thenomad
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This started to happen yesterday. Up until yesterday, I was able to connect to my home wifi router when I came home and there was no problem.
The only thing different I did was to reinstall Waze the umpteenth time. And on my way home, there are too many hotspots that I connected once or twice before, so I turned my wifi off to get continuous google maps/traffic data.
When I left my car, while on the driveway, it usually connects to my home network. It didn't do. Reboot didn't help (long press on power button) Turned it off, then turned it back on. It connected but after about 15 or so seconds it lost connectivity. I did this kabuki dance about 5 times before reading about the booting to recovery menu and clearing the cache partition. Someone in some android forum suggested this helped clear his wifi connectivity problems. I did that one too but nothing has changed. As soon as it boots, it connects and then drops the wifi connection after few seconds.
Very annoying. Every other device at home are happily chugging along. So, it is not the router, although I reboot it few times as well, to no help.
This morning, after forgetting it on the charger for the past 2 days, I picked up my BT headset. It immediately connected to the phone. As soon as it got connected, my wifi connection got established, alas for 15-to-30 seconds. I listened to my podcasts while I was on my 1+ hour commute with my BT headset. No problems on that end but still no wifi.
I arrived at the office, and looked at the wifi networks. There is a guest network that BYOD class of apparatus can use, while in the office building. My phone used to connect to it automatically. Not today. It is a open WiFi spot but when I click it on the signals menu, it is asking me it's WPA passcode.
Now turning it off and on doesn't do anything any more. When I turn off my BT headset and turn it back on, it is saying headset connected but the indicator on my phone is not lighting up and when I play something, the sound goes to external speaker, not to BT headset.
At this point, I am not sure what can be done. Seriously thinking of chucking it and getting a new phone.
The only thing different I did was to reinstall Waze the umpteenth time. And on my way home, there are too many hotspots that I connected once or twice before, so I turned my wifi off to get continuous google maps/traffic data.
When I left my car, while on the driveway, it usually connects to my home network. It didn't do. Reboot didn't help (long press on power button) Turned it off, then turned it back on. It connected but after about 15 or so seconds it lost connectivity. I did this kabuki dance about 5 times before reading about the booting to recovery menu and clearing the cache partition. Someone in some android forum suggested this helped clear his wifi connectivity problems. I did that one too but nothing has changed. As soon as it boots, it connects and then drops the wifi connection after few seconds.
Very annoying. Every other device at home are happily chugging along. So, it is not the router, although I reboot it few times as well, to no help.
This morning, after forgetting it on the charger for the past 2 days, I picked up my BT headset. It immediately connected to the phone. As soon as it got connected, my wifi connection got established, alas for 15-to-30 seconds. I listened to my podcasts while I was on my 1+ hour commute with my BT headset. No problems on that end but still no wifi.
I arrived at the office, and looked at the wifi networks. There is a guest network that BYOD class of apparatus can use, while in the office building. My phone used to connect to it automatically. Not today. It is a open WiFi spot but when I click it on the signals menu, it is asking me it's WPA passcode.
Now turning it off and on doesn't do anything any more. When I turn off my BT headset and turn it back on, it is saying headset connected but the indicator on my phone is not lighting up and when I play something, the sound goes to external speaker, not to BT headset.
At this point, I am not sure what can be done. Seriously thinking of chucking it and getting a new phone.
