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Ran into an issue with wifi on stock DK28. Wifi stopped working after two months on stock DK28. The settings>wireless and network>wifi settings menu shows "Error," and remains unchecked and grayed out, even if I try to toggle wifi on or off.
Other than the occasional reboot, the only changes I've made were to install the DialerOne app and Handcent, though I don't know how those could be related.
I did find these topics on the issue, but no solutions:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=851934&highlight=wifi+error
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=9630680&highlight=wifi#post9630680
Perhaps I need better search-fu, or just someone who can point me in the right direction.
Thanks in advance.
Happens all of the time on all of the roms I have tried that use DK28 as a base. One of the most annoying issues I have dealt with.
I've seen people report that, but it hadn't happened to me yet. Did you ever find a workaround?
Happens to me a lot. I find it happens most when I turn WiFi off after loosing my connection (ie leaving the house and then turning it off after I go out of range). This isn't 100% though. A reboot always fixes it. Sometimes an Airplane mode fixes it too, but not always.
I am one fo the fortunate ones that has not ran into this issue.
bjhill2112 said:
Happens to me a lot. I find it happens most when I turn WiFi off after loosing my connection (ie leaving the house and then turning it off after I go out of range). This isn't 100% though. A reboot always fixes it. Sometimes an Airplane mode fixes it too, but not always.
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Airplaine mode and reboots haven't fixed it for me, but a battery pull did.
Thanks for the help, everyone.
It happens to me a lot after I shut off Wifi (as mentioned above).
I just do a power off and power on to fix the problem.
This method avoids having to reboot the phone to re-enable broken WiFi after a period of time.
Temporary fix/workaround is goto > Settings > Wireless and network > Wi-Fi settings > toggle on "Wi-Fi" checkbox and wait for services to restart.
Thanks for the suggestion. I should have explained further in the OP. When the setting showed "Error" I could not toggle Wi-fi on or off, e.g. I couldn't check the box you suggest. The option remained grayed out.
I have had the same issues, although it got to the point this week that it would just not come back even when before I could just click on the greyed out error in wifi settings. Reflashed AGAIN, including the modem with ODIN just for good measure, and now I have not had any trouble at all, which is awesome. Have no clue what is causing it though!
Quick workaround is holding home button to to bring up task manager, going to "RAM" and clearing the level 2.
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Quick workaround is holding home button to to bring up task manager, going to "RAM" and clearing the level 2.
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2nd this. It works for me.
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In the morning before I go to work I usually disable WiFi as I don't use it at work and would like to save a little battery. However, I've noticed that throughout the day, I'll check a notification and see that WiFi has turned on without me turning it on myself. I can't see any pattern or correlation that would match up with this. Does anyone know what would cause this? I factory reset last night (due to an unrelated issue) and it's still occurring. I only have a couple of extra apps installed, Falcon Pro and reddit sync.
i think power saving mode sometimes enables wifi when its available... not sure how often this happens or if thats even the issue you're having but check the power save mode settings... 3g and 4g use more power than wifi
fade2green514 said:
i think power saving mode sometimes enables wifi when its available... not sure how often this happens or if thats even the issue you're having but check the power save mode settings... 3g and 4g use more power than wifi
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I don't have the power saving settings enabled, and I don't see any setting that resembles that kind of behaviour.
So at some point while I was driving home from work WiFi enabled itself again (I didn't even touch the phone). I'm wondering if it may be S Beam causing it? I haven't actually used it but it's the only thing I can think of that would need to actually turn WiFi on. I may try turning it off tomorrow morning when I turn WiFi off and see if that stops WiFi from randomly enabling.
Galaxy S4 Wifi auto enable
Is there a resolution for this? I heard that on the S3 it would pay attention to what cell towers you are using and if it recognizes you are in an area where you have used wifi before it will enable and connect. This seems to be the symptom that I am seeing and it's bad for me. It keeps trying to connect to my work network because occationally I log on so I can access materials. but when I want to listen to Slacker Radio I can't because it's blocked. This is a cronic problem for my phone and I'm not able to find out how to disable it.
if you have got any battery saving apps delete them
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Is anyone else seeing the Internet Connection Unstable notification frequently? I'm getting it at home and at work, on 802.11n and .11ac. At home the connection is not unstable, new RT-AC66U router (standing next to a PC getting full 1.3gb connection). Have a Note 2 that I never saw this notification once on. Also have never seen this notifcation on my work network with the Note 2, and have with the 3. It also seems to pop up that message even when I have 3 or 4 bars on the connection.
I saw another post about weak cell signal on someone's 3. Anyone else experiencing these notifications regularly, when they should have a strong connection? Should I try to get my phone replaced?
Thanks!
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Is anyone else seeing the Internet Connection Unstable notification frequently? I'm getting it at home and at work, on 802.11n and .11ac. At home the connection is not unstable, new RT-AC66U router (standing next to a PC getting full 1.3gb connection). Have a Note 2 that I never saw this notification once on. Also have never seen this notifcation on my work network with the Note 2, and have with the 3. It also seems to pop up that message even when I have 3 or 4 bars on the connection.
I saw another post about weak cell signal on someone's 3. Anyone else experiencing these notifications regularly, when they should have a strong connection? Should I try to get my phone replaced?
Thanks!
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I have seen it while walking around outside, close to the end of Wi-Fi range.... I am not sure the Note 2 had this notification at all, which could be why you haven't seen it before.
I get it. Its annoying. Hopefully some mod will get rid of it soon
stu5797 said:
I get it. Its annoying. Hopefully some mod will get rid of it soon
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Hm. Well that's promising that it's not my particular phone - and that it may not have existed in android 4.1.x on the Note 2.
GN3-unstable internet connection
bigillz said:
Is anyone else seeing the Internet Connection Unstable notification frequently? I'm getting it at home and at work, on 802.11n and .11ac. At home the connection is not unstable, new RT-AC66U router (standing next to a PC getting full 1.3gb connection). Have a Note 2 that I never saw this notification once on. Also have never seen this notifcation on my work network with the Note 2, and have with the 3. It also seems to pop up that message even when I have 3 or 4 bars on the connection.
I saw another post about weak cell signal on someone's 3. Anyone else experiencing these notifications regularly, when they should have a strong connection? Should I try to get my phone replaced?
Thanks!
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I contacted Samsung and they had me perform a cache reset that seems to have cleared up the intermittent unstable internet connection issues;
-Power the device off (remove and re-insert the battery).
-Press and hold the Volume Up key and the Home key, then press and hold the Power key.
-When the device vibrates; release only the Power key while still holding the other two keys.
-When the Android system recovery menu displays; release the Volume Up and the Home key.
-Navigate with the Volume keys to the "wipe cache partition" option and press the Power key to select.
-Wait for the cache is cleared. While reboot system now is highlighted, press the Power key and reboot the device.
Hopefully this works for you as well.
T.
I had the same problems last couple days with this same issue. Today I used HTC one and left note 3 on desk off all day and back on note and Wi-Fi tonight and no issues at all flawless. Don't know if having it off all day helped or something but hope it doesn't come back lol
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I've also been getting this. It's definitely the handset and NOT the WiFi as it happens at my home as well as my parent's home (both of which NEVER had any signal/droppage).
tpaquette said:
I contacted Samsung and they had me perform a cache reset that seems to have cleared up the intermittent unstable internet connection issues;
-Power the device off (remove and re-insert the battery).
-Press and hold the Volume Up key and the Home key, then press and hold the Power key.
-When the device vibrates; release only the Power key while still holding the other two keys.
-When the Android system recovery menu displays; release the Volume Up and the Home key.
-Navigate with the Volume keys to the "wipe cache partition" option and press the Power key to select.
-Wait for the cache is cleared. While reboot system now is highlighted, press the Power key and reboot the device.
Hopefully this works for you as well.
T.
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The notification was driving me crazy! The only way I was able to temporarily get rid of it is by disabling mobile data while connected to WiFi. For obvious reasons, that could hardly be considered a solution. Accessing the service menu (*#0011#), turning off WiFi power save mode, and rebooting didn't help, so I was planning to return this amazing device.
However, tpaquette, after trying your solution, everything seems to be resolved! Wiping the cache partition did the trick!
Just wanted to report that and say thanks.
JSB
justsayinbro said:
The notification was driving me crazy! The only way I was able to temporarily get rid of it is by disabling mobile data while connected to WiFi. For obvious reasons, that could hardly be considered a solution. Accessing the service menu (*#0011#), turning off WiFi power save mode, and rebooting didn't help, so I was planning to return this amazing device.
However, tpaquette, after trying your solution, everything seems to be resolved! Wiping the cache partition did the trick!
Just wanted to report that and say thanks.
JSB
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The cache clear was a very temporary fix for us. Worked for part of the day. We have been a 5 iphone family for 6 years now and were all switching to the note 3. We already upgraded 2 but these are going back and we will have iphones again. Maybe next year with the Note 3.
I'm on the other side of this coin... for the past 2 years I've had several devices here at home and they all have worked OK with my home wifi... but with this Note3 I get the unstable notification several times a day... After doing some serious monitoring of my Internet connection I've found out my Internet actually IS unstable and the Note3 is advanced enough to let me know about it... what seems to be happening is my upload speed drops down to, or almost to, zero now and then and that's when the notification pops up... and i appreciate that because it's let me know I have a problem and helped me track it down.
so... that being said... Thank you Note3 for showing me my problem ... BUT ... would be nice to have the option to turn off the notification now that I know what is happening while I decide on what to do for a fix or maybe decide to just ride with it for awhile until I switch to another provider.
Note: it's not your device glitching in that causes this... it's your internet... and your other devices don't have the feature that let's you know you lost your up/down link for a few seconds... seems kinda sensitive though because under most circumstances, small glitches like this that go unnoticed aren't a problem anyway... that's why we have buffering.
b00mb00mchuck said:
Note: it's not your device glitching in that causes this... it's your internet... and your other devices don't have the feature that let's you know you lost your up/down link for a few seconds... seems kinda sensitive though because under most circumstances, small glitches like this that go unnoticed aren't a problem anyway... that's why we have buffering.
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No that is not the case when all of my other wireless devices like our remaining iPhones, laptops, DVR, Smart TV stream online content without issue. I can stream on any of these devices from across the house without receiving the first buffer message, yet the Note 3 will give unstable network messages and buffer multiple times while standing in the same room as the router. If this is a case of advanced features on the Note 3, its the Note 3 detecting its own poor WiFi performance.
Here's my Internet speed on my N3 and get that message also. Mostly while I'm recording a HD move or downloading a on demand movie for my direct tv. Also when streaming Netflix to my ps3.
I haven't had this issue but I cant help but wonder if there is some commonality between the router settings.
I'd first do two things, change thd channel of my router and give my device a static dsn and see where that gets me.
Then I'd play with my a/b/g/n output and ghz settinngs to see what it likes best.
If you are getting strong download speeds with an unstable connection it would seem to point to chatter or interference on the ghz spectrum. In example a motherboard or cordless phone placed too closly to the router will cause some interference. And ofcourse our samsungs which use newer 802.11ac can be pretty picky/confused with the input.
Heres a bit of reading. http://www.anadigics.com/news/press...owered_anadigics_wifi_and_cellular_solutionsI
It seems the Note 3 more thoroughly monitors your Wifi connectivity such as latency. I know when I peg out my internet connection downloading something on another device and the latency increases as a result the Note 3 will pop up that notification. No big deal since it's just informational and can be ignored.
I get that almost every time I walk from my barn to my house. In that fringe area where it's detecting the wifi signal and locks in it doesn't seem to like the signal fluctuations. I disregard the alert and everything is fine. I think Samsung needs to increase the time before it complains about poor signal lock, or just not ***** at all!
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mi7chy said:
It seems the Note 3 more thoroughly monitors your Wifi connectivity such as latency. I know when I peg out my internet connection downloading something on another device and the latency increases as a result the Note 3 will pop up that notification. No big deal since it's just informational and can be ignored.
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If you turn off your mobile data, the WiFi notifications stop. So it can't be anything to do with the WiFi signal. I think that there are apps that try to use the mobile data, and when they can't, throw out those notifications.
rz22g said:
The cache clear was a very temporary fix for us. Worked for part of the day. We have been a 5 iphone family for 6 years now and were all switching to the note 3. We already upgraded 2 but these are going back and we will have iphones again. Maybe next year with the Note 3.
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That's unfortunate. I'm surprised that solution only helped your situation temporarily as it has completely fixed the problem for many others, myself included. Anyone else tried it, only to have the notification come back?
Also, I cringe at the thought of you going back iPhones. I wouldn't wish that dreadful experience on my worst enemy.
Just thinking about it makes me nauseous...
tpaquette said:
I contacted Samsung and they had me perform a cache reset that seems to have cleared up the intermittent unstable internet connection issues;
-Power the device off (remove and re-insert the battery).
-Press and hold the Volume Up key and the Home key, then press and hold the Power key.
-When the device vibrates; release only the Power key while still holding the other two keys.
-When the Android system recovery menu displays; release the Volume Up and the Home key.
-Navigate with the Volume keys to the "wipe cache partition" option and press the Power key to select.
-Wait for the cache is cleared. While reboot system now is highlighted, press the Power key and reboot the device.
Hopefully this works for you as well.
T.
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Did this wipe any of your data? Did you have to re setup your device?
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MACHEK said:
Did this wipe any of your data? Did you have to re setup your device?
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Doesn't wipe any data... doesn't even wipe passwords in browser etc ... only cache items
bd177 said:
If you turn off your mobile data, the WiFi notifications stop. So it can't be anything to do with the WiFi signal. I think that there are apps that try to use the mobile data, and when they can't, throw out those notifications.
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Going to have to keep an eye on it because I'm pretty sure I had a few devices including the Note 3 on WIFI to download large 1GB+ apps and also when broadband drops out. Notifications seems to be accurate so far.
Hello XDA. I've noticed that my new Note 4 has been dropping the wifi connection while using the Internet. So what happens is the wifi button suddenly becomes grey and I have to press it to enable it again. It works for a while and then it drops off again...then I gotta press it to enable it...
I've discussed this with Verizon and they are suggesting i do the dreaded factory reset.
I have a feeling that I'll be sending this one back...
Any advice from the experts? Thanks in advance.
Are you having this problem at multiple locations or just one? If at multiple locations, I'd have to agree to try a full reset. If at one, could be a router issue.
Just to cover all the bases, you haven't any power management or something like tasker that could be turning off wifi?
No power management software installed and I really haven't used it much anywhere other than my home wi-fi so I guess I should double check it tomorrow on other networks to confirm before the reset.
I had a similar issue with my Note 3 where I couldn't get wifi to stay on no matter where I was and I needed a new phone...that was after using it for 9 months with no issues....this Note 4 is brand new.
If you are using smart network switch option try to disable it and see if its ok
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Software Version: NRD90M.G955USQU1AQDF
This software update brings you the shopping feature for Bixby Vision, improvements to the screen settings, and essential bug fixes.
Shopping made easy with Bixby Vision
Open the Camera app, point the camera at the item you want to buy and tap the Bixby Vision button. When you tap the Shopping icon, Bixby searches for your item on Amazon.
Fine tune your Infinity Screen
Tune your display's color balance just the way you like it.
Tap the Settings icon.
Tap Display.
Tap Screen mode to adjust the settings.
This software update also fixes the "DQA keeps stopping" pop-up error reported by some users.
hopefully it is strictly improvements and no downsides.. downloading now
This update also seemed to fix my wifi disconnecting issue. It stays connected now. I also cleared system cache after upgrade.
I still have the pink tint at the edges. I wanted to like this phone but Samsung fooled me again.
This update broke my third party wireless charger. Had no problems with it before the update, now it only charges about 30 percent then stops, still have fast wireless charging option disabled.
It messed up messages for me. If I get a text that is over a couple of sentences long, it will split it up. Not an issue at all before the update.
I still have wifi disconnect issues even after the update
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InfantryMarc said:
I still have wifi disconnect issues even after the update
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I am too! I thought it was resolved for a bit but then Bam! Wifi (!)
InfantryMarc said:
I still have wifi disconnect issues even after the update
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*Hooligan* said:
I am too! I thought it was resolved for a bit but then Bam! Wifi (!)
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Has anyone found a fix for the wifi issue yet? I had no issues with the 4/21 update but I do have issues with the latest update.
nprev420 said:
Has anyone found a fix for the wifi issue yet? I had no issues with the 4/21 update but I do have issues with the latest update.
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I heard another update was coming on a samsung forum but I think it's rolling out to SK first then onwards. I still have the wifi issue, just been dealing with it.