I posted a similar thread in the forums for the T989, but didn't get a good response, so I figured I'd try here.
Basically, my wifi stopped working for some reason a while ago. I got it early in January, and the wifi was working initially, but eventually stopped for some reason. I tried rooting it and upgrading it to ICS, and the wifi began to work sometimes, but it was hard to tell what I could do to trigger it working. I think it had something to do with toggling various power saving settings.
Anyway, I've tried basically everything to get the wifi working. I've tried dialing those test codes, like *#*#526*#*#, and those didn't work. I've tried flashing various custom and stock roms, being rooted and unrooted, flashing kernels, flashing the radio, using Wi-Fi fixing apps, etc, and I haven't been able to fix it.
Right now I'm on AOKP Jelly Bean 4.1.2, and the Wi-Fi works intermittently at best. Last night it was being incredibly cooperative, but for some reason this morning it quit on me again, and won't work. Currently, the switch to turn Wi-Fi on is greyed out, and I can't move it, but the screen says "Turning Wi-Fi on...". I'm seriously at my wits end, and have no idea what to do. Can anyone offer me any help here?
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Ever since I installed the Wifi based TW ROM I have had issues with the wifi stopping. The issue continues with the official rom (with root and deoxed). It is set to be on in software but says disconnected. If I reboot device it works fine again.
Anyone else have this issue? I am very close to going back to stock even though I like the new way of doing notifications.
Same problem here. Simple way to solve it to enable and disable Airplane Mode... But yeah.. its really annoying. So any fix would be very helpful.
I've had the same problem recently. Did either of you install the free wifi server app that the Amazon store offered a day or two ago? That's when it seemed to start so I just removed it so see if that fixes my issue... here's hoping!
Same problem here, but it just started the day before yesterday. I've had Touchwiz since a day or two after I bought the device (almost two weeks). Hadn't thought to toggle airplane mode, thanks for that tip. Beats power cycling every morning.
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I had similar issue with the stock Galaxy rom. Since the TouchWhiz update however, it has been running extremely well.
So after uninstalling the WiFi File Explorer Pro my WiFi has worked fine without any connection issues. Just like before and after TW. I also had a weird issue that wouldn't recognize finger presses on the lockscreen after waking up once every 10 to 20 times.
If you installed this app or something similar it might be worth a shot to remove it.
I've had the 4.4.2 OTA about 2-3 weeks now, and for the most part its worked fine but as things go on I am noticing it starting to go a bit buggy. I have had issues with my Wifi, like this morning turned the phone on and it would not connect to my wifi, sure it saw it and it had full strenght but it would not connect to it, I went in manually and selected it nope nothing, I forgot network and connected again, nope nothing, restarted the phone nope, after 5 restarts it connected. I've also had issues with wifi connecting when coming out of airplane mode, everything else turns on but I have to mess around with wifi to get it going again.
Also had issues with apps crashing randomly, also had periods of sluggishness for no apparent reasons.
Anyone any ideas?
About the Wifi, try the Wi-Fi fix in this forum, maybe that'll help. For me stock is going absolutely fine. I was on OmniROM, but the updates start becoming a little buggy for me, so I switched back to Stock.
Hi,
Hoping someone can help with this problem. I scanned through a couple of pages of search results for this issue and boy are there are a lot of wifi not working problems out there!! None of them seemed to quite have the same background as mine so I decided to do a new post.
The problem - Wifi was working fine until a few days ago when it was connected to a network but then said connection was unstable and then the message went away. However I didn't have an internet connection so I decided to turn the wifi off and back on, except it didn't come back on. When I flick the slider to on it almost immediately flicks back to off.
I had the same problem a few months ago and then I pulled the battery out and that fixed it, but this time I have tried that along with a couple of other things and the problem still exists. Here's what I have tried:
> battery pull
> factory reset
> stock rom flash (I9505XXUFNC4_I9505EVRFND1_EVR)
I'm with T-Mobile UK (or EE now) and would prefer a fix that does not require me to root the phone. In some of the threads I looked through, people posted/asked for certain screenshots, so I have attached the About page and *#1234#.
Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!
Hello all,
Like thousands of S4 owners my wifi also doesn't work. But my problem is a little strange.
My wifi when I enable it, it says 'Turning On' and stays there for about three minutes and returns to off again.
But sometimes it just works.. it connects and internet is full speed and all is well.. then suddenly after sometime it stops again.
I am in this dilemma since over two months now and I don't know what to do.
Because it works some time I suspect it could be a battery issue, the wifi demands certain current from the battery and when the battery is not able to provide it the wifi won't start ( I have tried with the charger plugged in also, it behaves the same, wifi wont work ), although I am no expert in this.
What I have tried so far,
Tried installing 5.1.1 rom,
Tried installing stock ROM,
Tried various times to rename wpa_suplicant file
Tried without SIM and without SDCARD
Tried with a different battery
Opened the phone and re plug that blue wire
Tried 4.4.2 stock ROM
etc etc
No use, I have to depend on phones mercy till I get WIFI and data packages are very expensive here
Please advice something else I can try
Thanks.
huzefa_from_kuwait said:
Hello all,
Like thousands of S4 owners my wifi also doesn't work. But my problem is a little strange.
My wifi when I enable it, it says 'Turning On' and stays there for about three minutes and returns to off again.
But sometimes it just works.. it connects and internet is full speed and all is well.. then suddenly after sometime it stops again.
I am in this dilemma since over two months now and I don't know what to do.
Because it works some time I suspect it could be a battery issue, the wifi demands certain current from the battery and when the battery is not able to provide it the wifi won't start ( I have tried with the charger plugged in also, it behaves the same, wifi wont work ), although I am no expert in this.
What I have tried so far,
Tried installing 5.1.1 rom,
Tried installing stock ROM,
Tried various times to rename wpa_suplicant file
Tried without SIM and without SDCARD
Tried with a different battery
Opened the phone and re plug that blue wire
Tried 4.4.2 stock ROM
etc etc
No use, I have to depend on phones mercy till I get WIFI and data packages are very expensive here
Please advice something else I can try
Thanks.
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If it was software then your wifi would just not work at all.
It's hardware failure.
Firstly I want to apologise for creating a new thread. I couldn't find the solution anywhere and thought it was best to ask myself.
I got my Samsung s4 i9505 from my dad(second hand). The wifi was working back then. Then after a couple of months the wifi stared turning on slowly. Then after another couple of months the wifi wouldn't turn on at all. The wifi button would stay grey until I would restart.
I tried all the basic solutions like taking out the battery(bought a new one called Anker), factory resetting, flashing different roms, turning wifi power saving off and other stuff.
Could it be an issue with the motherboard or wifi module ?
Thanks in advance
JaguarBeast said:
Firstly I want to apologise for creating a new thread. I couldn't find the solution anywhere and thought it was best to ask myself.
I got my Samsung s4 i9505 from my dad(second hand). The wifi was working back then. Then after a couple of months the wifi stared turning on slowly. Then after another couple of months the wifi wouldn't turn on at all. The wifi button would stay grey until I would restart.
I tried all the basic solutions like taking out the battery(bought a new one called Anker), factory resetting, flashing different roms, turning wifi power saving off and other stuff.
Could it be an issue with the motherboard or wifi module ?
Thanks in advance
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I think this is a motherboard error, because you have flashed many ROMs and tried all the other basic things