How's your wifi connection on Note 3?

[eve6er69]

Try this. Go to the phone dialer and Hit *#0011# then hit menu, select wifi and turn off wifi power saver. See if that helps.

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[Almeuit]

Try this. Go to the phone dialer and Hit *#0011# then hit menu, select wifi and turn off wifi power saver. See if that helps.

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Just a note to everyone this gets reset on a reboot.

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[eve6er69]

Just a note to everyone this gets reset on a reboot.

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Good to know.

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[bb1fit]

I have the Note 3 also. My issue is with WiFi it many times constantly disconnects my WiFi due to (slow internet connection) after checking 'quality'. I travel often, and this happens with hotel WiFi's for me. I should note checking internet speeds they too me are fine, and all my other devices run just fine, i.e computer, tablet, etc. And I am of coursed cognizant about the amount of devices on it, I will for instance turn off wifi on my tablet when wanting to use my phone. It is very annoying. Been through every advanced setting. I thought there would be a way in a setting that you could adjust what would be your lowest internet speed the phone will allow. I did shut off my auto network switch, this helps some.

 

[stevekgold]

Totally enjoy n3 but for one annoying issue. I am experiencing a zone 1/4 mile wide that shows full bars on 4g but I have 0 phone capability while data is fine. Nobody else with Verizon has the same issue. And my wife's n3 has the same problem, so it's not my phone's singular defect. My signal strength is 86 which is fine, my third party app conforms this too. Tried everything, shutting off and on airplane mode and mobile data, sigmal improvement apps, verizon techs went out to the site and checked the signal and they are stumped (they've tried everything from there end including reactivating my network. Any ideas?

 

[desdroid]

desdroid - I do not always get a wi-fi unstable message when wi-fi disconnects. If it just disconnects a few times per minute and just for a second or less the only way I know I lost connection is, I get a message that it has connected to my wi-fi network again. My best test is with my Fox News app. When I am reading a news article and have scrolled down on the page, it (the page) will jump back to the top of the article when I get a disconnect, even if it is for a very short time.

I don?t watch very many videos or listen to music on my phone. A video and I assume on line music buffers some of the stream so a short disconnect will not be noticed unless it gets so bad the video has caught up to the buffer.

Pull your sim. It is easy to do and if your wi-fi is rock solid, then you will know if you have the problem I described above.

I am certain I don't consistently get disconnection many times every minute. I tested my phone by sending or receiving to a packet server on the lan.

But if what your hypothesis of the cause is correct, it is worrisome.

Because only the earlier released phones have an firmware exploit allowing rootable firmware without triggering KNOX.

So if you get an exchange you lose this ability.

 

[anote3fan]

Re: How's your wifi connection on note3?

Just turn off/uncheck the auto network switch.

I was also frustrated for MONTHS....

 

[desdroid]

Re: How's your wifi connection on note3?

Just turn off/uncheck the auto network switch.

I was also frustrated for MONTHS....

Most people who read anything in this thread would have tried that by now.

 

[nayan350]

Note 3 Wifi is great. But you need to do something. Always use update wifi driver in PC and update your router software. When using wifi you should off mobile data network. Also off wifi power save mode by dailing *#0011# then press menu then see wifi option. That's it.

 

[David Lakota]

Re: How's your wifi connection on note3?

Many thanks. That worked. The way to turn it off is to go to Wi-Fi settings and then hit the menu button (lower left on Galaxy Note 3) and hit ADVANCED. That is where the Auto Network is. Now I have internet again.

Task Force Delta Major David Lakota

 

[Julian Logan]

Nope, it's Sprint too. I have excellent Wifi at work and my Wifi unstable pop up never goes away. This is some bull... I've updated PRL, I've reset all settings, I've unchecked auto-connect and nothing works to fix the wifi connection.

 

[redsandvb]

If anyone is still having problems with their Wi-Fi being unstable and none of the solutions mentioned in previous post have helped, then pull the sim card out and test your Wi-Fi connection. If it solves the problem you have a phone with the Wi-Fi antenna and mobile antenna next to each other. This is a known issue with the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 that has been remedied by Samsung in later phones, however the bad phones in the pipeline are still being marketed by the carriers. As far as I know the only solution is to replace the phone with one that has the antennas spaced farther apart. If you get an earlier phone you may experience the same problem.

This test will never be suggested by technical support to see if you have one of the phones with the antenna problem. They may not even be aware of this or if they are, they will not admit it. You have to get past them and their supervisors to the top tech people before anyone will admit to this problem.

I got one of the bad phones twelve days ago and it took a lot of trouble shooting to figure out the problem. Hope this helps some of you.

Anyone hear more about this? Thanks

 

[Adel Mannoun]

Hi Nayan350 Turning off wifi power save mode finally solved my problem , but this solution is affecting my battery life, may be I lost 20% or more. So I think this solution is temporary and it just indicate that there may be a hardware problem, as others stated the location of wifi antenna beside the phone antenna. What do you think ???

 

[nayan350]

Hi Nayan350 Turning off wifi power save mode finally solved my problem , but this solution is affecting my battery life, may be I lost 20% or more. So I think this solution is temporary and it just indicate that there may be a hardware problem, as others stated the location of wifi antenna beside the phone antenna. What do you think ???

I think this is 4.3 jelly bean problem.

 

[Hawkhe]

My AT&T Note 3 just started losing WiFi connection after being fine for 3 months. Every time I turn the WiFi off and on or reboot I get connection for a a min or so and then it just stops. My phone started off with the unstable connection crap until I turned off settings in advanced WiFi and that fixed that problem, now I am just stumped.

 

[lemongrass#IM]

So now that kitkat is rolling out, can anyone confirm if it's fixed the wifi issues or not?
Mine does work with no problems with one of my routers, with another it gets intermittant 'connection unstable' messages, but does
appear to work, but I cannot get a connection at all on Amtrak.

 

[Evilgrinz]

I have this problem on both a Note 3 & Samsung Galaxy 10.1 2014 edition with Verizon fios wifi.

 

[Spencerdl]

No problems with Wifi on my Note3. I'm using Verizon and Xfinity at home and who knows when away from home.

 

[Jalopiejoe]

My first month with new Note 3 on Verizon: Perfect!

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[FBA]

Hi FBA....I am using SM-N900.
Typing *#0011# on the phone dialer > Enter a hidden menu >Select Menu > Wi-Fi Setting > Turn off Wi-Fi Power Save Mode (Note: Reboot the phone then go back into *#0011# > Wi-Fi to confirm the Wi-Fi Power Save is OFF)

Thanks - I had the issue a few weeks ago; there was no ON/OFF button. I tried it a few times, and rebooted, all to no avail. I was updated a few times over the past few weeks and now it works! The ON/OFF button is there and working.