Help Wlan and Wifi problem

[amony1989]

hey,
when i bought my note 3 it's appear to me that there is Wlan instead of Wifi and told my friend about this issue and he solved to me but when i made factory reset it's appear "Wlan" again
so how can i switch to wifi

 

[amony1989]

please help me

 

[Slug]

"Wlan" is short for "wireless local area network", and is the same thing as "wifi". Where are you seeing this on the device?

 

[amony1989]

i see this in the panel

 

[Slug]

What panel? A screenshot would be helpful.

 

[amony1989]

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http://i.imgur.com/wSj9dpA.png

 

[svim]

Just curious but is there a specific reason as to why you want to have that icon renamed from 'Wlan' to 'WiFi'?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi

 

[amony1989]

anyone help

 

[svim]

Nova Launcher is a popular third-party launcher that enables you to do a lot of customization:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.teslacoilsw.launcher&hl=en

 

[amony1989]

its dosen't work

 

[mikedt]

Samsung have apparently called it "WLAN" rather than "Wi-Fi".

I seem to remember my Nokia also had "WLAN" rather than Wi-Fi. Same thing though.

Is it just the choice of word in the firmware you're not happy about?

Samsung might have done it that way, because the word Wi-Fi is actually a trademark of the Wi-Fi Alliance, and WLAN is generic AFAIK

 

[electricpete]

I have an old Samsung S4 and that icon is labeled "wifi". I've never seen it labeled as WLAN, although I agree WLAN (wireless LAN) logically means the same thing.

I just want to double-check the question from op, who said "it doesn't work". Which of the following two choices is the problem you're trying to solve:

• A - When you push the icon, it toggles wifi as expected. But you just don't like the label.

OR​

• B - When you push the icon, it doesn't toggle wifi.

Either way, try pushing the icon in upper right hand corner of the screenshot to see if there are alternate icons that you can put into your pulldown.