Mobile data is expensive but remote while wifi is inexpensive, available at a variety of places but it isn’t movable. You can expect a good signal few meters across but you will have to use mobile data to access the internet when on the move and yes, there is plenty of public wifi’ available too. But what if your phone is having wifi problems? It could be anything from wifi not connecting or the internet is not working or the connection is dropping randomly or other issues but since wifi has become an integral part of our life, it annoys people a lot when it stops working. If you face similar wifi problems on your MyPhone smartphone, you can employ these methods to get it fixed or approach a service center to sort out the issue.
“Can’t turn on wifi”
If you have been using the phone for a while, you undoubtedly have come across this issue wherein even though you turned on the wifi on your smartphone, the wifi isn’t active yet. For this, pull down the notification panel and tap on wifi icon several times as this might force the smartphone to enable it fixing an error that might have occurred when you tried turning on the wifi for the first time.
Rebooting the phone can work in such cases too. Another trick to kickstart wifi on your phone is to toggle the airplane mode. Enabling it will restrict all incoming and outgoing networks and signals but you aren’t required to keep it that way. Simply turn on the airplane mode, wait for two seconds and disable it. Repeat it several times trying to turn on wifi and check if it worked or not.
“Can’t connect to the wifi”
Assume that you tried turning on wifi (switch) on your phone and it turned on. Now, you need to connect to a host or wifi network to use the internet but here comes the second set of wifi problems that you might encounter. You tried connecting to a wifi network but either the phone doesn’t connect or shows ‘Obtaining IP Address’, and other statuses for an unusual duration.