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Help Wifi keeps turning off
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Sharondippity
Dismember
How does your tab work on other wifis?
vobguy
Well-Known Member
Mine only exhibits that behavior when the signal strength is low, or the signal to noise ratio is not so good. When I take my tablet to far side of the house, the signal dies, and it disconnects from wifi. Though in my case, when I bring it back closer, it "turns on" and reconnects.
androidsuperhh
Lurker
I got a similar problem, called the tech support, it just never worked although the router is connected with anything but S3. Finally I got a new version of router witch is a D-link 601, and it works fine. The one won't connect with is a D-link 542. Maybe you can just give it a try. Right now I am using 2 routers 
Hope this of some help.
I did all the things mentioned in this boards, my old one just don't work.
Hope this of some help.
I did all the things mentioned in this boards, my old one just don't work.
androidsuperhh
Lurker
I haven't give up my old router yet. I don't think I need 2 routers . From this board's posts, lead me to believe that this is S3's fault.
. From this board's posts, lead me to believe that this is S3's fault.Following advice in one of the forums I set up a static IP address in the Tab WiFi advanced settings. This works much better. Also, I was using a program called WiFi Fixer. In spite of the constant -63 to -79 signal strength the program was constantly disabling the connection and then renewing it again. I had the trigger for this set at -90 but somehow it was still resetting. I disabled the service and have been able to maintain a connection now. The WiFi signal bar will drop to just a dot even with a good signal. I think the WiFi radios in Samsung products must be very weak for this to happen. I heard they switched WiFi chip suppliers and have had trouble ever since. Did not have to change routers at all. I am using a Belkin a/b/g/n set to g.
I've been having issues as well, but only with the ICS update. With Honeycomb, my wifi never dropped, had a low signal or anything else, but with ICS now it's dropping intermittently sometimes coming back on, or I have to turn it on. I changed my router to static channel and it still doesn't completely fix it.
You indicated you changed the router to static channel. That is not what I was referring to. You have to change from a DHCP IP address to a static IP address and this must be done, not from the router, but from the device you are trying to connect. As I recall it is in the advanced settings in WiFi on the tablet itself.
ok, then how do I do this? Where do I get the info to change it in the tablet? Just changing the OS from Honeycomb to ICS shouldn't mean completely change wifi settings unless Samsung screwed up somewhere. This is what frustrates me, if the tablet worked fine for 6 months on Honeycomb, it should work just as well on ICS.
Daenas, if you'll be patient with me I will try to get back to you shortly on a more detailed way of doing this.
Right now I'm busy trying to get all my documents together for getting passports for wife and me. Didn't used to need them to visit Canada. Mondo Cane!
Sorry that didn't help. It's still working fine on mine. What you are experiencing seems like what I had when I had the app WiFi Fixer active. It would constantly drop and try to reconnect. Once I stopped the fixer service and changed to static IP, everything is fine.
I called help line again and they had me send in my device and said they would reimage the device and send it back to me. I told the guy that if all was working well while on Honeycomb then went bad after the ICS update that reimaging the device wouldn't help but I complied. So when I get it back let's see what happens...
Well got my tablet back on Friday-had no issues. Saturday-none so far, but wasn't home for part of the day. Today-Sunday, my wifi has dropped so many times I've lost count. I haven't changed a thing and I didn't mess with wifi settings nor my router. I'm just ready to get rid of this damn thing...
JoeTexan1962
Lurker
I had the same issue with some WiFi connections and uninstalling the AT&T Smart WiFi app fixed it for me. If you are not an AT&T customer, you may have a similar app. This may cause a shorter battery life, given that the Smart WiFi app is supposed to turn WiFi on only when there is a valid connection.
After having a huge amount of issues with my wifi dropping-only at home, I decided to get a new router. I have a Netgear WNR 1000v3 and it worked fine with everything else except my tablet and after hours of googling I found information on issues w/ Netgear and Android. I bought me a d-link router and so far haven't had any issues w/ my wifi dropping on my tablet. I was ready to send my tablet back again and tell them to keep it this time. 
This worked for me, though I just disabled the smart wifi app, and it worked. Thanks!
My wifi keeps turning off and on. It will do it for days then fix itself. At first I thought it was just my Boost HTC Evo. But then I got a tablet and its the same thing. Its not my wifi cause I also have a iPhone and a Mac Laptop and they never have a problem. So why am I being tortured like this ?
I often see a suggested solution is to change your router. When I was travelling around with my family we hauled around a bunch of notebooks, an ipad, two iphones, my galaxy tablet and two android phones. When we had any hotel wifi problems, it was usually with the android devices.
The problem lies in some routers not your android phone. When the router has both 2.5 mhz and 5 mhz. Your Android phone got confused- it cannot decide which to use. This Android short coming need to be addressed soon as it is a stupid OS.