Can't Turn On Wi-Fi when on Airplane Mode

[Android Central Question]

Ok so before, everything was absolutely normal, i could turn on airplane mode on my android phone and then turn on my wifi however ever since last week, the only way i could turn on wifi was if i turned off airplane mode. it would be great if someone could help thanks!!

 

[Rukbat]

Make and model phone, and have you gotten any updates since then?

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[helloooooooooooooo]

Hi! My Phone is a HTC One M8 and no updates ever since then. Android 6.01

I forgot to add, last week, this issue started when I was listening to music and then screen suddenly whited out and then the phone somewhat came back to normal but the task bar (the drag down notifications area) order of the quick access settings were all jumbled and ever since that happened, I have to turn off airplane mode to turn on wifi. Thanks!

Thank you!

 

[netkubus]

I have exactly the same problem with my HTC One M8. Earlier, when I turned on airplane mode, I could turn on Wifi and Bluethoot manually. It worked well and I used it often. One time my phone rebooted itself (it was not a system upgrade), and after reboot the function of turning on wifi in airplane mode stopped working. I care about it because I often used wifi and bluethoot in airplane mode.

I tried to wiping the cache partition but unfortunately it did not solve the problem.

Has anyone found a solution to this problem without a hard reset?
I prefer to avoid reinstalling the application and transferring data.

However, if a hard reset is necessary, does it really solve this problem?