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Help Unable to connect to home WiFi Router.

LeonaDroid

LeonaDroid

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Hi I'm new here, be gentle :)

I've searched this forum and seen other phones with this issue, I don't know if its a general Android issue, or related to certain phones, so I thought I'd post this here to see if anyone has come across and or found a fix for it, its very annoying.

The phone will sometimes not connect to my home wifi router, it see's it, it shows up the in the list, but if I long press and select connect, it just says Scanning.... disconnected, and refuses to connect to it.

Yet other times it will connect automatically just fine.

I have checked for other wifi signals and there are other 'neighbouring' routers around, but they are all on lower channels like 1,2 and I have set my router as far away as possible to them on 11. My Wii, PS3, HP Printer and Android 2.2 tablet, have no trouble at all with my router and connect fine, but the phone will not.

I have tried restarting the router, that sometimes solves it, but then in the morning, we are back to not connecting again, I've tried deleting the wifi settings from the phone and putting them in again and password, that doesn't work either.


There are no spaces in the SSID and I use WPA2 Protection.


I have a Netgear DSG834 router if that helps.



Any ideas?
 
In some of the cases that I've seen this type of issue one thing that did help is updating the router. For this you'd need to go to the manufacturer's website and follow the instructions on how to do this. I do hope this helps you.
 
I tried the update on my siemens router but it kept dropping the connection. In the end I bought the latest Netgear N300 and perfect connection ever since. Hope this helps,
 
radiosw97 said:
I tried the update on my siemens router but it kept dropping the connection. In the end I bought the latest Netgear N300 and perfect connection ever since. Hope this helps,
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So it was most likely a compatibility problem with your phone and that router. Glad is working fine though. :)
 
Hi!
Erm... I have a small problem with my phone's wifi connection as well.
The wifi connection is alright at first, but after some time it starts to disconnect on its own, and weirdly reconnects without me doing anything (but watching it). I've already tried two different WiFi routers, and still both return the same results of automatic disconnecting and reconnecting. It's not too big a problem, but it can get a little irritating when you're doing something important and the connection just disappears on its own.

Thanks in advance!
 
Thank you for your replies, I have updated the routers' firmware, but that didn't make any difference.
I guess the next step is to replace the router then?
 
I had a similar issue and resolved this via these steps:

1. Restart router so the phone connects to the router.
2. Log on the Market with the phone and download Wifistatic.
3. Open Wifistatic and tap "Add Configuration" and then accept the auto setup.

This may resolve you issue, it has worked for many but not all unfortunately.
 
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