So after dinner scanning of WiFi to see what a good channel would be I noticed today I still see AP's that are not in range, but are "seen" on the list as if they were.
Also, as pictured, there is no MAC address.
Is anybody else having this problem? How can I clear them?
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I have recently lost my signal from my WiFi at home but my phone still picks up the WiFi signals from the neighbors. I exchanged my first 3d for a new one but I still have the same problem. My ipod still picks up and uses the WiFi signal and was wondering if anybody knew why this maybe happening.
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Josh Talltree
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Mines been acting dumb too. In & out...
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Try resetting your router. Or try updating the firmware of the router. Also try forgetting the network in wifi settings and then try logging back in. Or do a factory wipe.
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just turn wifi on and off, no biggie, works pretty well.
Check out WiFi Fixer in the app market. Solved all of my problems.
Whoa, before you do all that other stuff.
So your ipod works with your router? And your phone connects to your neighbor's router? If so then most likely your router isn't a problem, nor is your phone.
Android's wifi stack does a really good job of automagically connecting to the best available wifi spot. Do you see your wifi router in the Wifi settings? If so, long press and connect to it. If you have authentication set, then it will prompt you for a password.
Let's start with that then go with more, if needed, and will probably need more information that you provide.
My phone doesn't even see my WiFi connection, it can see all the other connections only... I've traded my phone in not only for this problem but other problems and this problem still looms. I'm thinking its in my settings that were transferred from my other phone? I don't know, help please...
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My phone doesn't even see my WiFi connection, it can see all the other connections only... I've traded my phone in not only for this problem but other problems and this problem still looms. I'm thinking its in my settings that were transferred from my other phone? I don't know, help please...
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Man its might be your router. Have ya even tried just resetting the router back to factory defaults??? Its a tiny pin size hole on the back of your router "or at least it.should be" Henceforth, find a needle or safety pin and press the that button for like 10 or 15 seconds and wailt 2 to 4 min. After that go to your wifi settings on your phone and click on your network name and chose forget. Now look for your new network name and which should be an open and unsecured network. It should have the manufacturing abbreviation in the network name so if its say a belkin it might be -belkin123 unsecured- also it should be open because when you reset the router it erases all of the security. Also routers firmware should always be upgrade. Not saying this will solve your issue but it might and its a really quick way to rule out if its your router.
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Some of the "perm-temp" root scripts caused this, if you used some of the older ones, you may be experiencing this.
The solution to it was to "forget" all your wifi connections on the phone, power it off/battery pull, then reconnect.
Of course, if this doesn't fit your scenario, disregard.
I searched but couldn't find more people with this issue. My wifi is working pretty ok but often when I am downloading a lot of things at the same time (like installing many apps simultaneously from Market) my Prime will lose its wifi-connection for a few seconds. The connection then comes back and all is back to normal. This happens whether the wifi reception is good or bad.
Anybody else experiencing this?
Mine does it too.
Mine did when I was at home(not always when using market, but often). Fixed it at home by setting my router to 801.11g(only) instead of g, n combination.
At work(g, n) it always has been fine.
The thing is, my girlfriends HTC Legend always had connection stability issues when connected to our home router, and those problems are also solved now(our laptops had no issues at all). So i'm blaming it on compatibility issues with my router(Zyxel NGB-460n).
Did you try this?
In "Wireless & Networks > Wi-Fi
Select the specific connection you are on.
Select "Forget"
Select that connection and log-in again(input password if needed).
Some would reboot. I just re-connect. It only happened to me once.
Thanks for the suggestions. I have reconnected but that did not help. Changing the router settings I will not do, all my other units work with its current settings.
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Gnopps said:
Thanks for the suggestions. I have reconnected but that did not help. Changing the router settings I will not do, all my other units work with its current settings.
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It may be something to do with the market. It has happened to me, but only in market. Downloading large files from other sources never. Strange.
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For some reason, my location is incorrectly picked up as Kunming on my Xperia S sometimes.
I live in Ireland so don't know why that is happening.
Seems to be more frequent on home WiFi so I think it could happen when weak signal from WiFi network.
Anyone any ideas?
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brim4brim said:
For some reason, my location is incorrectly picked up as Kunming on my Xperia S sometimes.
I live in Ireland so don't know why that is happening.
Seems to be more frequent on home WiFi so I think it could happen when weak signal from WiFi network.
Anyone any ideas?
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I also have an incorrect location reporting only when I'm on my home Wi-Fi network. Still trying to figure it out, been like this since the introduction of jelly bean to my device..
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I also have an incorrect location reporting only when I'm on my home Wi-Fi network. Still trying to figure it out, been like this since the introduction of jelly bean to my device..
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You have jellybean on your device??
Use the thank button, it's there for a reason
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brim4brim said:
For some reason, my location is incorrectly picked up as Kunming on my Xperia S sometimes.
I live in Ireland so don't know why that is happening.
Seems to be more frequent on home WiFi so I think it could happen when weak signal from WiFi network.
Anyone any ideas?
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I've the same problem occasionally also. I don't believe it's a phone issue more, I think it's to do with the range of IP address your internet provider uses, IP ranges are assigned to countries/areas this is how I believe geo-location with wifi works.I'm assuming there's a database somewhere with IP address ranges and there approximate location. I power off my router each day so get a new IP each day, so the longest I have the problem is 24 hours. I'm with Vodafone, on a land-line and it tells me i'm in Switzerland ! Next power cycle and everything is back to normal.
I could also be completely wrong.
It uses Google's database to match your IP (or your hotspot's external IP) to a location. Sometimes it works great, sometimes less so. Not much you can do about it. It's probably weighted though so logging in to a local version of Google might help.
Hi all. At home I turn off my wifi when I go to work and when I turn it back on, my nexus 5 doesn't remember the password. My nexus S was the same. This recommends switching my router to WEP (it's currently WPA-PSK), however I'm not sure I actually CAN change this in my router settings. Shouldn't it just work anyway, or is it a router problem? Should I just stop turning off the router? This feels like it shouldn't be a problem: why can't the phone simply paste the password into the box for this specific router name & ID, rather than me typing it?
Thanks for any thoughts!
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Cross-post from mid Nov which got no replies on the nexus 5 forum.
Never had this issue and WiFi password should be stored in phone so I'm not seeing how its a router issue. But at the same time how often are you rebooting your router? I mean once a year is a lot to reboot a router
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Never had this issue and WiFi password should be stored in phone so I'm not seeing how its a router issue. But at the same time how often are you rebooting your router? I mean once a year is a lot to reboot a router
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Seems odd that it would be a router issue but that's what those guys reckon.
I turn it off when I go to work or away for the weekend. Was quicker to put reboot in the title! In any case, it turns off & on.
Could you just circumvent all this by leaving the router on? Modern routers consume so little power that the cost should be minimum and the headaches from not working should be gone
Having said that I have never had a phone forget the password to my network when I turn my router off, when you go into settings on your phone is the WPA password still there? It should be, I keep my passwords stored in Google servers so every time I change ROMs or devices I never enter the WiFi passwords to any network I often visit.... In other words your phone should store the password and remember it when you are in range of your router, power cycling it should not effect the phones memory of this password
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demkantor said:
Could you just circumvent all this by leaving the router on? Modern routers consume so little power that the cost should be minimum and the headaches from not working should be gone
Having said that I have never had a phone forget the password to my network when I turn my router off, when you go into settings on your phone is the WPA password still there? It should be, I keep my passwords stored in Google servers so every time I change ROMs or devices I never enter the WiFi passwords to any network I often visit.... In other words your phone should store the password and remember it when you are in range of your router, power cycling it should not effect the phones memory of this password
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I could and will leave the router on more, but this still definitely happen occasionally. Let's be honest, it's not the end of the world, but it does feel like a core bug.
Not sure whereabouts in settings the password would be / be visible? All the other routers I've ever connected to are there, I think, so the password memory function is otherwise fine. Which lends weight to this router/phone issue.... however it feels like it still ends up being a phone bug, since all it takes is for the phone to paste a saved string correctly. Wish I could get other people to replicate this but IDK how they would!
Is there an obvious option to store them on the google servers?
Open settings/WiFi/ and you will see all stored hotspots, long press anyone to see if it has proper info
You may have some setting in your router that tells it to disallow devices to connect after reboot, you can go through router settings and see what's going on there, often
192.168.01 or 192.168.1.1 just see your owners manual for proper settings, or go to the OEM website of router for some tips
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Open settings/WiFi/ and you will see all stored hotspots, long press anyone to see if it has proper info
You may have some setting in your router that tells it to disallow devices to connect after reboot, you can go through router settings and see what's going on there, often
192.168.01 or 192.168.1.1 just see your owners manual for proper settings, or go to the OEM website of router for some tips
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Good knowledge man, thanks! Didn't know about long-press. Password says "(unchanged)" but if I hit "show password", nothing shows.
I'll check the router settings, that sounds like a promising avenue. Cheers!
Best of luck!
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well I never had issues like these well It doesn't look like router issues because mobile is the one who stores passes
It seems like my phone sometimes isn't able to obtain an IP address over wifi. I can see in my router that is has been authenticated. The only way to solve this is a reboot.
I know it's not my router that's causing the problem, because I also had this problem at my parents house.
It started happening after I updated to .402.
Does anyone else have this problem?
AndyBroke said:
It seems like my phone sometimes isn't able to obtain an IP address over wifi. I can see in my router that is has been authenticated. The only way to solve this is a reboot.
I know it's not my router that's causing the problem, because I also had this problem at my parents house.
It started happening after I updated to .402.
Does anyone else have this problem?
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well i have a Z2, it isnt mine, it seems we have had the same issue with the 402 update but only on our secondary wifi router
i fixed this issue by folwing the steps below
>settings>wifi>(hold on your network)>modify network>show advanced settings>ip settings>change from dchp to static> fill in the relevant boxes
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I had such issues aswell