How I fixed the WiFi on my HTC Sensation 4G
23 September, 2012 § 19 Comments
For the past eight or so months I haven’t been able to use WiFi on my HTC Sensation 4G. Every time I try to turn on WiFi I get an error.
I’ve tried all sorts of things to fix this. I upgraded my phone from Gingerbread to Ice Cream Sandwich. I rooted my phone and installed the WiFix Manager app. I read through countless forum posts from other people suffering from the same issues. It seemed like nothing would fix this.
A couple weeks ago I found a work around that continues to work (mostly).
While traveling in Europe, I had my phone on airplane mode so I wouldn’t use my data plan overseas. This was the key for finding the workaround.
To get WiFi to work on my HTC Sensation 4G:
- Put the phone into airplane mode.
- Restart the phone.
- Turn on WiFi.
- Connect to the WiFi network.
- Turn off airplane mode.
Occasionally the WiFi will cut out and lose its signal. I can fix this by turning the WiFi off and then back on without going through airplane mode.
This now works pretty well, but there are intermittent kernel crashes from the poorly-written WiFi drivers.
I hope this helps others who are in a similar position as myself.
Still wifi doesn’t work for me =(
You might need to restart the phone between putting it into airplane mode and enabling WiFi. I just updated the steps to include this part.
Just tried it and it worked – I hope it stays now! Thanks. It was much easier than the soldering video I watched on Youtube!
I kept losing my wifi signal and couldnt figure out why. but i did this and it works perfectly now! thank you 🙂
Mine would normally hang at “Turning Wi-Fi on…” infinitely. After doing the above steps it now just says “Error” and still doesn’t work. I put it in airplane mode, restarted it, turned wifi on, turned airplane mode off…. wish it would have worked for me.
Yeah, this didn’t work for me =/
Did neither work for me 😦
No luck here either 😦
didnt work for me either …..should have bought a samsung insted of this sh!!
I agree, although I do hear of issues with the SG3 too 😦
didnt work plz give a suitable answer which works….
the directions helped it not say “error” anymore, but my phone keeps saying “unable to scan for networks”
my wifi connects but no data and it also go off and comes back help