Got my S4 yesterday and it's working well *except* when accessing the wi-fi connection in my home, which works for maybe 10-30 seconds and then can't connect any more, whether it be Chrome, Play Store, or any app that connects to the internet. If I turn off wi-fi and then re-enable it, things work again for another few seconds before locking up again. I went through this disable/enable routine 5 times in order to download the Facebook app. I spent 45 minutes with AT&T yesterday and tried various things, but without success.
* I went to a cafe with an unsecured wi-fi and it worked fine.
* My home wi-fi uses WPA-Personal and works fine for other devices. I just tested two laptops, a Nexus 7, and a Windows Phone. The router is a D-Link DIR-655 and has been running flawlessly for a few years.
* I temporarily disabled security on my wi-fi router and changed a few other settings, but the lockup behavior remains.
* AT&T had me completely reset the device, but the behavior remains.
* The phone reports that the wi-fi connection is 'Connected', the signal is 'Very strong', link speed is 65Mbps, and security is WPA/WPA2 PSK
* If I enable the mobile data option and turn off wi-fi, the internet works fine, but of course I'm eating up mobile data.
Over the next few days I'll try connecting to a few more wi-fi networks to see what happens, but I wanted to throw up this post to see if anyone had any ideas or were having similar trouble.
Cheers,
Roger
* I went to a cafe with an unsecured wi-fi and it worked fine.
* My home wi-fi uses WPA-Personal and works fine for other devices. I just tested two laptops, a Nexus 7, and a Windows Phone. The router is a D-Link DIR-655 and has been running flawlessly for a few years.
* I temporarily disabled security on my wi-fi router and changed a few other settings, but the lockup behavior remains.
* AT&T had me completely reset the device, but the behavior remains.
* The phone reports that the wi-fi connection is 'Connected', the signal is 'Very strong', link speed is 65Mbps, and security is WPA/WPA2 PSK
* If I enable the mobile data option and turn off wi-fi, the internet works fine, but of course I'm eating up mobile data.
Over the next few days I'll try connecting to a few more wi-fi networks to see what happens, but I wanted to throw up this post to see if anyone had any ideas or were having similar trouble.
Cheers,
Roger