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Hey I'm new to android, just got a vibrant last week. Decided to unlock it as I travel a lot. The unlock worked, but now I'm having issues with my wifi. I can connect to a wireless network but I cant load pages. The wireless signal is strong and I tried with different routers, but still no luck. Looked through the forum and googled it but couldn't find a solution. If some one could please help with this, it would be much appreciated
try clearing your current wifi settings including remembered connections, passwords, and everything else...then re-scan for networks all over again, that's all I can think of for now
By that you mean just gong into settings->wireless and networks->wifi settings and then just forget the net work, rescan, and rejoin the network? If so, I did that but am still getting the same result. If you can think of anything else or if I didnt do what you suggested correctly please let me know. Thanks
srah said:
By that you mean just gong into settings->wireless and networks->wifi settings and then just forget the net work, rescan, and rejoin the network? If so, I did that but am still getting the same result. If you can think of anything else or if I didnt do what you suggested correctly please let me know. Thanks
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yeah, thats what I meant :/....hmmm...sounds like your connection is working, can you download stuff from the market or is it just the browser? cause I unlocked mine too and wifi works fine
No I cant download anything from the market. I cant do anything that requires an internet connection, but it does show that I am connected to a network.
srah said:
No I cant download anything from the market. I cant do anything that requires an internet connection, but it does show that I am connected to a network.
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hmmm...im out of tips then ...perhaps some other members can be of more assistance
I sure hope so, thanks for your help
Have you been able to try another network? My first thought was it was in Ad-Hoc mode but I could be wrong. If nothing else restore to stock firmware and then try a different unlock.
Happened to me too. It would show the wifi icon on the notification bar but wouldn't load pages. I'd go to the settings and it'd say can't turn off wifi or can't turn on wifi. And when it was "on" I'd say connecting to modem then it'd just stop. When I was using the browser on wifi it would load a page even when I had full bars. I had to turn it off then back on to load another page. Is this similar to the problem your having?
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I hope this doesn't sound stupid but yesterday I uninstalled Advanced Task Manager and poof my wifi started working again. The phone also seems to suffer from less occasional lag without it installed, but that's another story for another thread. Prior to this I had to manually turn my wifi connection off and on, but even that didn't always work. Since the uninstall I have not my wifi connection once. I am currently using the stock rom, rooted with minor adjustments here and there.
hi guys, i also have this problem.
i will be taking the phone in to the tmobile store on thursday.
it shows that i am connected via wifi; however, anything that requires an internet connection does not load.
very frustrating, since just yesterday i used the samsung kies software to tether a network for my laptop. i was testing the capability of the vibrant to act as a modem, and it worked just fine.
any help would be appreciated!
thank you
Charlie
connected but not connected
I also have this problem.
In my Vibrant shows that i connected, but i can not load pages. Someone
found any solution to this problem?
Hi all,
This is happening to me too. Rebooting seems to get Wifi working correctly again. But the problem comes back eventually.
Maybe a bug in the latest JI6 update?
Wi-fi problem.
Someone found any solution for this problem?
Froyo's update will fix this issue?
Thanks.
i hang on you **** iphone users they just bay for its cool smartphone **** iphone android is the king
As usual, I am experiencing a very strange problem. My GT7510 is currenty running the Task "beginning" ICS ROM. It works great when I am at home. When I go on the road, I sometimes experience a problem where nearby open WIFI networks that I know are working do not display on my Tab. I can connect to these networks on my laptop, iPhone or my wife's iPad but they are invisible on my Tab.
The latest occurance was at a hotel that offered free WIFI. In order to access the network, I first have to open a browser and provide an access code. This is easily done on the other devices but since I cannot even see the network on my Tab, I cannot connect so the browser can give me the login page.
I have Googled the problem until my fingers are ready to bleed but have not found anyone with the same problem. Does anyone have any thoughts on what could be going on?.
Now, having posted this problem, I can tell you that I stumbled on a work-around but I have no idea why it works. Just for fun, I activated the "personal hotspot" on my Jailbroken iPhone. This signal immediately showed up on my Tab. At the same time, the hotel signal suddenly appeared as well and I was able to connect to that signal.
I am hopeful that someone can shed some light on this strange problem for me. Thanks in advance.
Bump! I could really use some help with this problem.
Bob
I noticed that my AT&T HOX+ automatically connects to the "attwifi" hotspot at Starbucks for example, without prompting me. This is very annoying and a security risk. Annoying because it doesn't automatically log me in, I still have to go accept the agreement in the browser, so the data connection is broken. Also annoying because I'm on LTE and the wifi speeds on attwifi are horrible. A security issue because I'm not sure there's any validation done that it's indeed the AT&T network or it just sees the attwifi SSID that anyone could impersonate hence getting connected to random malicious networks.
Anyone seeing the same behavior? Please post what ROM you are running.
Any way to stop it (without disabling wifi)?
Any way to at least automatically log in? My old iPhone never prompted me to authenticate to the attwifi network, somehow it detected it was an AT&T device.
Re: [Q] [AT&T] Does your AT&T HOX+ automatically connect to "attwifi"?
I have to ask, why is it so difficult to disable WiFi?
That's your only real option, use the Sony app to disable WiFi while you're at your Starbucks location
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It's not hard to do it, it's just that I have to remember to do it. Even the option "Block network notifications" for the attwifi network doesn't seem to do it.
There's gotta be the right AT&T apk that perhaps could be replaced by the Telus apk, assuming that doesn't do anything similar. Or the hard-coded attwifi string somewhere that could be replaced with a dummy value.... Hopefully a dev will see this thread and know where to look.
As for auto login, I found this thread.
Which Sony app is that? Something like the Motorola Smart Actions? I've used Llama in the past for other purposes and I remember you could set an event, I guess something like "on connect to attwifi - turn wifi off"
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It's not hard to do it, it's just that I have to remember to do it. Even the option "Block network notifications" for the attwifi network doesn't seem to do it.
There's gotta be the right AT&T apk that perhaps could be replaced by the Telus apk, assuming that doesn't do anything similar. Or the hard-coded attwifi string somewhere that could be replaced with a dummy value.... Hopefully a dev will see this thread and know where to look.
As for auto login, I found this thread.
Which Sony app is that? Something like the Motorola Smart Actions? I've used Llama in the past for other purposes and I remember you could set an event, I guess something like "on connect to attwifi - turn wifi off"
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Nevermind the Sony app doesn't have location as a trigger
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Re: [Q] [AT&T] Does your AT&T HOX+ automatically connect to "attwifi"?
This is the sort of issue tasker was designed for
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AndroHero said:
This is the sort of issue tasker was designed for
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That's more of a band-aid solution. I'd like to see this obnoxious "feature" removed by a custom ROM.
Re: [Q] [AT&T] Does your AT&T HOX+ automatically connect to "attwifi"?
Because the hotspot is embedded inside the kernel. Can't change unless you install a custom kernel.
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pradeepd said:
Because the hotspot is embedded inside the kernel. Can't change unless you install a custom kernel.
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Interesting. Blackout has a custom kernel, maybe they can undo AT&T's feature.
sirxdroid said:
Interesting. Blackout has a custom kernel, maybe they can undo AT&T's feature.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25897867
see what a google search got me
superchilpil said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25897867
see what a google search got me
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Oh man thanks for the find! I gotta try this asap. Believe me, I did Google and found only reports of the problem but no solution. I guess I have to take a course in advanced Google search
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Oh man thanks for the find! I gotta try this asap. Believe me, I did Google and found only reports of the problem but no solution. I guess I have to take a course in advanced Google search
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I just typed remove attwifi
Well there you go, wasn't so hard to remove
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superchilpil said:
I just typed remove attwifi
Well there you go, wasn't so hard to remove
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Well yeah, that's what happens when you over-think searches Thanks again Sir!
I tried the mod and unfortunately if I make any changes to /data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf wifi no longer starts, it shows "Error". I think there's something else going on that's checking for the presence of that entry. I tried changing the SSID, no luck either.
Anyone able to get it work?
In other news, I discovered that /system/app/ATT_Hotspot.apk is what does the auto login to the attwifi network and a little orange notification icon shows up, something like "welcome to the AT&T network".
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I tried the mod and unfortunately if I make any changes to /data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf wifi no longer starts, it shows "Error". I think there's something else going on that's checking for the presence of that entry. I tried changing the SSID, no luck either.
Anyone able to get it work?
In other news, I discovered that /system/app/ATT_Hotspot.apk is what does the auto login to the attwifi network and a little orange notification icon shows up, something like "welcome to the AT&T network".
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Did you restart?
If that's the app that's doing it then freeze it
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Did you restart?
If that's the app that's doing it then freeze it
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Yes, I did restart. That's not the app that's doing the connection, it's the app that automatically logs you in, after you are already connected to attwifi so you don't have to manually accept the agreement.
Ah, ES File Explorer screwed me! First time I use it to edit a file and what it did it saved the original file as a .bak and created a new file with my changes. The problem is that the new file is owned by root and rw by root only, but the original conf file is owned by system:wifi and 660 perms. Once I fixed ownership and perms, wifi starts even without the attwifi entry.
So yes, we can remove the attwifi entry, but there's still a problem: once you manually connect to attwifi once, the entry is put back in and cannot be removed via the UI, you have to edit the file all over again. It seems that we need a proper fix from a ROM developer to allow the UI to forget the attwifi entry, it must be hard-coded that the attwifi entry is not editable.
This is probably a stupid question (because it's so simple, but I didn't see anyone mention they tried it), but did you try disabling the AT&T Hot Spots app?
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This is probably a stupid question (because it's so simple, but I didn't see anyone mention they tried it), but did you try disabling the AT&T Hot Spots app?
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Yes of course. That has nothing to do with establishing the connection. It only authenticates you to the AT&T network once you are already connected to attwifi. Disabling it makes it worse because you end up with a broken data connection: you are connected to attwifi but you have not clicked "accept" yet in the browser. That app implements WISPr.
Howdy all. I have a wifi at home which works with web authentication i.e. you connect your phone to wifi and on opening a browser, it redirects you to an authentication site wherein upon entering your username and password, you get connected. The authentication page requires you to keep the tab open and work with another tab, otherwise you lose the connection. When working on a PC, it works like a charm. I keep the tab open and wifi sticks for long even when you're not active. But on a smartphone (I have a Galaxy S3 here), it's a living hell trying to keep it stay connected. I've tried keeping the browser app resident in memory, created a tasker script to browse the URL and reconnect on certain intervals which honestly is too tedious and needs a better solution, used wifi web login apps which don't work to my satisfaction i.e. don't connect just when connection is lost; but in all these cases, the connection just seems to disconnect making me reconnect time and again :/. I would be utterly grateful to anybody who could suggest a solution for me for this as this is seriously making me lose my sleep.
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Howdy all. I have a wifi at home which works with web authentication i.e. you connect your phone to wifi and on opening a browser, it redirects you to an authentication site wherein upon entering your username and password, you get connected. The authentication page requires you to keep the tab open and work with another tab, otherwise you lose the connection. When working on a PC, it works like a charm. I keep the tab open and wifi sticks for long even when you're not active. But on a smartphone (I have a Galaxy S3 here), it's a living hell trying to keep it stay connected. I've tried keeping the browser app resident in memory, created a tasker script to browse the URL and reconnect on certain intervals which honestly is too tedious and needs a better solution, used wifi web login apps which don't work to my satisfaction i.e. don't connect just when connection is lost; but in all these cases, the connection just seems to disconnect making me reconnect time and again :/. I would be utterly grateful to anybody who could suggest a solution for me for this as this is seriously making me lose my sleep.
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what is the reason you don't want to use wpa2 for a home network?
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what is the reason you don't want to use wpa2 for a home network?
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Dunno much about wifi security protocols but this is as my ISP provided. I've tried modifying the router protocols but nothing seem to make the web authentication go away.
ubz91 said:
Dunno much about wifi security protocols but this is as my ISP provided. I've tried modifying the router protocols but nothing seem to make the web authentication go away.
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ah, ok, what kind of router is it?
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ah, ok, what kind of router is it?
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A Motorola SBG901 wireless router.
ubz91 said:
A Motorola SBG901 wireless router.
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is there any security settings tab? or maybe it's under the wireless settings tab
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is there any security settings tab? or maybe it's under the wireless settings tab
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Nope, even setting security protocol to open shows the auth page. Might have to find a different solution for this.
ubz91 said:
Nope, even setting security protocol to open shows the auth page. Might have to find a different solution for this.
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it could be the provider is forcing it, have you tried another router? normally, the web authentication is a proxy, so that could be the modem, or at the provider's end
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it could be the provider is forcing it, have you tried another router? normally, the web authentication is a proxy, so that could be the modem, or at the provider's end
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Don't think the router has anything to do with this. Only the provider URL loads in the browser for authentication. So yeah, would know if it had something to do with the router.
Now that my G3 has been upgraded to Lollipop, I thought my issues would be resolved. The biggest problem I'm noticing now is how long everything takes to render on my phone. Facebook, Instagram, and GMail all take forever to render and I'm stuck with a spinning wheel while it loads the content. At first I thought it was my internet and I've tried the usual (resetting, unplugging, etc...) to no avail. I even called the cable company and they said my connection was fine. This past weekend I bought a cheap-o tablet off craigslist and can't help but notice how quickly content shows up. I mean, I instantly have GMail notifications while my G3 says I have none without a manual refresh. Facebook and Instagram, both, show me content instantly while my G3 is still sputtering.
What makes it more odd is that I don't have this problem when I'm on mobile data or someone else's wifi. Just my own. Is there a setting or something somewhere that I've overlooked?
I was having slow wifi issues until I disabled ipv6
6NomoN6 said:
I was having slow wifi issues until I disabled ipv6
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How do you do that? I don't see anything in the wifi settings remotely resembling ipv6.
justbenny2k said:
How do you do that? I don't see anything in the wifi settings remotely resembling ipv6.
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I use this: disable ipv6
The problem is that you would need to disable the ipv6 each time you connect to wifi, I'm pretty sure there are tutorials with how to get scripted set up to automatically turn ipv6 off when you connect to wifi, but I'm not sure where those would be and I'm not positive what you would search for to find that tutorial.
Anyway, hope I could be of help!
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I use this: disable ipv6
The problem is that you would need to disable the ipv6 each time you connect to wifi, I'm pretty sure there are tutorials with how to get scripted set up to automatically turn ipv6 off when you connect to wifi, but I'm not sure where those would be and I'm not positive what you would search for to find that tutorial.
Anyway, hope I could be of help!
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I did some googling after your initial comment about ipv6 and found on a Verizon forum the link to an app called DNSet. It seems to have worked for me. Hopefully this link will help others:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dnset&hl=en