Android :: Stock IM App Frequenty Disconnects - Buggy
Nov 23, 2008
I find that the stock Android IM app struggles to maintain a connection for all of my IM accounts. This is especially true when I'm at home and on a combination of Wi-Fi and 3G. The odd thing is that it won't directly say that I'm offline, but rather show that all of my contacts are offline. This happens with all of the accounts I use (AIM, Google Talk, MSN). Sometimes I can even chat to the people that appear offline! Signing in and signing out does not always work, nor does turning off Wi-Fi. Sometimes I even have to resort to restarting the phone.
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Jun 14, 2010
Can anyone recommend an alternative to the stock dialer that isn't so leggy/buggy?
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Jun 1, 2010
The Emulator's camera worked fine for taking pictures in 2.1 Eclair. What did not work was recording videos, obviously.
Now running an app which worked merely flawless on 2.1 Emulator causes the camera app to crash. I fire up an intent to launch it:
CODE:...................
This starts the camera app but after a few seconds it crashes.
The output is:
CODE:.................
Actually I just wanted to see if the bug which made you receive a small image from the camera even though EXTRA_OUTPUT was specified has been fixed in FroYo. Unfortunately, I don't even get to test it.
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Jun 6, 2010
It seems that Android is very buggy compared not only to the iPhone, but to pretty much any other software. It's not just minor bugs either - pretty much every developer will come across many serious bugs. Some examples:
- When you run the "sdk setup.exe", the very first thing that happens is that it informs you that it can't connect using https, so you have to change the options to use 'http' instead. This appears to be a bug in the .exe rather than any kind of user issue because the https url works fine in the browser and this error seems to affect everyone. Sure, it's trivial to work around (just do a google search and you figure it out in 5 seconds), but the user shouldn't have to do that. It makes it look unprofessional.
- When you view a TabWidget in the layout editor it crashes.
- Every time you run an app in the emulator, it starts off with the screen locked so you need to press the Menu key.
- Various socket bugs (or perhaps all the same bug) related to IOException not happening. Even something as simple as just trying to connect to a remote host that is not listening will cause it to hang instead of immediately returning an error.
All of these bugs have been logged for months (some by me, some by other people) with no indication of any fix.
At the moment I'm just using the emulator, but I'm wondering if the phones themselves are this buggy or if all the bugs are just in the development environment and emulator.
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Aug 9, 2010
I have suffered the shutdown while charging and have traced it to a battery charge indicator app. I would charge the battery at night and the next morning it wouldn't restart without pulling the battery. This occurred concurrently with installing a battery charge indicator app. I uninstalled the app and now the problem has disappeared. My unabated installation of apps has now stopped. I am now convinced that the app world is full of bugs and crap. I bet half the problems that folks have are due to unvetted apps being used. I am now trying to figure out how to properly screen them before I install them and inherit a fatal bug in the process.
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Sep 4, 2010
Has anyone else noticed that after updating to Froyo, that text wrapping/redrawing is not working properly while web-browsing?For example, if you go to a text heavy website, like Reddit, and I zoom in (either by double-tap or pinch), the text will redraw, but it will be slightly larger than the screen's width. To read the text, I am required to scroll a bit to the right, then back to the left, and so on.I never had this problem prior to the Froyo update. Can anyone else confirm that they are having this problem? before I get bombed on, I should say that I am very happy with Froyo in other regards. I have not had any battery drain issues or any lag anywhere. I did not do a factory reset.
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Sep 3, 2010
I've had my phone unplugged since 11AM this morning. It's now 8PM. My battery meter shows 1h 30m since unplugged (I think this is the built-in status from the OS). Additionally my battery widget shows 26% but the blue batter in the top corner shows 1/2 full. Are there any good battery meters out there that I can trust? Is anyone else noticing wild inconsistencies in time's and battery meters?
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Oct 16, 2010
I've been viewing this forum for months and I'm surprised that I haven't joined until now lol... I'm currently a tmobile customer and will be getting the X in November. I've read in a few places and from a few people in person that the 2.2 froyo update was a tad buggy in small ways after the update. My question here is... Are any of you who recently bought a droid x PRELOADED with 2.2 have any problems too? Are is it primarily those who came from 2.1? I am honestly hoping to find a droid x with 2.1 so I can hold out on the update until the kinks are fixed but I was just curious if there was a difference for those who updated and those who got there's preloaded.
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Sep 22, 2010
My Eris has been acting very buggy. I am running the OTA OS 2.1. (I have not rooted my phone.) Please excuse me if I sound fairly ignorant about my phone in this post. I'm not very technical.
My phone has very little internal memory left. I read that I needed to delete all apps I wasn't using, clear cache, export contacts to sd card, import contacts from phone back on and then delete any unused contacts. I've done all of that and my avail internal memory is still only 50 MB.
My screen freezes on occassion when making or receiving calls. I seem to miss occassional calls. And there is considerable lag.
These probably all sound like silly problems but like I said, I'm not very technical. I've read others have some of the same issues.. And like I said, I tried some of the solutions mentioned.
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Jul 9, 2010
I have a weird one. If I send a text on my Motorola Cliq XT, within my preset Advance Task Killer timeout (3 minutes I believe) the phone disconnects from the network and then the SIM needs to be unlocked.
Is there an App that should be running that I need to Add to the Ignore list? It only happens after texting.
Firmware is Android Version 1.5
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Nov 23, 2010
In my Android application, it is noticed that when the device goes to sleep/standby WiFi is disconnected. When the device wakes up, it gets reconnected. Before making a httpClient.execute(..) call to remote server we check if the device is connected to n/w. When the data transfer is being done and if the device goes to sleep then Android runtime will switch to another medium for connectivity(3G,GPRS etc.)
Is the switch from WiFi to alternate cellular service say 3G, seamless? How do I wait for WiFi to become available again? Should I use Thread.sleep(delay) when the WiFi wakes up? I have seen broadcast actions when the WiFi state changes. In general, what is the ideal approach to handling WiFi disconnects in a mobile app?
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Sep 23, 2010
I am new to this forum, I came looking for help with the barnacle app and found a great forum for everything android, I am sure it will come handy.My problem is that my barnacle app disconnects when the phone screen turns off. I stay connected to the barnacle wifi signal but no Internet, in the barnacle app I get connection errors, I just need to stop the service and restart for the problem to be fixed, this only happens when the screen turns off so now I have the screen always on when tethering but that is not good form the battery.I have auto killer installed, I tought that it was the problem, and that auto killer was turning off the service but I uninstalled auto killer and problem persists, I have no other task manager installed.
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Aug 24, 2010
My HTC Evo Bluetooth has worked fine in my car for 6 weeks, but this week it started disconnecting 1-2 minutes after automatically connecting when I start my car. Nothing seems to work to reconnect until I start the car again.
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Jun 28, 2010
In NYC/Brooklyn my Sprint EVO 3g disconnects when streaming internet radio, like clock work seems to be almost exactly every 5 minutes it disconnects. , Tried 3 different apps, xiialive pay version, Stream Furious free, Ant Player free. Problem persist when streaming any station at various bit rates. Happens when stationary or walking around. Occasionally it will rebuffer and restart the stream which is ok but that is rarely the case. However I can immediately hit the play button it will always reconnect and continue playing. In other words the connection always seems to be there and strong. Seems more like something is bumping it off rather than losing signal. I tried with background data and auto sync off. This rarely happened with my G1 T-mobil especially not when stationary, if the signal was there which wasnt often it would play until i disconnected it myself. The sprint EVO 3g connection seems to almost always be available, much better than the T-mobil was in NYC. however the Sprint data disconnects while streaming audio is driving me crazy. Is there any settings that maybe trying to search for signal and update that maybe responsible for the interruption. BTW this has been since EVO day 1 june 6, internet radio is one of my main reason for smart phone and unlimited data so it was the first or close to the first app i installed. no problem while on WIFI.
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Oct 19, 2010
Just last week I changed from CM6 to Fresh 3.3.0.1
Reason being I started having random lockups, the screening staying black upon "waking up" with only the notification bar showing at the top, and half of the screen disappearing in landscape mode.
I was, shall we say, less than impressed by CM6, so I figured I would try something new.
Now, I am having a new problem. Upon entering my car, the bluetooth will connect, then after about 15 seconds will disconnect. If I go into "Devices", the car kit will say Paired but not connected. If I click it, it will not connect.
I never had this problem with the stock ROM, Unrevoked, CM6, or another ROM I had that I forget at the moment. Fresh 3.3.0.1 is the first time.
I LOVE the battery life compared to CM6, but I need my bluetooth to work.
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Sep 28, 2010
I've noticed for the last few months occasionally my wireless at home would disconnect and reconnect after a few seconds. It didn't really bother me until I was downloading some large work files and I kept getting disconnected and screwing up the downloads.
I finally sat down and dug into the issue, and it seems from the router logs that the phone is deauthenticating when it sleeps the wifi and that causes my computers wifi to deauth as well.....wtf?
WPA2 security b/g/n wireless router, d-link 655.
Anyone got any ideas? So far the only solution I've been able to find is to either keep my phones wifi off (3g at my house? slow as hell) or to put it into never sleep mode (which kills battery).
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Aug 10, 2010
Anyone else have this problem, it is really fucking annoying. Im trying to download a 4gig torrent and it seems if im not right here at the damn computer watching it, it will disconnect. If I leave for a while and come back the computer is disconnected from the internet. I have no Idea why it is doing this, all I have to do is hit connect and it connects again its not like I have to restart the program and everything for some reason it just keeps disconnecting after a period of time. Does it have something to do with it being the free version?
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Jun 6, 2010
So I got a new Evo on friday and it is my first experience with android and I am loving it so far! The only problem I am really having is keeping my bluetooth headset paired with the device.
I have a plantronics explorer 230 and it is the only bluetooth thing I have. It continually disconnects and reconnects from the device at random even when I am on calls. I am not very techy so I really have no idea what to do. It disconnects on its own and then reconnects again a few seconds later.
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Jun 6, 2010
I've got a Jabra Stone, and a Nokia BH-606 which both randomly disconnect whilst I'm on a phonecall or listening to a podcast etc. Sometimes they can go for 30 minutes being perfectly well behaved, or just as often do their stupid disconnecting trick about 5 times in 2 minutes.
Is this a common problem? It would possibly seem not because there doesn't seem to be a huge amount of people with similar issues on the internets.
I know both headsets are ok because they have both worked perfectly with an iPhone and a Nokia N86.
Do we think my Desire is faulty, and I should take it back?
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Jun 8, 2010
My hero disconnects from the internet at least twice a day. called sprint and said to update my profile. i shouldn't have to do that all the time. anyone else having this problem? is it worth it to switch to the samsung moment?
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Sep 11, 2010
Wireless Tether disconnects after a few minutes. Has anyone else seen this and is there a fix?
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Dec 26, 2011
GSM disconnects - when screen turn off?
Here is the adb logcat: [URL] .....
I found this thread: [URL] .....
for all people had the same error, copy the attached file to /system/lib (unzip first!)
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May 8, 2010
My Nexus One exhibits a very strange and annoying behavior at home.It will sporadically disconnect from my home Wi-Fi and will not automatically reconnect.However, if I go into the settings and choose to manually reconnect it will do it 100% of the time.I have the settings on the Nexus One set to never put the wi-fi to sleep so there is no reason that it should be disconnecting.Has anyone else had an issue like this? Anyone have any advice on solving this problem?I am using a fairly old linksys router WRT54G but I have never had any problems maintaining connections with any of my other devices including laptops, Wii's and iphones so it seems like it must be an issue with the Nexus One.
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Nov 17, 2009
Is there an AIM app that doesn't disconnect with phone use, i dont know why my meebo IM keeps disconnecting, does it do that when your on the phone for a while?
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May 7, 2010
I recently switched from a Blackberry Storm to my first smartphone the HTC Incredible. So far, I'm very happy with the switch and enjoy everything about the HTC Incredible.I'm having a problem with the MOBILE NETWORK being disabled when I'm connected to WI-FI (my home network or any other WI-FI hot spot). Is this suppose to happen? Is there any way to allow this not to happen?? Why does this happen? The problem I'm running in to is when receiving or sending MMS / SMS text messages with pics, I am getting a "MESSAGE NOT DOWNLOADED - GENERIC NETWORK FAILURE" message in my status bar.
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Aug 17, 2010
I just got a Blueant V1 bluetooth headset and everytime the milestone sleeps [screen auto goes off] my bluetooth will disconnect shortly after that. If I keep the screen on the connection seems fine. I don't see a setting that causes bluetooth to go off when on sleep like WIFI does.
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May 22, 2010
Is anyone else having a problem using a bluetooth headset and having it randomly disconnect during a phone call? Then I need to connect it again. My fiance has the same problem with the same phone, different headset.
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Oct 30, 2010
I recently bought an unlocked international version of samsung galaxy S GT-i9000. I was able to use it with at&t sim card quite happily till now. Even the 3g worked on it. But from yesterday the at&t service keeps disconnecting after using for few hours. The network bars at the top right disappear and a blue disconnected sign appears. I cannot make a call or receive a call till I reboot my phone. In settings->about phone I see that the "Service" shows "Not in Service". When I reboot it gets back to "In Service". My unlocked phone boots with T-mobile preset settings - is this problem because of that?
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Oct 19, 2010
Everytime I try to connect to wi-fi using the phone it connects for a second and then completely disconnects the modem router, knocking everyone else off of the internet. We have never had any trouble with this router before.
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Oct 30, 2012
Asus TF300T wifi disconnects after coming out of sleep. This started happening after the JB upgrade. I have ADVANCED SETTINGS set to 'KEEP WIFI ON DURING SLEEP. ASUS CUSTOMIZED SETTING, 'DISCONNECT NETWORK DURING SLEEP' is unchecked. 'POWER SAVER, LOW BATTERY SAVER SETTINGS, 'WIFI OFF, during low battery, is unchecked. SYSTEM PERFORMANCE is set to Balanced Mode.
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