Hello, I'm in trouble with a brand new Optimus Hub (TIM branded) with Android 2.3.4.
I'm trying to make it connect to my home WiFi (WPA2, no SSID broadcast, 64 char password, Mac address whitelist).
I'm pretty sure I put the correct password and also tried turning SSID broadcast on, but it never connects to my network, without any error message.
This night I'll try different things (short password, no WPA and so on), but do you know of any issue about WiFi connections? Would a wrong password trigger an error message?
Any know LG update about this?
Thank you!!
You're on the right track. Don't forget to turn off the mac whitelist as well.
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I found the password is the problem.
First: I have a 63 chars password, but OH only try to connect with at most 62 chars! Otherwise it not even tries to connect!
Second: there must be some char that it cannot handle properly (I suspect it to be space); with a simple password, it works, with the first 15 chars of my password it always says password wrong.
I'll try to find out what's the offending char, but I'll first check for an LG update to see if it fixes the problem.
Unfortunately there is no consistency in password implementation across vendors of phones OR networking gear. Even SSIDs are not standardized. I can use special characters in some equipment and not others. Everybody either thinks they know better or they can save a couple pennies. Glad you found the culprit.
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it seems like this happened maybe after I started using my phone with my dsl router for internet via wifi. anyway, I believe the error message also says something about the #777 that the connection dials as if it's a problem. I'm assuming that has always been the number, so maybe the problem isn't the number (?). so now I can barely connect to the internet with my data connection.google maps comes up tho momentarily.
MY experience with this has been totally annoying! ! ! The single and ONLY BAD thing about this phone.
What I experience is that for some unknown reason the Imagio looses the password to the data connection, and therefore can't connect the data side. It remembers the user name ([email protected]) but looses the password.
The only solution Ihave found is to go to settings/connections/connections/manage existing and edit the connection and re-re-re-re-re-re-re-enter the password.
I changed the registry setting in HKLM\comm\connMgr\Providers\7c4b...blah\VerizonWireless\RequirePw to 0, but no joy
I also changed connections.xml to include the [email protected], AND password, and requirePw = 0 with no joy there either.
I use WiFi when I'm at home, and every time I leave home, I have to re-enter the password. This is totally annoying.
IF I leave the data connection on, it will remain connected, but if I disconnect, I will have to reenter the password. That sucks.
I'm using the stock MR2 ROM.
Oh, no help from VZW, they say it's some program I'm running. Yeah, right.
Like there's a piece of software or some game that I'm running that's going to change the data connection's password. Right, and I own swamp land in Florida too.
It's bad enough that I can't use a hard IP address on Wifi when at home because the CDMA data side will also try to use that hard address, so the only solution I found is to use DHCP on WiFi so it will also work on the CDMA side.
IF someone knows a way that I can have something enter the password even on a timed basis, I would be very happy.
Until then, every time I connect to the CDMA data side, I have to enter the password or get the damn ppp error, can't connect message.
Just sharing MY experience.....
so what's the password?
For verizon (which is what I know)
Verizon
Username:
[email protected]
Password:
vzw
oh silly me. i use pageplus. but thanks anyway
Hi guys, I was wondering if anyone had experience or knowledge of complicated passwords affecting the ability to connect to wifi.
The issue is my password (as many) is long, contains uppercase, lowercase, numbers and symbols. I enter this password correctly and it says authenticating... but then fails and "disconnects" as it says on the phone.
Now I thought I had entered the password wrong so I briefly changed it to a simple string of letters, connected perfectly. Reverted back to old password, same problem. Password I enter is correct, I've even copy/pasted it to the entry box.
So do any symbols affect the ability of the hero to connect to wifi?
Thanks
except for you having to punch it in several times because it's kinda tricky it shouldn't make any difference. (well except if you're using WEP encryption and are using hex coded invisible characters like bell and such. but i think you'd be able to punch it in in hex as well.. but WEP is crap anyways.
some authentications are kind of tricky with the hero. i'd say 802.1x would be one of them..
Hello everyone!
I have an HTC Wizard (Qtek A9100), with Windows Mobile 5. Some time ago I was able to access wireless networks without any problem, but recently I'm not getting it.
I tried to perform some procedures over the Internet without success, and for this reason the original problem gave rise to other problems, so I'll start with the problems I have now. Let's see ...
I have a wireless network in my house. This network is protected by a password (key) and this key has been defined by my local service provider. I would not change it, despite knowing how through my router settings. The key has 12 characters (letters and numbers only)
After turning on the wireless, the phone quickly detects my network, with strong signal and asks the network key. When I type 12 characters (case insensitive), the phone says that the network key is incorrect and should have 5, 10, 13 or 26 characters long, however, I had connected to my network and do not remember have had this problem. What am I doing wrong? Is there any setting that I do or check?
maybe you 'll find the answer on the same issue >>> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=489771
This is not the problem... And now?
Hakim Rahman said:
maybe you 'll find the answer on the same issue >>> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=489771
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Hello. Thanks for the tip, but i'm typing exatcly the same password. This password is printed on a label above my wireless router. Every time i type the password char by char taping letter by letter and always is the same. Sorry
And now? What can i do?
afmdkqc said:
Hello. Thanks for the tip, but i'm typing exatcly the same password. This password is printed on a label above my wireless router. Every time i type the password char by char taping letter by letter and always is the same. Sorry
And now? What can i do?
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alright !!
have you tried to change the registry setting..??
if not already, look at these threads
I'll test the change later...
Thanks for the tip again. I've done the change on the setting. I'm at work now and here we do not have a wireless network. I'll test on my house.
Later I'll post here the results of the change.
Stay tuned Thank you very much!
Hakim Rahman said:
alright !!
have you tried to change the registry setting..??
if not already, look at these threads
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1 problem solved! Now let's to the old ones...
Hello again.
The registry change has solved my problem with passwords. Now, on my house, i can connect to the wireless network, thank you.
However, the old problem (the biggest problem i guess) is back. I'll try to explain.
I have two browsers, Opera Mini (OM) and IE and i like to use the first one. After connect to the network, I'm trying to access www.google.com, but the OM says "this address is innacessible at now". Thinking this is a OM problem i tried to use the IE and there, the effect was the same but with no error message.
Now is the interesting thing: using the IP addresses, the sites loads, but incorrectly because some internal resources on them (images, etc) does not use IPs and so there are no images, because I have no access to resources by name, only IP.
This makes me think there are a DNS problem, but the DNS is set on the Wireless router and, for example, my Wireless laptop access everything without problem. So, the issue is on my A9100 in fact.
On my Router I've set the google DNS (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.8.4) and my computers access the Internet w/o problems by wire or not. Why my Qtek does not?
Now the question is: why my A9100 does not reach named addresses on the web, only by IP numbers?
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Another day I got a message saying "not been possible to assign an IP address" for my device. Does this have something to do with the problem?
I have a network with a hidden SSID. today, I changed my google account password due to google telling me mt accounts was accessed from malaysia (....), so when I got home and turned on my tablet, it prompted me to re-sign in. except I forgot the new password. so I hit home and pulled up the browser, at which point it disconnects from wifi. and I couldnt get it to reconnect or see my network. I reboot, nothing. So I changed the password on my macbook, which works fine on the same wifi.
then i tried to connect on the tablet again, nothing. so i deleted the network from the tablet, then re entered it. nothing. so i changed the configuration on the router so it wasnt hidden. it does now appear in my tablet's list of visible networks, starts to connect, says obtaining ip address, then disconnects and tries again.
any ideas? fyi my android phone is working fine.
It's a well known issue, though with all the 3.1 update threads lately, it's been pushed off the front page.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1138905
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1167387
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1169458
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1158039
thanks for that, one of the people in those topics said using the reset button worked so i tried that and it did. got the newest OTA too, hopefully that has a fix for this. if not, i also downloaded superuser, TB and Android terminal emulator, so i'll have those as options for a fix if it happens again.
of course, i'll need to be rooted to use them, so is there any way to root on 3.1 yet? gingerbreak is broken, I know that cause I just tried.
Yes, there's a thread on it in the dev section. It was rooted about 20 minutes after it was released.
Well it looks like the OTA didn't fix it because it just happened again. So I tried the reset and that worked this time too. Come on Acer, you can do better.
The OTA patch didn't work fully for me either...
Every once in a while when changing WiFi's (work to home, home to a friend's house, etc...) it'll not find the Access point name and disable that connection. I have to turn off Wifi and then turn it back on before anything will connect or search...
I still have the path where to delete the .lease file so I continue to check for that.
The .lease file has not been there the last two times, but connecting is still an issue.
Fortunately, it's a simple thing to turn off WiFi and then Turn it on again and then Ask the connection to do it's thing...
..but yeah. Acer? A little help over here...
I'm stuck.
I soft reset my A500 four times in a row with no luck, so I went ahead and rooted the thing to delete the lease file as mentioned in other posts, and as it turns out I didn't even have a dhcpd_wlan0.lease file in /data/misc/dhcp -- I had no files in that directory at all.
I don't want to deal with a factory reset, but if I do, I'm still sunk because I have no lease file to delete to fix my problem in the future, since that seems to be not my problem.
Running 4.010.13_com_gen2, updated yesterday I think to this version, went to work, everything was great, got home, nothing is great.
Any other ideas besides a factory reset?
Static IP's FIX this issue.
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Returning to work has fixed my issue temporarily anyway -- I am connected once again on my work network. I will shut down before I leave for home and see if that allows me to connect to my home network again.
After which, static IP is the way for me, I s'pose.
Thanks!
setting the static IP worked immediately for me as well. I found a great guide for any users who are unfamiliar with how to do this.
Step 1 is to know your lan network topography: ipconfig /all at a command prompt will give you your computer's IP address, as well as your host/gateway (usually a router). It also helps to know how to log into your router (usually the first octet in your IP range, eg. 192.168.1.1 is a router running DHCP, while your computer might be 192.168.1.4). Examine the IP range that the DHCP is assigning..often it is limited to a certain number of clients already, or you can do so yourself (I have mine set to hand out 10 IP's only via DHCP, while my actual LAN is manually assigned throughout).
Step 2 on the Acer is to open wifi connection properties and select your own network. The Properties Dialog will pop up, and right below Signal Strength, is says 'Network Setup, with a little marker for a dropdown. Select the marker/dropdown and click 'Manual'. Scroll down in the dialog, to IP settings, click the dropdown marker and select 'Static'. Plug in an IP address, subnet and Gateway (router) IP addresses..I left network prefix alone at 24. I also use custom DNS addys (OpenDNS) but you can also simply point them to your Gatewat/Router IP with no problems. Scroll back up and enter your Network Key for the level of encryption you're using on your WLAN, and you should connect right away, since we are no longer relying on the router's DHCP server (and the DHCP/IP assignment bug on the Acer), and once this is done, it will stay that way indefinitely.
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I had issues pulling an IP connecting mine to my old router, so excluded part of the routers subnet from its dhcp scope and entered a static IP into the A500 for that connection and it has been working fine since.
So I just got my phone like two weeks ago. At my home I can connect to my wifi fine (it is secure but i don't remember what type). but when I am at work, I can connect to the visitor network which has no security, but sends you to a login page when you connect and makes you enter a password that they change daily. So being stuck using the visitor network would be a huge pain to have to go call it and get the password every day. We also have a staff network that is secured with 802.1xEAP and has MSCHAPV2 phase 2 verification. However whenever I try to connect to it, the little spinner spins for 3-5 min and then it says that my credentials are invalid. I have verified that both my username and password are 100% correct. I even went and spoke to one of the system admins and they pulled up the logs and can see that I did give the correct info and the system accepted me. They looked at my phone and tried to set the connection with EAP method = PEAP, Phase 2 authentication = MSCHAPV2, my username and password and it still failed. So that combined with the logs lead them to think something is wrong with the phone.
I have tried restarting the phone, trying with bluetooth on and off, turning mobile data off and and putting it in airplane mode while trying to connect (idk why this would help but some guide i found on google said it would), I have turned off the auto connect to hotspots and disabled smart switch. I have forgotten the network and re-added it, reset all network settings. None of this stuff worked.
The only thing I have not tried is a factory reset, but i would like to avoid doing this if at all possible.
I read somewhere that it is an issue with Android 6.1 but I also found articles saying samsung patched the issue so I am not sure what to believe. And in both cases i could not find any updates beyond the initial posts.
Anyone know what could be wrong and how to fix? Or, am I just left waiting for a software patch?
Is your phone rooted?
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Is your phone rooted?
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no it is not.
Its my first android (i have had an iphone 4 for last 4-5 years) so I am a little hesitant to root it.
No one else at your work has a problem with connecting to the wifi, with their phone? You can always check out their connection settings. Is your laptop and phone trying to use the same credentials?
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They looked at my phone and tried to set the connection with EAP method = PEAP, Phase 2 authentication = MSCHAPV2, my username and password and it still failed. So that combined with the logs lead them to think something is wrong with the phone.
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Were you given a CA certificate for PEAP with MSCHAPv2 to install on your phone?
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Were you given a CA certificate for PEAP with MSCHAPv2 to install on your phone?
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no I was not. My boss didnt have a certificate either, and also didn't use the MSCHAPv2 so I tried it without that and still no go.
AFAIK a CA certificate should be required for PEAP with MSCHAPv2 authentication, otherwise your credentials verification would fail (even if they are correct).
But I'm not so expert...
themissionimpossible said:
AFAIK a CA certificate should be required for PEAP with MSCHAPv2 authentication, otherwise your credentials verification would fail (even if they are correct).
But I'm not so expert...
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Me either. Boss had no no secondary auth set and was able to connect. No such luck for me if i turn it off. Still gives same invalid credentials issue.