All of the WiFi issues I have found seem so to be that the WiFi cant connect properly.
I have the opposite problem in that I am not often near free networks. When I leave my house, I turn the WiFi off on my phone.
So I will be watching something on youtube or updating mail at work and everything will just quit. I check the connection and the WiFi is back on and everything stopped because it is trying to connect to WiFi and not staying on my Sprint data connection.
How do I make it quit? I will be at work where there is a highly secured WiFi connection used by some of the more remote robotic systems. My phone will suddenly pop up and tell me that a WiFi signal has been detected and I will get better service by using that connection.
I only want to use WiFi when I turn it on - not when the phone suddenly decides to turn it on.
Thanks
Roxann
If you're on Sprint then you have an S4 and are in the wrong forum. This forum is for the S4 Active.
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Hi All.
I've got a problem on my International version of Galaxy S.
Sometimes when I restarted my phone, the 3G connection seems won't connect.
I tried to open Maps, market, browser, or any apps that use internet connection. But the 3G seems won't be able to be triggered to turn ON.
Funny thing is, that when I can find a wifi connection and connect to that wifi network, and disconnect the wifi afterward, then the 3G starts to be connected.
It seems that 3G can only be triggered by disconnection of a wifi network.
Can any one help me with this.
Thank you
Can you please clarify why 3G is disconnected in the first place? On my phone I never turn off 3G or WIFI but just let the phone switch on whichever it wants, this method has never given me any problems.
Geryatrix said:
Can you please clarify why 3G is disconnected in the first place? On my phone I never turn off 3G or WIFI but just let the phone switch on whichever it wants, this method has never given me any problems.
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I didn't, I just restarted the phone, and 3G never start as I mentioned before.
Here's a classic problem I've been having:
I have wifi enabled at home, and it works great. I walk out to my car parked on the street, and from here my phone still sees my wifi network, but it has a very weak connection and basically can't transmit any data. I open Google Navigation to get directions to drive somewhere, and the phone just sits there trying to find directions, or connect to server, etc.
It would seem that whenever my phone can find a weak or public wifi (which requires a login-screen and does not actually "connect" to the internet), then I essentially get no data connection whatsoever. Isn't there supposed to be a function in the phone that will automatically switch over to 3G or whatever data network is available to fill in the gaps?
This is really annoying me, as Minneapolis has public wifi everywhere, which my phone thinks is "connected" when its really not, so basically its a coin flip as to whether my data connection will work when I'm driving.
Try turning off Wi-Fi?
Of course, I do turn off wifi and the problem is gone, but I seldom remember to do it on my first time. It's most apparent and annoying when I do a voice command or voice search while driving, and then it says "connection error" and I feel like chucking my phone out the window.
If I had true 4G and an unlimited data plan, I'd probably never even bother with toggling wifi on, but as it stands now, with a 200MB plan, I really need to keep wifi on whenever possible.
Is this a common occurrence with Captivate, or Android in general? I ask because this issue just came up yesterday, and I just got owned by an iPhone4 user. We both wondered if it was going to rain soon, so we both opened our browsers, and I was stuck looking at this stupid public wifi login screen, and was putzing around with wifi, when BAM, he just shows me his iPhone with fully loaded weather radar, etc. Hence I wanted to get this issue resolved now more than ever.
Not sure if the phone has this setting but windows 7 has an option to turn auto connect to open wifi spots off. So you gave to manually connect.
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Hi all, i've been trying to search on google but without any luck, so i came here trying to be helped
The thing is: I can't get wifi hotspot working every time I turn that option ON my mobile data get's disconected and starts saying activating... and never gets connected again BUT if i turn wifi hotspot off it gets connected a few seconds before. People can get conected trough my wifi network but with no internet on it...
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Hello All,
I have a T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 stock. I am in an area with hundreds of wifi SSIDs and I connect to 2 of them. I have noticed that if I walk away from wifi connectivity it it goes to back to LTE but it will no longer connect back when I am back in range of the wifi..
I look at my wifi settings and see if I can scan for any wifi networks, but i get nothing..
I have to restart the phone or put it in and out of airplane mode to get it to work again..
Any Ideas? I do use wifi calling.
Have you looked at this thread. It's usually where I send people with wifi issues first
http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/galaxy-note-4-problems/11/
Hello!
I finally did the upgrade to the Urbane rom to get Wifi working but I dont understand what is going on.
I followed the steps on the OP exactly as described.
I see that under Wifi, it can connect to Wifi network at work that my phone is also connected to.
Still if I walk far from my phone, it loses connection and the Wifi is not allowing me to keep that connection as I expected.
Am I missing something here?
Have you turned on cloud sync in the Androidwear settings.