Captivate, Froyo and WiFi

**raven71#ac** · 05-10-2011, 08:26 PM

It ain't my router cause my sons Verizon phone works. Wife Blackjack works. Daughters iphone works. Only one that don't is my captivate. I have friends having the same problem with their captivate after upgrade. That's on their own routers or where they try hooking up.

Now my screen isn't responding it freezes. My Email just keeps trying to load and my keyboard stays showing when it should disappear after i chose a website to load.
Phone is getting really slow and i have cleared everything removed battery and done two factory reset. It speeds up for a day or two, then acts up again. The funny thing is my gps works fine picks up 7 satellites but the nav program is slow or freezes. Fuk it i have had it with all this technology crap. Give me a regular phone and i will use my laptop for the other stuff. Ill save money on having to have a data plan and deal with a dump phone. Since this stuff isn't right i've got use to waiting to see what my email is and people could call me instead of sending me a message.

**raven71#ac** · 05-13-2011, 11:25 AM

So I woke up about an hour ago and my phone is on with wifi connected. Yea I know slept in cause I been feeling sick since they operated on my back again. Anyway I was afraid to turn the wifi off, but I did and reconnected almost instantaneous when I tried.
Wonder if the phone knew I was about to use it for target practice. Not sure if I am still having the other problems that started. The only thing I did was switch from the Swype to Android keyboard. It was taking forever for the word to pop on the screen. Going to try using it now and see.

**raven71#ac** · 05-16-2011, 11:16 AM

So far so good.

**raven71#ac** · 05-21-2011, 11:02 PM

OK was working fine till I went back to Swype. That was yesterday and it is not finding my wifi again and starting to lock up when changing apps and typing.

**BigG413** · 05-25-2011, 02:05 PM

I am having issues with my Wifi but seems to be a little different then everyone else. Currently it states it is connected to my Wifi but I have no internet. Check that WEP key was correct and it is, but still nothing.

On a side note also, when I updated to Froyo 2.2, I was using my Acer netbook. Since the update, neither my phone or netbook connect to my Linksys router. But my PS3, Wii, and wife's Acer netbook connect no problem!

Anyone have any idea on where I can start looking for issues?

**raven71#ac** · 05-26-2011, 02:04 PM

Originally Posted by BigG413

I am having issues with my Wifi but seems to be a little different then everyone else. Currently it states it is connected to my Wifi but I have no internet. Check that WEP key was correct and it is, but still nothing.

On a side note also, when I updated to Froyo 2.2, I was using my Acer netbook. Since the update, neither my phone or netbook connect to my Linksys router. But my PS3, Wii, and wife's Acer netbook connect no problem!

Anyone have any idea on where I can start looking for issues?

I'm not sure why it would do that. It is only wifi the internet doesn't work with the phone? Try using wifi analyzer and see if that helps find a connection. I don't know about notebooks. Someone asked me if I am using att hotspots or where. I'm not but they keep showing has loading according to advanced task manager. Also asked if I tried the tethering which I haven't. Not sure if it has something to do with any problems.
It seems my problem has to do with swype cause when I use it my wifi screws up.plus my phone slows down and force closes on programs. Also my email acts up either no loading or if it does phone freezes. Stop using swype and all is working without problems.

**chickmag11** · 05-27-2011, 10:48 AM

Out of nowhere, started experiencing the "acquiring IP address" forever problem at home. PCs, iPhone, Cisco VOIP phone, wife's HTC Inspire could all connect. Rebooting everything n-different ways would not fix problem.Forgetting wifi connection had no effect.

I have 2 different wifi networks at home - I could connect to the second one no problem. (Nothing had changed on my wifi networks...)

Ran FXR last night. Seems to have fixed problem, at least for now...

(Stock, unrooted, Android 2.2)

**penndrew58** · 06-10-2011, 06:27 PM

I keep fighting with this and have found the ONLY solution is to make changes to your router - increase the Maximum Number of DHCP Users. When this number gets too high for comfort, reduce it to the minimum amount of Users required. Save. Then increase by 2. It connects right away. Not a guru, but it works ... none of the Android apps work!!!

**Ak S 4all** · 06-25-2011, 09:19 PM

Today the same symptoms Fk28 described for his wife appeared on my Captivate. I had been using Froyo for a couple of months with no issues. I read the rest of the thread and was set to follow some of the suggestions.

However, I tried something simpler first. I recalled that my router and phone both supported WPS (WiFi Protected Set-up). I used WPS's auto-configuration, which was straightforward, despite my lack of experience with it. Voila! My WiFi connected was reborn immediately. I have no long term results to report, only a couple of hours, but will get back if things degrade again.

FYI: My wife has a pre-Froyo Captivate and had none of my problems.

**BigG413** · 06-27-2011, 03:37 PM

Update for "Wifi connected but no Internet access"

Well working backwards to see if was possibly an app installed or something, I figured out my phone was running slow and having these issues while I was running LauncherPro.

Unistalled and Reinstalled, and all problems are fixed, well at least I thought. Now at work, I am getting the "Obtaining IP Address". I will be again trying to unistall LauncherPro and see what happens!

**stew1411** · 06-27-2011, 05:57 PM

Unistalled and Reinstalled, and all problems are fixed, well at least I thought. Now at work, I am getting the "Obtaining IP Address". I will be again trying to unistall LauncherPro and see what happens!

Mine does this too. However, go to wifi settings, menu, advanced. Check static ip and put all the settings in and it works fine now. I called my isp to find all the info.

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**bryanc28** · 06-28-2011, 04:19 PM

Been having this problem at work and the Y in town since the Froyo update. Took the advice in this forum and turned off the Swype keyboard and now, no problems at all with connecting to WiFi.

Interesting that the Swype keyboard could affect something that would seem to be completely separate from it.

Thanks for the information folks!

**Born2BeMild** · 07-04-2011, 06:24 PM

Wifi errors on stock 2.2?

do what I did
1)use the Allshare app, it will ask you to connect to WiFi, it will then send you to the WiFi networks screen
2) press back to go to a loading Allshare, it will ask to connect to WiFi again.
3) this time wait at the screen, your phone should connect successfully, if not, try again.
4) continue using Captivate.

this always worked for me when the Captivate never worked with my network, but worked fine with others.

**raven71#ac** · 07-04-2011, 07:12 PM

Yes sometimes allshre will work, but not stay connected. Still it is not suppose to work that way. You press the wifi button and your phone is suppose to connect to it...all these work arounds are a bunchif crap.
If you put a static IP in it seems to work. That's for those having trouble with swype activated. So far I dud that and have been able to connect and use swype. Still the phone wifi is screwed up with the up date and they know it.

**fadingdust** · 08-03-2011, 08:04 PM

Originally Posted by Bmoe320

I fouind another thread and it directed me to the all share app. I turning it on and I suddenly got connected. Wondering if this is making some sort of coflict? It has gotten me back on wifi at a Starbucks that was performing the same as at hoime. Hopefully it will work at home too.

Btw, this all-share option worked for me. It was the only thing that did on Froyo. Renaming of /data/wifi/bcm file didn't work. It was a random problem showing up more frequently in the past week.

**nbell978** · 08-03-2011, 10:13 PM

I started having the wifi problem after I rooted my phone and deleted all the bloatware, including allshare, using root explorer... put the allshare .apk back in the system/apps folder after a second factory reset, and stopped having the problem.