[bug] Wifi signal strenght not shown in status bar

Lox_Dev · Aug 16, 2009

Hello,

The wifi status icon doesn't show the signal strength. Is that your case?

Regards

Edit1: Seems it concerns WPA-Personal wifi networks if anyone sees that bug with a different encryption please post

nicelad_uk · Aug 16, 2009

gecka said:
Hello,

The wifi status icon doesn't show the signal strength. Is that your case?

Regards

Mines shows as 1 white bar and the rest grey regardless where I am with the phone. I could be next to the router.

cdyat · Aug 16, 2009

nicelad_uk said:
Mines shows as 1 white bar and the rest grey regardless where I am with the phone. I could be next to the router.

Mine changes with strength as I move around. Sometimes full, sometimes just the circle and and in between too.

David Horn · Aug 16, 2009

Mine changes - sometimes one bar, or two, most of the time none. Interestingly, it shows low signal strength even if next to the router, but the WiFi page shows strength as excellent.

tatwamasi · Aug 16, 2009

Mine updates based on position.

pjmurphy77 · Aug 16, 2009

Same here.. mine simply show the white dot at the bottom of the WIFI indicator but none of the lines have ever shown up...

franklinvv · Aug 16, 2009

pjmurphy77 said:
Same here.. mine simply show the white dot at the bottom of the WIFI indicator but none of the lines have ever shown up...

I am having the same problem. I can only see the white dot, with dark grey arcs above. Every time I turn on WiFi, I have the idea that my WiFi reception is bad so I feel compelled to turn WiFi off again. I hope someone can find a way to fix this without doing a hard reset.

Switchbitch · Aug 16, 2009

Odd, mines has always just been the white circle and grey arcs. I didn't even think that the arcs should go white relative to signal strength....

Now I want them to!

elcom · Aug 16, 2009

same problem. I found that on some wireless networks (my home) I see only the white circle with grey bars, and on other wireless networks (coffee shops etc.) I get the signal strength on the status bar icon.
Kind of weird. When i'm at home I'm always compelled to go into wireless settings and check the signal strength and it's always excellent even though the status bar icon shows that the signal strength is poor.

Switchbitch · Aug 16, 2009

I wonder if it's anything to do with the security settings? At home mine is WPA2. Coffee shops will usually be open networks.

Just a thought....

elcom · Aug 16, 2009

Switchbitch said:
I wonder if it's anything to do with the security settings? At home mine is WPA2. Coffee shops will usually be open networks.

Just a thought....

Actually that's an interesting thought. I use WEP (yeah I know it sucks) security on my network.
Now that you mention it, I'm almost sure that I see the signal strength on open networks.
This could be the problem. I don't really see any logic behind this, most likely a bug.

I'll check the next time I go out to a coffee shop.

Tone-Fu · Aug 16, 2009

Mines shows as 1 white bar and the rest grey regardless where I am with the phone. I could be next to the router.

That's ditto for me. It doesn't matter where I am, I get one bar and the rest greyed out.

kiz · Aug 16, 2009

Switchbitch said:
I wonder if it's anything to do with the security settings? At home mine is WPA2. Coffee shops will usually be open networks.

Just a thought....

On WPA2 w/ AES here and the signal strength is showing OK for me, so I'm not sure about that.

Switchbitch · Aug 16, 2009

Yeh I disabled security on mine, still only the white dot in the centre. Weird.

Can those of you who have the signal strength showing post details of your software version and build number? Have you installed other WiFi apps like Gmon or WiFi analyser?

kiz · Aug 16, 2009

Lets see:

Firmware version: 1.5

Baseband Version: 63.18.55.06U_6.35.04.25

Kernel version: 2.6.27-a5504199 htc-kernel@and18-2 #521

Build number: 1.76.405.6 146733 CL#47214 release-keys

Software version: 1.0.0.A6288

As for apps, I have WifiScanner installed. But I think signal strength was working fine before I installed that.

Switchbitch · Aug 16, 2009

kiz said:
Lets see:

Firmware version: 1.5

Baseband Version: 63.18.55.06U_6.35.04.25

Kernel version: 2.6.27-a5504199 htc-kernel@and18-2 #521

Build number: 1.76.405.6 146733 CL#47214 release-keys

Software version: 1.0.0.A6288

As for apps, I have WifiScanner installed. But I think signal strength was working fine before I installed that.

Same here. Why the hell would the icon behaviour be different?? I think I may now become obsessed with figuring this out

franklinvv · Aug 16, 2009

My home network uses WPA-Personal security, so I don't have the idea that it's related to that. Tomorrow, I have the opportunity to test WPA2-Enterprise at my university so I will report my results afterwards.

Tone-Fu · Aug 16, 2009

My home network is WPA-2 and I don't get the display, as I said. This is mighty odd.

Lox_Dev · Aug 16, 2009

WPA-Personal > only the first dot is white. Even if signal is excellent.

metalmilitia · Aug 17, 2009

kiz said:
Lets see:

Firmware version: 1.5

Baseband Version: 63.18.55.06U_6.35.04.25

Kernel version: 2.6.27-a5504199 htc-kernel@and18-2 #521

Build number: 1.76.405.6 146733 CL#47214 release-keys

Software version: 1.0.0.A6288

same here. No problem with signal strength display, I am using WPA2 encryption with no wifi apps installed.

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