I am having terrible trouble connecting to my home WiFi with my S3. I have three laptops connected and my neighbour can connect straight away on his iPhone through the wall. My old HTC Touch can connect fine.
So far I have tried (all from this forum):
- *#0011# and turning off the WiFi power saver
- forgetting network, rebooting router, rebooting phone, etc.
- changing encryption from WPA2-AES to WPA2-AES+TKIP
Sometimes I get authentication errors which is bizarre as the password is completely fine, as other times I get the dreaded 'Network disabled. Poor connection'. Everything connects fine except this phone.
I am at a total loss as to what else to try. This is my second S3, my first one had the same problem but the *#0011# fixed it; however, the SIM reader was broken out of the box so I had to return it. Not having much luck with the S3!
Android version 4.1.2
EDIT: 11 hours later and I finally sorted it. The thing I had to do to get it to work makes no sense, but here goes. I asked my neighbour if I could try connecting to his wireless network and, shockingly to me, I was able to connect. Grrr. So I removed all security on my router for a few minutes, and when my network was open I was able to connect. Interesting.
I chose Forget Network. Then I stepped up the security to WEP, and again I was able to connect. I forgot the network on my phone again and put the security on the router back to the exact same setting I started with, WPA2-AES+TKIP, same password, and this time it connected straight away.
To one of the posters below, I was unable to connect via WPS, I got the same problems as when I tried to connect without it. I also tried manually amending the connection configuration to use a static IP address, etc but no dice. Only thing that worked was the palaver above.
So far I have tried (all from this forum):
- *#0011# and turning off the WiFi power saver
- forgetting network, rebooting router, rebooting phone, etc.
- changing encryption from WPA2-AES to WPA2-AES+TKIP
Sometimes I get authentication errors which is bizarre as the password is completely fine, as other times I get the dreaded 'Network disabled. Poor connection'. Everything connects fine except this phone.
I am at a total loss as to what else to try. This is my second S3, my first one had the same problem but the *#0011# fixed it; however, the SIM reader was broken out of the box so I had to return it. Not having much luck with the S3!
Android version 4.1.2
EDIT: 11 hours later and I finally sorted it. The thing I had to do to get it to work makes no sense, but here goes. I asked my neighbour if I could try connecting to his wireless network and, shockingly to me, I was able to connect. Grrr. So I removed all security on my router for a few minutes, and when my network was open I was able to connect. Interesting.
I chose Forget Network. Then I stepped up the security to WEP, and again I was able to connect. I forgot the network on my phone again and put the security on the router back to the exact same setting I started with, WPA2-AES+TKIP, same password, and this time it connected straight away.
To one of the posters below, I was unable to connect via WPS, I got the same problems as when I tried to connect without it. I also tried manually amending the connection configuration to use a static IP address, etc but no dice. Only thing that worked was the palaver above.
