Ever since about May when Verizon pushed an update out, my WiFi functionality has gone completely down the ****ter. I will describe my symptoms to you.
If I connect to a known WiFi network, I can connect to it if I am in the same room. However, the moment I step into a different room I loose my WiFi icon on the status bar and if you go into your WiFi settings it will say "Authentication error". When you tap it to reconnect to it, sometimes it will bring up the password entry page and presume to say "Authentication error", sometimes it will do nothing.
The moment you walk back into the same room again, though, you have to open the WiFi settings but once you do it will connect back and say so at the bottom of the screen.
I have read that lots of people experience this only after a certain Verizon update, like me. I have gone as far as to load the original factory .tar file that Verizon first used, before any OTA updates applied.
There are numerous accounts of this problem relating to my specific model, multiple responses from Verizon reps on the Verizon forums, Samsung responses on there forums, and I have still not seen any kind of actual fix.
Is there some sort of remedy for this? I want to sell this phone soon, but not in this condition.
Sent from my SCH-I605 using xda app-developers app
If I connect to a known WiFi network, I can connect to it if I am in the same room. However, the moment I step into a different room I loose my WiFi icon on the status bar and if you go into your WiFi settings it will say "Authentication error". When you tap it to reconnect to it, sometimes it will bring up the password entry page and presume to say "Authentication error", sometimes it will do nothing.
The moment you walk back into the same room again, though, you have to open the WiFi settings but once you do it will connect back and say so at the bottom of the screen.
I have read that lots of people experience this only after a certain Verizon update, like me. I have gone as far as to load the original factory .tar file that Verizon first used, before any OTA updates applied.
There are numerous accounts of this problem relating to my specific model, multiple responses from Verizon reps on the Verizon forums, Samsung responses on there forums, and I have still not seen any kind of actual fix.
Is there some sort of remedy for this? I want to sell this phone soon, but not in this condition.
Sent from my SCH-I605 using xda app-developers app
