Anyone else having this problem? Everytime I turn off and on my wifi on phone it uses a new mac address when it connects to router, so that it gets the ipaddress at the bottom of the list (100/101/102 what every is open) instead of the one i try to sign to that mac. I have port forwarding setup for a few things and it keeps changing on me. :/. Am I alone in this?
Hi.
I recently tried EternityProject's CM10 v0.03 and v0.04 and had some problems to connect to my wifi access point. After some investigation I noticed that the mac address of my HOXs wifi adapter had changed. And since I use a network mac address filter the phone was not allowed to connect. Adding the new mac address to the filter in the AP and I was able to connect.
Is this common, or even considered a problem? It has never happened to me before when trying a custom rom, not on the hox and not on my htc desire either. Could someone shed some light on this for me
best regards
Danne
At some points in your life, one of your Android devices connect to a wifi router, but can't connect to the internet. However, your computer, laptop or iPad will connect to that same wifi and use the internet just fine. I've looked everywhere on the internet for solutions, some of them are:
+ Turn off and on both modem and wifi router
+ Factory reset wifi router
+ Battery pull your phone, wait 30s and put it back
+ Reflash stock or custom ROM
+ Change DHCP IP setting to Static
+ Disable security (WEP, WPA) on wifi router
+ Check DNS server, gateway IP address for correctness
Fortunately, I stumbled upon this old thread last night -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1371794
It helped fix the internet connection temporarily, turning off and on wifi on phone caused the issue to repeat.
In summary, he found out the correct MAC address for gateway was mismatched with the one on his phone. Even though the gateway IP address is correct (example: default gateway IP 192.168.1.1)
Upon further investigations, I found out my Wifi ROUTER has the same IP address with my MODEM (192.168.1.1) This IP conflict causes the phone to recognized the WIFI ROUTER's MAC address as the gateway's MAC address. This problem mostly occurs on Android phone, not computer (I'm no tech savvy so I have no idea why)
Simple fix: Go to wifi router setting page, change the IP address on wifi router to different number (other than default 192.168.1.1), and the problem should be fixed.
Please help spread the words to fellow Android lovers, I'm sure a lot of us have struggled with this problem :laugh:
I'm one guy who is desperately looking for a solution to this.
Unfortunately the solution you gave didn't work.
Hi
i have a problem with wifi. it remains connected but loses internet access randomly. i found this solution:
"In the wifi networks, select the network you want and select ‘Forget network’
Turn off the wifi
kill all the apps with your task manager
Turn on the wifi again
Connect to the network
Check the internet connectivity
If still the problem exist, switch off the phone and redo the above steps"
it solves the problem, but it happens again after some minutes. actually, i also installed an app named "wifi fixer" which does the above process automatically. when the program is active, it turns the wifi off and on every 2-3 minutes. and the phone has internet access when the program tuns the wifi on.
any idea?
Turn off wifi optimization on some android phones help.
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(bump) By any chance, are you all using Aztech's router? I have the same problem with my Aztech router.
solution?
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Had the same problem for several months. Changed my router and everything became prefect.
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2 years after the last reply I am having the same problem. My wife and kids all have internet access on their phones, tablets, desktop and laptops all from the same modem router yet I am unable to use the internet on my Galaxy S2 mobile phone even though my phone says connected to Wi-Fi Network Netgear 06.
The Mac address solution provided isn't applicable to my situation as my Mac address on my mobile is different to my modem router Mac address.
Any other solution?
i'm using alcaltel one touch idol x 6040D. I did try to update my phone by using the Mobile Upgrade S4.0.6. Followed the instructions but then interrupted due to I dont know. When i switch on back the phone, i try turn on the wifi and bluetooth and it didnt work. Then I checked at the phone status and apparently it shows that wifi mac address and bluetooth address are unavailable. So how to solve this? Any solutions for this?
I had same problem .. Stay here for solution
Here is a head scratcher...
When changing the IP subnet from 192.168.1.x to 192.168.2.x (or any thing else for that matter) the HTC One M8 will not connect to the WiFi. It will only connect when the subnet is 192.168.1.x. All the other devices - even an iPhone - work without issue when moving them to the new subnet. Everything on my LAN uses a static IP address. I assign them all myself and write down what devices use what address.
Does anybody know how to fix this? The phone is 100% factory and it is not mine, so rooting is out of the question.