This Android bug has been around since 2010, fix promised
0. phoneArena posted on 22 Nov 2012, 03:24
On April 29, 2010, an Android networking issue was submitted to Google by an HTC Desire owner. It was preventing him to access the internet on his smartphone when connected to his university's wireless network...
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10. CellularNinja posted on 22 Nov 2012, 07:57 4 1
True. I haven't experienced this, but it is very interesting to read this article because a few years back, my brother was a freshman in college and owned the Samsung Captivate (original Galaxy S series). He could not connect to the school's WiFi ever, so he ended up returning it and getting an iPhone. I never thought much of it. I didn't know why it wouldn't connect, I actually thought it would have had more to do with the college's WiFi than Android. Very interesting.
18. Nadr1212 posted on 22 Nov 2012, 12:15 0 0
oh, NOW we know about this glitch, and i think i have it on my 2 phones, especially after they go to sleep mode, WiFi connection's lost BUT can b received again
its a pain having to connect to WiFi over and over again
2. jbitounis posted on 22 Nov 2012, 03:34 8 1
Yes, I have, in my university and I asked the IT guys about this. They could not do anything about it and verified other students were facing the same problems. IMO, given the popularity of Android handset among younger people, this is a big FAIL. I don't care how difficult it is to get fixed or why Google hasn't prioritized it properly but not being able to connect over Wifi from your smartphone is a bit more than a glitch.
3. thelegend6657 posted on 22 Nov 2012, 03:36 20 5
If its apple they will say you are using it wrong
11. CellularNinja posted on 22 Nov 2012, 07:58 3 0
Yeah they would say you don't need a feature like that, like they do with all the other features they don't have.
16. nwright94 (unregistered) posted on 22 Nov 2012, 10:44 3 0
This website is getting worse and worse every day. How hard is it to just stick to what the article is about and not bring up another company? I'm talking about both apple and android fans. You guys are getting sad.
17. chaoticrazor posted on 22 Nov 2012, 11:28 0 0
thank you what ive been trying to say for awhile
4. bohdan4ik13 posted on 22 Nov 2012, 04:01 0 1
Cool! The Bug, that have millions of smartphones would be fixed in FUTURE releases ^_^
6. cripton805 posted on 22 Nov 2012, 04:30 1 1
I don't even know what they're talking about. I've used wifi everywhere including schools with all of my android phones.
-the legend6657
If it was Apple, it would be affecting every single iphone 5. Oh wait, that did happen.
o_O
8. syedzain posted on 22 Nov 2012, 05:09 4 0
Happy thanksgiving day to all of u..
Have a great thanksgiving :)
9. aquadust posted on 22 Nov 2012, 06:32 0 0
this is the most commont excuse I'm hearing from developers at work... it's not a bug, it's a feature, or wrong specification :D ...sure it is honey :D sure
12. ahhxd717 posted on 22 Nov 2012, 08:00 0 0
That's never happened to me when trying to connect to my school's WiFi, even with my HTC Aria I had a while back when it was running Eclair. That's a pretty bad bug though, needs to be fixed.
14. rasinhussy posted on 22 Nov 2012, 09:16 0 0
Have had many Android phones and have never ran into this issue. Maybe you're holding it wrong. :)
19. Quezdagreat posted on 22 Nov 2012, 12:23 1 0
if this happened on a iphone it would be over 300 comments with people saying "you're connecting wrong" or something about innovation
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