Wifi

ronny35

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Hello guys.

A few weeks ago i started having problems with my redmi's wifi. Without doing any kind of update or change any settings, the wifi and even the Bluetooth would go down frequently and as time passed this only got worse. Eventually, after a reboot, i couldn't turn the wifi on as showed in the image.


I've tried doing a system update, i'm using Lineage OS 14.1, and i tought that it was working again since i was able to toggle the wifi on and connect to a network. But after a few minutes it went down again. Since then i've tried to flash other roms, even the original MIUI and the problem persists. After flashing or even after an occasional reboot, i'm able to turn on and connect to a network but as always it stops working. With Bluetooth i also have a few problems, like having to forget a paired device and reboot to pair the device again. Since with a clean flash or 1 out of 10 reboots the wifi kind of works, i'm hoping that this isn't a hardware problem.

I've tried to search the internet for a solution, but almost every time that i find something with redmi 3, it's basically redmi note 3 posts/threads. Does anyone had a similar problem or have any ideia how to fix this?

Thanks in advance.


FYI phone status:
 
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danypava

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Same problem with my brother's phone, he was on miui and started getting that "MAC 02:00:00:00:00:00" on wifi
I'm trying to recover it, if it's software related then it is due to the NVRAM partition, accessed with QPTS, but that's strange because mobile network works without any issue.

I dumped my nvram and i'm trying to find the actual mac address, if i'm able to change it and successfully recover it i'll post something. The bad news is that i need a clean nvram to double check, because mine is already damaged. I may get my hands on another working redmi 3 soon, hope that will help