Phone Can't Detect Wireless Networks Anymore - Legend Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Problem still persists, unfortunately.
TL;DR: Wireless networks cannot be detected, tried some common remedies (listed below)
I've been having a really peculiar problem that's left me scratching my head since last night.
Yesterday evening, after my Legend had completed its charge, I briefly disconnected the Wifi to take a shower. When I had finished, I went into bed and turned on the Wifi for some evening use. What happened next was completely strange: no networks could be detected at all. I was in a location where many wireless networks could be detected, from neighbours and offices. Hell, I even had two routers in the room I was in! It's left my Legend completely net-crippled since its happened and I've been depending on mobile data. A bit bad, because I only have 250mb a month.
Things I've tried:
*Manually connect to the network (as if i had a hidden SSID)
*Reboot many times
*Toggle Airplane Mode many times
*Wipe cache and dalvik cache
*Reset the routers (which is stupid)
The only thing I haven't tried is a hard reset, something I'm avoiding until I purchase a new SD card.
Can anyone help? It would be greatly appreciated. Thank you all in advance!
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well, i have 2 suggestions for you:
1. delete all the wireless networks that phone saved in the wireless settings (that solved it for me), restart the phone and try to connect to a wireless network.
2. upgrade the phone's Radio.

You haven't posted what ROM you are using. Are you using CyanogenMod, stock (HTC Sense), or other ROM's?

My bad, I'll post more details if anyone needs 'em.
CM7, latest nightly (#176), it's been fine for a week now, 'til this.

Well that's the problem, you are using a nightly build. I've yet to have a problem with the wireless with the RC1 build. Yes, yes, I'm giving CM a go again.
If you want to use your phone for daily use, I would not use a nightly build. Those are strictly meant for testing and feedback purposes.

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Random Wifi Drops

I got my gTab on the original Woot deal, so I've had it a while, running Vegan 1.5.1.
The last 2 days, I've been getting random drops of Wifi. I'll be connecting and browsing, when I get a "page could not be displayed" error, and the Wifi icon disappears from the notification bar. After a brief time, it will reconnect, but then might go out again, at random.
At first, I thought it was my internet, or even my WAP. So I installed the Wifi Analyzer app, and noticed that when it drops I no longer see ANY WAPs, including those I'm not connected to. In settings it still shows Wifi on, but will switch to just "scanning".
Wifi had worked well until now. I thought it was because I had loaded the free Juice Defender app, so I disabled and then even uninstalled it, to no improvement.
Any help? Getting really bummed...
Well, it hasn't happened again in a few days, but I've been keeping my battery well charged (over 50%). I'm wondering if this is related. The last time it happened, I was around 40% battery. I'll let it run down again and see what happens.
Could there be some setting from Juice Defender that's sticking around, even though it's uninstalled?
you considered updating to vegan 7.0?
vegan-tab 7.0
also are you walking around or changing rooms while using the tablet? for me i walk around a building all day and noticed it doesn't like to jump access points. i keep the widget to turn wifi off then on on the screen when ever it acts up. can be annoying but it works, and not a hard fix to do.
Also make sure that the wifi sleep settings are set to never. I had the same issue and once I changed this setting it always stays on without any problems.
Thanks. I double checked that setting, and it is set to never.
I've had it go in and out whilst sitting still on the sofa. My wife sitting a few feet from me on Wifi with her laptop has no issues.
Would Vegan 7 help with this problem? I went with 1.5.1 because of the stability, and (I think) more apps compatibility. But I really don't know that much about the differences.
I am using VEGAn Ginger and the only issues I have found are with the camera not working great, but I do not use it so it does not bother me. I find it is a great ROM. I have the OC 1.4GHZ kernal it is has made the GTab run amazing. If you do switch to VEGAn Ginger remember to reboot as soon as it loads to the home screen, if you don't the load time can become long. I had to reflash mine as it was taking about 3 mins to load now it takes about 70 seconds.
Flash it to TNT 4.4 - should be fixing it!
I'm on TNT 4.4 and everything works great for me - start enjoying the tablet NOT just keep flashing every day TNT, Vegan, Harmony, GingerBread each has some weakness but I chose TNT 4.4 because it's based on the original/stock TNT 3588 and I'm able to run stock HomeDashBoard, News, Weather, Clock with TNT 4.4!
Remember, there is no security at all while using Android - you've been warned !
Good luck!
So it did this for a few days, then stopped. It has been working perfectly for the last few weeks, and it's definitely not battery related (I've had it down to 20% with no issues).
Then yesterday, it started again. Dropping all internet connections every minute or so, only to reconnect after a few seconds. Just enough to interrupt normal browsing.
I thought uninstalling the Juice Defender had fixed it, but it appears to be a coincidence. I also can't think of anything I've installed that should mess with the wifi.
Is this a known problem with Vegan 1.5.1? I would go to GB, I suppose, but don't want to go through the problem if it's hardware.
I may have figured it out. The problem is more frequent when I'm using the gTab downstairs. Well, we have a Cisco WET610N Wireless adapter downstairs to provide internet connectivity for our DirecTV receiver. Last week, I noticed it wasn't connected, so I reconnected it, and realized the problem recurred about the time it was started running again.
This evening, I was having problem even checking email, it was so bad. So I unplugged the WET610N, restarted the gTab, and didn't have another problem.
Assuming this holds, any ideas why this would be interfering? It doesn't bother my wife's laptop usage, nor any other device. If I have to choose, I will have the gTab connectivity...but I wish I didn't have to choose.
TarheelGrad1998 said:
So it did this for a few days, then stopped. It has been working perfectly for the last few weeks, and it's definitely not battery related (I've had it down to 20% with no issues).
Then yesterday, it started again. Dropping all internet connections every minute or so, only to reconnect after a few seconds. Just enough to interrupt normal browsing.
I thought uninstalling the Juice Defender had fixed it, but it appears to be a coincidence. I also can't think of anything I've installed that should mess with the wifi.
Is this a known problem with Vegan 1.5.1? I would go to GB, I suppose, but don't want to go through the problem if it's hardware.
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Restart your router. I guess it is router problem.
TarheelGrad1998 said:
I may have figured it out. The problem is more frequent when I'm using the gTab downstairs. Well, we have a Cisco WET610N Wireless adapter downstairs to provide internet connectivity for our DirecTV receiver. Last week, I noticed it wasn't connected, so I reconnected it, and realized the problem recurred about the time it was started running again.
This evening, I was having problem even checking email, it was so bad. So I unplugged the WET610N, restarted the gTab, and didn't have another problem.
Assuming this holds, any ideas why this would be interfering? It doesn't bother my wife's laptop usage, nor any other device. If I have to choose, I will have the gTab connectivity...but I wish I didn't have to choose.
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Spoke too soon. The WET610N is still off, but I'm back to dropped connections again.
TarheelGrad1998 said:
Spoke too soon. The WET610N is still off, but I'm back to dropped connections again.
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That's too bad, because I thought the cause of my problem might dovetail with yours.
I, too, have these random Wi-Fi dropouts (I can see kernel messages like, "[37511.008477] STA connect received 1", before it happens), but, I thought it was because of my screwy wireless router.
We got IPTV to the house a few weeks ago, and my ISP installed a crappy wireless router along with the connection. This router broadcasts 2 wireless SSIDs on the same channel and at the same signal-strengths (but different MAC addresses). One of the SSIDs is user-configurable. The other just can't be turned off or its settings changed. It uses the same channel as the primary, but, different (and non-modifiable) security settings.
When I saw your post, I thought we had the same problem--multiple wireless routers using the same channel and interfering with each other--but, I guess not.
Well, I'm beginning to believe that the gTab is just more sensitive to interference. Which could make sense since it smaller and has no external antenna. So your situation still might cause the issue.
I've set up another wireless router with a different setup/channel, just to see if there's any difference. So far, no disconnects, but it's too soon to tell for sure. Assuming this holds, then I'll assume it either the older router and/or interference.
I'm having doubts about my interference theory.
I looked at the timestamps of the "STA connect received 1" messages from the kernel (the number between the [ and ] is the time in seconds.microseconds since kernel boot) and I noticed that most of the time differences cluster around the 5-6 minutes mark. And, 5 minutes happens to be what my Screen timeout is set to in "Settings > Display".
I increased the timeout to 30 minutes and, so far, have had only 2 dropouts in the last 3 hours. This means that our problem might be connected to the gTablet's sleep/wakeup cycle (and debugging anything related to that subsystem is a b*tch).
Random Wi-Fi drops fixed!
I finally got tired of having my telnet connections into the gTablet drop every 5 mins, and had almost resigned myself to a few weekends of code scrutiny, when I decided to save myself some work. I checked if using different BCM4329 wlan firmware blobs would fix the problem. I decided to use the latest fw_bcm4329*.bin files from the Nvidia Tegra git source. I installed those *.bin files in /system/lib/hw/wlan/, and... my regular-like-clockwork Wi-Fi disconnects went away!
These firmware blobs are:
Firmware version = wl0: May 17 2010 22:38:50 version 4.218.223.1
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I run pershoot's kernel and he supplies newer blobs which drop my connections like clockwork. His firmware blobs are:
Firmware version = wl0: Dec 20 2010 19:21:39 version 4.218.248.18
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. They're the latest versions from the Code Aurora project. I don't think it's a problem using an older version, because I got a chance to look at Notion Ink Adam's wlan firmware blobs recently, and that tablet uses the older 4.218.223.1 binary blobs. That's good enough external validation for me.
See if the attached zip file also fixes your Wi-Fi disconnection problem. Install it the usual way using ClockworkMod. The zip file also saves your original files as /system/lib/hw/wlan/fw_bcm4329*.orig, so you can easily go back to them if you so choose.
Well, since I've been using this other WAP, I haven't had any problems. I can't call this "case closed" yet, since I also had good periods connecting to the old one, for whatever reason.
But...if it recurs, I'll give this a shot. Thanks!
rajeevvp said:
I finally got tired of having my telnet connections into the gTablet drop every 5 mins, and had almost resigned myself to a few weekends of code scrutiny, when I decided to save myself some work. I checked if using different BCM4329 wlan firmware blobs would fix the problem. I decided to use the latest fw_bcm4329*.bin files from the Nvidia Tegra git source. I installed those *.bin files in /system/lib/hw/wlan/, and... my regular-like-clockwork Wi-Fi disconnects went away!
These firmware blobs are: I run pershoot's kernel and he supplies newer blobs which drop my connections like clockwork. His firmware blobs are: . They're the latest versions from the Code Aurora project. I don't think it's a problem using an older version, because I got a chance to look at Notion Ink Adam's wlan firmware blobs recently, and that tablet uses the older 4.218.223.1 binary blobs. That's good enough external validation for me.
See if the attached zip file also fixes your Wi-Fi disconnection problem. Install it the usual way using ClockworkMod. The zip file also saves your original files as /system/lib/hw/wlan/fw_bcm4329*.orig, so you can easily go back to them if you so choose.
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Is the .zip placed in the root directory of the tab?
CosmicVagabond said:
Is the .zip placed in the root directory of the tab?
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Place it on the SD card somewhere then use CWM's "Install zip from SD card" menu item to install it.

Touchpad wifi issue

(Posting here as i cant post in the wifi thread in the dev forum)
Last week I tried Bricked ROM with the 0.4 and 0.35 kernel and wifi was bad. Once it went I had to do all sorts of things to get it back up and it used to go many times a day.
I'm on ClassicNerd 0.1.0 now and it is much better. I'll lose connectivity maybe once a day but can get it back usually straightaway by turning wifi off and back on.
With both roms i did ACMEUninstall, webos doctor and multiple wipes of data, cache and system.
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I've resorted to never resetting my touchpad. lol.lame I know but when it works it stays fine .....only until I reset.
sucks
Had a similar issue when my ISP upgraded my router to a virgin super hub ( its a re branded netgear one ) my solution was to disable the router function and connect my old belkin n600 play and now my wifi works and never disconnects even on the 5Ghz mode.
In my case I don't think it was a router issue. Both ROMs were used with the same router/channel as well as at the local Starbucks. BrickedROM had the problems I mentioned above with both routers and similarly ClassicNerd is pretty much problem-free with the same two routers.
It seemed that for whatever reason the WiFi would go to 'sleep' even though the OS thought it was working. So I would get the WiFi signal icon but it would never go blue or show any activity whatsoever. Once it had gone to 'sleep' though, it wasn't straightforward how to wake it up. Sometimes it needed some 'rest' so I was turning it off and back on after a few minutes, other times it would persist even after rebooting. I would even forget the network, turn it off, reboot, etc and repeating a few times but I never found a pattern that would work consistently! Very-very frustrating experience!
You talking about the bricked rom from feb02? I am currently running that (upgraded from cm7) with v0.35 kernal and don't seem to have any issues at all. Just a silly question, but can you connect in webOS

Wifi Periodically Dropping out

Ive searched the forums, googled, factory reset, messed about with *#0011# power save, rebooted/forgot router and I'm STILL having issues with the wifi dropping and reconnecting periodically (maybe once every 10/20 mins?) . Im on BLG8 which is as far as i can tell the latest firmware (im not rooted) for the UK.
Has anyone got a solution to this? The main reason is I use Skype a lot and the call will just drop (obviously) with the wifi drop outs.
No other device has issues with my wifi router.
Any help would be much appreciated
Cheers
Does it make any difference how far you are from the router? Does it always connect fine initially?
I'm having the same issue and i've tried every fix that has been suggested. I dont understand after spending the amount of money i did on this phone that i have to run through the dialer to get it to work properly sometimes. Then other times it still drops out and wont come back on for 5 to 10 minutes. I've changed roms, kernels, and wiped completely i dont know how many times and went back to stock. Still works sometimes and hangs up others. There doesn't seem to be a permanent fix for people lucky enough to have this issue still. My 30 day return is way up and gone so i cant send it back. Samsung cant seem to give me an answer. I'm at a loss for words.
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My 30 days was up, it's still been replaced under warranty. I took it to CPW who sent it away, it came back 'fixed' so I asked them to log into their WiFi... of course, they couldn't and the guy said he would order me a new phone but it would need to come from Samsung. My new one has blazing fast WiFi!
i have the same problem. i was hoping a new rom would fix it, but FWIR its busted. i get 2 bars MAX no matter how far i am from teh router. its fast enough, but it drops out constantly.
also my screen is sometimes slow to turn on from sleep.
im on vodaphone if that makes any difference.
Guys... I had a very similar problem with my phone.
First of all WiFi became very unreliable.. like yours. I changed ROM and it still persisted. I even went completely back to stock.. and it still persisted. Dropping out.. no reliable connection etc etc.
Then it started being really weird.. the touchscreen started responding intermittently. Sometimes I couldn't get it to unlock. And this was all on stock.. no root etc.
I was ready to send it back to be repaired.. and I came to the conclusion that there must be something staying the same.. even after a wipe / reflash. Maybe one of the other partitions was corrupt???
Now I'm not clever enough to investigate.. but I did come to the conclusion that a repartition may wipe everything and make it a real fresh install next time.
So I found an appropriate .pit file and stock ROM and used Odin to flash the ROM and partition the phone.
And it is now all fully functioning again.. no WiFi issues at all.
RTFM THO FFS! Potential for complete brick if you get it wrong
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just..want..to..delete this post.........and I can't...so there is now filler here....GG k thx bai
It seems to have improved with the latest JB leak, still every now and then but certainly better - i did a full factory reset + cache wipe in stock recovery (im unrooted etc). Still, would a modified kernel/modem fix this very common issue?
This problem is everywhere it seems.
OK so really weird update: my screen unlock is still a bit slow, but my wifi hasnt dropped for a few hours. i went through all the vodafone crap and updated/ran/configured it all, and now it seems fine. seemed vodafone wanted to verify my phone+sim details but couldnt over the wifi so kept trying to do it over the 3g, but couldnt do it quickly enough so the wifi cut it back out again. I have a headphone amplifier that is very sensitive to mobile phone signals. it beeps 4 seconds before i get a message or phonecall, and "ticked" at me whenever my wifi dropped out. its not ticked in hours.
TL;DR anyone on vodafone, run your "my vodafone" application and configure it all. might fix it.
Mine drops wireless a lot when connected to wireless A networks. It seems stable on wireless N networks. Anyone else notice A networks to be worse?
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WiFi Issues

So, I've only had my LGOG for a day and a half and I am having issues connecting with WiFi. At first it worked fine but when I left the coverage area and return a few hours later it would not connect. Tried turning off the WiFi but it kept turning itself back on. I reboot the phone and it works fine as soon as it boots up it connects the WiFi no problem. It is my work WiFi and I had no issues connecting to it from either my iPad nor my HTC One X that will soon find it's way to eBay thanks to this beautiful LGOG. If no one else is having issues, I will call AT&T and have them switch it out. I just wish there was an easy way to back up everything, I mean my home screens and app locations exc. It takes so long to set everything back up the way I find most useful.
WiFi on my device has been excellent.
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The Wifi performance of this device is unbelievable. I get the best speeds I have ever seen with any device including PCs. It's either a faulty device or maybe your work has strange security settings?
I had this same problem with my LGOG and my home wireless network. It just would sit and try to connect until I rebooted the phone.
That was on stock though. I have not had any more problems with it after flashing the base rom.
My work has standard WPA settings and it was connected fine yesterday. I left again during lunch and when I came back, same problem and had to reboot the phone. AT&T is sending me another one already and a free case. Can't be too mad about it I guess and at least the phone reboots fast.
Have you tried using the ATT smart wifi app? Fixed the exact same issue for me.
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I haven't had any issues connecting to wifi, but I've noticed the status bar icon showing low signal even though it's actually maximum signal.
This Has Happened To Me A Few Times
Yamahar6riding said:
So, I've only had my LGOG for a day and a half and I am having issues connecting with WiFi. At first it worked fine but when I left the coverage area and return a few hours later it would not connect. Tried turning off the WiFi but it kept turning itself back on. I reboot the phone and it works fine as soon as it boots up it connects the WiFi no problem. It is my work WiFi and I had no issues connecting to it from either my iPad nor my HTC One X that will soon find it's way to eBay thanks to this beautiful LGOG. If no one else is having issues, I will call AT&T and have them switch it out. I just wish there was an easy way to back up everything, I mean my home screens and app locations exc. It takes so long to set everything back up the way I find most useful.
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Twice My O.G. wouldn't connect to wifi networks even though it had connected to them in the past. I tried to turn it off and on and scan for the network that I am in range of and it wont show any networks it just says "not in range" when I am in range. So to remedy the situation I turned the phone off and then on. It has only done this to me twice but it's a real nuisance because both times I needed wifi. My phone is stock.
You're in a minority. This thing's wifi blows most other wifi implementations out of the water.
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Mramos860 said:
Twice My O.G. wouldn't connect to wifi networks even though it had connected to them in the past. I tried to turn it off and on and scan for the network that I am in range of and it wont show any networks it just says "not in range" when I am in range. So to remedy the situation I turned the phone off and then on. It has only done this to me twice but it's a real nuisance because both times I needed wifi. My phone is stock.
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Perhaps you need to swap out your phone
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I wish my wifi would stop re-enabling itself. It's chewing up my home bandwidth.
I have been having this issue as of late. It seems to have developed this habit in the last week or so. At first I thought it was Time Warner trolling me but it started happening at work. Something tells me it has something to do with the stock At&T Rom putting the wi-fi radio to sleep and not being able to bring it back online. Reboot fixes it most of the time but sometimes it takes a couple attempts. I have been hesitant to mod this phone still because I would really like to see CM working well before I flash. Also my instinct tells me another possible culprit could be IPv6 on certain routers. That, however, is far less likely unless someone with a decrapified Rom has experienced this issue as it would be a cross platform issue in this case. Anyone else have any insight? Otherwise it's time to get rid of the Att rom.
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I had this issue and disabled the at&t smart WiFi and it seems much better
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dx58soi7 said:
I have been having this issue as of late. It seems to have developed this habit in the last week or so. At first I thought it was Time Warner trolling me but it started happening at work. Something tells me it has something to do with the stock At&T Rom putting the wi-fi radio to sleep and not being able to bring it back online. Reboot fixes it most of the time but sometimes it takes a couple attempts. I have been hesitant to mod this phone still because I would really like to see CM working well before I flash. Also my instinct tells me another possible culprit could be IPv6 on certain routers. That, however, is far less likely unless someone with a decrapified Rom has experienced this issue as it would be a cross platform issue in this case. Anyone else have any insight? Otherwise it's time to get rid of the Att rom.
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Same issue here. This is my second LGOG and have been happy with both except for some minor glitches on both with the keyboard freezing up as well as with the WiFi not re-connecting after leaving the area. A restart normally fixed both problems. My first one bricked after rooting and removing all of the bloatware (the phone checks for certain apps upon booting to keep you from removing stock apps). Tried a fix but I couldn't get a Rom at that point as the phone had been out on the market for under a week. I haven't messed with it since but I may try a new Rom and be able to fix the WiFi and get rid of all the bloatware that way.
Just got this ROM running today. No more WiFi issues at all. Some minor ui bugs I am OK with.
The_Base_v0.7
The thread is from the sticky on this forum.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34424592
Seems like, as usual, At&T bloat ware is the culprit. I experienced the same on my Aria and Inspire. Hope this helps and good luck.
Also I had the keyboard problem but that went away when I switched to the Android default keyboard. One of the other reasons I decided to root was because rather than freezing, the Android default keyboard started typing then the auto correct broke and stopped displaying the words unless you touched the area you were typing in. It really bugged me when it started doing it right after I factory reset. Weird huh?
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LG Optimus G Wi-Fi Receiver Disconnect Issue
Funny...I've had some weird home wi-fi issues on two of these.
To explain, I bought mine in December, stock OS of course, and immediately noticed it turning off my wi-fi every time I tried switching between the two home wi-fi SSIDs I created when I upgraded to DD-WRT. This also occurred outside my house, but stopped shortly after the nearly-immediate Android OS upgrade came over (and forced me to install it, I might also note; I'd read the thing was just more AT&T bloatware, but two or three boots later, apparently I got no choice, and it auto-installed).
The good news was, somehow, this 'update' somehow stopped the thing from turning the wi-fi off when I switched between IDs (my base router has a 5G 2nd network which I wanna use when I'm around it, but DD-WRT won't support, as far as expanding it--thusly, I have another 2.4GHz signal I use and relay out around my yard).
That bad news is, though, that I screwed up the phone with the Root Toolbox (Lite) by merely fiddling with their bootanim settings on that original phone. And I mean bricked it, solid.
I'd never bricked any phone, so this ticked me off. Luckily, I was still within 2 days of my 30-Day Best Buy in-store replacement warranty, so I took it back, they fiddled too, and gave up on it.
Hence, my 2nd phone...which now, even after the system update direct from AT&T, still turns off my wi-fi every time I try switching to that 2nd SSID, so I'm left wondering if it was even the same update; I don't think I did anything else, and can't see it as a settings issue, because it did it right out of the box, and the first one stopped after the only system update before I got a chance to even figure ANY user settings out, much less any network ones.
So, now I'm 'going shopping' for 'some PlayStore app' that will skip this B.S. and automatically connect to the strongest home wi-fi signal (within reason--sometimes they're equally strong), without obnoxiously turning off my wi-fi receiver as I look at it.
This kind of malarky could spoil some phones for some people, but I'll struggle along due to the speedy quad-core in it [sigh...wah!].
I guess I'm a big baby, seeing as how I don't write one iota of code, but my personal haughty view is that any dedicated wi-fi devices should have better wi-fi connection than any Windows OS made...and, so far, this'n doesN'T!
What a dumb thing to let happen in such a potentially awesome phone...[AT&T!!!]
This might work or not but can't hurt to try. Apparently some people in the new snowleopard JB thread was having similar issues and for a few, changing the security from WPA2 to WEP worked. Although mines been good and fine on WPA2 but worth a try.
Using wep in 2013 is beyond retarded.
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DUDE! Senior Members here can be a little uppity and rude...even if they're completely correct.
Glad you called out the 'behavior', and not the 'member', though...
but enough of the technicalities...I'm still looking for solutions...beyond blaming AT&T (too easy), or even the strangeness of getting into blaming some weird kind of manufacturing errors (QC at best), I'm left waiting for a substantial OS update (like, oh a better place of decimal, perhaps?), or worse, an app...anyone look at the state (and sheer number) of 'wi-fi' apps? Anybody here can guess, they number in the thousands, and a Play search for 'wi-fi' gets you astronomically different results from 'wifi', even, so I'm not sure I need to be looking at that.
Maybe it's even somehow that, with the first phone, I noticed this, and somehow added my own home network to the AT&T Smart Wi-Fi 'bloatware' that came with the phone (not the worst evil they've ever done, so far, BTW--it does exactly what I imagined should be going on in the background while you're driving around, indexing locales with free Wi-Fi for you to choose to save later...an idea I would call 'Tarzaning', if you get my drift).
I'm gonna try changing two settings in the AT&T 'Smart Wi-Fi' bloatware to 'My Spots' temporarily, at least, to see if it'll latch onto my home stuff more aggressively. I just can't wait to report back my fantastically successful findings here (right after I buy the domain name 'snarkasm.net').
Oh crap...it's already taken.
Is the AT&T smart wifi thing enabled by default? I can't remember. I thought it sounded useful so I played with it a bit but ultimately I didn't like the way it worked so I disabled it.
Still wanted some way to auto-enable/disable wifi. I didn't have anything to go on, but I picked up "Smart WiFi Toggler" which seems to work well. It uses location-based rules (based on cell signals) by default. I also use AutomateIt to turn off mobile data once wifi has been on for 1 minute, and turn on mobile data immediately when wifi disconnects. I have no idea if this saves me any battery life, but I do it anyway.

Serious Wifi Connectivity Problem (Please help I'm dying)

so i have this problem for about 3 months now,
so I'll explain the problem I am facing,
I'm connected to wifi unless I'm an inch close to the router, so if I go away, the connection will be disconnected, however, in my work, I am connected to an access point which has put a big smile to my face, but apparently when I went back home, I faced the problem again, and I guess I would be connected to that only access point, which is the first time I've seen since i got this problem, all the routers/modems I tried to connect was a failure(saved, secured) since my phone met this access point.
I already tried Factory Reset, Flashing custom modem, *#0011#, deleting data/misc/wifi, changing settings on router and many many more as I've put an hour of fixing this every single day. none of this works. for what I recall, all I did was download an GPS app(I don't remember what it is) and then poof, wifi is doomed.
I have my iPad and my laptop connected and there's no issue with them, only on this phone.
I'm running 4.3 btw,
does anyone know how to fix this problem? my brain hurts a lot and I don't know what to do. please help I'm dying, thank you
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