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[TouchPad Development] BIGSimon:
My battery life has definitely improved, wifi signal is a lot stronger but still not quite as good as webos but that's to be expected
[TouchPad Development] KrzychuG:
As for me it solved the wifi sleep issues, that's for sure. Signal seems to be stronger as well, even tho it sometimes just stop loading pages. If it comes to battery life there are still some issues. I often leave my touchpad unused for long time. With build from 30 may and wifi driver around that date device dies after 48-50h when not being used. There's almost no activity on battery stat page so can't say what's using so much. On alpha 2.1/3 it used to survive 6 days when left unsed, so there's still a lot of work to do.
[TouchPad Development] nevertells2:
I have two 32gb TP's, one with the 0527 official nightly and the other has 0517. The 0527 nightly has one of the older wifi drivers that JC Sullins provided and I can set sleep policy to turn off wifi when the TP is put to sleep. I have been using Battery Monitor Widget to watch current usage and have noticed that I get reading similar to my other TP that has sleep policy set to never. I can definitely tell on the 0527 TP that current usage is much improved when asleep. The 0517 TP I turn off wifi from settings and use around 30mA, do not get alerts, email or anything that requires wifi. When I wake it up and turn on wifi, it takes around 25 seconds for wifi to reconnect to my AP. The 0527 TP uses around the same mA's as the other, but I get alerts, email and the like while it is asleep. I see occasional spikes in mA's used which I figure is when the wifi wakes up to receive email, then it goes back to around 30mA. Also when I wake the TP up, wifi is up and running after a couple of seconds.
[TouchPad Development] etibon:
\Does anybody else get problems with Youtube using the latest wifi drivers? At a certain point Youtube videos just stop buffering and I have to toggle the "HQ" setting for it to continue.

Actually the problem is not just with Youtube - its with any operation that needs to maintain a network connection for a certain length of time. I also get web pages that don't load all the pictures, Facebook app doesn't load all the pictures, dowloads stopping etc.

With the drivers prior to 0522 I never used to get these kinds of problems. :-(

BTW, my wifi router is set to channel one, 2.4Ghz etc. I have two wifi access points and I get the same symptoms with both. I also get the same thing when I connect to my phone using wifi tethering.
[TouchPad Development] RavenSEAL:
My Touchpad just continues to refuse to connect to any of the Wi-Fi networks at my university when using an Android ROM :(

Works fine at home though...

Oh well, looks like I'll have to stick to using WebOS when I'm at school.
[TouchPad Development] nevertells2:
You say the latest wifi drivers. What version of the drivers are you using? It most likely depends on the date of the nightly you are using.

---------- Post added at 05:56 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:53 PM ----------

You need to explain more. What Android rom? Are you using CM7, CM9, ClassicNerd, AOKP, etc. If you are using CM9, what is the date of the nightly you are using?
[TouchPad Development] RavenSEAL:
Sorry about that.

Tried AOKP TL4 and the latest CM9 Nightly + CN

Anytime I tap on the wireless networks at my university, the connection configuration window does not appear after the first time. IP won't configure. Restart doesn't change any factors.

At home, it works normally like it would on any other android device.
[TouchPad Development] sdc177:
Thought I read a few months back that HP would be releasing something that would fix wifi for good in July. Am I wrong or will that happen? When should I set my calendar to come back and check?
[TouchPad Development] hollywood084:
I have never had a wifi issue that I know of. I used to run scott's MIUI, then I switched to CM 9 alpha 2 when it was released. Is there anything I can do to contribute?
[TouchPad Development] nevertells2:
If you install the July 7th nightly, you will have the latest wifi drivers and they work quite well.
[TouchPad Development] sdc177:
does it have to be the 7/7 or will any of them after 7/6 do the same?
[TouchPad Development] BIGSimon:
Any nightly after 2012/07/07 will have the new wifi drivers so you may as well flash the latest one
[TouchPad Development] zeeshanzc:
HP has already released the WiFi driver ... you can see it over here... http://rootzwiki.com/topic/25067-wifi-driver-from-android-dump/page__st__10 ...for a guy like me who had no luck getting WiFi to work since day one.. I flashed this and for the first time I was able to get WiFi to work with the latest cm9 nighty ...
[TouchPad Development] nitrobg:
You should stick with the latest ath6kl:

http://www.mediafire.com/?ffvfuu4s3etq1zc

There are no issues since it has been merged into the nightlies almost 2 months ago.
[TouchPad Development] N00Bextrordinaire:
Is this compatible with the Classic Nerd Rom as well? I apologize if this question has already been answered, I did not notice it in the reading.
[TouchPad Development] nitrobg:
It is not as it uses different kernel or something and is barely developed. Use CM9 instead, it's stable and completely suitable for daily use.
[TouchPad Development] vis0nz:
Worked for me, thank you sir,
[TouchPad Development] drdoombot:
I recently installed CM9 for the first time (upgrading from AOKP r37) and found that wifi didn't work, despite NEVER having a problem with it before.

After much digging, I found that flashing the following drivers in CWM fixed wifi for me:

http://www.mediafire.com/?2a69j2dh53a2sts

(It's a slightly newer version of the drivers in the post above this one)

Hope this helps someone else out there.
[TouchPad Development] savage24x:
I don't understand why some people have problems and some don't. I've never had a problem...
[TouchPad Development] tidoubleger:
Is there any other way to get wifi fixed? I flashed the 5/20 drivers posted a few posts above this to no avail as I can't seem to get it connected to my phone's wifi hotspot. Coming from a fresh install of 8/15 CM9 nightly with no additional things flashed.
[TouchPad Development] VerminX:
Is your phone running jelly bean by any chance? I couldn't tether to an original jb vanilla ROM. Congrats to Google managing to **** it up coming from working tether in ICS
[TouchPad Development] tidoubleger:
My ROM has bits and pieces from jb. It connects just fine on my home wifi, so I suppose that's the cause
[TouchPad Development] zim2dive:
I had trouble today for the 1st time... with AOKP M6.. tried the Wifi fix as well.. no dice...

CM7, CM9, and Oats, all had no issues.

Not looking for a fix... just posting in case anyone else lands in the same boat.
[TouchPad Development] samdroid959:
I have the same issue. Coming from a fresh install from the latest cm9. My home network is fine but if I use my Clear hot spot or the my phones WiFi hotspot it either hangs or doesn't connect. The same when I boot into webOS. Its crazy cause this just started happening like 4 builds ago. And went back to an old nandroid and no dice. Tried all the WiFi drivers no dice. Thinking bout reflashing with ACME2 Installer to the alpha builds to see if it changes

Edit: So I decided to try the FXR wifi fix app again from the playstore and my wifi issue seems to be solved on nightly 20120903. Kinda weird that I had tried this with nightlies before to no avail. Anyways gonna run with this for a few days with a nandroid and flash the latest nightly. If I don't report back then it's all good!! Hope this helps. #CHEERS :D
[TouchPad Development] cdzo72:
That would be going backwards... Most stable wifi drivers are integrated into last builds so maybe use acme to flash clean last 0903 nightly and start over
[TouchPad Development] Joltrast:
ath6kl driver crashes on boot

I've carefully read all 27 pages of this thread and apart from seliger I haven't come across anyone who has a problem similar to mine.

The TP used to work fine. I switched to airplane mode several months back and that's when the problems started. I now have a Touchpad that will not connect. The driver actually crashes during bootup and the wifi button is greyed out (you can slide the button to "on" but then it flicks back to "off" after a couple of minutes.)

I've tried:

Deleting the wifi profile

Browsing in WebOS and then switching back to cyanogenmod

Changing my router channel

Recycling the router

Deleting the android partition and starting again from scratch

Updated the ath6kl driver with the one jsullins uploaded in July

Backups that I have on the sd partition that used to work, now don't.

I've tried lots of cyanogenmod roms, CM7, CM9, CM10, alphas and nightlies (ones that I know used to work).

dmsg:

ath6kl: temporary war to avoid sdio crc error

ath6kl: firmware crashed

ath6kl: crash dump:

logcat:

E/WifiHW (239): Supplicant not running, cannot connect

E/WifiStateMachine(239): Failed to setup control channel, restart supplicant

E/WifiStateMachine(239): Failed to reload STA firmware java.lang.IllegalStateException: Error communicating to native daemon

W/CommandListener(155): Failed to retrieve HW addr for wlan0 (No such device)

D/CommandListener(155): Setting iface cfg

D/NetworkManagementService(239): rsp <213 00:00:00:00:00:00 0.0.0.0 0 [down]>

D/NetworkManagementService(239): flags <[down]>

E/WifiStateMachine(239): Unable to change interface settings: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unable to communicate with native daemon to interface setcfg - com.android.server.NativeDaemonConnectorException: Cmd {interface setcfg wlan0 0.0.0.0 0 [down]} failed with code 400 : {Failed to set address (No such device)}

I/wpa_supplicant(2313): rfkill: Cannot open RFKILL control device

E/wpa_supplicant(2313): Could not read interface wlan0 flags: No such device

E/wpa_supplicant(2313): nl80211: Could not set interface 'wlan0' UP

E/wpa_supplicant(2313): wlan0: Failed to initialize driver interface

dmsg and logcat detailed in the posts below

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2458470

https://code.google.com/p/cmtouchpad/issues/detail?id=695&sort=-id%20type

Wifi still works fine in WebOS (never had a problem).
[TouchPad Development] daedric:
Does Wifi work on WebOS?
[TouchPad Development] Joltrast:
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[TouchPad Development] daedric:
How about starting over? ACMEunistall, and ACMEinstall4 or 5 ?
[TouchPad Development] Joltrast:
As stated, I've already deleted the partition and started again from scratch.
[TouchPad Development] masterosok:
My wifi turns itself off during sleep and even though it says its connect I am able to access the web or connect to the play store. I have made sure that the option to stay connect while sleeping is on. I just did a completed wipe and loaded Invisiblek's 11/21/2013 nightly 10.2 build. It works find in WebOS and has worked find under other ROMs. Just curious if anyone has a workaround/fix for this issue. From what I have read wifi should be working fine with this ROM.

EDIT: I loaded the Evervolv AOSP 4.3.1 ROM and experience the same issues.
[TouchPad Development] Ryanmt:
I have the exact same issue, wifi still works fine in webos but the drivers acting up on any android build.

In the debug log connected to the PC i get-

12-08 10:48:09.719 400-1530/system_process E/WifiStateMachine﹕ Failed to load driver!

12-08 10:48:09.769 400-455/system_process E/WifiStateMachine﹕ DriverFailedState
[TouchPad Development] theVenerable:
I have the final CWM in my hp touchpad

My wifi is terrible.

it works about 10% of the time.

any drivers or something i can do to improve?

thanks
[TouchPad Development] deafasheck:
Hi I'm not sure how do the ACME unistall and reinstall.. Can you walk me through it.?
[TouchPad Development] adriankeith:
I just recently started having a problem on CM9 (don't have any other information anymore as I tried updating with jc's latest CM11) and thought updating to CM11 would fix things. Well, same problem, unfortunately. Any fixes on this? Any time I try to connect to a wireless network it looks as though it might and ends up saying "disabled" under the network name.
[TouchPad Development] blanghorst:
So, it has been awhile since I've been to this site and I thought I'd check in to see if there was progress on a Nougat install and, more importantly, a solution to the Wi-Fi card being disabled that many of us are seeing. To give a bit of history, I have a 32 GB Touchpad that I bought on firesale in 2011. The Wi-Fi card works great in webOS, but obviously with no future for webOS, I decided to load Android on my Touchpad in a dual load with webOS. Originally, I loaded one of the CM loads of Android 4. Wi-Fi initially worked great. One day, out of the blue, it just stopped working. I thought maybe the card had died, so I booted into webOS and sure enough, Wi-Fi had no issues. I've been searching for a solution to this issue for years - I've tried loading 4.3, 4.4, 5.x, and I believe even 6.x and nothing has ever solved the problem. I've since blown webOS away but I'm confident that if I reload it, Wi-Fi would work great.

My symptoms are the same as yours - if I go into settings and enable Wi-Fi, it spins for awhile and then disables it. I really have no idea what's going on. It isn't like I want to use this tablet as a daily driver or anything, but I'd like to use it as a home automation controller/dashboard mounted on a wall and for that to happen, I need Wi-Fi to work in Android. It doesn't appear that the issue has ever really been resolved. At this stage, I'm even willing to send my Touchpad into a developer for testing/troubleshooting so the problem would hopefully be resolved once and for all. I suspect that some of us have a slightly different revision of the Wi-Fi card in our Touchpads, but I can't be sure and who knows - maybe a developer already knows that exact issue but can't fix it.
[TouchPad Development] duyhung0185:
Hi, I'm in the same boat. My symptom is when i install CM12, at first wifi connects great, in seconds. But after install apps, and updates, i need to reboot the tablet. but after reboot wifi will not connect to any network, showing full wifi strength at scanning, but drops to half bar when "connecting ..." and stays at connecting ... I can also replicate this by trying to change wifi network at initial setup, wifi card reset, and stop connecting.

Android 6x legacy DHCP client does not help, 7 does not have this function. And if i remember correctly, Android 6 and 7 does not connect to wifi at all (using Evervol ROM).

Any help anyone ? :(
[TouchPad Development] Moody66:
There is a Troubleshooting section. That's what this is. You aren't developing something. Make sense now?
[TouchPad Development] raz123:
Sounds like a driver issue. I have zero Android knowledge. Nevertheless, have you tried:

1. Watching logcat for entries when the issue occurs?

2. Restarting the network interface from the CLI?
[TouchPad Development] duyhung0185:
it certainly seems like its driver error. I looked into logcat and it has something like wifiscanner listener cannot be found ; wpa_supplicant wlan0 ctrl-event-driver-state disable ...
[TouchPad Development] Rackson:
Clearing

Clearing the folder as in deleting everything in it? How should I go about clearing data/misc/wifi? I already have Root Access Mode enabled.
[TouchPad Development] bobtidey:
Which ROMs have you been using?

Several with wifi issues get some relief in one of two ways.

If you have control over router settings, say in a home environment, then it seems to perform better if you can change router channel to a low number (e.g. 1), avoid dual band operation, and use wpa rather than wpa2.

In addition, and if you can't change router settings because the AP is not under your control, then the Cherry Kang CM9 build 0.4.8a incorporates an intermediate wifi fix which seems to perform much better than the standard.

There does also seem to be a better fix in the works but it hasn't been released yet, so I wouldn't give up hope of getting stable wifi on the TP.
[TouchPad Development] bobtidey:
I thought I'd try out CM9 Alpha 1 with the HD video acceleration but not really anticipating any change for wifi as I didn't see any mention of that.

So far it is giving me good wifi connectivity on my problematic work network, at least as good as the wifi fix that was in Cherry and maybe better. I don't know whether it incorporates just the new wifi board driver or whether anything else has changed in that area.
[TouchPad Development] tekrhino:
Is it Youtube? My Access point? or could it be I'm being throttled by my ISP?

I'm using Alpha 2 ICS as of this morning.

I have Wireless N w/WPA2 set on my router.

My problem with Wifi has been the same with every flash since Alpha 1

I can connect easily regardless of the access point and it won't drop at all.

The issue for me is my main access point in my home and particularly while being on said access point and trying to stream a video on youtube. It takes a very long time for the video to buffer.. and even when it does buffer a few seconds of content it takes a long time for rest of the stream to follow.

Now if I were to connect my Touchpad to either my Google Nexus One or my TMO LG G2x via Tether (Using 4G Data from my Carrier) .. The video stream from Youtube is nearly unterupted.. (which is good right?)

So I'm guessing the problem is not ROM or the Device but maybe its my main access point..

I read somewhere on these threads (Or on RW, TR, CM.. Can't remember exactly where) that I should have the Radio Band set to Standard 20Mhz Channel and the Standard Channel set to Channel 1 @ 2.412GHZ which is what it is currently set to.

Every other connection (Browser, Google Music, Etc Etc..) seems to flow nicely with the exception of Youtube.

So am I going nuts here or am I right to think that maybe my ISP is throttling me?

I'm suggesting the Throttle because this month I streamed pretty much the entire 2 seasons of Battlestar Galactica via Netflix in one weekend.. (Nerdy.. I know.. :D )

EDIT: First I want to apologize, I'm fighting off the flu bug and my brain isn't firing on all 8's currently.

I realized that I should try to stream Youtube Video on my other devices using my Wi-fi access point.

And they are streaming good, so perhaps my problem isn't anything I mentioned above but it's actually the Youtube app on my TP combined with my access point at home because every other device does stream normally.

Sorry.. :o
[TouchPad Development] Cubicsilver:
Maybe the streaming performance can be improved by tweaking some of the buffer size settings.

Try adding this to the build.prop

net.tcp.buffersize.wifi=4096,87380,256960,4096,16384,256960
[TouchPad Development] mrcpu:
I know Ii posted about my wi-fi issue before, but it has gotten totally out of control.

The worst part is that I can't come up with a reasonable explanation...

Using xron, it was solid for weeks. Then a week. then a couple days, then a day. Last night, I could only watch about 10 minutes of netflix, then it would drop. turn wifi off/on, it would get an address, work for about another 10 minutes.

Meanwhile, every other wifi device in the house is working just fine.

I could understand it if it was consistent, but this "degradation", w/o changing wls settings, or updating software is the part that puzzles me.

Anyway, nothing useful to contribute, just waiting patiently.

As soon as netflix works on ICS, I'm there.
[TouchPad Development] bstevens23:
I had this problem last night. HD worked fine, once it buffered. I went into the YouTube app and cleared cache and data, closed any browser applications I wasn't using and restarted YouTube. It seemed to work better and after a few videos the buffering was back up to speed.
[TouchPad Development] Cubicsilver:
Have you tried setting a static ip address?

I was suffering from a similar problem, my wifi wouldn't stay connected -- or it would show as connected and simply lose throughput.

I messed with all sorts of settings, and it never occurred to me to try a static ip.

So I let my touchpad connect to the wifi at my work, went into wifi settings, held my finger down on the work access point, selected modify, then chose static ip. I left the settings that dhcp assigned and just hit ok. I have had a solid connection for about 5 hours now.

I would imagine that if you were doing this on your home router you would want to assign an ip address outside your networks range or towards the end of it to avoid ip address conflicts. e.g. if your router's dhcp range is 192.168.1.100 - 192.168.1.150, pick a static ip 192.168.1.50 or closer to 150 depending on how many devices connect to your network.
[TouchPad Development] tekrhino:
is there a particular line on the Build.prop file where this new line would be inserted?

I'm asking because there is no such line on my build.prop

I'm running alpha 2

:cool:
[TouchPad Development] Cubicsilver:
It doesn't matter where you put it really. I have been using the build.prop editor app, and it seems to drop it at the bottom.
[TouchPad Development] Neejay:
Yep, I'm about ready to just sale mine...especially since this appears to be hit or miss between TP owners (not ROM specific, per my experiences).

Has this been working better for you?
[TouchPad Development] tekrhino:
Well, it didn't work for me. I added the line at the bottom of the build prop file, rebooted. The device showed as connected to the web but nothing would load. So I reverted.

Thanks anyway.

It's strange though, when I tether the Touchpad to either of my phones data connection the stream on youtube is near prefect.
[TouchPad Development] dahauss:
We really need a stable wifi driver. I really don't use my tp to much because 99% of the time wifi isn't working.
[TouchPad Development] chinkster:
Is there still wifi issues with cm9 alpha2?
[TouchPad Development] Neejay:
For some, yes, for some, no.

I've always had wifi problems with Android. Apparently wifi issues are hit or miss, per TouchPad owner.
[TouchPad Development] bobtidey:
If you have control over your main wifi access point then you can probably get reasonable results by selecting channel 1, WPA, and single band operation.

Where you can't do better then the Cherry Kang ROM had an intermediate fix in which improved wifi performance significantly for quite a few people including me.

I am also getting similar performance to the Cherry Kang ROM with CM9 Alpha 2 so I suspect it may also have this improvement in but can't be sure.

There are some other drivers kicking around which look as if they will be a better match to the Touchpad but I don't believe the work has not been finished to integrate those.

If you say what ROM you are using, what your wifi symptoms are and what Access point you are connecting to then we can try to offer some more specific advice.
[TouchPad Development] biggggant:
I found a solution that works for me. My router has a guest network feature that I use with wep that I keep running just case I have a device in the house that doesn't like wpa2. Using wep also forces a g network instead of an n network and my touch pad has been rock solid on my guest network. So hopefully that info helps others out there.
[TouchPad Development] hiverli:
thanks i chose channel 1 and it is working now...
[TouchPad Development] katiepea:
I have this issue also, didn't exist on alpha0 for me, has happened ever since, it is solved easily for me by opening settings and turning wifi off, waiting 10 seconds and back on. It doesn't work for me doing it from the status bar, I have to open the wifi tab in settings directly, so strange i wish channel 1 was a reasonable solution for me, i live in an apartment, channel 1 gives me the worst results in testing, mostly because of the limited spectrum it offers, and i'm guessing other people are on 1 2 or 3, so i keep mine around 8 or 9. this issue is annoying, and i don't get why it exists, if it's solvable by turning wifi off/on it should really fix itself, it's strange because it'll boot up, wifi on, and see the network, just not connect, what i don't get is why it appeared later and not at first. anyway, i'm willing to bet it will be fixed.
[TouchPad Development] dahauss:
It better be as my tp isn't useable with out a fix. Every tp Android ROM I tried has this issue.