On Dec 18, 2012, at 1:49 PM, Bruce A. Locke wrote: > > The Nexus 4 doesn't have poor WiFi range from my experience. My own device > is equivalent to my previous phones and my iPod Touch. > > Android 4.2 however does have well known WiFi driver and Bluetooth issues > that affect all three devices where 4.2 is currently available. This will > show up as the device connecting but being unable to send and receive traffic > or losing connection during sleep and not regaining it. This seems to occur > with certain AP models far more often than others. It's rock solid with my > Actiontec FIOS AP and whatever Frontier is using for their DSL models. I've > also not had any issues on whatever gear AT&T is using for Starbucks, > McDonalds, etc. However I did have issues with connecting to a Netgear > router at a friends house. > > There is also a bug where if your enterprise wireless gear has 802.1k enabled > the WiFi stack seems to shoot itself in the head whenever the device goes to > sleep requiring a toggle of airplane mode to restore functionality. Once I > turned this off on our gear at work the Nexus 4 and 7 are now happy. This > shouldn't be an issue for consumer gear. > > I'd link to the Google bug tracker entries but people are retarded when it > comes to wireless issues and the noise from people not knowing what they are > talking about has buried any signal on the topic. > > Google has yet to do it's usual bugfix patches for 4.2. 4.2.1 was an > emergency quickfix for a UI issue involving the contacts app and didn't > really fix anything else. We're all waiting for 4.2.2 but considering it's > the holidays I wouldn't expect it to be soon. > > As for VOIP echoing it wouldn't surprise me. It's not like any carrier > leaves it intact to get any use on the 99%+ of phones out there. Perhaps try > another VOIP package? It's it the job of software to filter out the echo and > feedback? > > Good Luck.
Thanks for the reply. I was really hoping to hear from a device owner. I'm connecting to my Asterisk PBX on my LAN. I'm no quite ready to ditch Asterisk as it works fine with all other soft phones (Windows, Mac) which I have tried so far. It also works well with my Cisco IP phones. I have the echo issue even when calling local extensions, while using the Nexus 4. I will look into what I can do to the PBX with noise cancellation without breaking current connections. My first smart phone was the unlocked Nokia N95, which has native sip. I only just tried the sip function last year, and the aging battery was not up to the task :) I had a real disappointment today, while using WiFi on the Nexus 4. I tried connecting the the Nexus 4 to my Nokia N95. The N95 was running as a WiFi hotspot using Joikuspot. Many devices see this connection as peer to peer or AdHoc. The problem I had with the Nexus was it would not even show up as an available network. I tried manually adding the ESSID and WEP key but it still failed to connect. I have never experienced this with the large myriad of devices which have connected fine in the past. > > > On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 8:30 AM, ew <[email protected]> wrote: > > All in all this has been a frustrating change. Aside from needing to learn a > new OS, the device has some issues. > WiFi range is very poor. I loose connection in my house both on 5Ghz and > 2.4Ghz bands. I have no problems with > any other handheld devices (less than 50' from Netgear WNDR3800). > > The second issue is the built in VIOP/Internet phone function is nearly > useless. There is horrible echo on the remote caller side. > If I reduce my (Nexus4) earpiece volume to less than 50% it goes away, but > I'd have a hard time hearing the caller if I were anywhere > but a quiet room. If I put tape over the top mic hole I can increase volume > to nearly 75% before the echo becomes annoying. I'm > surprised to see a mic place so close to the earpiece, although it seems to > be a non-issue with cellular calls. > > Anyone want to buy a near new Nexus4 16gig? > > Well can anyone with this device confirm poor WiFi range? Perhaps I have a > defective unit. > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College > Jan 9 - High Performance Computing at a Small Scale > Feb 6 - Raspberry Pi > Mar 6 - 10th Anniversary Meeting! _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College Jan 9 - High Performance Computing at a Small Scale Feb 6 - Raspberry Pi Mar 6 - 10th Anniversary Meeting!
