Help Wifi in Galaxy S

[abhishek12]

Dear All,

I bought Galaxy S GTi 9003, with version of android 2.2 last week. SInce few days I am unable to open any site with WiFi connection of home. It says it is connected but it never opens any site not it runs any application like G talk.
I even tried at other public WiFi areas there also it doesnt open any site inspite of saying it is connected.
What could be the problem ?

Thanks in advance.

 

[doctacosmos]

So i have the solution for you guys.
So this is my second phone because the first one had the same problem.
After accidentally hanging up on a higher level tech support twice in a row because i was accidentally hanging up by pressing my side button to get my screen to come on i was looking for ways to turn that option off. after looking everywhere i held the right side button down for a few seconds and saw those options. I pressed deactivate data network mode and figure i'd give it a try. Turn on wi-fi............wi-fi connected!!!!!!!!!! Sweet. Hope this helps you guys.


also will you guys try to post this to any other forums you have been chatting on and make sure everyone knows who to thank.

 

[dan2em]

Instructions to manually override the wifi dhcp settings of your phone. It should connect again. (Had the same problem with my s19000, what a pain!)

Instructions:

Tap - Menu - Settings - Wireless and network - Wi-Fi Settings

From here tap the left menu button (hard menu)
Select Advanced

Enable "Use static ip"

Now, to set up the manual ip you need to go through and fill out ALL the entries below the checkbox. (ie Ip address, gateway, netmask, dns 1 & 2)

To get those values = On your PC - Click start - Type cmd and hit enter - type ipconfig -all

This will show you what settings you need to enter into your phone.

Make sure you select and IP address on your phone that is not used by any other device or your pc. Just select something in the far end of the dhcp range.

Good luck pplz

 

[macv36]

Instructions to manually override the wifi dhcp settings of your phone. It should connect again. (Had the same problem with my s19000, what a pain!)

Instructions:

Tap - Menu - Settings - Wireless and network - Wi-Fi Settings

From here tap the left menu button (hard menu)
Select Advanced

Enable "Use static ip"

Now, to set up the manual ip you need to go through and fill out ALL the entries below the checkbox. (ie Ip address, gateway, netmask, dns 1 & 2)

To get those values = On your PC - Click start - Type cmd and hit enter - type ipconfig -all

This will show you what settings you need to enter into your phone.

Make sure you select and IP address on your phone that is not used by any other device or your pc. Just select something in the far end of the dhcp range.

Good luck pplz

Thanks, that worked for me, I have not tried on hot spots yet but at least I'm covered at home now.

 

[Strutter]

Hi all

I had the same problem, even after upgrading to 2.3.3

My issue was a router issue and I was broadcasting on channel 13. I changed my channel to 11 and BINGO I now can find the Wi-Fi.

The below post is an excellent list of things to check.

Regards
Strutter

Had issues with my 1-week-old Samsung Galaxy S 16GB GT-I9000 (through Optus in Australia, not rooted) connecting to my home Wifi too.

Everything else seems to work OK, including Kies prog. interface with PC, Android 2.2 Froyo update, GPS etc.

Found the following suggestions when trying to address Wifi issues, apart from ensuring that Wifi is actually turned on, testing that other devices pickup your Wifi OK, testing your unit on a range of different wireless networks etc:

1) Reset SGS to Factory Default settings, power it down and reboot.
2) Power down & reboot Wireless Router.
3) Change Wireless Router broadcast channel to some other values between 1 & 11.
4) Attempt to tweak the "AllShare" app settings if you have it.
5) Try WiFi Fixer app.
6) Tweak the unit's Wifi settings such as Static IP, Sleep Policy and SSID visibility.
7) Examine the Wireless Router's Mac Filtering settings if applicable & tweak/activate/deactivate it.
8) Clear both levels of memory in the unit's ram manager then turning Wifi off & on.
9) Refraining from updating from Android 2.1 to 2.2 (though surely this would be a step backwards in general and dumb that it may help).
10) Change your Wireless Router's Wireless Mode to 802.11g instead of 802.11n or whatever else it may be set to - This is what worked for me using a Billion BiPac 5200N Wireless-N ADSL Router - As soon as I changed it to 802.11g both my SGS and wife's (also 1-week-old) Samsung Galaxy 580 (which also wouldn't connect to our (802.11n) Wifi at all) connected to the Wifi perfectly.

I prefer to run 802.11n on my wireless and am disappointed that these Galaxy smartphones claim to be 802.11b/g/n compatible yet apparently are not, forcing me to adjust my system to 802.11g.