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App won’t let me save device names
So for a while now my Netgear app won’t let me save custom names to devices. It used to save them fine and one day it stopped working. It’ll change the name then when I save and refresh the network m...
I am having the same issue with my R6700v3 router. Most of my names correctly identify teh devices except for one. I am also trying to change the icons and they're not saving. They'll save for about 3 seconds then revert to the default icon. I am on the most recent version of the app.
- I had this issue too. When I renamed the devices I decided to not clear what was there which was --. So I added the name after the 2 hyphens and the names stayed. I haven't had to rename anything that doesnt already start with 2 hyphens tho. Hope this helps.
- I was able to get mine to work by going in to router settings on a web browser. 192.168.1.1 when I updated the device names there they would show up in the night hawk app