HTC Droid Incredible keeps disconnecting from Wifi
Recently I noticed that my HTC Droid Incredible was constantly disconnecting from my wireless router at home. It would connect if I went into the wireless settings page, and then drop off within a minute or two. Using a widget, I could see it was constantly stuck at "establishing a WiFi connection...". Naturally I searched all the Android forums and Google for a solution.
I had just recently replaced my home router with a Netgear WNDR3400, however it has been working seamlessly for several weeks, so I assumed it was something messed up with Android. After having no luck finding a solution in any of the forums, I simply set the b/g channel setting to 6 (the least congested in my area) from "auto", and I haven't had a dropped connection since.
While I'm still not sure if this is a phone or router issue, all seems to be well again in Android land, so I'm happy. Hope this helps someone else having a similar issue.
Comments
RSS Comments Feed
toolman
sam
Matt
I haven't had problems with my phone on other WiFi routers.
David
I've had similar problems. Like toolman said before me, when I've changed router channel only for 3. I didn't get any problems with the wifi anymore.
But I think that this is the phone OS (android) problem. I dunno how its now with the newest releases. When I had those problem I had installed android 1.6. Now you have i think 4.0 version of Android OS.
Maybe the problem is now resolved.
Cheers,
Dai
Matt
Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's the phone/Android. I have a Honeycomb powered tablet & don't have any of the problems that I do with WiFi on my phone.
My phone randomly disconnects from my WiFi at work too. I'm running Gingerbread (2.3), haven't really bothered looking into Ice Cream Sandwich yet.
stryker520
Matt
Mine had no problems with the last hotel (a Hitlon) I was in, maybe it's just finicky with some routers?
Pingbacks