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mange69
Samsung Galaxy S III
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Posted: 2010-01-03 19:41
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My WiFi has stopped working just like that. When I turn it on it doesn't find any network. WTF has happened!? There have never been any problems before...
//Mange
geokilla
W715 Black
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Posted: 2010-01-03 20:05
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Turn off the phone, remove battery, insert battery, turn on phone, go to WiFi, voila!

It's a common problem for phones with WiFi and a common fix.
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mange69
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Posted: 2010-01-04 14:59
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Thx mate.
Tried that without success
When I turn on my phone the WiFi is activated although I had it deactivated when I shut down the phone.
//Mange
acippico
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Posted: 2010-02-21 10:01
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Mine suddenly stopped working too. I've taken the battery out, reset user settings (not master) and still not working. I've been using WiFi every day since I got the phone a year ago. Now it just refuses to fins any WiFi networks, even though there are three in my vicinity and my other WiFi devices can see them too.
I think I'm going to take a trip back to the shop.
mange69
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Posted: 2010-02-21 22:05
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Still no success for me either. I've done an upgrade on my FW and still no change. I don't know if it is hardware related since the WiFi is turned on by it self when I start up the phone. I will hand it in for service, but I'll do that later on. I need the phone right now and I can't afford to have the phone away for weeks, which will be the case.
//Mange
Supa_Fly
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Posted: 2010-02-21 23:03
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On 2010-02-21 22:05:37, mange69 wrote:
Still no success for me either. I've done an upgrade on my FW and still no change. I don't know if it is hardware related since the WiFi is turned on by it self when I start up the phone. I will hand it in for service, but I'll do that later on. I need the phone right now and I can't afford to have the phone away for weeks, which will be the case.



Why would you troubleshoot the phone first with new firmware ... that's a bit drastic.

Need more info:
1. Where are you connecting? Home, cafe, free hotspot?
2. Check the routers settings. Anything changed (wep/wpa2 personal passcode change? Mac filtering enabled)??!!
2. reset the router if all else is set fine. purge the hotspot connection from your phone with its settings. Then re-establish from scratch like its the very first time you're connecting.
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mange69
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Posted: 2010-02-22 11:05
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@Prom1

I have a WiFi router at home and I haven't done any changes in the settings. I don't find any accesspoints anywhere where I should. If there were any wrong in the settings I would still at least see the accesspoints in the list, but not be able to connect.

Then it is this auto start-phenomenon of the WiFi when I start my phone. That is very strange since I set it to off before I turn off the phone. I've done the trick removing the battery without success. That gives me the FW update as the final solution before handing it in to a servicepoint.
//Mange
amoebax
W995 Black
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Posted: 2010-05-23 13:02
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Hey! I got my w995 a few days. Wifi was working fine until last night it stopped working. I took the battery out
but it didn't work. Tried it a few more times and now its working again.
NoroBiik
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Posted: 2010-05-24 11:47
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This also happened to me - I lost my 3G/GSM & Wifi signal around 2 months ago. Went to an SE shop since it was still under warranty, they just updated the firmware & it was fine after.
mofoRI
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Posted: 2011-12-20 11:21
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Has anyone solved this problem (auto-on on Wifi and no wifi access points detected) for sure?

All advice went in direction of "last hope is..." but no one reported that anything actually worked?
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