Hi guys. A couple of days ago, I unlocked my Samsung S5 Active (originally from AT&T) and connected it to Metro PCS. Everything went smooth and great . I have the "UNLIMITED", as they say, data plan. I take advantage of the HUGE 5 gigs of blazing speed through hotspot they give with it whenever I have the chance.
Now, 2 days after I connected my phone with the new network, the only glitch that I have encounter so far (besides wanting to delete all AT&T system apps, but can't without root) is that my hotspot from one minute to the other stopped communication with the world. It was working like a champ today, connected to multiple devices (nothing big, just driving around playing Pokémon. The devices connected were extra cellphones with no mobile data). It happened soon after me attempting to sync my Samsung to my cars bluetooth during a phone call. After syncing my Samsung, I activated the Smart Lock in my phone to my car, with all of this happening while the hotspot was on. I'm assuming, that somehow it's connected to the problem? Idk...I've tried googling about similar problems but have come up empty. I checked and rechecked my APN settings, everything is working great. Paired my Bluetooth with the devices that were previously connected on my hotspot, and they paired flawlessly. The phone is working pretty well, although my networking bars jump up and down in areas that my LG K7 always had 5 bars. It's only when I turn on my hotspot, my phone acknowledging the hotspot is up and running, that everything goes down the drain. Not one device can locate my phones hotspot.
The one thing I did notice was that when I ran a system info app, is that it showed my mac and ip address but the SSID said <unknown SSID>
SOMEONE HELP ME PLEASE!!
GUYS....UHHH....YEAH. Found the problem. Somehow or another, I checked the box next to "Hide my device" in the Configure Hotspot setting. Sorry for any inconvenience my bruthaz.
On a different note, does anyone know if it's possible to edit our profile name? My smart self left out the "R" between the E and the Z on my profile name
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Bought a brand new unlocked Moto Defy and I'm having some WiFi and data connection issues...
To start things off, I cannot get any kind of data on this phone. I'm able to make/receive calls and texts with no problem but when it comes to accessing data, it's a total fail. I've added APN's for ATT (ATT MMS, ATT PHONE, AT&T PTA), switched the 2G/3G/auto under Mobile Network Settings, and I just can't seem to get data working. I get data just fine on my At&t Samsung Focus with WP7.
Secondly, I cannot connect to my WiFi router. I've reset the router numerous times, disabled WPA security, tried different security methods, and it just doesn't want to connect. The network occasionally shows up with great signal strength but soon after disappears. I went to the same room as the router and it shows up. When I tap on it to connect, it shows "connecting" and then "disconnected". I also get a WiFi symbol in the upper left hand corner with a question mark over it.
And to top things off, I can't seem to format my WP7 memory card so I can't even install any apk's or ROMs. For some reason, the 2GB card that supposed to come with this phone wasn't even in the box!
Any ideas? Starting to get frustrated, this is my first android phone (3rd android device, first 2 were tablets) so I'm eager to mess with this thing.
Uploading a short video showing the WiFi problem.
Thank you so much!
Also, running 2.2.2
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So I've installed Cyanogenmod 7 and was able to get to the band settings but when I select USA Band, it says "Set [USA Band] Unsuccessful.
I found a working bp_nvm_default folder for ATT, replaced original with that, set permissions, and nothing has changed.
I am at a loss of what to do now. And after installing CM7, I have no signal what so ever.
Please!!!! Any ideas?!?!?
I think somehow Sonosnet corrupted wifi on my android (Galaxy S4 rooted).
I bought a Play:1, a Play:3 and a bridge. I got the speakers, and not realizing they could use the mesh without the bridge, I put them in the same room, hard wired. They worked great, and I was excited about controlling them from my phone.
A few days later, when the bridge arrived, I dutifully set it up, and got it added and working. I started playing around with the settings and discovered sonosnet. This sounded interesting - it sounded like I could log onto the sonos website, and control my sonos speakers from afar. so I enabled it. Then something happened - my phone disconnected from my wifi, and started trying to connect to a sonos domain. it never really managed to connect, so I tried several times to load sonos to disable it (at this point, I'd now googled it and understood it had nothing to do with remote control and everything to do with using sonos to do what your wireless is already doing. Ultimately, I managed to disable sonosnet on my app. Unfortunately, it now wasn't able to maintain a connection to wifi. Any wifi, not just my home one. First it displays the "secured Saved" message for a while, then eventually it goes to "Authentication Failed" but the Authentication hasn't been changed in years, and this very phone was working on it for months. as it happens, this now happens on every wifi network, so it's not an interference issue.
I've tried everything I can think of. I've changed all the settings on my router, and all the settings on my phone. Today, I'd had enough, so I installed a new operating system (NB1), pretty confident that would fix it. But alas, no. I've tried everything I can think of. Please help me with any thoughts. If there's a way to just swap out the wifi driver / wifi modem / whatever software runs the wifi, I'd love to give it a shot. I'm at my wits end here.
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I'm using a Sony Xperia Z5 Dual Android 7.0 facing that issue making me unable to use my WLAN hotspot (which it pretty anoying cause it doesn't only dissallow me to share my internet connection but also I can't do other network stuff between devices I'd use that hotspot for).
So when I try to turn on my the hotspot it simply turns itself off again after small amount of seconds. When I got to WLAN hotspot in settings then I have the active button to switch the hotspot on while it shows me tbat it's of at the moment. Doing that it says "Activating hotspot..." (pretty exactly that) until it's going off again with a quick "Deactivating hotspot" and you could activate it again but it will do nothing again than say "activating" and go off again. While it is "activating" it already shows the active hotspot icon in the top bar of the phone and the hotspot settings are as well already active and no more inactive greyed out. But only for nk idea, 3 seconds probably. Within that short period of time my laptop didn't find my phones hotspot but that might just be down to an to high delay in scanning and finding so I don't know wether it would shortly pop up seeable for other devices.
Earlier that day I had my hotspot working actively (nobody actually joined) but it worked and would have if somebody joined because that issues is not new to me on my phone and when the hotspot activates, then it also works. But half of the time it seems when I want to use it, it doesn't work. I haven't changed any settings inbetween or restarted my phone. It was probably on for one week, but after then trying a restart it still didn't help.
I already changing some one-click stuff like just turning out WLAN, turning off or on data save mode (which stops background data for all apps in mobile internet and WLANs marked as hotspots), turning off or on mobile data. But well, I don't know anything else and earlier it worked with all the same settings so what could be the problem behind that?? Besides that my phone always just works completely normally without any issues, WLAN always works without problems, only Bluetooth sometimes doesn't want to activate and then I see it active after some minutes or hours later, but that can always be fixed with a restart if I needed it instantly. If you just wait and it is active then tough, it is kinda awoken and works instantly then again shutting it off and on.
Phone is not rooted btw.
Ok long text, but please if you have any ideas tell me..
Greetings, HelpsToMes
Hello all!
My wife is running a T-Mobile Note 10+ and having major issues with the WiFi and mobile cell service. She constantly runs into her apps like Netflix and Plex saying she has no connection. She's complained of the WiFi being bad and having to disconnect from it, and then she can use LTE to watch shows, and then sometimes LTE stops working and connecting to WiFi fixes it.
Here's the thing. I finally was able to see it when it was having a fit on the WiFi. Going into the connection settings showed it was connected to our 5GHz WiFi at 7Mbps connection speed. Nothing was loading. This was on a 1300Mbps link. I disconnected from the WiFi and reconnected to it, without moving the phone's location, and voila! It reconnected at 300 something Mbps and everything started working. I believe it may be doing the same with LTE as it cuts out randomly and constantly. I saw it myself while we were driving somewhere and she couldn't load websites. My phone (OnePlus 7 Pro) is on T-Mobile as well and I have NEVER run into these issues. We are on the same provider / plan.
Her phone is fully updated and isn't rooted. I haven't touched it as a tech nerd so it's running as a total consumer as far as settings go (haven't played with APN or wireless radio or anything).
Has anyone else experienced these issues? Does anyone have any ideas to fix this?
Did you try a different wlan access point? Actually i am on the Note 10 with Exynos. Wlan and LTE are working nice for me.
Perhaps your problem is meanwhile solved through an update.
I have the same problem, mainly in LTe but sometimes also in Wifi
ANyone found a workaround ?
i've been having this issue constantly since the march security update. Didn't notice it before but it'll disconnect from my wifi, still recognise it but wont reconnect unless i restart my phone
Same here. Brazil SM-N975F.
I bought a Galaxy Express 3 (sm-j120a) on Ebay (new condition) to use as a backup phone. I began the setup process and tried connecting to my WiFi. I put in the correct password but it will constantly cycle between showing "Connecting" underneath the SSID, then suddenly the SSID disappears, then suddenly it will reappear and show "Connecting" underneath, etc. It will do this indefinitely and will never connect. If anyone has experienced this issue before and knows how to fix it, I would greatly appreciate some help.
One thing I haven't checked is whether I could update the software of the phone to the last available update. I wanted to hold off on putting in my sim card because I have a nano sim and I think the phone takes a micro sim and I don't have an adapter yet. Is there a way I can download any available updates to my computer, then send the update to the phone via a USB cable?
Thanks!
i ran into the same thing a while back with an old android phone, a samsung j120a. one day its wifi stopped working with the att modem i have, a bgw210. behavior was the same as what you described. every other wifi device in the house worked fine. tried every standard trouble shooting thing you find when you search this, including factory data reset, nothing. got hold of another phone same model... it also failed to connect to wifi on this modem, same thing.
the answer-> i resorted to playing with the wifi settings on modem, and found that the problem was with the wpa version setting- it was set to wpa 2 by default when i found it. i changed it to the setting that accepted both versions 1 and 2, and the phone's wifi now works again.
i assume at some point att updated this modem, and one of the updates was to change default setting on the wpa version, probably because wpa 2 is supposed to be more secure than wpa 1
just replying because i hate searching stuff like this and finding nothing but people asking roughly the same question without getting any answers. hope this helps somebody searching this in future