Showing posts with label networks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label networks. Show all posts

Monday, 19 October 2015

Connects to Guest Networks



Hello,

I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 2, SGH-M317i (Bell Mobility) and recently installed Cyanogenmod 12.1 (Lollipop 5.1.1). All is running well, the device actually seems to be running much faster...probably due to the lack of bloatware that originally came with it. Sure, I miss some of the "cool" features that the manufacturer had added (ie. hand swipe for screen capture), but overall I am extremely happy with the decision to flash the ROM. Although it does self-identify as a SGH-N7105 now. (About Phone > Device model)

Anyway, I have noticed that when I have my guest networks enabled on my home router (an ASUS RT-N66U running the latest Merlin firmware), my phone insists on connecting to the Guest networks (a2.4 and 5 GHz) instead of my full, "regular" network (hidden SSID, but a "Saved" network in the phone). Even if I go into the WiFi settings and tell the phone to forget those entries, it will still try to connect...even going so far as to say "connected" even though I know it does not have the proper credentials. I have no idea what is causing this as the problem was not present on the stock 4.4.2 KitKat that I had previously.

Sure, I could give it the credentials for those guest networks (all are WPA-Personal protected) but I have restricted those from accessing the intranet as they are primarily for guests who come by, so that is not really a viable option.

Does anyone have any suggestions? It seems strange that it attempts to connect and save these networks, so technically, I shouldn't have to do anything to keep the phone from connecting. However, since it insists, I had thought that Android would have a native (not requiring an app) method of blacklisting these networks. I have looked at apps such as WiFi Ruler, but again would've thought that there is a manual way of doing this. (I don't know if this is obvious by virtue of the fact that I am running a custom ROM, but the phone is rooted.)

Thanks!



Samsung GT-N700 (Galaxy Note 1): Search available networks & data connectivity issues



Hello everyone!

Recently I rooted my phone Samsung GT-N700 (Galaxy Note 1) and installed the Paranoid Android 5.1; but since then I am constantly facing issues with my phone network connectivity.

I am facing these issues:
1. Unable to search available cellular networks- whenever I search for available networks, it shows me an error message saying "Error in searching for networks". Just on 1 OR 2 occasions there was no error, but the result was also empty saying- "No networks found". The phone does get connected to default service provider, but when I travel to other places, I am not able to search and connect to others networks.
2. Phone's network signal constantly shows an exclamation mark in it. Only when I enable the data network, some times it shows full network connectivity (without any exclamation mark).
3. Data network connection continuously keeps on dropping and connection is very weak- this used to happen in my company provided OS, but the frequency was very low (like 2 OR 3 times a day). But since this OS update, I get disconnected from data network around 20-25 times in a day.
As a side effect of this issue, I am not able to connect to Google play to download any new apps or even update the existing ones! Only when I connect to a Wi-Fi network, I can connect to Google play.

Is there anyone out there facing/faced similar issue? If there is any solution/tweaking to this issue, comments OR suggestions are most welcome! :) :)

Thank you!