Jelly Bean broke my wifi connection

[dart4605]

My HTC One X updated to Jelly Bean a few months ago. When it did, one of the routers that I've been using without issue for months would no longer connect to my phone. That router works fine for many other phones and devices. Subsequently, that phone died and I got a replacement phone. Even though that phone was initially set up with Jelly Bean, it couldn't connect to it either. A third HTC One X also couldn't connect to it. After searching the net high and low, I've found lots of threads about similar problems on various other brands of phones using Jelly Bean. The usual solutions involve upgrading the router firmware or buying a router and hoping that it is one of the ones that Jelly Bean will talk to. I've noticed that JB only sees about half as many neighborhood routers as ICS did.

Obviously, this is a bug in Jelly Bean. Is there a fix yet? Is there a way to contact the Android programmers and get them to fix this?

Update: I tried forcing the router channel to each specific channel. If I set the router to use channel 1 only, sometimes the phone will see the router and connect. This is very intermittent and unreliable, though.

Help?

 

[friedtators]

old router new wifi radios. upgrade router and find right frequency and channel that works well

 

[dart4605]

This is a software issue. It worked fine with ICS.

 

[HNNNNNGHHH]

My HTC One X updated to Jelly Bean a few months ago. When it did, one of the routers that I've been using without issue for months would no longer connect to my phone. That router works fine for many other phones and devices. Subsequently, that phone died and I got a replacement phone. Even though that phone was initially set up with Jelly Bean, it couldn't connect to it either. A third HTC One X also couldn't connect to it. After searching the net high and low, I've found lots of threads about similar problems on various other brands of phones using Jelly Bean. The usual solutions involve upgrading the router firmware or buying a router and hoping that it is one of the ones that Jelly Bean will talk to. I've noticed that JB only sees about half as many neighborhood routers as ICS did.

Obviously, this is a bug in Jelly Bean. Is there a fix yet? Is there a way to contact the Android programmers and get them to fix this?

Update: I tried forcing the router channel to each specific channel. If I set the router to use channel 1 only, sometimes the phone will see the router and connect. This is very intermittent and unreliable, though.

Help?

It's likely that the update may have messed with WiFi drivers. Try factory resetting your One X to see if that remedies the problem.

 

[dart4605]

I've already had two newly setup One X's with the same problem.

 

[dart4605]

Update: after some time experimenting, I forced the router to channel 1. On that channel only, the phone will intermittently see and connect to the router. Unfortunately, it will also randomly lose it.

Since this is apparently a common issue with JB, doesn't anyone have a solution better than "buy a new router and hope it works?"

 

[dart4605]

Interestingly, the odds of getting a connection are much greater late at night. Perhaps there are fewer neighborhood routers active then?

Does anyone have more information on this problem?