Iphone 4 - Not connecting to wifi (incorrect password)

Macaby wrote:

EBSkater wrote:
So you're paying for internet that you're not using because you're stealing it off of your neighbor? Smart.

How can you be stealing something that is drifting around inside your home? While I very seldom use my neighbors network (only when mine goes down), I "bootstrap" quite frequently when I'm out and about.

If you feel it's stealing, you should not do it. I DON'T and I will bootstrap anywhere I please (including your network if I happen to see it when I'm out and about.) If you don't want that to happen, WPA it.

Having the same problem. Have an iphone 4 that won't connect (all of a sudden stopped connecting rather) to my Time Capsule. Everything else on the phone and time capsule seems to work. All other devices connect to the Time Capsule fine, and the iphone connects fine to other networks. Updates have been run on both. The iphone keeps telling me the password is incorrect. I restored original settings to both devices, and even changed the password in the time capsule, etc. Nothing hepls. It had worked fine since I bought the iphone 4 over 5 months ago until a few days ago. Help!

Hi Steve.

I just upgraded to iphone4 from my 3gs. My home wifi network would appear on the "network connections" list, & show signal strength. However, it wouldn't ever use the wifi to connect to the net etc, it'd just use 3G.

After speaking to apple on the phone for 30 mins, we'd tried resetting the network, but no help. It wasn't until i re-checked my modem settings & realised i'd changed my WEP password from the original to a harder one a year or so ago. Guessing that because my other connections weren't affected because they were already known to the modem previously. Once i changed the iphone 4 to the correct password (after resetting the network on the phone) the problem was fixed.

Apparently, the WEP key won't tell you that you've got the wrong password, rather it will just refuse to connect. Also, if you check your network in "wifi settings" & the "ip address" is completely wrong, this could answer your problems. My IP address was supposed to be 192.....etc, but it was nothing like it. Once i changed the password it reverted back to the proper IP in the DHCP column.

*Hopefully this is all it is Steve. This threw me off-track for ages, as i could connect anywhere else (eg my neighbour's wifi) but not on my own network.

Ben

I've been experiencing a similar problem since last night. My wife's iPhone connects to our WIFI yet mine didn't. Fortunately, I've now managed to resolve my problem so hopefully this will be of some use!

• On your PC, go to: http://192.168.0.1 (or whatever your IP address is)
• Log-in to view your router settings
• Click on 'Attached Devices' to see what's connected to the WIFI (although at this point my iPhone was showing as being connected on my WIFI settings, I was still seeing 3G and no WIFI connection)
• Click 'Refresh'
• Check your mobile for a WIFI connection (at this point, the WIFI connection was shoowing on my phone and now working)

I hope this helps. The phone is now connecting fine for me!

Regards

I am actually using 4 Airport Extremes and just had the same problem. I solved it by making a minor change so an upload was necessary (not the password, that didn't work) and did an upload. This fixed the problem.

***? Same thing just happened to me right now. I've had my iPhone 4 for months and never had a problem and all of a sudden it can't connect to my home network anymore and says I have the wrong password. All other connections in the house work fine (two iPads, laptops, desktops, AppleTVs, etc.........) just the iPhone is affected. What is the issue all about? Has anybody been able to figure this out yet?

Suddenly my iphone refuses to connect to the home wifi. My wife's iphone is connecting though. I wonder if this started happening after I updated my software thru itunes!! Wake up Apple!

Hello everyone. Just thought I'd chime in with my experience: I too wasn't able to connect my iPhone4 to my home wi-fi. It would connect to other wi-fi networks (e.g. work, etc.), but at home it would only use 3G. I knew I had MAC filtering enabled on my wireless router, so I entered my iPhone's MAC address into my router's admin page. It turned out I had accidentally entered the *Bluetooth* MAC address and not the wi-fi MAC address.

Oops! 😊

As soon as I corrected the MAC address (different by one digit!), the iPhone connected to my home wi-fi immediately!

Good luck folks.

Hi, I had this problem with two I phone4 s in the house, two networks and loads of computers, some wired some not, plus network tv and PS3. All working fine and all of a sudden one I phone downs itself from both networks! It hooked back up to one on the second attempt at clean password entry, but steadfastly refused to join the netgear network. This is a new 150 high speed router so quite surprising. I disconnected the 2nd iPhone from the netgear and the other network, and this phone duplicated the firsts behaviour exactly! Tried tinkering with all the phones settings on one of the phones, deleting cookies etc, to no avail. Then I turned off the netgear router for twenty seconds and when I fired it up again both phones connected fast on the first password entry. To conclude it sounds like a router issue, bit hopefully not terminal. Perhaps a good ideas to cycle them on e in a while?

Cheers

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