Hi,
I have spent quite a long time trawling through the posts on this forum, trying to find an answer to my problem. But the comments are so prolific - I'm not sure whether there are any answers contained within them.
Since the update to ICS, I have had problems with Wi-Fi connection (surprise, surprise).
I'm in the UK, have owned the phone since it was released (March 2012), and until the upgrade in July, I was 100% happy!
The phone will now no-longer remain connected to Wi-Fi - at home, work, or anywhere else for that matter. It connects easily and I can access the internet with only a small amount of 'limited access' problems - re-booting the phone and router (if at home) usually solves that issue. Staying connected is the real issue. After a short period, or once the phone lapses into 'sleep', the connection is often dropped (sometimes after only a few moments, and sometimes 10 or 15 minutes will pass before it happens) and is not restored until I've accessed 'Settings', selected the 'W-Fi' option, and once the screen with all available networks is visible, it magically reconnects without any further input from me (sometimes obtaining IP address, and sometimes just reconnecting straightaway). All is fine again, until the connection drops again... and we start all over again. Every now and again, the Wi-Fi router I'm connected to shows as 'saved' on the phone, and this is only remedied by rebooting the phone.
It makes listening to the radio on the internet almost impossible, as I have to repeatedly 'wake' the phone, go through the procedure above, reconnect the radio, and off we go again.
I have tried installing an app to stop the phone from turning off Wi-Fi in sleep (Wi-Fi Keep Alive), and have enabled all the other workarounds - but still the problem persists. It is starting to drive me around the bend... everytime I attempt to access any internet-based activity, such as Facebook or the like, I have to regularly re-connect to the Wi-Fi. I have taken to turning off the Wi-Fi, and using mobile data access - but my contract allocation will soon be used up like that, and is no use for streaming activity like listening to the radio. I don't think this issue is solely to do with the phone 'sleeping' anyway, as it happens even if I change the settings that the phone doesn't 'sleep' for some considerable time. The Wi-Fi connection still drops.
This is really most frustrating. I loved this phone, and several friends got it on my recommendation. Now I wish I had got a different phone.
Any help, or assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
