Just thought I’d pass this on to those with Smartphone activation or Wi-Fi issues.
About a month ago I had LOADS of problems trying to get two new Samsung Galaxy S4 phones activated.<\/p>\n
My Wi-Fi would drop off after just a few moments or minutes at the longest. After a few days, I started to RMA and send back two phones trying to get them to work. Besides some issues with flashing firmware, which I resolved, I could not get the phone(s) to finish setting up because of the data connection problems.<\/p>\n
Then I chatted with another geek like me on a tech forum and he said he had problems with his phones on one of his home’s routers. Since I can’t let things like this beat me I decided to do even more research. So, following up on the ‘connection\/Wi-Fi’ premise I did some more searching and found two articles. Key for me in this article was this one line, I made that one change – disable WMM on the DLink, and the phone stayed connected to WiFi! I was able to finish the carrier\/phone activation and commence synching!<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n The other article, here<\/a>, mentions upgrading firmware on the DLink: So now here is a catch. iOS 6 (iPhone) supposedly requires WMM compliance. However<\/em><\/strong> some are saying that they too get much better speeds and stability by disabling this setting too. You can read about that here<\/a>. So if you have an iDevice you might want to check into this setting on your router.<\/p>\n Well good luck. Hope this helps some of you all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Just thought I’d pass this on to those with Smartphone activation or Wi-Fi issues. About a month ago I had LOADS of problems trying to get two new Samsung Galaxy S4 phones activated. My Wi-Fi would drop off after just a few moments or minutes at the longest. After a few days, I started to … Continue reading “Wi-Fi connection issues with Smartphones and devices”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":587,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[229,35,9,36,230,228],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/587"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":999,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions\/999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
And, because his Wi-Fi kept disconnecting it caused all kinds of problems during setup. His ‘solution’ was to get a new wireless router.<\/em><\/p>\n
His comment about the router got me to thinking about the routers in my place.
So I turned off the old Linksys with customized DDWRT firmware and tried connecting to my DLink DIR655. Nope. Still had issues with losing connectivity. And I could not finish activating\/updating phone.<\/p>\n
First one is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
"The company suggested that customers using the DIR-655 or the DIR-855 could mitigate the problem in the meantime by logging into the web interface and disabling the Wireless Multimedia Extensions (WME, also known as Wi-Fi Multimedia or WMM)."<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
Haven’t tried the new firmware for the DLink but I probably will soon enough. Here’s to hoping all goes well.<\/p>\n