Despite hard resets, clearing cache and data of every Google app and services item my Ultra continually returns a 'cannot connect to the Google server" check your network settings when trying to connect to GNow or Google account. whether on Wi-Fi or network. Have a great T-Mobile signal.
I can make the same connections on my Nexus 7 and Samsung Note2.
At first it didn't happen out of the box, but had trouble connecting to Google+, so I hard reset then the connection pop-ups started.
Any suggestions?
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I'm not sure if it's Android or Transformer prime thing.
My google data (gmail, gcal) syncs properly and immediate when i'm @home with my wifi network, but refuses to automatically sync at the office wi-fi network.
The office network is freely available to the device, i can browse the net without any problems.
Can figure it out why the sync doesn't work.
I have noticed the same issue on mine except my home network sometimes has the issue too. I have resolve it by disabling the sync and then enabling it again. This method works for a little while then it seems to go into the no new notification mode. I have to manually refresh in gmail to get my new mail to show up. It is annoying. I even send test emails to both my phone and tablet, but it will not ccome through until it feels like it or unless I manually update. My xoom does not do that.
I have a sort of similar thing. All I know is that I'll be delivering pizzas while tethered. As soon as I get home, and turn off the tethering, my tablet connects to the home WiFi and gets one or more notification noises as it if wasn't syncing the same way when tethered. The oddity is that it doesn't know I'm on a mobile connection so it isn't trying to save bandwidth. I suspect there is something in the security or ports that makes it's connections to the home network different than when tethering, or when you are at work.
I can't speak to the issue regarding tethering, but for those of you having issues at the office, this is most likely due to firewall rules. I work for a cybersecurity software company, and have been fighting for them to address this as both my phone and prime suffer from the same thing.
If you have a good relationship with your IT/Corporate security people, try bringing it up with them.
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this is most likely due to firewall rules
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do you know if google sync services uses other than 80/443 port numbers?
Not only did I notice this same thing happening I also noticed emails I had are disappearing when not on home network and Wi-Fi tethering with my phone this is weird...... they disappear from my gmail application......
My amaze 4g was having many small problems like slowing down so i factory reset it and the problem is i can't connect to Play store to download any app i keep on getting this error "can't establish a reliable connection to the server" My wifi is working on the phone browser and everything i have changed date from auto to manual disabled background data tried everything i could think of nothing works pls help :crying:
I have a verizon hotspot for the road so I have connection while traveling. It always worked great, however now on Android 5.1, half the time when the phone connects to the hotspot, it asks me to "Sign into network". I click the sign into network, and there is nothing to sign into and it connects.
The problem is, I am trying to make it all automatic. When I lose data from my carrier, Wi-Fi is turned on and connects to the hotspot. That's when the "Sign into network" pops up. If I don't click the the sign into network notification within a couple minutes, Android flags that network as having no internet, and won't automatically reconnect until I forget the network and connect to it again.
Does anyone know why android keeps asking to sign in to the network when there isn't anything to sign into? When I click sign into network, it brings up the sign in activity, shows a loading bar, then the sign activity goes away and I'm connected.
Perhaps there is a way to automatically 'click' the "Sign into Network" notification when it pops up?
I solved it. I'm not sure why Android keeps wanting me to login (perhaps the verizon hotspot is logging every connection, and Android sees that as a captive portal). Every time I got the "Sign into Wi-Fi network", it was when I still had some sort of mobile data connection. Now, because Android switches to mobile data if you need to sign in to a wifi, it never tries to get internet on the wifi until the user actually taps the notification to sign in.
Now, if there is NO mobile data connection (both wifi and mobile signals have an exclamation mark), Android will keep trying to gain access to the WiFi without user interaction. Because of the initial confusion, Android thinks I need to login to the hotspot, but if it would check again, it would see that there is access.
So the solution is to detect if there is a notification for "Sign into Wi-Fi network", and if there is, disable mobile network data until the Wi-Fi network is connected. I did this in a bit of a different way for my application, but the concept is the same.
This is the solution for all of those apps that automate WiFi logins with real captive portals that broke with Android 5. The only downside is they would now require root in order to disable mobile data.
I have an LG G4 running stock Android 6. Been using the stock email client for years to connect to a google hosted email account, via their imap servers.
All of a sudden I get intermittent connectivity to imap.gmail.com over my wifi connection. The message 'The server is unavailable. Please try again" comes up all the time. If I turn on the Private Internet Access VPN the phoen connects fine, if I turn on cellular data - it connects fine.
I ran a trace route on the phone to imap.gmail.com and it gave me one hop which resolved to a Verizon host.
My desktop connects to the same servers and have not had email issues with it, seems isolated to the phone. So my thought is that there is not anything wrong with my local network here. The rest of the apps seem to work ok on the phone, so it doesn't seem to be a global wifi issue.
Any thoughts on further testing or ideas on what to try?
Some more diagnosis steps.
I installed K9 mail and it works fine.
I tried the native mail client app on another wifi connection without VPN and it worked.
I changed from imap.gmail.com to imap.googlemail.com and get the same result.
I am running out of ideas on things to check, beginning to think that I need to do another factory reset and see if that fixes the problem. Unless there is someway to adjust server timeout settings on the native client.
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I have an LG G4 running stock Android 6. Been using the stock email client for years to connect to a google hosted email account, via their imap servers.
All of a sudden I get intermittent connectivity to imap.gmail.com over my wifi connection. The message 'The server is unavailable. Please try again" comes up all the time. If I turn on the Private Internet Access VPN the phoen connects fine, if I turn on cellular data - it connects fine.
I ran a trace route on the phone to imap.gmail.com and it gave me one hop which resolved to a Verizon host.
My desktop connects to the same servers and have not had email issues with it, seems isolated to the phone. So my thought is that there is not anything wrong with my local network here. The rest of the apps seem to work ok on the phone, so it doesn't seem to be a global wifi issue.
Any thoughts on further testing or ideas on what to try?
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I have a well working wifi AP - actually a number of them. They are just fine themselves. Other ios, mac, windows etc devices auto-connect just fine to it.
I also have Xiaomi mi5 with MIUI 10 Android 8. I have a bunch of them. Even after a factory reset, network reset, ensuring auto-connect is on - it does not re-connect to filtered wifi when it is restarted or when it comes back from out of range distance.
Device says "connected, no internet" on first connection or manual connections after. DHCP is all ok, gets IP. network communication works.
I do understand that it says "no internet" because it tried to test with google servers and it failed. They are filtered here, and no i'm not in China. But the logic of "no google server"="no internet" is not correct. I am assuming that this is the reason it decides not to connect. But I am not sure. And also other android 7 devices don't have this issue.
I ran out of ideas. Any clues on how to make this work?