Desire Wi-fi issue

oleras

Hi, I got the HTC desire during the week and all going great so far except issues with connecting to my Wi-fi at home.

On initial setup i had it scan for my wireless signal but had to manually enter it, network is not hidden. 3 laptops, PS3, PSP, DS all have been able to see it and connect in the past. Anyway, connected through WPA and was able to connect to the internet and market fine.

The issue is it keeps dropping the connection, signal bar stays as if connected but all pages timeout. turning the wireless on/off does not resolve, sometimes turning the power on/off will sort it, most times not. I drove to work last night, 25km and it said i was still connected to a network untill i disabled the wireless on the phone in the carpark !!

I have trawled the net and have come across known issues with other HTC devices and wireless networks but most of the fixes i tried have drawn a blank so far, bar hard reset.

Unsure if it is settings in my router or the phone. One thing i did notice is when it was connected and i went to the settings>wireless and networks it was smooth like the usual progs on the phone, but when i cant connect and go to the settings it is serious laggy.

BB is Eircom, netopia router.
Phone is Vodafone.

Any other info needed just ask, could do with a fix for this before i pull my hair out.

Mod: was going to stick this in the wireless forum but thought since there may have been simular experiences best suited here, move by all means.

edit: downloaded a wifi analyzer app and it says my signal is very weak, even sitting on the router, it is either the router sending the wrong signal or the hardware on the phone i think.

Anyone have to chage their wireless settings on the router to get the desire to connect ? If so, to what ?

oleras

Update.

powered off my phone and ran the wifi analyser again, same thing, -98db.(red, no signal)

powered off the phone again, and was hitting -40db sitting on top of the router and ~ -70 2 rooms away(green/yellow) and internet pages were flying, this is what is happening, may stay for 10 mins and go again.

kesey

methinks you should return the Desire, and ask for an udder. Seriously, mine does not drop the wi-fi connection. No reason yours should.

oleras

kesey wrote: »

methinks you should return the Desire, and ask for an udder. Seriously, mine does not drop the wi-fi connection. No reason yours should.

Another update:

I had a good connection so changed the sleep from 1 min to 30, checked the sig strenght every 15 mins, surfed a few pages and all fine. Changed the sleep back to 1 min, let it sleep, came back 5 mins later and wifi dead again. this leads me to taking the router out of the equation and phone based issue.

jimmycrackcorm

Have you checked the wifi analyzer for other interfering signals? One of its displays shows all the nearby channels overlaid. Its possible there may be other nearby routers on the same channel

oleras

jimmycrackcorm wrote: »

Have you checked the wifi analyzer for other interfering signals? One of its displays shows all the nearby channels overlaid. Its possible there may be other nearby routers on the same channel

In the sticks, im the only signal.

Mad_Mike

Seriously sounds like wifi issue with your phone. Mine works 100% and never gives any trouble at all with connection

oleras

Mad_Mike wrote: »

Seriously sounds like wifi issue with your phone. Mine works 100% and never gives any trouble at all with connection

I will do a hard reset tomorrow, just to tule it out, take down what apps i have installed and stuff, Sim card contacts will be ok yeah ?

adrian522

Thers an app called wifi fixer that periodically checks for wifi signal and will reconnect when it drops, may be worth a go...

oleras

adrian522 wrote: »

Thers an app called wifi fixer that periodically checks for wifi signal and will reconnect when it drops, may be worth a go...

Cheers,installed, will see if it can maintain the signal after sleep mode.

oleras

Still cuts out, done a factory reset and set up the wifi again and signal locked again when the phone went to sleep mode.

Will bring it back tomorrow.

Will they give me a replacemend while it is away to be looked at anyone know ?