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R7000 wifi drops
Hi, We all know the issues with wifi and R7000. However, I was only expieriencing a few drops a day on 1.0.9.12 and decided to update to V1.0.9.26_10.2.31 - Now, every few minutes, my Androi...
I fixed the issue, really f**king stupid fix. I had to narrow my google search to xda:
Hey everyone I was able to temporarily fix this issue by turning off wifi scanning in (Settings > Location > Improve Accuracy). I heard somewhere on here it might have been a recent app update that is causing the issue.
I normally always have this setting off. I verified, and all my devices had it on back. I guess on each Android update they try to dig again in our privacy...
Disabling it fixed all disconnections on my Galaxy Note 4. Newer devices like Android 7 and Android 8 phones have no issues with this option enabled
Hope it can help Netgear fix it also on their side. In fact, this fix cannot resolve my Android TV disconnections. A TV firmware update made things better on TV but did not fix completely the disconnections
When you say you performed a "hard reset" was that with the button? I had issues after my first attempt with this update. I tried rolling back to earlier FW versions but still had issues with 2.4 G connections. I reinstalled the update, did a hard reset with the button and used the "Erase" option under the Advanced:Administration:Backup Settings tab to "Revert to Factory settings". I forgot to save a settings backup file so I had to reconfigure everything manually. But, bottom line, my router has been up for days without any drop outs etc.