) and I'll see if that helps and let you know
 
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