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wifi not working

WIfi is not working

iPhone 3GS

Posted on Jul 21, 2011 9:53 PM

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Aug 2, 2011 6:54 AM in response to jamesfromgeorgetown

Not sure if this will work for you, but I was having this problem on my 1st gen iPod touch. The wifi option was totally grayed out


I tried several things that were suggested in some threads—going to settings, clicking on safari, and clearing the history, cache, cookies, etc; rebooting the iPod; restoring the iPod.


I restored the iPod several times and what finally worked for me was that instead of choosing to restore the ipod with the backup (an option that is given to you when you restore), I selected to treat it as a new iPod. I lost all my settings and had to set up my email accounts again, etc., but the wifi works!


Hope this helps!

Dec 17, 2011 11:10 PM in response to jamesfromgeorgetown

Just got myself a 4S.

WiFi worked fine on all the hotel wifi networks that i stayed in.

Just got home and the phone refuses to join my home network. it does not accept the my wifi home network password.


1. tried forget network

2. tried renew lease


nothing seems to work.

infact in my efforts to get my 4s working, my 3GS has the same problem now????


HELP!!!!!!!!!!

Feb 15, 2012 6:09 PM in response to Neale Watson

Same problem with my 3GS. Wifi was working with my old modem+router. Now I brought a new router from Cisco and all of a suddent it is not taking the new password. I have iPhone 4 as well and couple of laptops. All are working fine with the new router except this 3GS


Tried all most all the options


1) Airplane mode

2) Reset Network settings

3) Clear Safari cache, cookies, etc

4) Restart phone couple times

5) Tried forget my SSID

6) Manually entered Router details (IP, etc stuff)

7) Wifi on and off

8) Router restart


Nothing has worked but Interestingly it connects to other neighbour unsecured wifi but not to my home wifi. No matter how many times I give the right password it just says "Unable to connect to this network"


Do I have to do a full reset in iTunes?

wifi not working

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