WiFi losing connection at random, needing toggle to reconnect?

[judge34411]

Re: WiFi losing connection at random, needing toggle to reconnect

That brings up a good question. For the people who are having this problem, does it happen only at home or other places as well?

I pretty much only use wifi while at my house. There is a lot of great 4g reception around where I live, so when away from my house (where the 4g connectivity is not so good) I use 4g.

How about other people?

I am often at Star Bucks coffee shop and I to be honest have not been their long enough to notice. I will be keeping track of this and report back. I cannot help wonder about the Visual Voice mail as I suggested above. Do all having this problem have Visual Voice mail?

EDIT:

My trouble is with a 6GB limit a month and LTE service I always use that instead of a much slower Wi-Fi service. With the exception of my house where I barely get "Edge" But again I will make a point of going Wi-Fi when sitting down for a long cup of joe. (LTE avg. 21down and 8 up).

 

[liquidhotmckma]

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Verizon told me to put my phone into airplane mode then take it out. Why I should have to do this to connect is beyond me since I pay for an unlimited data package that cost an arm and a leg. It seems to work for a few minutes then it craps out. Although my phone is a the Samsung Droid Charge not the Galaxy which btw is the dumbest Smart Phone ever manufactured or produced by Samsung. I'm not so sure that this a faulty hardware issue that needs to be resolved by Samsung. It appears to be prevailant in more than one smart phone they manufacture.

 

[jneusch]

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This has happened to me at home just like many of you. I am now on day 4 of a hotel stay, unsecured wireless and the same thing is happening. I don't remember this happening at all until about 10 days ago. I had changed my setting to always awake only when charging. I just changed it back to always awake. We'll see if that makes a difference. I am on an unlimited plan, so it's not about the data usage, just more about battery life and the fact that it should work properly.

 

[scuba561]

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I am often at Star Bucks coffee shop and I to be honest have not been their long enough to notice. I will be keeping track of this and report back. I cannot help wonder about the Visual Voice mail as I suggested above. Do all having this problem have Visual Voice mail?
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No visual voice mail for me. I DO have wifi issues, so do not think we can tie the issue to visual voice mail.

 

[yanks4life]

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I am having the same problem guys if I have my phone off for awhile when I return to it it will be on 4g and have to manual connect back to wifi, and it never fails every morning after a nights charge in my bedroom its on 4G when I unlock it and it says poor connection and need to reconnect.

I tried getting this app called Wifi Fixer in the app store and all it helps with is just auto reconnecting when it jumps off instead of having to do it manual, but it resets wifi to do it. So don't really know how much of a help it is.

Something really needs to be done with this because I only have 2GB plan right now and I don't want to be on 4G while at home wasting data when I don't have to be. I can't even select Static and save it in options. I wonder if its my router sometimes as I have a new top of line Linksys N which is dual band.

Well any suggestions are welcome again!!!!

 

[scuba561]

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I am having the same problem guys if I have my phone off for awhile when I return to it it will be on 4g and have to manual connect back to wifi, and it never fails every I wonder if its my router sometimes as I have a new top of line Linksys N which is dual band.

Well any suggestions are welcome again!!!!

I had a Belkin 2.4ghz router and the S3 had wifi issues we have been discussing. I upgraded my router to Amped dual band- same problem. My xoom tablet and my original droid incredible have no issue with the routers. I really do not think this is an issue with anybody's router. It has to be a phone issue. I just HOPE it can be fixed in software!

 

[billsfan2]

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For everyone's sake I hope so too. Even though mine is now working fine at home, a device should not be this finicky.

The point of Wi-Fi is to be able to use it anywhere that has it.

p.s., not using visual voicemail and home router so far was only place with problem. Could not recreate in Verizon store. Had multiple issues...would lose connection, would say out of range even if closeby, wouldn't always connect, and sometimes would say connected and could play words w friends but not bring up any web pages. Weird!.

 

[heggood]

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Im having a similar problem but i dont have to toggle as i have it set to automatically connect when in range. Unfortunately i am losing connection and reconnecting every minute or so. My droid x does the same exact thing. Aggravating to say the least.

 

[judge34411]

Re: WiFi losing connection at random, needing toggle to reconnect

Well as promised, connected Wi-Fi at Star Bucks same problem. An I concur with above statement, that this is the phone or software on phone at issue. Not our routers. I to have multiple items including 2 other phones, an Iphone 4 and a Samsung Galaxy SII HD and nothing else is having problems staying connected. Just my SIII

 

[craigf#AC]

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Any further progress/news on this? I'm seeing this issue of intermittent non-connects on several Wi-Fi networks on both my and my wife's new GSIIIs. Turning Wi-Fi off and then back on _usually_ fixes it, but not always...sometimes requires doing that 2 or 3 times before a solid connection will be established.

If it requires new Sammy software, October can't come soon enough. Of course, maybe that update will come with JB (a guy can dream).

 

[scuba561]

Re: WiFi losing connection at random, needing toggle to reconnect

Any further progress/news on this? I'm seeing this issue of intermittent non-connects on several Wi-Fi networks on both my and my wife's new GSIIIs. Turning Wi-Fi off and then back on _usually_ fixes it, but not always...sometimes requires doing that 2 or 3 times before a solid connection will be established.

If it requires new Sammy software, October can't come soon enough. Of course, maybe that update will come with JB (a guy can dream).

With setting my IP to static, seems I need to toggle wifi once every 2nd or 3rd day. So, while it is better, it is still not working the way it should.

 

[judge34411]

Re: WiFi losing connection at random, needing toggle to reconnect

This might be solved with a software update (lets hope). What worries me even more. I have an Iphone 4 and a Samsung Galaxy SII LTE HD and in the lower corner of house (furthest away from router) they both show full Wi-fi signal strength (less one bar). My SIII barely shows 1 dot. an that will even drop off. So lets see.

Curious if others have noticed this?

 

[smbrooks32]

Try and download a WiFi signal tester on your cell phone I use WiFi analyzer and check to see if there is someone on the same frequency channel as you with a weaker signal. Could be that you need to change your channel.

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[Suntan]

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This isn?t going to help anyone with problems, but I just wanted to add that I have been very happy with the wireless performance of my GSIII. So not all of them are broken.

The Wifi has been problem-free from day one. I use it both at home on a WPA2 protected WLAN and at work on an open WLAN.

It even has better range than my old Droid 3.

-Suntan

 

[toddydogood]

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I have the same problem with the S3 dropping WiFi randomly both at home and at work. Sometimes it will work no problem all day, sometimes less than an hour (never really timed it) before I have to manually reconnect.

 

[smbrooks32]

I don't have any problems either I was just making a suggestions in the area since VZW does not hsbe a area of tech support fir WiFi

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[Forgetful]

I also have no issues with my phone on my pos belkin router surprisingly.

I haven't messed with any settings aside from turning off auto connect and setting wifi to sleep when screen is off. Also I set it to not notify me when there is a open network.

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[SCTom]

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It may not be your hardware. I have an HP Touchpad that I added Android 4.0 ICE Cyanogen and when in Android it randomly and frequently now drops the WiFi connection. This is a recent development. Toggle WiFi off then on and sometimes it connects back, but only for a short time again. But when I reboot into HP's Web OS, the WiFi stays on with no problems.

 

[therealmccoys]

Imagine my surprise when I updated the OS on 1) my Galaxy S III, my wife's Galaxy Note and my iPad 3 and her iPad 2, and suddenly I have WiFi connection problems on all 4 devices! Same symptoms on all 4. They connect for 1, 2 , 5 minutes and BAM! - off line. Turn WiFi connection off and back on and another brief interval of WiFi. BrightHouse rebooted the router and changed channels. No change. Go to work. Same problem.
Is this another Apple got it from Samsung got it from Apple. Something smells like politics!

Bottom line, I'm seeing no relief yet in the forums. I've tried all the suggestions.
Will the companies, please, come through with a fix soon!

 

[gunner1]

I hate to sound like a total noob, but can you walkme step by step from the home screen as to how you fixed this problem.I can't seem to get to the screen shown in your screenshot. I just got this phone two weeks ago and it started dropping my wifi connection a week ago- even when sitting a foot away from the router itsself! Thanks for any help!:-[