Sony Z2 Wifi Stalling

[Ian]

Bought a new Sony Z2 last week, but it looks like it's going back (getting it RMA'd), as the WiFi is incredibly temperamental! Bah

It connects to my network fine, but every 30 seconds the wifi stalls for around 10 seconds. At first I only noticed this when loading webpages, so thought it was a DNS issue. Tried alternatives, but it did the same thing. So tried:

• Changing router WiFi config, disabling 5Ghz, changing channels, WEP, WPA2
• Tried new router
• Tried another WiFi network (Costa! )
• All of the other devices we run work ok on Wifi.
• Hard reset phone
• etc...

Nothing worked

Seems a bit of an odd issue, so I was wondering if there was anything I missed? I'm hoping it's not a firmware problem, as surely that would have been picked up by now.

Fingers crossed the replacement fixes it .

 

[Anon_F]

Is this the one advertised as being waterproof by a man sitting in a bath???
Sorry Ian, but if you have the latest mobile you get problems, sadly!

 

[V_R]

Bought a new Sony Z2 last week, but it looks like it's going back (getting it RMA'd), as the WiFi is incredibly temperamental! Bah

It connects to my network fine, but every 30 seconds the wifi stalls for around 10 seconds. At first I only noticed this when loading webpages, so thought it was a DNS issue. Tried alternatives, but it did the same thing. So tried:

• Changing router WiFi config, disabling 5Ghz, changing channels, WEP, WPA2
• Tried new router
• Tried another WiFi network (Costa! )
• All of the other devices we run work ok on Wifi.
• Hard reset phone
• etc...

Nothing worked

Seems a bit of an odd issue, so I was wondering if there was anything I missed? I'm hoping it's not a firmware problem, as surely that would have been picked up by now.

Fingers crossed the replacement fixes it .

Sounds fudged Ian.

If its still doing it after a factory reset, there isn't much you can do. Aside from rooting it and trying custom roms and radios etc. But thats a lot of buggering about, only to find out its a hardware fault. lol

Send it back!

E: I assume its as upto date as it can be? Its running 4.4.2?

 

[Ian]

Is this the one advertised as being waterproof by a man sitting in a bath???

That's the one!

Send it back!

E: I assume its as upto date as it can be? Its running 4.4.2?

Yep, just waiting on a postage-paid bag (tomorrow I hope!).

It's running 4.4.2, but there is a firmware update for the phone that has yet to hit the UK (for the Z2), so I wonder if that has anything in it that may help. Too late for this phone though, as I hope my replacement will have arrived by then!

 

[V_R]

I assume you've seen this...

http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/xperia-z2-problems/#wifi

The only thing on there that stands out that you may not have tried is turning off any power saving features?

 

[Ian]

Done all that unfortunately, I've toggled every option possible that I can see, but it still hangs . Fingers crossed the new one works!