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Help Wifi keeps turning itself off and on!

Bit of background, I had a Desire for two years and never had any problems, but lost it two weeks ago. Was due an upgrade anyway so got myself a Galaxy S2, but somehow managed to lose that too. :( So anyway, i'm now back using an old Desire my friend had.

It was in pretty good condition, but he had it rooted a while back and since then the wifi keeps turning itself off and on randomly every few minutes. Also, every now and again when trying to unlock the phone the touch screen becomes unresponsive and it won't let me swipe down.

We thought this might be a software problem, so I unrooted the phone and have it running on gingerbread again, but this hasn't stopped the problem. Anyone have any ideas? Any help would be greatly appreciated as I'm a bit of a technophobe!
 
How did you unroot it? When I unroot mine I have to go all the way back to Froyo so maybe you've not done it correctly.

If you have it does sound like a hardware issue but just want to make sure.

Also you have got wifi sleep mode turned off? Settings> wireless & networks> wifi settings> press menu then select advanced and make sure sleep policy is set to never.

Let us know.
 
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I was just following an online guide when unrooting it. I connected it to htc sync on my laptop, then ran a RUU (?) of gingerbread I got from the htc site. Should that do it? As I said, bit of a technophobe, so apologies if I'm using the wrong terminology!

As for the wifi sleep settings, checked them and they were set to never, so that rules that out.

I also noticed that the problem with the lock screen only seems to happen when the wifi is switched on. Not sure of that means anything but thought I'd mention it!

Cheers again for any help!
 
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Terminology all good :)

Sounds like you put it back to stock correctly and this means that it is probably a hardware issue.

Not sure how you stand as warranty probably expired so might cost a bit to fix.

Could be the radio maybe so personally I would try rooting again and trying a new Radio and kernal. I like fiddling though so this is down to you and may not work.

Does sound more like hardware though.
 
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