Network detection
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@cliffcoggin Is the device asleep? All my devices have to be prompted to connect to WiFi after being asleep by toggling WiFi on/off or Airplane mode on/off. They then usually connect no problem. All are on OTA-23 now.
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@mrt10001 Asleep? I'm not entirely sure what that means, but the lock screen occurs after a few minutes and has to be enabled with the password. That is unchanged for two years and has always been all that is needed for wifi to connect.
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@cliffcoggin when the device goes to sleep and you wake it with the power button, it doesn't always connect to any network, WiFi or mobile, so toggling the airplane or WiFi button resolves it usually.
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@mrt10001 OK, I'll try that next time, but it's odd that it has never been necessary in the previous two years. I'll report back next time the fault happens.
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@cliffcoggin Well it worked. Turning on, then off, aeroplane mode I mean, though it is still a mystery why I have never had to do that until now. O well, the phone is unlikely to get the 20.04 upgrade and its battery is dying so maybe it is time to retire it.
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@cliffcoggin Yes the network thing happened after OTA-23 update. A new(er) battery is pretty cheap on eBay and replacement on this phone is easy.
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@mrt10001 I'll keep it going as long as possible, however it will be my last UT phone. All the UT alternatives are far too big for consideration.
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Hi @cliffcoggin
I had the same problem with big phones. There is alternatives that is very close to the size of the N5.
From the left
| Pixel 3A(NOT XL) | Nexus 5 | Sony Xperia X |
EDIT: I should point out that the real difference in size of these three phones is the length. Width is almost the same, it differs with a couple of millimeters at the most between the three phones. This makes the phones feel just as small as the N5.
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@rondarius It's a fair comment so apologies unneccesary. The N5 was always uncomfortably large for my taste despite it being the smallest UT phone, and I will not compromise further on size.
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@cliffcoggin I get what you mean regarding phone size. I have UT running on a Motorolo Moto E 2nd gen (XT1524), it is only 8Gb and the porter hasn't been around for a while, so there are issues (i.e limited storage, no OTA updates) which won't be supported. I looked at the Sony's, but gave up as all the ones I got, the bootloader was impossible to unlock (yes Sony, like Xiaomi, you suck). If the Nexus 5 didn't have the issue with the eMMC failure, it would be the ideal phone as it is so easy to repair. The Nexus 4 is my favourite as it is compact and easy to fix, but is only 3G, so network support will diminish in the next 3 years (gone in the US).
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Hi, I have the same problem with losing the network connection. It started a few months ago. It's annoying, but I just turn the wifi-connection off-on and it works again.
@mrt10001 May I ask: what's the "eMMC failure"?
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@taiga-woods It is failure of the phones storage device (eMMC is embedded multimedia storage, kind of like a hard wired SD card - SSD's have a greater read/write tolerance due to the storage chips used and most now have DRAM cache). The design of the Nexus 5 eMMC was not well thought out, basically it has RAM over the top of the storage which causes the storage chips to get too warm and as lead free solder is now used the solder onto the mainboard goes awry or the chips just fail. I have recovered some Nexus 5 boards using the "oven bake" method to reflow bad soldered joints which is NOT a permanent fix.
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