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[Sony Tablet S] dohanotoha:
wifi signal issue

Hello

I found out that wifi signal is very weak. Even my friends who got the tablet noticed the same issue. Sometimes the signal is not full although I use the tablet in the same room where the router is. My phone gets a stronger signal.

Is this a hardware issue? does any one notice the same? is there a solution?

thanks in avance.
[Sony Tablet S] kadji9:
Sinal is very good here
[Sony Tablet S] Kermit33:
Signal is very good within my house.:)
[Sony Tablet S] Cholek3:
Hi guys, I have a question. I read whole thread and obviously I am worried about wifi issue, so I was thinking about a solution. I found a wifi repeater/signal booster. I came across this device and I was wondering if it gonna work: 300Mbps Wireless N Range Extender TL-WA830RE

http://www.tp-link.com/en/products/details/?model=TL-WA830RE

I have been on holiday recently, where hotel had a free wifi in reception only, although even on my mobile signal strengh was weak. I was wondering if above device would work as a signal booster. Although I am looking for something that would not involve connecting such booster to router and this device does not fall into that cathegory, I think. Is there such device on the market like that? I know it is not a perfect solution and requires me to carry extra device, but if it would help, why not to use it? If not a wifi, it would be my dream tablet.

PS. I was in Currys (UK) today to see some tablets. Next to each other, there was Tablet S, Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Motorola Xoom. Xoom had 4/4 signal strengh, Tab had 2/4 and Tablet S kept loosing connection with wifi.
[Sony Tablet S] maurobaz:
Market download issues - solved

Hi All,

just willing to let you know that I've solved my download issue with the market.

I accidentally moved on to a new router and now everything is working fine. When the market was not working I was using a draytek vigor 2800 vg (I followed all the tips in the android market help guide and I also opened ports TCP and UDP 5228 but apparently this did not solve anything). Then, by chance, I used another router, a TP-Link W8960N, and everything started to work and all the downoload could finally complete and the android market became usable. I loved my old draytek and I was positive I had set it correctly with all the secutiry features and all but now I'm just sticking to my TP-Link (which I originally bought as a cheap replacement router...). I have seen other users lamenting they could not have proper access to the market (I saw some users in other forums having issues with draytek routers) and hope this will help them.

Wish you all well.

;-)

cheers

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I'm having lots (and lots!) of trouble trying to download software from the androd market

As a matter of fact I find the market to be alomst competely unusable: sometimes the app I requested will download, some other time it won't. There's no pattern to it. I have also tried cleaning the cache/data of the download manager and Market plus logging in into google talk, but this still did not work.

I've found the market totally unpredictable/unusable.

I have received and I'm now using the update to android 3.2.1 and at the moment I have Market version 1.0.28 installed.

I also tried to upgrade to Market 3.3.11 but almost nothing changed so I unistalled and went back to using the original 1.0.28.

I have had this problem since the very beginning (when I bought the tablet I think I had Android 3.1 installed and the problem was already there). I also tried a factory data reset but again this did not solve anything and the problem re-presented itself.

I have eventually decided to download apps only from an external website(androiddev orkitra com): I can only download free apps, but I can live with it at least for now.

I have seen this is a recurrent problem of the Market and many other tab users were affected (galaxy tab, xoom,etc) but I was wondering if some of you had the same problem or at least experienced an increase in its severity compared to other devices: I was wondering if this might have anything to do with the Adroid setup Sony decided to install/use.

Let me know what you think: any feedback is appreciated.

thanks in advance for your help/time

cheers

:-)[/COLOR]
[Sony Tablet S] JMS74:
I confirm that too.
[Sony Tablet S] ultimix911:
Help!

Hi,

I got a new Sony Tablet S a few weeks back and I have this really weird problem.

As soon as I on Wifi and connect to my college network, it connects fine and webpages open as expected.

But after a minute or so, all data transfer stops even though I am connected to the network. Initially I thought

it was a hardware issue with my tablet but when I went to my nearest McDonalds and connected to their connection, everything

worked fine and there was no interruption in the data transfer.

I tried a couple of other hotspots around town and they seemed to work fine.

So, now obviously its a problem with my college network. The funny thing is that my laptop, my cellphone and about a thousand other devices

connected to the same network work just fine and do not stop exchanging data all of a sudden.

I have tried various apps available on the Play store but none helped.

My (geeky) friend told me that the issue may be some sort of interference between the routers (Cisco Aironet series, I think), as every floor in my hostel has 4 routers, but he could not give a solution. I have also referred the problem to my system administrator but he too could not come up with a solution.

If anyone has a solution to this, please help!

Thanks in advance
[Sony Tablet S] princeasi:
Some places purposely add these periodic interruptions to halt excessive bandwidth usage i.e. file sharing.

I'm just sayin!
[Sony Tablet S] eus107709:
Wifi Problem Fix:

I can confirm that the Wifi not reconnecting issue is real. It caused my wife and I to almost never use this tablet, until she found a fix 2 days ago.

Solution:

Disable Bluetooth. That's it.

And my non-techy wife discovered this solution by... RTFM! That's right, it was in the instruction manual the whole time.

I waited a couple days to post this to ensure the fix sticks, it does. Good luck and enjoy your tablets again.
[Sony Tablet S] shuckle:
That may very well be it as I have never used bluetooth and I have had no problems with wifi. But is that really in the manual? I can't see it.
[Sony Tablet S] xperiax10.awesome:
I never use Bluetooth n still have WiFi issues..

from xperiAwesome
[Sony Tablet S] gizmothemighty:
Yes I have it too and the one with the browser (stock and dolphin HD) closing suddenly
[Sony Tablet S] ejchis:
I don't think this does it. I've never even turned BT on on my tablet, and I was getting disconnected any time I turned the screen off until I installed advanced Wifi Lock.
[Sony Tablet S] hno3_3hcl:
actually i've got something wrong with my WIFI connection.

sometimes when i switch on my S'wifi link and try to connect to my router, my tablet will stop working and just restart again and again.

i have to power off the router and make a forced shutdown of my tablet.

but most of the time it just works properly.

i don't know the reason but i'm really annoyed by the problem╮(╯_╰)╭
[Sony Tablet S] Mahaco:
If you have your tab rooted you could use a rotation app, known issue

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Social Feed Application Keep Crashing even if its Not In Use [CONFIRM ISSUE]

I think this one is resolved after installing update 3.2.1 release 2

Because I had that one too and every since Update ^ not even once.

Browser Closing Randomly (Stock browser as well as Dolphin) [CONFIRM ISSUE]

Confirmed, quite annoying.

Database Update Fail Error [RESOLVED]

Cant really confirm that one, if I insert my SDcard it keeps giving me this message and I already have the latest version of all the Sony Media apps maby I will find a solution after posting this lol

Creaking Voice coming from the tablet's back casing, its serious hardware issue, can't accept such CHEAP quality at such HIGH rates. [CONFIRM ISSUE]

Never heard it but if its there it will not be fixed, I can confirm that the sound

quality is nothing compared to my Samsung Galaxy S2 which is shamefull because of the size difference xD

But from what I read ICS is almost here and maby all those little/irritating issue's will be gone after this long-awaited update! :rolleyes:
[Sony Tablet S] eus107709:
I never used Bluetooth either, but it was on. I wonder if enabling and disabling would do anything for you.
[Sony Tablet S] eus107709:
Page 16 of online manual, in the "Notes on using Wifi" section.

"If both the Bluetooth function and the 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi function of your tablet device are enabled, interference may occur and cause slower data transfer speeds or other problems."

The wifi and Bluetooth radio are right next to each other.
[Sony Tablet S] nicuchinezu:
root suggestion

hi, i have a problem, i made the mistake to buy the tablet s from china and it doesn't have google play installed so in can't access the market, just a stupid chinese app as market place, all in chinese, looks like the only option i have is to root it. Does anyone know if it's safe to root this model...sgpt111cn/s android 3.2.1 (release 2) kernel 2.6.36.3 build10#1, any other suggestions are welcomed, thanx
[Sony Tablet S] Lunat1c:
Sorry m8, last time I checked kernel build#10 is not rootable yet.
[Sony Tablet S] androidlover20:
issues after ICS ??
[Sony Tablet S] david8:
Hi Daniel,

I have the same problem too with microphone.

Have you solved in any way?

Thank you,

David
[Sony Tablet S] hiro1227:
Region change from US ICS to Japan ICS

Rooted my tablet and change it to US region to install official ICS. Now I want to restore it back to Japanese ICS. Is there anyway without root ?
[Sony Tablet S] xperiax10.awesome:
Guys,

After ICS Upgrade please let me know the issues if any..
[Sony Tablet S] xperiax10.awesome:
New Problem...Not Able to Delete files from sd card, No Write permission!!!!
[Sony Tablet S] zonk350:
You can delete data from sd cards by using the program file transfer, if you use other file manager it will not delete from sd card, it will only delete from internal memory
[Sony Tablet S] xperiax10.awesome:
After ics, screen is flickering..problem!!!
[Sony Tablet S] xperiax10.awesome:
Weird!!!
[Sony Tablet S] omaritta:
I HAve NEW PROBLEM "Unfortunately, Launcher has stopped"

This happened to me like everytime ,, it shows that massage in a box and the Launcher wont work till i restart my tablet ... ICS any help ?!
[Sony Tablet S] androidlover20:
FLICKERING ISSUE is problem with Google's ICS 4.0.3

Issue found in ASUS and other tablets with ICS.
[Sony Tablet S] dioswkg:
Anyone can use X-plore to write file onto SD card? Aren't able to do it after upgrading to rooted ics.
[Sony Tablet S] Cat McGowan:
I've never used X-plore, but I have used ES File Explorer, Root Explorer, and ROM Toolbox Pro's Root Browser to write files to sdcard2 after I upgraded to rooted ICS; however, I couldn't write files to sdcard2 until after I added the line <group gid="media_rw" /> to the file /system/etc/permissions/platform.xml. I described what I did to enable me to write to sdcard2 in THIS post. Perhaps if you made the same change, it will allow you to write files to sdcard2 using X-plore. No guaranty though, eh?
[Sony Tablet S] Mahaco:
Yeah its a 4.0.3 Tablet mode issue, (No phone Problem btw.)
[Sony Tablet S] stifilz:
Sorry do you mean install Japan ics without root on it?

Then yes change from US to Japan in aio, the update on tablet like normal.

Or without root on US ics?

Then no, not until devs find a ics exploit.

Chur
[Sony Tablet S] Mahaco:
@hiro1227

Auch,, That sounds you are stuck on english tab with no root, If you installled the ICS update without pre-rooting it. --

@Everyone before ICS

I feel sorry for the people who are stuck in Honeycomb, because of the Kernel ****, i hope other dev's will figure out something,

I gave up,
[Sony Tablet S] hiro1227:
Thanks. I upgraded from rooted Japanese honeycomb to US official ics, then lost root. So aio does not work with my official US ics.... any option ?

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Yes, I stuck on English tab with no root... I installed the ICA update without pre-rooting. Still possible to install Japanese ics ?
[Sony Tablet S] Mahaco:
I'm affraid that you're not able to install Japanese ICS and neither downgrade to Honeycomb, as long there is no dev that can figure out how to beat the kernel 9 and higher, i'm sorry my friend,
[Sony Tablet S] dioswkg:
For me other file browser has no problem writing to SD, even the tablet stock file transfer have no problem with it, only X-plore. However found a "solution" while playing with it.

Just need to change the Root access on X-plore from "Normal" to "Superuser + mount writable" and to go to /root/sdcard2 -> /mnt/sdcard2 instead of the shortcut /mnt/sdcard2.
[Sony Tablet S] sanalnnair:
Sony Tablet S ICS Bug

Greetings,

After I upgraded my Tablet S to 4.0.3, I have noticed 2 bugs..

One common bug is the flickering of screen, Sometimes when I have opened youtube and when the Sony Keyboard comes up, the screen flickers and it goes on for couple of seconds...

Also when I am checking some settings the screen flickers

Another bug is with YouTube. If there is a video that is not buffered and when I try to drag the video forward and stop it, the video just plays continuously and doesn't stop.

Sony Engineers, please fix these issues... Other than that Tablet S is really fast now.....
[Sony Tablet S] Silver-Eye:
Sorry guys, as this is a repost of something that i put on android dev.

but I think this is more suitable in here...

I don't know if its related, but as soon i installed the options to mod the ICS ( 11 & 12 ..usb mass storage and write permissions) on the tab.. I lost my internet connection.. its detects (as its gray) but i cannot have access.. tried to reboot router, tab, delete connection and make it again, etc and still continues.. but my laptop's have internet...

Do you think its related or something else is going on in here?

cheers!

Edit: apart from that, i notice flickering once and very quickly.. in all rest looks better...
[Sony Tablet S] dioswkg:
Not sure if this is a bug or just my rooted ICS (US on SG) but when I plug my earpiece and click on any apps (mainly music apps) the sound comes out from the tablet and not from the earpiece. I need to plug it out and plug it in back again before it works properly.
[Sony Tablet S] xperiax10.awesome:
Which headphone u are using?

from xperia PLAY
[Sony Tablet S] Kermit33:
I don't have any issue after ics upgrade, in fact I don't have any neither with HC probably because I didn't root my device.

I had creaking sound on its back when I first bought it in Feb this year but had a replacement at Sony HK.;)
[Sony Tablet S] air16:
It seems that Wifi issue has been fixed...
[Sony Tablet S] xperiax10.awesome:
Nope
[Sony Tablet S] air16:
I don't agree, mine is perfect now...
[Sony Tablet S] Warren_Orange:
Any one noticed the high Android OS usage in battery stats. Its around 20% for me. It should be around 5%. This is a bug that is inherent in 4.0.3.

My Nexus S had this problem for ages, which was why the initial Nexus S ICS OTA was pulled last December after a day or two.

It was only fixed in 4.0.4.

I wonder is Sony will give us 4.0.4. any time soon?
[Sony Tablet S] Plantaman:
I've just noticed that, actually. My battery life was **** today, eating 50% while off.

37% Android OS.
[Sony Tablet S] dioswkg:
Normal headphone from SONY nothing fancy.

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Battery life also kinda "funny" under ICS.

Left the tablet at night while the battery shows 30% and in the morning the light blinking indicating that it's low on juice. Take a look at the tablet and once again, the tablet just can't "wake up" and since the light on the side is blinking, I assume that the tablet is still on instead of off.

Need to reset the tablet for it to reboot. Found out that the battery is only 10% :eek:.
[Sony Tablet S] JMS74:
Yeah, I my Android system is around 20-30%.

I also noticed that the wifi is always on dispite I selected to turn of when the screen turns off. I and it's always on in the graph.. Don't now if it is just an graph bug or if it's really the wifi that's not going to sleep mode.
[Sony Tablet S] dschreiber69:
Same here. Mine still turns off even though I say never disconnect.
[Sony Tablet S] briskeby:
I have a serious video streaming problem after the upgrade, it would be very nice to know if someone else have the same problem. Please post if your tablet is working or not working.

The problem is common to all streaming video apps I have tried, for example YouTube, ES Video Viewer, the built in video viewer and some more.

Problem: If you watch a clip that is a little bit longer, for example 15 minutes, and try to do a skip of several minutes (jump forward) it seems to only work maximum one time. If you then again try to skip forward some minutes in the clip it hangs and after a while you get a crash report. Very annoying! This was definitely no problem before the latest 4.0.3 upgrade, then you could skip back and forward in a movie as many times you'd like.

Does anyone see this problem? Or do you NOT see this problem? It only affects streaming video from internet, not local files.

(BTW: I also now have got the problem that the WLAN disconnects even though I have said that it should never disconnect...)
[Sony Tablet S] air16:
Some issues with auto brightness...
[Sony Tablet S] poebae:
@briskeby I'm having the same problem, and as you said it only affects streamed media, not online files.
[Sony Tablet S] Warren_Orange:
Overall a pretty buggy release.

I hope we get a minor update from Sony to fix these issues.

What is the best way to report these to Sony ?
[Sony Tablet S] xyancompgeek:
I noticed a weird physical problem with the tab. if i place it on a flat surface and press on the top left corner of the tab, it tilts a bit as though its right side rubber pad is slightly taller than the left one...
[Sony Tablet S] briskeby:
A workaround. I noticed that the free "MX Player" on the google Play Market seems to work better. When you start it you have to download some codecs but it is easily done.

When trying to do fast forward sometimes it jumps to the start of the movie, but after it has done that strange jump once it then actually works perfect to do skip forward / backward many times etc without any problem or crashes.
[Sony Tablet S] Horse Trader:
Me too, wish I could revert to previous Honeycombe.

Several apps either don't work, or, are sluggish under ICS, my screen flickers bright and dull, WiFi problems, i.e. lower supposed signal strength, sometimes takes ages to sync with WiFi, and, it's a very strong signal I have!

Just seems slower and lots bugs to me, not a pleasent experience like I had when first bought several months ago.

I also own the Sony Xperia S phone, with a promised 'upgrade' to ICS very soon, so, not sure what to do there, I might try it, and if not, I still have copies of 65 and 73 android, if I can flash older OS back after upgrade?

All in all, not impressed with ICS on Sony Tablet at all........
[Sony Tablet S] techfellow:
After the ICS upgrade my tablet seems sluggish, screen flickers also, and my espn app opens upside down.
[Sony Tablet S] SWFlyerUK:
My tablet is a lot better now with ICS.

Only issue I have is the Youtube app flashs and a lack of 4.0.4, oh, and the WIFI often drops and has issue connecting again.

Best android tablet on the Market and I've tested a fair few.
[Sony Tablet S] CoolApps:
Some apps that requires 3D H/W crashes without a force close, Play Store Force Closed once, Screen flickers even on keyboard, Sometimes youtube just goes black instead of the video displaying and a little lag but got much less lag by using an app in the Play Store BUT I think I fixed and boosted the wifi without root by using Wifi fixer, Advanced wifi locker and Network signal booster :rolleyes:
[Sony Tablet S] CoolApps:
Same but I'm not sure if the wifi fix apps I installed will help (I hope so) :)
[Sony Tablet S] CoolApps:
Some apps that requires 3D H/W crashes without a force close, Play Store Force Closed once, Launcher lags on portrat mode, Screen flickers even on keyboard, Sometimes youtube just goes black instead of the video displaying and a little lag but got much less lag by using an app in the Play Store BUT I think I fixed and boosted the wifi without root by using Wifi fixer, Advanced wifi locker and Network signal booster :rolleyes:

EDIT: XDA App is playing up o3e
[Sony Tablet S] CoolApps:
It seems the wifi fix apps that I used toke effect \:D/

EDIT: It seems that it disconnects a little bit but better then constant and it seems that Wifi fixer was resetting the network too much even if it was ok and it started to Force Close after killing the process and changing network even entering the app will Force Close :eek:
[Sony Tablet S] marsupiale:
I have this issue:

when i wake up the tablet from the sleep mode, sometimes it seems touched random, it starts application itself, and after some second / minute return to work perfectly until i suspend. Next restart only sometimes have this problem.

Please help me, Sony support suggest me a factory reset with no result.
[Sony Tablet S] biablo:
seems to be soft problem. Also test your touchscreen , clean it :P have you got screen protector on tab ? Try to remove sdcard or turn off screen rotation . Any differences? In my case I had to format sdcard with data on it .This fix bugs after wake tablet from sleep mode . If this wont help try to give us more details. What apps? What tab behaves in this situation? Remove all apps from home screen and put them again maybe it helps
[Sony Tablet S] marsupiale:
I have screen protector, i did a factory reset , and now i remove the sd card and screen rotation.

But i did not remove the screen protector, firtst i will do the other things.

Stay wired !!
[Sony Tablet S] masterchif92:
Battery life

same for me but this tablet has a terrible battery life or its only me? i only get 1 day with wifi always on and 5 hr max of screen on !!! galaxy note 10.1 has 2 days and 8hrs of screen on!! anyone can help me? i am on 4.0.3
[Sony Tablet S] jumper62:
My ICS actually has no issues as far as I can tell
[Sony Tablet S] crimilde:
Hi guys,

I was really pissed off at the fact that even if I selected in the Settings for WiFi to be always on, it wasn't working.

For those of you having rooted tablets, you can edit your build.prop and change:

ro.sony.wifisleep=0 to ro.sony.wifisleep=1 then restart.

Sorry if this has been posted before, I for one couldn't find the info around here.
[Sony Tablet S] marktaiwan:
My tablet s has a serious problem. When i use VPN (pptp) connecting from outside to my home VPN server, the connection speed will drop to a terribly low number, compared to my hTC desire mobile phone using exactly the same setting. My hTC has 3500kb/s download speed while Sony has only 100~200 kb/s, according to speedtest app.
[Sony Tablet S] Spoofy:
My screen flickers every now and the during use and every 10 -15 minutes when on dock.

Both stock browser and chrome, frequently close without a crash message or option to report! I know when its about to crash because its stops showing the page content (gives a blank page) and I flick through the tabs to make it crash.
[Sony Tablet S] dohanotoha:
I lose WiFi signal after using it for s while. I can't get it back unless I restart the tablet. Has anyone faced the same problem?
[Sony Tablet S] JaredP:
I haven't had any of these problems. I have had problems downloading and installing apps from the Market though. I have to back out and try a second time. Can't find the pattern. It is intermittent.
[Sony Tablet S] soultics:
This happened on my Galaxy 10.1 and my dad's Galaxy 10.1 too. (as well as my Sony)
[Sony Tablet S] vdposv:
Open the window of Wifi setings. There is a point where you can check the disconecting of Wifi