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Can't use anything that needs internet but google and whatsapp.

Hello everybody on xda first post and it's a problem.
I've recently acquired a Samguns Galaxy S i9000B. First day trying it, everything went perfect, internet conection stable and without problems, everything else good too.
Today I encountered problems with the internet. I can no longar enter the store in my cellphone (Play store), in the internet browser (which is a default by movistar) I can only search for results in google, trying to connect to any other page returns the message "Couldn't connect to the server", whatsapp functions correctly oddly enough.
I have always been connected to the internet thorugh wi fi, which is broadcasted from my modem through a D-Link Dir 320 router, and I don't posses a multimedia plan, i.e. if I don't have access to Wi Fi I don't have acces to internet on my phone.
Lastly i must mention that I had a similar problem on my laptop, and it was solved by changing the MTU value on it.
I've tried the solutions on this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=790974, however, I can't do what is proposed in the first post due to the fact that My cellphone doesnt have the folder pdp0 and, it doesnt recognize the commands ip link, ip link list or ip link set. I've yet to install Busybox, however if I input ip, a list of possible commands appears, being one of them link, but it doesn't work for me.
All other solutions have been tried, such as restarting cell phone, router, pc, etc. And turning off and on wi fi save energy, etc.
Thanks for your help before hand.

Crones said:
"Couldn't connect to the server",
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1) Try to toggle Airplane mode and restart phone after a battery Pull and power button press for a min
2) Try Menu>Settings>Application>Manage Applications
Press the Menu button, then Filter, then select Running
Scroll down the list and select Device management.
Under the Storage section, press the Clear data button.
Reboot phone
3) In recovery clear data, cache and dalvik cache
4) a factory reset using settings> privacy will be the final way to solve it (only do this when you have undone any lagfix you may have done FIRST)
If this did not do it, you have no option but to flash an I9000B Rom to resolve it

xsenman said:
1) Try to toggle Airplane mode and restart phone after a battery Pull and power button press for a min
2) Try Menu>Settings>Application>Manage Applications
Press the Menu button, then Filter, then select Running
Scroll down the list and select Device management.
Under the Storage section, press the Clear data button.
Reboot phone
3) In recovery clear data, cache and dalvik cache
4) a factory reset using settings> privacy will be the final way to solve it (only do this when you have undone any lagfix you may have done FIRST)
If this did not do it, you have no option but to flash an I9000B Rom to resolve it
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Thank you for your response.
I would actually like to try some stuff with the router, as it seems this is the root of the problem. A friend of mine came with a smartphone that can "lend" internet (not sure this is the right term). After connecting to the internet his phone was lending me i could enter the google play store, load wikipedia and other pages. So it seems to be the way i'm broadcasting my wi-fi.
Having said that, I'm not sure how to begin because if wi-fi works fine for the laptop, why would it run incorrectly for my Galaxy S? I'm not sure how to modify the router to provoke an imrpovement in the conecction.

Help please? Anyone has any ideas?

Crones said:
Help please? Anyone has any ideas?
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google your router brand name, and they will have instructions as to how you can reset your router as well as go into its setup menu by using your web browser

Well.. suprisingly now internet works.... However it was sort of magical.
I applied a factory reset to the router (the options are now similar to the ones I had before), and the internet on my phone had the same problems through all the afternoon... Now, 5 hours later... for no apparent reason (no modifications made)... everything is working fine. I ain't one to argue with a good thing... but I'm seriously in awe wondering how the hell it worked itself out without me doing anything.
Thanks for the help by the way.
If it helps anyone else, I did make one change, however i don't see how it influenced anything. I uninstalled all updates to the google play store (reverted it back to android market) as well as erased it's data and cache.

Not able to download on data connection?

I can only download over WiFi network on data I can use web pages and apps fine but it won't download from play store at all

Try to clear data of the store

iamflamez said:
I can only download over WiFi network on data I can use web pages and apps fine but it won't download from play store at all
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Need a little more information than what you've given, is there an error? If so then what error is it?
Make sure that Sync is switched on on the phone, nothing like email or the play store will work with sync turned off, if it was off then try again and if it works then your done, if not, read below.
Like the previous user has said, clear data and cache from play services and play store, then reboot your phone and open the play store and allow it to completely load, then attempt a download again.
Is it giving a specific error when downloading? Most errors can be fixed by removing the google account and re-adding it to the phone, reboot between removal and re-entering.

Sorry if I was not clear, I cannot download at all from anywhere on a data connection but I can over Wi-Fi. There seems to be a problem with the stock Sony down load manager, as when I use an external download manager app it works fine, but play store only uses the stock manager AFAIK

It says downloading but no data is getting sent or received

iamflamez said:
It says downloading but no data is getting sent or received
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I've had this problem the other way around: wifi did not download for a few minutes, then it starts... For me disabling ipv6 on the router helped. So it seems that the z1 has difficulties with ipv6. Maybe your data connection is also a mixed stack!
Offtopic: I'm experiencing lots of bugs in the stock ROM. That, and the fact that the quality of the parts (i.e. screen, camera, speaker, wifi) is really bad, makes me want to throw out this phone. Never again a Sony for me!

Allright so om back. I just did a factory reset and my problems are back. Wifi hasnt been changed, so there's something else going on. Play store is extremely slow, even downloading just the pictures and downloading will only start after a minuten, bureau then it is reasonably fast... Anybody a solution?

bdacier said:
Allright so om back. I just did a factory reset and my problems are back. Wifi hasnt been changed, so there's something else going on. Play store is extremely slow, even downloading just the pictures and downloading will only start after a minuten, bureau then it is reasonably fast... Anybody a solution?
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New network provider. Do you have similar problems browsing the web from the phone, no wifi? does the same problem exist trying to access playstore with the phone browser? If you install an app from playstore on say your computer, does the app get installed onto your device when not connected to WIFI?
There is also an option to only update when connected to WIFI, go into my apps, then settings check that as well if you want updates to appear any time.
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iamflamez said:
Sorry if I was not clear, I cannot download at all from anywhere on a data connection but I can over Wi-Fi. There seems to be a problem with the stock Sony down load manager, as when I use an external download manager app it works fine, but play store only uses the stock manager AFAIK
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Which browser? It is not the download manager, because it would not work at all if that was the problem, and you have advised that it works on wifi.
Seems to me like you have restrictions by your cell provider, bad APN settings or similar. I would suggest going to your cell provider to determine what is going on.

iamflamez said:
Sorry if I was not clear, I cannot download at all from anywhere on a data connection but I can over Wi-Fi. There seems to be a problem with the stock Sony down load manager, as when I use an external download manager app it works fine, but play store only uses the stock manager AFAIK
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Seems that if nothing works from your data connection then you seem to have isolated your problem, try your sim in another handset and see if the problem persists for clarification.
If it doesn't then explore more avenues, like double checking that everything is set up from a network level by contacting your provider.
If you're rooted then install the rom again, don't do a dirty flash, perform a full wipe.
But check the sim in another handset first and check the network too before doing that.
EDIT: Just noticed what dan wrote ditto.
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bdacier said:
Allright so om back. I just did a factory reset and my problems are back. Wifi hasnt been changed, so there's something else going on. Play store is extremely slow, even downloading just the pictures and downloading will only start after a minuten, bureau then it is reasonably fast... Anybody a solution?
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Try someone elses router, chances are if data is working and your wifi isn't then it's probably isolated to the router.
Turn off 5ghz if it's on on your router and turn the channel to auto, toggle pnp and the firewall.

Ok a little update, I had tried the sim in a note 2 and all downloads worked nice and fast
The problem on my z1 was on all downloads from playstore, stock browser, chrome, XDA, anything that involved the stock download manager, but all apps, uploads, anything that doesnt need download manager, whatsapp and facebook downloads, worked fine
I'm now back in the UK and its all working fine with my UK Sim so it seems the z1 download manager does not allow roaming outside the UK.

iamflamez said:
Ok a little update, I had tried the sim in a note 2 and all downloads worked nice and fast
The problem on my z1 was on all downloads from playstore, stock browser, chrome, XDA, anything that involved the stock download manager, but all apps, uploads, anything that doesnt need download manager, whatsapp and facebook downloads, worked fine
I'm now back in the UK and its all working fine with my UK Sim so it seems the z1 download manager does not allow roaming outside the UK.
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No it is called a setting in the phone, do not use data while roaming, if you had have been more specific you would have had your answer straight away

iamflamez said:
I'm now back in the UK and its all working fine with my UK Sim so it seems the z1 download manager does not allow roaming outside the UK.
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danw_oz said:
No it is called a setting in the phone, do not use data while roaming, if you had have been more specific you would have had your answer straight away
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Lol don't be silly.

gregbradley said:
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I wasn't roaming, and the roaming setting wasn't restricted anyway. Come on if it was then obviously nothing would work duh!

iamflamez said:
Lol don't be silly.
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ok whatever, yeah it's just your phone it's stuffed you should take it back

Whatsapp connection issues

Hi, I wonder if anybody can help me. Up until the day before yesterday I was using whatsapp fine over wifi (where I am at the moment there is no mobile signal) on my O2 UK Z1 and then whatsapp lost all connection. Everything else on the phone was working fine but no whatsapp. Every message I sent would go to the clock, no information when people were last online and the faq etc. in the settings would not load because of lack of connection.
I uninstalled the app and then installed it again and all was fine, after sending a few messages the same error occurred again. I have now found that if I clear data in the app settings it will connect again, once I have reconfigured the app and restored from backup. I can only assume that there is some sort of buffer which I am clearing as I lose a few messages when I clear data (all since last backup).
Barring doing a delete of all backups and messages does anyone have any other idea. I have looked and the backup files are about 1.7mb so not massive and I have a fair bit of storage available onboard (>7gb).
I was talking to someone with a HTC phone who had suffered similar symptoms but I have googled and searched and can't find a solution.
Any help much appreciated.
Mark

2 weeks off work and no issues, as soon as I have returned the issue has reared it's head so looks like it's something to do with the wifi here. Everything else works fine and fast so I guess I'll just have to live with it

daxdax89 said:
Try to factory reset or reinstall mobile data settings
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A factory reset for a cheap Whazz, huge work buddy...lol... at last it's an idea but I will try reinstall mobile settings before that or uninstall and reinstall Whatsup.

I work in a very remote location, I have wifi (which is distributed from a satellite feed) out here and for my mobile phone that is the only connection option. When I am away from work whatsapp always works, both over wifi and cellular data. At work I keep my phone in aeroplane mode with wifi turned on to try and preserve some battery (there is no point in my phone constantly looking for a non existent cellular signal).
This morning I deleted all messages in whatsapp, uninstalled the app and re-installed/configured. Usually I get a failure within 24 hours of doing this so we'll see whether this rectifies the issue.
I know I'm not the only person out here that has had the issue so it is either a coincidence or something with the way the wifi is configured here. I just assumed that the wifi would either work or not but, I am not an expert.

WiFi gone..

Hey there. Had a strange problem, happened 2 times till now. WiFi was completely gone, went to the settings/wifi and wifi was still on, but the list of AP's/Networks was completely empty. Anyone had that happen ?
greets,
nEUTRon

No one, really ?

I've had the saved Wi-Fi connections be forgotten after a reboot/shutdown. Happened this morning actually.

I have tons of wifi problems, but not this one. My wifi takes a long time to come on after being turned off, often more than a minute, and the wifi setting pages hangs.
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born_fisherman said:
I've had the saved Wi-Fi connections be forgotten after a reboot/shutdown. Happened this morning actually.
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This can happen if you have multiple devices. The wifi password file acquires multiple entries and the phone fails to pick one. Longstanding bug Google is ignoring. If you have a rooted device you can read the wifi supplicant file and see the multiple entries to confirm this is what's happening to you.

This is happening to me more and more on my Nexus 6. I'm rooted and stock. Haven't found a solution yet.

My WiFi situation is a disaster with nexus 6 too. No problems at al
l with nexus 5 and nexus 7 (2012)

Stuck on Checking for Update after a hard reset

Hi, this is my first time making a thread and I'm not sure if this fits into the right category, anyways I've had to a factory rest since I forgot my pattern password on my Note 9 (because I'm an idiot) and now after the hard reset I am now stuck on "Checking for Updates" after the rebooting the phone and there is no skip button and I have tried doing another hard reset to still being stuck on the same page. I've let this "Checking for updates" run for about 2 hours to only get a message saying "Taking to long? Try going back and connecting to a different network" and I'm really out of options, any help would be appciated.
Thanks.

Do you have Internet access and sufficient bandwidth where you connected to?

Scythe86 said:
Hi, this is my first time making a thread and I'm not sure if this fits into the right category, anyways I've had to a factory rest since I forgot my pattern password on my Note 9 (because I'm an idiot) and now after the hard reset I am now stuck on "Checking for Updates" after the rebooting the phone and there is no skip button and I have tried doing another hard reset to still being stuck on the same page. I've let this "Checking for updates" run for about 2 hours to only get a message saying "Taking to long? Try going back and connecting to a different network" and I'm really out of options, any help would be appciated.
Thanks.
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I think you can log on to computer and your Samsung account and use an option within findmyphone to fix this.
Sent from my SM-N960U1 using Tapatalk

reminds me of my LG v20 which had similar problem (910K B50) Stuck on firmware upgrade and waiting for connection. Nothing could be done for the LG, hopefully yours can be fixed. It either a virus or interrupted firmware update don't know what else could've done it

raul6 said:
Do you have Internet access and sufficient bandwidth where you connected to?
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Well I'm currently overseas over at China with very slow internet also not sure about the Mbps since its to slow to run that and I have to use Vpn since China blocks out YouTube, Google etc. so I'm not sure if that's that cause.
*edit* I've managed to run an internet Speed test with an average Mbps download of 0.30 Mbps and upload of 2 Mbps, not sure if that's any useful but hopefully it is

digitalart said:
reminds me of my LG v20 which had similar problem (910K B50) Stuck on firmware upgrade and waiting for connection. Nothing could be done for the LG, hopefully yours can be fixed. It either a virus or interrupted firmware update don't know what else could've done it
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This phone is relativity new I've only had it about 3-4 weeks, plus aren't you able to run it in safe mode?

Scythe86 said:
This phone is relativity new I've only had it about 3-4 weeks, plus aren't you able to run it in safe mode?
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nope nothing could be done. no safe mode, no download mode, nothing. going back to the same screen. I even gave the phone to 2 different places to try to fix it and even they couldn't do it, saying there is no file system no structure or anything. so yeah dead weight
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but what is weird that this happened to me also during traveling to other country US > Europe

digitalart said:
nope nothing could be done. no safe mode, no download mode, nothing. going back to the same screen. I even gave the phone to 2 different places to try to fix it and even they couldn't do it, saying there is no file system no structure or anything. so yeah dead weight
I don't think Samsung would drop there standards, could a low internet connection also cause this continuous thing to never end?
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but what is weird that this happened to me also during traveling to other country US > Europe
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Was yours also the Note 9, if so when you arrived back was the issue resolved?

Scythe86 said:
Was yours also the Note 9, if so when you arrived back was the issue resolved?
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not Note it was LG v20 . looked like similar issue that's why I posted and also as I said dead weight nobody could do anything.

digitalart said:
not Note it was LG v20 . looked like similar issue that's why I posted and also as I said dead weight nobody could do anything.
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Sorry thought some else commented that overseas thing. So did this issue also happen to you traveling overseas?

Scythe86 said:
Sorry thought some else commented that overseas thing. So did this issue also happen to you traveling overseas?
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i dont know if you read my last post but i already said that >>>>
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but what is weird that this happened to me also during traveling to other country US > Europe
so yes exactly happened during travel overseas which is more weird

digitalart said:
i dont know if you read my last post but i already said that >>>>
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but what is weird that this happened to me also during traveling to other country US > Europe
so yes exactly happened during travel overseas which is more weird
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Yes sorry I just wanted to make sure. Does the warranity cover this at all?

Scythe86 said:
Yes sorry I just wanted to make sure. Does the warranity cover this at all?
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yeah I think it should so you should be good

I have an identical issue, on my note 8, and i am also in China. wondering if there was any solution found?
I suspect the problem might be because china blocks Google services and the phone is trying to connect to google.
Please if a solution was found, do share.

I assume you've all tried setting up without a sim and wifi disconnected? Works fine for me, it just skips the update checking on initial setup as there's no connection.
Sent from my SM-N960F using Tapatalk

I've had the exact same problem on my galaxy s8 and had excellent wifi connection when I tried to get it going after the reset (but still tried to do it with two other connections). I removed the simcard, disconnected the wifi and it just skipped that step (looking for updates). Now the phone is working good!
(still scared that the virus hatched on once again since I didn't wipe my SDcard and put it in again (stupid). But I'm always a bit paranoid and I'm not sure it works that way)
Fixed the problem anyways. Just remove simcard and disconnect wifi.

Synt4x.93 said:
I assume you've all tried setting up without a sim and wifi disconnected? Works fine for me, it just skips the update checking on initial setup as there's no connection.
Sent from my SM-N960F using Tapatalk
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Hi i tried that, but it doesn't let me, continue if i don't select wifi.
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jd14771 said:
Try setting up a wifi router with a VPN that allows you to connect to Google services. Then connect to wifi (ran through vpn) and you should be good.
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I was thinking the same thing, just need to get a router with VPN, thx for the advice.

hi, my note has done the same thing, I did a factory reset... need to be able to stop the checking for updates somehow?
or find someone with a modem with a VPN instilled on it. any ideas
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This is how to fix the problem if overseas
number one If you have hard reset your phone, and then realised I need that VPN to go online like myself in China.
turn off the WIFI on your phone, remove your sim card turn off the phone. turn your phone back on and you can set up the phone again, turn on the phones wifi and re-back up your phone from your Samsung account.
the reason why you should use Google and Samsung to back up all your things is for this reason. you don't need a VPN for Samsung.
this should work on all phones.
mine phone is a Samsung note 9 with android 9 operation system, 8gb -512gb
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