[Motorola Droid Bionic] Sudosftw:
Erratic WiFi issues...

Sort of a follow-up. with the June 10th build I notice that if the phone is on for more than a few days at a time, the WiFi radio becomes erratic. shutting it off for a bit and turning it back on fixes this, but it also continues, as has happened in previous 14.1 builds, to start behaving erratically at random when the phone is disconnected from the previously-connected AP from range loss and then travels with me. it can be as far as just across town, or further, or a shorter distance, depending on where I'm going. the distance matters not, and result is the same: loss of connectivity and in no way can I get it back unless I perform a hard-reboot of the phone.

It can get very annoying very quickly depending on where I am and how badly I need a WiFi connection. I'm wondering if this a WLAN driver issue of some kind or if this is just an erratic bug that manifests itself over time-- the network selection screen also becomes erratic like the selected network is having a seizure. this seems to happen the most on xfinitywifi hotspots more than others, but that's just the norm of what I'm connecting to most of the time. it does it more when it's in a lower range, but it also does it if I'm right on top of the hotspot sometimes, as well.

If anyone else is noticing this sort of erratic behavior, I'd love to hear about it and if anyone's figured out any sort of solid solution aside from just rebooting the phone. There's a good chance that within the coming month I might finally be able to do a clean switch from my current ancient Palm Centro and up to this glorious piece of work, and all the trials and tribulations that come with it.

I'm also curious to know if this bug exists on the official 14.1 builds from 2017-06-16 and 2017-06-23 respectively, and with the 13.0 builds... Depending on how things work out, one of these ROM builds is going to have to be stable enough to keep the WiFi from going nuts on me, and I'm going to have to use it, depending on where I am phone-wise within the next month.

Edit: the WiFi issues have been fixed in the official builds. there is now a thread for the official LineageOS ROM over here on the Android Development subforum.

(Edit 2: Phone was my daily from June 27 until August 19th. I've since retired it for a Droid Razr, same family spec but faster CPU (1.2GHz over 1GHz). over the course of the time I was using it the Lineage builds only made things better. recently the ART cache was increased to 192MB for 1GB RAM devices (AKA this, the Razr, Droid 4, etc. of the same family spec) and I'm not sure if it was that or some other change but battery life on the Razr certainly went up (2d ~ish per charge), I'd have to expect this would be the same deal with the Bionic but your mileage may vary depending on battery age and usage scenario.

the Bionic doesn't have nearly as many users stats-wise on Lineage over the Razr/Droid 4/etc. and I think that's why it seems to be a bit low key for support, but there's enough of the other phones and a lot of the hardware is the same to keep everything running. my only hope is that support for this device continues as long as the others are and isn't dropped for reasons of low interest in the port. it's a great phone-- and as the first 4G LTE dual-core device for Verizon in the US, it's still holding strong against all that came after it. )