What is the main difference between how hotspots and typical in home routers handle WPA auth? It seems that the failure is immediate; like the authentication process never takes place, or is never even attempted. Clearly the Brax3 can auth over WPA is all its forms because its working on hotspots and many routers via WPA. Do we have any packet caps of successful and failed auths to compare?
@3n1gma, I don’t have WEP option only WPA. I disabled my SSID broadcast. How do I connect to my hidden SSID?
I found the add network option. I put in my new hidden SSID. The phone found the network and said “couldn’t connect. try again later”
By the way, I’m using no security. That’s why I liked the suggestion by 3n1gma to hide your SSID.
Same here . Our two phones arrived . So after realising the phone would not connect to our home WiFi I logged on and looked here for answers . I dowlnoaded the 6.6 update hoping that would help but still no connection . Any ideas please . Also how do I remove the 6.6 update to save storage on the phone please ?
@rik
Beta update did not work for
Linksys EA 6900, WPA2.
I’ll be looking for next update.
The list of working routers is not that impressive.
Does your testing team have a compiled list of functioning routers?
I don’t know if you’ve seen it or not, but there is a Brax3 wifi connection issues chart.
Whoa that link looks way different than I expected, but if it gets you to the chart…
darnit, no WEP 
Your connection to the open hidden SSID failed too?
Yeah… with no security… it’s kind of weird.
I’m pretty convinced the issue is not with the Brax3’s ability to authenticate over WPA on any particular router; but is a fair bit more “gremlin” like than we may understand.
Here is someone who had it work on their previously non-working router:
Here is my theory that the issue would return and my description of what I think may be going on:
And here is the poster’s response that the issue did, indeed, return as I had suspected..sadly:
I just tried connecting to my hotspot with a laptop. No problem. So I guess let the record show that the brax3 wifi problem can also happen with hotspots.
So, the issue is in the phone but the issue comes back when the router is rebooted. And your theory is that the phone is failing to auth(enticate) the connection due to an unexpected condition in the phone that causes it to stop the auth process or not even initiate the process altogether.
Why would 24 hours allow the connection? Rebooting the router would cause all connected devices to re-authenticate, right? I wonder, was the phone on the whole time? Would that even make a difference? Device comes on, then detects networks, then authenticates the one with a working passkey. Why does the phone indicate saved / check password and try again? Hmmmmm… What’s going on here? It can detect the network… I kind of think you’re right, it doesn’t even try to apply the network passkey and goes straight to “check password and try again” message. There’s got to be a way to see more, but I just don’t know enough about coding and the system.
Your hotspot was the first I have seen a Brax3 fail with. What make/model is your hotspot? Have you tried all possible configurations of WPA-PSK (TKIP / AES / AES + TKIP) and WPA2 TKIP / AES / AES + TKIP)?
I dont think the reboot of the router had anyhting to do with it; nor the 24 hour wait. If they would’ve disconnected and reconnected again by turning wifi off and then back on, I think it likely would’ve failed again.
There is something that is causing the WPA authentication procedure to cease before it begins, I suspect. It doesn’t even seem to be trying to authenticate. It immediately stops; and since this happened on a device where it was successful one time, that bolsters my theory that its not an issue with the Brax3 not being able to authenticate to these devices; but some condition not being met or some “bug” that is causing the authentication process to immediately terminate before it starts.
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It’s a Moto G7 with LineageOS. You don’t get much in the way of configuration with phone hotspots.
Which WPA method was used; 1 or 2, or mixed?
Only options are 2 (personal) or none. It does connect with none, but I’m not going to use that.
@rik Please add Moto G7 with LineageOS w/ WPA2-PSK to the list of not working. This is the only mobile device I’ve heard of that is failing with WiFi.
Turned on hotspot on Brax3 running latest beta.
Was able to successfully connect to it with Brax3 running latest production software.
Tried all possible combinations of 2.4/5ghz and WPA, WPA2,WPA3 and connected successfully each time
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You turned on a Brax3 hotspot and connected to it with a different Brax3? Am I followng you?
Correct. Just seeing if I could cause the connection to fail with a certain setting.
Will also try in the am with a pixel running latest iodé beta and a stock Galaxy.
I also have a couple dozen old routers that I may start testing with.
Too many wireless devices on my main network to risk having to reconnect them all if I experiment on it
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