Unstable WIFI with Android Q and FP3

Same for me now. With my home router (Telekom) I get random disconnects every 20-30s.

Very intereting. I have exactly the same issue, but I didn’t realize it was the phone causing the problem.

I think it would be best to file two separate bug reports on https://gitlab.e.foundation and maybe link between them (just mention it in the description), so that developers know that they cooccur. Would you be okay with raising these issues?

Hello, I do not have the same issue, but that concerns the wifi too.
I checked /e/'s Gitlab as you suggest and found these two projects about FP3:

But none of them has an issue section to open tickets.
I have a bug report file to send to /e/, and I do not know where to send it.

I guess you have to send it somewhere to their Gitlab, right?

I’ve just installed 0.15 yesterday and i must say that it got even worse. Now i have to disable WIFI completely before it reconnects again.

I guess im gonna switch to Lineage. Not a single bug getting fixed for so long.

The issues list for all /e/ projects is in the e / Backlog project

https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/backlog/-/issues?page=2&state=opened

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Thanks, I reported this issue: https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/backlog/-/issues/2801

Did anyone experience an improvement? I still have the wifi issue even with the most current version.

I bought my FP3+ some weeks before and installed /e/. I never experienced problems like the one above. WiFi runs perfectly fine for me.

i bought my FP3+ begin of may '21 and installed /e/ Q version.

Only sometimes the WIFI connection is also unstable for me.
Sometimes after unlocking, the wifi shows a hollow symbol with (x) inside it. (then i tap it to disable, and tap again to enable, and it initializes ok while passing over the (x) symbol to the full/on symbol)
Then, when i start an app it could lose WIFI connection halfway.
But shortly after… when connected, it shows complete full symbol and has no problems?

Model FP3/FP3+ / Android 10
Build Nr; e_FP3-userdebug 10 QQ3A.200805.001 eng.root 20210422.210931 dev-keys,stable release

But today, not one time that WIFI issue?!
Could it be battery charge% related?
Today my battery started at 70%, at the end of the day my it was at 51%
Yesterday it ended at 20%
– edit – ah… and i’m at 48% battery and have the WIFI issue now…

This is a very serious problem and has been happening on mine and my wife’s fp3s more and more frequently. I do believe it has to do with a keep alive functionality that is no longer exposed in settings.

Would really appreciate a fix or solution. :+1::+1:

The keep-alive setting part of /e/ OS i guess?
Do you know if there’s a ticket or something created for this? i haven’t seen one

wow… just now i had the buzzer go off, and a message appear saying:

:black_medium_small_square: Silent notification
Android-system
Wifi watchdog triggered
Wifi fixed after restart

??? i’ll restart then :smiley:

– edit–
My battery theory doesn’t fly, because i’m having issues again(May30), and it created a bugreport.zip, while my battery was at 97%.(i’m trying to get it to gitlab, but i have issues registering there)
The WIFI crashing happens at a location where two other phones have no problem connecting to the same WIFI router, and i’m not even moving in/out of the WIFI range

Ditto with getting the wifi watchdog notification. Should it be uploaded to gitlab? I’ve got it saved incase I should.

It’s happened twice thus far

edit: tagging @Manoj for advice :slightly_smiling_face:

Hi, yes /e/ uses gitlab for bugtracking.
It can be found via https://doc.e.foundation/devices/FP3/

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It might be worth to at least try out to “reset wifi” as mentioned here in this post with similar symptoms:

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Thanks!
i found the /e/ OS way to reboot into safe mode here
but i first tried the

settings > system > advanced > reset options > Reset Wi-Fi, mobile & Bluetooth.

But the wifi connection did disconnect again afterwards.
next, i’ll find out what’s involved with the reboot

–edit-- it’s now connected to the 5Ghz band and didn’t fail in the last 8 hours.
(in my case,at least at 2.4Ghz it shows that problem.
WIFI analyzer showed there’s multiple people in the same 2.4Ghz channel, but not on my 5Ghz channel)

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This a serious issue and needs to be addressed. Has this already been reported on github?

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I couldn’t find any obvious match, but you can check yourself, and raise a new issue if not
https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/backlog/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=✓&state=opened&search=wifi+fp3

I have the same problem. Its /e/OS 0.16 current version on FP3+. All of a sudden I get kicked out. Some apps fail to synchronize being in my wifi. Mail does not work, nextcloud does not work and some other apps. Seems for me “sth. is in the middle” while being connected to wifi. Everything works fine being on mobile data though. I checked different wifi’s and routers. All the same, I registered my home wifi again and so on but no improvement. I also reset the network connections on my FP3+, no difference.
This is very odd. Maybe some cache is getting filled to limits…?

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Dear all, maybe I found the solution but not the reason. I checked step by step my router/internet modem (cable/fritz.box) as well as wifi/network specifications in my FP3+. I realized there is a wifi where everything works fine and connection is stable. Long story short: I disabled IPv6 in my router and everything works fine. WIFI is stable and I can connect to all websites and every app is working. I have no clue how IPv6 has an influence on WIFI-connection but this is the problem obviously.

My question is now: Is eOS and/or FP3(+) not IPv6 ready? How can that be with Android 10?

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I have the same problem and created an issue: FP3 WIFI unreliable, frequent disconnects (#4028) · Issues · e / Backlog · GitLab

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