WiFi Connected, No internet. (Or is it...)

BraX3 iodéOS
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So this is very weird. Last night I went to turn off my light with my home automation app and I was disconnected from the WiFi.

When I went to fix it I realized that there is some problem preventing the phone from getting internet through the WiFi connection so, the phone was just ignoring WiFi. I can force it to connect without internet and I can reach local servers on my network.

It is like DNS is broken on the phone.

but check this out, it is not.

If I put the phone in airplane mode (to disconnect mobile data) and then force connect only WiFi, the internet does indeed work, even though it is reporting “No Internet“.

No other device on my network, WiFi or wired, has any problem.

I am out of ideas here. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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What OS version are you running?

Did you try workarounds such as resetting your network settings (circle arrow icon on top right in the wifi selection menu), or simply rebooting the phone?

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@plamen are you going to give at some point any news for the update firmware of mediatek to resolve the WiFi bug OR NOT ?

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I did all the things. I was on the 7.1 Dec. 21 firmware when it happened. I installed 7.1 Dec. 27 firmware and the problem persisted.

But like I said. I figured out that the internet did work. I just had to tell the phone to connect anyways without internet.

Also. I few days ago the problem disappeared as mysteriously as it appeared.

This was a strange bug, and now, it is completely gone, and for no good reason.

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The internet connection is tested by pinging privately somewhere I don’t remember, if this fails it shows “no internet”.

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That was probably it. Whatever that address is was not reachable for a few days for whatever reason. Could have been on my end but I don’t really want to dig through my router logs or do wire shark traces to find out.

Anyway, It’s working now and I’m good with that.

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I had seen it somewhere in the code or some documentation, I think it’s to iodé

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Yes, we’ve escalated it

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Good glad you hear it.

There are still non profit capable of providing routers free of charge. Don’t forget that. Me included

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