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Wi-fi bug?

I had issues today connecting the Inspire to my home Wi-fi.
Initially I had my Wi-fi setup to not broadcast the SID. When I add the network to the phone it is listed as "Not in Range".
As soon as I change the router to broadcast the SID, the phone connects as expected.
Anyone have any insights? Anyone able to confirm?
--wookiefoot

I also hide my SID on my router and my Inspire connects just fine.
Try rebooting your router? I had an issue the other week where my Captivate wouldn't get an IP address from my router, but I just rebooted the router and it worked fine after that. I figured it was just a glitch.

i just cant connect. says obtaining ip address

iPrevailed YDG said:
i just cant connect. says obtaining ip address
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Did you try rebooting your router?

chocodough said:
Did you try rebooting your router?
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nah but ill try it

Make sure the IP its trying to connect to isn't in use by another device.

Wifi settings on my end, WPA2-PSK security type
Connected to the 802.11n router fine.

chocodough said:
I also hide my SID on my router and my Inspire connects just fine.
Try rebooting your router? I had an issue the other week where my Captivate wouldn't get an IP address from my router, but I just rebooted the router and it worked fine after that. I figured it was just a glitch.
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I'll give the router reboot a try. Seems odd that I can toggle SID visibility on/off and watch the phone disconnect and connect based on that.
My temp fix was to leave SID visible then lock down MAC filtering. Not very convenient when new devices need to connect though.
Will update with results in a bit.

Sounds more like a DHCP issue rather than a SID issue. Check your DHCP settings. That is where it gets the IP address from. You could also give it a static IP or create a reservation for it so it forces the IP. Good luck.

kimtyson said:
Sounds more like a DHCP issue rather than a SID issue. Check your DHCP settings. That is where it gets the IP address from. You could also give it a static IP or create a reservation for it so it forces the IP. Good luck.
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Setup DHCP Reservation for the phone. Still no luck. As soon as I switch the visibility of the SID, the phone disconnects and lists the network as "Not in Range".
Not doing anything special with security:
Mode: WPA-Personal
WPA Mode: Auto (WPA or WPA2)
Cipher Type: TKIP and AES
FYI - router reboot didn't resolve the issue either. (Model: D-link 655)
Any other thoughts?

[Q] Wifi Problem ?

Anyone having a problem connecting to there wifi, mine just refuses to work. I tried tethering via my phone and that worked ok but it won't work with my router for some unknown reason. It authenticates and actually says its connected but no webpages will work and I can't connect to a google account.
Any idea's ?

Same with mine.
Create a static connection:Eg.
Choose static rather than DHCP.
Address:
192.168.1.xxxxx(some free address on your network)
Gateway (Or whatever the field is called): Make sure it connects to whatever your router is set at
eg.
192.168.1.254
Dns - Doesn't seem to matter. I put
8.8.4.4
With a bit of experimenting that should work. Is yours a BeBox by any chance?

mug2k said:
Anyone having a problem connecting to there wifi, mine just refuses to work. I tried tethering via my phone and that worked ok but it won't work with my router for some unknown reason. It authenticates and actually says its connected but no webpages will work and I can't connect to a google account.
Any idea's ?
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are you connecting via a range booster ?

jimbob1971 said:
Same with mine.
Create a static connection:Eg.
Choose static rather than DHCP.
Address:
192.168.1.xxxxx(some free address on your network)
Gateway (Or whatever the field is called): Make sure it connects to whatever your router is set at
eg.
192.168.1.254
Dns - Doesn't seem to matter. I put
8.8.4.4
With a bit of experimenting that should work. Is yours a BeBox by any chance?
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Yep bloody bebox lol, do you post on avforums ?.

Yup. I do indeed. Did you get it working in the end?
I hope they fix this - If I want to connect to a wifi network on holiday and it plays up like this I won't want to have to find out the gateway address first!

checkbox111 said:
are you connecting via a range booster ?
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Would that make a difference? And if so, how to fix it?

jimbob1971 said:
Would that make a difference? And if so, how to fix it?
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Yeah it worked in the end, just done the static ip like you said.

[Q] Wifi Problems

Hey guys/gals, I have a problem with setting up the wifi on the tab 7.0 plus.
It sees my SSID - I enter in the password, it says obtaining IP - but is stays there never actually giving me an IP from my router. I get signal strength, etc. but I cant access the net.
So i decided to try to set a static IP, but that did not work either (but not sure I did this entirely correctly, so ...)
Any solutions? Whats the problem? it can be that hard....

Shftup said:
Hey guys/gals, I have a problem with setting up the wifi on the tab 7.0 plus.
It sees my SSID - I enter in the password, it says obtaining IP - but is stays there never actually giving me an IP from my router.
Any solutions? Whats the problem? it can be that hard....
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The likely problem is that DHCP isn't running on your network (or isn't working.) DHCP is something that usually will run on your router and assigns IP numbers to devices that connect to it. It's also possible that DHCP is working fine, but you have MAC Address filtering enabled on your router (which basically limits which devices can attach to your network.)
Finally, it might simply be a router incompatibility (though I haven't seen that very often.)
As to how to resolve those things... I can't answer that... I don't have the same router you do (unless you just so happen to have a linksys E4200), so can't walk you through reconfiguring it.
Good luck
Gary

Had the same problem at the beginning when I unboxed my Tab for several times. After few resettings my router an Tab it finally started to work and since that moment couple of days without any issue. So don't know where was the problem..:-(

I also had DHCP issues upon unboxing the tablet. When it first powered up and tried to connect to my D-Link router, my Wi-Fi would go offline. All of my other connected devices would also go offline. After pondering this bizarre behavior for a few moments I decided to turn off the tablets wifi. The router and other devices magically came back online and connected.
After repeating this several times just to make sure I wasn't seeing things I assigned a static IP to the tablet. Everything worked fine after that.
What I think was happening there was that the tablet was trying to grab the router's IP address and that was knocking everything offline. This is just a guess though. Maybe someone with more network saavy than me has some thoughts?

thanks i will try these tonite and reply back.
My Tab is rooted, but I dont believe that matters, correct?

Yes it shouldn't matters...

So i played around, couldnt get DCHP to work for an IP. So i went back to creating a static IP - i missed 1 digit on DNS1 the first time which is why it didnt work last night. Once the static ip was up - boom.....magic. I called samsung support, they indicated that this is a know issue with some home routers (mine is a 2wire) and that a static IP is the solution.
thanks for all the tips above, much appreciated.

[Q] O3D + WiFi doesn't connect to the internet?

This is a strange one, because it used to do it and nothing has changed.
The WiFi can obtain an IP from the router, it can connect to my PC via the router.... but it just cant connect to the internet via the router?
If I disconnect the WiFi and just use data, everything that has been waiting comes flying through!
Any ideas what is going wrong, the phone says it's connected, but I could swear my WiFi symbol used to go green, but it is just staying white.
Running 21E OS.
TIA.

Couldn't really understand (no offence) but if this happens to me I usually just restart my router and it would work again.
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kriptikchicken said:
This is a strange one, because it used to do it and nothing has changed.
The WiFi can obtain an IP from the router, it can connect to my PC via the router.... but it just cant connect to the internet via the router?
If I disconnect the WiFi and just use data, everything that has been waiting comes flying through!
Any ideas what is going wrong, the phone says it's connected, but I could swear my WiFi symbol used to go green, but it is just staying white.
Running 21E OS.
TIA.
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Do perhaps have a Netgear router ?
If yes reboot the router
Change wifi Channel from Auto to 6 or 7
if not try the above also try setting up a static ip
Do you have Droidwall installed?

defcomg said:
Do perhaps have a Netgear router ?
If yes reboot the router
Change wifi Channel from Auto to 6 or 7
if not try the above also try setting up a static ip
Do you have Droidwall installed?
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Yeah I do have a Netgear wireless, I left everything off all night but no joy... I will try your channel change thing and see if that works. It's strange because it used to work and i haven't changed anything that I am aware of and the PC has no problem. But obviously nothing is being sent to the Cisco CM. Hmmm....
Thanks for the input guys. :good:

Sorry OptimusTM, it probably was a bit garbled in my original post.... basically the PC gets to the internet (probably like most folks here) by contacting the wireless, then the wireless contacts the cable modem then it goes to the internet.
However my O3D can contact the wireless, but the wireless doesn't seem to contact the cable modem for some reason, however it will contact the PC.
The phone says it's connected to the wireless. It has been given it's IP address.

Check your DNS server address.
Put manually 8.8.8.8 and tell us if it works.
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Thanks again for all your help guys...
I ended up fixing it buy changing the IP address that the wireless router was giving it (set it to static) and also the default gateway to the same as my PC's and it worked straight away.
Still no idea why it had such a dizzy turn in the first place though!?!? :silly:

same problem please can you explain steps
kriptikchicken said:
Thanks again for all your help guys...
I ended up fixing it buy changing the IP address that the wireless router was giving it (set it to static) and also the default gateway to the same as my PC's and it worked straight away.
Still no idea why it had such a dizzy turn in the first place though!?!? :silly:
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I have the same problem too unexpectedly happened...please can you explain in steps how you managed to fix it. thank you

PROBLEM: Obtaining ip address loop

Hello,
I have been experiencing this problem for a couple of days now, and it's driving me crazy. I tried all i could find on the internet (resetting the phone, the router, wiping cache, using static ips, deleting files in \data\misc\wifi\dhcp...), but when i try to connect to my wlan all is stuck in this "obtaining ip address" loop. The weird thing is that this never happened before, and involves all android phones at my house now, but not my windows 7 pc. Im on the latest vipersaga rom, and we have other phones, running jb. What could i do? is anyone experiencing this?
Thanks for helping

Quick and easy fix is to assign your devices static IP addresses on your router.
Is the router running WEP encryption? If so change it to WPA2.

SimonTS said:
Quick and easy fix is to assign your devices static IP addresses on your router.
Is the router running WEP encryption? If so change it to WPA2.
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thanks, i solved it easily assignin the ip directly on the phone, i had had problems doing that just on my router. I had already WPA2 anyway