Well, if you're sophisticated enough to install a new OS: first: try the adb trick to remove the throttle on 9; it doesn't work on every model/os. if it works, no need to resort to anything extreme. ( adb shell settings put global wifi_scan_throttle_enabled 0 ) second: https://lineageos.org/ is pre...

It's a pile of things: Old radios/drivers/OSes might just not tune as fast (and so don't scan as quickly) Driver versions can have a huge impact, making previously slow phones fast and vice versa on upgrade Android 9 throttles WiFi scan speed (and is hard to de-throttle) Android 10 and up also thro...

Hi all, I picked up a Samsung Galaxy S8 from eBay for 50 bucks. I picked it up solely for wardriving with the official Wigle app. Unfortunately, after ordering it I've realised that the highest Android version the S8 can support is Pie (9), which I recall has such strict and undisableable throttles ...

Apologies for necro'ing this post, but if I may ask a perhaps silly question, is it the Android version or hardware limitations that generally cause slow scan times for Wi-Fi/BT?