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Wifi won't connect to open network. Connecting, then saved.

I tried searching this fourm, online, and no results after countless hours.
This is my problem. At work there is one big open network with a lot of extenders everywhere. When I got my new phone phone from BB when I broke my screen I tried to connect to it and it says " Connecting...." for a few seconds then automatically goes to "Saved".
I tried the obvious, forgetting network, rebooting phone, restoring to factory, updating firmware, nothing has worked so far. It always goes from connecting to saved. Every other device has worked flawlessly besides this phone
My last few phones have had no problem connecting. I do not have the authority to reboot the whole system, change frequently, add a pw, basically I'm only allowed to connect.
Wondering if anyone has experienced this problem, and might have any ideas or solutions. This is the only network that has ever gave me a problem.
Thanks for taking your time to read and help!
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I337 using XDA mobile

Has anyone else ever experienced this problem?

fals3illusion said:
I tried searching this fourm, online, and no results after countless hours.
This is my problem. At work there is one big open network with a lot of extenders everywhere. When I got my new phone phone from BB when I broke my screen I tried to connect to it and it says " Connecting...." for a few seconds then automatically goes to "Saved".
I tried the obvious, forgetting network, rebooting phone, restoring to factory, updating firmware, nothing has worked so far. It always goes from connecting to saved. Every other device has worked flawlessly besides this phone
My last few phones have had no problem connecting. I do not have the authority to reboot the whole system, change frequently, add a pw, basically I'm only allowed to connect.
Wondering if anyone has experienced this problem, and might have any ideas or solutions. This is the only network that has ever gave me a problem.
Thanks for taking your time to read and help!
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I337 using XDA mobile
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if i'm not wrong you need to reflash stock rom because your kernel is broken i get this problem with a galaxy s2 after that all working great

mugensiz said:
if i'm not wrong you need to reflash stock rom because your kernel is broken i get this problem with a galaxy s2 after that all working great
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Funny thing... I just got a brand new galaxy note 3 and it does the same thing... Making me think something with this Wifi setup and the galaxy family phones are not getting along. I'll try and see if I can talk to the Web tech and see if he can tweet something to get it to work.
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Where can I get Phone Screen Sharing app?

Hello.
I'm using the Note 3 model name SM-N900. The Russia Rom N900XXUEBOA6 is running on my phone. It is stock rom from Sammobile.
The problem is that my phone does not have any phone screen sharing app. Some said it is basically installed in the rom, but mine does not have it.
So some other people said me to install at the Galaxy app store (which is same as Samsung apps), BUT THERE WAS NO PHONE SCREEN SHARING APP.
For this reason I guess, I cannot run Sidesync with my laptop. My laptop is the brand new ATIV BOOK 9. There must not be any problem on it.
Could you guys give me any suggestions to resolve this problem? By the way, I live in NY, USA.
Thank you.

@ysuk9127 you don't need any app for this. You have this option of screen mirroring in notification toggles just turn it on and it will show you compitable devices on the same wifi network if you have connected.

My s7 edge has been wiped remotely by someone

Dear all.
I am using samsung galaxy s7 edge. Earlier, i sent my phone to official samsung services center to claim for warranty repair. They have changed my motherboard due to faulty.
Recently. My phone was wiped remotely. I was wondering how possible my phone was wiped.
I check my gmail login sessions. There was no unusual login.
Is it possible that my samsung acccount been hack ? I did not share to anyone on my samsung account.
Is it possible that samsung staff can gain access to wipe my phone remotely ? (I have did a full wiped before sending for repair)
Is it possible to wiped my phone via imei or series number of the phone?
Guys. I need help from your advice. I lost all my data on the phone.
Thank you

wshean88 said:
Dear all.
I am using samsung galaxy s7 edge. Earlier, i sent my phone to official samsung services center to claim for warranty repair. They have changed my motherboard due to faulty.
Recently. My phone was wiped remotely. I was wondering how possible my phone was wiped.
I check my gmail login sessions. There was no unusual login.
Is it possible that my samsung acccount been hack ? I did not share to anyone on my samsung account.
Is it possible that samsung staff can gain access to wipe my phone remotely ? (I have did a full wiped before sending for repair)
Is it possible to wiped my phone via imei or series number of the phone?
Guys. I need help from your advice. I lost all my data on the phone.
Thank you
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I can assume it could be a bug in the firmware.
I don't know if someone can wipe your phone remotely.. and I wonder why should be.

American Ak said:
I can assume it could be a bug in the firmware.
I don't know if someone can wipe your phone remotely.. and I wonder why should be.
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that's what I am thinking also.
And I also wonder the possibility of why someone want to wipe my phone .

If you're suspicious change Samsung account password

If you are using an exchange mail account, then check the server settings with your admin. Same happened to me before.
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Do you have a unlock PIN and the wipe option turned on? Screen got activated on my old S6E. This meant the phone thought I was trying to incorrectly unlock and wiped itself after X attempts.
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What method are you using to transfer apps & data from your current phone to your S8?

What method are you using to transfer apps & data from your current phone to your S8?
In the past I've been able to root my phone straight away and use Titanium Backup to transfer everything I needed to my new phone.
But seeing as the S8 is so new and hasn't been rooted yet I was wondering what you guys were planning to do about your apps and data?
Has anyone use Google's Tap to Go or Samsung's own transfer wizard that runs when you first setup the phone? Or perhaps there is a better method?
Or do I really need to bother at all, just sign into my Google account, download my apps and everything should just work and be there? Is it as easy as that?
It has been such a long time since I've had to do this. My current phone is a Note 4 which I've had for 2yrs and before that was a HTC One M8 which was rooted and I had that for 2yrs and before that was the Google Galaxy which was also rooted.
What are your thoughts?

Use the OTG method (phone to phone). That should be the fastest.

This time around I set up my new phone manually. There were a couple small things that I bluetooth transferred just for quick reference and I do have some stuff backed up on g cloud so I may put those on as well
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S8+

androidbuff123 said:
Use the OTG method (phone to phone). That should be the fastest.
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What is the OTG method? Are you talking about using a OTG cable to link the phones somehow?

I used the built in Samsung Smart Switch. Worked great to transfer my data from my iPhone
Sent from my wickedly kewl Galaxy S8 using my fingers. Duh!!!

easiest is smartswitch for sure, did that for s5-s7 but i asume it works either way as long as u have a samsung

This time around I went ahead and just used Samsung's Smartswitch method. Plugged in my S7's cable to the S7, with the USB to USB-C adapter (included in the S8 package) to the S8, and it auto-started the Smartswitch process on my old S7. It transferred all my apps, with their data, along with the homescreen settings, etc. I did need to reset a few apps, so make sure you have viable backups of important stuff. As an example, Carango didn't transfer over my gas mileage & car records, so I had to pull those back from a cloud backup, and while all the files for BeyondPod transferred over fine, I needed to do a restore from backup in the app to get its settings and update times loaded properly.
All that said, it's probably about the smoothest process I've had for transferring everything over. Seems to work at least as well if not better than Google's built-in thing, and it's a bit quicker.

Gonna be using Samsung's Smart Switch. Easiest way, I think. Did it when I went from my S3 > S6 and will do so again, S6 > S8.

Thanks for the replies. Looks like Smartswitch is the way to go. I will give that a try tonight. Thanks everyone.

truckerdewd said:
I used the built in Samsung Smart Switch. Worked great to transfer my data from my iPhone
Sent from my wickedly kewl Galaxy S8 using my fingers. Duh!!!
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Did you have any issues with it? I couldn't get it to work with my iPhone 7. It kept losing connection at 99%

BornAgainAndroid said:
Did you have any issues with it? I couldn't get it to work with my iPhone 7. It kept losing connection at 99%
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Yep it worked fine. Never lost connection once
Sent from my wickedly kewl Galaxy S8 using my fingers. Duh!!!

I tried smart switch from s7 edge and it only transfers the apps, without any settings. I might as well have download these apps from the play store. If that's the way this works, I don't see any reason why to use smart switch.

smart switch includes internal storage data, and discontinued and sideloaded apps.
for the data/settings you can use helium, you need to install and activate(using a PC) it on both phones once and then you can see all transferable apps from the other phone and copy their data over as needed.

thedicemaster said:
smart switch includes internal storage data, and discontinued and sideloaded apps.
for the data/settings you can use helium, you need to install and activate(using a PC) it on both phones once and then you can see all transferable apps from the other phone and copy their data over as needed.
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Than you. I did that thing with smart switch just to check it out. I always use titanium backup for the purpose, but root is needed first...
Never used helium before. I'll check it.

morpheus9394 said:
Thanks for the replies. Looks like Smartswitch is the way to go. I will give that a try tonight. Thanks everyone.
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Smartswitch and OTG are the same.

Smart switch didn't work for me. I think it was because my note 4 is rooted so I ended setting things manually.

What if you no longer have the previous phone, but you do have the backup of a previous device on Google Drive? I had a Pixel running 7.1.1 previously, but returned it. Now i want to restore the Galaxy S8 from that backup, but it does not seem to recognize the backup. When i first start up the S8, it just logs me into my Google account, but never asks for the restore option.

BornAgainAndroid said:
Did you have any issues with it? I couldn't get it to work with my iPhone 7. It kept losing connection at 99%
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If you have lot of pics, move them first manually and delete them from IPhone and try smartswitch again. This resolved my issue.

This may sound odd, but I haven't even set my phone up yet. I put my screen protector on and it came out flawless and works well with my TPU case (no lifting). So I'm going to wait until I get my promo bundle (Shipped 2 day) put my SIM and MicroSD in it and then use smartswitch. I'm not going to keep tempting fate by taking the phone out of the case and messing up the edges of my screen protector. OCD much? You bet!

mortuus82 said:
easiest is smartswitch for sure, did that for s5-s7 but i asume it works either way as long as u have a samsung
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Did you transfer data from WhatsApp and Apple Health?

how use KIES in S10+ ?

Good night people
Ok?
I just bought an S10 + on it at bestbuy and it arrives tomorrow. then I will read on this forum to see everything you said, but I would like to take advantage of it and post a question that I have for a long time but can not find anything about it on the net. Suddenly you know something about how to make it work. in the pc I have to install the KIES that works until the S4. From S5 forward only works with SMART SWITCH. I would like to know if there is some way to make s10 work in KIES or some similar program, because the smart switch only makes a backup, and kies no, I can access the folders inside the cel and see the thumbnails of the files, which help a lot and I really like this function when saving photos and videos on the pc. is there any program that is similar to kies for s10 or that has to cheat kies so that he can get the s10?
I'm waiting, thank you.

I downloaded kies3 which for some reason detects the phone but then tells me I have to be in some specific usb mode which dosent exist in the phone developer settings, then it fails to show the phone.

Darkat70 said:
I downloaded kies3 which for some reason detects the phone but then tells me I have to be in some specific usb mode which dosent exist in the phone developer settings, then it fails to show the phone.
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maybe this happens because it does not have an s10 driver for windows that works on kies

jeffjoe1979 said:
Good night people
Ok?
I just bought an S10 + on it at bestbuy and it arrives tomorrow. then I will read on this forum to see everything you said, but I would like to take advantage of it and post a question that I have for a long time but can not find anything about it on the net. Suddenly you know something about how to make it work. in the pc I have to install the KIES that works until the S4. From S5 forward only works with SMART SWITCH. I would like to know if there is some way to make s10 work in KIES or some similar program, because the smart switch only makes a backup, and kies no, I can access the folders inside the cel and see the thumbnails of the files, which help a lot and I really like this function when saving photos and videos on the pc. is there any program that is similar to kies for s10 or that has to cheat kies so that he can get the s10?
I'm waiting, thank you.
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Samsung Kies is obsolete and deprecated.

jeffjoe1979 said:
maybe this happens because it does not have an s10 driver for windows that works on kies
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No all that's installed Samsung sent me all the links to everything needed for kies3. But it still asks for USB mode MTC or something can't remember exactly now.
My pc recognizes my phone I can navigate and transfer files via Windows 10 file manager. Adb works fine, just kies3 has issue.

This is what I get, even with anti virus and firewalls disabled there's writing allowed.

So
as far as I know kies is no longer updated for many years and only works until S4 or S5, after that only the smart switch
That's why you have these problems.
what makes me annoyed is that it is not possible as there is no program similar to kies or that some programmer can not make kies work with other devices above s4. It should not be difficult for anyone who understands programming and a lot of people who know how to manipulate applications, who modify roms, etc.