[A7 Android Development] ironhead65:
Wifi issues

Has anyone experienced wifi issues?

Let me explain:

I started out "like" everyone else. Stock.

I tried the various flavors of Dexter's mods (awesome!) (1.1,1.2,1.3,1.40).

Then I tried the HoneyComb OS. Kind of neat...but was not what I was looking for. At this point, 1.42 was out. So, I flashed to 1.41 (since 1.42 added Ad-Hoc...which I do not use).

At this point, I now have issues getting the wifi to turn on. They did not start until after I installed HoneyComb, and am curious if I need to re-install HonyComb, set something, then go back?

Typically, when you enable Wifi (either by widget or setting, wifi, enable), you will see the "radio" icone appear in the upper right hand side.

When my system is "broke" (which is more often than not at this point), the wifi tries to turn on, but the icon never appears.

At this point, I tried to go back to stock, then back to 1.41, then back to 1.3, then to 1.41, then 1.41a (looks like it is now called 1.42?). I might have even tried to go to HoneyComb again at some point...but ended up with 1.41a.

At that point, everything seemed to correct itself. It worked great for maybe 2 months-ish? Then, one week, I left the tablet "suspended" and forgot to plug it in. 7-8 days later, the battery had drained and I plugged it in. This time, when it turned back on, the wifi would not work again (same issue as above).

At this point, the device is pretty customized (added some games, added LaunchPad, etc), so I do not want to flash it if I do not have to (I will though, since without wifi, it is pretty useless).

So, I started messing around with it. I find that if the battery is REALLY LOW...the device will connect to the wifi. That is, toggle the wifi widget, and it will turn yellow, the icon appears in the upper right hand corner, widget turns blue, then green and connect.

In a bad case, toggle the wifi widget, and it will turn yellow, blue, then red and "rinse - repeat".

If I connect, then the battery will give out. IF at this point, I plug in the tablet, eventually the wifi will drop out. Connecting to the network like this is rare and does not always work (1/10 tries). Even when I do, it generally lasts 60 seconds to 2 minutes. This happens 2/3 tries OF the 1/10 connects. So I would say, if the battery is LOW, 1/30 tries will connect to the wifi and stay connected.

I also noticed, if I go into settings, wifi, then the next wifi selection...then toggle the turn on checkbox...just as the "system" is trying to scan, I get a force close on (I think) settings.android.com, which if I wait, the wifi turns off. If I close, I get bumped back to the previous wifi settings page (settings->wifi).

Is there something that I missed? Or has been corrupted? Or something that I need to change/modify to make this work again? Should I try to put on the 1.42 patch (it looks a bit newer than anything I had played with in the pastalso seems to fix the SDcard insert / remove issue...which was tolerable).

Thank you for all of your help and support! I am sorry this was such a LONG writeup!

--Ironhead

Second Q:

Does the 1.42 patch fix the USB plugin/removal "allowed only once" issue as well as the SDcard?