[Q] Wi-Fi suddenly stopped working? - Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Wi-Fi stopped working on my Captivate today. The device says it is connected but I am not actually connected to my home network. The network is fine because every other wireless device in the house connects and communicates. Specs:
Slim-I897-4.2.2.build.1-OFFICIAL (note: I was using RC1 when the problem started this morning. I decided to flash the new build just now to see if that would change anything but it didn't)
straosk semaphore 3.0.66
So far I've shut it down, removed the battery, told it to forget Wi-Fi connections and re-entered them, and restarted my router (although everything else attached to it continues to work just fine). The phone wasn't shaken, stirred, dropped, wet, or abused in any way. It just stopped connecting to Wi-Fi!
Any troubleshooting advice will be greatly appreciated.

badunc said:
Wi-Fi stopped working on my Captivate today. The device says it is connected but I am not actually connected to my home network. The network is fine because every other wireless device in the house connects and communicates. Specs:
Slim-I897-4.2.2.build.1-OFFICIAL (note: I was using RC1 when the problem started this morning. I decided to flash the new build just now to see if that would change anything but it didn't)
straosk semaphore 3.0.66
So far I've shut it down, removed the battery, told it to forget Wi-Fi connections and re-entered them, and restarted my router (although everything else attached to it continues to work just fine). The phone wasn't shaken, stirred, dropped, wet, or abused in any way. It just stopped connecting to Wi-Fi!
Any troubleshooting advice will be greatly appreciated.
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Backup your stuff (nandroid and such), factory reset and re-flash. My guess is that a setting or a file got corrupted.

BWolf56 said:
Backup your stuff (nandroid and such), factory reset and re-flash. My guess is that a setting or a file got corrupted.
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Late last night one of my kids told me her phone (Pantech) didn't have wi-fi, either. Right now I'm checking the network for interference since the laptop and printer are working fine wirelessly but the phones and Wii are not. I'll post what I find out after I figure out the issue. Thanks!

Check that they're all assigned IP addresses etc. DNS error most likely, probably due to DHCP not being released fast enough and network clogging up. Happened at our work not too long ago, hope this helps.

x0ne215 said:
Check that they're all assigned IP addresses etc. DNS error most likely, probably due to DHCP not being released fast enough and network clogging up. Happened at our work not too long ago, hope this helps.
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That was it, or something like it. I changed the router over to OpenDNS, ditto for my phone, and assigned a static IP to the phone. Worked fine after that. I have no idea what changed, but you got me going in the right direction. Thanks!

No problem,

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Wifi does not work

I have tried several roms, no go on any. Android doesnt work either.
(This is in Andriod 2.0.1) When I try to connect to wifi, it gets stuck on "Obtaining address..." then it finally just says "Unsuccessful". My network is open. No WPA or WEP or nothing!
Its not just Android, its not working in WinMo 6.1 and 6.5. It says its connected, but nothing will load in WinMo.
Radio version is 1.71.09.01
Just installed and working great.
However; When I try to connect to wifi, it gets stuck on "Obtaining address..." then it finally just says "Unsuccessful". My network is open. No WPA or WEP or nothing!
Its not just Android, its not working in WinMo 6.1 and 6.5.
Radio version is 1.71.09.01
This is showing up in my device list under my routers settings. It shows as inactive.
Kaiser
Connection Type: Wireless (802.11b)
IP Address: 172.16.1.34
IP Address Allocation: DHCP
IP Address Type: Private (NAT)
Hardware Address: 00:18:41:9D:A7:A9
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I tried restarting my router, same thing. I have 3 other computers on the network using wireless with no problem and a iPod touch. I have no idea whats casuing this.
Thanks in advance for any help!
That's strange because my kaiser has just done exactly what you have described there, and it was working fine yesterday. No clue why it's happened but reading your post suggests that perhaps it was a timed event of some sort, if yours happened on the 21st too. I'm using the same radio version. I'll try another tomorrow.
EDIT: Well changing the radio didnt work. Neither did changing the date back a few days just in case it was a time limited problem (was a long shot). Guess it's a hard reset time...
stuntdouble said:
That's strange because my kaiser has just done exactly what you have described there, and it was working fine yesterday. No clue why it's happened but reading your post suggests that perhaps it was a timed event of some sort, if yours happened on the 21st too. I'm using the same radio version. I'll try another tomorrow.
EDIT: Well changing the radio didnt work. Neither did changing the date back a few days just in case it was a time limited problem (was a long shot). Guess it's a hard reset time...
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I've hard reset twice, no go. I also changed my radio back to 1.65 something and that didn't work either!
I'm stumped to as what it could be.
Yup im stumped too. I've reverted back to a 6.1 stock rom and tried stock radio and other radios and it's still not working at all. So evil.
Anyone?
Really would like my wifi working!
chmod 0755 /system/etc/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-run-hooks
chmod 0666 /system/etc/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-run-hooks/*
That fixed it. Are you also experimenting with a custom filesystem/partition setup?
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This fixed it for someone else, im quite familiar with chmoding files etc.
Just how to I navigate to these on my phone? I can't find them.
EDIT:
I had a chance today to try out another router/isp at a relatives house. It connected and wifi worked fine.
It has to do something with some settings of my router, more specifically how it assigns a IP since it stops at obtaining a IP?
Well I did the following and managed to fix mine:
Re-added all the MAC addresses to my router's filter list. The addresses were identical as they had been before I re-typed them in, but refreshing them seemed to allow the kaiser to connect up once more. I don't understand how it became "corrupt" in this way because I'm the only one with access to my router settings and I hadn't changed anything in it for months.
My router is a Belkin Pre-N 2000UK model.
Hope you manage to fix yours. Good luck.

[FIX] WiFi connectivity issues with phiremod/CM7

This continued 'dropping and reconnecting' to my WPA/2 has been driving me nuts and I found the holy grail for my problem to share.
During the course of troubleshooting I:
1. updated router firmware
2. changed security from wep to wpa to wpa2
3. hard coded the nook mac address to enabled, even though there was no block setup.....
4. YadaYada.... pullin my frickin hair out then the moment of calrity
When I observed 'connected devices to my wireless I noticed that all other devices in da house had typical host names like laptop1, server1 whatever and the host name for the nook when attempting to connect was, and I quote
'android-873iurhfier98734598'
or in other words a dash with a huge random number/letter sequence that showed up as funky 'alien' ascii characters to the router.
So the fix was:
goto settings
goto applications
goto development
goto device hostname
dropdown to edit and backspace(erase) the dash-----bull****
I ended up with a host name of android
went back to wifi settings, forgot and reconnected and BAM
Done deal.
Hope this helps some of you who are having wifi problems.......
I believe this is related to certain wireless routers being unable to translate the characters into something other then gibberish ascii characters it believes its seeing????
whatever I dont care anymore....
didnt fix it for me....
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spoke too soon. worked for about 5 minutes and then i was back at the same boat
yourm0m1 said:
didnt fix it for me....
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Hmmmm,
I have a belkin N1 wireless router and did update to the latest firmware. I did change several settings during the course of getting my issue resolved as follows:
Radio = 11g
Bandwidth = 20Mhz+40Mhz-auto
QOS = OFF
Authentication = WPA-PSK+WPA2-PSK
Encryption = TKIP+AES
obscure PSK = OFF
hopefully these will help..............
mooja said:
for the love of god and all that is holy, this fixed my issue.
if you were here id give you a beer or something, this is outstanding and i will probably love you forever
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Easy there big fella.............. glad it worked for you
mooja said:
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spoke too soon. worked for about 5 minutes and then i was back at the same boat
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Try the settings I gave in post #4
I have been running consistent for several hours now.....
with the .29 kernel and cm7.0.2 i dont have any issues, so i dont feel the need to screw with the router....ill wait or deal
yourm0m1 said:
with the .29 kernel and cm7.0.2 i dont have any issues, so i dont feel the need to screw with the router....ill wait or deal
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I had issues with cm7.0.2/3 stables and phiremod 6.2, .29 kernels until I stumbled on my fix. However this also works well for me with the 2.6.32, beta 3.1.
FYI, I have been running all of these off SD, my emmc is 1.01 rooted and very stable.
Dude, you are a lifesaver. I've been running into this problem frequently and it's sort of a kiss of death for WiFi when it happens and I have to re-do the whole CM7 SD Card. It's working perfectly now though after I just had a card fixed pretty much perfectly.
Thanks for posting this...
I didn't have any connection-disconnection type WiFi problems, but I went ahead and shortened the name to just android. What it fixed for me is the YouTube on Phiremod 6.3. Previously, any clip would stop with an error message. The progress bar of loading the clip ahead of the video playback was moving slowly at the beginning, but then jumping to the very end, and when the playback was at the "jumping point", it was giving me an error. Now, after this "fix", the bar moves along slowly all the way to the end, and video never stops with an error. Even if the playback catches up with the bar, it just pauses and waits for more to be loaded (mainly for HQ clips, occasionally).
Thanks again for this "unexpected" YouTube fix
FYI, I'm no longer able to get WiFi on the 108 Nightly. I tried this sequence again and haven't had any luck. Looks like a full wipe/install again.
EDIT: Just turned off the "Network Notification" and it's working fine again. Strange, but it keeps me from having to wipe AND my WiFi is working again. I hope that helps someone else.
Well since everyone is posting what worked for them, I figure I might as well too
I started getting this problem yesterday, never had it in the week up till then.
Problem started when I changed did a factory reset on my Belkin router (yes I know Belkin sucks) and changed the security to WEP (I know, I know, WEP sucks too) so that we could connect to XBox Live with an ancient xbox receiver thing (xbox was hardwired in our old apartment, and I'm not buying a new xbox just for freaking built in wifi it should have had in the first place lol).
Enough in the way of background. Suffice to say, I was having the wifi drop issue on my nook, but the xbox, wii, and two laptops were fine.
Last night I tried flashing back to stable CM7, n108, n106, and n85. No go. Also tried the honeycomb port from SDK 11. No go.
I changed the device name in applications -> development to "android" and turned off notifications when there was an available wifi hotspot. Still no go.
Changed about every wifi my POS Belkin had, still didn't work.
I flashed back to stock 1.2 with no root and no CWM, and wifi was still turning on and off.
I did two things since then and one of two things fixed it; not 100% sure which.
1. This morning I downloaded the software for my router from Belkin and reloaded it. Before I could test it, I had to rush off to work.
2. At work I rerooted, reinstalled CWM, and loaded n110, and when I got home IT WORKED!
Seems most likely to me that reloading the router software is what did it, although it may be n110 that did it.
So anyway, for everyone who is as desperate as I was last night, here's two more things to try.
Here was my fix to my issues
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1134675
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I'm not sure if this has been meantioned or not.......I have NO problems when tethering from my phone. Its only when connected to my router. Also I ran a couple of shows from Netflix to see if it would hold a connection from the router. Both shows ran perfect. But as soon as I tried searching on the browser it stopped working. I can then at that point wait it out or disconnect and reconnect. But again it works flawlessly tethering from my tbolt using wireless tether.
quai said:
I'm not sure if this has been meantioned or not.......I have NO problems when tethering from my phone. Its only when connected to my router. Also I ran a couple of shows from Netflix to see if it would hold a connection from the router. Both shows ran perfect. But as soon as I tried searching on the browser it stopped working. I can then at that point wait it out or disconnect and reconnect. But again it works flawlessly tethering from my tbolt using wireless tether.
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See if the settings in my above link help
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I can say this forum helped tremendously. Editing the Nook hostname fixed my WIFI issues. I have a Linksys WRT610N V1 with WPA2-Personal TKIP/ASIP with no issues now. All I did was make this change... Excellent connectivity now.
This is THE most frustrating issue that remains (for me) using the NC . I've tried most everything here at home to get a stable continuous connection, and end up failing.
Took it into work yesterday & sniffed out an open wifi WAP there, showed only one bar, yet it connected & played Netflix,Pandora, etc flawlessly.
well, just now reset my router (TP-Link wr1043N) & upgraded it's FW, and it is now allowing Netflix streaming. Holding breath, fingers crossed, etc
christoophat said:
This is THE most frustrating issue that remains (for me) using the NC . I've tried most everything here at home to get a stable continuous connection, and end up failing.
Took it into work yesterday & sniffed out an open wifi WAP there, showed only one bar, yet it connected & played Netflix,Pandora, etc flawlessly.
well, just now reset my router (TP-Link wr1043N) & upgraded it's FW, and it is now allowing Netflix streaming. Holding breath, fingers crossed, etc
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Well at least you know it's a router issue, hopefully you'll have the same experience as me, perfect connectivity ever since the firmware reload here.
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SCrid2000 said:
Well at least you know it's a router issue, hopefully you'll have the same experience as me, perfect connectivity ever since the firmware reload here.
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agreed. NC is charging now, but hoping that this issue is over for good. Thanks for the idea to look at the FW as a solution
Strange. I was using build 120 with my router with no issues, then after a few days it stopped working and would not reconnect even after a reboot. Forgetting the connection and recreating it didn't work either. However making the connection not use AES worked.
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[Q] Phone will connect to open wifi network but not secure ones

Had my phone for a few months now and recently found that it can't connect to my secure network at home.
When I turn wifi on I get the dreaded connect/disconnect message while it constantly tries to connect to my network. If I leave it on then the battery will drain overnight while the phone tries to connect. I have an iphone which connects to the network no problem. As does my laptop etc
To try to fix this I deleted all my new apps, especially the push ones which give me news updates, etc but this has made no difference.
The weird thing is if I turn off my router's security then the phone will connect and works perfectly fine. I've tried using all the different security settings (even WPS) with new passwords etc and everything seems to setup fine on the phone except it just doesn't want to connect (or more accurately stays connected for a microsecond).
If I go back to an open network it connects immediately and stays connected.
I think this is the root cause of the wifi connection problems that many other people are getting. But I'm at a loss to try to understand why it won't pick up a secure network but works fine otherwise.
My phone is using 2.2.1 and has been rooted
Any thoughts?
I think this is the root cause of the wifi connection problems that many other people are getting. But I'm at a loss to try to understand why it won't pick up a secure network but works fine otherwise.
My phone is using 2.2.1 and has been rooted
Root the problem highly unlikely ..
Secure home network test .
Remove security from Router that is no password .
Remove that connection from phone .
Reboot phone let it pick up router and connect .
If it does then delete reset router password and add in phone .
jje
Thanks for suggested fix. I'll give it a go and let you know if it worked.
Root was a bad choice of word..... I meant that while looking for a solution to my wifi problem I noticed many other people complaining that they can't connect to a wifi network for one reason or another and I was thinking that maybe broken security is a common cause of many wifi connection issues.. In my case there was nothing physical at all to suggest that security was an issue, especially since all my other devices work fine on the same network.
Cheers
Hi, tried your suggestion but I still cant connect. The first time I rebooted the phone it knocked out my internet connection! I've setup a static IP address for my PC and the phone was insisting on trying to connect using the same address and creating a conflict. I fixed that so that's not the issue.
This is what I've tried..
I checked to make sure DHCP was enabled in the router, rebooted everything. No luck.
I tried adding an IP Address Reservation for the phone and assigning a dedicated static IP Address. No luck either
I tried connecting the device using WPS. It all went as it should - my router saw the device, added the mac address to the list of devices etc. The phone acknowledged the handshake. But again it still wont connect.
I checked the router log and it says "DHCP IP: (192.168.1.2)] to MAC address B4:07:F9:336:3D, Tuesday, May 24,2011 03:08:48" which I think is what it should say.
OK I've just fixed it!!! Or at least its connected.
All along I've been securing the network with WPA2-PSK. I just changed it to WEP and the phone connected immediately. I hadn't considered WEP because I read that its not that secure and I do all my banking etc through my PC.
I've tried all the other security options and only WEP works with the phone. I suspect its a compatibility problem between the phone and my router (a Netgear WNT834B v2) because both the phone and router work independently but not very well together. There's plenty of posts discussing the Galaxy S connecting to WPA networks so it can do it.
Now, after trying all the other security options. It won't connect again even on WEP. Bummer. It is acting slightly differently in that its trying to acquire an IP address instead of simply not connecting, although it doesn't seem to be able to find one.
I need to try this on a friends network and see if the router or the phone is to blame. I've no idea... but the phone's a bit too touchy for my liking
I had a similar issue, I had to reflash the ROM to get it to work. Backup all your contacts and stuff and then do a full factory resetting. See if that helps, if it doesnt, reflash the ROM. It should work.
Well I've spent the last few days looking into this issue and it's considerably more widespread than I first realised. The problem is that while many people have a wifi connection issue we all seem to have variations on a theme.
As I say in my case the phone will connect and stay connected to an open network but won't touch a secure one. I tried many suggested fixes and nothing's worked so I am now trying a factory reset.
A couple of questions: there appears to be two ways to do this, a factory data reset through the phone menu; and a hard reset using a combination of volume buttons, etc. The hard reset seems to be the deeper of the two.
When you say full factory setting which one did you mean? I am currently data resetting and therefore using the "authorised" Samsung reset
But how long does this process take? My phone has had a black screen and been vibrating every 10 seconds or so for the last hour. It's getting quite hot and there appears to be no end in sight. Has the phone hung or something? If it has how do I get out of this without bricking the phone? It's beginning to concern me because I'll have to do something real soon.
As an aside, in my search for a solution I found something that might help someone people (it didn't work for me). According to the bloke who posted it, the problem for everyone is that the wifi drivers have not been installed properly and if you enter *#*#526#*#* on your keypad it unlocks a service access that reinstalls the wifi driver. I tried it and the phone told me the software was installed successfully but no change.
Waited long enough so pulled the battery out and restarted the phone. I get the startup screen but after that the screen goes black and it vibrates again every ten secs and I can't get in.
Have to try the other reset.....
Things are going from bad to worse..
Have managed to start a full factory reset using the volume, power and home button but it's gone back into the black screen and vibrating every ten seconds.
I know Im going off topic here but Ive now reset the phone, wiped the cache, tried to apply the sd card update (aborted because it can't find the directory) and it always comes back to the black screen and vibrating every ten secs.
Am now trying to reflash the rom. Oden reports that the flash was successful but the phone wont reboot. I tried a couple of times - one with Re-Partion checked and the other unchecked but neither will reboot. What could be causing that? I somehow remember that my firmware was JPH but I could only get hold of JPK. Could that be the cause?
I seem to have solved all the issues at last. Thought it was going to be a bit over my head for a spell.
Once I discovered that the only way I was going to get into my phone was by flashing the rom the first problem I came across was I didn't know which firmware my phone was using previously, apart from the fact it was 2.2.1 and from Asia. I guessed wrongly and after "successfully" flashing the phone it wouldn't reboot. I then noticed that there were only three variations of the 2.2.1 firmware for my region. The second one I tried went a little further than the first but I got an error message about the SD card. The third one installed no problem.
So I instantly checked the wifi signal and the phone connected to the secured network. And stays connected - so far about an hour and a half.
It's amazing how the phone deteriorated the way it did. Hope it doesn't do it again.
Thanks for any help/suggestions

[Q] Wifi issues on CM 10.1

Hello mates, this is my first time ever posting on the forums, so feel free to call me a newb
So here's my problem. I have been using [JZO54K]_android_4.1.2_v5_oficial_stock_rom on my samsung I9000 for a while and was quite satisfied with how it was working, but I always had a problem with the camera not focusing properly on the moment when a picture is taken. So I decided it's maybe time to try out CM 10.1 (i usually stay away from CMs because i had problems with it freezing or being slow or rebooting without me doing anything on it) hoping it would be a good and smooth experience. So I followed the thread and the instructions precisely (it's not my first time flashing a rom, by any stretch of the imagination). Everything went well, signed in with my google account, google play started restoring my account to the phone, installing the apps and so on and suddenly it stopped. The wifi icon turned from blue to gray, which i know means that it's not getting a connection. So i reset my router, connected to the secondary router in my home and still a gray icon. All my computers in the home work fine, so it's not an internet connection problem. My data plan is out of mb's, so that's noot gonna be an option for me.
So, then i tried opening the browser on the phone, keeps trying to connect, doesn't get anywhere. So i decided to go back to my original rom and guess what? I have the same exact problem. So i tried flashing and reflashing both for a few times, got tired of it. Tried factory reset from the phone's menu, tried clearing everything, all caches, dalvik cache, nothing worked. So i'm stuck with a phone with no internet connection over wifi.
If anyone else had this problem, please help. Obvious stuff will not help me, as I know my way around the block, not that new to this. But i have already tried all the stuff you would get on a google search (like checking if sync is on or opening youtube and all that other stuff)
Thanks in advance, in the mean time, i will be flashing the stock rom with odin and gradually upgrade back up to probably elite's rom.
I've also added a screenshot with my baseband and all that info
lucian.bogos said:
Hello mates, this is my first time ever posting on the forums, so feel free to call me a newb
Thanks in advance, in the mean time, i will be flashing the stock rom with odin and gradually upgrade back up to probably elite's rom.
I've also added a screenshot with my baseband and all that info
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So i have just flashed 2.3.6 using ODIN, having the same problem. Will connect to wifi, all internet applications can't get a connection. (and yes, i did check the date and time, in case someone was wondering)
So i have managed to figure out and solve the problem. it wasn't actually an issue from the phone. i tethered another device and managed to get a connection with wifi. it was an actual issue with the way my routers are set up. i have a main router that broadcasts a certain DHCP which is connected to another router that just acts as a bridge. the main router broadcasts in an ip range of 192.168.0.100 to 192.168.0.199 and the secodary router (which i connect to using my phone) that acts as a bridge, usually, if it were not configured to act as a bridge, it would broadcast in ip addresses ranging from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.199; both routers broadcast a different SSID, btw. so the main idea is that, any device that would get an internet connection in the house should have an ip address in the format of 192.168.0.xxx, and this is where the interesting part comes in.
after flashing and reflashing a few times, i started looking into the settings for the wifi on the phone and noticed that it was picking up an ip address of 192.168.1.66. the possible explanation would be that the main router might have stopped broadcasting the DHCP to the secondary one, and the secodary one decided to give it an ip address, hence the 192.168.1.66. but this still doesn't explain why even after reflashing the phone a few times, it still kept the same ip address, which is not suppose to happen, and even if i tried to connect directly to the main routers' SSID, it would still give an ip address of 192.168.1.66.
anyway, managed to get it working, finally decided to go back to elite's rom (after benchmarking on CM10.1, i noticed i get lower scores than what i would get on elite's). and i wasn't suppose to hard reset the phone, i was suppose to hard reset the routers, change the SSIDs on both which is easier and faster to do that anything on a phone.
I don't think that this would apply to anyone else, i guess it was just a freak accident in my home, but hey, if you ever get problems like the one i had, you might want to look into your routers as well

WiFi Calling and Network Issues after Lollipop Update

Got a strange WiFi problem after upgrading to Lollipop.
After upgrading to Lollipop I noticed that my WiFi calling said that the service wasn’t available on this network (I’m on Time Warner). Hmmm. Everything worked fine on KitKat. Upon further investigation, I noticed that I couldn’t go to certain websites, others worked fine. Using the stock explorer favorites for example, I could go to CNN, facebook, etc, but not Sprints own Vision site. I have some security cameras and could not go to D-Links website either. Speedtest.net did not work, said network communication problems. Turning off Wifi allowed me to go to any of these sites without issue. Play Store and email work fine.
RUU’d Lollipop just to make sure something funny didn’t happen on the first install. Same results totally stock, not rooted or anything.
RUU’d KitKat. Everything works as it should.
Went through my router’s settings looking for anything funny, all looks good (I’m not a novice at networking). Didn’t expect to find anything though, since it all works fine on KitKat.
From the currently install KitKat (with working WiFi calling and everything else) I took the OTA for Lollipop. WiFi calling stayed working now, but I still can’t go to some websites. It makes no sense. Doesn’t matter if it’s a secure site or not. Some work, some don’t.
Rooted, went into recovery, wiped everything and installed Bad Boyz rom (my daily driver). Back to no WiFi calling again. Obviously not the ROM though since stock RUU acted the same way.
Wife has non-HK M8 still on KitKat and everything is fine with her phone.
While at my mothers house and my phone on Lollipop, everything worked there (WTF??? She’s on Time Warner too). This points back to my routers/network, but yet why is KitKat working on all devices? Different access point to Time Warner’s network? She has an ancient Netgear router, I have two fairly new ones. I have rebooted, and completely powered down my cable modem and router too, made no difference.
Looked at the host file in /system/etc. Don’t know if it would make any difference or not, but it looks fine. Exactly like the KitKat host file.
I have the HK version of this phone btw.
Anybody have any suggestions? Any pertinent info I left out?
I've tested my wifi calling, all is good...only thing I could suggest is backup your router config & factory reset to test
O.M.J said:
I've tested my wifi calling, all is good...only thing I could suggest is backup your router config & factory reset to test
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I thought about this too. I actually have two routers, same SSID, different channels, to give me coverage throughout the whole house/yard/shed/etc (and all my configs for everything, routers, cameras, printers, etc are always backed up. I tend to experiment a lot. Comes in handy... lol).
I have a spare router also router. I was going to try it on different SSID and channel and see what happens. Just got tired of messing with it yesterday... lol
Thanks for confirming about the only step left.
fgr said:
I thought about this too. I actually have two routers, same SSID, different channels, to give me coverage throughout the whole house/yard/shed/etc (and all my configs for everything, routers, cameras, printers, etc are always backed up. I tend to experiment a lot. Comes in handy... lol).
I have a spare router also router. I was going to try it on different SSID and channel and see what happens. Just got tired of messing with it yesterday... lol
Thanks for confirming about the only step left.
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I have the same setup. Main router w/ another setup as an ap. Same ssid's diff channels. Sounds like a router issue to me. For me, L actually works better in regards to wif/wifi calling handing off between the two routers as I move thru the house.
chas123 said:
I have the same setup. Main router w/ another setup as an ap. Same ssid's diff channels. Sounds like a router issue to me. For me, L actually works better in regards to wif/wifi calling handing off between the two routers as I move thru the house.
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Lollipop is currently "Optimizing Apps", going to go see what happens when I use my spare router. Going to leave everything at defaults and see what happens.
Just seems so weird that KitKat works flawlessly (on two different M8's) and lollipop acts strange.
Anywho, I'll know more later this afternoon. I'll post up results in case anyone else has similar issues.
What kind of routers do you have? Are you using 2.4 or 5 Ghz?
Also, I'm using static IPs for most everything. Do you use Static or DHCP?
I have the fios supplied actiontec router set to .1.1 and a linksys set to .1.2
I am using 2.4G
Success !!!
Okay, got it working.
Attached spare router to cable modem and connected to it - Everything works
Disconnect spare router and attached old router - factory reset it - Everything works
Restored my backed up settings to old router - Problems, same as before.
Reset again and re-entered all my settings manually exactly as they were before, and now everything works
Hooked my second router back up, everything still ok :good: walk around switching between routers, all is fine.
I guess it was just "one of those things".
Unfortunately, I have a fairly large network for a home, a 2nd router, 6 desktops, 2 tablets, 5 phones, a TV, 5 IP cameras, 2 printers and 2 network drives. I am picky about things and assign static IP's to them. Entering all that back in took a minute or two.
Thanks @O.M.J @chas123 for your replies.
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Okay, got it working.
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Hey, I got the same issue... HTC One M8, now on Lollipop and not working properly on my Netgear WiFi anymore. Some apps can't connect to Internet it seems. I think it has to do with OAuth protocol. It works perfectly on other WiFi routers. And also my Google Nexus on Lollipop works fine on my Netgear WiFi. Its just the combination HTC One M8 on Lollipop and my Netgear Router and only for some apps (I suspect those that use OAuth) ... Very weird.
You say you fixed it by resetting your router and manually re-configuring it. Will definitely try that!
I was only hoping for a fix from HTC as I though they messed up the Lollipop build...
Will let you know and if it works, I'll send this post to both Netgear and HTC as a fix procedure...
Thanks!
And indeed... Wow. One of those things huh. Netgear said it was an issue caused by HTC. HTC just said the issue was known and the next patch would fix it... Have patience...
I simply reset my Netgear router to factory settings and manually configured it again.
Wow. Thanks all!
I'll see if I can vent this to Netgear and HTC (although I doubt if I can get past first line of support filters... Oh well. Trying is the least I can do)
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