Thursday, 25 August 2011

Samsung Galaxy Ace - Wi-Fi error

The Wi-fi function sometimes throws up an error on the Ace - roughly about every three days in my case. It stubbornly refuses to activate and detect available networks and no amount of begging, pleading or threats will make it change its mind (smart phone).

The solution is to power off and back on but I came across the following additional trick to fix it.

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This brings up the WlanTest which reloads the driver and voila!, the wi-fi will start to work again.


Success! After the driver is reloaded.

Sometimes when the screen switches off though, the phone shuts down and has to be powered on again.

Hopefully someone at Samsung or Google will make note of this and do something.

Until then, you have two equally crappy solutions.
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