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chopin70
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Mar 19, 2018
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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...
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    chopin70
    May 10, 2018

    JamesGL

    I fixed the issue, really f**king stupid fix. I had to narrow my google search to xda:

    https://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4/help/problem-wifi-note-4-update-t3499009/post69616505#post69616505

     

    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