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.
Hi Community!
I have a short question for you.
How is it possible i can't connect to my wifi network at home from one day to the next? With my Nokia 5800 i can connect without any problems.
And at work i can connect to wifi with my HD2, too. Only at home i cant connect anymore. I tried resetting my router, changing the securtiy settings, channel, ssid. nothing helped. I tried setting up a static ip instead of using dhcp, but no chance. No mac filter or anything else is active. Tried to reinstall the rom several times, but as suspected it didnt work.
Like i said my nokia works at home connecting to wifi. So the error shouldnt be by my router. And since the HD2 to connects at work to wifi it also shouldnt be a problem of my hd2 :F
Always telling me "Optaining IP-Adress", so it wants to connect, password is typed in correctly, but something prevents it connecting. Usually it connects immediatly after searching for an ip adress.
So, from one day to the next wifi isnt working only at home..
Do any of you have a clue what's going wrong here?
another restart of my router solved the problem... dont ask me why.
My E900 wlan not working, it dont get it up when i try to open the feature from setup and i trying to do all kind of things with it, back and forward on/off it but no help, reseting the device not working, on/off the power not working....
and then i go to secret menu and found out that my wlan chip mac address is just 11:22:33:44:55:66 and then i was like
so if somebody can help how i can change that damn mac (and can also tell where i can see my device default mac), please do.
I've run into a weird problem. Today I got internet at my new place, and of course first thing I do is whip out my trusty mini wireless router (TendaLink w300m) to provide all of our computers with fresh wifi. The laptops are fine. But now...
My G900F refuses to connect to the wireless network. Other places were fine, no such problem, but here I get
obtaining ip address...
but here it stays. Sometimes it gives a final error "Failed to obtain IP address"..
I tried using a static IP, that did actually work as far as connecting to the network (so password error can be excluded), but I couldn't get any data / website / mail to load.
I tried restarting, and toggling the "Smart network switch" (which wasn't switched on in the first place).
I changed the channel of the router twice, to no avail.
To make it all even more unfunny, I frequently get a popup telling me "Network disabled because internet connection is slow" (although Smart Network Switch is OFF)
If anyone has a solution to this , please let me know!
Try to rule out the issue being the router, reboot it and if that doesnt solve the problem factory restore the router or change it out.
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I usually just restore the router to factory settings. Beyond, that, I don't know.
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The Problem was solved by analyzing the new Network properties and adjusting the router settings which were quite different from the old ones. Now all is well.
In the past week my Galaxy S5 (SM-G900V - Android version 5, Kernal 3.4.0) has lost the ability to connect to the internet a few times when wifi is on (under wifi, it appears that it is connected successfully to the wifi but when using the internet I get an error message about DNS not working).
This first time it happened was at at home and I thought that maybe my router just needed to be reset (which didn't fix the issue) but it happened at work today.
Both at home and at work, the only thing that I could do to fix the issue was restarting the phone (resolved the issue at both locations).
I tried all of the following suggestions with no luck:
Turning wifi off and then back on
Making sure that 'Always allow scanning' and 'Smart network switch' were both turned off on my phone
Choosing the wifi network on the phone and 'forgetting' it and then connecting to it fresh
Setting the DNS servers on the wifi network of the phone to use a static IP address and static Google DNS servers
Trying a different browser on the phone
The only thing that has resolved the issue once it starts is to restart the phone.
Any other suggestions?